1. Assess the demand and supply of the capesize dry bulk industry. What do you expect to happen to demand relative to supply over the next four or five years? Please thoroughly explain and justify. What do you expect to happen to prices over both the short-run and the long-run? According to Ocean Carriers‚ supply and demand of capesizes determined daily hire rates. The demand and supply of capesizes was largely determined by the amount of shipping capacity needed in areas around the world.
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BEJEE E. GILLE 3BSECE-1 1. How could the planning process be followed to create a plan for continuous improvements in Lands End’s online costumer service? - By gathering information‚ settings a mission and goals‚ devise strategies‚ implement plan‚ monitor performance‚ and lastly evaluate plan. Those are the planning process to be followed to create a plan for improvements in their online costumer service. 2. If you were hired by Lands’ End to help benchmark its costumer service performance‚ which
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1. Introduction The term experiment is defined as the systematic procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover an unknown effect‚ to test or establish a hypothesis‚ or to illustrate a known effect. When analyzing a process‚ experiments are often used to evaluate which process inputs have a significant impact on the process output‚ and what the target level of those inputs should be to achieve a desired result (output). Experiments can be designed in many different ways to
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25. A project in its 26th week has an actual cost of $270‚000. It was scheduled to have spent $261‚000. For the work performed to date‚ the budgeted value is $272‚000. What are the cost and sched¬ule variances for the project? What are the SPI and CPI? Actual cost =$270‚000 Earned value = $272‚000 Planned cost = $261‚000 Cost variance = $272‚000–$270‚000= $2‚000 Schedule variance = $272‚000–$261‚000= $11‚000 SPI = $272‚000/$261‚000 = 1.042 CPI = $272‚000/$270‚000 = 1.007 26. A project
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Chapter 1: Technology and the Modern Enterprise Having tech knowledge is crucial in just about every sector of business‚ no matter what kind of job you have. It’s really just an intro chapter telling us that technology and technology based jobs are increasing and highly attractive‚ as they grow rapidly Strategic Information Systems * Defined by the purpose and objective by which they are created * Purpose is to fulfill organizational processing needs * Improve efficiency and success
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Financial Management-chapter 7 solution- Gitman 7-21 Western Money Management Inc. Bond Valuation Robert Black and Carol Alvarez are vice presidents of Western Money Management and codirectors of the company’s pension fund management division. A major new client‚ the California League of Cities‚ has requested that Western present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities. Black and Alvarez‚ who will make the presentation‚ have asked you to help them by answering the
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The Arts play a large role in the expression of inner thoughts and beauty in my life. From dance and music to abstract art our concept of life is shown through the various ways in which we interpret it. We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science‚ Social Science‚ or any of the Humanities. The arts allow us to be as specific or as abstract as we please. It helps us become closer to ourselves and to others around us. Though there has been a lot
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Was the lunchtime initiative in 1999 during the Kosovo crisis‚ a sign for this vast multinational to serve the challenges of diversity internally and externally? The lunchtime initiative during the Kosovo crisis in 1999 was a great opportunity for Microsoft to change both internally and externally. In 1999‚ Microsoft’s share price dropped after Anti-trust law suits and a reputation of being a company that destroys small businesses with monopolistic policies. At that time Microsoft had a Community
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Quinton Courteau MGT 331-05 Prof Crampton 1. If one was to apply the hierarchy of needs theory‚ the best thing to do would be to focus on the needs of the employees and give them benefits in order to reward the amount of hours that they work. This system would encourage workers to put in more hours and due to this better work ethic difference percentages would decrease. When it comes to the ERG theory the manager took away the workers existence needs by increasing the work load for the same amount
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CHAPTER 7 Inventory LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Identify what items and costs should be included in inventory and cost of goods sold. 2. Account for inventory purchases and sales using both a perpetual and a periodic inventory system. 3. Inventory is composed of goods held for sale in the normal course of business. Cost of goods sold is the cost of inventory sold during the period. For a manufacturing firm‚ the three types of inventory are raw materials‚ work in process‚ and
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