understand the reason‚ you need to understand the definitions of period costs and product costs. Period costs are not a necessary part of the manufacturing process. Rather they are costs associated with the selling part of the business or its administrative overhead. These costs are expensed in the period in which they occur. Product costs are the direct materials‚ direct labor and overhead associated with making the company’s product. If a unit is not sold‚ these costs are reported as part of the company’s
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low storage costs as spare parts arrive at the factory when they need to be used in the production line‚ which reduces the storage costs drastically. Just in time works on the basis of not having buffer stock‚ this reduces costs‚ but it’s a hard system to keep in perfect sync with the production line‚ as spare parts should arrive as the final good is about to be manufactured‚ this means that an order must trigger the production process to start. The firm needs to order the spare parts from the supplier
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Can You Find Me Now? How is a Nintendo Wii game console able to determine the location of a Wii Remote while a player interacts with a game? The answer is triangulation‚ a process that determines the location of any object by measuring the angles from two or more fixed points. Surveyors often use triangulation to measure distance. Starting at a known location and elevation‚ surveyors measure a length to create a base line and then use a theodolite to measure an angle to an unknown pint from each
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The Best We Could Do illustrates frames that focus on a fragmentary and nonlinear history of Thi Bui’s family during the Vietnam War and the French colonial exploitation that followed it. Understanding that she is the product of war‚ allows her to not only convey the past‚ but also convey how that past will always be connected to the present. Thi Bui emulates how war and resettlement shaped her family’s experience through a narrative structure of illustrated frames that flash back and forth in time
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This lesson was about experimenting with Forces and motion. After inquiry 4.1 and 4.2‚ it was best to graph the data to see the differences. Inquiry 1 was used to find out the force needed to move a wooden block over different surfaces. The different surfaces that were used were the Tabletop‚ Waxed paper‚ Paper towel‚ Fine sandpaper‚ and Coarse sandpaper. A spring scale was used to measure the amount of force using the unit Newtons(N). After 3 trials to get one number averaging was necessary. Same
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Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Apparently‚ the issue of Nike’s case is to control and check the calculation cost of capital done by Joanna Cohen who is the assistant of a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group. But I am willing to tell you that it can be a complex case in which we can doubt about sensitivity analysis done by Kimi Ford (portfolio manager) because her assumptions such as Revenue Growth Rate‚ COGS / Sales‚ S &A / Sales‚ Current Assets / Sales‚ and Current Liability / Sales have been
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1) Explain what is meant by the term pseudoscience used in paragraph 1? The word pseudoscience by definition means a theory that is claimed to be factual or scientific but has insufficient evidence to prove so. In paragraph one the term pseudoscience is used in reference to physiognomy which is being able to tell someone’s character from their face. It is said in the article that physiognomy was “written off as pseudoscience.” After it became associated with phrenology which is referred to as a pseudo
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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Describe what “flourishing” and “helping” mean to you. Flourishing to me means being whole‚ unlocking your complete potential‚ it means to achieve all stages of success holistically within oneself and environment. What I mean is that in order to achieve flourishment‚ we need to accept ourselves and the direction that our life is heading in‚ reaching self-actualization. This means knowing yourself‚ knowing your strengths and weaknesses‚ knowing your self-worth and maintaining a moderate level of
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QUESTION 1 The most obvious idea concerning history in the play is that history is fiction. History is usually interpreted as ‘his story’ and thus implies the idea that everyone will have their own versions of history. It all depends on who is conveying the history and who is receiving it. The conveyor can just manipulate the facts and pass around a false message. In the case of this play‚ the history presented is based on Kee’s point of view. He himself admits that there is no particular truth but
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