Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies Nature does not measure. Nature recognizes patterns. (Senge) IKM Background Paper October 2009 Joitske Hulsebosch‚ Mark Turpin and Sibrenne Wagenaar IKM Background Paper‚ Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies. October 2009. About IKM Emergent In April 2007‚ a five-year research programme was approved for funding by the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS)‚ which is part of the Dutch Ministry
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Cost of Debt and Cost of Equity: Cost of Debt is the interest rate and the Cost of Equity is the expected rate of return demanded by investors in the firm’s common stock. The issue at hand is finding the correct costs of debt and equity in order to find an accurate calculation of WACC. Cohen used the 20-year yield on U.S. Treasuries as the risk free rate‚ which we found to be the correct figure given that Nike Inc. debt was valued over 25 years. Because there is no other given yield that is comparable
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Cost of Goods Checkpoint Cost of Goods Checkpoint A multi-step income statement for a trading business highlights the fact that between 40% and 60% of revenue from sales is accounted for as the cost of goods sold. The cost of goods attributed to a company’s products is expensed as the company sells these goods. There are several ways to calculate COGS but one of the more basic ways is to start with the beginning inventory for the period and add the total amount of purchases made during the
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the year‚ the company has extended their product range to pumps and flow controllers. The main learning outcome from analyzing the case study is manufacturing overhead cost allocation. Exhibit 2 in the case study shows pumps has a highest manufacturing overhead cost compare to valves and flow controller. The common overhead cost drivers in the production are machine hours‚ production runs and hours of engineering work. The key issue in this case study is the gross margin on pump sales is 19.5%
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL FOR DELL COMPUTER 1) From the SEC website‚ the balance sheet of Dell Computer reveals a Book value of debt = $3‚394‚000‚000 and Book value of equity = $4‚625‚000‚000 The same balance shows the breakdown of the long-term debt (book values) in table 1. Table 1 Coupon Rate (%) Maturity Book Value (Face Value in million $) 3.38 06/15/2012 400 4.70 04/15/2013 599 5.63 04/15/2014 500 5.65 04/15/2018 499 5.88 06/15/2019 600 7.10 04/15/2028 396 6
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employees (NSHR). For the success of the project PRINCE2 (PRINCE2[1]) Process Model has been adopted as shown below Figure2 and than translated in the project vertical chain shown in Figure3. Figure2 TCE literature Transaction cost economics (TCE) theory become popular during the 80s and 90s‚ however its first definition can be found in the famous Coase’s paper on “The Nature of the Firm”. Coase‚ in contraposition with economist’s idea since Adam Smith (1776) that market mechanism
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Sunk costs are costs that are irrecoverable. It’s something that you already spent and that you won’t get back‚ regardless of future outcomes. And remember that the greatest example of sunk cost you pay is with your own time‚ and which you will not be able to recover: all that you lived up until now is gone — you just can’t reclaim that time. Stop clinging to the past and make the most of your life right now. One of the most important lessons about economic costs is that sunk costs are sunk
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Hi Students‚ I would like you to study this problem and the solution to help in the preparation of your case study question on cost classification. Keith PRACTICE PROBLEM AND SOLUTION Given the following‚ prepare manufacturing statement and partial income statement. Raw materials inventory 1/1/05 8‚000 Raw materials inventory 12/31/05 5‚000 Work in process inventory 1/1/05 2‚000 Work in process inventory 12/31/05 3‚000 Finished goods inventory 1/1/05 15‚000 Finished goods inventory
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environment includes all living and non living things like land‚ forests‚ minerals‚ water bodies‚ the atmosphere‚ etc. Some of these resources are renewable and others are non renewable‚ which get depleted and ultimately exhausted with their continuous use. Even the renewable resources may get degraded or polluted. Economic development leads to increase in the rate of national income. Increase in national income would result only from increased production of goods and services. This is only possible with greater
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Whole = Percent Expense Revenue = Expense % Profit Revenue = Profit % Desired Profit Revenue = Desired Profit % Revenue – (Food and Beverage Cost + Labor Cost + Other Expense) = Profit Food and Beverage Cost Revenue = Food and Beverage Cost % Labor Cost Revenue = Labor Cost % Other Expense Revenue = Other Expense % Total Expense Revenue = Total Expense % Profit Revenue = Profit % Actual
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