I had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Appleton‚ a civil engineer at Texas A&M. The questions I asked him that taught me the most about civil engineering were “What is your daily job as a civil engineer?” and “What are the personal qualities you need to be a civil engineer? For example‚ motivation‚ etc.” Mr. Appleton said as a civil engineer‚ your daily job is to take data that surveyors collected in the field‚ either on the the ground or by aerial photographs (which he explained as being similar
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Office Dakota Products Case Analysis Course: BUSA 5061 Managerial Accounting Students Name: Teresa Willette Professors Name: Dr. Conner/Dr. Pollard Date 3/20/2011 Executive Summary The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In the analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate
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For my volunteering assignment I decided to go to the wildlife rehabilitation area‚ 100 Acre Wood. I arrived there on the fourth of December and met Linda Christian. She is basically the owner and founder of the non-profit corporation. I wanted to help out at a wildlife rehabilitation because I wanted to see a different side of the community. Wildlife is usually not seen‚ even in a place such as Brooksville. I also wanted to understand why somebody would put in so much hard work
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‘Mametz Wood’ is a remarkable ‘conflict and war themed’ poem written by Welsh-born poet Owen Sheers. Inspired by a visit to the battlefield on the 85th anniversary of the battle of Somme‚ it explores in depth themes‚ ideas and issues of: death‚ conflict‚ loss‚ remembrance‚ suffering‚ destruction and consequences. The poet explores how ‘the wasted young’ fought for their country‚ sacrificing and risking their livelihoods’ in the hope of coming home as heroes more than zeroes‚ however are left forgotten
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This report is taking a deeper look at Eco-Products‚ Inc. past financial performance and projecting the future. The company was founded by Kent and Steve Savage in 1990 in Boulder‚ Colorado. The company is a lead supplier of environmentally friendly food service products in the United States. The margins were low and the salaries were small. The company was financed by family and friends up to 2005‚ when they received their first line of credit from the bank at $30‚000. This line of credit reached
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Description In ACC 301‚ you discussed the Dakota Office Products (DOP) case and were asked to design the ABC system. For this assignment in BCOM 250‚ you will take what you learned in ACC 301 and write a report recommending that DOP use activity-based costing to determine its pricing to customers. You do not need to go into deep detail about how you would design the ABC system. You will work with a team of 4-5 people to produce this deliverable. Assume that your group is part of the accounting staff
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0309-0566.htm EJM 44‚7/8 Consumer responses to brand extensions: a comprehensive model ´ ´ Eva Martınez and Jose M. Pina ´ Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales‚ The University of Zaragoza‚ Zaragoza‚ Spain Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to understand the reciprocal spill-over effects of brand extensions by testing a comprehensive model that gathers both the brand extension evaluation
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The core value of M&M Ltd. states that they follow professionalism where they seek the best people and give them freedom and opportunity to grow. They will continue to do so. They will support innovation and well-reasoned risk taking‚ but will demand performance. This value gives them competitive advantage. M&M Ltd. held Mahindra Group Senior Executive Conference at regular interval to be in Sync with the norms of the company and make amendments to suit the current scenario. “An Organization culture
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assigned and allocated to products and services delivered to clients. This system has proven beneficial for companies where production operations are high labor intensive and overhead costs are smaller part of total costs. Nowadays‚ when automation and technology are ubiquitous overhead costs make up much higher percentage and are often lumped together with direct labor costs. An ABC approach would be much more appropriate for the DOP’s business as it will calculate costs of products and services based
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Corporate governance refers to the system by which corporations are directed and controlled. The governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation (such as the board of directors‚ managers‚ shareholders‚ creditors‚ auditors‚ regulators‚ and other stakeholders) and specifies the rules and procedures for making decisions in corporate affairs. Governance provides the structure through which corporations set and pursue their
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