Discussion Questions Wk 5 ACC/561 Week Five Discussion Questions What is a flexible budget? What types of organizations may use flexible budgets? Why are flexible budgets useful? Flexible budgets work well as a performance evaluation tool in conjunction with a static budget and are basically a comprehensive accounting of the static budget ’s cost variance. Flexible budget expenditures can be stymied by offering employee performance incentives directly relating to staying on the static budget
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Pre-Reading 1. Why are we still reading a book written in the 1920’s? What gives a book its longevity? We read books that was written in the 1920’s because it shows what people were like at that time and what it was like in the world. A book gets its longevity by portraying what happened in the past. 2. How was the 1920’s a reaction to WWI? Women were giving more rights‚ people became interested in goods. 3. Some people think that having money leads to happiness. Do you agree? Why or why
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Chapter 5 Definitions – Intelligible principle – doctrine that requires Congress to provide agencies with legitimate‚ comprehensible guidelines to limit the authority of the agency when exercising delegated rulemaking authority. Standards – a set of rules or guidelines from which an agency or person must work. De novo – a new; to reconsider. A standard of review that does not require deference to an agency’s decision. Chapter 5 Outline – Delegation An act through which Congress
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Chapter 5 Strategies in Action 1) Long-term objectives represent the results expected from pursuing certain strategies. 2) Objectives provide direction and allow for organizational synergy. 3) Strategic objectives include those associated with growth in revenues‚ growth in earnings‚ higher dividends‚ larger profit margins‚ and improved cash flow. 4) Strategic objectives include larger market share‚ quicker on-time delivery than rivals‚ shorter design-to-market times than rivals‚ lower
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Kevin Powroznik APUSH RRQs Chapter 3 4. How did King Philip’s war‚ Bacon Rebellion‚ and the Salem witch trials illustrate a widespread crisis in British North American in the late seventeenth century? Towards the end of the seventeenth century‚ series of crises rocked the European colonies of North America. Both Social and political issues and crisis’s emerged such as King Philip’s war‚ Bacon Rebellion‚ and the Salem witch trails. King Philip’s war was one of the bloodiest and bitter wars
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Chapter 5- Big Hairy Audacious Goals Chapter 5 discusses a visionary company characteristic of taking risk and “setting super goals” as a hallmark for success. It starts off with Boeing’s pursuit of the commercial airline market in the 1950’s‚ which was underdeveloped and needing a major player for jet aircrafts. Unlike its rival Douglas Aircraft‚ who avoided entering the commercial market‚ Boeing took a gamble and developed a prototype for the commercial airliners used today. This chapter
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1. The Changing American Population 1. The American Population‚ 1820-1840 • The population increased rapidly • Much of it was moving from the countryside into the industrializing cities of the NE and NW • Much of it was migrating westward • Pop growth was due to improvements in public health and high birth rates • Immigration‚ choked off by wars in Europe and economic crises in America‚ contributed little to the American population in the first 3 decades of the 19th cent but revived beginning
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Chapter 1 Gatsby Reading Checks I have seen the movie and read ahead in the book. I choose to share this information with you because I know that it has tinted my answers and I tried hard to disregard it‚ but it seems to be very impossible. 1. Fitzgerald made Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby. By doing this he was able to successfully capture the essence of Gatsby‚ all of the other characters‚ and all of the events in the story from an outside view that is for the first time
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Hannah Park APUSH Discussion Questions Unit 1 (Ch. 1-6) Chapter 1 2) The Indian cultures of the New World had several common characteristics but also some differences that made them unique. A main common quality of the Indians is that they all depended on the cultivation of corn. The timing that corn cultivation reached their cultures reflected their development. Most of the Indian tribes were all small‚ scattered‚ and impermanent settlements. However there were a few exceptions‚ such as
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Chapters 23- 26 Study Guide Chapter 23- Progressivism * Progressive Legislation- the progressives were committed to changing and reforming every aspect of the state‚ society and economy. Significant changes enacted at the national levels included the imposition of an income tax with the Sixteenth Amendment‚ direct election of Senators with the Seventeenth Amendment‚ Prohibition with the Eighteenth Amendment‚ and women’s suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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