Matthew Christensen History C Thorton 15 February 2013 Cuts Costs * Decreasing overhead through outsourcing is a valuable resource for Nike. Cutting costs by employing workers at a reduced rate or paying less for plant operation allows Nike to invest the additional profits into other areas of the business such as advertising‚ thereby increasing the potential for company growth. In addition‚ decreased operational costs are more likely to attract and retain company investors because more money
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Optimal Level of Effort in Vertically Integrated Channel § Demand potential increases by 50 h § Expected profit increases by 0.8*50 h h à h+1 0.8 * 50 * ( h + 1 − h ) 0 à 1 40 1 à 2 16.56 2 à 3 12.71 3 à 4 10.71 4 à 5 9.44 i* = 684 E[Profit]
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Is Outsourcing a Wise Corporate Strategy? YES: BusinessWeek‚ from “The Future of Outsourcing‚” Business- Week Special Report: Outsourcing ( January 30‚ 2006)‚ http://www .businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_05/b3969401.htm NO: Ephraim Schwartz‚ from “Painful Lessons from IT Outsourcing Gone Bad‚” InfoWorld.com (August 25‚ 2008)‚ http://www.infoworld .com/d/adventures-in-it/painful-lessons-it-outsourcing-gone-bad-032 ISSUE SUMMARY YES: BusinessWeek writers argue that outsourcing is likely
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Questions 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ and 4 on page 249. 1. What is the difference between supply chain management and demand management? Supply chain management is concerned with the design and management of value-added process that not only cut across organizational boundaries but must be tightly integrated to allow information and materials to flow and be deployed within and across them. Demand management refers to decisions that are taken to affect the quantities demanded of one or more product that are served
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Homework – Week 4 Desislava Tabakova ACC 403 – Auditing I Professor Ashley Braun Harper November 2‚ 2014 Chapter 7: Problems 7-29(a-g) and 7-33(a-b) Chapter 8: Problems 8-29(a-d) and 8-32(a-b) 7-29 A-G A- Recorded amount of entries in the acquisition journal 1- Documentation--consists of the client’s business documents used to support accounting events. The strength of documentation is that it is prevalent and available at a low cost. Documents can be internal or externally
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Team C Week 4 Summary David Ramirez‚ Kelvin Hemmingway‚ Chad Etzler ACC/291 August 26‚ 2013 Ins: James Covert Introduction As we advanced through week 4 of Principles of Accounting II‚ so far‚ we have absorbed ourselves with a litany of accountancy material. Week 4 continued with variety of content that contained: identifying kinds of shares issued by companies‚ computing shares‚ dividends‚ and stock splits‚ and documenting treasury stock deals. Also discussed in text and throughout discussion
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Title: Outsourcing Objective: Outsourcing is also used if a certain company or individual has the inability to perform a specific task and get the result they want. These company uses outsourcing to look for an individual or a company who could provide better results than if they were to do the same task. The cost may be slightly higher but the results are better. Outsourcing therefore has two primary objectives: 1. To get labor at reduced cost but get the same or slightly better results
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Week 4 Lab: Assessment Worksheet Performing a Business Impact Analysis for an IT Infrastructure Overview Answer the following questions‚ specific to the creation and focus of Business Impact Analysis as well as BCP documentation. Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1. What is the goal and purpose of a BIA? To identify which business units‚ operations and process are crucial to the survival of the business. A timeframe in which business functionality must be restored
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Practice Exam – 10 Points ACC/490 Auditing Student Name: Multiple Choice – Highlight the best answer Point Value: .25 each 1. Which one of the following is among the three components of audit risk? a. incurrence risk b. occurrence risk c. rejection risk d. control risk 2. The Hochfelder Case is important because it limited auditor liability under: a. the 1933 Securities Act. b. the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. c. common law. d. RICO. 3. Which of the following is
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to a four day school week‚ but not all of the benefits are for students. There are “Sixty-two school districts‚ constituting 34% of the 178 school districts in Colorado” and those sixty two school districts “schedule 7.5 hours per day for 144 days of school instead of the normal six hours for 180 days” (Dam). By switching to a four day school week‚ students grades and their attendance were improved. The school saved money and since there is only four days in the school week students and teachers
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