Costs of Corrections in the United States Did you know that 23 states prison systems are operating at over 100% capacity? "The increases in drug imprisonment‚ the decrease in releases from prison‚ and the re-incarceration for technical parole violations are leading to significant overcrowding and contribute to the growing costs of prisons. Prisons are stretched beyond capacity‚ creating dangerous and unconstitutional conditions which often result in costly lawsuits. In 2006‚ 40 out of
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pre-determined cost structure to account for and control expenses. WaMu primarily realizes transaction costs‚ fixed costs‚ and variable costs. Because WaMu doesn’t provide free services per-say‚ the sunk costs of the structure are fairly minimal. Transaction costs constitute the next smallest portion of WaMu’s cost structure. WaMu is free of infrastructure based transaction costs like those that smaller retailers who use point of sale services might incur. The primary transaction costs are the commissions
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each purpose discuss whether information about current or future product costs is required. What implication does your answer have for developing a product costing system? L-S‚ T & H‚ page 131. Purpose Current / Future Product Costs Short-term decisions: product mix‚ pricing Future Longer-term strategic decisions Future Long-term pricing Future Plan future product-related costs Future Control of product costs Current Reimbursement contracts Current External reporting (inventory
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Project managers must take cost estimates seriously if they want to complete software projects within budget constraints. After developing a good resource requirements list‚ project managers and their software development teams must develop several estimates of the costs for these resources. There are several different tools and techniques available for accomplishing good cost estimation. Software development project managers should prepare several types of cost estimates for most projects. Three
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A Study on Brand-Switching Behavior and Promotional Strategies for High-End Airline Flight Services Mihir Dash* and Jacob Alexander** This study analyzes the impact of different promotional programs on the brand-switching behavior of students with respect to premium flight services to determine the ‘optimal promotional mix’ that service providers should offer. This study uses the Markov brand-switching model in combination with game theoretic techniques to find the optimal promotional mixes
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2-22 Variable costs and fixed costs. Consolidated Minerals (CM) owns the rights to extract minerals from beach sands on Fraser Island. CM has costs in three areas: a. Payment to a mining subcontractor who charges $80 per ton of beach sand mined and returned to the beach (after being processed on the mainland to extract three minerals: ilmenite‚ rutile‚ and zircon). b. Payment of a government mining and environmental tax of $50 per ton of beach sand mined. c. Payment to a barge operator. This
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COST OVERRUN FACTORS AND PROJECT COST RISK ASSESSMENT IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY - A STATE OF THE ART REVIEW SAVITA SHARMA 1 & PRADEEP K. GOYAL 2 1 Senior Lecturer‚ Department of Civil Engineering‚ Govt. Polytechnic College‚ Ajmer‚ Rajasthan‚ India 2 Associate Professor‚ Department of Civil Engineering‚ Govt. Engineering College‚ Ajmer‚ Rajasthan‚ India ABSTRACT This paper presents a state of the art review of major and frequently occurred cost overrun factors and project cost risk assessment
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CHAPTER 22 The Costs of Production Topic Question numbers ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Costs: explicit and implicit 1-9 2. Profits 10-23 3. Short run versus long run 24-31 4. Law of diminishing returns 32-55 5. Short-run costs 56-157 6. Long-run costs 158-193 Last Word 194-196 True-False 197-210 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
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A Cost Leadership Strategy is based on the concept that you can produce and market a good quality product or service at a lower cost than your competitors. These low costs should translate to profit margins that are higher than the industry average. Some of the conditions that should exist to support a cost leadership strategy include an on-going availability of operating capital‚ good process engineering skills‚ close management of labor‚ products designed for ease of manufacturing and low cost distribution
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of the more basic concepts of economics. Scarcity needs trade-offs‚ and trade-offs result in an opportunity cost. While the cost of a good or service often is thought of in monetary terms‚ the opportunity cost of a decision is based on what must be given up as a result of the decision. Any decision that involves a choice between two or more options has an opportunity cost. Opportunity cost‚ scarcity and trade-off are important in our daily life because it affects us every day in different ways and
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