ronGreg Newman ACC 707 Jones Ironworks 1) I agree with Freddie. The payment system would be more effective as a piece rate. This should effectively increase the employees’ incentive to produce efficiently. The piece rate will encourage higher production. It will benefit employees for them to know that if they work harder‚ they will get more money. Under the other system‚ they could work inefficiently and get paid the same amount as someone who was working much more efficiently. This encourages
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. Case Question 2-8 2.1 Define and discuss Ford’s business-level strategy. How can the company’s value-chain activities be better linked to create value for the company? 2.2 How can Ford successfully position itself in terms of the five forces of competition? 2.3 In what ways can the company effectively manage customer relationships to increase strategic competitiveness? 2.4 What conditions and tools
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reducing global greenhouse gas emissions‚ since the full life cycle of the fuel‚ including its transport‚ could lead to higher emissions than conventional petroleum. On the bright side‚ it’s good to see that Mascoma‚ a company partly owned by General Motors‚ that it would help to build a plant in Kinross‚ Mich.‚ that is supposed to make fuel alcohol from wood
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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2. How much value is generated from cost savings associated with the project? In order to answer this question‚ we need to pay attention that all the revenue we used should be the number before tax‚ then Cost Baseline-Cost Upside=Net Income of Upside-Net Income of Baseline+ Revenue of Baseline-Revenue of Upside=693492‚ which is the value gathered from cost savings in five years. 3. How much value lies in improved revenues? As shown in the Excel above‚ the improved revenue accumulated in five
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1. Describe in words how costs are assigned in the Wilkerson’s current costing system. Discuss the pros and cons of this system. Wilkerson uses a simple traditional cost accounting system in which each unit of product is charged for direct material‚ direct labor and overhead costs. Material cost is based on the prices paid for component under annual purchasing agreements. Labor cost is charged to products based on the standard run times for each product. Labor rates‚ including fringe benefits
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COPYRIGHT MATERIAL M-Tel Call Centre data: What does it tell us? In May 2009‚ Esther Ching is three months into her role as manager of the complaints section of a call centre‚ located in India. The call centre is owned and run by M-Tel‚ a Malaysian telco company. Her section handles all billing complaints and service difficulties. The main products are landlines‚ mobile telephones and internet access. She is required to present a report about the performance of her section‚ as part of the regular
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for Tata Motors to enter the global ultra-low-cost car market? Tata Motors is one of the India’s largest automobile makers where manufactures cheap vehicles. A firm can reach a superior percentage of profit by supply an identical goods or service at a lower cost (Grant‚ 2010). It is to believed that Tata Motors choose to enter global market in low cost market is because in lower medium and low incomes population is more where this can win in volume as well as sales. This enable Tata Motors to generate
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DISCUSSION The present study was undertaken to estimate the specificity‚ sensitivity and predictive validity of measurements obtained with the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) for evaluation of preterm high risk infants. The present study included two scales i.e. the Alberta infant motor scale and the Peabody developmental motor scale – 2 (PDMS – 2) on high risk infants at 3 months‚ 6 months and 12 months of age. For the purpose of comparing the AIMS scale‚ the PDMS -2 scale was used as the gold
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Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................................................P2 Analysis .......................................................................................................................P2 Alternatives .................................................................................................................P4 Recommendation................................................................................
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