Written by: Birgit Löhndorf Department of Marketing‚ Vienna University of Economics and Business‚ Vienna‚ Austria Written by: Adamantios Diamantopoulos Department of Business Administration‚ University of Vienna‚ Vienna‚ Austria Abstract Prior research acknowledges employees’ crucial role in building strong service brands‚ yet empirical research on how to turn employees into brand champions remains scarce and has been largely approached from an internal branding perspective. Drawing on social
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Week 2 – MS Access Lab Requirements: Problem 4.4 Retrieve the S&S In-Chapter Database (in Microsoft Access format) from Doc Sharing or the text’s Web site (or create the tables in <link linkend="ch04table05" preference="0">Table 4-5<xref linkend="ch04table05" label="4-5"/></link> in a relational DBMS product). Write queries to answer the following questions. <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: For some questions‚ you may have to create two queries—one to calculate an
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Case 10-2 1. Ida needs to test the U.S. commercial building for recoverability under both U.S. GAAP and IFRSs. Recoverability test is one of the requirement tests for impairment. As a result‚ we need to verify if impairment should be recognized. 2. The impairement is $600‚000. GAAP methodology of determining impairment uses a two-step recoverability test. Step one‚ requires a company to estimate the future undiscounted cash flows expected from the use of that asset and its eventual disposition
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CAS 11-2 Amerbran Company Amerbran Company was a diversified company that sold various consumer products‚ including food‚ tobacco‚ distilled products‚ and personal care products and financial services. Financial statements for the company are shown in Exhibit 1. The 20X1 financial statements reflect the following transactions (dollar amounts are in thousands): 1. Depreciation and amortization expense was $115‚974. 2. Net income included a loss of $66‚046 resulting from the write-off
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Case the Mystery of the Disappearing Oil Mat Jon Weakness 1. Increases in costs of goods sold (85m) and inventories(18m) disproportionate with growth of sales 2. Current purchasing system contributed to redundant purchasing and high inventory holding costs 3. Siti Aminah (CFO) has no experience in system and technology 4. Internal control weaknesses: Purchasing system Current purchasing system contributed to redundant purchasing and high inventory holding costs and caused increases
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Outline I. Introduction A. Attention getter B. Introduce topic II. Price elasticity of demand A. Define B. Example III. Price discrimination A. Define B. Example IV. Effect A. Who/how benefits B. Revenue V. Conclusion A. How B. Closing attention getter Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Discrimination Buy one get one half off and 10% off are just two of the more common offers I come across as a student. They may not seem like much‚ but for some people saving just one dollar
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Gas Price Elasticity The Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy began tracking weekly gasoline prices in 1990 by means of a survey of 800 service stations around the country. The average retail price for unleaded gasoline posted its fourth record high during the week of June 12‚ 2000‚ increasing 5 cents a gallon to an average of $1.681. The price at the pump is higher than the same period last year by 56 cents and has risen 16.2 cents over the past month (Anonymous‚ 2000)
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contribute to rising gasoline prices. The major cause for increasing gasoline prices has to do with refining capacity. Even if oil were inexpensive‚ we would still have a problem converting it into the gas that fuels our economy. That is what keeps the gas prices high. When gas supplies are short‚ due to an “inability to refine crude oil into gas efficiently‚” prices increase. This is a component of supply and demand economics. In a positive aspect‚ rising gasoline prices do serve a purpose; they
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Why Gold Prices Fluctuate? Posted on May 25‚ 2010 by Manish — 2 Comments ↓ This is the first post in the learner’s series. A simple question that we will answer through this post is‚ “Why do gold prices fluctuate?”. While I am writing this article‚ the Gold price stands at $1238 per ounce (1 ounce = 28.35 grams). This fluctuate everyday‚ and the gold prices have gone significantly up in the past few months. Like all other investments and commodities‚ gold prices also fluctuate everyday and are
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Gold Prices Forecast As we all know that gold prices are fluctuating widely over the last few years‚ and a wide increase in the bullion rates has been recorded. According to economists and forecasters‚ there are different reasons of this widespread increase in gold prices. Most of them say that this is because of the relationship between crude oil and gold. And because of this correlation between prices of oil and gold‚ the gold prices are constantly changing but its not the only reason these
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