Is the Cost of Education Too High? Education is a human right. At the core of education is the development of societal and individual cultural identity. Education makes people neither tired nor rich and can make all people equal through social justice. Social justice is the precondition for sustainable human development and peaceful coexistence. Every child has the right to an education and every person has a right to satisfy their basic learning needs. However‚ in recent years‚ education
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Opportunity costs The first opportunity cost that I made was choosing to enroll in a university that offers online courses or going to a traditional university that only has classroom style learning. The pros of attending online for me included not having to commute back and forth 40 additional miles per day‚ not having to hire a babysitter for my child‚ and I’d be in the comfort of my own home or environment to my liking when I studied. The cons included‚ not having that social connection to my
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Cost accounting deals with ascertainment ‚ allocation ‚ apportionment accounting aspect of costs.Management accounting deals with the effect and impact of costs on the business. 2. Cost accounting provides a base for management accounting whereas management accounting is derived from cost accounting and financial accounting. 3. Cost accounting does not include financial accounting ‚ tax planning and tax accounting. Management accounting includes financial and cost accounting ‚ tax accounting
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lub Background Cost Club is a growing retailer‚ similar to Super Wal-Mart or Target. It provides discount merchandise and supermarket products in large stores located in many areas of the United States. Cost Club is administratively organized into regions‚ and each region is permitted to develop its own operational policies‚ as long as the bottom line of low cost and reasonable service to customers is maintained. There are many strong competitors to Cost Club‚ with some regions experiencing more
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strength usually falls into one of two headings: • Cost advantage • Differentiation By applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow or narrow scope‚ three generic strategies result: • Cost leadership • Differentiation • Focus These strategies are applied at business unit level. They are called generic strategies because they are not firm or industry dependant. Cost Leadership: This generic strategy calls for being the low cost producer in an industry for a given level of quantity
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decades‚ causing some to say we should integrate them into our society‚ while others believe that they should
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reality of the different lifestyle college has to offer. The cost of college can become pricey between tuition‚ books‚ as well as living expenses. In addition‚ college offers a more advanced social environment than high school and you’re fairly responsible for transportation in college whereas in high school they provide transportation. Firstly‚ the cost of college can become extremely expensive compared to high school due to the cost of living‚ student tuition‚ and the unseen book expenses. Unlike
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Considering an IPO? The costs of going and being public may surprise you September 2012 A publication from PwC’s Deals practice Table of contents The heart of the matter 1 Embarking upon the IPO process requires insight into the costs An in-depth discussion 4 The initial public offering Cost of going public Cost of being public 5 12 What this means for your business 27 Assess the readiness of your organization for an IPO to appropriately stage the costs incurred and to minimize
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Opportunity Cost Lets start with a small introduction to the topic Opportunity Cost. Opportunity cost is the cost of any activity measured in terms of the value of the next best alternative forgone (that is not chosen). It is the sacrifice related to the second best choice available to someone‚ or group‚ who has picked among several mutually exclusive choices. The opportunity cost is also the "cost" (as a lost benefit) of the forgone products after making a choice. Opportunity cost is a
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Abstract. That sunk costs are not relevant to rational decision-making is often presented as one of the basic principles of economics. When people are influenced by sunk costs in their decision-making‚ they are said to be committing the “sunk cost fallacy.” Contrary to conventional wisdom‚ we argue that‚ in a broad range of situations‚ it is rational for people to condition behavior on sunk costs‚ because of informational content‚ reputational concerns‚ or financial and time constraints. Once
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