NATURE OF OPERATIONAL AUDIT • Also known as management audits and performance audits. • Conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and/or efficiency of operations. • Examinations of all or part of an entity to determine the degree of its operational efficiency‚ effectiveness and economy. • Also refers to the auditor’s study of business operations for the purpose of making recommendations about economic and efficient use of resource‚ effective achievement of business objectives
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APPLIED OPERATIONAL RESEARCH FOR MANAGEMENT NOTES 1 ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR PROGRAMMING (LP) INTRODUCTION Operations Research (OR) (a term coined by McClosky and Trefthen in 1940) was a technique that evolved during World War II to effectively use the limited military resources and yet achieve the best possible results in military operations. In essence you can state that OR is a technique that helps achieve best (optimum) results under the given set of limited
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The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy Competition for industry profits goes beyond the direct competitors in the business. It included four other competitive forces as well: • Customers • Suppliers • Potential entrants • Substitute products This extended rivalry that results from all five forces defines an industry’s structure and shapes the nature of competitive interaction within the industry. Industry structure drives profitability‚ not products or services‚ or mature or
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Trident University International Rey F. Guzman Accounting for Decision Making (ACC-501) Module 5 SLP Operational Leverage Dr. Timothy Brown 27 January‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION This SLP requires to do some research to learn about operating leverage‚ ROI‚ EVA‚ and another performance measure of your choice. Note that there are variations in the computations of a particular measurement. Using the information from the latest financial statement for a company to compute the measurements researched
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The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter Comments (143) RELATED Executive Summary ALSO AVAILABLE Buy PDF Editor’s Note: In 1979‚ Harvard Business Review published “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” by a young economist and associate professor‚ Michael E. Porter. It was his first HBR article‚ and it started a revolution in the strategy field. In subsequent decades‚ Porter has brought his signature economic rigor
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A lot of Universities and colleges have different values in which they place a big significance on for their students to strive towards. Alvernia University maintains five core values‚ one of them being peacemaking. Throughout a student’s time at Alvernia University‚ the faculty and staff encourage them to achieve these five core values and display them in their everyday lives. Alvernia University displays and promotes peacemaking through its courses/course requirements‚ freshman orientation‚ and
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Operational Planning I. Introduction Operational planning is setting up procedures and processes at the lower level of the company in order to meet the overall goal of the company. There are different factors for each company that affects the operational plan and how it is laid out. The operational plan can also greatly influence the success of a company. There is a direct correlation between the operational plan and a company’s strengths and weaknesses. The operational plan must also take into
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Employment Laws and HRM Strategy 1 Employment Laws and HRM Strategy Research the employment laws in your state by visiting (your two-letter state designation).gov. (for example‚ az.gov; mi.gov.; or va.gov.). Insert “employment laws” into the Search area of the Website and review the different designations of employment laws that are listed. Benefits decreases for the entire employee population Describe the scenario that you have selected and its corresponding employment laws. The scenario
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Operational Reorganization Program Our company is downsizing‚ facing major budget cuts‚ reorganizing departments and instituting a cross-training program for employees. It ’s imperative that we effectively manage these process changes and transition into a more productive organization. A goal setting‚ motivation and stress management program is required to assist employees and management during this transitional time. As we are all aware‚ we must make our company more responsive to an increasingly
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A study conducted by Schwab (2007) found out that bereaved parents use five coping strategies to adapt in a situation. The first one is through seeking someone whom they can release their tensions and feelings. Next is through trying to avoid painful and negative thoughts. Next is through trying to understand how to deal with their loss. Fourth is through reaching out to others by joining peer and support groups to alleviate the pain. Lastly is through holding on to their religious beliefs.
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