$122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment spreadsheet
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BUSINESS DECISION MAKING INTRODUCTION Johnson and Johnson is an American multinational company founded in Brunswick ‚New Jersey in 1886 by American entrepreneur Robert Wood Johnson. It manufactures pharmaceuticals‚ medical devices and consumer products. J&J and its subsidiaries have operations in over 60 countries and sell their products in over 175 countries. Today‚ it employs 120‚000 people worldwide. They are the world’s second largest manufacturer of health care products and
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Hostess Brand Impossible to Save? Wonder bread goods and Hostess cake products were sold by Continental Baking Company in New York City and they filed bankruptcy Chapter 11 On November 2012 (Ghillyer‚ A.W‚ 2014). This caused over eighteen hundred people to lose their jobs. A lot of the consumers were upset because they feared if they lost Hostess Twinkies their business would go down. Some entrepreneurs wanted to make a profit by buying Twinkies from e-bay. Wonder bread‚ Twinkies‚ Ho-Ho’s‚ Ring
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Decisions such as where to locate your office can be the difference maker in whether or not that business succeeds. Location can be everything but as Dinko’s printing it can be creative and still effective if strategically selected from smart and insightful objectives designed to give a creative yet competitive edge in the printing industry. The decision of where to be located could not be a more fundamental life decision that could have long term effects that could be incremental in the survival
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Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems‚ 9e (Turban) Chapter 7 Text and Web Mining 1) DARPA and MITRE teamed up to develop capabilities to automatically filter text-based information sources to generate actionable information in a timely manner. ANSWER: ??? Diff: 2 Page Ref: 288 2) A vast majority of all business data are captured and stored in structured text documents. ANSWER: ??? Diff: 2 Page Ref: 289 3) Text mining is important to competitive advantage because knowledge
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surrounds the extreme amount of power or influence business groups have on government. For most of us who pay attention to government issues‚ it is obvious that the business elites basically make all the decisions concerning society when they only count as the minority in our society. Their rules‚ laws‚ and ways of thinking are usually implemented on the other members of our society. Business groups have first opportunity in making demands and decisions‚ although author of the Canadian Politics text
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and purpose My organisations mission is to help companies/people take advantage of government insentives and also to supply them with an additional income stream 1.3 Compare how the organisation works with other different types of organisations My organisation works closely with several other organisations to supply a service such as financing a solar PV job or hiring out necessary equipment to install solar panels to a given roof 1.4 Explain your main responsibilities‚ how these fit into the organisation’s
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Chapter 1- What is strategy? Strategy- how to do better than your rivals What is the present situation? Where do we want to go? How will we get there? Strategy- doing things differently from rivals- competitive advantage Effectiveness & Efficiency Doing things differently than others either differently providing value Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Efficiently- “don’t care about value- but do it more efficiently Google focusing more on efficiency Sustainable Competitive advantage
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Polysar Limited--recent assignment. BACKGROUND Rubber Group is the largest of the three operating units of Polysar Limited. The primary users of its products‚ such as butyl and halobutyl‚ are manufacturers of automobile tires; other users are from various industries. In 1986‚ Rubber group contributed 0.8 billion which is 46 percent of the company annual sale. The operation of the group is divided into four divisions‚ NASA (North America and South America) and EROW (Europe and rest of the world)
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Assess the relationship between operations and other functions using actual businesses A vital component for a successful business is to possess effective interdependent relationships between operations and other key business functions (i.e. marketing‚ finance‚ human resources). Interdependence occurs where each function works together with other functions‚ as well as relies on others‚ to achieve the business’s overall goal (making a profit). Without this important relationship‚ the functions will
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