Aggregates is a major part of concrete‚ it is of urgent need that we look into the influence of aggregate on the fresh as well as hardened properties of concrete. Better grading of aggregate not only will show better results in the properties of the concrete but will also help in saving expensive materials such as cement‚ fly ash and admixture. In the comparative study of influence of the aggregate on high strength concrete‚ here is an attempt to study strength characteristics of cubes and cylinders
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Consumption vs. Expenditure Mark Aguiar Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Erik Hurst University of Chicago NBER * We would like to thank Daron Acemoglu‚ Fernando Alvarez‚ Susanto Basu‚ Marianne Bertrand‚ Mark Bils‚ Ricardo Caballero‚ Steve Davis‚ Lars Hansen‚ Jonathon Heathcote‚ Michael Hurd‚ Anil Kayshap‚ Helen Levy‚ Anna Lusardi‚ Chris Mayer‚ Amil Petrin‚ Karl Scholz‚ Rob Shimer‚ Jon Skinner‚ Mel Stephens‚ Alwyn Young‚ Steve Zeldes‚ and two anonymous referees‚ along with seminar
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the foreign currency‚ while a negative percentage change represents depreciation. In the example provided‚ the percentage change in the Thai baht would be: That is‚ the baht would be expected to appreciate by 18.18%. 2. What are the basic factors that determine the value of a currency? In equilibrium‚ what is the relationship between these factors? ANSWER: The basic factors that determine the value of a currency are the supply of the currency for sale and the demand for the currency. A high level
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(excluding VAT). The total transportation and testing cost is 5 million VND. Their estimated useful life is 5 years. Required: 1. You are asked to create a depreciation table for these equipments‚ using these following methods: a. Straight line method b. Double declining balance method c. Sum of years’ digits method 2. Compare their depreciation expenses and rates‚ then comment on their capital recovery rates. (Assume that this enterprise pay VAT by the tax deduction method) EXERCISE 2 A forestry
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1) Use the AS/AD framework to show the separate effects on GDP‚ inflation and public sector borrowing on any single national economy of: a) cut in public spending b) an increase in the rate of VAT (sales tax) c) a slowdown in the GDP growth of less developed economies. (Make sure that you include clear and appropriate diagrams for this question) According to Begg and Ward (2009) fiscal policy is the government’s decisions regarding taxation and spending to influence level
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the importance of depreciation expenses. Depreciation as a concept and in practice plays a very important role in a company ’s cash flow hence in funding. The reason ’s are basically two‚ firstly because depreciation is a way of self finance for an organization and secondly because is a way of decreasing taxes that the government claims as the company doesn ’t have to pay taxes on depreciation which consequently enlarges the cash flow of the company. As a term depreciation in accounting is the
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Differentiating Depreciation Methods Straight-line method of depreciation is where the depreciation is charged as long as you have an asset. However‚ an accelerated method of depreciation is where the depreciation that you have charged the amount will decline over a period of time. In straight-line method in order for you to get the depreciation amount the asset is subtracted from its cost. In the mean time‚ accelerated method is charged in the beginning of the life time but in the end it
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Australia’s GDP and Government Expenditure GDP or Gross Domestic Product measures the value of production and the income earned from that production that occurs within a nation’s boundaries (Hill‚ 2007). The total GDP value of Australia currently represents a 2.45 percent of the world economy. From 1960 to 2012 the yearly average of the Australian GDP was 325.7 USD Billion‚ with a reported all time high of 1520.6 USD Billion in December of 2012 and record low of 18.6 USD Billion in December of
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The Bathtub Curve and Product Failure Behavior Part One - The Bathtub Curve‚ Infant Mortality and Burn-in by Dennis J. Wilkins Retired Hewlett-Packard Senior Reliability Specialist‚ currently a ReliaSoft Reliability Field Consultant This paper is adapted with permission from work done while at Hewlett-Packard. Reliability specialists often describe the lifetime of a population of products using a graphical representation called the bathtub curve. The bathtub curve consists of three periods: an
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Pizza Store Curve Theory February 10‚ 2013 Operations Management/OPS/571 Professor John Quesnel In this paper the approach is to understand the formulation of learning curve theory and objective is to maximize profits and increasing organizational performance for Mario ’s Pizzeria. The three fundamental assumptions followed by the learning curve theory are total time for completing a task decreases with the increased repetition‚ improvement percentage decreases
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