Professor Dept. of Accounting & Information Systems University of Dhaka Submitted By: Md. Afzal Hossain BBA 12th Batch ID: 12094 Date of Submission: 22 August 2010. Chapter 01 Introduction It is a common knowledge that the true profit of insurance business cannot correctly be determined under the ordinary method of accounting. In life insurance the revenue account would serve only to indicate the savings of the year represented by the excess of the current year’s income over the
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Slavery and Liberty – Profit vs. Morality 18th-Century British Writers Speed the Process of Freedom “By the late 18th century‚ over eleven million African men‚ women and children had been taken from Africa to be used as slaves in the West Indies and the American colonies. Great Britain was the mightiest superpower on earth and its empire was built on the backs of slaves. The slave trade was considered acceptable by all but a few. Of them even fewer were brave enough to speak it.” (Amazing Grace
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operations structures typically divide their operations into cost or profit centers. It is a management and strategic decision for companies to decide which divisions should be cost centers and which ones should be profit centers. . A cost center may actually provide services that could generate a profit if they were offered on the open market. But in most corporate environments‚ cost centers are not expected to generate a profit and operation costs are treated as overhead. Departments that are
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Profits might be compared with sales‚ assets‚ or stockholders’ equity. Why might all three bases be used? Will trends in these ratios always move in the same direction? All the three bases are used to find the return earned with respective to sales as well as investment made. When the profit is compared with sales‚ it is called as the net profit margin. When the profit is compared with assets‚ it is called as return earned on total investment and when profit is compared with stockholders’ equity
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highest expected profit from pizza sales at the game. II. Analysis In order to determine at which production level Tom will achieve the highest expected profit‚ it is first necessary to determine the potential profit or loss associated with producing at each demand level. To do this‚ a discrete probability distribution is composed for each potential level of production. For example‚ if 200 plain cheese pizzas are produced and 200 are demanded‚ the potential profit is $400. This profit consists of
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The social responsibility of business is to increase profit As an individual living in a unified society‚ everyone has certain social responsibilities to play. Businesses too‚ as parts of society‚ as they utilizes the available resources like water‚ land‚ roads and power of the society and depend on the society for its functioning. This creates an obligation on the business part to look after the welfare of society that it operates in and is indebted to. It should take care of those who are involved
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Manuel V. Gallego Foundation Colleges‚ Inc. Cabanatuan City‚ Philippines Analysis of Cost‚ Profit and Total Revenue Prepared by: Cajucom‚ Mary Jane Constantino‚ Georgia Escuadro‚ Abigail Ferry‚ Yasmin Joy Orobia‚ Maribel Lopez‚ Rannel Tumale‚ Mary Joyce Submitted to: Mrs. Gina Braga Accounting versus Economic Costs Economic costs Are forward looking costs‚ meaning‚ economist are in tune with future costs because these costs have major repercussions on the potential
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For the third simulation the two profit organization had to create a calendar using two colors. One of the colors out of the two would give a team an upper hand in the simulation. My organization which is the non-profit Goodwill. In the simulation we sold goodwill but we also had the upper hand because we knew the color that would better the chance of an organization winning. Since we knew the color we could charge both profit organizations money so that one of them could have a better chance winning
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The Alzheimer’s Association is a non-profit organization‚ while Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is a for-profit organization. Even though the two are different entities and‚ each has their own business ethics and morals‚ they are similar in some ways; both have a mission to help people and both have faced challenges since their beginning. In regards to The Alzheimer’s Association‚ the organization was formed on April 10‚ 1980‚ with Jerome H. Stone as founding president. As of today‚ the organization has 11
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famous work on for-profit strategy is Porter’s “Competitive Strategy”. He defines strategy as: “developing a competitive strategy is developing a broad formula for how a business is going to compete‚ what its goals should be‚ and what policies will be needed to carry out those goals” (Porter 1980‚ p. xvi).Five decades of practice and research have been focused on strategy for for-profit organisations. Applying strategy concepts from this for-profit perspective to the non-profit world is challenging
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