1. “Revenue hours” represent the key activity that drives costs at Salem Data Services. Which expenses in Exhibit 2 are variable with respect to revenue hours? Which expenses are fixed with respect to revenue hours? a. Variable Expenses – Wages for Hourly Personnel‚ Power b. Fixed Expenses – Wages for Salaried staff‚ Systems development and maintenance‚ Administration 2. For each expense that is variable with respect to revenue hours‚ calculate the cost per revenue hour.
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Case Study – Prestige Telephone Co. Company Profile Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ a public utility. They are a computer data service company that does data processing for the parent company in order to sell computer services. The company was opened in order to bring in additional revenue in order to offset increases in telephone rate increases. Throughout the three years of being
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A Telephone Call Face to Face with Obsession In “A Telephone Call‚” Dorothy Parker uses diction‚ tone‚ and point of view to expose obsession and give it a voice. Parker reveals the deep feelings of a woman experiencing an infatuation. The language usage and tone help keep a high-paced unstable feeling throughout the story. Point of view focuses on the thoughts and agitations of the crazed woman. To highlight the theme Parker sensibly uses these specific literary tools. Parker takes advantage
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Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka. Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation depicts a conversation between a white lady and an African American man which casts a harsh light on the racism and prejudice which grips society. The title reveals the fact that two people are talking on the phone‚ so the beginning of the poem is on a positive note: The man is searching for a house and the land lady has named a considerable price‚ and the area where it is located is an impartial and not racially prejudiced
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A Hard Place To Be In In Wole Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation‚ the poet communicates his anger and disappointment about being discriminated in society by white people‚ only because he is African. He portrays this in a telephone conversation between himself and a potential landlord. The poem is put together as if Wole Soyinka’s thoughts of being discriminated against just flew out on the paper on which he was writing. The reaction of both the caller and the landlord are Soyinka’s own stereotypes
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HBS case – Salem Telephone Company Opening In 2000 the Public Service Commission (PSC) was informed by the president of Salem Telephone Company (STC) that a profitable computer service subsidiary would reduce pressure for increases to telephone rates. With approval from the Public Service Commission‚ STC‚ a regulated public utility‚ established Salem Data Services (SDS) in 2001‚ an unregulated public utility to perform data processing for the telephone company and additionally to sell computer
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Case Study Prestige Telephone Co. CLASSIFICATION OF COSTS Jan Fixed costs: Space rent Custodial services Computer leases Maintenance Depreciation Power Wages: Operations Systems development Admnistration Sales Sales promotions Total fixed costs I Corporate services Total fixed costs II Variable cost per hour: Power Wages operations Materials Variable unit cost per hour 8.000 1.240 95.000 5.400 26.180 Feb 8.000 1.240 95.000 5.400 26.180 Mar 8.000 1.240 95.000 5.400 26.180 Average 8.000 1.240
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Skype | ENTP 6390 – Business Model Innovation | 1. 2. Skype’s business model is illustrated in Business Model Generation (98-99)‚ but the identification of customer segments and the value proposition are rather brief and generic. Prepare a more detailed Business Model Canvas for Skype based on the information provided in the case. Key Partners * Payment providers (Visa‚ Master‚ PayPal) * OS developers (Windows‚ Linux‚) * Third party websites which provide downloadable
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Salem Telephone Company 1. With respect to the revenue hours the expenses‚ power and operations: hourly personnel are the variable expenses. Rent‚ custodial services‚ Computer leases‚ Maintenance‚ Depreciation‚ Salaried staff‚ administration‚ sales‚ sales promotions‚ corporate services and systems development and maintenance expenses can be treated as fixed costs. 2. Costs per revenue hours for the Variable expenses power and operations hourly personnel are as follows Expenses | Jan
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A Telephone call In “A Telephone Call” Dorothy Parker uses repetition‚ tone‚ and point of view to show obsession and give it a voice. Parker shows the deep feelings of a woman experiencing love. The language used and tone of her writing help keep an unstable feeling throughout the story; although she does a good job on balancing positive and negative thinking in the story. The point of view focuses on the confusing thoughts of the crazy woman. Parker takes advantage of repetition as a literary
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