and their competitive organizations set the prices for their industry. “Because of their “fewness‚” oligopolies have considerable control over their prices‚ but each must consider the possible reaction of rivals to its own pricing‚ output‚ and advertising decisions” (Brue et al‚ 2009). The two main competitors for the McDonald’s corporation are Burger King and Wendy’s. The pricing summaries for all three organizations are very similar. With prices fairly consistent‚ how are companies competing
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1. How important are emotions to our purposes? Extremely important. If we had no emotion‚ then what is the reason to live‚ or do anything purposeful‚ if no sense of achievement‚ happiness has occurred. 2. Would we seek knowledge‚ or even be capable of knowledge‚ without purposefulness? In media programs‚ it has been hinted at the possibility of aliens who have no feeling‚ but have the purpose to conquer‚ or some other objective. As such‚ 3. How do our feelings affect our perceptions?
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Question 5 – Transfer Price Division A‚ which is part of the ACF Group‚ manufactures only one type of product‚ a Bit‚ which it sells to external customers and also to division C‚ another member of the group. ACF Group’s policy is that divisions have the freedom to set transfer prices and choose their suppliers. The ACF Group uses residual income (RI) to assess divisional performance and each year it sets each division a target RI. The group’s cost of capital is 12% a year. Division A Budgeted
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A Problem with Price A Problem of Price This vignette is characteristic of what happens when buyers are asleep at the wheel. Sue Jones is a newly promoted buyer that is paying close attention to details of her new job. Sue finds that the companies that have bided in this process are all within about $50 of one another. The strange thing about thus is not the fact that the bids are so close but that the winning bid is not low enough. How does she get her cost down even lower? Sue should focus
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PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES CURVE: A curve that illustrates the production possibilities of an economy--the alternative combinations of two goods that an economy can produce with given resources and technology. A production possibilities curve (PPC) represents the boundary or frontier of the economy’s production capabilities‚ hence it is also frequently termed a production possibilities frontier (PPF). As a frontier‚ it is the maximum production possible given existing (fixed) resources and technology
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bell curve is literally‚ the symmetrical curve created on a graph when using a frequency distribution method for a set of data‚ splitting the mean symmetrically. There is a big difference between standard deviation and the bell curve! Standard deviation shows the difference in variation from the average; the bell curve‚ also normal distribution or Gaussian distribution‚ shows the standard deviation and is created by the normal or equal distribution of the mean among either half. The bell curve is an
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In this tutorial session‚ we practiced on classifying quality costs. What we were going to do was that classify fourteen different costs in to three quality costs which were price of conformance(POCs)‚ price of non-conformance(PONCs) and normal business(NBs). When we looked at PONCs‚ we should be careful of some key words like “loss of use” in question 5‚ “re-work” in question 6‚ “error” in question 11 etc which means failure. Since situation of non-conformance occurred‚ the company had a must
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Explain how production possibility curves can be used to demonstrate the problem of unemployment‚ effects of technological change and the benefits of economic growth. Human wants are unlimited and resources are scarce. In order to satisfy these wants‚ all societies face the problem of allocating these scarce resources to producing the wanted products. These decisions greatly affect the economy and will contribute to the movements of growth. A graph that visually represents the results of the decisions
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“The Price of Incivility” Christine Porath & Christine Pearson‚ Harvard Business Review Jan-Feb 2013 1. Do you agree or disagree with the article and why? Did you find it useful and why? I couldn’t agree more with the article‚ it goes without saying that productivity of employees is highly dependent with their work experience and in particular how they are treated. In the actual productivity is affecting more the productivity in service than manufacturing companies. But still bad behaviors poison
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Spectrophotometer; the finding of protein concentration of an unknown sample of BSA‚ and by using the standard curve. Abstract A spectrophotometer’s purpose is to use colors of the light spectrum to determine the concentration of light absorbing molecules in a solution. (p.59) In this particular lab‚ our mission was to determine the protein concentration and the standard curve of the unknown sample of BSA. This‚ by preparing five dilutions of the unknown solution of BSA together with other
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