Short Assignment 1 * What was the positioning challenge Apple faced? Competitors enter market * In 1981‚ IBM entered PC market used Microsoft’s DOS OS and microprocessor and will be Apple best rival for the start on 1981. Jobs forced out in 1985. * In 1985‚ Compaq and IBM do a research and development (R&D) and make move Apple into the mainstream by becoming low-cost producer and joint venture with IBM. This’s one of Apple failure moment and Apple Gross margin drop to 34%. *
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Is Isom’s business vision responsive to the situation? In general‚ most of the companies in property and casualty insurance business would want to be high performing specialists rather than generalists. Yes‚ in this case however his vision was responsive to the situation. He had a good view of the situation and knew that radical shift in the divisions strategy is required to turn around the future. P&C was a low performing generalist insurance division • Years of
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Men and women have always had specific roles that are played when starting a family. Women being viewed as the fulltime house worker‚ and men as the income support. Hope Edelman writes on her essay “The Myth of Co- Parenting: How It Was Supposed To Be. How It Was” how her martial experience was conflicted with ingrained gender roles. The role women played in a household‚ as oppose to the role women currently now play in the household are very different. Hence‚ the typical stigma that the man is the
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1. Is Eye Vision’s arrangement with Holland Hospital within the scope of ASC 985-605‚ Software: Revenue Recognition? In this case‚ the main content of the Eye Vision’s arrangement with Holland Hospital include embedded software medical equipment and an initial option to purchase a two-year separately priced maintenance agreement. In this case‚ because“Eye Vision has never sold‚ nor does it offer to sell‚ the Clear View Laser without the embedded software because the software is necessary to perform
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Questions 2-4 The estimated costs calculated using the activity-based costing method is very different from the existing standard unit costs and the revised unit costs. Exhibit 3 uses the traditional cost allocation system‚ which allocates all costs based on measures of volume. In the standard unit costs‚ Destin Brass uses direct labor as the only cost driver‚ which rarely meets the cause-effect standard wanted in cost allocation. Exhibit 4 is similar to exhibit 3‚ but instead‚ 4 uses materials
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Co –education is considered to be best system of education- The most important parameter of countries progress is education .so‚ it is not whether the school is all of girls or the school is all of all boys the school‚ so it should be the guiding forces where the schools are built to impart knowledge to the children. Gone are the days when the girls were not allowed to go out by themselves and talking to boys was considered to be orthodox. Today can you imagine a workplace without a women
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*Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy 1. What are the factors that likely explain the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity and its reported book value of equity? The most obvious reason for the difference between the market value of equity and the book value of equity is the inability to record certain intangible assets such as brand value‚ customer loyalty‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ human capital. These intangible assets are likely to provide tremendous earnings
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AGDA Practice Note Written Proposal Template Written Proposals We advise our members to always provide written proposals to your clients. While writing a proposal may seem like a challenging task‚ you will benefit from the exercise in many ways: • your clients will perceive you as professional – any client who wants to do business without something in writing should be informed it is standard professional practice‚ in keeping with the AGDA Code of Ethics • you will have legal protection
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CHAPTER 5 Merchandising Operations and the Multiple-Step Income Statement ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1. (a) Disagree. The steps in the accounting cycle are the same for both a merchandising company and a service company. (b) The measurement of income is conceptually the same. In both types of companies‚ net income (or loss) results from the matching of expenses with revenues. 2. The components of revenues and expenses differ as follows: | | Merchandising | | Service | RevenuesExpenses
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Abstract This paper contains details about a problem faced in Elecon Engineering Co. Ltd. (Anand-Sojitra road‚ Vallabh Vidhyanagar-388120‚ Gujarat‚ India) and a solution by means of proper application of innovation management. Elecon Engineering Company Ltd. Was established in the year 1951as ‘The Pioneers’ in the manufacturing of industrial geared motors and reducers‚ material handling equipment and industrial gears in Asia. The company wanted to establish a new fully automated plant in order to
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