have done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the
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3 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Learning Objectives 1. Explain the features of cost-volumeprofit (CVP) analysis 2. Determine the breakeven point and output level needed to achieve a target operating income 3. Understand how income taxes affect CVP analysis 4. Explain how managers use CVP analysis in decision making 5. Explain how sensitivity analysis helps managers cope with uncertainty 6. Use CVP analysis to plan variable and fixed costs 7. Apply CVP analysis to a company producing multiple
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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Structure Setting and Adjustment | Definition | A pay structure is a collection of pay rates or pay ranges.Structure setting and adjustment is the process of developing‚ adjusting‚ and maintaining a pay structure. | Purpose | Pay structures are used to help organizations: * maintain pay levels that are competitive with the external labor market‚ * maintain internal pay relationships among jobs‚ * recognize and reward differences in level of responsibility‚ skill‚ and performance‚ and
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Name of Company: Amazon.com‚ Inc. Business description: Amazon is an American e-commerce company. Company is the largest online retailer in the United States. Initially‚ it started as an online bookstore but later diversified into all kind of online services and later expanded into making its own products like tablets‚ kindle etc. Even‚ famous movie rating site IMDB is the further extension of their portfolio. In India‚ it launched jungle.com as a shopping comparison website before entering as Amazon
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Part 1 One of the best experiences that I have had as a customer has been with Amazon.com. I regularly buy my schoolbooks; supplies and many other products form their online store. Amazon.com was launched in 1995‚since then Amazon has become the biggest online retailer with a customer base of over 20 million. It has expanded from selling books to music CDs‚ videos‚ toys‚ electronic equipment‚ and anything else you can imagine.‚ New or used. Part 2 I’m a very loyal customer of Amazon.com for
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looking use of information systems to generate competitive advantage will be analysed in the context of Porter’s five forces and we will also have a look at how they have formed Amazon have formed strategic alliances to overcome certain competitive forces. Future plans to sustain competitive edge will be examined; Amazon not only continue to use technology to improve their customer centric operations‚ but are now in fact opening up this technology and providing technical and logistics solutions
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Samsung is low cost and differentiated. According to exhibit 7a-7i‚ it can be seen that Samsung has a lower operating cost of $8.50 as compared to industry average of $11.03 as well as higher profit margin 6.6 times that of its competitors. This reflects Samsung ability to deliver desired value to customers using lean and effective design and production. Samsung is able to maintain the low cost largely because of lower labor‚ R&D and raw material cost. Samsung has a relatively lower labor cost for each
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Nano-Cement : A high strength low cost alternative. (A review of the paper : Influence of nano - SiO2 on Portland cement pastes by M. Stefanidou and I. Papayianni) *Corresponding Author : M. Stefanidou ; Email Address :stefan@civil.auth.gr Abstract The object of this review is to throw light on the paper : “Influence of nano- SiO2 on the Portland cement pastes” . This paper was written by M.Stefanidou and I. Papayianni. The paper is based on the research conducted by them on high
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American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater‚ see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its early history‚ America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Therefore‚ its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However‚ unique American characteristics
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