Sippican Corporation Sippican Corporation Questions: 1. Given some of the apparent problems with Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? Answer: Consider Sippican is a manufacturer company with multiple products‚ using simple cost accounting system that directly allocate factory overhead to unit of product entirely through
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Ryan R. Montenid November 15‚ 2014 Strategic Management Dr. Gloria Chavez Building Competitive Advantage through Functional-Level Strategies: Xerox Corporation 1. Identify how the changes that Xerox undertook after 1980‚ helped the company to improve its efficiency‚ quality‚ innovation and customer responsiveness. Xerox underwent series of improvement after its 1980 downfall. First‚ Xerox had changed its waste management by decreasing the number of defective products and
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Abnormally High Audit Fees Impair Audit Quality? Jong-Hag Choi‚ Jeong-Bon Kim‚ and Yoonseok Zang SUMMARY: This study examines whether and how audit quality proxied by the magnitude of absolute discretionary accruals is associated with abnormal audit fees‚ that is‚ the difference between actual audit fee and the expected‚ normal level of audit fee. The results of various regressions reveal that the association between the two is asymmetric‚ depending on the sign of the abnormal audit fee. For observations
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Executive summary: The case study is about a business proposal which is a computer shop including the following: 1. 50 units of computer set 2. With waiting area for customer 3. Have a small food stall inside the shop (merienda foods) 4. One comfort room 5. Main server or counter 6. Mini Bar for food and beverages 7. With an estimated cost of 2 million pesos The said proposal having an area of 80 meter square (10m x 8m) have occupied a large space
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How Far did Changes to Transport 1750-1900 Benefit the British People? In this essay‚ I will be explaining how transport changes how they helped British People during the Industrial Revolution. I will be writing about three types of transport: Roads‚ Canals and Railways. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution‚ in 1750‚ it was very difficult to travel on roads as there were a lot of holes that were full of water‚ which meant there was no drainage. This waster filled up all the ruts. All
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Action research Action research is either research initiated to solve an immediate problem or a reflective process of progressive problem solving led by individuals working with others in teams or as part of a "community of practice" to improve the way they address issues and solve problems. There are two types of action research: participatory action research and practical action research. Denscombe (2010‚ p. 6) writes that an action research strategy’s purpose is to solve a particular problem
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4 OSI Transport Layer 4.1 Roles of transport Layer 4.1.1 Purpose The Transport layer provides for the segmentation of data and the control necessary to reassemble these pieces into the various communication streams. Its primary responsibilities to accomplish this are: Tracking the individual communication between applications on the source and destination hosts Segmenting data and managing each piece Reassembling the segments into streams of application data Identifying the different applications
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Membrane Transport Process Process Energy Source Description Examples Passive processes Simple diffusion Kinetic energy Kinetic energy Net movement of particles (ions. molecules. etc.) from an area of their higher concentration to an area of their lower concentration. that is. along their concentration gradient Movement of fats‚ oxygen‚ carbon dioxide through the lipid portion of the membrane‚ and ions through protein channels under certain conditions Osmosis Kinetic energy Simple diffusion
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become the third largest economy by the year 2025 after China and the USA and has awakened the interest of significant investors. The transport and logistics sector are fundamental to the development of a country‚ especially so in India where it is estimated to provide employment for 45 million people. Multimodal logistics serves to interconnect different modes of transport – road‚ rail‚ air‚ water – and therefore improve efficiency and speed of goods movement. The economic growth in India has increased
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regulators have searched for mechanisms to achieve a return to reliable‚ high quality financial reporting‚ resulting in an increasing emphasis on corporate governance. In addition‚ regulators and investors have increasingly recognised the role of audit committees and an important corporate governance mechanism in restoring confidence in the capital market. The ASX Corporate Governance Council (AXS CGC) defines corporate governance as “the framework of rules‚ relationships‚ systems and processes
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