entered “6” when the response was really “5”. This data entry error had made the responses in five questions seem skewed. Even with these two major errors in the raw data‚ the negative responses were the highest percentage in all of the questions. The average negative responses were almost 30%. The top two highest negative responses were in questions nine (41%) and six (38%). The employees who responded felt that BIMS is not good at communicating and they also felt that they weren’t being paid fairly for
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PROD 529 Fall 2010 Manzana Insurance: Fruitvale Branch Case Executive Summary In 1991‚ Manzana Insurance’s Fruitvale branch was suffering on many performance measures including obtaining new policies‚ retaining current policies‚ long turnaround times‚ and the accumulation of a backlog of renewal policies. There are a number of problems leading to these poor performance measures including unbalanced work load on the underwriting teams‚ department utilization‚ work prioritization‚ and some
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Executive Summary Paws Palace Pet Clinic is experiencing a high influx of new patients for Dr.Bill Schulke and his wife/manager‚ Sue Schulke. The opportunity of prospective new patients and profits is wonderful if all new patients could be attended to. The problem lies in the simple question‚ would a veterinary assistant be necessary in order to treat all patients and still keep profits soaring up for the clinic? Using Monte Carlo simulation and distributions fitting using the @Risk software‚
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the future cost of debt. Joanna calculated the cost of debt by taking the interest expense for 2001 and dividing it by the average debt balance. The cost of debt for Nike is the effective rate that it pays on its current debt‚ meaning the yield to maturity of bonds should be used to make an estimate instead of the average debt balance. Through the use of past data‚ the average balance of debt‚ the 4.3% before-tax cost of debt does not accurately reflect Nike’s current or future cost of debt‚ and therefore
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division of Boeing. We know that Beta of Boeing Corp. is the weighted average of the defense division Beta and the commercial division Beta. We started by calculating the unlevered Beta of Boeing Corp. We did that by unlevering the long-term Boeing Betas i.e.‚ more than 4 years. Then we took the average of the unlevered Betas. We then moved to calculate Boeing’s defense division Beta. We assumed that the average Beta of the three comparable companies whose revenue is mainly derived from
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elements) that were borne by the company and its competitors in 2003 (Tab. 3): Samsung’s overall cost was 24 per cent lower than the weighted average cost of the other four producers; two most significant elements of the cost structure‚ i.e. raw materials and labour‚ were 36 and 27 per cent lower respectively. When expressed by means of a relation of average selling price to costs (“productivity” of cost elements)‚ the differences are even more visible (comp. Tab. 4 ): overall superiority of Samsung
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Causes‚ findings and recommendations on absenteeism among students One of the most annoying‚ if unavoidable experiences of teachers like me is dealing with student absenteeism. We prepare lesson plans with the objective that 100% of the class will learn from the day’s classroom activities. And it is most satisfying when all students are present on that day and the days thereafter to ensure maximum learning. Sadly‚ it is very difficult to achieve a perfect attendance among my students.No matter
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...........7 SMALL BUSINESS FACTORS Startup Information...................................8 Licensing.............................................9 http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/Publications/pub00033.txt 6/18/04 Page 2 of 13 Model of the Average Dealership.......................9 Financing.............................................11 Marketing.............................................12 Management............................................14 Business Plan...........................
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Let’s start with mean. Advantages: Finds the most accurate average of the set of numbers. • Most popular measure in fields such as business‚ engineering and computer science. • It is unique - there is only one answer. • Useful when comparing sets of data. Disadvantages: Outliers can change the mean a lot... making it much lower/higher than it should be. Affected by extreme values (outliers) Median: Advantages: Finds the middle number of a set of data‚ so outliers have little
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Generate Expressions 1. If a coffee company purchases paper cups at a cost of x cents for a package of ten and lids at a cost of y cents per dozen‚ which of the following represents its material cost‚ in cents‚ of c cups of coffee? 2. If a car rental company charges $100 for each rental‚ a dollars per mile‚ and b dollars per hour‚ which of the following represents the total cost to rent a car for 6 hours and travel 250 miles? 100 + 250a + 6b 3. In a library there are currently B bookshelves
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