Samantha Verayo The novel Stone Cold is a very suspenseful and thrilling book that was written by Robert Swindells. Swindells used characterisation and setting to modify the plot of the story and develop several themes‚ such as: custody‚ love‚ family issues and relationships‚ treachery‚ atrocity and subsistence. Swindells developed both Link as the main protagonist and Shelter as the main antagonist. Swindells made both major characters to be capable of change and undergo change consequences
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Stone Cold by Robert Swindells Stone Cold is an absorbing novel by Robert Swindells which follows ‘Link’‚ a sixteen year old boy from Bradford‚ England. The novel tells you about his life over the past two years‚ how he leaves his violent home and lives on the street‚ first in Bradford and then in London‚ where the story starts to take shape. The novel also follows ‘Shelter’‚ an ex-military man who served for twenty nine years‚ discharged on medical grounds. In my essay‚ I will aim to analyse
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Case 4: Boston Creamery Introduction A new financial planning and control system is only as good as a company’s capacity to implement it effectively. But most importantly‚ many employees see the new system as an end in itself‚ instead of a means to an end. The way standards are formulated play a crucial role in the results of these variances. For instance‚ management decided to use the sales forecasts based on what they made and incurred in the previous year. This would normally be the case
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Natalie Simmermon ACC 503 California Creamery‚ Inc. (Activity-Based Costing) 1. What is the cost of the two products under traditional costing? Under traditional accounting the costs for each flavor were intuitively wrong. The cost to produce a gallon of Polynesian was $5.60‚ only 20 cents more than Vanilla comparatively. One would assume that an exotic flavor would have a significantly higher cost proportionally. 2. What is the cost of the two products under activity-based costing
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process. They can highlight areas which are to be addressed urgently. As per the case‚ they only wish to see the items that need their concern so that action can be taken the next year‚ 1974. Boston Creamery must increase advertisements of their products to address the increase in market size. Boston Creamery‚ Inc. lost 1.0% market share – from 50% to only 49%‚ despite the favorable increase in market size variance of $ 167‚610.00 (See Exhibit 2). This was highlighted from the unfavorable result of $
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Organizational Change and Employees’ Behaviors Abstract Organizational change can affect employees’ attitudes and behaviors in the workplace. Being able to recognize the types of changes and how employees are affected will better help a company in the process of a change gain a better workplace environment. Organizational Change and Employees’ Behaviors Organizational change is something that occurs most often in today’s business world. Organizational change
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Social influence aims at developing pro-norm behavior by the distribution of social rewards or punishments. Particularly‚ social influence involves “connecting interests‚ attitudes and beliefs in one ‘attitude system’ to those in some other attitude system”. The dynamics related to the development of social influence mechanisms are basically started by the actor’s cognitive discomfort associated with 1) the perceived divergence with the norms of the group; 2) the sense of comfort that comes from
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Leadership Behaviors and Employees’ Perception Abstract The basis of this literature review is to assess how leadership behavior is perceived by employees and to examine the effect of leadership behavior on employees’ perceived job satisfaction. Other purposes were to explore the different leadership styles and the impact on employees’ perception and behavior as well as job satisfaction. The literature review will also explore how leadership behavior impact employees’ performance. The findings
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MEMO Date: October 20‚ 2014 To: Mr. Jim Peterson‚ President‚ Boston Creamery‚ Inc.‚ Ice Cream Division From: Subject: Evaluating the decision choices of Boston Creamery to improve budgeting Introduction Boston Creamery is currently experiencing difficulties with regards to its budgeting process and variance analysis. For the fiscal year 1973‚ the Ice Cream Division has a favorable operating income variance of $71‚700. The President‚ Jim Peterson feels that the comparisons between budgeted
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Colin Drury‚ Management and Cost Accounting – Boston Creamery Boston Creamery Professor John Shank‚ The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration Dartmouth College This case is reprinted from Cases in Cost Management‚ Shank‚ J. K. 1996‚ South Western Publishing Company. The case was prepared by Professor John Shank from an earlier version he wrote at Harvard Business School with the assistance of William J. Rauwerdink‚ Research Assistant. This case deals with the design and use of formal
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