Lecture Topic 1 : The Service Sector Reading : Chapter 1‚ Services Marketing : People‚ Technology‚ Strategy by Kotler & Wirtz‚ 7th Edition. The Service Sector- some facts : • In the West‚ business conditions generally remain difficult for service sector firms with falling prices hitting profitability. - The service sector typically accounts for between 66% and 75% of GDP in most of the more highly developed economies. (Central Intelligence Agency‚ 2011)
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Banking: F209 A bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities‚ either directly by loaning or indirectly through capital markets. A bank links together customers that have capital deficits and customers with capital surpluses. Due to their importance in the financial system and influence on national economies‚ banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most nations have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking‚
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PROFIT MAXIMIZATION [See Chap 11] 1 Profit Maximization • A profit-maximizing firm chooses both its inputs and its outputs with the goal of achieving maximum economic profits 2 Model • Firm has inputs (z1‚z2). Prices (r1‚r2). – Price taker on input market. • Firm has output q=f(z1‚z2). Price p. – Price taker in output market. • Firm’s problem: – Choose output q and inputs (z1‚z2) to maximise profits. Where: π = pq - r1z1 – r2z2 3 1 One-Step Solution • Choose (z1
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Profits Katherine Carpenter Liberty University Econ 213 Gwartney states that profits are; “An excess of sales revenue relative to the opportunity cost of production. The cost component includes the opportunity cost of all resources‚ including those owned by the firm. Therefore‚ profit accrues only when the value of the good produced is greater than the value of the resources used for its production.” An example of a profit would be bakery offers a cheesecake for $20 and the total cost to make
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Not-for-Profit According to Merriam-Webster.com‚ Not-for-Profit‚ also known as nonprofit is defined as‚ “not existing or done for the purpose of making a profit.” Whereas For-Profit is the opposite and is defined as “existing or done for the purpose of making a profit.” I am an ethnographic researcher for a popular organizational behavior research journal. In this article‚ we will be looking at 2 popular and major organizations‚ where one is Not-for-Profit and the other is For-Profit and identifying
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THE BANK OF THE FUTURE: innovative solutions to meet the challenges of the new environment Syndicate 1 team members: Jerome Bagley Michele Bovet Kabelo Mothlala Sifiso Musundwa Nolwazi Nzama Kumaran Pather Aneesa Razack 0829017524 0836552395 0798767059 0760517514 0713517702 0833910101 0823992568 jeromeb@nedbank.co.za micheleb@sahomeloans.com kmothlala@fnb.co.za sifiso.musundwa@absa.co.za nolwazi.nzama@standardbank.co.za kumix20@gmail.com arazack@fnb.co.za 0836763987 davidm@advantica.co.za Project
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had the objective to find hidden profits and losses contained in their current accounting system. The old system did not fully disclose how their costs were applied to the sales accounts. The goals are very sensible as they will allow them to move forward with the proper information. 2. Why did Ridderstråle feel that the previous cost system was inadequate for the new strategy? The new strategy/system was needed “to promote high-margin products to high-profit customers.” The old system didn’t
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BANK INSURE Bank Insure is a financial institution offering banking‚ insurance and asset management to corporate and institutional clients. With a diverse workforce‚ Bank Insure comprises a broad spectrum of prominent companies that increasingly serve their clients under its brand. Key to Bank Insure is its distribution philosophy ’click–call–face’. This is a flexible mix of internet‚ call centers‚ intermediaries and branches with which Bank Insure can fully deliver what today’s clients expect:
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Virtual Banks Defined……………………………………………….….….p. 1 Brief History…………………………………………………………..……p. 1-2 Competition………………………………………………………….……..p. 3 Major Players……………………………………………………………….p. 3 Use Amongst Canadians: ……………………………………………….….p. 4 Some Statistics Benefits vs. Drawbacks of Virtual Banks…………………………………………...p. 4-6 Advantages ………………………………………………...…………….... p. 5-6 Disadvantages………………………………………...……………………..p. 7-8 Implementation of Virtual Banks in Canadian
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When it comes to for-profit colleges many students end up being in $50‚000 to even a hundred-thousand dollars in debt; making it harder by the day to find a good job-placement after becoming a graduate. The cost of attending a for-profit school is just much‚ as attending a ivy-league school‚ if not more. With most of these colleges having open enrollment‚ this allows the Government to take more/ have access to more money. In my opinion‚ it’s almost a trap in order to lure students into thinking
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