Chapter 4 Assignment 1) Four test that should be used to measure the competitive power of a company’s resource strengths are: • Is the resource really competitively valuable? All companies possess a collection of resources and competencies; some have the potential to contribute to a competitive advantage‚ while others may not. • Is the resource strength rate‚ is it something rivals lack? Companies have to guard against prideful believe that their core competencies are distinctive competencies
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7th of October 2013 Chapter 4 It is Saturday night and all the men have gone out Crooks and Lennie and Candy have been left behind. Description of Crooks’ room. Pg 98 Crooks is more permanent as the boss also uses him when he gets angry he plays a specific part. Crooks’ bed is made of straw‚ with just blankets covering the straw. Crooks has a separate to everyone else‚ he is attached to the bunk house. Crooks is good at fixing things. He has medicine bottles for himself and the horses
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Answer each question fully. Complete sentences are not necessary. MADYSON WELTY Lesson 1 (3.0 points) What is a liquidation policy? (0.5 points) a business or firm being terminated or bankrupt and its assets are sold and the proceeds will be used to pay for the creditors that they owe money. What is simple interest? (0.5 points) interest paid on the principal alone. 1. What is a money market account? (0.5 points) a financial account that pays interest based on current interest rates in the
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Problems and Solutions 4 Disneyland chapters 6 & 7 1. Bad breakfast organisation problem: Solution: To increase number of employers in restaurants and to open more restaurants which serves breakfast. To organise more coffee mashines or coffee stands. Sell cheaper food like hot dogs‚ sandwiches... ( For example‚ Disney had thought that Europeans wouldn’t like to have a big breakfast in the morning. This misjudgement led to hungry and unhappy crowds in the mornings while most of the restaurants
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CHAPTER 17 SPONTANEITY‚ ENTROPY‚ AND FREE ENERGY Questions 11. Living organisms need an external source of energy to carry out these processes. Green plants use the energy from sunlight to produce glucose from carbon dioxide and water by photosynthesis. In the human body‚ the energy released from the metabolism of glucose helps drive the synthesis of proteins. For all processes combined‚ ∆Suniv must be greater than zero (the second law). 12. Dispersion increases the entropy of the universe because
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Chapter 4 Case 2: Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing Solution: 1. An activity-based costing system may be appropriate for Wall Décor‚ when overhead allocation based job-order costing provides product cost distortion. As seen on previous case‚ this distortion happens when one product is manufacturing in high volume and the others are manufacturing in complexity as well as in low volume. In this situation Wall Décor should change its costing system for selling its high volume produced
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True/False Questions 1. Fraud is defined as failure to use reasonable care in the performance of services. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 2. Most of the burden of affirmative proof is on the defendant under common law. Answer: False Difficulty: Medium 3. The Ultramares v. Touche case held that auditors could be held liable to any foreseen third party for ordinary negligence. Answer: False Difficulty: Medium 4. The Securities
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Merton Electronics Case Study 1) Merton Electronics is subject to transaction exposure. Transaction exposure is the gains or losses realized from the settlement of specific transactions that are denominated in a foreign currency. There are two main types of transaction exposure: 1) Purchasing or selling on credit goods denominated in a foreign currency 2) Borrowing or lending funds when repayments is going to be made in foreign currency. In respects to Merton’s Yen payments they are subject
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Case solution: Ethical Dilemma What course themes do you see present in the case? Experimental exercise Who Can Catch a Liar is about emotional intelligence and its effect on the productivity of the workers at workplace. Human have inherited the ability to respond various stimulus differently. Being differs from each other in terms of their personality‚ behavior‚ needs‚ wants‚ demands and expressing their emotions at different situation. Emotional intelligence is the ability of the person to know
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capability and skills viii. Strengths-things they do well or any unique resources it has ix. Weaknesses- things they don’t do so well or don’t have x. SWOT-STRENGHTS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES THREATS e. Step 4- Formulating Strategies f. Step 5- Implementing Strategies g. Step 6-Evaluating Results xi. How effective are the strategies? xii. Did they help reach goals? xiii. Adjustments?? 3. What is SWOT analysis
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