Known as the Louisiana Purchase‚ it opened up great opportunities to the United States and was one of Thomas Jefferson’s most important achievements. It introduced westward expansion‚ which made it possible for the United States to become a stable country and one of the great powers. Thomas Jefferson made it his goal to explore the west‚ and thought that the Louisiana purchase was a safe way to assure the U.S. safe passage while expediting. Since the
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sympathy and the deepest sympathy of every member of this unit on the recent loss of your Mother‚ Staff Sergeant Stephanie W. Plank. This is not only a huge loss for your family but also for our military and for the nation. Staff Sergeant Plank was a brave soldier and was an inspiration for the young ones who entered into the military. She was a born fighter. On the evening of May 31‚ 2013‚ Staff Sergeant Plank was with her Platoon during the National Training Center (NTC) rotation on a night
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MARKETING $100 LAPTOP CASE STUDY 1. Why did Negroponte do what he did? Why was this necessary? (Explain his motivation and the factors surrounding the genesis of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) • After seeing the power off laptops firsthand in Cambodia‚ Negroponte decided to create an affordable device for use in the developing world. He wanted to create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a low cost laptop. This laptop will have educational
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to managers and staff who are involved in the development and implementation of changes in working arrangements and practices and managing redundancy‚ including the ending of fixed term employment contracts. The information in the document is set out as follows: Introduction Page 1 Purpose of procedure and overview Section A: Managing minor change Section B: Managing change due to organisational restructure Stage 1 Management Planning – Pre Consultation Stage 2 Staff consultation Stage
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Quality Cost 1 Quality is defined from the customer´s point of view l Performance l Performance or the primary operating characteristics of a product or service. Example: For a car‚ it is speed‚ handling‚ and acceleration. For a restaurant‚ it is good food. l Features l Features or the secondary characteristics of a product or service. Example: For a TV‚ it is an automatic tuner. For a restaurant‚ it is linen table cloths and napkins . l Reliability l Reliability
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The Louisiana Purchase was the fountain we all needed. This purchase connected us with a nature that in turn affected our muses and created a love that resulted in an abundance of new literary ideas. For many nature was a link to greater literature‚ with its beauty and diversity. After the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase from Lewis and Clark and possibly their own voyage outward‚ people got a better view of what
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overhead cost to jobs on the basis of direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year‚ the following estimates were made for the purpose of computing the predetermined overhead rate: manufacturing overhead cost‚ Nkr360‚000; and direct labor-hours‚ 900. The following transactions took place during the year (all purchases and services were acquired on account): a. Raw materials were purchased for use in production‚ Nkr200‚000. b. Raw materials were requisitioned for use in production (all direct
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Biyani’s Think Tank Concept based notes Cost Accounting [ B.Com. Part-II] B.N. Gaur MBA‚ PGDBM‚ Lecturer Deptt. of Commerce & Management Biyani Girls College‚ Jaipur Fore more detail:- http://www.gurukpo.com Published by : Think Tanks Biyani Group of Colleges Concept & Copyright : ©Biyani Shikshan Samiti Sector-3‚ Vidhyadhar Nagar‚ Jaipur-302 023 (Rajasthan) Ph : 0141-2338371‚ 2338591-95 • Fax : 0141-2338007 E-mail : acad@biyanicolleges.org Website :www.gurukpo.com; www
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1. The chief economist for Argus Corporation‚ a large appliance manufacturer‚ estimated the firm’s short-run cost function for vacuum cleaners using an average variable cost function of the form. AVC= a + bQ+ cQ^2 (the 2 is suppose to be exponent) Where AVC=dollars per vacuum cleaner and Q=number of vacuum cleaners produced each month. Total fixed cost each month is $180‚000. The following results were obtained: Dependent Variable:AVC R-Square
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products. Chuck questioned if the current cost-management system was providing the management with accurate data about product costs. In a traditional‚ volume-based product-costing system‚ only a single predetermine overhead rate is used. All manufacturing-overhead costs are combined into one cost pool‚ a grouping of individual indirect cost items‚ and they are applied to products on the basis of a single variable that costs over a given time span (cost driver) that is closely related to production
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