Relevance lost: the rise and fall of activity-based costing by: Nitza Geri & Boaz Ronen A Critique After having been exposed on how activity-based costing works‚ I am wondering why it is not adopted by all of the companies. While it is true that the debate between the traditional cost system and the activity-based cost system seem to be endless‚ here is paper written by Nitza Geri and Boaz Ronen that introduces another concept and that is global decision-making methodology or GDM. Through
Premium Costs Management accounting Cost
Learning Outcome 6 Identify and assess the relevance of the ‘product life cycle’ to the notion of employee engagement. Employee engagement can be viewed through the four stages of the product life-cycle Step one is the introduction of the concept of employee engagement‚ its principles‚ strategy for enhancing engagement and involving employees‚ process of change to ensure engagement is fully embedded into the organisation. Step two is growth and growing the concept of engagement through a
Premium Strategic management Management
Relevance of the communication cycle for effective communication in management The success of any organisation depends on efficient and effective communications‚ it is important for building and maintaining personal and working relationships within the organisation and with service providers and customers. The ability to express an idea is well-nigh as important as the idea itself. – American businessman‚ Bernard Baruch Effective communications is essential to facilitate effective exchange of information
Premium Communication Writing Nonverbal communication
Petroleum‚ in one form or another‚ has been used since ancient times‚ and is now important across society‚ including in economy‚ politics and technology. The rise in importance was mostly due to the invention of the internal combustion engine‚ the rise in commercial aviation and the increasing use of plastic. More than 4000 years ago‚ according to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus‚ asphalt was used in the construction of the walls and towers of Babylon; there were oil pits near Ardericca (near Babylon)
Premium Petroleum
Thesis : The cold war caused widespread fear in the United States that there would be a WWIII using nuclear weapons. The Cold War was a period of time from 1953 to 1990 which dealt with tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which were the two superpowers of the world. The term was an example of the cold tensions and relationships between the USSR and The United States‚ Western Europe and many parts of the world. They had Marshall Plan which was economic and foreign policy that
Premium Cold War World War II
Names: Dom Occhiato Zaeleigh Barela‚ Hunter Perratt Instructions: 1. All group members read the document‚ then each group member annotate twice per doc. 2. Discuss and then thoroughly answer the questions that follow each document Document A: Reign of Terror The Terror Grips France Foreign armies were not the only enemies of the French Republic. The Jacobins had thousands of enemies within France itself . These included peasants who were horrified by the king’s execution‚ priests who would not accept government control
Premium Economics
UDate and Time of Submission 12/12/2011‚ 04.30 pm Why should we be ethical? The relevance of ethics in life Biz Ethics IIMK Group a‚ Section D Ankur dey Tarafdar‚ PGP/15/204‚ Ankur Kaithal‚ PGP/15/205‚ Bagya Lakshmi‚ PGP/15/212 Gauri Chodankar‚ PGP/15/215 Jayntwin Katia‚ PGP/15/224 Why should we be ethical? - The importance of ethics in life Abstract As Albert Schweitzer puts it “Ethics is nothing else but reverence for life”. The introduction of ethics in our life is an unconscious process
Premium Ethics
NAME: ADEOBA DOTUN PROGRAM: MARKETING TOPIC: RELEVANCE OF SIGMUND-FREUD’S THEORY TO THE PRESENT DAY CONSUMER MATRIC NO: 10AD010389 DATE: 23/05/2013 INTRODUCTION * Early 1900s published many works-- * Interpretation of Dreams (1900) * The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) * 1905 concept of sexual drive being most powerful personality component * 1906 Psychoanalytic Society formed * Many works burned in Nazi occupation (starting 1933) * Left Austria‚ fled
Premium Sigmund Freud
SOURCES OF ENERGY Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can only be converted from one form to another. E.g. if we drop a plate from a height‚ the potential energy of the plate gets converted mostly to sound energy when it hits the ground‚ chemical energy in the wax is converted to heat energy & light energy on burning. The total energy during a physical or chemical process remains the same. In the above examples‚ energy in the usable form is dissipated to the surroundings in less
Free Nuclear power Nuclear fission Energy
Time less plots‚ compelling stories‚ strong female characters and a wide range of human emotions engage and captivate audiences. In addition Shakespeare had a major effect on the English language. The timeless plots of Shakespeare’s work are always compelling and never seem to grow “out of time” or get uncool. This demonstrates how we still manage to relate to the characters in plays even after all these years. As a result Shakespeare’s plays have always been very popular because the storylines
Premium Emotion Feeling Love