Jennifer Obrien Date: 11/ April 11‚ 2013 Abstract Inexpensive‚ affordable food is a person’s wants. If find some ways to solve this problem‚ keep food quality and price. So‚ in this paper discuss the solution of how to strike a balance between inexpensive‚ affordable food and healthy‚ quality food. Firstly‚ according to international trade‚ people can import some healthy food from other country‚ which place has lower labor. So‚ people can control the
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ACTG 350: CASE 1 Buck’s Dilemma Overview As Buck’s Hunting Equipment‚ Inc. (Buck) has came to an exciting phase of growth and development‚ a new complexity involving the assignment and presentation of its borrowing and payment activity as it relates to the revolving line of credit extended has emerged. The report has been broken down into the following sections: 1. Assignment of Borrowing and Lending Activity: Presentation of
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company uses a process cost accounting system. Its Assembly Department’s beginning inventory consisted of 50‚000 units‚ 3/4 complete with respect to direct labor and overhead. The department started and finished 127‚500 units this period. The ending inventory consists of 40‚000 units that are 1/4 complete with respect to direct labor and overhead. All direct materials are added at the beginning of the process. The department incurred direct labor costs of $24‚000 and overhead costs of $32‚000 for
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Anthony Mastroianni v. County of Suffolk Case Decided in 1997 Facts of the Case: Law at Issue: The law at issue is Tort Liability for Municipal Corporation through the formation of a "special relationship between the municipality and the injured party" as outlined in Cuffy v. City of New York‚ 60 NY2d 225‚ 260. (Page 2 first full paragraph) Legal Issue: Whether the Municipal Corporation failed to provide reasonable protection to the decedent despite the existence of an order of protection
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Case Study: British Telecom: Searching for a winning strategy Tuomo Summanen Michael Pollitt Judge Institute of Management November 2002 1. Introduction The development of the telecommunications market in the United Kingdom and the corporate strategy and development of the incumbent‚ British Telecom‚ represents an interesting object of analysis for several reasons. First‚ the UK telecommunications market was - along with the U.S. market - among the first telecommunications market that
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had a single client with a large share of the business. The previous accounting system focused on two variables: direct labor and burden. For the latter‚ costs were grouped into a single cost pool that included burden costs associated with of the testing rooms i.e. mechanical and electrical; as well as engineering burden costs related to software and tooling development alongside administrative costs of the division. As the case mentions‚ total burden costs are then divided by the sum of testing and
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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Electric utility bills. When an electric utility customer uses electricity‚ the electric company has earned revenues. It is obviously impossible‚ however‚ for the company to read all of its customers’ meters on the evening of December 31. How does the electric company know its revenue for a given year? Explain. According to historical data‚ the electricity usage usually tended to be fairly constant from month to month. The company can estimate the revenues for each month‚ by using historical data
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