seller can affect the price by changing its level of output e. no seller controls more than 20 percent of the total market supply 3. Which of the following is not a basic characteristic of a perfectly competitive market? a. a large number of buyers and sellers b. significant nonprice competition among firms c. a standardized product produced by firms d. no barriers to entry e. no barriers to exit 4. Firms in a perfectly competitive market cannot influence a. the quantity of
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The Cost of Turnover Putting a Price on the Learning Curve by Timothy R. Hinkin and J.BruceTracey Employee turnover does more than reduce service quality and damage employee moraleit hits a hotels pocketbook. E mployee turnover has long been a concern of the hospitality industry‚ and therefore of researchers who examine industry human-resources concerns. One stream of research that arose in the past 20 years was an effort to quantify the cost of employee turnover. Although most managers
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economics and business decision-making‚ sunk costs are retrospective (past) costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Sunk costs are sometimes contrasted with prospective costs‚ which are future costs that may be incurred or changed if an action is taken. Both retrospective and prospective costs may be either fixed (continuous for as long as the business is in operation and unaffected by output volume) or variable (dependent on volume) costs. Note‚ however‚ that many economists consider
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CHAPTER 8 FLEXIBLE BUDGETS‚ OVERHEAD COST VARIANCES‚ AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL 8-16 (20 min.) Variable manufacturing overhead‚ variance analysis. 1. Variable Manufacturing Overhead Variance Analysis for Esquire Clothing for June 2009 | | |Flexible Budget: |Allocated: | |Actual Costs Incurred | |Budgeted Input Qty. |Budgeted Input Qty.
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Win Some and Lose Some One hour away. Sloan‚ Iowa. Winna Vegas Casino. We like to say it’s a fun way to get away from college life‚ hang out with friends‚ and attempt to add a little extra to the pocket books. Many kids attending Buena Vista University have made at least one trip to the Winna Vegas Casino. This casino is 70 miles from Storm Lake and the age requirement to gain admittance is only eighteen. As an alternative to drinking or the bar scene‚ individuals view gambling as a relaxing and
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“Are some ways of knowing more likely than others to lead to truth?” Marie Couffon Mr. J Theory of Knowledge Words count: 775 If reason and perception have their own process of leading to truth‚ then is there some ways of knowing more likely than others to lead to truth? I think that Reason and Perception have their own process which leads to truth and therefore that there isn’t any way of knowing which is more likely to lead to truth than others. Truth depends on
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The cost flows for a process-costing system are totally different from those of a job order costing system. True False 3. Process systems are characterized by a larger number of homogeneous products passing through a series of processes. True False 4. The production report is the document that summarizes the manufacturing activity that takes place in a work-in-process department. True False 5. Many service organizations and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing firms operate
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Case Study: Cost Justified Managers face many challenges in the day to Day operations of their business. Often times some of the greatest challenges come from within their own ranks‚ as superior managers use their position and influence to coerce one to make decisions or commit acts that are sometimes on the boundaries of the law and often cross the ethical line. In the case of “Cost Justified‚” we are introduced to Joe‚ the District
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Knowledge Based Theory of the Firm by R.M. Grant Assumptions * Firms apply knowledge to the production of good and services * Knowledge is the most strategically important of a firm ’s resources * Knowledge is created and held by individuals‚ not organizations * Firms exist because markets are incapable of coordinating the knowledge of individual specialists. This is the role of the management within a firm. Coordination of Specialized Knowledge While organizational theory
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Monitor Group‚ the consulting firm co-founded by the legendary business guru‚ Michael Porter? In November 2012‚ Monitor was unable to pay its bills and was forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Why didn’t the highly paid consultants of Monitor use Porter’s famous five-force analysis to save themselves? What went wrong? Was Monitor’s demise something that happened unexpectedly like a bolt from the blue? Well‚ not exactly. The death spiral has been going on for some time. In 2008‚ Monitor’s
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