Allocation of Fixed Costs ACC 403 Principles of Accounting The articles describe two different approaches: Lean accounting and activity based costing. Both have pros and cons and the selection of "what is best for allocating IT" likely rests with the culture and types of businesses. I personally believe that activity-based costing‚ which essentially casts IT as a variable cost‚ making users sensitive to the requests they make of IT because every request is an incremental cost to their
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or A Fixed Mindset? According to Dweck’s research‚ “Intelligence is something that can be cultivated through effort and education” (1). Carol S. Dweck Professor of Psychology at Stanford University studies about different mindsets in her book‚ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. She studies two different mindsets one called fixed‚ and the other called the growth. She also discusses how parents praising their children can be traumatic. Through her research‚ she found those with fixed mindsets
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How would you describe Reed’s position in the Columbus market? How do their customers differ from the competitors and where are they satisfying and dissatisfying them? Reed Supermarkets (RSM) currently has an established position in the Columbus market with 25 total stores that hold 14% of the market share‚ the highest of all of its competitors. Their current sales‚ as of 2010‚ are $660 million (slightly lower than in 2009) and they are currently maintaining a profit margin of 2.1%. The RSM brand
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instead of Washington D.C. CHAPTER-2 Q.10) if you are an employer‚ what kinds of moral hazard problems might you worry about with your employees? ANS- Being an employer if I had any employee working hard but no incentives/bonus given I would worry that would make them less interested in working & make them feel irresponsible. For eg. a sales worker without any bonus/remuneration would not make any extra effort to sell the product. Q.11) If there were no asymmetry in the information that
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Section 1 – Sources of Finance There are 4 main types of business ownership: • Sole trader • Partnership • Private limited company (Ltd) • Public limited company (Plc) Each of these types of business needs to raise finance for capital investment Sole Trader This is a business that is owned by one person. Sole Traders are responsible for raising all the finance to set up and run the business. Usually a sole trader would be for a small business/ (businesses with a flat
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This paper attempted to examine the effect of winning percentage of NFL teams on attendance from 2008 to 2014 by employing the fixed effects model. According to our results‚ we can conclude that teams that win more do indeed enjoy higher game attendance. This result is what we expected‚ and it confirm the results of previous research by Spenner‚ Fenn‚ & Crooker (2010). Moreover‚ game attendance however is not purely a matter of the teams winning percentage; other factors play an important role as
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Supermarket or Farmer’s Market I have been questioning the nutrition and health value of supermarket foods for the past few years because of the growing number of people suffering from obesity‚ diabetes‚ heart disease‚ and high blood pressure. I have come to the conclusion through research that the foods that are manufactured for high production have less nutritional value and are overall unhealthy and unsafe for the environment as well as for the consumer. So what is the alternative? The term
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Fixed Income Securities Chapter 2 Basics of Fixed Income Securities Problem Set (light version of the exercises in the text) Q3. You are given the following data on different rates with the same maturity (1.5 years)‚ but quoted on a different basis and different compounding frequencies: • Continuously compounded rate: 2.00% annualized rate • Continuously compounded return on maturity: 3.00% • Annually compounded rate: 2.10% annualized rate • Semi-annually compounded rate: 2.01% annualized
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ALDI is a renowned supermarket chain located in Germany. The company comprises two groups ALDI SUD and ALDI Nord. These function separately from each other. The two groups were both owned as well as managed by two brothers Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht. Among the total of ALDI ’s operations in Germany‚ ALDI Nord has 35 regional companies and over 2500 stores in the eastern and northern Germany and ALDI Sud has 31 regional companies spread across 1600 stores in southern and western Germany.
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Introduction - Sources of Finance Introduction to the Sources of Finance resource. Sources of Finance Introduction This resource is designed for use with Accounting courses at A ’ level. This resource is relevant to the following: * AQA Module 5‚ Section 14.5: ’Types of Business Organisation‚ Sources of Finance ’ * OCR Module 2505‚ Sections 5.3.2 and 5.6.2 For many businesses‚ the issue about where to get funds from for starting up‚ development and expansion can be crucial for the success
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