Activity Based Costing for Activity Based Management Meiklejohn Paul‚ Director Management Consulting 17 February 2012 Agenda 1. What is Activity Based Costing (ABC)? 1.1 What is ABC and Why should it be used? 1.2 Traditional costing vs ABC 1.3 Activity based costing processes 2. How ABC should be used to manage (Activity based management)? 2.1 When to use ABC? 2.2 How to use ABC for ABM? 2.3 Scoring High - Low value adding activities 2.4 Activity Based Management applications 3. ABC/ABM implementation
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Consumer Expenditure and Equi-marginal Utility Consumer behaviour theory tries to explain the relationship between price changes and consumer demand. Utility is a concept used to denote the subjective satisfaction or usefulness attained from consuming goods and services. This concept helps to explain how consumers divide their limited income / resources among different choices of goods and services that help attain them satisfaction (utility) The issue however is how we are supposed to measure
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Diminishing filial piety and its impact on long-term care policies Filial Piety is a virtue regarded by Confucius as a way to ensure a peaceful family and society. Filial piety is loyalty to one’s family and country. Filial piety is the most important moral in Chinese culture. Showing love for the nation and selflessness in protecting and loving one’s family is ideal. When developing and introducing policies to provide for the long-term care needs of the elderly‚ authorities must recognise the following:
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In developed countries‚ virtually all economic production is done by companies; if there were no businesses‚ we would have virtually no goods or services. Business is hugely important in a country’s economy because it is the main economic engine for the country. Businesses are a very important part of the circular flow of any market economy. They buy resources from households in the resource market and sell to households in the product market. This makes them indispensable to the economy. Businesses
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continuing to expand after Howard Schultz joined the business by trading in the bulk coffee sales into retail coffee sales. Nowadays‚ there are more than 2‚100 Starbucks locations in US and also around the world. For example‚ the first Malaysia Starbucks store was opened in KL plaza in 1998 throughout a joint venture with BERJAYA GROUP. Thus‚ Starbucks not only the country’s largest coffee importer and roaster for specialty beans but also larger specialty coffee bean retailer in US. SuppliersSuppliers
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These twelve productivity improvement techniques are explained as follows:- 1. Value Engineering (VE) : Value Engineering (VE) is the process of improving the value of a product at every stage of the product life cycle. At the development stage‚ VE improves the value of a product by reducing the cost without reducing quality. At the maturity stage‚ VE reduces the cost by replacing the costly components (parts) by cheaper components. VE also tries to improve the value and quality of the product
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Starbucks Corporation My Case 7 Spring 2007 Discount Rates in Valuation Discount rates play a key role in the valuation of discounted cash flows. Three rates are generally used to calculate the present value of future cash flows: the cost of equity (Ke)‚ the weighted-average cost of capital (WACC)‚ and the unlevered cost of capital (Ku). The Cost of Common Equity The cost of common equity is the building block for all of the other discount rates. The cost of common equity is based on
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Strengths Strong brand image Starbucks is a global brand. High quality products and a consistently-positive consumer experience have helped the company build a strong brand image. Starbucks‚ for instance‚ was ranked 91st in the 100 Top Brands 2006 ranking of BusinessWeek and Interbrand‚ an international branding consulting firm. The BusinessWeek-Interbrand combine valued the Starbucks brand at $3‚099 million in 2006‚ up from $2‚576 million in 2005. Starbucks uses innovative and cost effective
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Starbucks HRM In 2005‚ Starbucks was placed second among large companies in the Fortune "Best Companies to Work For" survey. The employees are very important for every company‚ so also for Starbucks. The front-end employees have a boundary spanning position in the company. They interact with the internal and external environment of the company. That’s why it’s very important to attract the right people with the right skills and capabilities and to train those employees to improve their selves. That’s
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Starbuck’s Commitment and Communication Course: COM/530 July 19‚ 2010 Instructor: Lisa Siegal Starbuck’s Commitment and Communication Starbucks has many different commitments and communications‚ but here it will discuss the different leadership styles‚ different sources of power and how it affects group communication‚ motivational theories and the commitment of the workforce. Leadership style is an approach of giving direction‚ motivating people and implementing
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