Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies Nature does not measure. Nature recognizes patterns. (Senge) IKM Background Paper October 2009 Joitske Hulsebosch‚ Mark Turpin and Sibrenne Wagenaar IKM Background Paper‚ Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies. October 2009. About IKM Emergent In April 2007‚ a five-year research programme was approved for funding by the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS)‚ which is part of the Dutch Ministry
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Cost of Production Fixed costs are those that do not vary with output and typically include rents‚ insurance‚ depreciation‚ set-up costs‚ and normal profit. They are also called overheads. Variable costs are costs that do vary with output‚ and they are also called direct costs. Examples of typical variable costs include fuel‚ raw materials‚ and some labour costs. An example Production costs Consider the following hypothetical example of a boat building firm. The total fixed costs‚ TFC‚ include
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fixed costs‚ semi-fixed costs‚ and variable costs. Fixed costs are those which do not change with the level of activity within the relevant range. These costs will incur even if no units are produced. For example rent expense‚ straight-line depreciation expense‚ etc. Fixed costs are those which do not change with the level of activity within the relevant range. These costs will incur even if no units are produced. For example rent expense‚ straight-line depreciation expense‚ etc. Mixed costs or semi-variable
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Framework Zhang Yi Fei and Che Ruhana Isa becoming more and more popular [3-7] ABC aims to provide accurate costing information to managers to allocate activity costs to products and services by applying cost drivers [8]. Academics who advocate ABC‚ such as‚ Cooper and Kaplan [9]‚ and Swenson [10] argue that it provides more accurate cost data needed to make appropriate strategic decisions about product mix‚ sourcing‚ pricing‚ process improvement‚ and evaluation of business process performance. These
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tools or methods offer by project management‚ cost planning and control is a very important tool for project management. A good cost planning is because it can help on forecasting the expenses that need to spend for the project. And cost control will minimize the wastage during execution of project. This report will emphasize the objectives‚ benefits‚ methods and other matters on construction cost planning and cost control. Cost Planning Cost planning normally will conduct in the prior
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Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? 2. Calculate the practical capacity and the capacity cost rates for each of Sippican’s resources: production and setup employees‚ machines‚ receiving and production control employees‚ shipping and packaging employees‚ and engineers. 3. Use these capacity cost rates and
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Chapter 4. Costs and Cost Minimization Problem Set 1. Suppose the production of airframes is characterized by a CES production function: Q = (L½ + K½)2. The marginal products for this production function are MPL = (L½ + K½)L−½ and MPK = (L½+ K½)K−½. Suppose that the price of labor is $10 per unit and the price of capital is $1 per unit. Find the cost-minimizing combination of labor and capital for an airframe manufacturer that wants to produce 121‚000 airframes. The tangency condition
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For example‚ in Chapter 3‚ The Cost of Zero Cost‚ Ariely explains that when we are “buying” something for free‚ we might think that we have made the right decision‚ however in doing so‚ we often give up a better choice which might involve paying something. The book focuses on how‚ what seems
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Conceptual Framework Cost Accounting Cost accounting‚ as a tool of management‚ provides management with detailed records of the costs relating to products‚ operations or functions. Cost accounting refers to the process of determining and accumulating the cost of some particular product or activity. It also covers classification‚ analysis and interpretation of costs. The cost so determined and accumulated may be the estimated future costs for planning purposes‚ or actual (historical) costs for evaluating
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