Week 6 Discussion December 5‚ 2012 Differentiating According to Learning Profile and Multiple Learner Variances At the beginning of the school year‚ I suggested to the grade 6 teachers that we do a learning style inventory of the students we teach. They jumped at the opportunity to get to know their students better and to be able to provide their students with the best learning experience and the opportunity to be successful. We discovered many types of learning styles among the students
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Production Cost Variance Analyses The preceding three chapters focused on the nature‚ collection‚ and measurement of management accounting information. This is the first of five chapters that deal with the use of that information by management in controlling the organization. This chapter and Chapter 2l describe the calculation and use ofvariances. Chapters 22 to 25 deal with the use of responsibility accounting information in the management control process. Variances A variance is the difference
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Statistics Midterm paper 1. : Identify the implied population in the information here. Government agencies carefully monitor water quality and its effect on wetlands (Reference: Environment Protection Agency Wetland Report EPA 832-R-93-005). Of particular concern is the concentration of nitrogen in water draining from fertilized lands. Too much nitrogen can kill fish and wildlife. Twenty-eight samples of water were taken at random from a lake. The nitrogen concentration (milligrams of nitrogen
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like a stranger. It is a different place with a variety of characteristics that you probably are not used to. Not only for the language or for geographical features‚ but you also find cultural dissimilarities. If I have to choose three cultural variances from Venezuela and US‚ I will select housing development/city‚ sports and behavior. Firstly‚ Venezuela and US have a dissimilar meaning about housing development‚ urbanization or city must be. According to the Cambridge dictionary on its American
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pounds. 2. Stiner Company’s materials price variance is A) $100 U. B) $1‚000 U. C) $900 U. D) $1‚000 F. = (AQ × AP) – (AQ × SP) = (5‚000 × $2.2)-(5‚000 × $2) = $1‚000 U 3. Stiner Company’s materials quantity variance is A) $1‚000 U. B) $1‚000 F. C) $1‚100 F. D) $1‚100 U. = (AQ × SP) – (SQ × SP) = (5‚000 × $2) – (4‚500 × $2) = $1‚000 U 4. Stiner Company’s total materials variance is A) $2‚000 U. B) $2‚000 F. C)
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Variances Variances can be either: * Positive/favourable (better than expected) or * Adverse/unfavourable ( worse than expected) A favourable variance might mean that: * Costs were lower than expected in the budget‚ or * Revenue/profits were higher than expected By contrast‚ an adverse variance might arise because: * Costs were higher than expected * Revenue/profits were lower than expected What causes budget variance? There are four key reasons and it is important that
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Chapters 9 & 10 Standard Costing‚ Variance Analysis and Flexible Budgets This is a copyright presentation of Darlene B. Serrato and is presented exclusively for the use and benefit of students enrolled in Accounting 2303. Any other use is prohibited. All rights reserved. This presentation may not be copied‚ reproduced or transferred in or by any media without the express written permission of the author. STANDARD – is the budgeted cost for one unit of product. The beginning point
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Rivermore College This is a mean-variance optimization case. Software needs: Spreadsheet optimizer (Excel Solver) or use a commercial package. Concepts: performance evaluation with historical data‚ forecasting asset returns‚ portfolio choice with input uncertainty. Computer skills: development and/or use of a mean-variance optimizer Case Roberta Tyler consultants to several university investment offices around the country. She specializes in asset allocation studies. She has accumulated
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of this study is to determine whether or not inventories in the Nigeria Bottling Company‚ Ilorin Plant can be evaluated and understood using the various existing tools of optimization in inventory management. The study methods employed include the variance analysis‚ Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Model and the Chi-square method. The answer to the fundamental question of how best an organization which handles inventory can be efficiently run is provided for in the analysis and findings of the study.
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is $170‚850 greater than the net income budgeted for the 2012 fiscal year despite that the company operations goes through some turmoil. A more detail variance shows that the external factor largely responsible for the growth of leather markets that rapidly increase than anticipated making NLJ to catch with the increase in market demand. Variance Analysis Contribution Margin Based on the figure in Exhibit 1‚ the total amount of contribution margin for the Nylon jackets is $4‚350 less than
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