recession—and pallets of merchandise are piling up in its stockrooms as shelves go unfilled. In the past five years the world’s largest retailer added 455 U.S. Walmart stores‚ a 13 percent increase‚ according to company filings in late January. In the same period its total U.S. workforce‚ which includes employees at its Sam’s Club warehouse stores‚ dropped by about 20‚000‚ or 1.4 percent. A thinly spread workforce has other consequences: longer checkout lines‚ less help throughout the store‚ and disorganization
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merchants‚ the change of delivery date would affect the bottom line price of the widget‚ therefore considered big deal‚ a consent is need in writing for this modification to be binding‚ therefore this modification is not binding 2. In Question 1‚ what effect‚ if any‚ would the following telegram have? International Widget: In accordance with our agreement of this date you will deliver the one thousand previously ordered widgets within thirty days. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
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TYPES OF COST AUDIT * Cost Audit to assist Management : The main object of this type of cost audit is to make available accurate‚ relevant and prompt information to management to assist it in taking important managerial decisions. * Cost Audit on behalf of the Government: The government may appoint a cost auditor to conduct cost audit where it is necessary(a) to do so in the opinion of the government under section 233-B of the companies Act‚ 1956; (b) to ascertain correct cost of certain
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Chapter 5 125. The process of forecasting or approximating the time and cost of completing project deliverables is called A. Budgeting B. Predicting C. Estimating D. Planning E. Guesstimating Gray - Chapter 05 #1 Level: Easy difficulty: EMPTY learning objective: EMPTY refer to: EMPTY reference: EMPTY scrambling: EMPTY 126. In practice‚ estimating processes are frequently classified as A. Top down/bottom up B. Rough/polished C. Precise/order of magnitude D. Draft/final
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Cost structures Starbucks How Starbucks minimizes the impact of coffee prices I believe there are two explanations for the "irrelevance" of coffee prices. 1. Purchase contracts 2. Hedging Purchase contracts Starbucks buys most of its co ffee from suppliers through fixed-price commitments. This means that it won’t feel the effect of short-term fluctuations in coffee prices‚ as the price and quantity are fixed. I estimate that these commitments typically last around a year. Hedging
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-What strategic responses are potentially available to a firm facing competition from manufacturers enjoying a substantial labor cost advantage? Changing a new cost system‚ focusing on customer needs. What issues are relevant in considering moving a manufacturing plant to a low wage location? Direct labor is an important factor‚ which is more relevant on manufacture of a product.
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Variable costs are those costs that increase as the output the restaurant increases. As example‚ assume for the Teen Burger Direct Materials cost $1.50 per burger. A day with one thousand burgers sold would cost of $1500 dollars. In comparison‚ a day with two thousand burgers sold would cost $3000 dollars. While the cost per Teen Burger remains constant the total cost per day varies with the output each given day. Electricity costs would increase in the same fashion as each time a burger is cooked
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internal reporting structure. While the use of internal cost and profitabiHty reports is widespread in merchandising‚ manufacturing‚ and other service industries‚ banks have historically focused only on overall profitability. The reason is simple. In the past‚ interest rates‚ branch locations‚ and service offerings were heavily regulated by the government; banks had little incentive or opportunity to consider issues such as pricing‚ product mix‚ or market share strategies. Deregulation has put an
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“absorbs” only variable manufacturing costs. Answer: False Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: absorption costing Absorption costing “absorbs” all manufacturing costs‚ both fixed and variable. 2. Variable costing includes all variable costs — both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing — in inventory. Answer: False Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: variable costing Variable costing includes only manufacturing variable costs in inventory. 3. Under
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key to being in debt for the rest of your life? College tuition is one the biggest investments one makes and its one the most expensive ones as well. But college wasn’t always that expensive. When applying for college many take in consideration if what they are going to major in will pay off their student loans after they graduate. Or sometimes the price of college scares people off and therefore they don’t apply to college and work instead‚ to not be in debt. Should college debt stop people from
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