concept and must never be confused with profit. The contribution of a product refers to how much it contributes to the fixed costs and profit of the business once variable costs have been covered. It can be calculated either per unit of output or in terms of total contribution of all units produced. Contribution ignores fixed costs and only considers any surplus left once variable costs have been subtracted from revenue. Hence‚ contribution is what a product contributes towards the fixed costs of the
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of hollowbrook‚ was a brown hair‚ blue eyed beauty by the name of Sarah Hawthorne. Wealth was unheard of in hollowbrook as Miss Sarah grew up‚ certainly without wants and sometimes even needs. Sarah was known for her elegant style‚ and her luminous skirts that seemed to flow as though rivers through a spring meadow. Her culminating beauty was captivating and her knowledge‚ absolute. Yet she was the unpredictable. Sarah Hawthorne was a peasant. Growing up in hollowbrook‚ stealing food to feed her family
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What are the functional areas of management? Answer: There are many tasks every business needs to do if it is going to succeed. Each of these tasks is described as being a function of a business. The following is a brief introduction to each of these functions: * Human Resources - ensures the business has the best staff for the job and that they are able to work effectively in a safe environment; * Finance - will keep a record of all money coming in and going out of the business. They have
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Heat of Neutralization Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to measure‚ using a calorimeter‚ the energy changes accompanying neutralization reactions. In order to measure the amount of heat produced by a reaction‚ an instrument called a calorimeter was used. The calorimeter used in this experiment was somewhat rudimentary. It was constructed as shown in the following picture: After finding the heat capacity of the calorimeter‚ the student and partner neutralized two acids and
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CONTRIBUTION OF READING FREQUENCY IN ACQUIRING VOCABULARY OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CONTRIBUTION OF INDEPENDENT READING IN ACQUIRING VOCABULARY OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Background of the Problem Learning a foreign language is never easy. Interference from the learner’s mother tongue‚ as well as the great difference between the native and the target language‚ make it even more difficult. Often students are not situated in a surrounding that assists foreign language
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Chinese Contributions Ancient China was vastly innovated and superior with its innovations and contributions that are still being used throughout the world today. Ancient Chinese inventions such as silk‚ paper‚ gun powder‚ printing‚ tea‚ wheel barrow‚ porcelain‚ toilet paper and the compass have been vital to not only the Chinese culture‚ but also to world civilization. Without a doubt‚ I believe paper‚ printing‚ gun powder and the compass are the most useful inventions/contributions from the
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WHAT IS A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM? Module 6‚ Assignment # 6 Chapter 11 Jalaya Thrash October 2‚ 2014 HLTH303—Information Systems for Health Dr. Novella S. Hill According to Laudon and Laudon‚ (2012)‚ knowledge management systems (KMS) are systems that help the construction and distribution of a corporation’s skills and expertise. The knowledge management systems are organizational practices that are acquired in business that are gathered‚ shared‚ stored
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written by Nathaniel Hawthorne contains multiple symbols throughout the text as any worthy piece of literature would. Although‚ Hawthorne differentiates his writing from others by adding in symbols that have more than one connotation in the book. Specifically‚ he uses the letter “A”‚ the meteor‚ and Pearl as cyphers during this novel that each could represent different ideas to the reader at different points. Since he uses this writing method so often during the novel‚ Hawthorne clearly does this
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responsibility for what he called the whole widget stemmed from his personality‚ which was very controlling but it was also driven by his passion for perfection and making eleven product. Extroversion‚ he told his team members was to focus on four great products one of each quadrant. Jobs began taking his top 100 people on a retreat each year. Openness to experience‚ focus was ingrained in Jobs personality and had been honed by his Zen training. He relentlessly filtered out what his considered distractions
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Psychology Contributions Howard Gardner: Created the theory of multiple intelligences‚ which says that human beings have 8 different “sections” of intelligence. E.L. Thorndike: Developed the puzzle box‚ used to study animal psychology and intelligence; postulated the idea of connectionism which is a proponent of learning and relates basic associations between cause and effect; developed the law of effect principle which states that events followed by satisfaction will be linked with the event
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