CHAPTER 13 SHORT-RUN DECISION MAKING: RELEVaNT COSTING 1 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Tactical decisions are short run in nature; they involve choosing among alternatives with an immediate or limited end in view. Strategic decisions involve selecting strategies that yield a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Depreciation is an allocation of a sunk cost. This cost is a past cost and will never differ across alternatives. 3. The salary of the supervisor of an assembly line with excess capacity
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Government & Politics Essay To what extent is there a democratic deficit in the UK? There is an argument that the government has the power and right to change laws and represent people without necessarily having to be elected. This can also be known as ‘Democratic deficit’. An example of democratic deficit is the House of Lords. The members in the House of Lords aren’t
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Policy Analysis Akeya Hurt February 23‚ 2015 Mrs. Duncan \ Abstract This policy analysis is based on the Social Security Act of 1935. This analysis will help you explore the difficulties of the American people prior to the Social security act of 1935 and the also the later years. This analysis will explain the importance of the Social Security Policy for population and how the policy will continue to have an effect on the society. The Social Security Act was initially put in place for
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shocks us in a traditionally gothic style‚ by transgressing what we consider to be the accepted boundaries of behaviour. "I’m The King of The Castle‚" presents transgression through the behaviour of a ten year old boy; Edmund Hooper. The extent of Hooper’s bullying goes beyond what we as a society feel comfortable with. Hill shows us through her novel that children can be evil‚ to the extent of forcing suicide upon someone. As a society we see children as innocent‚ but the novel shows us a different
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Do I really need the Union? Jonathan Thomas August 17‚ 2013 We all believe in being treated fairly on are jobs‚ but does your job treat you fair. Do they pay you what you deserve? Why do we need union? I am going to explain to you what the union is. I am going to talk about the benefits of having a union job and a non-union job. I am going to explain to you what collective bargaining is. We all know that to survive in life we are going to have to work. Most of our parents told us right
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individuals and can co-operate towards attainment of group goals”. According to F.W. Taylor‚ “Management is an art of knowing what to do‚ when to do and see that it is done in the best and cheapest way”. Definition of leadership It is a process by which one person influences the thoughts‚ attitudes‚ of others. Leader s set a direction for the rest of us. They help us visualize what we might achieve. They encourage us and inspire us. Without leadership a group of human beings quickly degenerate into
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The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s and follows the lives of Nick our narrator and the extravagant neighbor Gatsby. It addresses how the world was changing in the 20’s but the themes explored in this novel are still relevant today. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald utilises characters symbols and motifs to illustrate the themes of the social decline of america‚ the dangers of self creation‚ and the blindness created by love. During the 1920’s people’s morals seemed to go out the
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To what extent is feminism a single doctrine? Until the 1960s‚ feminism was widely regarded as a sub-set of liberalism and socialism‚ rather than as an ideology in its own right. Today‚ however‚ feminism can be considered a single doctrine in that all feminists subscribe to a range of ‘common ground’ beliefs‚ such as the existence of a patriarchal society‚ and the desire to change gender inequalities. Then again‚ it can be argued that feminism is characterised more by disagreement than consensus
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“Why does America needs its nerds”? In the passage “America need it nerds”‚ author Leonid Fridman expresses his fear and concerns on why Americans needs their nerds. Fridman emphasizes his argument by comparing and contrasting American’s on-going social beliefs and misperceptions of nerds and the actual role taken on by the nerds and why the role that they play is so vital to society. Friedman begins with‚ “bringing to our attention”‚ the type of terms our society uses to describe the “intellectually
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To what extent are democracy and dictatorship different? In order to answer this question we must first examine the generic basis of both democracy and dictatorship separately. The term democracy originates from the Greeks‚ and is defined as “rule of the people” coming from the words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (power). It was coined around 400 BCE‚ to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states‚ notably Athens. Commonly‚ two forms of democracy are recognised‚ these being
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