Regulations (FAR) – Cost Sharing Contract -type of cost-reimbursement contract -government pays a pre-negotiated percentage (60/40‚ 50/50) of the allowable costs to the contractor -commercial items not allowable -no fee 16.303 Cost-Sharing Contracts (a) Description. A cost-sharing contract is a cost-reimbursement contract in which the contractor receives no fee and is reimbursed only for an agreed-upon portion of its allowable costs. (b) Application. A cost-sharing contract may be used
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Summary of the Article‚ ”Why do firms exist”……….. Ronald Coase may not be as famous as other economists due to his non-recognisable status but at the turn of the century ‚ he was able to achieve a recognisable status by applying practical theories on pre- existing economic theories. Highlights Deregulation revolution of 1980s Re-surfacing the pin factory which was the foundation of division of labour criticism of earlier economics theories of Adam Smith and others. Bureacracy in modern
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INVESTOR NEWSLETTER ISSUE N°3 IT SHOULD BE DELIVERED ONLINE TRAINING THE WAY HTTP://WWW.4PM.COM FALL 2007 Why Do So Many Projects Fail? Dick Billows‚ PMP ProjectPedia Change control Charter Estimating Lessons Learned People Skills Planning/Scope Presentations Requirements Risk Scheduling Status Reports What do PMs do Work breakdown WBS CERTIFICATION Associate PM IT/IS Project Manager Consulting PM Healthcare PM Business PM PMP Professional PM All Courses
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The use of 3rd party logistics firms and outsourcing supply chain strategies Introduction For the last couple of decades the interest in logistics alliances and third party logistics (3PL) has been growing in academics and industries. The common viewpoint is to consider 3PL as outsourcing of logistics activities. The aim of this paper is to take a complementary perspective by looking at 3PL as an insourcing of resources. It means the shipper gets access to the providers’ resources. Matthias
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CFA® Level I – Economics Demand and Supply Analysis: The Firm www.irfanullah.co Graphs‚ charts‚ tables‚ examples‚ and figures are copyright 2012‚ CFA Institute. Reproduced and republished with permission from CFA Institute. All rights reserved. 1 Contents and Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Objectives of the Firm 3. Analysis of Revenue‚ Costs and Profits www.irfanullah.co 2 2. Objectives of the Firm • The objective of the firm should be to maximize shareholder value • This reading assumes
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OF A SUPPLY CHAIN AUDIT OF COOLLAND CATERING SERVICE‚ ACCRA PREPARED BY: PRESENTED TO: DR. KOFI DADZIE 1. INTRODUCTION Supply chain performance has never been as important as it is today. In a global economy where supply chains‚ and not companies‚ battle one another‚ how a supply chain performs determines who will win the battle. To achieve maximum benefit from a supply chain‚ a supply chain must be performing at its best or anything it has gained will be short-lived. Yet‚ many companies
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PEDs: False use of medical advancement Performance enhancing drugs in sports has become a controversial issue in the world today‚ especially when it comes to athletes and people involved in it. These drugs are commonly known as PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) and people who use these drugs to enhance their performance consider it legitimate as it helps in improving their concentration level. Today’s athletes continue to push the boundaries of distinction in performance and physical fitness. PEDs
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example in the first case‚ Enron increased their net income through many methods to rise their share price‚ but in the second case‚ the company decreased their net income. However‚ both earning management comes with the bad consequences happened to the society. Next‚ we are going to see another example which is how management is motived to manipulate accounting number to reduce or underprovide for environment and restoration costs. As a result‚ there cause some ethical issue. First let us
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Almost everyone today uses coal in their everyday life‚ whether you know it or not. Coal has become such an important resource is today’s society‚ that if all of the coal was too disappear we probably wouldn’t have a great chance of surviving for very long. But in saying that we are also killing our environment by using it so much. Coal has its advantages and disadvantages‚ which is why using coal is a touchy subject. As much as we know that we use coal‚ not many people know how it was formed‚ how
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Determine the price elasticity and income elasticity of demand (8 points). From Lecture Module 3 Equation 4 we learned the alternative formulation of elasticity. Alternative formulation of elasticity EP = dQ/dP * P/Q = dlnQ/dlnP Natural log: ln‚ uses the base “e” How? ∂lnQ/∂lnP =(d lnQ/dQ) * (dQ/dP) * (dP/dlnP) [ Note: dY/dX = 1/(dX/dY) since‚ dlnX/dX = 1/X‚ dX/dlnX = X] Example: Q = AP-α A:Constant>0 lnQ=lnA + ln(P-α) =lnA – αlnP EP = dlnQ/dlnP = -α ∝ =∆lnQ/∆lnP
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