In 1886‚ John Pemberton who was an Atlanta pharmacist came up with a caramel-colored liquid and then he carried it over to Jacob’s Pharmacy. Once at the pharmacy the mixture was combined with carbonated water. Later on they put the mixture to the test by letting the customers at the pharmacy try it out and it was a success. They then started to sell the new concoction for only five cents a glass. The new refreshing drink was named Coca-Cola‚ the name was given by Frank Robison‚ who happened to
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Resource Allocation in Hotels –Alternative Distribution Options The number of reservations flowing to hotels through the electronic and switchboard distribution channels – the Internet and reservation call centers – is growing steadily. Once a minor contributor of bookings‚ they are now primary business sources and grow more important with every passing month. This productivity growth has heightened emphasis throughout the hotel industry on using the electronic and switchboard distribution channels
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Asset Allocation and Retirement: Do You Need to Make a Change? Many investors who are approaching retirement are wondering if they will need to change their asset allocation when they are no longer collecting a paycheck. The information available from the popular press and many advisors is to generally guide retirees to change their allocation to one that is more conservative. This is usually interpreted to mean that the investor should lighten up on stocks and put more of their investments into
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Cost allocation in banks is also one of these competitive challenges in the USA market. Now banks are also revising its polices one after another for an effective marketing strategy and gaining healthy customer relations. Therefore‚ usually banks allocate their costs from the back office to the front office. Basically back office means the internal operations related to cost and management in any organization or bank‚ which is not visible to the public. It is the internal cost allocation policies
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Resource Allocation Problem Statement The type of problem most often identified with the application of linear program is the problem of distributing scarce resources among alternative activities. The Product Mix problem is a special case. In this example‚ we consider a manufacturing facility that produces five different products using four machines. The scarce resources are the times available on the machines and the alternative activities are the individual production volumes. The machine
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A Theory of the Allocation of Time Gary S. Becker The Economic Journal‚ Vol. 75‚ No. 299. (Sep.‚ 1965)‚ pp. 493-517. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0133%28196509%2975%3A299%3C493%3AATOTAO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N The Economic Journal is currently published by Royal Economic Society. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part
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Revenue allocation formulae: The current revenue allocation formulae is 52.68%‚ 26.72% and 20.60%.for the F.G‚ States and L.Gs respectively | FEDERAL GOVT. | STATE GOVT. | LOCAL GOVT. | | | | | |52.68% |26.72%
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Funding Allocation and Accountability School Budget and Funding Funding Allocation and Accountability School finance issues are of paramount concern to all levels of the education system national‚ state‚ district‚ and school. Indeed‚ every child’s future‚ as well as the future of a society in general‚ depends largely on the quality of the educational system. As expectations rise for students and teachers to perform at higher levels‚ and for schools to guarantee the success of all students
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Allocation of Fixed Costs ACC 403 Principles of Accounting The articles describe two different approaches: Lean accounting and activity based costing. Both have pros and cons and the selection of "what is best for allocating IT" likely rests with the culture and types of businesses. I personally believe that activity-based costing‚ which essentially casts IT as a variable cost‚ making users sensitive to the requests they make of IT because every request is an incremental cost to their
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Resource Allocation Paper Jody Bryant‚ Vann Haigler‚ Rose Matos‚ and James Sampson University of Phoenix Mark Fechtel May 25‚ 2006 Resource Allocation Paper Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing the use of resources: time‚ money‚ people‚ materials‚ energy‚ space‚ etc.‚ over the course of a project. The most important resources that project managers have to plan and manage on day-to-day basis are people‚ materials
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