Sessions 6‚ 7 & 8 Economic Efficiency y Consumer Surplus A buyer’s willingness to pay (WTP) for a good p y( ) g is the maximum amount the buyer will pay for that good good. WTP measures how much the buyer values the good. Example: 4 buyers’ WTP for an iPod name Anthony WTP $250 Chad 175 Flea 300 John 125 Consumer Surplus Q: If price of iPod is $200‚ who will buy an iPod‚ and what is quantity demanded? q y A: Anthony & Flea will buy
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transforming labor into a more flexible (and variable) cost. Among such companies are Hewlett-Packard‚ General Electric‚ DuPont‚ Sun Microsystems‚ and British Airways. Discuss whether direct labor is a fixed or a variable cost. What are the pros and cons of management treating direct labor as a variable cost? Are there ethical issues to be considered here? Direct labor can be classified as a fixed cost or a variable cost‚ depending on how flexible the employer needs to be/can be with the labor force
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Recent measures taken by the firm to achieve efficiency. (Distinguish carefully as between different economic notions of efficiency in your answer). Glanbia plc is an international dairy and nutritional ingredients group headquartered in Ireland. The company has 4‚500 employees in seven countries and sales offices in a further five. International operations include food ingredients and nutritionals while Irish operations incorporate consumer foods and agribusiness and property. The group has three
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science‚ or operational research. Operational research‚ also known as operations research‚ is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics and formal science that uses advanced analytical methods such as mathematical modeling‚ statistical analysis‚ and mathematical optimization to arrive at optimal or near-optimal solutions to complex decision-making problems. It is often concerned with determining the maximum (of profit‚ performance‚ or yield) or minimum (of loss‚ risk‚ or cost) of some real-world
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Connected Real Estate Essays from innovators in real estate‚ design‚ and construction Edited by Kevin O’Donnell and Wolfgang Wagener Essays from innovators in real estate‚ design‚ and construction Edited by Kevin O’Donnell and Wolfgang Wagener Terry Hill Chris Luebkeman ARUP Mark Nicholls BANK OF AMERICA Zhu Yan BEIJING MUNICIPAL OFFICE OF INFORMATIZATION James J. Whalen BOSTON PROPERTIES Volker Hartkopf Vivian Loftness CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY A pivotal feature of
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allocative efficiency is related to the concepts of consumer surplus and producer surplus. Consumer surplus is defined as the highest price consumers are willing to pay for a good minus the price actually paid. As shown in the diagram‚ P1 is the highest price consumers are willing to pay for a good. Pe is the equilibrium price determined by the market. Any consumers are willing to pay price higher than Pe will end up paying Pe. This means they pay less than they expect‚ therefore‚ they gain benefit
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NATURE OF OPERATIONAL AUDIT • Also known as management audits and performance audits. • Conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and/or efficiency of operations. • Examinations of all or part of an entity to determine the degree of its operational efficiency‚ effectiveness and economy. • Also refers to the auditor’s study of business operations for the purpose of making recommendations about economic and efficient use of resource‚ effective achievement of business objectives
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[pic] BSBMGT402A – Implement operational plan [pic] Version 1.0 – August 2010 BSBMGT402A – Implement operational plan Assessment Introduction This document outlines the assessment requirements for the unit BSBMGT402A – Implement operational plan. This unit is from the Business Services Training Package (BSB07) and can be used as credit
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Operational Plan Table of Content Background 1 1.Business Goal. 1 2.Objectives 2 3.Strategy 2 4.Key actions 2 5.KPIs 4 6.Contingency Plans 4 7.Outcome 5 8.Approvals 5 Background ‘The Office Assistant’ is a retail store that sells office products and services. As a store manager of one of these 25 stores‚ I have made this operational plan to grow the services component of our business in the next twelve months. 1.Business Goal. The business goal of this operational
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