Sippican Corporation Sippican Corporation Questions: 1. Given some of the apparent problems with Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to products entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach in which manufacturing overhead is treated as a period expense? Why or why not? Answer: Consider Sippican is a manufacturer company with multiple products‚ using simple cost accounting system that directly allocate factory overhead to unit of product entirely through
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Ryan R. Montenid November 15‚ 2014 Strategic Management Dr. Gloria Chavez Building Competitive Advantage through Functional-Level Strategies: Xerox Corporation 1. Identify how the changes that Xerox undertook after 1980‚ helped the company to improve its efficiency‚ quality‚ innovation and customer responsiveness. Xerox underwent series of improvement after its 1980 downfall. First‚ Xerox had changed its waste management by decreasing the number of defective products and
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1. Executive Summary of the Case This case study goes through the evolution of IT governance at Cisco and the related project management. This case is a classic example of the result of a decentralized governance of business units. What happened to CISCO due to the decentralized governance‚ how the business processes were modified to overcome the chaos created by the decentralized governance and how the employees and management reacted to this change in CISCO’s business governance? This case clearly
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3. Do additional research on B Corps. What are the advantages and disadvantages of B Corps? Name some other successful B Corps. In your estimation‚ are B Corps a better model for socially responsible firms? Why or why not? B-Corp certification‚ a new business classification that scores companies on a 200-point scale‚ is done on a state-by-state basis and allows companies to demonstrate higher standards of corporate purpose‚ accountability and transparency [3]. It also permits businesses to make
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Preface First of all‚ I would like to thank Ms. Thuy for her enthusiastic guidance and response all of questions to help me complete this exercise easily. Simultaneously‚ thanks to her professional lectures on class which also build me with deep understanding of how to access and deal with problems in financial management so that I can complete this report. All of the data is collected through 2 website: http://finance.yahoo.com/ and http://www.finra.org/ I. ABOUT FEDEX CORPORATION: FedEx
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Merit Pay for Teachers Around the world children are taking tests that could potentially lower their grades. In some cases‚ those test scores may also determine how much the teachers get paid and acknowledged. It can be questioned weather or not merit pay is a productive system for the education industry. Individuals that disagree may say or believe that it will be harder to hire new staff‚ it lacks fairness‚ and question if it indicate how well the children learn. However‚ it is crucial that we
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incentives like merit pay can lead to risky behaviors and bad outcomes in our educational system. It is my belief that incentives like higher pay alone is never sufficient enough to motivate teachers or anyone with a real passion for their vocation to perform better. I find myself in the court of public opinion that incentives like money are a short time motivator for most people. I have looked at research material and information from experiments and initiatives to implement incentives like merit pay or
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Merit Goods and Services Merit goods are those goods and services that the government feels that people will underconsume‚ and which ought to be subsidised or perhaps provided free at the point of use so that consumption does not depend primarily on the ability to pay for the good or service. • • • Both the state and private sector provide merit goods & services. We have an independent education system and people can buy private health care insurance. Consumption of merit goods is believed to generate
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February 1957 Established Nikka Lemon Co.‚ Ltd. for the production and distribution of lemon beverages. October 1963 Built Nagoya factory in Kitanagoya-city‚ Aichi Prefecture. April 1966 Changed corporate name to Pokka Lemon Co.‚ Ltd. May 1972 Commenced production and distribution of canned coffee‚ POKKA COFFEE. November 1973 Developed and promoted vending machines‚ separate machines for hot and cold drinks. January 1977 Established Pokka Corporation (Singapore) Ltd. September 1980 Commenced
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Readings: • Dicken: Transnational Corporation • Dicken: Conflict and Collaboration • Locke: The Case of Nike As stated in one of the readings‚ a transnational corporation (TNC) is a firm which has the power to co-ordinate and control operations in more than one country‚ even if it does not own them. The most interesting of these three readings‚ The Case of Nike‚ exemplifies that statement very factually and in good detail. As Locke presents‚ before Nike even became Nike‚ the two founders took
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