Week 4 Discussions Week 4 Discussion Question 1 What is break-even analysis and how does it work with cost–volume–profit analysis? As a manager‚ what decisions would you make to achieve a lower break-even point? The CVP analysis is the level of activity at which total revenues equal total costs (both fixed and variable). A break-even analysis is the process of finding the break-even point. The cost-value-profit is the study of how specific costs respond to changes in the level of business
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Information supplied from PWI’s cost accounting department in case study: Title Material Direct Labor Overhead Departmental Administrative Total 100 Plastic Rings 17.65 65.50 131.00 65.50 279.65 100 Steel Rings 321.90 196.50 393.00 196.50 1107.90 1 Some
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method because the older milk will be sold first. International Accounting Standards No. 2 (IASCF) does not permit the use of LIFO for foreign affairs. Therefore‚ companies must use FIFO to report any inventory outside of the US effective as of January 1‚ 2009. On the hand‚ we have LIFO which is last in‚ first out. There has been a gradual increase of LIFO method by companies from 1973-2008. This method assumes that shirts bought in May 2012 will be sold before the shirts made in January 2012. Generally
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• Question 1 A decision support system supports customer care employees and salespersons who need to make quick‚ real-time decisions. Answer False • Question 2 A value proposition is an analysis of the benefits of using the specific model (tangible or intangible) in business decision making. Answer True • Question 3 _______ provides routine information for planning‚ organizing‚ and controlling operations in functional areas. Answer
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Question 1 4 out of 4 points Select the best definition of ethics: Answer Selected Answer: a set of relatively unclear principles regarding what we should do. Correct Answer: a set of relatively unclear principles regarding what we should do. Question 2 4 out of 4 points The best example of a source for virtue ethics for a business is Answer Selected Answer: the corporate mission statement. Correct Answer: the corporate mission
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Master Budget The master budget is a comprehensive summary of a business’ long and short-term goals. “It is a set of interrelated budgets that constitutes a plan of action for a specified time period” (Weygandt‚ Kimmel‚ & Kieso‚ 2008‚ p.4). It brings together long-range plans and short-term budgets. It provides calculated targets for sub-activities such as target sales‚ distribution‚ production‚ and finance. In addition it helps calculate any other item of financial interest to the business owner
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ECO550 Week 4 Discussion 1 and 2 Name Course University 5/3/2014 Question 1 "Production Economics" Please respond to the following: From the scenario for Katrina’s Candies‚ determine the relevant costs for the expansion decision‚ and distinguish between the short run and the long run costs. Recommend the key decision-making criteria that Katrina’s Candies should use for expansion decisions in the short run and in the long run. Provide rationale for your response. Given that Katrina’s candies
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Question 2: Select one example of a literary work or work of visual art from the 1800s—either Romantic or Realist in style—that responds in some way to the Industrial Revolution. Identify the work and the artist or writer‚ and explain how it responds to the Industrial Revolution. Then describe one example of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. Art is Reacting to Industrial Revolution Chapter 28 (pp. 920-948)
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Chapter 1 1. In a contest ‚all twenty finalists were given cash prize.The first winner was given RM860 ‚ the second RM 800 ‚the third RM740 and so on.Calculate the total amount of money awarded to all the finalists. Solution:The prizes are RM860‚RM800 ‚RM740….. It is an arithmetic progression .The first term a=rm860 ‚ common difference d=-60 and n=20. The total amount given is Sn = n/2[ 2a + (n-1)] S26 =20/2[ 2(860) +(20-1)(-60)] =RM5800 The amount is RM 5800 2. Find the minimum number of
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for training and job duties. The general duties for handling patient records differ between a record administrator and a records technician . A technician has to have knowledge about medical records and implement the skills that go into filling out all the documents in the files. An administrator hires and teaches medical record technicians how properly to complete medical documentations. Three specific examples of differences between a record administrator and a records technician are a technician
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