Situation Read the closing case “Billabong.” This case explores the implications of changing currency values on the profits of Australian retailer Billabong. Billabong relies on the U.S. market for a significant share of its total sales. Consequently‚ the company must continually monitor and adapt to the changing relationship between the Australian dollar and the U.S. dollar. Explore the implications of changing currency values on the profits of Australian retailer Billabong from the Why does
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country’s organ transplant system under the agreement with the Federal Government” (UNOS‚ 2013). “In the Untied States there are 123‚771 people waiting for a transplant” (UNOS‚ 2013)‚ currently in 2014 that number could be higher. UNOS has an organ allocation process‚ which includes justice‚ and how organs are dispersed to their recipients. It does not mean giving all patients the equivalent or saving only the sickest patient‚ but‚ instead‚ offers that uniform respect and apprehension be assumed to
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Operating Systems 3 – Deadlocks Lab notes Course lectured by Prof. Gabriel Kuper Lab assist. Ilya Zaihrayeu http://www.dit.unitn.it/~ilya/os.htm Deadlock Prerequisites Deadlock can arise if four conditions hold simultaneously: Mutual exclusion: only one process at a time can use a resource. If another process requests that resource‚ the requesting process is delayed until the resource is released; Hold and wait: a process holding at least one resource is waiting to acquire additional resources
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Connections and Information Acquisition in Capital Allocation Mariassunta Giannetti Xiaoyun Yu Stockholm School of Economics‚ Kelley School of Business CEPR and ECGI Indiana University mariassunta.giannetti@hhs.se xiyu@indiana.edu August 2010 This paper was previously circulated under the title “Favoritism or Markets in Capital Allocation?” We thank Franklin Allen‚ Utpal Bhattacharya‚ Philip Bond‚ Brian Bucks‚ Chun Chang‚ Todd Gormley‚ Denis Gromb‚ Dalida Kadyrzhanova
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gratitude according to the story? Outline: What would have happened if the dove had not seen the ant? Explain: Can you explain in your own words what the moral story of the story is about? Predict: Who was the key character? Compare: Compare the dove’s favor to the ant’s? Summarize: Summarize the story in
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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have done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the
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CHAPTER 6 PRODUCTION EXERCISES 4. A political campaign manager must decide whether to emphasize television advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and
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analogies between words in documents and patterns of patients and inspiring from bag-of-words‚ we represent the observed patterns of a patient as a bag of patterns. Therefore‚ the generative process can be treated as the process of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)~\cite{blei2003LDA}. More specifically‚ patterns of a patient are generated as: (1) A patient has $N$ patterns to describe his/her
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6% 8.6% Std. Dev 0.1% 5.0% 3.9% 2.1% 4.9% Annual 0.4% 17.2% 13.4% 7.4% 17.1% Correlation Russell S&P 500 LT Bond EAFE Russell 1.000 S&P 500 0.780 1.000 LT Bond 0.191 0.413 1.000 EAFE 0.441 0.539 0.174 1.000 Q2. Optimal Asset Allocation a) For each portfolio return highlighted in yellow in the spreadsheet ‘Efficient Frontier’‚ calculate the minimum unconstrained portfolio standard deviation. Port Mean Sum of Weights Return Port wgts. Target Port Mean St. Dev
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