The Transaction Cost Advantage of Guanxi-Based Business Practices Stephen S. Standifird R. Scott Marshall The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical explanation of the perpetuation of China’s guanxi-based business practices. As a complement to the social embeddedness- and resource-based explanations‚ we seek to demonstrate the perseverance and relevance of guanxi in terms of the transaction cost advantages it offers. Specifically‚ we argue that guanxi-based business practices offer certain
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Alberta School of Business Department of Accounting OPERATIONS and Information systems Accounting 523 Section X50 winter 2013 Midterm Exam Last Name First Name I.D. Number INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read these instructions carefully. 2. You must hand in this exam booklet before leaving the exam. 3. To answer the multiple choice questions‚ circle the letter of your answer. To change your answer‚ stroke through the old answer and circle the new response. You may write
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more or less abandoned a fixed currency system and using the modern floating currency/exchange model in an attempt to regulate markets in the newly developed foreign market economy. But what effects‚ both positive and negative have there been in the adoption of a floating model compared to a fixed model? Is the global economy better off or worse off by this implementation? To really be able to analyze the issue it is important to know the background of this switch from a fixed to floating currency system
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Case Study Inventory The Cost of Inventory The general principle for cost inclusion into inventory for US GAAP and IFRS is similar but not exactly the same. First let us look at US GAAP. The basis of accounting for inventories is “cost‚” which is explained in ASC 330-10-30 paragraph 1 as “the sum of the applicable expenditures and charges directly or indirectly incurred in bringing an article to its existing condition and location.” These costs are divided into two different categories‚ the
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COST ACCOUNTING M.ASAD ABBAS PAF KIET TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ......................................................................................................3 Introduction .....................................................................................................................4 Costing Strategy of Vesta Apparel.............................................................................5 Full Cost of the Primary
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Latasha Thomas January 20‚ 2013 HSM 260 Jerome Anderson Exercise 10.1 Recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP. What are the variable costs? What are the fixed costs? How many meals will the WHDM program need to provide during the fiscal year to reach the BEP? How much profit will the program earn if it completes its 45‚000-meal contract with the City of Westchester? The variable cost of service is $3.93 during the fiscal year the WHDM should provide 1‚011 meals to reach their
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A Cost Leadership Strategy is based on the concept that you can produce and market a good quality product or service at a lower cost than your competitors. These low costs should translate to profit margins that are higher than the industry average. Some of the conditions that should exist to support a cost leadership strategy include an on-going availability of operating capital‚ good process engineering skills‚ close management of labor‚ products designed for ease of manufacturing and low cost distribution
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Overview Welcome to the study of cost accounting. This introductory chapter explains the intertwining roles of managers and management accountants in choosing an organization’s strategy‚ and in planning and controlling its operations. Unlike the remainder of the textbook‚ this chapter has no “number crunching.” Its main purpose is to emphasize the management accountant’s role in providing information for managers. Review Points organization. Cost accounting provides information
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activity-based costing and the creation of individual cost pools that will use direct labor hours (DLH)‚ material handling (MH)‚ and number of shipments (NS) as cost drivers. Data on the cost pools and respective driver volumes follow. Product Alpha Gamma Pool Cost Pool No. 1 (Driver: DLH) 200 1800 $420‚000 Pool No. 2 (Driver: MH) 15 10 $375‚000 Pool No. 3 (Driver: NS) 2‚000 18‚000 $20‚000 1. The overhead cost allocated to Alpha by using traditional costing procedures
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In "The Four Freedoms" speech‚ President Roosevelt describes the historical context in which the U.S. finds itself one year before the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ but describing that context is not the point of his speech. His point is to promote the "four freedoms" but he does not actually get to outlining the "four freedoms" until the very end of the speech. Consider his speech in connection with the "Our Freedoms and Rights" document and the information provided as historical background. Why does
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