The Midwest Drought: Can Global Warming Be Blamed? The drought which swept across the Midwestern United States in the summer of 2012 has been the most severe and widespread drought of the past 50 years. The population of the Midwest is approximately 61 million people and the region includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. The percentage area experiencing moderate to exceptional drought in the Midwest…
spending, and the ranch segment's diminished political impact. American agriculturists owe their capacity to create substantial respects various elements. First and foremost, they work under to a great degree ideal common conditions. The American Midwest has a percentage of the wealthiest soil on the planet. Precipitation is unobtrusive to…
1.Based on the interviews and data in the case, we calculated the following information. (1)The cost of processing cartons through the facility: Personnel expense (warehouse, truck drivers)2,570,000 ¡ÐCompensation for truck drivers ( 250,000) Warehouse personnel expense $2,020,000 ¡ÏWarehouse expenses (excluding personnel) 2,000,000 $4,020,000 (2) The cost of entering electronic and manual customer orders: Order entry expenses $ 840,000 (3) The cost of shipping cartons on commercial…
Midwest Office Products Aaron Wilson, Brittni Henson, Dennie Smyth & Joshua Boatright Midwest Office Products Case ACCT. 6233 October 15, 2012 1. Based on the interviews and data in the case, estimate: a. The cost of processing cartons through the facility The two costs of processing cartons through the facility are warehouse costs and warehouse personnel costs. The total processing costs are $54/carton. Cartons/yr | 80000 | Commercial Freight | 75000 | Desktop Delivery | 5000…
Everybody has flags out. Homes, businesses. It's odd: You never see anybody putting out a flag, but by Wednesday morning there they all are. Big flags, small flags, regular flag-size flags. A lot of home-owners here have those special angled flag-holders by their front door, the kind whose brace takes four Phillips screws. And thousands of those little hand-held flags-on-a-stick you normally see at parades – some yards have dozens all over as if they'd somehow sprouted overnight. Rural-road people…
When one thinks about the midwest, you generally think it is just a desert, but it is much more than that. Marquart characterizes the upper midwest as more of a lonely place especially “While your driving west from Fargo on I-94” It is not very difficult to drive in the midwest, simply because there are no “rises or curves on the road.” The midwest is also considered a square state, meaning it is more conservative and rural. Something many people are not aware of. It is also more republican than…
1) Based on the interviews and data in the case, estimate: a. The cost of processing cartons through the facility The only two costs of processing cartons through the facility are i) warehouse costs, and ii) warehouse personnel costs. Both of these are proportional to the number of cartons. The total processing costs are therefore $54/carton. b. The cost of entering electronic and manual customer orders Here, the cost is entirely based on personnel costs. Manual costs consist…
economic areas are seen through the technologies created during this time and how they affected the production of these areas. The impact of the market revolution on the Northwest and Midwest can be seen through the movement of people to northern urban areas to work in factories, the increase of wheat production in the Midwest due to technological improvements, and the beginning of an independent national economy. The market revolution had a lasting impact on these two regions as The Northwest began to…
Questions for Midwest Office Products 1. Based on the interviews and data in the case, estimate: a. The cost of processing cartons through the facility 80000 total cartons Warehouse expenses = $2000000 Warehouse personnel expenses = $2570000-$250000 (truck driver expenses) = $2320000 Total warehouse processing expenses: $2000000 + $2320000 = $4,320,000 $4320000/80000= $54/carton b. The cost of entering electronic and manual customer orders Manual: .15 hours setup time, .075…
Midwest Company is a major supplier of educational materials, and the company is providing books, manuals, videos, software and hardware used in the field of technology. The company's main objective criteria is determined its focus is on cost reduction, quality enhancement and innovation. The headquarters is located in the Kansas City and the total number of staff employed is 416. In the Human Resource department there are four sections and they are 1) Staffing 2) Compensation & Benefits 3) Labor…