SOUTHWEST AIRLINE IN 2010: CULTURE‚ VALUES AND OPERATING PRACTICES CASE QUESTIONS: 1. Is there anything that you find particularly impressive about Southwest Airlines? Transported more passengers from U.S airports to U.S destinations than any other airline Consistently profitable- had reported a profit every year since 1972 Became a major competitive force in domestic segment 2. What grade would you give Southwest management for the job it has done in crafting the company’s strategy
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that. In addition to centering around the ritual of food‚ the embrace of family‚ and the richness of history‚ Thanksgiving has always served for me as a time of contemplation and gratitude. It’s good to take stock from time to time‚ not to ignore problems or challenges but rather to remember and think about the good. Sometimes we get so caught up in the daily grind of life that we focus more on what we
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Physics 110 Spring 2006 2-D Motion Problems: Projectile Motion – Their Solutions 1. A place-kicker must kick a football from a point 36 m (about 40 yards) from the goal‚ and half the crowd hopes the ball will clear the crossbar‚ which is 3.1m high. When kicked the all leaves the ground with a speed of 20 m/s at an angle of 530 to the horizontal. 1. Does the ball clear or fall short of the crossbar? 2. Does the ball approach the crossbar while still rising or while falling? (a) From our equations
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move the supply curve to the left. Answer No. 2 Full Employment: AD 2 1 100 180 AD 2 1 100 180 Economic boom : :1 AD1 2 1 80 200 AD2 140 AD1 2 1 80 200 AD2 140 Recession: P Y AD1 2 1 80 200 AD2 140 P Y AD1 2 1 80 200 AD2 140 Short Run and Long Run Aggregate Supply Curves Full Employment YP=140 P 2 1 LRAS YP=140 P 2 1 LRAS Economic boom 2 1 AS YP=140 2 1 AS YP=140 Recession: P Y 1
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Econ 214 Problem Set 4 1. What determines whether a financial asset is included in the M1 money supply? Why are interest-earning checkable deposits included in M1‚ whereas interest-earning savings accounts and Treasury bills are not? A financial assest is included in the M1 money supply when it can be quickly converted into the physical form of money‚ such as dollars and coins. Interested-earning checkable deposits are included because it can be quickly accessible without limitations
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CHAPTER 2 EXERCISES & PROBLEMS SOLUTIONS E2.1. Category Financial Statement(s) Cash…………………………………………… A BS Accounts payable…………….……………….. L BS Common stock………………………………… OE BS Depreciation expense………………………….. E IS Net sales……………………………………….. R IS Income tax expense……………………………. E IS Short term investments………………………... A BS Gain on sale of land……………………………. G IS Retained earnings……………………………… OE BS Dividends payable……………………………
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Olympic Rent-A-Car U.S.: Customer Loyalty Battles In response to Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s new customer loyalty rewards program‚ Laura Walkins‚ should follow the industry leader by adopting a dollar based reward system and focus on targeting business travellers. But in doing so Olympic needs to be careful not to enter into a price war with Enterprise. To avoid the risk of this happening‚ Olympic should look to diversify and differentiate their rewards program to steal a share of the business traveller
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Assuming that units in inventory are valued (based on COGS) at $1‚000 per unit and are sold for $2‚000 per unit‚ how fast does the company turn its inventory? The company uses a 25 percent per year cost of inventory. That is‚ for the hypothetical case that one unit of $1‚000 would sit exactly one year in inventory‚ the company charges its operations division a $250 inventory cost. B. What—in absolute terms—is the per unit inventory cost for a product that costs $1‚000? Sales $60‚000‚000 (Flow)
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Statistics Problems 1) Ask 10 people (try to get 5 males and 5 females) the following questions A) Their ages B) How many vitamins they take daily C) How many carbonated sodas they drink each day D) How many alcoholic beverages they drink per month E) Write your own question. Ask your participants if they agree with something or if they do something. For example‚ you may want to ask them if they eat popcorn when they go to the movies or if they support a political issue. It must be a yes/no
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Chapter 9‚ Problem 17 Jack Hammer invests in a stock that will pay dividends of $2.00 at the end of the first year; $2.20 at the end of the second year; and $2.40 at the end of the third year. Also‚ he believes that at the end of the third year he will be able to sell the stock for $33. What is the present value of all future benefits if a discount rate of 11 percent is applied? (Round all values to two places to the right of the decimal point.) Present value of a single amount PV = FV x PVIF
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