THE THREE METHODS OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION Throughout history‚ there have been three primary mechanisms for allocating resources. • In a traditional economy‚ resources are allocated according to the long-lived practices of the past. Tradition was the dominant method of resource allocation for most of human history and remains strong in many tribal societies and small villages in parts of Africa‚ South America‚ Asia‚ and the Pacific. Typically‚ traditional methods of production are handed down
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Topic 6: Management Accounting and Cost Case: Shelter Partnership a. My main learning outcomes from Topic 6 and the Case Study; 1) Firstly‚ I realize management accounting has much to offer. Somehow I can handle physics but not accounting. Now thanks to this course I can appreciate and make sense of it. The bit that really caught my attention was seeing how management accounting can be really useful for business planning‚ cost management‚ budgeting and performance measurement. It offers
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generative process of the patterns incorporating diagnosis groups as latent variables. First‚ we assume the patterns in a particular diagnosis group follow a multinomial distribution‚ which is a random variable draws from a prior Dirichlet distribution. By making 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
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Low cost airlines have revolutionised flying – but at what price ? Low cost airlines are ideal for the difficult days we are going through with the financial crisis. However‚ these airline companies’ services have many advantages and disadvantages that deserve to be debated. If one want to travel for a very short time‚ then booking a ticket with such a company is the best deal to make. On the contrary to what one might think‚ a low cost flight is not more dangerous than a regular one‚ because
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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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Multiple Choice Questions 16. Which terms would make the following sentence true? Manufacturing companies that benefit the most from activity-based costing are those where overhead costs are a _________ percentage of total product cost and where there is ___________ diversity among the various products that they produce. A) low‚ little B) low‚ considerable C) high‚ little D) high‚ considerable 17. Would factory security and assembly
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still available in the enormous car parks‚ most drivers do not seem to be able to locate those slots. Car Parking Slot Allocation System is a system that automates the searching and guides drivers on which location is their chosen slot located in the parking area. The system is designed to prevent problems usually associated with parking cars in a certain parking lot. How does it work? When a car is waiting at the entrance‚ the operator will give the driver the slot card number indicating where to park
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Structure Setting and Adjustment | Definition | A pay structure is a collection of pay rates or pay ranges.Structure setting and adjustment is the process of developing‚ adjusting‚ and maintaining a pay structure. | Purpose | Pay structures are used to help organizations: * maintain pay levels that are competitive with the external labor market‚ * maintain internal pay relationships among jobs‚ * recognize and reward differences in level of responsibility‚ skill‚ and performance‚ and
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The objective of efficient resource allocation refers to an economy ’s ability to meet its obligations in ensuring that all social and economic objectives are met without waste‚ for example to allocate resources so that they are distributed efficiently to improve the standard or living. This is the only way that we can ensure that we will be able to maximize the number of goods and services that we are able to provide. In addition‚ we will also be more likely to guarantee the long term availability
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TYPES OF COSTS Introduction :-Production is the result of services rendered by various factors of production.The producer or firm has to make payments for this factor services. From the point of view of the factor inputs it is called ‘factor income’ while for the firm it is ‘factor payment’‚ or cost of inputs.Generally‚ the term cost of production refers to the ‘money expenses’ incurredin the production of a commodity. But money expenses are not the only expensesincurred on the production
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