CHAPTER 13 Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS 13-1 Goal congruence means a meshing of objectives‚ in which the managers throughout an organization strive to achieve goals that are consistent with the goals set by top management. Goal congruence is important for organizational success because managers often are unaware of the effects of their decisions on the organization’s other subunits. Also‚ it is natural for people to be more concerned with the performance
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Case analysis "Cost of Capital at Ameritrade" Cost of capital refers to the maximum rate of return a company must earn from its investments‚ so that the market values of the company’s equity shares do not go down. The people at Ameritrade are not in agreement on the best estimate of the cost of capital. Research analyst put the cost of capital at 12%‚ while other members of the management estimate it to be at 9% and the CFO estimates it to be at 15%. The CEO of the company is optimistic that
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6&7 – Variance analysis Variance analysis: Reason for variance: 1.Price/rate/spending variances: Standard is out of date; Standard set without due care; Efficient or inefficient buying (e.g.‚ discounts); Buying different quality material from standard; Buying materials from a non‑usual source due to urgency; Utilising different labour from standard; Price changes due to economic conditions; scarcity of supplies; Choosing to incur additional discretionary fixed costs; More (or less) overtime hours
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Cost/Benefit Analysis After researching several different ASRS vendors such as Some benefits to adopting a new ASRS technology system by Remstar includes a wide range of ASRS models to choose from‚ maximizing of storage space (approximately 75% storage space will be saved due to the design of the Carousel system design and various models such as the Vertical model which uses space all the way up to the ceiling instead of requiring a large area like many other ASRS systems and has more than 7000
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Introduction to price discrimination In our study of the theory of the firm we have assumed so far that a business charges a single price for its products‚ naturally the reality is different! Most businesses charge different prices to different groups of consumers for the same good or service. Businesses could make more money if they treated everyone as individuals and charged them the price they are willing to pay. But doing this involves a cost‚ so they have to find the right pricing strategy
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La política de la empresa ha sido históricamente vender juguetes de menos de 5$ aunque desde hace años tienen varios ejemplos de productos de 10-14$ que han tenido éxito. Rechazo de la "vieja guardia". Empresa y entorno competitivo: - Fisher-Price (FP) tiene en 1970 aproximadamente el 2‚0 % de un mercado de unos 1‚5$ billones (Ventas=$30Mill‚ Mercado=$1.500Mill (estimando el mercado “al por mayor” en la mitad de $3.000Mill que es el limite superior en el cálculo de 1968) - El mercado está bastante
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ASSIGNMENT ON COST CONTROL AND COST FREDUCTION SUBMITTED BY‚ MOHAMMED NAFAISE E.K ROLL NO: 1600 COST CONTROLL & COST REDUCTION COST CONTROL The practice of managing and/or reducing business expenses. Cost controls starts by the businesses identifying what their costs are and evaluate whether those costs are reasonable and affordable .Then if necessary
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‚ Rose Perez‚ noticed that while small retail customers flocked to the bank‚ the number of business customers was declined. Columbia City Bank’s costing system‚ develop back in 1988‚ is straightforward. No costs are traced directly to customers. The bank simply assigns the total indirect costs to customer lines (retail customer line or business customer line) based on the total number of checks processed. The definition of a retail customer is basically any customer other than an institutional customer
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maximum efficiency from all employees without compromising standards of labor performance. (T) 4. Increases in sales volume tend to improve labor productivity. (T) * As his efficiency increase‚ the cost of labor per unit produced actually decrease. * Increase in sales volume results in greater employee efficiency at lower labor cost per unit 5. The key to successful labor cost control is paying the lowest possible dollar wage.(F) May use of part-time staff‚ outsourcing 6. The local minimum
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Managing Cost of Quality: Insight into Industry Practice Andrea Schiffauerova *‚ Vince Thomson ** * École Polytechnique de Montréal‚ Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering‚ Montreal ** Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ McGill University‚ Montreal‚ Canada Article Reference: Schiffauerova‚ A. and Thomson‚ V.‚ “Managing cost of quality: Insight into industry practice”‚ The TQM Magazine‚ 2006 Abstract This paper reports on the study of the quality costing practices at four large
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