Chapter 2 Exercises Solutions Answer to end of chapter questions: 2. The labour force is calculated as the sum of the employed and the unemployed‚ which in this case is 22‚000‚000 + 1‚000‚000 = 23‚000‚000. The labour force participation rate is calculated as the ratio of the labour force to the working age population: 23‚000‚000 / 30‚000‚000 = 77 %. The unemployment rate is calculated as the ratio of the number of unemployed workers to the size of the labour force: 1‚000‚000 / 23‚000‚000 = 4
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The SWOT of Non Profit and For Profit By Shelley Coulter Submitted: May 20‚ 2013 Instructor: Olivia Kerr PHI445: Personal & Organizational Ethics (BIJ1316A) Thesis: Believing in who you are and what your purpose in life‚ sets the standards on which you live. Shelley Coulter Introduction The highest ranking professions involve helping people. Among the lowest ranking occupations are those associated with the not profit and for profit organizations. The Mesopotamian Code
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Danshui Plant No. 2 1. Using budget data‚ how many Apple iPhone 4’s would have to have been completed for Danshui Plant No. 2 to break even? 2. Using budget data‚ what was the total expected cost per unit if all manufacturing and shipping overhead (both variable and fixed) were allocated to planned production? What was the actual cost per unit of production and shipping. 3. Prepare a flexible budget for 180‚000 iPhone 4’s and calculate flexible budget variances using actual costs for August
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Costs and budgets The management of costs is a very important aspect of managing financial resources. If costs are not managed effectively‚ it can lead to profits being damaged and the business potentially unable today its expense. Keeping within a budget‚ increasing income in order to cope with change and making sure that working capital is available and money and set aside for emergencies is all part of the balancing exercise. Costs managed to budget McDonald’s budget was adverse as there
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ECON 600 Lecture 3: Profit Maximization I. The Concept of Profit Maximization Profit is defined as total revenue minus total cost. Π = TR – TC (We use Π to stand for profit because we use P for something else: price.) Total revenue simply means the total amount of money that the firm receives from sales of its product or other sources. Total cost means the cost of all factors of production. But – and this is crucial – we have to think in terms of opportunity cost‚ not just explicit
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Profit vs. Not-for-Profit Organization A nonprofit organization is formed for the common good of the public. Nonprofit organizations are usually formed for some specific religious‚ charitable or educational purpose. A for-profit organization may be formed to conduct any number of lawful business activities. The primary reason to form a for-profit organization is to earn a profit for the owners of the company. Use of Profits Since a not-for-profit organization is formed to accomplish a specific
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4. MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Assignment A: (any 3) Distinguish between the following: a) Industry demand and Firm (Company) demand‚ b) Short-run demand and Long run demand‚ and c) Durable goods’ demand and Non-durable goods demand. 2 . What are the problems faced in determining the demand for a durable good? Illustrate with example of demand for households refrigerator or television set. 3 . Analyze the method by which a firm can allocate the given advertising budget
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Global Variables This writing assignment will focus on global variables. A global variable is a variable every module in a program can see‚ meaning that the entire program is its scope (Gaddis‚ 2010). There are both advantages and disadvantages to using global variables and it is my intention to explore some of them here‚ starting with the disadvantages. There seems to be a lot to be said about the disadvantages of using global variables. First and foremost the scope itself can be a disadvantage
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Can HR be a strategic partner to the business? The article I have chosen is around the question whether ‘HR can be a strategic partner to business’ and how? One of the reasons I chose this article is because during our combined class with the Temple Executive MBA batch‚ we realized that a lot of business people do not consider HR to be a strategically thinking department. It was quite surprising as well as shocking to hear that‚ according to business‚ HR is considered a clerical and administrative
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VARIABLE COSTINGMorenike Onibon Liberty University Abstract Determining the actual valuation of manufactured assets has always been a major problem in the accounting field. The real controversy exist in the decision regarding which costs are relevant to future periods‚ and thus should be included in assets valuation‚ and which should not be charged against net income. An understanding of the relationship between costs‚ volume‚ and profit‚ enables management to set more realistic objectives for
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