1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s cost of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? Mortensen’s cost of capital estimates are used for a variety of purposes at both the divisional and corporate levels. Examples include internal analyses such as financial accounting‚ performance assessment and capital budgeting‚ while others are used for strategic planning purposes such as merger and acquisition‚ as well as stock repurchase decisions (Luehrman
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The Critical Role of Executing Rebates‚ Allowances‚ and “Dead Net Pricing” There’s an old pricing related joke that goes like this: A customer walks into a deli asking for the cost of a dozen bagels. The proprietor responds with $5.50. The prospective customer responds‚ "but the deli down the street sells a dozen bagels for $4.50". "Why don’t you buy the bagels there‚" the proprietor asks. "He’s out of bagels today‚" the customer replies. The proprietor retorts‚ "When I’m out of bagels‚ I’ll also
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Explain the concept of potential output and why actual output can differ from potential output? (2 marks) Potential output is the amount of output that an economy can produce when using its resources such as capital and labour‚ at normal rates. Potential output is not a fixed number but grows over time‚ reflecting increases in both the amounts of available capital and labour and their productivity. As capital and labour can be utilised at greater than normal rates‚ at least for a time‚
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Risk it Have you ever thought about how often we part by urging each other to be careful? ‘Take care’‚ we say or ‘Look after yourself’. It seems friendly and well meaning and of course‚ we want to see our friends again. However‚ we might actually be doing them a disservice. We are sending them a message that they should not take any risks. That is a similar message to the ones we have probably been receiving ourselves since childhood. While no sensible person would urge us to take risks with fire
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The potential benefits of CSR relative to the costs for business & stakeholders. CSR is the extent to which an organization accepts its obligations to society over and above legal requirements. Firms can benefit from CSR. It will help them gain marketing advantage. This could be firms USP and they could add profit margins. Consumers may be prepared to premium price‚ if the CSR product suits them. For example‚ Costa coffee used Fairtrade and its premium customers were prepared to pay high price
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What is Risk Taking? What is risk taking. Risk concerns the deviation of one or more results of one or more future events from their expected value. Risk taking can have many definitions but in my opinion risk taking is doing something that is out of the ordinary‚ something that you don’t feel comfortable doing. Risk taking could be different for many people‚ what I see as taking a risk could be something normal for someone else. To me trying to wrestle an alligator is taking a risk but to people
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T-4 Failure to identify and document cost estimating standards and provide written policies and procedures to persons responsible for preparing‚ supporting and reviewing cost estimates. T-10 Excessive reliance on individual personal judgement where historical experience or cost estimating standards are available. THREATS NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DEPARTMENT: T-6 Inadequate staff training in the preparation‚ review and approval of cost estimates. T-5 Inadequate staff training in the preparation
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4% a higher rate of return for the same level of risk. 00) P8-4 Initial Investment Annual Rate of Return Pessimistic Most Likely Optimistic a) Range Expansion A Expansion B 12000 12000 16% 20% 24% 10% 20% 30% Expansion A Expansion B 8% 20% Range of A: 24% - 16 Range of B: 30% - 10 b) Expansion A is less risky because the range for Expansion A is substantially lower than the rang c) I’m a risk-averse decision maker. I would prefer Expansion A over
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problem that LWMC presently faces is the lack of communication between its IT division and its tertiary specialty division‚ WMS. Before implementing any IT system‚ all interested entities must communicate and reach a workable conclusion; so that‚ a plan of action can be derived that will lead to a beneficial action plan for all. An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a more robust system to adopt in order to meet the goals of this organization. An introduction of the many benefits of an EHR will create
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I am going to be explaining the potential risk to an organisation of committing to an E-commerce system. E-commerce has many drawbacks. I will be going through these drawbacks that risk an organisation of committing to an E-commerce system. * Advertising and maintaining website * Hackers * Identity theft * Website not being recognised * Viruses * Profit * Delivery Advertising and maintaining website A drawback of an Ecommerce is the advertising. If no-one knows
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