Assignment #1 1. Define scarcity and opportunity cost. What role d these concepts play in the making of management decisions? Scarcity is a condition that exists when resources are limited relative to the demand for their use. Another way of describing this condition is to state that scarcity exists when resources are not available in unlimited amounts. When resources are available in unlimited amounts‚ economists consider them to be “free” goods. Because of the scarcity of resources‚ choices
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subordinates and peers. These resources include people‚ jobs or positions‚ technology‚ facilities and equipment‚ materials and supplies‚ information‚ and money. Managers work in an energetic environment and must foresee and adapt to challenges." Eight Managerial Functions Planning Planning involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions to achieve them. It requires decision-making. For every organization‚ planning process is rational and agreeable to the scientific approach to problem solving
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Managerial skills learnt from classroom can never match those learnt from experience. Intro Skills are the basic tools at everyone’s hand to dispose at the time of its usage which effectively finishes the work. Managerial skills are honed at many levels in the educational or work life and have got their own substantial supporting statements about the time and emplacement of earning the skills. You are talking about Dhirubhai Ambani but have you think of Lakshmi Mittal the 6th Richest Man in
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Topic: Managerial prerogative has gone too far! Discuss. Introduction: Managerial prerogative has gone too far and can be reviewed as being a significant topic in today’s business environment. The issues pertaining to business on a global scale is the constant evolution of technology and the development this is making to the workplace. In order to meet the challenge imposed business managers need to have economic knowledge and the ability to maintain the technology advancements made. Additionally
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CHAPTER 1 Managerial Accounting ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE Brief Exercises 1 A Problems B Problems Study Objectives *1. Explain the distinguishing features of managerial accounting. Identify the three broad functions of management. Define the three classes of manufacturing costs. Distinguish between product and period costs. Explain the difference between a merchandising and a manufacturing income statement. Indicate how cost of goods manufactured is determined. Explain the difference
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Name___________________________________ ESSAY. Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper. 1) For each of the following changes‚ show the effect on the demand curve and state what will happen to market equilibrium price and quantity in the short run. a. Consumers expect that the price of the good will be higher in the future. b. The price of a substitute good rises. c. Consumer incomes fall‚ and the good is normal. d. Consumer incomes fall‚ and the good
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1) How do organizations cope with/postpone prospered obsolescence of managerial personnel. How do organizations cope with/postpone prospered obsolescence of managerial personnel. Discuss the role of leadership in the process. Explain with an example from an organization known to you. Please describe the organization briefly Obsolescence of managerial personnel is a situation where managers cannot keep up with the latest technology or are not as well-qualified as more junior staff Postponement
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above foreman level on the works side and those above the first level of supervision in the offices. Managerial behaviour is the behaviour that can be reported‚ whether from observation by others or by self-reports. Managerial objective is the aim that a manager of a firm wants to achieve. In perfect markets a proper managerial objective is to maximize its firm’s market value. The powers of the managerial behaviour are by no means unconstrained. On one hand they are constrained by the shareholder‚ involuntary
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Managerial Accounting Chapter # 01 Homework 1 01) How does managerial accounting differ from financial accounting? A: Managerial accounting is concerned with providing information to managers for use inside the organization. Financial accounting is con¬cerned with providing information to stockhold¬ers‚ creditors‚ and others outside of the organi¬zation. 02) Pick any major television network and describe some planning and control activities that its managers would engage in. A: Five examples
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Managerial Skill What are the traits of a good manager? Stated precisely‚ a good manager is the one who has loads of confidence in his own abilities and possesses managerial skills like leadership‚decision making abilities‚ multitasking and an uncanny knack to motivate employees. Leadership Qualities Leadership and management are inseparably intertwined. A good manager has to be a good leader as he has to guide a team of people towards common goals . Communication Basic management skills like
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