UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ECN 213 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS COURSE OUTLINE SUMMER - 2010 LECTURER: Roger Rogers E-mail: rogers.roger@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Managerial Economics provides a foundation of economic understanding for use in managerial decision-making. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic relations have implications for this decision-making process. Since the demand for a firm’s products plays a major role in determining its
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on the inherent causes of financial crises. There has also been little exploration of early indicators of systemic crisis and potential ways to prevent this malady from developing. In fact‚ if one browses through the academic macroeconomics and finance literature‚ “systemic crisis” seems to be an otherworldly event‚ absent from economic models. Most models‚ by design‚ offer no immediate handle on how to think about or deal with this recurring phenomenon. 1 In our hour of greatest need‚ societies
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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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Week Two Read Me First MANAGERIAL BUDGETING Introduction This week covers the various cost descriptors such as fixed‚ variable‚ direct‚ indirect and the budget cycle. We will discuss applying cost-benefit analysis to an organizational situation and how it is used at different levels of public budgeting‚ governmental‚ and non-profit accounting. We will discuss line item budgeting‚ program budgeting‚ and performance budgeting This Week in Relation to the Course In the first week we
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SECURITY MEASURES AND AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS Anita Crawford-Cowan Submitted To: Professor Kevin Reynolds SEC571 Principles of Information Security and Privacy Keller Graduate School of Management Submitted: September 21‚ 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview Page 1 Security Vulnerabilities Page 2 Policy Vulnerabilities Page 2 Hardware Vulnerabilities Page 3 References Page 4
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knowledge in order to more effectively reach decisions within organizations. Emphasis in this senior-level course is given to developing action-oriented general management skills‚ while drawing on extant theory in strategy‚ accounting‚ economics‚ finance‚ marketing‚ and organizational theory. These dual emphases are managed through the use of both lecture/discussion sessions and cases. This capstone course has two distinct components. In the first half‚ we study the theory
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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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Policy implementation—a review of literature Introduction: Implementation has been defined as “the carrying out of a basic policy decision ‚ usually incorporated in a statute but can be in form of important executive orders or court decisions”(mazmanian and sabatier 1983). It has also been defined as those actions by people that are directed at achievement of objectives set forth in the policy decision (van meter and van Horne 1974). Thus Policy implementation is what develops between an intention
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Bangladesh for discharging managerial functions. To achieve this objective‚ 151 organizations from manufacturing and service industries have been surveyed with a structured questionnaire by using 5 point Likert scale. By identifying fourteen management accounting techniques‚ three factors have been identified to determine the variability’s of the usage level in managerial functions. The total variabilities in application of management accounting techniques in managerial functions of manufacturing
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society. Author: Manuel G. Velasgquez 2. The systematic philosophical investigation of moral systems.The system of moral principles and rules that becomes standards for a group or for professional conduct. Source:Donaldson‚ T. (1989) The ethics of international business. Oxford University Press: New York. Business Ethics: 1. Business ethics are moral principles that define right or wrong behavior in the world of business and in the evaluation of business activities. Author: Peter Drucker
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