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...?Business Forecasting Report Scrutiny for Seasonal Effects, Trends and Cycles Visual inspection of the unadjusted manufacturing sector investment in the UK from the first quarter of 1994 and on for the next 49 quarters makes it plain that: There is a long-term cycle that peaked at the end of 1998 and reached bottom in the first quarter of 2004. Seasonality is very pronounced, presumably because the data reveals the effect of manufacturers building up inventories for the Christmas shopping season. Figure 1: The Absolute Values for Investment Prior to Decomposition These periodic fluctuations from first to fourth quarters are decomposed and isolated in Figure 2 below. Figure 2: Seasonality Indices, Investment In turn, the...
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...budgets within forecasts. Corporate financial managers and senior clinical financial officers may utilize different strategies for managing budgets within forecast. Among the suggested strategies that may be used include; cost variance strategy, performance based strategy, zero based strategy, bench marking strategy and activity based strategy (Brookson, 2000). The cost variance strategy, focuses on finding the difference between the budgeted cost and the actual cost .When a negative variance is obtain, it is an indication that the actual cost were more...
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...expertise to develop product 45 Prototype development costs: 140 Labour 240 Materials 130 Subcontracting 210 Special Purpose Equipment 300 Miscellaneous 230 Fees for lab testing 212 Field Trial costs 125 Patent Application Fees 43 Legal Fees re IP 233 Additional marketing research activity 50 Development of technical manuals 65 Development of User training manuals 210 Packaging Design 65 Travel Costs 120 Staffing Costs 230 Update business plan 50 Search for Venture Capital 210 Other related costs: 250 The product marketing and promotion programs are not captured in the product development because they are under the marketing...
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...% growth in revenues whereas Apple has reported 45% in the same period. Flexible Budget of Microsoft For creating flexible budget of Microsoft three different growth rates are used for predicting future revenues and other elements of the income statement are presented on the basis of the average rate of each element as a proportion to revenues recorded in the last three years. Low: 3.5% Average: 8.5% High: 13.5% 2013 2013 2013 3.50% 8.50% 13.50% Total Revenue 76,303,305 82,789,086 93,965,613 Cost of Revenue 16,757,800 18,182,213 20,636,811 Gross Profit 59,545,505 64,606,873 73,328,801 Operating Expenses Research Development...
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...? REDUCED BUDGET PLAN The project deals the case of a community mental health agency wherein Dr. Stephanie White, the Chief Administrator of Uptown Clinic is concerned about the dilemma of coping with reduced budgets next year and into the foreseeable future but increasing demand for services. In order to provide Dr. White round about cost reduction of $ 94,000, the research paper provides the justification for the costs that can be reduced to achieve the targeted cost reduction. The paper also states perspectives relating to how managerial accounting is different from cost accounting. Lean production philosophy has also been covered in the research paper. Comparison has been done between accounting principles in lean production... : ...
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...ELEMENTAL COST PLAN FOR COMMERCIAL OFFICE DEVELOPMENT As per given dwg following data can be refered Total gross floor area (GFA) = 793 sq.m (8532 sq.ft) Total space available for use = 195 sq.m(2098 sq.ft)
GFA is the area contained within the external walls of the building measured at each floor level. Approx. CFA (Construction floor area) =GFA x conversion factor( 1.2 for commercial areas)
So Constructional floor Area = 1.2 x 793 =951.6 sq.mtr
Following rates are considered for determining average construction cost /sq m (Jonathan,122)
Major...
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...to the estimated one:
International rating agency, Standard and Poor's also confirmed the over estimation of the traffic volume for the tunnel and reported that total traffic forecast was 20-30 % escalated of the actual traffic volume.
3.2 Estimated Cash Inflows
Coming to the second factor in cost estimation plan of Sydney Harbour Tunnel is the estimated cash inflows. As the total volume of the traffic through the tunnel was reduced, the estimated cash inflows also suffered considerable decline. On the other hand, to maintain such a large under harbour tunnel, considerable costs were to incur to keep it running. Predictive and repetitive repair mechanisms were...
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...reductions over the next decade. Spending will continue on the proposed health care system and energy infrastructure.. Food and drug research and biomedical technology will also receive increased funding. While NASA’s budget will be further reduced, spending on science will rise as the National Science Foundation will receive, “$7.4 billion, a nearly 8 percent increase from the budget last year.”
While Republicans criticize Obama for the rising levels of debt, he argues that his administration will still maintain its goal of reducing the deficit in half before the end of his term in office. The article indicates that spending will necessarily rise as towards the end of the decade with...
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...Austere Offices of Love
A father’s love is often wrought with complications, because of stereotypes of fatherhood and masculinity. Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” expresses the tensions between fatherly love and masculine roles. At the same time, his poem reminds me of my admiration and love for my father. There is a significant difference though between the voice of the poem and me, because my father had a rather showy way of expressing his love for me. My father has been a positive character in my life, by molding me to become a decent human being, through teaching me the value of the Church, discipline, and sense of humor in living a happy and fulfilling life.
My father is the kind of man who enjoys...
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...with information-rich environments
learning at student’s time and pace
cost effectiveness
Learning is inclusive of continuous improvement in a particular task.
These elements or factors, according to Walker (2011) constitute an efficient online course (Walker, 2011). Online courses are on the path to failure in case:
students or learners are isolated due to limited feedback
low-leveled measuring methodologies, for instance, multiple-choice tests
The traditional academic assignments copying to the online learning environments without integrating appropriate media, for example, audio clips video cases in enhancing learning.
Steps in the Planning
1. Aims or objectives of the course are...
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