...SYNOPSIS: Since the early 1980s standard cost systems (SCSs) have been under attack as not providing the information needed for advanced manufacturers. In spite of the its critics, SCSs are stili the system of choice in some 86 percent of U. S. manufacturing firms. This paper discusses the criticisms of SCSs that (1) the variances are obsolete, (2) there is no provision for continuous improvement, and (3) use of the variances for responsibility accounting result in internal conflict rather than cooperation. Updates for SCSs in the form of redesigned variances, suggestions for dynamic standards, and refocused responsibility and reporting systems are presented. The compatibility of SCSs and its main competitor as a cost system, activity-based costing (ABC), is examined. The authors discuss when it is appropriate to use ABC or SCS or some combination of the two. Since Eli Goldratt's (1983) charge that cost accounting is the numher one enemy of productivity in the early 1980s, traditional cost systems have heen under attack. Although Goldratt subsequently softened his stand to say that cost rather accounting was the culprit (Jayson 1987), others were quick to jump on the handwagon to condemn the cost systems in use. New systems were proposed of which the most popular was activity-hased costing (ABC). In spite of all the criticism, a 1988 survey shows 86 percent of U.S. manufacturers using standard cost systems (Cornick et al. 1988). A survey by SchifF(1993)...
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...The domain name info is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The name is derived from information indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation. The info TLD was a response to ICANN's highly publicized announcement[citation needed], in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains. The event was the first addition of major gTLDs since the Domain Name System was developed in the 1980s. The seven new gTLDs, selected from over 180 proposals, were meant in part to take the pressure off the com domain.[1] The info domain has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 5.2 million domain names in the registry as of April 2008. After the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York switched to the easier to remember mta.info website to lead users to latest information on schedules and route changes on the area's transportation services. Even in 2013, a website, Current Score info, was formed to provide current score of Football and Cricket across India. ICANN and Afilias have also sealed an agreement for country names to be reserved by ICANN under resolution 01.92.[2] info is an unrestricted domain, meaning that anyone can obtain a second-level domain under info for any purpose, similar to the com, net or org domains. This is in contrast...
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...Manish 42 yrs, married, business man, 2 children Identification of need 1. How long has it been since the purchase? 4 years 2. Was it to replace an old ac, or is this the first ac? first 3. What triggered you to consider buying an AC? Family needs , guest 4. What are the AC brands u are aware of? Voltas, hitachi, Carrier, samsung 5. Which of these brands did u consider unworthy of consideration before ur purchase? Why? NA Information search 1. Sources of info about the brand? (memory, personal sources like friends, independent sources like magazines, marketing ads, experience of it elsewhere) Friends, newspapers, experience of it elsewhere 2. Any info search done online? Yes Evaluation of alternatives Most important evaluative criteria to choose between brands? (Price, Aesthetics, Features like sleepmode/automatic off etc., service offered by the brand, warranty/guarantee etc.) Aesthetics, warranty, Purchase process 1. How did u choose the outlet to buy it from? (Variety offered, proximity etc, size of the outlet) Big outlet 2. Did you state your ac needs to the salesman at the outlet? No, 3. Did the salesman try to explain other brands and their benefits? yes 4. Where there any deals or price discounts? Yes 10% off Post purchase evaluation 1. How often do u use the ac (how many hrs/day, how many months in a year) 3-4 months 2. Reason for non-use? 3. In case of dissatisfaction with the brand, what...
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...Case Study BBC vs. Info R Us Dan Kelly works for Info R Us. He enjoyed his position as contract manager for the Big Bell Corporation (BBC) account. Info R Us was the subcontractor to BBC Network Systems who was the seller. BBC Network System had a mega-deal with the Chinese Government for new fiber-optic cables and wireless communications equipment across the country. Dan had worked the contract for 3 years when it came time for a contract modification. As he prepared for the contract meeting, he sat down with the new sales manager from Info R Us, Bennie Edwards. "Bennie, I know you've never dealt with BBC before, and I want to make sure that you understand what you're up against," Dan explained. Bennie leaned back in the chair. "I don't think they'll be a problem. BBC wants us to deliver our new wireless equipment earlier and provide them larger discounts. I've done stuff like this in my sleep." Dan leaned forward, "You don't know BBC. They want everything yesterday, and if you give them a centimeter, they'll take a kilometer." Dan handed a sheet of paper across the desk. "There are also some things that we need to get out of this contract change, so we have to remember that we have to hold out to support our negotiating position as well." "You think I'm going to give away the company?" Bennie asked. "I have a little more experience than that." "It isn't that at all," Dan responded. "I just...
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...the Narcotic Lock up 5. From the cig. Drawer 6. From the nutrition room Then sign the form………………. Do they understand & know about their appt.s with their therapist, Psychiatrist, Internist other ? Do they know & understand the meds the MD has discharged them with.Give the written Med Handout sheets. Review the meds and the schedule, or write it out if needed for better compliance and understanding. Confirm who they are going home with? If they have someone to call if needed. Give them the 24 hr. crisis line #265-3049 That they can call if any OUTPATIENT NUMBERS DO NOT WORK. Review where they will stay. Ask them for a working phone number to contact them with.In case we need to call. Write it on the discharge form. Do they have any other questions or Concerns ? Chart the above info in the progress notes. RN DISCHARGE AND TEACHING CHECKOUT LIST Review & Assess the patients knowledge of discharge instructions prior to leaving the Behavioral Health Unit Done Ask if the D/C Paperwork is done ; 1.Neuropsych “OQ45” BOTH SIDES OF FORM!!!! 2.Unit Satisfaction Questionaire 3.Recreation Therapy Questionaire Belongings !! Do they have them ? 1. From the safe 2. From the patient’s room 3. From the Locker 4. From the Narcotic Lock up 5. From the cig. Drawer 6. From the nutrition room Then sign the form………………. Do they understand & know about their appt.s with their therapist, Psychiatrist,...
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...accelerating faster than ever, we need to embrace what’s coming and adapt, rather than fear it, deny it or hide from it. 2. Want others to succeed vs. Secretly hope others fail When you’re in an organization with a group of people, in order to be successful, you all have to be successful. We need to want to see our co-workers succeed and grow. If you wish for their demise, why even work with them at all? 3. Exude joy vs. Exude anger In business and in life, it’s always better to be happy and exude that joy to others. It becomes contagious and encourages other to exude their joy as well. When people are happier they tend to be more focused and successful. If a person exudes anger, it puts everyone around them in a horrible, unmotivated mood and little success comes from it. 4. Accept responsibly for your failures vs. Blame others for your failures Where there are ups, there are most always downs. Being a leader and successful businessperson means always having to accept responsibility for your failures. Blaming others solves nothing; it just puts other people down and absolutely no good comes from it. 5. Talk about ideas vs. Talk about people What did we all learn in high school? Gossip gets you nowhere. Much of the time it’s false and most of the time it's negative. Instead of gossiping about people, successful people talk about ideas. Sharing ideas with others will only make them better. 6. Share data & info vs. Hoard data & info As we all learned in kindergarten...
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...significant staff time by enabling prospective students to apply online through a self-service portal * Provide one-stop student access. Allow students to enroll, register, and pay for courses through the portal * Simplify records management. With a single system for all your data needs—and a single digital record for each student—any department on campus can find the student information they need * Engage faculty. Give faculty the means to enter and update grades, and have personalized access to timely, accurate, and institution-wide information * Manage resources. Manage personnel, funds and processes more transparently * Strengthen decision-making. Track the metrics you need to guide day-to-day operations, meet reporting requirements, and engage your organization http://www.ellucian.com/higher-education-erp/ B. If SU implemented this ERP, it could be a great success for the university, Admission Rates would triple, staff will grow which would cut down any heavy duties of the current staff, more grants to funds new programs, and more money leads to an updated campus or more dorms. The admission process would be the highly affected business process that would need a strong guideline and multiple staff for intake. C. Linda should include: the cost of maintenance to keep the students and parents satisfied, the budget for professors and the new budget that should be...
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...IT302-Unit4- Kaplan University Part 1: Dashboard Design. For the dashboard that I anticipated is required to meet the needs of the task that I discussed in Unit 3, I believe that the best approaches are either a Semantic Network or the use of Scenarios, Flowcharts and Cognitive walkthroughs, and more specifically Scenarios. Although this may be the most productive approach, it is likely that in the process of creating the dashboard that parts of a number of the conceptual designs could contribute to the finished product. While the Semantic Network is comprised of elements that would be useful and productive, particularly by providing ease in exploring the problem space and graphical views, it does not offer us all the information that would be constructive. To accomplish that, I believe the use of Scenarios, Flowcharts and Cognitive walkthroughs would provide us with the most useful means to develop a dashboard adequate to provide the functionality we are seeking. Of these, the use of Scenarios would provide the easiest means to develop a dashboard with the desired functionality initially along with the ability to modify easily as required to accomplish what is needed. By creating scenarios and including them in the early development of the dashboard we will provide ourselves with a means to develop a versatile form that can be easily amended as needed to provide a finished console that provides the full functionality that...
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...boxes and text at 75% and 100% zoom. The boxes are off and the text is off within boxes | I trust this is just an issue on my big screens. This is a fairly annoying issue so needs to be checked across other computers before go live | Overall | Yellow Text/Linda and I both have said we have difficulty in reading the yellow text. I showed to a few people and again it’s the first thing they said as comments | We need that yellow text deepened in colour, it’s just too hard to read. | Our Services main page | Success at Interview (Lady going up stairs +28, Dave said it had no context, is it 28 out of 100 coached? | 2014 Success at Interview coaching 33 candidates 28 promoted. I know it’s a bit long but we do need context. See how you can get it to fit. | Choice Programme | Pricing | Choice 1: £800 (Change the points part to correspondChoice 2: £1800Choice 3: £3200 | Online Master class | The pictures and next programme isn’t working for me, it’s too busy and repetitive. Also as you scroll down the page the webinars appear on this page which is confusing | Need to discuss this. A lot of changes neededThis area on website needs the most work | Webinar page | Webinar: just need to talk about the layout of this page, a little tweak required | Need to discuss | Speaking and Training Page | Need to complete info@topwomentopjobs.com | I think we go straight to video talking, too much introduction and lose the Dr Title…Again we can discuss. | Coaching page | Price change | Transformation...
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...Denny Hoang 07/05/12 Case Study 2 1. Seems like the situation Karla is in, is really bad. Seem like she doesn’t know much of what is going on and what she needs to do for the company. If I would have to work with her I would go over the issues in hand that needs to be taken care of. Like making sure all the PCs is connected to share the same printer. Or making sure all of the PCs are running the same licensed version of Windows 2000 Workstation or keep it with Windows 95. Also they need to figure out how to share the client’s videos or audios files to all of the PCs in the office. For the people who are “running their own computers” I would tell them that this is not the place and time for you to download what you want on the PCs. You are here to work and we are paying you to work not to download what you want on our PCs. 2. Using the formula 1 / (60 * 10^-6), I changed the 60 to 18 and got the answer 55.5 Kbps. 3. I do think there is a problem with the level of documentation at SMPR. Karla says she simply “knows” where the things are, and they are not written down or documented of what or where everything is going. I understand Karla thinks she knows where everything is at, but what if something happens to her, where would everyone from SMPR know where to look without Karla being there. So everything should be documented or written down for back up purposes. 4. A multiplexer is a device that selects one of several analog or digital input signals and forwards...
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...process. You will learn how to use the Query Design command to run the query, as well as how to modify the query to hide fields or other information in your query results. Finally, it will show you how to save the query for later use. Using Queries Queries retrieve information from one or more tables based on a set of search conditions that you set up and then combine that information in a way that is easy for you to analyze. If you have used an Advanced Filter in Access 2007, then you have already run a very basic query on only one table. If you want to pull data from more than one table, though, you will need to use either the Query Design command or the Query Wizard. Before using the Access 2007 query tools, it is important to plan out the query using a logical process. Otherwise, you may not get the results you expect. Planning a Query There are three questions you need to answer when you are planning a query: What do you want the results to look like? Identify every field or bit of information that you want included in the results. Where is the information stored in the database? List which tables (and/or queries) hold the information that you want to see. What conditions do you want the data to meet? This helps determine how to set the criteria so Access can search the records properly. Planning: Which Customers Ordered Technology Books? Let's think about this...
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...IT302-Unit4- Kaplan University Part 1: Dashboard Design. For the dashboard that I anticipated is required to meet the needs of the task that I discussed in Unit 3, I believe that the best approaches are either a Semantic Network or the use of Scenarios, Flowcharts and Cognitive walkthroughs, and more specifically Scenarios. Although this may be the most productive approach, it is likely that in the process of creating the dashboard that parts of a number of the conceptual designs could contribute to the finished product. While the Semantic Network is comprised of elements that would be useful and productive, particularly by providing ease in exploring the problem space and graphical views, it does not offer us all the information that would be constructive. To accomplish that, I believe the use of Scenarios, Flowcharts and Cognitive walkthroughs would provide us with the most useful means to develop a dashboard adequate to provide the functionality we are seeking. Of these, the use of Scenarios would provide the easiest means to develop a dashboard with the desired functionality initially along with the ability to modify easily as required to accomplish what is needed. By creating scenarios and including them in the early development of the dashboard we will provide ourselves with a means to develop a versatile form that can be easily amended as needed to provide a finished console that provides the full functionality that...
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...asking several question to his friend and he get several solution for his problem. Which is either want to buy ready system or build up by them? To choose wisely, he needs to do several researches about previous system and also new system. We can see after this what Rafiq do in order get the better result about his problem. Several phase of research he need to do and he must carefully choose the system. This to make sure the system is compatible. 1) Apply SDLC approach to Rafiq situation. System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is used to organize the large number of activities needed to build a system. It specifies in an orderly manner proceed through these activities to develop systems. In other words, SDLC is a phase that Rafiq’s need to recognize in order to build a new system for his company. There are five phases that Rafiq need to recognize which is system Planning, Analysis, Design, Construction and Maintenance. 1. System Planning * Initiate system planning – strategic and operation. This is an initial phase that Rafiq need to investigate. It must be done to prevent poor analysis and design of the new system. Rafiq should initiate whether to purchase or out-source the system. * Conduct preliminary investigation – problem, scope and objective. This stage when Rafiq need to investigate either the previous system had a problem or not. For...
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...(Full-time) in attendance Dictation of Recording that was taken Email that sarah Ortiz send me about the application pass it along so you can read it. She talks about that you don’t need to put anything on the application. Whatever notes or whatever you need to put on the application you need to put on onto Sirsi in the extended part under notes. No notes on the paper applications, not worth putting any extra notes on the paper application. There is no reason for anyone to write stored or any other notes on the registration form staff need only to insure form is completed with the requested info and signed by the customer and make sure there is only one account and data entry completed and new entry updated. Before customer leaves the desk any additional notes on form serve no purpose and are a waste of time for the library. January rd 3 email was sent out. Everybody understand that? Were passing it around so you can see. And then Mercedes sent me an email, they had sent previous and Virginia has about the applications too. it is mainly about the users whenever somebody pay for a, she had returned a book that was in collection, it still on her acct so I had to call central because on this email it says that we need to let know if we are going to waive some fines from collection because they need to update it at central. So they told me that the patron has to pay the 10 dollars even though that they returned the book, they did not use to do that we used to waive for the collection...
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...CAPSTONE TITLE PROPOSAL FORM Name of the Proponents: PRONACI JOHNVIC MADRIA Surname First Name Middle Name LOPEZ CHARIZA LYN BARRAMEDA Surname First Name Middle Name FRANCISCO JEROME VALENZUELA Surname First Name Middle Name AMONCIO DOMINIC LEGASPI Surname First Name Middle Name LEE KEVIN DAGDAYAN Surname First Name Middle Name Course: Diploma in Software Engineering Date: January 25, 2013 1. 0 Proposed Capstone Title: Online Grades and Syllabus Monitoring for CIIT College of Arts and Technology (SIS) 2.0 Area of Investigation: 2.1 Field of Investigation PHP Web Programming MS SQL Server 2.2 Brief description of the agency or organization CIIT College of Arts and Technology (formerly Cosmopoint International Institute of Technology) is a proud member of the Cosmopoint Education Group (CEG) based in Malaysia. The company specializes in dynamic ICT-based courses, professional workshops and corporate trainings. In 2008, CIIT opened its latest branch in the ICT capital of the Philippines - Quezon City –The Company aims to bring the top notch ICT education to the Filipino people and to promote strengthen the quality of ICT education. CIIT offers courses in Graphics Design, Multimedia Arts, Software Engineering, Network Design and the latest courses in 3D Animation and Game Development. Their mission is to be a premier...
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