Tashtego Advanced Topics in Management Accounting and Control The purpose of this paper is to analyze the economic situation of the company Macedonian Shipping and give a recommendation whether the company should use the motor vessel Tashtego as a freight tender beween Dar-es-Salaam and Zanzibar in East Africa or as a tapioca ship between Balik Papan and Singapore in the East Indies. Fundamental to all these considerations are measurement issues. Financial measures, in particular, cost measures, are
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DE), 100 delivery vehicles, 40 box trucks, and 40 panel vans. Currently, RR operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Daily operations consist of a dispatcher making a list of freight pickups, a driver following the dispatch order for freight pickups, freight pickups brought to a distribution terminal (unloaded), some freights are sorted for delivery and others are kept overnight for next day delivery. While RRs process is not the greatest, development of the business has been stagnant due to the slow
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Railway provides an important mode of transportation throughout Pakistan. It is commonly referred to as the "life line of the country", by aiding in large scale movement of people and freight throughout Pakistan. A railway all over the world is considered, cheapest, safest and efficient mode of passenger and freight carrier. Pakistan is no exception to this. Till 1970’s Pakistan railways used to be a profit earning entity. Due to successive governments tilt towards road network affected the railway
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managers and depreciation cost of its transportation fleet. 2. FedEx Ground. Traceable fixed costs are salaries of its sales people selling its supply chain solutions and advertising expenses for its services 3. FedEX Freight. Traceable fixed costs are depreciation for its freight fleet and salaries of its fleet pilots. 4. FedEx Kinko’s. Traceable fixed costs are depreciation for its office and printing equipment and salaries of its personnel. Two common costs not traceable to the four segments
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with third party for commercial transactions. Freight forwarder offer intermodal services to export goods on behalf of shippers or cargo owners. Common services that freight forward provide are: full-service documentation, export packaging and container stuffing, marine insurance, letter of credit negotiation and analysis, consolidation and deconsolidation services. International freight forwarder can be either ocean freight forwarder or air freight forwarder. The international transportation is
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Alaska Airlines Strategic Management Model Linda Gay Cahill Table of Contents: Strategic Profile Company Introduction 3 Strategic Analysis PEST Analysis (Political, economic, social & technological factors) 4 Resource-Based View 6 Value Chain Analysis 8 SWOT Analysis 11 Strategy recommendations 13 References 14 Company Introduction Alaska Airlines is the ninth–largest U.S. airline based on passenger traffic and is the dominant U.S. West Coast air carrier. Headquarter in
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client, Peabody Rug. To Peter’s delight, the owner of Peabody Rug agrees to a large sale but then makes a request for some “help on the freight costs.(运费成本)” Later, Peter asks his manager what such “help” means and is told that Peabody will claim that some of the carpet was damaged in transit to the store. Peter would then be expected to falsify a damaged freight report for Scott Carpets’ front office, and Peabody would be given a discount equal to the cost of shipping the rolls of carpet back to
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bDakota Office Products Company Background Dakota Office Products (DOP) was a regional distributor for office supplies to institution and commercial business, their product are pens, pencils, markers, and paper for copier and printers. At the end of year 2000 they suffer Net Loss amounted to USD 470,000 and this is the first time of their history DOP suffer Loss. DOP operated several distribution centers. They bought the supplies from many different manufacturers and keep their inventory at the
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industry comprises the following main segments: * Freight and passenger transportation via road, rail, air and water * Warehousing and cold-storage. The contribution from the movement of goods including freight transportation and storage is about 90 per cent. Aggregate freight traffic is estimated at about 2-2.3 trillion tonne kilometres. Road dominates the mode of freight transport mix and constitutes about 60 per cent of the total freight traffic. Rail and coastal shipping account for about
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The purpose of this document is to define and describe the logical and physical design of Target’s automated MiniLoad storage system within its existing Regional Distribution Center (T-3802). Target’s MiniLoad automated warehousing system moves, stores and order picks items in trays or totes for work-in-process or storage needs. Mini-Load operates with various load carrying units such as boxes, cartons, totes, or trays. Mini-Load storage systems create better space utilization which reduces
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