...Costco Wholesale Corporation Costco is open to the public and also features privately owned brands like Kirkland signature. Costco Wholesale Corporation is a membership-only warehouse club and is the second largest retailer in the United States, the seventh largest retailer in the world and the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States. Costco employs 126,929 full and part-time workers in the United States, and 185,207 full and part-time employees worldwide. Costco offers lower prices and better values buying in bulk from wholesalers. At the Costco I work at, we run a tight operation with extremely low overhead which enables us to pass on savings to our members. Coupons are a huge part of our sales, as pamphlet books are mailed to our member’s households every other week. Costco's warehouse is one of the largest and most select product category selections to be found under a single roof. Categories include groceries, candy, appliances, television and media, automotive supplies, tires, toys, hardware, sporting goods, jewelry, watches, cameras, books, housewares, apparel, health and beauty aids, tobacco, furniture, office supplies and office equipment. Costco is known for carrying top quality national and regional brands, with 100% satisfaction guaranteed, at prices consistently below other wholesale or retail outlets. Costco’s main competitor is Sam’s Club and any other wholesale retailers, grocery stores, or supermarkets. There are currently 71.2 million...
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...Monday - Thursday: 7:20 - 7:45 am; 2:15 – 3:00 pm Course web site: https://sites.google.com/a/southseattle.edu/rick-downs-sci-110/ Meeting Times: Monday – Thursday from 12:00 - 1:40 pm Location: OLY 200 A. Course Description This course is an introduction to engineering design through the design, construction and programming of mobile robots. Students will work in teams to solve a series of problems that are of increasing complexity by designing and constructing robots from kits and programming their controllers to perform the assigned tasks. No previous computer or engineering knowledge is assumed. Enrollment is limited to 24 students. B. Method of Instruction This is a project-based course where students work in teams on a series of focused exercises that will incrementally introduce them to design issues related to mechanics, sensors, motors, and control of an autonomous mobile robot. Lectures will be used to provide students with the necessary background knowledge prior to their work in the laboratory. We will form groups of three students at the beginning of the quarter. Groups will stay together for the first three projects and then new groups will be formed in the 4th week and the 7th week. To get the most out of this class, each group will be expected to take the following issues very seriously: · Equal and fair division of work among the team members · Friendly and open communication among the team members · Effective conflict resolution when disagreements...
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...Bookstore Inventory Project Description: In the following project, you will open a database containing the inventory of a bookstore, create a new table in which to store publisher information, add records, and then sort the table. You add a record using a form and print a report. You apply a filter by selection to a query and a filter by form to a table and save the results for both filters. Instructions: For the purpose of grading the project you are required to perform the following tasks: Step | Instructions | Points Possible | 1 | Start Access. Open the downloaded Access file named exploring_a01_grader_h1. | 0 | 2 | Create a new table in Design view. Add the following field names to the table: PubID, PubName, PubAddress, PubCity, PubState, and PubZIP (in that order). Accept Short Text as the data type for all fields. | 12 | 3 | Set the PubID field as the primary key of the new table. Save the table using the name Publishers and then view the table in Datasheet view. | 8 | 4 | Add the following records to the Publishers table: PubID PubName PubAddress PubCity PubState PubZIPKN Knopf 299 Park Avenue New York NY 10171BB Bantam Books 1540 Broadway New York NY 10036PH Pearson/Prentice Hall 1 Lake Street Upper Saddle NJ ...
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...Key Lessons from the Reading R1 - The Innovator's DNA: In this article, the author distinguished five discovery skills that separated true innovators from the rest. These five skills included, associating or the ability to connect unrelated ideas, questioning or the power of finding provoking answers, observing or watching customers live their normal life, experimenting or trying out new prototypes and ideas, and lastly networking or devoting time to finding and testing knowledge through diverse individuals. By using all of these skills, a marketer can truly become and innovator. A key lesson from this reading is to try and think differently about questions to stimulate creative thinking in order to become a great innovator in not only marketing, but anything you do. I feel that if I can follow these skills I can become an innovator and improve as a marketer. R2 - Walking in Someone Else's Shoes: They key lesson of this article is in order to really understand your customer you must "walk in their shoes". However, in this article, when the researcher literally sat in a wheelchair for weeks it turned out to be too much. So, we must learn how to observe our customer and really understand how they feel, not what we think they feel. By doing this we can truly find the right product for them. R3 - Finding the Right Job for Your Product: The key lesson of this article is basically for the marketer to not focus only on the demographics of a client but to instead adjust the product...
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...Exercise on B.E.P A private university with a current enrolment of 12,000 students is reviewing cost and revenue data for the past academic year. Student tuition is Rs 3,600 a year. Tuition normally cover 75 per cent of university expenditures. The remaining 25 per cent comes from endowments and contributions. During the last academic year fixed costs amounted to Rs 300 lakhs. The rest of the costs varied with student enrolment. Costs have been rising more rapidly than tuition or contributions, and the university just broke even last year. A tuition increase is being contemplated. The budget committee thinks endowment revenues and contributions will remain constant at last years’ level for the next several years The fixed costs are expected to increase by Rs 30 lakhs and the variable costs are expected to increase by 10 per cent. The president of the university tells the budget committee that he expects a new grant of Rs 50 lakhs in addition to the normal contributions for each of the next 5 years from a large corporation owned by an alumnus of the university. The university has been postponing a number of major capital improvements and building projects. Required: (i) If the grant is received and tuition is raised to Rs 4,200, how much money would the university have available in the first year for capital improvements and building with student enrolment of 11,200 and the expected cost increase? (ii) If the grant is received and costs...
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...Week 10: Post lab Questions – Environmental Solutions I (25 points) Scientists use an instrument called a spectrometer to quantitatively determine the amount of light absorbed by a solution. The primary inner parts of a typical spectrometer are described below. The spectrometer has a light source that emits white light containing a vast mixture of different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. The wavelength of interest is then selected using a monochromator (“mono” meaning one and “chromate” meaning color) and an additional exit slit. The separation of white light into different colors (wavelengths) is known as diffraction. The selected light then reaches the sample and depending on how the light interacts with the chemical compound of interest, some of the light is absorbed and some passes straight through. By comparing the amount of light entering the sample (P0) with the amount of light reaching the detector (P), the spectrometer is able to tell how much light is absorbed by the sample. Define all of the bold words in the previous paragraph. (4 points) Spectrometer: an optical instrument that can detect spectral lines. It measures it’s wavelength and intensity. Quantitatively: something that is part of the metric system, can be given a numerical value. Electromagnetic radiation: radiation that includes radio waves, visible light, x-rays and gamma rays, where the magnetic and electric fields vary at the same time. Monochromator:...
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... complete the work during the week due to full time employment, he will have the weekend to do it. • Anthony completes finals on the 24th, so he will begin his fixed income work following that date General Overview: From a learning perspective, I think the initial part of research should be directed at understanding the material. So to begin with, for the first few weeks, Anthony can do reports on the current holdings as well as general information reports regarding bond and economic concepts. Following this, Anthony can to do research and reports/presentations on reallocating the portfolio based on our economic outlook. Should the state of the economic outlook deviate from our expectations, Anthony can explain in his reports as to why he believes we should change our outlook. Our current economic outlook is stated in our 2013 first quarter...
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...1. Job 484 was recently completed. The following data have been recorded on its job cost sheet: The company applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The predetermined overhead rate is $24 per direct labor-hour. Required: Compute the unit product cost that would appear on the job cost sheet for this job. Cost Summary 2. Stony Electronics Corporation manufactures a portable radio designed for mounting on the wall of the bathroom. The following list represents some of the different types of costs incurred in the manufacture of these radios: 1. The plant manager's salary. 2. The cost of heating the plant. 3. The cost of heating executive offices. 4. The cost of printed circuit boards used in the radios. 5. Salaries and commissions of company salespersons. 6. Depreciation on office equipment used in the executive offices. 7. Depreciation on production equipment used in the plant. 8. Wages of janitorial personnel who clean the plant. 9. The cost of insurance on the plant building. 10. The cost of electricity to light the plant. 11. The cost of electricity to power plant equipment. 12. The cost of maintaining and repairing equipment in the plant. 13. The cost of printing promotional materials for trade shows. 14. The cost of solder used in assembling the radios. 15. The cost of telephone service for the executive offices...
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...commercial success in ways that honor ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment.”(Arumugam, Selvakumar& Sivamurugam, 2014). Simultaneously, heated debates on impact that CSR imposed on corporation performance is long lasting without reaching universal consensus. Nevertheless, implementing CSR initiatives on business strategy has becoming a remarkable trend and rages across major corporations globally. Therefore, this essay aims at constructing overall positive correlation between CSR and corporate performance whereas acknowledging complexity of the relationship due to intra-industrial variance of corporation natures and inter-industry difference in corporate ability. To better structuring the justification, the essay elaborates on financial performance and operational performance separately from multiple dimensions of stakeholders, including employee, customer, shareholder and government. 1.Financial performance To demonstrate the correlation lies between CSR and financial performance, this part examines the effects on corporate accounting value and market value respectively. CSR measures enhance company accounting performance by cutting costs and elevate market value by attaining customer satisfaction and risks reduction. 1.1 Costs reduction Gaining universal acknowledgement among executives and managers, costs reduction is one of the important outcomes of CSR activities. A survey conducted by...
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...In the process of consolidating his position, Napoleon's Consulate Reforms betrayed the principles of the French Revolution" To what extent is this true? In napoleons consolidating section "he oversaw the development of a police state that Louis XVI could never had dreamed of" said Francois Furet. this was said to be achieved through a gradual increase in power through the series of reforms in which he would have completely changed the course of French History. Many of the key aspects of the french society which Napoleon reformed were for the Political, electoral systems as well as education, social, religious and financial. these reforms set out his path to his overall power being established, however this question also leads to the debate on wether he upheld the principles of the French Revolution, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity as people like Sutherland believes he has betrayed many of the principles with the majority of his reforms and as a result has betrayed the Revolutionary principles what the new republic were founded upon. Napoleon reformed key aspects of the French electoral and governmental systems in such a way that it lead many to believe he had betrayed the principles of the Revolution. One way in which people disagreed with that statement was because on the surface level the electoral reforms seemed to be a good thing, six million people were entitled to a vote, unlike the Ancien Regime, this promoted liberty and equality. Also another positive...
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...due to the stripping away of his identity'. By considering the dramatic presentation of King Lear, evaluate this view. Shakespeare presents that the stripping away of King Lear's identity is largely responsible for much of his suffering throughout the play. Lear's identity can be seen as lost partly through his own actions, as well as the actions of others, in particular that of his daughters, Goneril and Regan. It can be argued that Lear's loss of identity is down to his own actions. Hence, he can be seen as responsible for causing his own suffering. According to A.C. Bradley 'The idea of the tragic hero as being destroyed simply and solely by external forces is quite alien to him (Shakespeare); and not less so is the idea of the hero as contributing to his destruction only by acts in which we see no flaw'. Bradley's emphasis on the tragic flaw implies that Shakespeare's character's bring their fates upon themselves and thus deserve to face the consequences. An example of this can be seen in Act 1, when Lear fragments his land and divides it between his daughters. The fragmentation of the land is symbolic of the way that Lear also fragments his identity. As king, Lear identifies himself solely on his position of power, and therefore by giving away his land his is also giving away the control he previously maintained over his kingdom, and thus his identity. However, Lear mistakenly believes that he can give up certain aspects of his role, including responsibility...
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...is a great factor. Having the ability to have unlimited sick days to take off for family. Those are the most important factors when working because you never want to feel like you put your job in jeopardy for taking off a lot for sick days. Hellriegel, D. & Slocum, Jr. J. (2011). Organizational behavior. Mason, OH Cengage Learning publishing Describe ethical problems associated with performance-based reward programs. Ethical problems associated with based performance reward programs are for example with DIRECTV as a CSR are incentives are base upon our yearly performance which our supervisor gets a percentage of that. I feel that supervisors shouldn’t be able to get a certain percentage of the employee’s earnings. This has been implemented from the job as a offer or incentive to supervisor as a benefit for the job. In your experience, explain any abuses you have seen. An experience I have seen at a previous job where I have worked, an employee has trained another employee for a supervisor position and once trained the employee made less money than the other employee that was trained. I find that to be ethical. Recommend how...
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...achievement was to pass on the throne peacefully to his son.’ To what extent is this a fair assessment of Henry’s reign? One of Henry VII’s main achievements was creating the Tudor Dynasty. He then secured it by marrying Elizabeth of York, Edward IV’s daughter. By marrying Elizabeth of York, Henry had united the houses of Lancaster and York. Another way that Henry secured his throne was saving as much money as possible. He established a sense of economic order in the kingdom, which can be seen as another achievement, but to do this he enforced a lot of taxes and his council essentially stole money. This made him unpopular. Another reason that Henry VII was unpopular was because he was known to be greedy and cause tension. By gaining finances and securing his dynasty he passed on the throne peacefully to Henry VIII. Henry VII made many political developments during his reign. Source 6, say that Henrys reign ‘must still be regarded as one of the great landmarks in England’s political development’. It also says that it is the ‘watershed between the old and new pattern of political life’. Source 9 also mentions the attempt to ‘centralise’ English politics. Henry was a stable leader. In source 8, it mentions his ‘steady purposefulness that saved England form mediocrity’. The source also says that he was a stabilizer, and that he stands out ‘pre-eminent among British monarchs’. Henry withstood several attempts to challenge his crown. The experiences that he had had when he was...
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...readers have commented that Mary Shelly presents the creature as more human than his creator. How far do you agree with this view? To some extent I agree with this statement, but there is also a point of disagreement. Shelly introduces the creature into the novel with physical human characteristics, who soon begins to learn the human language and feel human emotions and senses such as love, kindness, pain and anger. The creature takes complete responsibility for his actions, respects life more than Frankenstein, which is apparent by Frankenstein robbing graves to create the creature, and the fact that Frankenstein abandons the creature to die, only for the creature to experience the hatred of mankind. In almost every way, the monster portrays himself as more human than Frankenstein, but of course, one must not put aside the fact that ultimately, Frankenstein is a human and the creature is not. Of course, for the creature to be more human than his creator, he must first have the typical human characteristics. He firstly shows physical human features. He is “eight feet in height” and his body parts are taken from dead bodies which his creator dug out from graves. His “limbs were in proportion” and his “hair was of lustrous black. He has also developed human emotions. Having been scared off by the villagers he began “feeling pain invade [him] on all sides, [he] sat down and wept”. This shows that his surroundings have an impact on how he feels and reacts, and to weep is a common...
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