Accounting 550 DQ 1. There are four firms in an industry with the following market shares Firm 1 -30% Firm 2 -25% Firm 3 -25% Firm 4 -20% A) Calculate the Herfindahl Hirschman Index for the industry. HHI (.30) + (.25) + (.25) + (.20) HHI = 900 + 625 + 625 + 400=.225 b) What is the number of effective competitors in this market? Show your calculation. = 1/.255: = 3.92 DQ 2. Suppose the demand curve for a monopolist is given as: Qd = 500- P MR = 500 - 2Q a) Determine the
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De La Salle Araneta University College of BusinessBrines, Christian Joseph Palmones, AdrioBabon, Jossearohi Malonzo, CelineCabrera, Raymund 1. The production process of Lew-Mark baking company in making cookies is automatedwhich makes their production efficient, cost and time saving. Efficient in a way that theclerical errors which are attributed to human limitations are omitted. Their production isalso cost saving for the reason that the labor cost and wastages are reduced. Finally, it istime
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explains how the market space if divided by these two oceans. The red ocean symbolizes the industries that are currently in present in the market. These industries serve as models for current competitors as well as future ones. On the other side, blue oceans are industries that are “not in existence today.” These industries are unknown and could be developed from red oceans or from completely new industries. The main difference between these two types of markets is the customer demand. Red oceans
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with a lot of constraints, including scarce capital, intensive technology, foreign exchange constraints, poor management, corruption and inadequate attention to economic viability and market prospects which has resulted in poor performance of the industries in terms of output and employment (Steel & Webster, 1992). Following an economic recession in the 1980’s which resulted in the retrenchment of workers from the civil service, the rationalization of production in the private sector under the
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and x-ray hazards. There is a risk of exposure to chemicals used in cleaning, medical processes etc. (1) More workers are injured in the healthcare and social assistance industry sector than any other. In 2010, the healthcare and social assistance industry reported more injury and illness cases than any other private industry sector -- 653,900 cases.(2) Materials and Procedure Procedure How do you minimize the risks at the workplace, I divided them into three categories. The first category is
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do not have the hands-on experience like you do on the shop floor, and I will take any information and advice you give us into our project consideration. In addition, my team does have professionals with relevant experiences in the manufacturing industry and more resources from Deloitte Consulting Group ready to support the project. With our training and experiences, my team will have a big picture analysis and provide you and the rest of SKS a “re-engineered” production process that will allow your
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The two specific industries that should be focused on are the water and food industries. The U.S. is a good place for B2P to start to expand into. Americans are increasingly concerned about food and water safety and there is a growing market within the U.S for do-it-yourself water and food testing kits. In the U.S. the E. coli testing market has a mixture of company types, from large laboratories to consumer-oriented products but no single company dominates the industry. Since no single company
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Make Versus Buy Case ABC Ltd. is a manufacturing company engaged in the manufacturing of valves. They have been in the business for last 3 years and have been manufacturing only one type of valves. They started their business initially with sales of 10,000 valves per month and now they have grown the volume to about 50,000 valves per month. They have been buying all the raw material for the valve and were doing all the manufacturing in house. Now they have established themselves in
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Introduction The rapid growth in the industrial sector in past few decades in India has improved the production and economic prosperity and improved the standards of living in the State of Gujarat (India). A large number of small and medium scale industries are engaged in the manufacture of a variety of chemical and allied products in State of Gujarat (India) (Rathi 2002, p.583). Simultaneously, the rapid industrialisation along with urbanisation has also resulted into numerous environmental issues
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1463-5771.htm BIJ 13,1/2 Best practices of collaboration between university and industrial SMEs P. Pecas and E. Henriques ¸ Technology and Management Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ´ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the implementation of best practices of collaboration between university and industrial small-
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