Strategic Management & Business Policy, 12e (Wheelen/Hunger) Chapter 1 Basic Concepts in Strategic Management 1) Strategic management is one decision that determines the short-term performance of a corporation. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5 Topic: The Study of Strategic Management 2) In the externally oriented planning phase, plans are developed by heavily involving the input of managers from lower levels. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5 Topic: The Study of Strategic Management
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achieved under Steve Job’s.” (Gamble & Marino, 2012) Apple has been able to adapt their competitive strategy to stay ahead of the competition. Apple is competing in the consumer electronics industry where technology is always changing. The chief elements of Apple’s strategy include: core competence in smart phones, distinctive competence in personal media players, wide geographical
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Chapter 01 - Financial Statements and Business Decisions Chapter 01 Financial Statements and Business Decisions ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1. Accounting is a system that collects and processes (analyzes, measures, and records) financial information about an organization and reports that information to decision makers. 2. Financial accounting involves preparation of the four basic financial statements and related disclosures for external decision makers. Managerial accounting involves the preparation
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in the Balanced Scorecard because the Balanced Scorecard helps organizations measure, and therefore, manages the performance of their intangible, knowledge-based, assets. With the Balanced Scorecard measurement system, companies continue to track financial results but they also monitor, with nonfinancial measures, whether they are building or destroying their capabilities—with customers, processes, employees, and systems—and how the company is managing intangible assets to create future growth and
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adopt codes of ethics, management accountants will increasingly be asked to design systems to control, evaluate, interpret or apply ethical judgement. The following develops the basis for forming ethical judgements. The management accountant fulfils four broad roles concerning ethics: 1. to ensure that management has developed and installed a comprehensive and internally controlled code of ethics. 2. to verify that the code of ethics and its controls are comprehensive and that everyone in the organization
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an outline of the key perspectives of the employment relationship that inform our understanding of HRM. Workshop Tutor: Andrew Burnett Table of content Introduction 3 How can HRM be understood? 4 What is employment relationship? 4 Elements of employment relationship 4 What is individual contract of employment and how it works? 5 Duties of employer and employees 6 What is psychological contract? 6 Socio-political dimension of the employment relationship 8 Conclusions 9 References
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In 2002 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) met and issued the Norwalk Agreement where they both agreed to develop of high quality accounting standards. Since that time the FASB and the IASB have been working on joint projects a.k.a convergence projects designed to improve both US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), eliminate differences between them, and ultimately
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Implementing XBRL Focus on quality To our clients and friends For several years now, momentum has been building towards a single electronic financial reporting standard to allow more efficient retrieval and analysis of financial information. One of the key objectives of this movement to digital financial reporting is to enhance the accessibility of financial information, which proponents believe will be utilized better, faster and cheaper. Furthermore, a digital format would support more informed
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Chapter 1 Financial Statements and Business Decisions ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1. Accounting is a system that collects and processes (analyzes, measures, and records) financial information about an organization and reports that information to decision makers. 2. Financial accounting involves preparation of the four basic financial statements and related disclosures for external decision makers. Managerial accounting involves the preparation of detailed plans, budgets, forecasts, and performance
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