of what business you want to do, why you want to do that business to gain profit or just to provide service as well and how you are going to do by following areas are important to the success of our small business such as properly trained and motivated employees, clean and appropriate looking business, quality products and pricing, choice of location as well as proper promotion and customer service.
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Cambridge Resources for the IB Diploma Paper 1 (SL and HL) markschemes Examples of markschemes for Exam practice: paper 1 in the Economics for the IB Diploma CD-ROM are provided below. Paper 1 section A: Microeconomics Chapter 2 Competitive markets: demand and supply SL/HL core topics Part (a) questions 2.3 (a) Answers may include: • Definitions of demand and quantity demanded. • Theory of demand: law of demand with reference to changes in demand and factors that can cause changes
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Chapter 1 An Introduction to Management of Technology M .A. Akkas, Professor, Department of Management Studies, University of Dhaka. 1. 1. Introduction We live in a man-made technological world. Technology has played the basic role of an instrument for transforming the primitive and natural world into a technological and man -made world. Technology determines the standard of living of people of a given country. It is technology that makes basic difference between
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McKinsey on Chemicals Number 3, Winter 2011 4 22 40 Chemicals’ changing competitive landscape Innovation in chemicals: An interview with Dow Corning’s Stephanie Burns and Gregg Zank Improving pricing and sales execution in chemicals 10 32 46 A capital-markets perspective on chemical-industry performance Capturing the lean energy opportunity in chemical manufacturing Kick-starting organic growth McKinsey on Chemicals is written Editorial Board:
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uninterrupted production and minimizing the investment of funds. Thus material control is the proper control of material which reduces the cost of production, minimizing the investment of fund in the purchases of material & increases the profitability of the organization. Material control is the system that ensures the provision of the required quantity of material of the required quality at the required time with the minimum of capital investment. It covers the following functions: (i)
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return-on-investment basis, segment their markets, improve their target marketing and positioning, and ________. a. contend with dwindling customer bases b. aggressively “squeeze” manufacturer margins c. aggressively pursue take over strategies d. dominant the manufacturers they do business with e. aggressively pursue market expansion and diversification strategies Answer: e Page: 504 Level of difficulty: Easy 3. Retailing involves getting the goods or services to the
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views and opinions of the authors or the products and services of the companies with which they are affiliated. All of SBA's programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. ______________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 COVER SHEET 1 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE (MISSION STATEMENT) THE BUSINESS Legal Structure 2 Description of the Business 2 Products or Services 3 Location 3 Management 3 Personnel 3 Methods of Record
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CHAPTER FIVE 5. INTRODUCTION TO COST VOLUME PROFIT (CVP) ANALYSIS Upon a successful completion of this chapter, you should be able to: ← distinguish between contribution margin and gross margin ← prepare and interpret a contribution income statement ← compute a break even point in total birrs and total units using the contribution margin approach and the equation approach ← Prepare a cost-volume –profit graph, and explain how it is used.
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value or price of the most desired goods and services that are foregone in order to obtain something else. - The next best alternative that you give up. Factors of Production Resource inputs used to produce goods and services. The four resources: - Labor, land, capital and entrepreneurship Resources are factors of production. Economic resources – all natural human and manufactured resources that can be used in the production of goods and services. Land – arable land, forests, minerals, energy
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