7. How can the budgetary weighted average contribution margin (WACM) percentage be used to help control the actual operations of Reliance? • Weighted average contribution margin is used to calculate the contribution of services to revenue. 8. If a budgetary weighted average contribution margin (WACM) percentage has been developed with an expected level of revenue and a planned fixed cost and the budgetary WACM percentage is in fact achieved in the next (future) time period, could the organization still face losses if the total revenue drops below the budgeted level or total fixed costs increase beyond the budgeted levels?…
The most common solution to problems in the American government is to implement taxes. This happened with the tobacco industry and now it is being proposed again, but this time it’s directed towards the food industry. Mark Bittman’s article “Bad Food? Tax it, and Subsidize Vegetables” featured in The New York Times argues that the average American diet is life threatening. The health risks that come with eating over processed food with too much sugar are costly and dangerous.…
SLO Veg is a family owned business that is currently on their 10th year of serving as the direct link between SLO county’s farmers and local consumers. SLO Veg offers a weekly or biweekly door delivery service, specializing in boxes filled with local, fresh picked produce grown by farmers in the greater San Luis Obispo Area. The delivery boxes promote SLO Veg’s goal of making healthy eating convenient, economical, and sustainable. However, alongside the influx of citizens in the SLO area comes the need for parallel adjustments in order to maintain or increase profits.…
ccording to previous decision making of entry choices, this section highlights Greggs in the future market selection propensities in order to bring out more clearly the true effects on an MNE’s establishment choice and through more rational approaches to evaluating global opportunities. Therefore, following CAGE distance framework (Ghemawat 2011) and examines the extent to which four measures of distance based on the CAGE framework for country level analysis. This methodological decision development is four scenarios: culture distance, administrative distance, geographic distance and economic distance. First, on the basis of the measure for uncertainty avoidance and cultural distance are derived from the work of Hofstede (1980).…
Bibliographic information: Numeroff, L.J. (1985). If you give a mouse a cookie. New York: Harper & Row. Annotated summary:…
Question No.1 What are the challenges that Ivan Gullien faces? Answer: Ivan Gullien, who was discharging his duties as a Marketing Manager at General Mills Canada Corporation, was confronted with the crucial task of making a progressive strategy in order to ameliorate the commercial performance of Pillsbury’s refrigerated baked goods (RBG). The business problem associated with refrigerated baked goods was that there was no progression in the volume of these products between the era of 2004 and 2006 as well as the sales of these refrigerated baked goods had tumbled to the lowest sales volume, 24%, in the last five years.…
National 5 Business Management Assignment INTRODUCTION I am going to investigate the Marketing Mix of Tunnock’s limited. They opened in 1890 as a small bakers and now mass produce some of the most well-known afternoon tea-time treats primarily in Scotland. It is located in the private sector and it was opened by Tomas Tunnock and now is run by his grandson Boyd Tunnock. They are most famous for the caramel which they released during the food shortages during World War 2, it was then that the company boomed in sales and became well known for baking.…
The table in problem #2 is basically showing in the start when there is 0 number of candy bars consumed, the total utility is zero. This means that an individual gets no benefit when 0 number of candy bars are consumed. As the quantity of candy bars increase, from 1-7 units, the total utility also increases, from 7-28 utils. This means that when a candy bar is added to the quantity of candy bars consumed per day, the total benefit a person gets from each additional candy bar increases. When the quantity of candy bars reach to 8 units, the total utility remains the same as when an individual consumes 7 candy bars.…
General Environment The baking mix and prepared food production industry has revenue of $26.6 billion, annual growth of 3.1%, and is made up of 1,180 businesses. The industry consists of 44.5% perishable prepared foods sold in bulk or packages, 32.9% other food preparations, 14.6% liquid, dried, and frozen eggs, and 8% flavoring powders, tablets, and pastes. The key external drivers are demand from food manufacturing, agricultural price index, per capita disposable income, healthy eating index, and trade-weighted index. This industry is broken down into five different markets: food manufacturers, grocery retailers, exports, grocery wholesalers, and foodservice providers.…
When kids get trophies, sometimes they don’t need it. They develop unhealthy self-esteem. Kids don’t play for the win. Trophies don’t give room for mistakes. I don’t think that everyone deserves a trophy.…
Phionia’s Finicky Feline Gourmet Cat Dinners After developing a gourmet cat food, eaten by the most finicky felines, Phionia Phelps has an opportunity of a life time. Her wealthy acquaintance wishes to invest $50,000 into her business in exchange for selling her products on her website. In addition to already selling to her close acquaintances, Phelps has an opportunity to grow her thriving business, but is it worth it? Careful analysis of her current sales and expenses is necessary to see if the investment is worth making, and although she currently has sales and makes a profit of $70.00 per case, it is not certain if it is enough to continue and make a profit.…
Evaluating Profitability: RATIO: Based on Fire Eaters Historical Financial Data At Virtual Lakes Store (2013-2016) 2013 2014 2015 2016 Net Profit Margin -173.58% -47.83 % -10.88% 12.56% Gross Profit Margin -188.24% -15.25% 37.86% 69.76% Return on Total Assets -40.52% -35.00% -11.60% 18.35% Return on Owner's Equity -65.86%…