Cost accounting

While discussing loose equipment for an emergency apparatus purchase for the Waco Fire Department Chief Tatum advised the equipment committee that the department will replace our 1 ½” pre-connect line with 2” pre-connect line. Research was conducted by committee members to find the most appropriate hose and nozzle combination that will be the best fit for the Waco Fire Department. Some of the best information we gathered was during an inspections trip to Pierce Manufacturing in Appleton,…

The two methods of marketing research in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of PBS FRONTLINE’s The Persuaders were a focus group (Chapter 4) and the use of Acxiom (Chapter 5). In the video, Dr. Clotaire Rapaille hosted a focus group to “decode” the word Luxury for the Luxury Marketing Counsel America, which includes corporations such as Boeing and Acura. The purpose of marketing research is finding an effective marketing campaign that would attract target consumers and have a competitive advantage;…

margin and the higher price that the vehicle would have been sold . If Ford were to recall the vehicles sold to the consumer then it would cause pain to a lot of people instead of causing pain to a small number of people if there were no recall. The cost would benefit them if there were no recall since it would only cause them 49 million dollars instead of 137 million dollars for the “pinto drivers if the car is redesigned”. So from a Utilitarian’s stand point it is better to make…

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner erupted into traditional and technological boundaries. From the exterior to the fiber optic network, a new standard was set. With the new technology come new unforeseen and predictably devastating problems. The aircraft’s communication and data systems work off the same network raising suspicion for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This onboard network integrating aircraft function and passenger entertainment caused the FAA to provide a special condition…

X-Opoly, Inc. is a company that was started by two college freshman who based a real estate board game on the essentials of Monopoly®. The board game was originally modeled on local popular landmarks surrounding the college. With X-Opoly’s ability to design and produce custom real estate trading games for universities, municipalities, chambers of commerce, and businesses, their venture was huge success. So, upon graduation they decided to run the company full time. Orders varied between a few…

50 years old yet the other is not, the methodology verbiage will be fused in the senior protection game plan. It can be difficult to get avowed for senior collision protection. Frequently, the protection association will charge an immoderate premium cost on the senior accident coverage. It has a high premium rate because of the high perils associated with senior drivers. Senior drivers tend to experience mishaps continually in perspective of their bodies are failing isolated. A valid example,…

Looking through my phone, I stumbled upon a headline from CNN that immediately caught my attention: “Cost of life-saving EpiPens up over 400%.” When I first read the title, the image of one of my friends rushed to my mind. This friend has an extensive list of severe allergies, requiring her to own and carry multiple EpiPens everywhere she goes. Additionally, I had lived through situations where individuals began to present redness on their skin, cough, and shortness of breath, which could have…

Who are cheap Furniture Movers?: What is cheap? Their prices or the service? Cheap Furniture Movers do whatever they can to reduce their operational costs. But why? Well, that's how they become cheap. House moving is not a piece of cake. I mean, many standards are there to follow. Cheap movers ignore standards for reducing their operational cost. Do you know what will happen to your precious items then? Every industry has standards to give a quality product or service. The same story applies to…

The most important effect that incentives/disincentives had on my service learning was were to complete it followed by when to complete it. I made my decision to complete my service learning at NYSMM pretty quickly after getting the assignment. The incentives/disincentives were pretty clear almost immediately, With the NYSMM I had to complete a transcript which would take only as long as it took to me to complete it instead of a preset amount of time. Secondly, I didn’t have to travel anywhere.…

Good decisions can be taken as well as can be bad decisions. You can research many good tips to prevent yourself and learn how to take those good decisions. But why not to learn how to avoid bad decisions? Daniel Kahnemann and Amos Tversky always studying how people make decisions, found this common and big traps that people use to have when making decisions. Overconfidence bias, hindsight bias, anchoring bias, framing bias, and escalation of commitment. In this paper, I am going to talk…