Gross margin

1.3 million people remained homeless 10 months after the earthquake and the estimated losses exceeded the gross domestic product of the country. Geological and geotechnical conditions are close to the center area which is made up of artificial fills and topographic features amongst other things that caused ground motion amplification. The earthquake demonstrated…

one billion people across Asia will take a Great Leap Forward into a new middle class” (Meredith and Hoppough). Due to the takeover of capitalism and the end of communism, China has welcomed foreign direct investment which has “helped drive China’s gross domestic product to a more than tenfold increase since 1978” (Meredith and Hoppough). The combination of modern factories built by foreign investors and infrastructures such as roads built by the Chinese government “drove China’s exports from…

prisoners equal more profits for anyone involved in the private prison industry. For instance, a single payphone makes $15,000 a year and all inmate calls generate more than a billion dollars in revenue a year (Schlosser, 1998). There are also examples of gross injustice and scandals due to this system. The…

A warehouse space is most important to company simply holding goods until they needed. When we rented a warehouse, we have to use a lot of money to pay the rented of warehouse every month, its effect their net gross profit of capital expenditure by monthly. Besides, Saudee Group Berhad also need to dependent on foreign country system of technology. Saudee Group Berhad used and applied the technology into their system to make and improve their production and…

This was due to a fear of losing money during future economic issues. This recession in the economy resulted in a decrease of items produced by companies, thus reducing employment. "As a result, Canada's gross domestic product per capita dropped to thirty-four per cent." ("The Great Depression hit Canada") Lack of consumer purchases reduced the profit of many factories, companies, and industries. In order to increase profits, companies needed to spend less…

policy as a whole and location on the political spectrum is most important to which way a voter votes, it is instead correct rather to say that each individual policy will sway individual voting blocks, “single-issue voters” are a frighteningly large margin of total voters. Politicians appear to recognize this often taking stances such as the pro-life stance which is used to win over the evangelical demographic or promising welfare increases to win over inner-city populations. This pattern of…

1- Concentrate producers requires low capital investment and fixed costs (as low as 50M$). Few relatively cheap raw material ingredients are needed as inputs in order to produce the concentrate hence incurring low cost of goods sold (0.22$  22% of net sales exhibit 4). Concentrate producers main expenses come from marketing and administration expenses that account for 46% of net sales (exihbit4). Using the Master bottler contracts, the concentrate prices increased steadily in the last two…

Not only do they have the highest gross domestic product (GDP) in the world at $14.5 trillion, but their $2 trillion in exports also tops every other country by a considerable margin. To put the $14.5 trillion in perspective, it is equal to 23% of the world’s combined GDP and nearly three times larger than that of the Chinese (Boyer et al. 58). In addition…

The numbers of meals served each week over the last seven weeks, along with the total costs of operating the cafeteria are given below: week meals served 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1,500 1,600 1,800 1,450 1,200 1,650 1,900 cafeteria costs (RM) 4,800 5,080 5,280 4,900 4,000 5,100 5,400 Assume that the relevant range includes all of the activity levels mentioned in this problem. Required: A. Use the high low method to establish the fixed and variable component of…

Assessment of Security Risks at Costco Wholesale This portfolio project report contains the relevant organizational information of Costco Wholesale Corporation, which is a wholesale giant in the United States. The primary intention of this report is to highlight the basic organizational location and financial information, along with the computing and network infrastructure details to help layout the detailed structure of an Information Technology (IT) risk assessment report. As part of the risk…