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    1. What are the relevant facts? • Ryan was recently hired as the Chief Accountant for a relatively small firm • Sid, the VP of sales, is concerned that the company will not reach their sales quota (200,000 units) • CEO requires the contribution margin to be $2.00 per unit in order to achieve a pre-tax profit of $85,000 • Due to the variable costs of $4.00 per unit, the selling price must be $6.00 o Competitors are selling similar products o at lower prices • Variable costs must decrease in order to sell products at a competitive price • Ryan believes that they cannot change their cost structure in the short-run • Maintenance and quality testing costs $.7 per unit o Costing $140,000 per 200,000 units • Sid believes that turning maintenance and quality control into fixed costs in the solution and…

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    The telephone was needed to communicate with others at important times and at long distances quickly and cheaply. It also was used to talk with friends or family more often. The late 1800’s needed this invention because it was hard to get messages around the world so quickly before it. You also couldn’t see the faces of the person you were talking to, this was made possible after changes were made. There were many problems that came up though. A problem was that Bell made a telephone company…

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    the telephone alongside Thomas A Watson. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, scotland. As a child Bell was homeschooled and received one year of education in a private school, in addition he also received two years of education in Edinburgh’s Royal High School. Alexander G. Bell was not a very good academic student, yet showed promise in the world of solving issues. At age 12, Bell created a machine that removed husks from the wheat. He built this device while playing in a grain mill,…

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    The telephone Influenced society in a way most would know and acknowlege. The telephone is and instrument which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice. The first telephone was inveted by Alexander Graham Bel. Alexander brought together the world’s first telephone, using parts frome a shop of electrical equipment and the skill of his assistant Thomas Watson. In 1876, at the age of 29…

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    Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is best known for perfecting the telephone to transmit vocal messages by electricity. The telephone inaugurated a new age in communication technology. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was an expert in vocal physiology and elocution; his grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. After studying at the University of Edinburgh and University College, London, Bell became his father's…

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    socialize from a distance.By eventing the telephone,& photophone for the deaf. Alexander Graham bell was born March 3rd 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland.He only had a first & last name until he was 10 years old. His mother then decided to give him another name which would be his middle name.After she made them changes his name was then Alexander Graham Bell.Instead of going to school his mother decided to homeschool him.His father worked with deaf people,while his mother stayed at…

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    provided better service was not over. In 1879, The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was registered and began to work on Edison telephone patents. The first official exchange by The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was opened on September 6, in London with 10 initial subscribers, but by February The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd had had opened two other exchanges. The company now served a total of 172 subscribers. Edison managed great success due to their annual tariff. The…

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    locations would have trouble communicating. With the telephone, business could expand all over the country, and eventually all over the world. It would be easy to communicate with the different locations. Also, buying and selling was more convenient with the telephone, and companies received more awareness with the advantage in advertising (“The Impact of the Telephone”). In rural, agricultural areas, farmers had a hard time communicating with one another. They were so spread out, and because…

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    Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Alexander was constantly working on scientific experiments and he became a famous man. Now, hundreds of thousands people can communicate through phones. Bell also worked on a school to help the deaf to enroll. His invention helps life today because we can now communicate through technology called the telephone. Alexander’s Father established a school for the deaf to learn and Alexander also helped the deaf learn. He also inspired …

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    The Telephone and its Societal Impact The telephone is one of the most important and revolutionary inventions of all time. However, with the improvement of telephones and the popularity of cell phones, the telephone is taken for granted. Many people today, especially children, do not understand how the telephone impacted society and how innovative it is. The goal of this report is to bring to light the historical significance and the effect it had on the world. The beginning of the telephone,…

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