Healthcare Costs Issues in USA
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The federal public health agency I have chosen for this project is the United States Department of Health & Human Services. In the health care field, a lot of time is needed to take care of patients effectively, in this crucial field time matters more than anywhere else because the lives of...
Customer Satisfaction and Its Impact on The Future Costs of Selling - Lim, L. G., Tuli, K. R., & Grewal, R. (2020)
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Business strategy
The article by Lim et al. (2020) provides a combination of empirical along with theoretical research on the existence of a linkage between customer satisfaction and a firm's future selling costs (COS). The study investigates the matters not adequately scrutinized in dealing with...
Increasing Construction Costs
Market study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Increasing construction costs is a considerable trouble facing the USA construction business sector. They influence the rising transportation, energy saving, and environmental preservation sectors. A comprehensive approach to the search for answers and adopting strategic decisions are...
Patient Safety, Quality, and Costs Associated with Heart Disease
Essay - 3 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
Heart disease is the leading killer disease in the world today, and some of its identified causes or health conditions that cause its exacerbation, such as obesity and smoking, are evident in most parts of the world at devastating rates. (...) Heart disease has devastating effects on the quality...
Costs and strategy management
Case study - 5 pages - Management
I. Current Strategic Context - In a context that is characterized by increasing turbulence and constant strengthening of competition, the ability of a company to create value for the customer appears to have become a sustained competitive advantage. - The value of the product is what the...
The Euro: Costs & Benefits for France
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
On the 1st of January 1999, the euro went into circulation as a common currency for eleven of the fifteen European Union countries, with Greece joining in 2001. France joined in 1999. The ratification of the Maastricht treaty in November of 1993 provoked the creation of the European Monetary...
Study on Moroccan Labour law, Labour Resources and Costs
Case study - 19 pages - Economy general
Morocco has created a favorable environment for investors as the result of an extensive program designed to attract business to the country. Multinational corporations that have invested in Morocco benefited from those competitive advantages on several fronts. This study gives detailed...
A comparative financial analysis of the costs and benefits of a lease-purchase investment
Case study - 5 pages - Accounting
This report was prepared as a result of work performed by the accounting and finance department in response to management request to investigate the company's lease-purchase options for the IT department. The upgrade of our IT material and equipment is essential for Reunite Corporation to remain...
Distinguish between equilibrium and cyclic unemployment, and outline the private and social costs associated with each type
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Unemployment is seen as a plague in many countries. Plus, we are often told about how to tackle it and given some figures spelling the number of unemployed people. But what does this really mean? Governments do not tell much about unemployment's features and the real consequences it entails....
The Low Cost - Emmanuel Combe (2011) - Summary by Chapter
Text commentary - 3 pages - Management
This book answers the following questions: how does low cost work? Does low cost always go hand in hand with low prices? To what extent is low cost a danger that affects established companies? In which sectors is low cost developing? What is the impact of low...
Examining the Cost of General Education Courses - Research Proposal
Dissertation - 2 pages - Economy general
Students often have to bear tremendous financial burdens, especially during courses that cost differently, like the general course required for the entire student. This fact dominates the debate over whether these courses should be more cost-effective or valuable because they are...
Climate Change Economics: The Social Cost of Carbon discount rate
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - International economy
The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is the monetary value that society should be willing to pay in the present to avoid damage caused by incremental CO2 emissions in the future (Price, Thornton, and Nelson 2007). It is, therefore, an important standard for the formulation of climate policy....
Traditional and low cost airlines - marketing strategies
Case study - 11 pages - Tourism marketing
The airline industry has undergone profound changes in the space of a few years. First of all, because of increased digitisation, but also because of other so-called low-cost companies which have emerged and which have disrupted the traditional aviation pattern. This has been a great thing...
Health Insurance Cost of University Employees - Research paper
Case study - 12 pages - Educational studies
Employee health insurance is a benefit provided based on the length of service, commitment, the position of the employee and the specifications of the scheme set by the employer. Employees of various US universities have a package that they are able to take advantage, of, however, the cost...
Macro Cost Estimation for Construction- Manhattan Company
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The operation within the Manhattan Company, which deals with construction of armories, has a setback of harmonizing the budgetary allocation with the high inflation rates. State agencies face the problem of controlling budgets within their jurisdiction due to poor estimation of the costs....
Estimation of the cost of equity capital using Gordon's dividend discount model
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
Mishkin and Eakins, (2006) defines expected rate of return on equity as “the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders' equity.” The return on equity is used to estimate the profitability of a company by establishing the amount of income generated using investor...
Installation of a system of cost accounting in Monegasque (Morocco)
Dissertation - 84 pages - Accounting
Cost accounting has a double arsenal. As a first arsenal in the long term, it is probably very effective because it addresses the costs, and requires political courage of managers. This arsenal includes the planning, control equipment and staff and a real management control. A...
Fuzzy expert model for order cost efficiency in capacitated two-echelon distribution chains
Thesis - 12 pages - Management
The supply chain researchers are commonly trying to optimize one or more decision variables under stochastic conditions. This paper considers a capacitated two-echelon divergent distribution chain facing stochastic demand and order cost fluctuations. The limited storage facility of the...
Marketing strategies of the traditional low cost airlines
Thesis - 30 pages - Services marketing
The airline sector has evolved in recent years, with low-cost airline companies offering tickets at unbeatable prices. Many traditional companies are thus forced to compete with these prices in order to remain competitive in the market. These low cost tariffs are offered by the low...
Cost realism analysis
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Cost realism analysis is the process of evaluating the methodology by the offeror to estimate the proposed cost and is done by using information other than cost or pricing data (Cole, 2001). This technique is useful in selecting the offeror that best fits the awards of the...
Marketing File: The low-cost company Ryanair
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
A developing market, the air transport industry is also very competitive, with rules of the game being completely transformed by the advent of lowcost airlines, first in the United States and then in Europe. Though Air France KLM is the world leader in the commercial air travel today, Ryanair has...
Cost concepts and classification (20 Slides)
Presentation - 20 pages - Accounting
The costing terminology of the Institute of cost and works accounts,London defines cost as”The amount of expenditure (actual or notional) incurred on or attributable to a given thing.” In the words of Harold J.Wheldon,”costing is the classifying and appropriate...
The marketing tools of the low cost airline companies
Thesis - 31 pages - Services marketing
The low cost concept was first introduced in 1971 in the United States, with the launch of a new company called "Southwest Airlines". However, the concept only gained popularity and set the cash registers ringing with the creation of Ryanair in 1991. Backed by its pioneering pricing...
Ikea - Easyjet: a common low-cost concept
Case study - 8 pages - Management
How is the choice of a comparison between two companies which are not operating in the same segment motivated? Indeed, nothing (or almost nothing) seems common between Ikea and EasyJet, except that 'if you look closely, you can perceive a common basis, a concept that both companies have made...
The strategy of the 'Ryanair', the pioneer of low cost airlines (2007)
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
In 2006-2007, Ryanair has become the world's most profitable airline on the basis of its operating and net profit margins and on a per-airplane and per-passenger basis. Indeed, the profits expected for the first half of fiscal 2007 were 329 million euros, which is a record for the Irish...
Investigating if there is a correlation existing between the capacity and cost of a refrigerator, if the choice of the refrigerator is independent of gender or not and how a drink stays cold in the long run
Worksheets - 12 pages - Mathematics
Refrigerators are an accessory found in nearly every household, each household chooses the refrigerator they purchase based on their need (capacity) and budget (cost). Refrigerators in today's world are considered a necessity more than a luxury due to rising global warming, people need...
The low-cost airline industry
Market study - 5 pages - Business strategy
In this paper we will analyze the airline sector using various theories and tools to examine it. As part of our strategic focus, we will first study the overall market and then, by using the example of Ryanair, look at the features of a low cost airline. The passengers of the airline...
The low cost airline market
Thesis - 6 pages - Services marketing
Our future business career will conduce us to travel around the world. The way of traveling is a factor which influences international relations. The emergence of the low cost airlines has modified the traditional market. During our 4 years at ESTA, we have been directly touched by the low...
Advanced technologies for rapid, large scale and cost-effective sequencing of genomes
Case study - 3 pages - Biology
While low-cost, revolutionizing computers and gadgets seem to dazzle our eyes every time we look around, a recent and fairly rapid progression in cost-effective genome analyses is drawing quite a lot of attention, the world over. Similar to electronics, the prices for rapid...
Strategy of cost leadership
Essay - 8 pages - Management
In a market where competition is at it's peak, companies perpetually seek to win over new customers, new markets and to generate strong profits. They have thus banked on a new strategy to be more competitive: cost leadership. The strategy of cost leadership aims at directing the...
