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TASK 1 Marginal costing is a traditional financial technique which is used by companies for short term decision making within the music & entertainment industry. The concept of marginal costing is concerned with the treatment of fixed costs and the relationship that exists between sales, variable costs and contribution. This technique is often used by record labels to estimate the costs which they will incur & profits they will earn per unit which is manufactured and sold. Cost behaviour

In contrast, those industries such as film, music and news have experienced a very deep impact because the core product can be downloaded privately. Of these three, Di Maggio (2014) state that the music industry has been the most challenged by the internet not only in relation to distribution but also production. Waterman and Ji (2014) argue that like the newspaper industry, the music industry was negatively affected because it was slow to adapt and capitalise on

“I won 't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I 've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I 'll welcome the chance to rest—to stop and think and remember. I 'm sure it 's at least partly to do with that, to do with preparing for the change of pace, that I 've been getting this urge to order all these old memories” (Ishiguro, 34). Over the course of the novel, and as the film unfolds, the whole story is told in a series of flashbacks as Kathy reencounters her life. Kathy stumbles

The article “Psych Me Out” is about a recent graduate, Stacy, who just got hired to work for a small local CPA firm as a junior accountant. Since he was one of the top graduates of his class, his managers expected more out of him and therefore assigned him tasks that he has not been trained on. Since Stacy was still in the process of learning the ropes he was struggling with meeting due dates. Due to his poor performance his managers, Bob and Leandra, were more critical of him than they should have

Alexandria: Not only was I more comfortable, I felt like I had to because I was giving her a hard time. Interviewer: How about the gender of the physician? If it was a male, do you think that would have changed? Is your primary care also a female? Alexandria: Right now, my regular is a female, but I did get checked up by a male once. There was a female nurse, but I would just rather have a women. It is just more comfortable. Interviewer: What outcomes do you want when talking with your doctor

Theatre Critique of Tuesday Night Café’s The Yellow Wallpaper Even before taking their seats in the theatre the audience is transported into the constraining and chaotic mind of our protagonist, Jane. Jane has been locked in in a room with yellow wallpaper by her husband as “treatment” for her hysteria. Her hysteria is played by a nameless character beside her. In combination with symbolic blocking, the set and décor of this production create the perfect environment to capture the inner turmoil

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a science fiction novel that was presented to the reading world in 2011 by Ransom Riggs. This year the characters of Riggs’s novel made their way to the big screen under the direction of Tim Burton. While critics rave about the wonders of Burton’s skills to transform the novel into a believable reality, I have some other views. My views dig past the screen and break apart the struggles and decisions Burton made while directing. While I agree with Hoffman

In the community where I grew up folks didn’t read the News Paper to find out what folks had done. They already knew that from the “party line.” They read the News Paper to find out if they got caught. I don’t remember reading this story in the News Paper, but everybody knew about it anyway. There was a young man driving along a lonely, dark and narrow road just north of town one night. As the road approached the river bridge, there was a slight turn in the road. The boy failed to make the

The media is an important aspect of the current society and is ever present to the public. With the creation of new technology, there are more and more ways the media can be received and displayed for people to see everywhere they go. There are so many media sights nowadays such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, as well as new magazines, commercials and other media publications made every day that allow people to connect to current events and new trends. Although today’s media has the potential

retailing and manufacturing company within the vinyl record industry. In addition to selling vinyl records online and at two brick and mortar retail stores, srcivnyl currently works with the major record labels including, Sony, Universal and Warner Music, to release albums for Top 40 artists on the vinyl format. All SRCVinyl’s manufacturing is currently done at other facilities throughout the world. In 2015, over 17 million new vinyl records were pressed and sold, with that number on track for an