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1. What are the two capacity options that Robbie needs to consider? What are their fixed and variable costs? What is the indifference point for the two options? What are the implications on the indifference point? Capacity is the amount of product or service that a company can get in a productive unit during a certain period of time. Long-term capacity is that capacity limit, which the possibility of changes is structural and requires heavy investments. This "term" refers to a period of more than

two goals for groups, which leads to less negative impacts on society. The creative and intellectual thinking of humans surpasses boundaries, but producing these innovations uses an abundance of money to create. One key part that helped start the production of technology was the assembly line. The assembly line that Henry Ford made sped up the makings of technology. His innovation gave way to different innovations along with the birth of new companies. This means that because it is faster, the cost

what is an economic system, problems of economic system, factors of production, concept of production possibility curve, and the fundamental of allocation of resources in different types of economies. 1.2 AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM Before we further move on we have to know about the sources of economic problems and a brief about the economic system. 1.2.1 Scarce Means and Unlimited Wants Want is Want is an

For a firm to shut down in the short run, the average variable cost can avoid paying by shutting down exceed the price it would get for selling the good (Colander, pg. 328). At a certain point to continue producing and selling goods would get higher than the fixed costs of not producing the goods or service. As the text mentions, automakers will continue to produce at a loss because the labor is a fixed cost due to union agreements. These agreements state that the workers will get paid if they are

board. Profits have been steeply declining while production costs are high, especially at its German and Japanese facilities. With exception of India, demand is expected to remain relatively stable for the short-term future, so BioPharma can no longer afford its costly surplus capacity. BioPharma produces and sells two chemicals in bulk. Each plant they currently have is capable of producing both chemicals. They are willing to idle production at the Germany and Japan plants on one or both chemicals

generate future sales and manage partnership technology initiatives for future projects within the navigation industry. The operations department manages people, schedules, equipment, technology, materials and information. Planning and scheduling production for each month was determined by operations management. The timing of packaging and delivering was forecasted and pushed through the information process internally to the packaging

INTRODUCTION: Hallstead Jewelers is a family owned company that has been around for generations. After the death of their father Gretchen and Michaela resumed ownership of a business that had been very successful for many years. However, due to changes in the market related to competition, customer demand, and demographics, business has not been as profitable as the sisters hoped it would be upon taking over of (remove) the company. Michaela and Gretchen are now faced with the tough task of revitalizing

were changed to match people’s expectations in Britain, however there is a mixture of cultures on the company’s site. 3. Production Line: There are several departments on a production line, which are separated into different functional areas, with different workstations and teams. Machines at Mazak are transported by monorail, however they are not built on the production line formed by a single action assembly line as used in producing of cars, but only being

Today, we are in a globalizing world that connect different places around the world together for corporation. And the reason we are in this globalizing world is because it creates cheaper products. To illustrate, similar to the article "In China, the Human Costs That Are Built Into an iPad" in the New York Time by Charlies Guhigg and David Barboza, the iPhones are designed in America and made in China because Chinese factories can produce the iPhones faster and cheaper than American factories. In

1. Introduction Piele SA started a budget committee consisting of the chief accountant, a cost accountant, a technical director, and heads of the production departments. The committee was formed to help develop a budget using the zero-based budgeting system. Piele SA’s budget was based on the expected level of activity in sales that the firm expected to generate during the year. Piele SA started its budget from zero, and continued to re-evaluate and adjust targets throughout the operating year;