Question 1: PREPARING BREAK-EVEN CHART AND CONTRIBUTION ANALYSIS
a) How do managers use CVP analysis to make decision? Describe at least 5 uses of CVP analysis.
1) CVP analysis employs the same basic assumptions as in breakeven analysis. It is the technique that manager use to planning the sales price of a product and the price of product will cover the cost of product and the profit earn.
2) BEP and MOS are useful if the company experience increasing cost or need to reduce the selling price in order to remain competitive. By using BEP and MOS the company can identify the lowest price of the product that will sell. So that the company will not gain loss for each of product sold.
3) To enter new market. Any business will start with small
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For example, line rent and fixed subscription charges as well as variable cost charged per minute cost. Fix cost mean the cost remain constant in every activity of production and the graph will be straight line while variable cost is increasing as the activity of production increasing. Fix cost in total will remain constant and fix cost per unit will decreasing if the activity of production increase. For variable cost in total, it will increase if the activity of production increasing and variable cost per units will remain constant and the graph will be straight …show more content…
Discuss at least FIVE (5) benefits of JIT system.
The benefit of using JIT system are:-
1) Lower Warehouse Costs
Is it because storing excess inventory will cost a lot of money and if the number of goods that storing in inventory can be reduced, the cost of inventory also will reduces. The company that using JIT system may able to reduce the number of warehouse they needed and eliminate the warehouse that not necessary.
2) Better management decision
The JIT system also help company managing their stock more efficiently and they handle their supply chains and use their parts to assemble products for their customers. So that, by reducing cost in warehouse managing, the company will experienced lower cost production for their product and can provide low price to their customer. That will advantages the company to compete with their competitor.
3) Less Waste
The traditional method inventory management system will cause the company end up with pallet of unsold goods that simply go waste. The company need to reduces the prices of unsold item drastically to make sure the item sold for avoid waste and it will make the company burden with losses. By using JIT system, the company can reduces this waste and helps the company respond more quickly to what its customers
Navistar has its roots in the early 1800’s when it first produced the Cyrus McCormick Mechanical Reaper. In 1902 it merged with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Deering Harvester Company, Milwauke Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company and Warder, Bushnell and Glessner (Navistar, 2016). In January 1986, this international Harvester Company changes its name to Navistar International Corporation. Later, this international harvester of agricultural equipment and trucks specialized in the production of trucks only. By 1997 Navistar moved to its new Chatham Wagon location and its sole focus was on the medium and heavy trucks, school buses and mid-range diesel engines.
The total value of the firm has been calculated with the help of PV of cash flows and the continuing value and it shows an amount of
RREFLECTIVE ESSAY OPERATIONAL VARIABLES CW3 William K. Wilkins WOILE 17-013 / G403C July 30, 2017 Question 1: Select two operational variables from the PMESII-PT construct and explain why they are important within an operational environment? What is Operational Environment? Operational environment is the combination of the conditions, circumstances, and influences, which will determine the use of military forces and help the unit commanders to make their decisions.
Background In the 1970s, several large US food processing companies like General Mills and Pillsbury decided to expand into restaurant business. The reason was that an alarming number of consumers were eating out rather than at home more often due to rising family incomes and increase of women in the workforce. National Mills, another food processing company, set up a subsidiary International Concepts Incorporated (ICI) in the year 1983. ICI was doing reasonably well and National Mills also encouraged expansion and offered to supply additional capital.
To understand expenses, a manager has to understand the difference between these two costs (Willson, 2014). Fixed costs are constant, which means that no matter how much Home Depot is producing. Fixed costs include rent or utilities. Variable costs are costs that change depending on the amount of output. As total expenses increase for Home Depot, their fixed costs remain the same, which in return will decline profitability.
Business products are types goods and services which make cost-effective purchasing decisions. Installations are major capital investments in the business to business market. For example, items in Publix have to constantly stay restock and fresh for consumers to purchase whenever they chose so. Publix has purchased 18 wheeler trucks to ship, carry, and deliver items to the store. A company truck is a capital investment and a major component of how the business operates.
INTRODUCING BOSE CORPORATION • Bose corporation is a producer of audio premium speaker used in automobiles, commercial broadcasting and individual consumers. • It headquarters is in Framingham, Massachusetts and plants in Michigan, Canada, Mexico and Ireland • Bose corporation has suppliers both locally and across the shore. Foreign materials account for 20% of materials used and rest internally within the state of Michigan.
JB Hi-Fi Limited (JBH) 1. Macro economic factors and Industry Analysis a. Describe the firms economic environment and evaluate how this has impacted historic firm performance and is likely relevant to future performance. b. Perform an industry analysis and evaluate the level of competition in the industry/ies that your firm operates 2. Business Strategy Analysis Identify the key success factors and risks of the firm 's strategy and the sustainability of profits generated by the strategy given the threat of competition.
Also, various methods of controlling costs such as standard costing system and flexible budgets have close relation with the variable costing system, in turn making it easy to use those methods. 3. Companies using variable costing system are able to prepare income statement in contribution margin format that provides necessary information for cost volume profit (CVP) analysis. On the flip side, this data cannot be directly obtained from a traditional income statement prepared under absorption costing
Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising, and, then purchasing power falling over a period of time. When price level rises, dollar buys fewer goods and services. Therefore, inflation results in loss of value of money.
Cadbury was originally founded by John Cadbury where he started a stall at Birmingham in 1824. John Cadbury retailed handmade cocoa and drinking chocolate which were produced by using a pestle and a mortar. As tea, caffeine, cocoa and drinking chocolate were deemed beneficial when compared to alcohol, John Cadbury was certain on establishing the production of his company on a viable scale and John Cadbury purchased a four-story warehouse for his production to take place. As a result, John Cadbury has successfully produced more than 10 assortments of drinking chocolate and 11 different cocoas by 1842.
Q. 2. Recent development in Technology has enabled huge global organizations to avail information easily in their premises for smooth functioning of various departments within an organization. Much of a company's success comes down to its Supply Chain Management and logistics. The development of Information Systems in SCM helps in cost reductions, customer satisfaction and productivity.
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By using low-cost incremental technology that software applied to inventory control, order selection, short interval scheduling as well as sales forecasting. Company have managed to reduce their inventory levels through just-in-time system, electronic direct interchange (EDI) and extranet enabling retailer and supplier to be in constant touch. Electronic warehousing systems are used for the storage of information. (Marketing policy, planning and communication) For any changes which may occur, the company must be ready to adapt by having IT department that will handles all the technological issues.
At first these companies has incur lot of expenses in the form of business modelling, testing and marketing their concept. Since, these companies are very small and initially operated and financed either by an individual or by partners together thereby the companies face many challenges with limited resources availing with ample opportunities. Now, if we see