Essays on Edmonds

Product and Cost Allocation

“Luggage R Us” is a new luggage company that helps customers design, make and ship their own personalized travel luggage. The company offers four standard luggage sizes that can be used by individuals for business trips, couples on a romantic vacation, and even for a family of four. The four sizes are segregated into the carry-on, medium, large, and the extra-large (Samsonite, 2016). The standard size used for the carry-on is at 22”x14.5”x9.75”, which is within the maximum size limit for baggage for most airline companies (Samsonite, 2016). Figure 1. Luggage sizes offered However, most carry-on luggage ...

The airline industry is considered to be highly competitive and therefore airline company managers will need to determine the relevance of their current ERP systems with regards to the applicability of the financial information it generates. This is because the same quantitative and qualitative information is used for both financial and management accounting. However, the main goal of a company is to generate better profitability for its owners while remaining sustainable. This is done by controlling costs while improving revenues through the use of budgets and the standardization of costs and results to variances, which are primarily under management ...

Edmonds, Tsay, and Olds (2011, p.314) considers the cash budget to be one of the most important operating budgets developed by the company. The reason for this is that it reveals the amount of cash excess and deficit incurred by the company, which is usually on a monthly basis (Horngren, Harrison, & Oliver, 2012, p.1065). The additional purpose of the cash budget is that it reveals the amount of cash that can be used by the company for short-term investments or for the repayment of previous borrowings in the event of a cash excess (Edmonds, Tsay, & Olds, 2011, p.315). The ...

Prediction of Maize (Zea Mays L.) Population with Normalized-Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) and Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Prediction of Maize (Zea Mays L.) Population with Normalized-Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) and Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Introduction

With the escalation in cost production and environmental concerns, researchers have in the recent past focused in investigating resourceful means of increasing yields while reducing fertilizer use. Arnall & Godsey assert that the seeding rate and hybrids that promise the highest crop populations is continuously sort by corn cost cultivators worldwide (2013). Nielsen et al. notes that the crop populations are tied to the end yields. Corn populations have greatly increased in Indiana over the past thirty years to make about 340 plants ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has set requirements for the protection of the rights of employees so that their rights are not violated. The FLSA have set certain target or age and salary requirements for the employees. According to them, the minimum age of a person for employment is16 years. At this age, the FLSA allows a person to work for unlimited hours. The FLSA does not allow people under 18 in hazardous occupations. If school going individuals of 14 and 15 years want to work, they can work but with a valid work permit and certain limitations. ...

Environmental Sustainability and Its Potential Influence on Business in the Netherlands and China

In this paper, I will first describe the background of Dutch environmental legislation, making references to the historical reasons for its development. Then I will do the same activity for the current Chinese environmental laws, also referring to its historical issues. Next, I will compare key aspects of both policies and draw conclusions as to their effects on business and country growth.

The Netherlands

Jamison, Eyerman, Cramer, & Læssøe (1990, p. 121) indicate that the history of environmentalism in the Netherlands is very much interconnected with international developments since the 1960s. As such, the new environmentalist movement has significantly influenced ...

Investigative Study: Hotel Industry in Singapore

Abstract The hospitality industry, which has become today one of the largest industries in the world economy continues to grow rapidly. There is strong competition among the enterprises of the hotel industry, the hotel and each enterprise seeks to gain its market segment. In order to not only keep their business, but also to develop the company in this sphere needs money, which can be obtained only from the client. Therefore, the hotel should be able not only to attract, but also to encourage the client to purchase their services, and to return again and again. The success of ...

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Service Management

Executive Summary Service organizations face numerous challenges in an attempt to please their users. Discontentment and un-satisfaction among service users may lead to the organization in question being unpopular. Organization management differs from one organization to the other. Importantly, an organization can learn from another on how to address certain challenges. This report focuses on two service organizations in a similar industry (American Health Organization and American Red Cross), in relation to CRP. Both organizations offer CRP trainings, in addition to helping victims. The approaches the two employ differ. This report seeks to analyze such differences ...

Body Modification Is Influenced by Culture

Introduction This paper argues that body modification is influenced by the culture. To support such argument, the paper discussed the prevalence of body modifications in the form of tattoo and cosmetic surgery as the culture influenced them.

Body Modification in the form of Tattoo

Proofs of tattooing and associated practices started from the most primitive human societies. For instance, Egyptian mummies from the era of the Middle Kingdom have exposed a widespread culture of body marking. In a spiritual cosmology, the unassailable tattoos of humanity could be exchanged for spiritual privileges in the next life. In traditional cultures, tattoos commonly serves as an assurance for good ...

International and local beauty pageants is a very popular and, obviously, profitable kind of show business, which is extremely spread worldwide, especially after the Second World War. Every year in different parts of the world over a hundred local, regional, national, international competitions of beauty are held. This essay will reveal some major pros and cons of beauty pageants, on focusing on its negative side. The beauty pageant is a so called expression of the ‘women power’, even though it has both positive and negative sides. Divisive, subversive and provocative role of popular international show beautiful women clearly demonstrates ...

Introduction

Around 264 million children under the age of 15 years are working, 64 percent of these jobs come under the child labor category in legal terms (Edmonds, 2015). Child labor has become one of the causes and one of the consequences of limited or slow economic growth. Child labor dampens the future economic growth via its negative effect on child development and decreases the current growth by rejecting the adoption of skill developing technologies and reduces the unskilled wages. The limited economic growth in developing countries, leads to facilitation of low-paid jobs that are filled by child labor. Therefore, ...