Not all resources of a given type are identical: Customers differ in size and profitability, staff differ in experience, and so on. This chapter will show you the following:
how to assess the quality of your resources
how resources bring with them potential access to others
how you can improve resource quality
how to upgrade the quality of an entire strategic architecture
6.1 Assessing the Quality of Resources
Few resources are as uniform as cash: Every dollar bill is the same as all the others. Most resources, however, vary in important ways:
Customers may be larger or smaller, highly profitable or less so.
Products may appeal to many customers or few, and satisfy some, many, or all of their needs.
Staff may have more experience or less, and cost you high salaries or low.
A single resource may even carry several characteristics that influence how the resource stock as a whole affects other parts of the system. Individual bank customers, for example, feature different balances in their accounts, different numbers of products they use from the bank, different levels of risk of defaulting on loans, and so on. A resource attribute is a characteristic that varies between different items in a single pool of resources. These differences within each type of resource will themselves change through time. For example, if we lose our most profitable customers our operating profits will fall faster than if we lose only average customers.
<span>Experience teaches the things which a book can not teach. Thus, having extra work experience gives an edge to the person with higher experience with person with lesser experience. Lawrence's experience is more than his younger employees hence he knows various aspects of his work profile than the youngsters.</span>
Answer:
$31.9211
Explanation:
We discount the future two year dividends at the required rate of return
and solve for the present value of the infinite series of dividends growing at 3.6% with the dividend grow model:
PV 33.6
Then we discount this by the two years ahead of time these cashflow start and add them to get the PV of the stock which is their intrinsic market value
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Answer:
The overhead for the year was $130,075
Explanation:
GIVEN INFORMATION -
ESTIMATED ACTUAL
Manufacturing overhead $132,440 $128,600
Machine hours 2800 2750
Here for calculating the overhead for the year we will use the following formula =
\frac{Estimated Manufacturing Overhead}{Estiamted Machine Hours}\times Actual Machine Hours
= \frac{\$132,440}{2800}\times 2750
\$47.3\times 2750 = \$130,075
Therefore the overhead for the year was $130,075
Answer:
b. 30%
Explanation:
The computation of the percentage increased in sales from the previous year to the current year is shown below:
= (Current year Sale - Preceding year Sale) ÷ (Preceding year Sale
)
= ($325,000 - $250,000) ÷ ($250,000)
= ($75,000) ÷ ($250,000)
= 30%
Hence, the correct option is b. 30%
We simply applied the above formula to determine the percentage increased in sales
