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.
The adjusting entry would recognise insurance expense of $1,500.
Explanation:
The policy of an insurance company, tax insurance, insurance for business failure, etc. typically lasts a year, with payments charged in full (insurance premiums). Insurance policy is never the same as the financial year of the product. There are also expected to be several consolidated financial statements and some partial financial statements for compensation premiums.
Example of insurance premium payment:
On 31 December, the insurer files an correction report in order to document the expired (extended) cost of insurance and to the the pre-paid number. This is done with an premium fee of $1,000 and a prepayment policy bonus of $1,000.
Answer:
a differentiation advantage
Explanation:
This scenario best illustrates a differentiation advantage. This is basically when a company is able to offer a product that, despite being the same as the competitor's product, is slightly different or offers something that the competitors do not. This small difference is what attracts the customers and increases profits. In this case, Fashion Mart Corp is differentiating their product by providing a guarantee of quality, which the competitors offering similar products cannot offer.
Answer: A) Federal National Mortgage Association pass-throughs.
Explanation:
From the question, we are informed that a resident of Minnesota is in the 28% federal tax bracket and the 4% state tax bracket. This person must pay both federal and state taxes on Federal National Mortgage Association pass-throughs.
It should be noted that the securities of most government agencies in the United States are typically exempted from paying the local and state taxes but they have to pay federal taxes.
