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.
Answer:
Madison Corporation
The contribution margin per composite unit for the current sales mix is:
= $26.
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Products M N O
Current sales mix 3 1 2
Unit sales price $16 $11 $13
Unit variable costs 10 9 10
Unit contribution $6 $2 $3
Contribution margin per
composite unit $18 $2 $6
= ($6 * 3) ($2 * 1) ($3 * 2)
b) The contribution margin per composite unit is computed as the addition of the contribution margin per composite unit for each product. Each product's contribution margin per composite unit is calculated as the contribution per unit multiplied by the sales mix for each product.
Answer:
Polo will report $318,750 as its investment in Stallion at December 31, 20X8
Explanation:
Common stock = $300,000 acquired at 75%
Net income = $40,000
Pay dividends = $10,000
Increase in value of Patent = $50,000
Economic Life = 10
Amortization = $5,000
Therefore, the $ 5000 would be reduced from the net income.
Investments in Polo = $300,000 + [0.75 × (40000 - 10000 - 5000)]
= $300,000+ 0.75(25,000)
= $300,000+ $18,750
= $318,750
The money left over the cost of making a product or providing a service
Answer: Option (B) is correct.
Explanation:
The nominal GDP is equal to the real GDP in the base year, that's why GDP deflator in the base year is equal to 100.
GDP deflator is calculated as the nominal GDP divided by the real GDP multiply by 100. It is shown as:
GDP deflator = 
GDP deflator would be used as the conversion factor that transformed the real GDP into nominal GDP.
