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.
Unit pricing can be used in various types of contracts to require the buyer to pay the supplier a predetermined amount per unit of service.
Answer:
$304,720
Explanation:
According to the IRS, qualified principal residence indebtedness may include:
1) Debt incurred in order to purchase, build or improve your house or main residence, and the debt is secured by the house or principal residence (mortgage).
Or
2) Any house debt in (1) that is refinanced in order to improve, build or purchase something of your house or principal residence, e.g. you refinance your mortgage in order to build a swimming pool. The loan balance cannot exceed the original mortgage.
A fishing boat is not considered a home improvement, so the equity loan is not considered qualified residence indebtedness.
Answer: Limited liabilities and partnerships
Explanation:
Limited liabilities mean that the partners within the firm are only liable to pay off their debts with the amount they had invested as capital in the company. Partnership is an agreement between certain number of partners to share the profit and loss of the company. In this case since there is a 50/50 allocation of profits and there are only 2 partners therefore, this is a limited liability partnership.
