Answer:
Equity or Economic equality is the concept or idea of fairness in economics, particularly in regard to taxation or welfare economics.
Back in 2015, McDonald’s was struggling. In Europe, sales were down 1.4% across the previous 6 years; 3.3% down in the US and almost 10% down across Africa and the Middle East. There were a myriad of challenges to overcome. Rising expectations of customer experience, new standards of convenience, weak in-store technology, a sprawling menu, a PR-bruised brand and questionable ingredients to name but a few.
McDonald’s are the original fast-food innovators; creating a level of standardisation that is quite frankly, remarkable. Buy a Big Mac in Beijing and it’ll taste the same as in Stratford-Upon Avon.
So when you’ve optimised product delivery, supply chain and flavour experience to such an incredible degree — how do you increase bottom line growth? It’s not going to come from making the Big Mac cheaper to produce — you’ve already turned those stones over (multiple times).
The answer of course, is to drive purchase frequency and increase margins through new products.
Numerous studies have shown that no matter what options are available, people tend to stick with the default options and choices they’ve made habitually. This is even more true when someone faces a broad selection of choices. We try to mitigate the risk of buyers remorse by sticking with the choices we know are ‘safe’.
McDonald’s has a uniquely pervasive presence in modern life with many of us having developed a pattern of ordering behaviour over the course of our lives (from Happy Meals to hangover cures). This creates a unique, and less cited, challenge for McDonald’s’ reinvention: how do you break people out of the default buying behaviours they’ve developed over decades?
In its simplest sense, the new format is designed to improve customer experience, which will in turn drive frequency and a shift in buying behaviour (for some) towards higher margin items. The most important shift in buying patterns is to drive reappraisal of the Signature range to make sure they maximise potential spend from those customers who can afford, and want, a more premium experience.
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Answer: $155,520
Explanation:
Pension Expense = Service Cost - Expected return on plan assets + Prior service cost amortization + Interest cost
Interest Cost
= Interest rate * Projected benefit obligation
= 0.09 * 728,000
= $65,520
Pension Expense = 110,000 - 30,000 + 10,000 + 65,520
= $155,520
Answer:
(a) 9.9%
(b) 10.09%
The further explanation is given below.
Explanation:
The given values are:
Coupon payment
= $99
Price
= $1,000
(a)
The Yield to maturity (YTM) will be:
= 
where,
C = Coupon payment
P = Price
n = years to maturity
F = Face value
On putting the estimated values is the above formula, we get
⇒ 
⇒ 
⇒ 
%
(b)
Although the 1st year coupon was indeed reinvested outside an interest rate of r%, cumulative money raised will indeed be made at the end of 2nd year.
= ![[99\times (1 + r)] + 1,099](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5B99%5Ctimes%20%281%20%2B%20r%29%5D%20%2B%201%2C099)
Came to the realization compound YTM is therefore a function of r, as is shown throughout the table below:
Rate (r) Total proceeds Realized YTM (
)
7.9% 1205.8 9.8%
9.9% 1207.8 9.9%
11.9% 1209.8 9.99%
Now,
Overall proceeds realized YTM:
= 
= 
= 
= 
= 
= 
= 
%
Answer:
B. I, II, and IV only
Explanation:
Job specialization can be defined as a strategic process which typically involves the ability of employees working in an organization to develop specific skills, knowledge, great expertise or professionalism and experience to perform their duties, tasks or job functions effectively and efficiently.
In order to gain the requisite skills, expertise and knowledge for job specialization, it is very important for the employees to have undergone an extensive training and a good number of years in work experience.
The primary purpose of job specialization is to increase efficiency and productivity because the employees are able to specialize in the use of specific tools (equipments) to accomplish their tasks, as well as limit the level of error or mistakes in the production process.
In Business management, method analysis can be defined as the study of the detailed process for the performance of a job i.e how a job is done. Thus, method analysis gives a detailed report on the tasks involved in the performance of a job and how they are to be done.
Basically, methods analysis is particularly valuable when it is used on jobs that:
1. Are high in labor content.
2. Are done frequently.
3. Are unsafe, tiring, unpleasant, and/or noisy.
