Cost theory

Part 1 of ebook "Sports turf: Science, construction and maintenance" provides readers with contents including: general principles; identifying the problems; components of a drainage scheme - function and installation; alternative layouts; design criteria - theory and practice; cost benefit implications; interrelationships of sward biology, construction, maintenance and use; machinery, special equipment and DIY drainage;...

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This research investigates the impact of financial leverage on investment activities of Vietnamese enterprises by utilizing panel data regression with data collected from 98 companies listed on the Vietnam’s stock market from 2015 to 2022. The results from the FGLS regression method on data indicated that financial leverage has a negative impact on investment activities, supporting the agency cost theory and pecking order theory.

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This easy-to-understand reference helps you bridge the GAAP to Lean accounting. It articulates the best attributes of Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, balanced scorecard, activity-based management, and other world-class management philosophies in a single text. This book is a must-read for manufacturing managers, executives, financial managers, cost and management accountants, and controllers.

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The field of performance measurement has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of new measurement frameworks and methodologies, such as the balanced scorecard, the performance prism, economic value added, economic profit, activity based costing and self-assessment techniques. The book will appeal to graduate students, managers and researchers interested in performance measurement, whatever their discipline.

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Precious Pt metals deposited on reducible CeO2 oxide have been widely used in exhaust gas treatment. However, the high cost of Pt metals is the main barrier that prevents from applying the Pt metals. Therefore, a lot of efforts have been dedicated to reducing the Pt size as small as possible, aiming at maximizing Pt metal utilization efficiency. The smallest ultimate size that Pt metal can be deposited on CeO2 as single atom structures. Furthermore, the supported single Pt atom catalysts enhance catalytic performance and selectivity compared to Pt cluster or Pt particle counterparts.

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The primary goal of supply chain management is to meet customer needs through the most efficient use of resources, including the allocation of capacity, inventory and workforce. In theory, the supply chain management seeks to match supply and demand and seeks to do so at minimal cost. And the main indicator of changes in the ratio of supply and demand is the change in the price of products. Trend-seasonal time series models were used to analyze the price behavior in the milk market of the Northern region of Kazakhstan.

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The article examines how firm leverage affects firm performance in the context of high and low agency costs. It explores the agency theory’s proposition that loans can mitigate the agency problem between shareholders and managers while potentially exacerbating the problem between shareholders and lenders. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Secondary data from financial reports in Finn Pro and other sources was collected.

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The current study has placed an effort to disclose the application of the social capital theory in the supply chain. The Thai global buyers’ firms are taken as the final sample of the study. The SEM-PLS is used to analyze the data. It has been revealed in the present research that the focus of social capital is on the creation and knowledge sharing within and across the organizations. This is also indicated by the current research.

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The system of relations between the consumer and the seller has many factors that shape the dynamics of the market of goods and services based on the supply chain strategy. Supply chains satisfy customers by striving for delivering the right products to the right place at the right time, at the right quality and at the right quantity within an increasingly faster pace and lower cost. Theories of social entropy consider the system of social relations from the standpoint of the equilibrium of systems and their disproportion.

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Part 1 of ebook "Total quality management: Key concepts and case studies" includes the following main contents: Chapter 1 - Total quality management, an overview; Chapter 2 - Evolution of total quality management; Chapter 3 - Quality gurus; Chapter 4 - Leadership and TQM; Chapter 5 - Scientific management; Chapter 6 - System approach to management theory; Chapter 7 - Strategic planning; Chapter 8 - Cost of quality; Chapter 9 - Organization for TQM; Chapter 10 - Customer satisfaction;...

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Despite the efficacious communication evident in the buyer-supplier integration, material procurement performance in large manufacturing firms of Tanzania remains a challenge. The Resources Dependency and Transaction Cost Economics Theories were used in this study to analyze the influence of Early Supplier Involvement in design of specification, electronic information sharing, communication direction, and frequency of buyer supplier meetings, (all considered key in enhancing communication in the buyer-supplier integration) on the procurement performance.

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Ebook "Benefit-cost analysis: Financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets" offers the perfect introduction to benefit-cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which contributes to transparency, provides a check on the accuracy of the analysis, and facilitates sensitivity, risk and alternative scenario assessment.

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Part 2 book "Dog behavior - Modern science and our canine companions" includes content: Is it worth the risk: How costs and benefits drive decision-making and the evolution of behavior; you can’t always get what you want - The costs and benefits of being social; how I behave depends upon how you behave…maybe - Game theory and our canine companions; debunking dominance - Canine social structure and behavioral ecology; the tale of our first friends - Using the natural history of domesticated dogs to understand their behavior.

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"Trade policy: Lecture 5 - Trade theory at the firm level (New themes: trade costs, trade intermediaries, and preference utilization)" will cover the following: heterogeneous firms in international trade, what determines exports at the firm level?, trade intermediaries; free trade agreements and tariff preferences,... We invite you to refer to the lecture!

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Part 1 of ebook "CIMA’s official study system: Management accounting – Performance evaluation (Paper P1, 2006 edition)" provides readers with contents including: cost accounting systems; the theory and practice of standard costing; standard costing and performance evaluation; basic aspects of management accounting; the theory and practice of budgeting;...

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Part 1 of ebook "Principles of corporate finance (12th edition)" provides readers with contents including: introduction to corporate finance; how to calculate present values; valuing bonds; the value of common stocks; net present value and other investment criteria; making investment decisions with the net present value rule; introduction to risk and return; portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model; risk and the cost of capital; best practices in capital budgeting;...

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Ebook "At what price?: Conceptualizing and measuring cost-of-living and price indexes" examines the foundations for consumer price indexes, comparing the conceptual and practical strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of traditional “fixed basket” and COLI approaches. The book delves into a range of complex issues, from how to deal with the changing quality of goods and services, including difficult-to-define medical services, to how to weight the expenditure patterns of different consumers.

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Ebook "Corporate governance and accountability" has been written to provide readers with an up-to-date summary of both theory and practice in the area. Provides a full discussion of corporate governance issues taking the broadest view of the corporate governance agenda. Draws on the extensive and original research carried out by the authors and demonstrates the close relationship between academic research and professional practice.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Accounting for decision making and control (7th edition)" provides readers with contents including: cost allocation theory; cost allocation practices; absorption cost systems; criticisms of absorption cost systems; standard costs direct labor and materials; overhead and marketing variances;...

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Ebook "Essays in accounting theory in Honour of Joel S. Demski" is a collection of previously unpublished essays on accounting theory. The contributors are students, collaborators, colleagues and friends of Professor Joel S. Demski. Most of the contributors share Professor Demski’s view of accounting as the production and consumption of a very special and powerful economic good called information. Like Professor Demski, they also prefer an economic analytic approach to accounting theory.

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