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Calculate the total profit change from 2006 to 2007. How much of this change is attributable to productivity? To price recovery?
Prepare an environmental cost report for the most recent year, where costs are expressed as a percentage of sales (instead of operating costs).
Describe the four opportunities for improving ecoefficiency. What is an environmental cost?
Explain why ecoefficiency may be a better view of the world than that espoused by compliance management. Discuss factors that may support this view.
What is sustainable development? Explain why the WBCSD's claim about ecoefficiency may be true.
Calculate the environmental cost per pound for each product. Which of the two products appears to cause the most degradation to the environment?
Describe how the environmental improvements can contribute to improving the firm's competitive position.
Assess the relative environmental impacts of the two approaches to producing surfactants using only operational environmental measures.
Explain how performance evaluation is used to assess the effectiveness and viability of an organization's strategy.
Express an improvement strategy as a series of if-then statements that will reduce the conversion cost per printer.
Calculate the potential bonus for each perspective and objective. Describe how Mandy might award actual bonuses so that her managers
Compute quality cost as a percentage of sales for each of the two years. By how much has profit increased because of quality improvements?
What is the difference between quality of design and quality of conformance? Why are quality costs the costs of doing things wrong?
What is the purpose of interim quality standards? Describe the three types of quality performance reporting.
Discuss the benefits of quality cost reports that simply list the quality costs for each category.
What does it mean to have a quality product or service? Explain how product quality and conformance are related.
Calculate the average loss per unit. Assuming that 30,000 units were produced, what is the total hidden cost?
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND PROFITABILITY. Reading Company reported the following sales and quality costs for the past four years.
Calculate the relative distribution of costs by category for 2003. What do you think of the way costs are distributed? (A pie chart or bar graph
Prepare journal entries to record the March transactions in the General Journal below. Remember that Debits must equal Credits-All of your Journal Entries
Prepare a long-range performance report that compares the quality costs incurred at the end of 2007 with the quality cost structure
Prepare a graph that shows the trend for each quality cost category. What does the graph have to say about the success of the quality
Prepare a trend graph for total quality costs. Comment on what the graph has to say about the success of the quality improvement program.
Prepare a quality cost report by quality cost category. Calculate the relative distribution percentages for each quality cost category
Using the average loss, calculate the hidden quality costs for the first quarter.