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Category: Cost Managerial
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Inspiration is where you find it. In the advanced cost class, students will be presenting alternate case studies of Mocha Java, start a neighborhood coffee shop, and Cactus Flower, start a xeri scaping service to conserve water. In one of the 3314 classes, we are doing Blanco Cafe. In hopes of generating more enthusiasm and…
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Younger readers, that would be most of you, may be surprised to learn that Sony was once the electronics giant that everyone else benchmarked. Their Trinitron TV used three instead of one electron gun to produce a superior picture in the late 1960s to early 1970s. US importers were even then so taken with Japanese…
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Warren Buffet and George Soros both increased their positions in Wal Mart. Target is playing catch up to the discount retailer now that buying patterns are firmly back in discount mode.
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* President Akio Toyoda followed up his statement that he thinks Toyota is at "stage 4" of the management book, "How the Mighty Fall," described as "grasping for salvation," by saying he thinks Toyota can move out of stage 4, "because it is blessed with the best dealers and employees in the world." Carter added…
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Here is another 2006 idea trying to, literally, float in the New Normal. Royal Caribbean commissioned this $1.5 Billion cruise ship. Yep, 6300 passengers which is about the entire population of well, Crane, Texas. the smoke stack retract so it could fit under the bridge outside the Danish shipyard where it was built. Cost students…
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If Chrysler is going to make it, someone is going to have to come up with some money. That's my favorite saying about accounting, sooner or later it's all about the money. Jerry Flint takes a look at the capital budgeting options for Chrysler. Interestingly Fiat has yet to put up a dime, smart guys…
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Katenzenberg of Dreamworks on the movies. Note his discussion of costs and adapting to new delivery platforms. But I found his observation that being in a movie theater is great but in India they are watching movies on cell phones. I will pass on watching the movie on the cell phone… I do agree that…
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SAWS is offering their Drought Relief Kit. Thos of you working on the Cactua Flower Project (graduate course) should take note. I believe that this is very much a project that is timely and green. As SAWS says, do not let the recent rains deceive you about the need to conserve water. I believe…
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Those of you working on the coffee shop case might start exploring neighborhood shops in the area. La Taza is in my neighborhood, take a look. Mocha Java now has three locations in San Marcos. How many other examples are there of independent coffee shops can you find in the area? Gee I don't mean to…
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Those of you working on the coffee shop case might start exploring neighborhood shops in the area. La Taza is in my neighborhood, take a look.
Professor Elam 