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Transmission. At the end of 2008, General Motors kept having a negative net income even though the total costs and expenses were less than the previous year. GM was not able to increase its revenue which leads to an operating loss of 21 million in contrast to 43 million of dollars in 2007. In the year of 2009, as the year went by, General Motors wasn’t able to reduce its operating costs; moreover the economic condition didn’t help its financial decline. In 2008, General Motors decided despite

partial dollarization due to crises, foreign currency eventually completely replace the national currency. 2.b-Steps The stop issuing national currency following a formal decision. Indeed, the latter must be preceded by a study comparing the costs and benefits arising from full dollarization, knowing that money creation can generate revenue. The Central Bank has to buy the stock of domestic currency held by the agents and banks, it takes the currency is drawing from its international reserves

that the buyer isn’t very influential in the market industry 2) The bargaining power of suppliers The supplier determines the price and the quality of the product. In other terms a supplier with important power could constrain more expensive costs according to the elasticity of retailer demand. A company works in collaboration with their suppliers of materials or sevices in order to produce the final goods or services. The ice cream industry includes the following suppliers: • Machinery suppliers

to the delivery of services and or expenditure of funds by the provider. AMENDMENT A document by which significant changes are made to the terms of an executed contract. Changes requiring an amendment include, but are not limited to adjustments in costs, services, time period, and method of payment. The amendment is incorporated as part of the original contract. ATTACHMENT I The unique, program-specific part of a contract that contains the statement of work for each provider including services to

d’acheteurs et d’offreurs (vendeurs), on considère donc que les firmes ont le même pouvoir, la même influence. Internet est un réseau universel et mondial. * Transparence du marché * Facilité et faible coût pour chercher l‘information * « menu costs » apparemment peu importants cad que changer les prix ne coûte rien (coût d’étiquetage) * Rôle des comparateurs de prix comme Kelkoo * Homogénéité des biens : quand on achète ou on vend des biens il n’y a pas de spécificité du vendeur, c’est

taxe) absolute advantage - the ability to produce a particular good more cheaply than other countries. (Fr: avantage absolue) absorption costing - see full costing. (Fr: coût global) absorption rate – rate at which production costs are increased to absorb higher overhead costs. a/c or acc or acct – account. (Fr: compte) accelerated depreciation - subtracting a high proportion of the cost of capital investments from taxable profit during the first years of use. (Fr: amortissement accéléré) accelerator

rainwater will help reducing the cost of the rainwater bill, it’s good for the environment and will help us to keep the earth healthy. Instead of using drinking water we use rain water for most of applications and the government subsidies 50 % of the costs. The managers would be Mister Toiletflush and Miss Watertank. We would need 100.000 €, most of it will be needed for the new equipment (pumps, watertanks, filters) That would be for 80.000 € and 20.000 € will be needed for the formation of

inventorymanagement results in lower costs, which can be passed onto customers, andensures that the goods that the customers want are available when thecustomer wants them. The company estimates its international marketshare at 4.4 percent, below that of the leaders in this industry, but arespectable level for a company with a specialized market niche("Overview," 2 3). ReferencesBorn, P. Additionally, the information technology systemthat has helped the company reduce its costs should receive continuedsupport

account of tax rules that depart from accounting rules. B. CALCULATING THE TAXABLE PROFIT The taxable profit is equal to the difference between the gross operating profit and incidental income, on the one hand, and deductible costs and expenses, on the other hand. Under accounting rules, the gross operating profit is the difference between: ?? sales and services during the period plus the inventory at the end of the period, and ?? the

production organization based on a platform-team structure, while Daimler suffered from high production costs, partly because of its manufacturing based in Germany and its associated labor cots but also because of its single platform per model approach. In that sense then, Chrysler could help Daimler lowering its cots to be able to compete more effectively with Japanese brands (with lower production costs, like Lexus and infinity). 2. THE NEGATIVE POINTS Some negative points are well known in