Interpret the role that common law has played in health care in the United States. Assess the level at which common law has impacted overall decisions related to healthcare policy. Provide two (2) specific examples to support your rationale.
Differentiate between checks and balances in the separation of power. Specify two (2) examples related to health care from your state government in Georgia.
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(In case of JollyChic an online boutique ) Discuss the limitations and challenges while implementing recent technology with respect to traditional business methodologies.(at least 300 words)
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Read this and answer questions at the bottom.
How Much of Your $355 Ticket Is Profit for Airlines_ - WSJ.pdf
How Much of Your $355 Ticket Is Profit for Airlines?
Airlines are healthierthan everinancially—and that’s why they add more fees and more seats
Next time you board a flight, just imagine you’re putting a $20 bill in the airline’s tip jar. Profit per passenger at the seven largest U.S. airlines averaged $19.65 over the past four years— record-setting profitable years for airlines. In 2017, it stood at $17.75, based on airline earnings reports. In truth, airlines now cover their costs with tickets and get their profits from baggage fees, seat fees, reservation-change fees and just about all the other nickel-and-diming that aggravates customers. You might also call those extra 12 to 15 passengers now crammed onto each flight “Andrew Jackson” for the profit they bring. It takes a lot to earn a little moving people. U.S. airlines experienced plenty of years of steep losses, when creditors were subsidizing tickets for travelers. But now, profit margins—about 9% in 2017—are healthy. Keeping $20 from every passenger is about twice the profit airlines in the rest of the world get, according to data from the International Air Transport Association. “It’s certainly high by airline historic standards. But it’s not high if you look across other companies in the U.S. economy. It’s average,” says Brian Pearce, IATA’s chief economist. U.S. airlines were on pace to take in more than $4 billion in baggage fees and $3 billion in reservation-change and cancellation penalties in 2017, according to Transportation Department data. (The full year hasn’t been tallied yet.) Most of that drops straight to the bottom line. The two categories add up to about more than half of the net profits airlines posted last year. Airline earnings are further boosted by other fees for things like seats assignments, extra legroom, early boarding and pets, plus sales of frequent flier miles to banks for credit-card rewards. Given the $20-per-passenger haul ($40 round-trip), it’s easy to see why airlines are so intent on cramming in more seats, even when they know travelers hate the lack of space and complain bitterly about shrunken bathrooms, slim seat padding and skinny rows. Last year, the average round-trip fare on the seven largest U.S. carriers— American , Delta , United, Southwest , Alaska , JetBlue and Spirit —was $355, based on their financial reports, up from $351 in 2016. Getting an extra two rows of seats on a plane can mean the difference between profit and loss. Of course, some passengers are far more profitable than others. First-class and businessclass travelers are more valuable when they pay for their tickets; less when they get a free upgrade. But even then, road warriors are often upgraded from high-dollar, last-minute coach tickets. Frequent travelers account for a large percentage of airline revenue—and profit. Low-fare passengers shoehorned into the back of the plane may not even be covering what it costs to transport them. But they scored a low fare because the airline was concerned it might not fill all the seats on a particular flight, and some fare is better than no fare. IATA’s Mr. Pearce says airline profits last year were squeezed by higher fuel and labor costs, and that trend is continuing in 2018. Jet fuel prices were up 26% last year compared with 2016, and prices are expected to be about 10% higher this year. Airline fuel efficiency has improved significantly world-wide as newer planes go into service, and older gasguzzlers are retired. But higher fuel prices have driven airline costs higher. At the same time, expanding competition from low-fare carriers has kept fare increases small. Big airlines are building up in competitive markets like Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles. Even some cities that saw dramatic air-service cuts are getting more flights now; Delta recently announced an expansion in Cincinnati, for example. With more empty seats to sell, airlines are finding it even harder to raise ticket prices. “Fares are too low for oil prices this high,” American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said on an earnings call with analysts last month. “Over time you’ll see it adjust.” American spent $1.3 billion more on fuel in 2017 than the previous year, a 22% increase. The carrier also spent nearly $1 billion more on labor, a 9% increase. The airline grew only about 1% last year, so rising costs meant earnings were down $757 million. Thus Mr. Parker is pushing for higher fares. Among the big U.S. airlines, Southwest had the largest net profit margin last year, at 16.5%. Southwest continues to defy conventional airline wisdom. It doesn’t charge baggage fees; instead, it believes it attracts more passengers to each flight because many want to avoid the baggage fees charged by competitors. Alaska, JetBlue and Spirit all had higher profit margins than American, Delta and United. American had the lowest profit margin among the top carriers, at 4.5% in 2017. Airlines’ average profit margin of 9% is about average for a U.S. business. Last year McDonald’s posted a net profit margin of 23%; FedEx , 5%. But that average is a leap for an industry that had cumulative losses from 1979 to 2014 of $35 billion and suffered six major bankruptcies in the 2000s.
Questions.
1. How profitable are airlines today in comparison to historical performance? In comparison to other industries? |
2. What does the author mean when he states that airlines get their profits from fees rather than ticket sales? Is this based on the fact that there is no cost of goods sold as there is for ticket sales? Explain your answer. |
3. What earnings metric is used to compare profits across airlines of different sizes? |
4. Consider the note to the graphic entitled "Flight Change." How much difference exists in determining this metric across airlines? Do you think the differences hurt this comparison? Explain. |
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I'm working on a free store pop up shop.And the items that we would be using are schools supplies and donated cloths from students. So please i want the answers to this questions. please i need this asnwered asap
Questions
•How can handling of merchandise from different suppliers be coordinated?
•How much inventory should be on the sales floor versus in a warehouse or storeroom?
•How often should inventory be moved from non-selling to selling areas of a store?
•What inventory functions can be done during non-store hours?
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What are the three budget-management approaches available to institutions during budget reductions and how these approaches may differ for for-profit, government-subsidized, and endowment-based institutions.
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Carefully respond to the prompt below in at least two complete paragraphs and providing it with a descriptive title. In your view, what are the three key components of a successful informal report? How casual or relaxed should they be? Refer to any of the lessons and interactions or any other experiences that you have had in a class or at work.
2 Paragraphs PLEASE CITE SOURCES
NO COPYING FROM OTHER CHEGG ANWERS, SOLUTIONS OR OTHER SOURCE NO COPYING FROM WIKIPEDIA. NO SCREEN SHOTS OR IMAGES OF RESPONSE. PLEASE TYPE YOUR ANSWER OR UPLOAD DOCUMENT
IF REQUIREMENTS MENTIONED ABOVE ARE NOT MET I WILL GIVE A NEGATIVE RATING
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This question provides you with an opportunity to analyze the advantages of an organization that offers quality customer service. First, describe what it means to you to provide quality customer service for both internal customers and also external customers. Second, use your critical-thinking skills to explain how quality customer service can impact an organization's entire culture. Your response must be at least 200 words in length.
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Country of origin can strongly influence a firm’s approach to organization structure. As MNEs from China and India internationalize, to what extent are they likely to differ from Japanese, European, and U.S. MNEs?
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Partners as Fiduciaries In 1974, Dunay, Weisglass, and Koenig formed a partnership to engage in the brokerage business. They made no capital contributions to the partnership and agreed to share in all revenue and expenses on an equal basis. The partnership entered into an agreement with Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. to manage the latter's institutional investors services. The agreement did not provide any specific time limit. Each partner was appointed vice president of Ladenburg. Later, Dunay was appointed president of Ladenburg and was promised an additional share of profit for additional work on a year-to-year basis. Dunay contributed his salary as Ladenburg president and his additional share of the profits to the partnership. On April 2, 1979, Weisglass and Koenig told Dunay that they wished to dissolve the partnership and did so immediately, forming their own partnership, W.K. Associates, the same day. Dunay received from the original partnership $15,044, the amount reflected on the partnership's records as his unpaid share of partnership income. Dunay remained with Ladenburg for a short period of time, leaving when the Ladenburg board of directors removed him as president and appointed in his place Weisglass on May 10. Dunay then filed a lawsuit, alleging, among other things, that Weisglass and Koenig had breached their fiduciary duty in dissolving the partnership and forming a new partnership. As part of the suit, Dunay sought some of the profits earned by Weisglass and Koenig after the dissolution. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss Dunay's complaint. In whose favor did the court rule and why?"
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Part 1 Review the barriers to communication (filtering, emotions, information overload, differing perceptions). Provide at least one strategy for counteracting or overcoming each one of these barriers. Part 2 Identifying Your Barriers List two recent situations in which you experienced one or more of the barriers to a communication described in the chapter (filtering, emotions, poor listening, information overload, differing perceptions). Analyzing Your Barriers Next, explain in detail how these barriers disrupted the communication process in each situation. Overcoming Your Barriers Finally, list some specific ways that you could overcome or avoid these barriers to communication in similar situations in the future.
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Since there is no standard industry commission, discuss the factors that go into determining commission rates and payment schedules. Give an example of a commission calculation.
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how improving logistics performance will reduce production and trading costs and give comparative advantage to Saudi.
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Internet Marketing:
Whats internet Marketing?
Discuss an existing company that use internet marketing?
how it use Internet marketing to promote one of its products?
which product and why?
what are the benefit of internet marketing ?
Support Information:
As in any new industry or concept, the Internet has its share of confusing buzzwords and jargon. A website produced by Matisse Enzer, presents a comprehensive glossary of Internet terms. http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Many traditional elements of marketing easily translate into Internet marketing such as price, product, place and promotion. For example in terms of “promotion” tactics consider the following:
Traditional Marketing Internet Marketing
Broadcast advertising Banner ads
Direct Mail E-mail
Press releases Website
Promotions Pressroom
Networking Online Events
Word of Mouth Chat rooms/listserv
Viral marketing
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Explain what the importance of Strategic Marketing Planning is and how it is used at your workplace.
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