The following two technologies provide support for SCM (supply chain management). For each of the following two technologies, provide an example and explain how each example could help to improve Target’s SCM:

(i) Electronic data interchange (EDI) which is a communication standard that enables business partners to exchange routine documents electronically. (Section 11.7, p. 319-320).

(ii) Extranets, which link business partners over the Internet by providing them access to certain areas of each other’s corporate intranets. (Section 11.7, p. 321-322).

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choose a procedure listed in the chapter reading. You will pretend that you are a Healthcare Provider and explain the procedure to the patient.

Please discuss the procedure in detail (language that the patient will understand), side effects, long term outlook of the procedure.

Then choose 10 terms related to the procedure (listed in the chapter reading), define the terms, and explain how it is related to the procedure.

Based on the 1960–2005 period, if a Canadian company were to import from Brazil and must pay in Brazilian reias when the goods are delivered in 90 days, should the company get the currency through the spot or the futures market? Why? Would it be different if the company had to pay in US$? Explain.

Especially, this part "Would it be different if the company had to pay in US$? ", please explain in detail. thanks

Name a product that you regularly purchase from a firm that operates in an oligopolistic industry. Explain why the product and firm fit the model of oligopoly. Think about the TV commercials and/or print advertisements that you’ve seen from this industry: What interdependence have you noticed between the firm you selected and its rivals in terms of product differentiation, price leadership, or price competition? Explain your answer.

Name a product that you regularly purchase from a firm that operates in an oligopolistic industry. Explain why the product and firm fit the model of oligopoly. Think about the TV commercials and/or print advertisements that you’ve seen from this industry: What interdependence have you noticed between the firm you selected and its rivals in terms of product differentiation, price leadership, or price competition? Explain your answer.

4. Explain Adam Smith’s notions of natural and market prices. What, according to Smith, determines the natural price, the value, of commodities in “an early and rude state of society”? How does this change once stock has been accumulated? Explain briefly.

Assignment Details

Please use your own experiences and the knowledge you have gained from this week’s readings to answer the following topics and questions. You may also use information that you find in the textbook, AIU’s library or the Internet to support your discussion. Make sure you use economic concepts in your main contribution.  

Think of items that you have purchased in a market:

• Big ticket items like a house, or an apartment rental, or a car;
• Or ordinary items in your weekly budget, like coffee, tea, gasoline, bread, Milk, etc.
  
  You can consider some of the following questions in your contribution.

1. What price trends have you noticed over the last few years? Do the prices fluctuate? Have prices increased or decreased?
2. How would you use what you have learned concerning Supply and Demand to explain these trends?
3. Have there ever been any shortages or surpluses? How would you explain that?

1. Explain how economic analysis can assist in understanding why individuals commit crimes. What does this analysis have to say about attempts to reduce crime?
2. Explain how an optimal level of government expenditure on a public good or service can be arrived at.
3. Based on the equimarginal principle, do you think that a reallocation of the current government’s crime prevention budget could lead to a fall in crime rates?
4. Political pressure remains high for mandatory minimum sentences for those convicted of certain crimes. Based on your understanding, discuss the likely consequences of such sentences.
5. Explain how economic analysis can assist in understanding why individuals commit crimes. What does this analysis have to say about attempts to reduce crime?
6. Explain how an optimal level of government expenditure on a public good or service can be arrived at.
7. Based on the equimarginal principle, do you think that a reallocation of the current government’s crime prevention budget could lead to a fall in crime rates?
8. Political pressure remains high for mandatory minimum sentences for those convicted of certain crimes. Based on your understanding, discuss the likely consequences of such sentences.

Red Bear Ltd. purchased several intangible assets, as follows:

The following information is also available:

a) Calculate the annual amortization expense, if any, that should be recorded for each of these intangible assets, assuming the straight-line method is appropriate. (Do not leave any answer field blank. Enter 0 for amounts.)

b) Show how the intangible assets section of the statement of financial position would be presented four years after acquisition of these assets, assuming that there has been no evidence that their values have been impaired. Assume that a full year of amortization was taken in the year of acquisition.

Pick a product or labor market that you can talk about. Be specific when answering the questions about your market.

Give an example of market that you buy or work in.How does the market work? How many buyers are there? How many sellers? Is there a middleman in this market? What is the role of the middleman? How is the middleman lowering the transaction costs for buyers and sellers? Is the middleman likely to be replaced or eliminated in your market? Explain why or why not.What is the product that is being sold? How are prices set? How is the quality/service set?Are there innovations? How do they happen?