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Absorption Costing

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Is GAAP, Fixed manufacturing overhead is a product cost

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Access Controls

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Limit access to program documentation, data, programs and hardware

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Access Point

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Connects communication devices to form a wireless network

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Accounting Information System

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Type of management information system. partly a transaction processing system and partly a knowledge system.

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Accounting profit

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Total revenue - explicit costs

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Activity Based Costing

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Divides production into activities where costs are accumulated into multiple pools and allocated to product based on level of activities

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Ad Hoc Reports

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Report that does not currently exist but can be created on demand

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Aggregate Demand

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Maximum quantity of all goods and services that households, firms and gov’ts are willing and able to purchase at any given price. Quantity of goods and services demanded increases as prices decline. Factors that shift the curve are wealth, real interest rates, consumer confidence, exchange rates, govt spending, taxes

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Aggregate Supply

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Maximum quantity of goods that providers are willing and able to produce at any given price. Firms are willing to produce more goods at higher prices. Shifts are caused by changes in resource prices and supply shocks

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Application firewall

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Examines data in the packets themselves

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Appraisal Cost

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Costs to discover and remove defective parts before they are shipped to customer

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Capital Rationing

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Used when investment funding is limited. Capital is rationed amongst competing projects by using a higher cost of capital or by setting a maximum for the entire capital budget.

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Cold Site

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For disaster recovery - an off site location that has all the electrical connections and other physical requirements but no actual equipment

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Contribution Margin

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Sales - Variable Costs

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Conversion Costs

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Direct Labor and Manufacturing Overhead

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Cost Push Inflation

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Caused by reductions in short run aggregate supply

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Data Administrator

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Responsible for the definition, planning and control of the data within a database

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Data Mart

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Limited Scope data warehouse

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Database Administrator

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Responsible for maintaining and supporting the database software. May also perform some or all of the security functions for the database

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Debenture

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Unsecured bond

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Demand pull inflation

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Caused by increases in aggregate demand

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Denial of Service Attack

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One computer bombards another with a flood of information intended to keep legitimate user from accessing the target computer

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Differential Costs

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Difference between two alternatives

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Direct Costs

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Costs that can be identified or traced to cost object

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Direct labor efficiency variance
Standard rate x Actual Hours - Standard rate x standard hours
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Direct labor rate variance
Actual Hours x Actual Rate - Actual Hours x Standard Rate
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Direct Material Price variance
Actual Quantity x Actual Price - Actual Quantity x Standard Price
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Direct Material Usage variance
Standard Price x Actual Quantity - Standard Price x Standard Quantity
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Economic Order Quantity
Order quantity that minimizes the combo of ordering and carrying costs
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Engineered Costs
Have a causal relationship between the incurrence and the output
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Explicit Costs
Documented out of pocket costs
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Extranet
Permits outsiders to have direct access to company's network
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Financial Leverage
The degree to which a firm uses fixed financial costs to magnify the effects of a given percentage change in earnings before interest and taxes
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Frictional Unemployment
Results from workers routinely changing jobs or from workers being temporarily laid off
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Hot Site
For disaster recovery - off site location equipped with everything needed to begin transaction processing
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Ideal Standard
Standard costs that result from perfect efficiency and effectiveness
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Incremental Costs
Difference between two alternatives
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Internal Failure Costs
Costs to cure a defect before the product is sent to customer
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Kaizen
Is continuous improvement. Implemented by improving every aspect of a business practice in a step by step approach while gradually developing employee skills. HR is most important firm asset, processes must evolve by gradual improvement, improvement based on quantitative performance
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Kinked demand curve
The demand curve of an oligopolist
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Liquidity Risk
Risk that a security will not be able to be sold quickly without large price concession
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Lockbox
Payment collection system in which payers send their payments directly to bank
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Long Run Aggregate Supply
The economy's maximum rate of sustainable output given its current resource base, level of technology, and institutional arrangements. It is the optimal productive capacity of the economy that is dictated by the fixed PPE assets currently in place
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Management Information System
Provides managerial and other end users with reports
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Mapping
the process of determining the correspondence between data elements in an organization's terminology and data elements in standard EDI terminology
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Margin of Safety
Excess of sales over sales at breakeven point
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Marginal Cost
The change in total cost due to one unit increase in output
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Marginal Product
Change in total product due to one unit increase in quantity of variable input
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Marginal Propensity to Consume
The change in consumption due to a $1 increase in income
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Market Equilibrium
State in which there are no forces acting to change the current price/quantity combination of a good or service
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Market Risk
Risk of an individual stock or in a portfolio that cannot be eliminated by diversification
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Market Size Variance
Budgeted Contribution Margin per Unit x Budgeted Market Share x (Actual Market Size - Expected Market Size)
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Market Share Variance
Budgeted Contribution Margin per Unit x Actual units sold x (Actual Market Share - Budgeted Market Share)
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Maturity Risk Premium
Interest premium to compensate investors for a longer maturity of bonds
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Mirroring
The use of a backup computer to duplicate all of the processes and transactions on the primary computer. If primary fails then backup takes immediate place
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Money Market Hedge
Simultaneous borrowing and lending transactions in two different currencies to lock in the domestic currency value of a foreign currency
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Monopolistic Competition
Market consists of many firms selling a slightly differentiated product. Few barriers to entry
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Monopsony
Only one buyer. In a labor market - only one employer
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Monopoly
Consists of one firm that is the only seller of a product. Significant barriers of entry and no close substitutes for the good sold by the monopolist. Monopolists are price setters
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Oligopoly
Consists of small number of firms selling similar products. There are significant barriers to entry and strong interdependence
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Operating Leverage
The degree to which a firm uses fixed operating costs to magnify the effects of a given percentage change in sales on the percentage change in earning before interest and taxes.
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Operating Risk
Risk of doing the right things in the wrong way
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Perfect Competition
Large number of sellers each of which sells a nearly identical product. Few barriers to entry and firms are price takers
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Phishing
Sending of phony e-mails to lure people to phony websites asking for information
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Prevention Costs
Costs to prevent the production of defective units. Include inspection, preventive maintenance, redesign of products and processes
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Price Floor
Minimum price - If price floor is set above the equilibrium price in a market a surplus will develop
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Recession
Economy experiences negative real economic growth for two consecutive quarters
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Structural Unemployment
Arises when the skills of workers do not match the skills demanded
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System Analyst
Charged with the design of an internally developed application system and the type of computer network needed.
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System Programmer
Responsible for installing, supporting, monitoring and maintaining the operating system
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Transaction Exposure
Risk that a firm could suffer economic loss or experience economic gain upon settlement of individual transactions as a result of foreign exchange rates
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Translation Exposure
Risk that a company's equity, assets or income will change in value as a result of a foreign exchange rate changes
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Steps in Value Chain Analysis
1) Id value chain activities 2) Id cost drivers 3) Develop competitive advantage by reducing cost or adding value
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Vertical Integration
Improvement of a value chain through the supply end and the demand end in the same industry
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Warm Site
Facility that is stocked with all the hardware necessary to create a reasonable facsimile of primary data center

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