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What are the factors of production?

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Land, labor, materials, capital, entrepreneurship, knowledge

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Production

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creation of goods

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Production Management

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all the activities managers engage in to help firms create goods

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What activities does operations management include?

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Inventory management, quality control, production scheduling, follow up services

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What is the object of operations management?

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Provide high quality goods/services in response to customer demand

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Production Process

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Inputs, production control, outputs, (factors of production, planning/scheduling, goods/services)

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Process Manufacturing

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physically/chemically changing materials

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Continuous Process

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long production runs, turns out finished goods over time

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Intermittent Process

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short production runs, producer adjust machines frequently to make new products,

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Continuous vs Intermittent

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C: efficient, not marketable due to less variation of products,
I: marketable, less efficient

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CAD

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Computer-Aided Design (computer design products)

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CAM

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Computer Aided Manufacturing (computers manufacture products)

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CIM

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Combination of CAD and CAM, Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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What are the benefits of using technology in production?

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Long production run, lower labor costs, reduces error, efficient, changes are made quickly, cheaper in the long run

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Mass Customization

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tailoring products to meet needs of a large number of individual customers

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Facility Layout

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physical arrangement of resources, including people, to most efficiently produce goods/services,

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Assembly Line

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workers do only a few tasks at a time

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Modular Organization

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teams produce more complex units of goods

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Fixed Position

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workers congregate around product (airplanes)

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What is the ideal production layout?

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one that results in reduced costs, greater efficiencies, shorter interval from order to delivery, higher level of predictability

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What is Purchasing?

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function that searches for high quality material resources, finds best suppliers, negotiates price for goods/services

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JIT

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Just-In-Time; supplies are delivered just in time to go on assembly line to complete orders, minimum inventory

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Quality Control

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consistently producing what customers want while reducing errors before and after delivery

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Six Sigma Quality

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quality measure that allows only 3.4 defects per million opportunities

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PERT
Program Evaluation & Review Technique; method for analyzing tasks involved in completing a given project and estimating time needed
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Critical Path
sequence of tasks that takes longest to complete; where to focus energy
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GANTT
bar graph of current projects and completion status
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Lean Manufacturing
using fewer resources compared to mass production
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Flexible Manufacturing
machines do multiple tasks to produce various products
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Interfirm Operations Management
create relationships with suppliers and work with companies to produce and ship goods
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What is Accounting?
concepts/stories represented by numbers
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Accounting Role
recording, classifying, summarizing, interpreting of financial events and transactions
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Who is interested in Accounting details?
Employees, owners, creditors, unions, investors, government
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What is the Accounting System?
1) Accounting documents 2) Processing 3) Financial Statements
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Managerial Accounting
info/analysis to managers within organization
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Financial Accounting
info/analysis for outside organizations
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Annual Report
yearly statement of financial condition, progress, and expectations of firm
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Accounting Equation
Assets = Liabilities + Owner Equity
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Balance Sheet
snapshot in time of company financials, used to see if firm has enough resources to meet obligations (debt)
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Income Statement
transactions over a specific time period
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Cash Flow Statement
measure of strength, profitability, and provides an outlook on future of firm, how much cash is available for use in a given time
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Sales
Revenue = (units sold)(price), minus expenses
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How does the balance sheet explain net worth?
analyzes the value of company's assets compared to liabilities
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Net Worth
shows how much a business is actually worth to its owners
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Ratio Analysis
compares company's performance to financial objectives and performance to other firms
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Liquidity Ratios
measures a company's ability to turn assets into cash to pay short-term debt
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Leverage Ratios
measure the degree to which a firm relies on borrowed funds, evaluates a firm's debt
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Activity Ratios
measure how effectively management is turning over inventory
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Auditing
reviewing/evaluating information used to prepare a company's financial statements
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Tax Accounting
trained in tax law and responsible for preparing tax returns and developing tax strategies
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COGS Formula
Purchase Price + Freight Charges + Storage Costs
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Operating Cycle
Cash, Production, Inventory, Sales
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Business Activites
Operating, Investing, Financing
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Sources of Money
Debt and Equity Financing
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Debt Financing
funds raised through various forms of borrowing that must be repaid (banks or bonds)
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Equity Financing
take on new owners/stockholders
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Bonds
long-term loan
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Primary Market
firms sell bonds/stocks for the first time
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Secondary Market
owners trade perviously issued bonds/stocks
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Owner's Rights
give firm money, own piece of firm, share risk and reward
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Book Value
Owner's Equity/Number of Shares
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Earnings Per Share
Net Income/Number of Shares
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Dividend
cash payment to owners from profit
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Yield
Dividend/Price
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Current Ratio
Current Assets/Current Liabilities
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Quick Ratio
Current Assets - Inventory /Current Liabilities
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Finance
function of business that acquires funds for firms and manages them within firm
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Financial Planning
Short-term & long-term forecasting, budgets, establish financial controls
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Short-Term Forecasting
predicts revenues, costs, expenses for 1 year or less
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Long-Term Forecasting
predicts revenues, costs, expenses longer than a year
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Budget
expectations for revenue and allocation of resources
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Operational Funds
managing daily needs, acquiring needed inventory, controlling credit operations, making capital expenditures
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Trade Credit
practice of buying goods/services now and paying later
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What are the benefits to trade credit?
short-term funding, least expensive, most convenient
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Secured Loan
backed by collateral, often property
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Factoring
selling accounts receivable by cash
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Commercial Paper
funds for only a few months, unsecured
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Leverage
raising funds through borrowing to increase a firm's rate of return
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Pros and Cons of Debt Financing:
don't distribute wealth, receive more wealth, risk of high interest rates,
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Pros and Cons of Equity Financing:
don't owe any money, high risk, high reward, own only a portion of company
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Debt to Equity Ratio
Total Debt /Total Owner's Equity
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What is the purpose of D/E ratio?
measures amount owned to owed, shows the ability to cover debts, used to compare with other firms
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What does a high D/E Ratio indicate?
indicates a firm has been aggressive in financial growth, can end in volatile earnings
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Falling Dollar Value
amount of goods/services you can but with $1 decreases, increases exports
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Rising Dollar Value
amount of goods/services you can but with $1 increases, decreases exports
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What causes the dollar to rise and fall in value?
due to the position of US economy relative to other global economies
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What is the Feds dual mandate?
maintain max employment while keeping prices stable
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Inflation
too much money chasing too few goods
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Deflation
too little money chasing too much goods
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Money Supply
amount of money Fed makes available
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Reserve Requirement
percent of money that has to be physically kept in banks
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Open-Market Operations
buying/selling of government bonds
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Discount Rate
interest rate Fed charges for loans to banks
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Check-Clearing
process of delivering checks between paying and receiving banks
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Commercial Banks
profit-seeking organization, receives deposits, uses funds to make loans
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Demand Deposit
Checking account, money available on demand
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Savings and Loan Association
financial institution, provides home mortgage loans, promotes consumer thrift
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Credit Unions
non-profit, member owned financial cooperatives, short term loans
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Nonbank
financial organizations that don't accept deposits, offer life insurance and pension funds
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FDIC
Federal Deposit insurance Corporation; independent agency that insures bank deposits
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Bitcoin
fully digital currency with no government involvement
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Crypto Currency
Ledger - Trust + Cryptography

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