Productivity Case Study: Domaine Chandon
For wineries like Domaine Chandon, making sparkling wine requires an enormous investment in everything from vineyards to corks. What makes the investment even riskier is that it takes several years for sparkling wine to mature. And the pursuit of pr...
Increasing Productivity
One way to increase productivity is by improving technology. Another is through long-term investment. Research and development, capital improvements, and workforce training can all be extremely expensive and may not pay off for years. But they do ge...
Depreciating Business Assets
The advantages, from a business perspective, of spreading the value of an asset over several years. This lesson also distinguishes between tangible and intangible assets.
Compound Interest
What is the difference between simple and compound interest? Also, illustrated how and when compound interest is used as well as introduce the basics of savings accounts and time deposit accounts.
Big Picture, The
Personal selling offers a broad range of career opportunities requiring a wide variety of expertise and skills on the part of the salesperson. Positions range from entry level jobs as sales trainees to highly paid sales supervisors and managers.
Annuities, Sinking Funds, and Amortization
Analyze different types of periodic payments that expand a business's or individual's purchasing and investment power.
Allocating Costs and Profits
The mathematics used to determine the profitability of a product or service by proper allocation of overhead costs.