Describe why a firm might wish to map its material flows? Identify potential benefits that could come from doing so.
What will be an ideal response?
A successful answer should indicate the intent of flow mapping, which is to improve management of flows. Doing so can help identify non-value-adding activities that can be targeted for improvement or elimination.
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Which of the following would not be considered a cash equivalent?
A) savings account fund to be used to retire bonds B) commercial paper C) undeposited credit card sales receipts D) money market fund securities
An approach for assessing reliability, which requires two equivalent forms of the scale to be constructed, and then measures the same respondents at two different times using the alternate forms is called ________
A) test-retest reliability B) alternative-form reliability C) internal consistency reliability D) random reliability E) binary reliability
The provision of computing power and disk space to client firms who access it from desktop PCs is known as
a. Computing-as-a-Service b. Infrastructure-as-a-Service c. Platform-as-a-Service d. Software-as-a-Service
The importance of intellectual capital has decreased in recent years. For this reason, many firms have placed greater attention on attracting, but not on developing or retaining talent.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)