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Rock Cookware, Inc: Student Coaching Notes

Rock Cookware, Inc: Student Coaching Notes. Variable Costs: a cost whose total changes directly and proportionally with volume. Variable costs are constant on a per unit basis.

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Rock Cookware, Inc: Student Coaching Notes

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  1. Rock Cookware, Inc: Student Coaching Notes

  2. Variable Costs: a cost whose total changes directly and proportionally with volume. Variable costs are constant on a per unit basis. For example: a necklace requires $235 each for gold, clasp, and stone. The materials cost is $235 for one necklace and $23,500 if we produce 100 units. Questions 1, 2, & 3:Cost Behavior

  3. Fixed Cost: is constant in total regardless of the number of units produced within the relevant range of operations or within a time period. Committed fixed costs are costs like depreciation where we have purchased a plant asset and will spread its cost over time. Managed fixed costs are costs like marketing or research and development that we have decided to incur based on a strategic budgeting or decision making process. Questions 1,2, & 3:Cost Behavior

  4. Attributable Cost is a cost that is incurred to benefit a product, a department, or other organizational unit, that could be avoided if the unit or product did not exist. This is not a short run concept. Costs that are attributable to a product or organizational unit may have to be managed and eliminated. Consider the physical plant and machinery devoted to manufacturing a product. If the product is eliminated from the line, ultimately the equipment and plant will have to be sold or adapted to do something else productive. Questions 1,2, & 3: Attributable Cost

  5. Question 4:Strict Product Liability • Defendant is a MerchantSelling the Underlying Product for Use or Consumption • The Product was Defective: Marketing Defect, Design Defect • Causation

  6. Question 4:Punitive Damages • Compensatory vs. Punitive Damages • Standard for Granting Punitive Damages Granted only in exceptional and egregious instances • Defining Egregious A deliberate act or omission with knowledge of a high degree of probability of harm and reckless indifference to consequences • Egregious Conduct in Product Liability Cases When a manufacturer has knowledge that his product poses a grave risk to the health or safety of itsusers and fails to take any protective or remedial action

  7. Question 5: How to Analyze Ethical Problems in Business • Guidelines to use to help us make ethical decisions • Utility: Cost-Benefit Analysis • Rights: Determining and Protecting Entitlements • Justice: Is it fair?

  8. Question 6: Five Tests of Strategic Thinking • Test 1: Ability To See the Whole Picture • Test 2: A Sense of Direction or Destiny • Test 3: Openness to New Experience • Test 4: Gap Between Current Reality and Future • Test 5: Use of Creative and Critical Thinking

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