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What If Management Accounting Procreated?
Zack Saeger
Dr. A.J. Cataldo II Ph.D. CPA CMA
ACC 303
July 22 2008
What if Management Accounting Procreated?
While in pursuit of a bachelors degree in business one is faced with the obstacle of learning and comprehending many disciplines in the business world. Course work in Accounting Economics Finance Statistics Marketing and Management are required before entering into your discipline of choice. The following will attempt to prove that this is advantageous since many topics can be interwoven to help better understand one another.
In Accounting the concepts of fixed cost expenses that do not change in with the amount of activity of a business variable costs expenses that change in with the amount of activity of a business and total revenue the total number of dollars collected by a firm from sale of a product are heavily analyzed and must be understood. These are often graphed with dollars on the vertical axis and number of units on the horizontal axis. In addition to fixed and variable cost and total revenue the concepts of releveant range capacity at which one can produce and breakeven the point in which costs equals revenue are graphed as well.
This same graphical representation can be used to decribe the stages of teamwork a common management concept. These stages first presented by Bruce Tuckman in 1965 are forming storming norming and performing. The first two forming: the stage in which the team meets and learns about the opportunity and challenges and then agrees on goals and begins to tackle the tasks and storming: the stage in which the team addresses issues like what problems the group is going to solve and begin to present different ideas to solve the problems which then compete for consideration are easily paralelled with the idea of a fixed cost. Like a fixed cost these stages must happen. If the group suceeds or not the group is sure to meet learn their objectives and present ideas to complete their team goals.
Variable costs therefor become the norming stage. The norming stage is the stage in which the team members alter and/or adjust behaviors as they develop work habits that make teamwork more natural and effective and efficient. Team members often work through this stage by agreeing on rules values professional behavior shared methods working tools and even taboos1. These are variable because not all teams experience this stage. Poorly matched teams may never be able to produce quality storming and never agree upon a method to complete their task. So like a factory that is not producing product experiences no variable costs a team may not leave the storming phase and therfore does not have the norming phase.
Finally total revenue paralells to the performing stage. Performing is the stage at which teams are able to function as a unit as they find ways to get the job done smoothly and without inappropriate conflict. Performing is really a measure of productivity of the group. It is during this stage that a team begins meeting and exceeding their goals. Like total revenue it increases steadly from zero with a positive correlation.
These management terms can also be expressed graphically. This time the vertical axis represents productivity while the horizontal axis represents time. Additionally the concepts of relevent range and breakeven are comparable to the time allowed to complete the task and the point at which goal begin to be acheived. The breakeven point in accounting is very similar to that of teamwork. It is at that point that the team begins to suceed. While the stages of forming storming and norming are needed to get to performing at these stages the team is not meeting its goals. This is just like for a company before breakeven is met revenue is being created but the company is opperating at a loss in profit.
Success! The foundations of business can be interwoven together as similar concepts to help one better understand a topic. As shown with a little analysis costs and revenue were easily paralelled to teamwork. Two concepts that naturally have no coorelation but do relate conceptually if one so needed to do so.
References
Tuckman Bruce. 1965. Developmental sequence in small groups. Psychological bulletin 63 384399
“FormingStormingNormingPerforming.” http://en.wikipedia.org. 29 May 2008. 23 July 2008 .
1 “FormingStormingNormingPerforming.” http://en.wikipedia.org. 29 May 2008. 23 July 2008 About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Wadim Procel Prof. Piotr Jednaszewski has successfully negotiated over 600 international agreements in over 30 countires all around the globe.
Student of AUC Cairo.
Interested in Politics and International Relations since 2003. Participated in conferences on Arabic Culture. Visited many different countries in the world learning about their customs culture and religion. at present studying Arabic language and culture.
Dr Piotr Jednaszewski is a methodologist graduated American University of London with degree Doctor of Philosophy TEFL. He is also Master of Art in Education and Professional Development Teaching English as a Foreign Language University of East Anglia Master in Science in Engineering. Other qualifications cover: Post Graduate Diploma in Management and Marketing Post Graduate Diploma in Education and Professional Development. Dr. Piotr Jednaszewski has been a language counselor negotiator proofreader and has been preparing managerial staff for international talks and negotiations for over 15 years.
What An Automated Reminder Service Provides Your Medical Practice
As a doctor you are responsible for the wellbeing of your patients and part of that service usually requires a member of your staff calling your patients and reminding them of an upcoming appointment. Many people especially elderly patients find this service valuable as sometimes appointment cards can be misplaced and appointment missed. But if your practice should happen to be a busy one and you find that your staff member could be better utilized in another task then you may wish to consider getting an automated reminder service.
An automated appointment reminder service saves your employees from having to spend hours calling your patients. It can be set up so that the automated reminder service works with your online appointment scheduler. It will make the phone calls for your practice based on the patient appointment schedule in the online system and some of the automated reminder services offer the option of requesting a call back from your patient in order to reschedule appointments at a more appropriate time for them.
Additionally if you have patients that regularly use the Internet your automated reminder system can be tied into your scheduling system so that a generic email message with the appointment date taken from the day’s schedule is sent out in advance reminding your patients that they have an appointment without having to contact them over the phone. Both methods are time savers for you and your staff and it cuts down on the number of missed and canceled appointments.
If you should happen to have patients that speak a language other than English as their first language for example Spanish your automated reminder system can be programmed to deliver the message to your nonEnglish speaking patients in their own native tongue. There is a setting in the system that allows you to choose the language the message should be in. Set it appropriately for the patient in question and your automated reminder service will do the rest.
Choosing your automated reminder service is not difficult. Always look for one that offers you the option to may for the service on a monthly basis and a free trial. If you have an online scheduler already in place you will want to make sure that the two systems are compatible. Your online scheduling system may have an automated reminder service built into in. Always verify this when you purchase a system so that you are not paying for a service you already have.
Make sure you automated reminder service will need little maintenance and is customizable to your practice. You are not going to want to deal with special hardware or software just to have this service when you and your staff need to be dealing with your patients. Many webbased systems are easy to setup affordable and follow strict privacy policies so that your patient’s personal information is always safe and protected.
Finally try to roll an automated answering system into your automated reminder service or vice versa. This will help you save money and basically kill two birds with one stone. The answering system will free up the time of your staff and allow the patient to leave a message if there is a scheduling issue that will go to the right person to handle without your patient being left on hold for extended periods of time.
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Vermaport SC in a Target in Nashua New Hampshire
The Vermaport Cart Conveying System is the trademarked name of conveyor systems built by Darrott Germany that are designed to transport shopping carts between floors of a retail establishment or to transport or store luggage carts at airports or other transportation hubs. Vermaport Cart Conveying Systems are alternatives to inclined moving walkways a Vermaport will take up much less space than the walkway.
Vermaport SC
The Vermaport SC Shopping Cart is typically used in discount retailers such as Target and Kmart as well as furniture store IKEA and the retail chain Bed Bath and Beyond. Essentially an escalator the device uses specially designed shopping carts and transports them between levels in shopping complexes. It is often socially referred to as a cartalator due to their resemblance and frequent proximity to the passenger escalator.
Vermaports level carts using three valleys. Specialized carts have their front wheels set closer together and out of parallel to the back outset wheels. For upwards travel the inset wheels glide along the center valley the outset wheels ride on the two higher outer valleys. This allows the shopping cart to stay level along an inclined path. On the way down the center valley is higher and the side valleys are lower to allow the cart to transport level while facing down. Due to these valleys shopping carts on the Vermaport SC do not have the typical plastic or metal grate shelf below the basket of the shopping cart that is used to carry large or bulk items.
An installed Vermaport system is typically located next to an escalator moving at the same speed so as to allow a shopping cart to be transported alongside a shopper as he or she moves between floors. The conveyance is accomplished by a belt of hard rubber teeth that grab near the wheels of the cart as a shopper guides it into the entrance of the Vermaport.
The world’s largest Vermaport is located in Kmart in Middle Village Queens New York City New York. It has a length of 120ft 37m and a vertical rise of 50ft 15m.
Vermaport LC
The Vermaport LC Luggage Cart is based on the same engineering principles and the SC model. It allows travellers and their luggage to travel between floors in transportation terminals such as an airport. The LC system allows for items wider than what would fit into a shopping cart on the Vermaport SC.
Vermaport RS
The Vermaport RS Return System is used to store luggage carts which are typically rental fee based. Personnel at an arrival or departure area will gather abandoned luggage carts and return them to the Vermaport RS. The carts will be automatically feed into the Vermaport and will wait for a traveler to retrieve one by inserting the required fee.
External links
Darrott Corporation
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