June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 55m
English
book
Business Skills for Engineers and Technologists
by Harry Cather, Richard Douglas Morris, Joe Wilkinson
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Index
A
Absenteeism, 90
Absorption costing, 220–21
Acceptance/agreement, contract, 131–2
Accounting standards, 229
Accruals, 234
ACORN Life Style Segmentation model, 285
Acquisition co-operation, 306
Act of Parliament, procedure, 105
Action learning, 82
Activities:
duration distribution patterns, 165–8
duration estimation, 179–80
standard deviations, 167
varying durations, 163–7
Activity on arrow (AOA) convention, 175
Activity on node (AON) convention, 175–6
Activity-based costing (ABC), 222
Advertising, 295
Affymatrix (case study), 125
Agreements, 125
See also Contracts
Alliance co-operation, 306
Allowances, price, 296
Annual rate of return technique, 200–203
Ansoff, matrix of change, 263
skills requirements, ...
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