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Finance Techniques

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis

The concept will enable business owners, project leaders and practitioners to grasp the basics of cost-benefit analysis and understand the systematic process for calculating and comparing benefits and costs of a project.

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Cost-to-Serve Model

Cost-to-Serve Model

This concept discusses the usefulness of cost-to-serve model and offers additional insights into the model’s measurements and implementation steps.

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Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis is used to determine how changes in costs and volume affect a company's operating income and net income. This concept reviews strength and weaknesses of the analysis and outlines its main principles.

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Costing Techniques

Costing Techniques

The concept defines and describes various advanced costing techniques. It discusses how they can be used by professionals and managers and outlines success factors and implementation steps.

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Countertrade

Countertrade

This concept examines advantages and disadvantages of countertrade and discusses the implications, strengths, weaknesses and success factors of this trading approach.

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Credit Analysis

Credit Analysis

The concept describes credit analysis as an organisational framework for identifying, quantifying, and comparing the costs and benefits of proposed projects.

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Crisis Management

Crisis Management

The concept treats 'crisis management' as a relatively new field of business and management research. You will learn how to promptly respond to a crisis and how to ensure that business continuity plans can be effectively executed and managed.

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Cross-Elasticity of Demand

Cross-Elasticity of Demand

The concept describes the important economic principle of cross-elasticity of demand. It explains its strengths and weaknesses for pricing and competition and uses illustrative case studies across different industries and sectors to highlight its importance in business.

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Cross-Functional Supply Management

Cross-Functional Supply Management

The concept examines current practices and trends in the field of cross-functional supply-chain management and provides practitioners with both a specialist knowledge and basic information in related business disciplines to design and manage efficient and effective cross-functional supply chain systems.

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Customer Centric International Shared Services

Customer Centric International Shared Services

Learn how customer centric international shared services can help your company achieve savings of 20%-30% or more, while significantly improving service delivery to internal customers across the globe. Case study evidence highlights the factors for success and provides step-by-step implementation advice.

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Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Business

Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Business

Data warehousing and data mining have emerged as key technologies and essential components of modern decision support systems. Strengths and weaknesses and success factors are considered and practical steps are provided to help organisations implement successfully.

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Database Systems and Management

Database Systems and Management

The full potential of a database system will only be realised if it is properly planned and developed. Practical case evidence is provided alongside advice for how organisations can effectively move from concept to design to implementation.

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Demand Curve

Demand Curve

The concept explains the important economic concept of the demand curve. It describes various strengths and weakness for use in business and provides useful implementation advice and real case studies to illustrate its application.

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Demand-pull Inflation

Demand-pull Inflation

The concept explains how demand-pull (or demand-side) inflation arises in the economy. It uses case study examples to highlight the effects of demand-pull inflation and describes various advantages and disadvantages of the concept - it also provides success factors for calculating demand-pull inflation.

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