Taxicab service plays a vital role in public transportation by offering passengers quick personalized destination service in a semiprivate and secure manner. Taxicabs cruise the road network looking for a fare at designated taxi stands or alongside the streets. However, this service is often inefficient due to a low ratio of live miles (miles with a fare) to cruising miles (miles without a fare...

5-1 Blue Ridge Manufacturing (Activity-Based Costing for Marketing Channels) 5-2 Columbo Soft-Serve Frozen Yogurt: Using Activity Based Costing To Assess Channel/Customer Profitability Required: 1. Briefly summarize Colombo’s competitive environment and General Mills’ strategy in response to that environment. 2. Using the ABC analysis, determine new segment profitability statements. 3. Based on...

The bias against mangrove areas in siting fish farms prompted a comparison of the cost structure and yield performance in upland and mangrove locations. Tools utilized included descriptive statistics, budgetary and cash flow analyses and profitability ratios. Empirical results revealed that substantial revenue could be realized from both farms. While the upland farms yielded average gross reven...

Employing remanufactured and refurbished products are among the new strategies that companies used to raise their profits as well as protects environment. Although used product equipment gives an opportunity to purchase latest technology, customers are doubtful about quality and reliability of these products. Because of limitation that developing countries faces in buying new products, some cou...