This community contains the scholarly works of faculty and students of the schools and departments within the College of Engineering, Business, and Education at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The health care industry, and especially its hospital portion, has been receivinq increasing external pressure to provide the best possible patient care at the least cost. This means that hospital management must have ...
This thesis demonstrates how marketing theory (concepts and principles), and analytical tools can be applied to nonbusiness organizations, in this case, cities, why they need marketing theory, and what benefits can be ...
This paper offers a summary of cost accounting systems, and the various analytical concepts and practices that make this accounting tool so indispensable to management. It includes the review of the historical development ...
This thesis is an evaluation of a merit pay system as applied to a blue-collar work force in a manufacturing, production-line environment. Specifically, the writer desired to test the hypothesis that merit pay increases ...
This paper is designed as a practical tool in the accounting field, and is concerned with the manner in which Standard Costs are used or can be used to control manufacturing operations or processes. An emphasis has been ...
This thesis hypothesizes that through budgeting, small business can be more successfully financed. Test of hypothesis was through research of pertinent literature and interviews with bankers and businessmen. A definitive ...
The small independent retreader should produce and sell 100 tires per day to maintain competitive costs. Industry tests have shown that retreaded tires can meet the same Federal Standards as new tires. The economic recession ...
The performance of the antibiotic industry is related to its market structure. The elements of market structure which are most important in their influence on performance are concentration, product differentiation, and ...
This paper presents the reasons for the inclusion of the meaning of the cost of capital, cost of long-term debt, preferred stock, common stock, retained earnings and depreciation fund, composite cost of capital, and leverage. ...
Many manufacturers enter into cooperative agreements with retailers to share in some proportion the expenses related to the advertisement or special featuring of the manufacturers product. The offering of cooperative ...