Inventory, Markets, Products, and Marketing Essentials

Functions of Inventory

Companies keep inventories for several reasons, based on the functions they accomplish:

  • Security against uncertainty: Buffers against fluctuations in sales and supply.
  • Production and distribution differentiation: Useful in cases of highly seasonal demand.
  • Economies of scale: Purchasing materials in large quantities allows for quantity discounts and lower transport and transaction costs.
  • Protection against inflation: Hedges against price variability.

Market Types

  • Perfect Competition:

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Airline Economics and Fleet Planning Essentials

Key Concepts in Airline Economics and Fleet Planning

1. The Inverse Relationship Between Price and Quantity Demanded: The Law of Demand states that there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.

2. Non-Price Determinants of Airline Economics:

  • The preferences of passengers
  • The number of passengers in a particular market

3. Determinants of Airline Passenger Elasticity:

  • Competition
  • Travel distance and related price

4. Passenger Price Sensitivity: Leisure/pleasure passengers are elastic

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Economic Operators, Resource Allocation, and Economic Theory

Economic Operators

Economic operators are the decision-makers within an economic system, engaging in core activities to produce, consume, and accumulate. These include:

  • Families: Make decisions about consumption and savings, determining what goods and services to buy to meet their needs.
  • Companies: Economic units that produce goods and services, combining and organizing factors of production to create end products.
  • Government: Governs the operation of the system, influencing the economy through taxation,
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Job Intermediation: Methods, Agencies, and Recruitment

Job Intermediation: Methods of Job Search

Methods of job search include:

  • Friends, relatives, and acquaintances
  • Internet and newspaper ads
  • Employment agencies
  • Red EURES: Job Search in Europe
  • Temporary employment agencies (ETT)
  • Search firms or direct recruitment firms
  • Job boards of professional associations, universities, and business associations
  • Unions

Job placement is a set of measures intended to bring together the supply and demand of work, providing workers with jobs suited to their characteristics and

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Key Concepts in Accounting: Financial, Managerial, and Cost

Financial Accounting

The use of accounting information for reporting to parties outside the organization.

Managerial Accounting

Specialists in using the tools of managerial accounting to help the organization and its managers operate effectively.

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

The executive responsible for all accounting and finance functions in an organization.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Accountants must follow GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).

Activity Accounting

The

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VAT Special Regimes: Agriculture and Equivalence Charge

Monthly Return

The 2008 reform introduced the option for a monthly settlement period. The conditions or requirements are:

  • Be registered in the Tax Agency’s monthly returns register.
  • Be current on tax obligations.

Consequences:

  1. A monthly settlement period in which a refund can be claimed.
  2. Filing self-assessment electronically.
  3. Filing an information record book.

Special Schemes

1. Agriculture System

Its regulation is in article 124. It refers to the primary sector of the economy, and waiver applies unless otherwise

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