This text introduces techniques for assessing and optimizing profitability at different levels of production, for different product mixes. This book should be of interest to students in departments of business and management, as well as practising managers.
This text introduces techniques for assessing and optimizing profitability at different levels of production, for different product mixes. This book should be of interest to students in departments of business and management, as well as practising managers.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Maße
Höhe: 230 mm
Breite: 150 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-442-30786-8 (9780442307868)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Cost, revenue, and profit: linear equations and functions. Maximising machine utilization: determinants and computers. Optimizing the product mix: linear programming. Production planning: vectors and matrices. Accounting for profits: quadratic equations and functions. Factory location: high degree functions, surds and indices. Depreciation and investment evaluation. Arithmetic and geometric progressions. Accounting for probability: the binomial theorm. Marginal cost and marginal revenue: differentiation. Optimizing profits: maxima and minima of functions. Consumers' and producers' surplus: integration. Learning curves and wages systems: the exponential function. Clarifying the mathematical paradoxes: elements of set theory. Answers to exercises.
