scope

Examples of scope in the following topics:

• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)

  • Factors that matter include lower costs–shared activities, shared resources, economies of scale or scope-, and increased willingness to pay.
  • The Better Off Test in the context of horizontal scope: Can a firm achieve lower average costs or higher average prices by including multiple business units in same firm?
  • Economies of scope (aka, synergies) make product diversification efficient if they are based on a similar common use.

• Promotion Strategies

  • These strategies concentrate on the dimensions of strategic scope and strategic strength.
  • Strategic scope refers to the market penetration while strategic strength refers to the firm's sustainable, competitive advantage.
  • The generic strategy framework (porter 1984) comprises two alternatives, each with two alternative scopes: Differentiation and Low-Cost Leadership, each with a dimension of focus—which can be broad or narrow.

• Dynamically Crafting your Message

  • A forecasting statement positioned at the beginning of a communication should focus its organization and scope.
  • Often you will tell your readers about the scope of your communication when you tell about its organization: when you list the topics it addresses, you indicate its scope.

• Management Areas: A Functional View

  • A human resources manager in an organization would be expected to oversee all operations within the scope of human resources.
  • At a medium or larger sized organization, this could include managing specialists in payroll, recruitment, talent development, legal, and a variety of other specializations within the scope of a human resources team.

• Market Share

  • The reasons for these disparities include variations in the lenses through which share is viewed (units versus dollars), where in the channel the measurements are taken (shipments from manufacturers versus consumer purchases), market definition (scope of the competitive universe), and measurement error.

• Getting over the hurdle

  • The idea is to enhance the competitiveness of members, reduce costs, create new capital bases, increase advantages of scale, scope and speed, and open up new markets.

• Managerial Accounting

  • Taking a look at a few will provide additional scope and perspective on the field:

• Purchasing Inventory

  • The scope of inventory management also involves stock replenishment lead time, carrying costs of inventory, asset management, inventory forecasting, inventory valuation, inventory visibility, future inventory price forecasting, physical inventory, available physical space for inventory, quality management, returns and defective goods, and demand forecasting .
  • These types of agreements typically have a longer duration and increased scope to maximize the quantities of scale concept.

• Financial Accounting

  • Since so many organizations are global in scope, a relatively new entity, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has risen to address the issue.

• Digital Marketing

  • Internet marketing is considered to be broad in scope because it not only refers to marketing on the Internet but also includes marketing done via e-mail and wireless media.