“Watch the Movie “”When The Mountains Tremble”” and respond to the following questions. (Will provide movie link)
What was the “”Ten Years of Spring”” (1944-1954)? Which factor(s) would you consider more important in causing the U.S. to become concerned during this era: the United Fruit Company or fear of communism?
How did Guatemalan officials use terror to force the people to “behave?” Provide several examples from throughout the film.
How do the Guatemalan officials use the indigenous culture? What is the reality for the indigenous people? Provide examples.
Why does the government label people as subversive? Who are they really?
According to the film, “Declassified Message” and “Memory of Fire,” what were the underlying factors that led to U.S. involvement in the 1954 overthrow of Guatemala’s president, Jacobo Árbenz?
Were internal or external factors more important in Árbenz’s downfall?
What was Guatemala’s civil war, and how is Árbenz’s overthrow related to this tragic time in history?
Overall, how would you rate this film as an historical source?
provide the best information for assessments of the amounts, timing and uncertainty of cash flows to the business from each alternative course of action available to the business.
The purpose of management accounting involves identifying the types of decision needed in management accounting in order to provide useful information for managers.
The main types of decision include:
I think that these two types of decisions are inter-connected, because the cost of resources to produce goods and provide services is relevant to decisions on the best production output and best pricing strategy required.
The framework for managerial planning, decision-making and control process incorporates seven stages, and this is illustrated by a flow chart.
Stage 1 Identify goals of organization
Stage 2 Collect and analyse data about Alternative courses of action
Stage 3 Choose decision rules
Stage 4 Rank alternative courses of action
Stage 5 Make a decision and state expected outcome
Stage 6 Report actual outcome of decision
Stage 7 Monitor actual outcome to ensure actions under control
The management process consists of a series of activities in a cycle of planning and control. Planning can be specified as the choice of company objectives and the methods of their attainment.
The most obvious goal of any organization is to maximize shareholders’ wealth, i.e. profit. This is normally assumed in a traditional microeconomics analysis. Maximizing owners’ wealth also implies maximizing market share and long growth. Management must devise realistic goals for it’s firm, achievable in the short term preferably, otherwise there will be no benchmark for comparison between a firm’s progress now and say, a year later. Having said that, it’s often difficult for a firm to follow realistic goals as different participants