ending
(noun)
A termination or conclusion.
Examples of ending in the following topics:
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The End
- The ending of a speech can be as important as the beginning and body, because a good end leaves a lasting impression.
- The ending of a speech is as important as the beginning and body.
- If you are presenting persuasive information, you may particularly want to end your speech with a call to action.
- While this is one of the most important things to do at the end of a presentation, it is also one of the most frequently forgotten things.
- Sometimes it is necessary to take questions at the end of your speech.
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Bullwhip effect
- As the bad information gets passed from one party to the next, the distortions worsen and cause poor ordering decisions by upstream parties in the supply chain that have little apparent link to the final end-item product demand.
- As information gets farther from the end customer, the worse the quality of information gets as the supply chain members base their guesses on the bad guesses of their partners.
- Meanwhile, the retail chain has ended its Open Range promotion, and sales of the jeans plummet below normal levels because customers have stocked up to take advantage of the promotion prices.
- Just as end-customer demand falls, new jeans are being manufactured, and raw materials are being sent to the jeans factory.
- When the falling end-customer demand is finally realized, manufacturers rush to slash production, cancel orders, and discount inventories.
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Defining the Balance Sheet
- Assets, liabilities, and ownership equity are listed as of a specific date, such as the end of the company's financial year.
- A business operating entirely in cash can measure its profits by withdrawing the entire bank balance at the end of the period, plus any cash in hand.
- In other words: businesses have assets and so they cannot, even if they want to, immediately turn these into cash at the end of each period.
- Often, these businesses owe money to suppliers and to tax authorities, and the proprietors do not withdraw all their original capital and profits at the end of each period.
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The payoff for customers
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A word about "bad people"
- Since the end result of the changes being requested would eventually end up benefiting everyone, Womack explained that the real problem was not the change itself, but rather a lack of discussion, inclusion and negotiation with those who saw themselves as losers in order to make everyone whole.
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Clean production defined
- Food service setups, service provider procedures, delivery routines, office systems, even agriculture are all good examples of ‘production' in that commodities (e.g. raw materials) flow from one area (or machine or department) to another whereupon a set of procedures, labour skills or other processes are performed so as to end up with a finished product (or service).
- With office systems, the ‘raw material' is usually information that passes from one person (or department or computer) to another before the converted end result is made ready for distribution and sale.
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Psychological Pricing
- Psychological pricing or price ending is a marketing practice based on the theory that certain prices have a psychological impact.
- Psychological pricing or price ending is a marketing practice based on the theory that certain prices have a psychological impact.
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Processes
- A process is defined as: (1) a series of progressive, interrelated steps or actions from which an end result is attained, or (2) a prescribed procedure or a method of conducting affairs.
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Does leasing always close the manufacturing loop?
- Sometimes a customer will purchase a leased product at the end of the lease term and never return it to the manufacturer.
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Product life extension
- This does not mean that the product or its parts have reached the end of their useful life.