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I have always wanted to be a Naval officer. In fact, since I was a young boy, I have envisioned being adorned in the white clothes of the Sailors. I can describe myself as a patriot to the United States of America.

As compared to the nations around the world, the united States spend the far most amount of money and resources in order to curb as well as contain global violence. Therefore, it can be argued that indeed the United States polices the world.

The Intervention in Libya in order to end the reign of Gaddafi has been one of the controversial interventions that the United States has done in its role as the police of the world. Citing humanitarian grounds, the United States forces together with NATO bombed the cities of Benghazi and led to the win of the rebel forces. However, after that intervention, Libya has sprung into chaos and currently; there is no known leader in the country (Tanenhaus, 2008).

The United States has the most potent military in the world. It maintains the largest spending on the military that goes to the invention and purchase of new equipment. The Military budget can be expressed as the portion of discretionary money that is set aside by the United States Federal budget that is often allocated by the Department of Defense and it broadly refers to the portion of the United States budget that goes to any military expenditures.

On the normal orders, the margin from the sale of a single bracelet is $125.95. On the order for the special bracelets, the costs are different due to the need of additional materials and special machines. The direct materials will cost the company $149. The direct labor and manufacturing overhead is constant.

This report deals in the concepts of Leadership and Management Development of Technologies Ltd which was created by merging Hardy Technologies and ADD. Both the companies were good in their own ways but lacked in management development and research & development respectively. The report went in to the details of the differences of leadership and management. It also looked in the issues arising out of the LMD concept in Technologies Ltd. The issues at the strategic level were analysed with the actual and potential contributions of LMD at Technologies Ltd. The ethical and professional approach to LMD was also analysed.

Managerial Accounting can be defined as can be defined as the field of study that is found within accounting that is devoted to the information needed by a company's management. Managerial accounting usually covers several topics. Some of these topics include cost behavior, budgeting, product costing for the company's manufacturers, the quantities needed for decision-making, capital budgeting and transfer pricing (Geense, 2015).

This is a method of costing whereby the operations manager identifies the activities in the company and then allocates resources to the costs of each activity based on the consumption of each activity. This method usually identifies the activities that are carried out by the organization and then assigns overhead costs on the products. The major advantage of this method is the fact that it recognizes the relationship that exists between activities, costs and products (Wagener, 2010). Via this relationship, the method is able to assign overheads capriciously as compared to the traditional costs. Activity Based Costing is beneficial not only to the company but also to the customers. Discussed herein is the activity based costing customer story.

According to Canumalla and Viswanadham (2010), apple is the world’s leading creator and manufacturer of high quality computers, smart phones and other consumer electronic devices and software. The company has a large stake in the electronic market, with its exceptional products which compete with the very best of products from other multinational companies championing the electronic market in various countries due to its unique brand. Headquarters for apple are found in Cupertino, California, the company boasts of having a huge labor force offering a wide range of employment opportunities for new skills and ideas in the giant electronic industry to be developed.

The first promotion can be found at http://www.100percentpure.com/default.asp. This is a website primarily dealing with the sale of cosmetics. The website owned by Purity Cosmetics Inc., a company that is rapidly growing in the cosmetics industry. One of the company’s flagship brands is known as 100% Pure which created products being marketed in the referenced promotion. Some of the products include creams, deodorants and lipsticks, which are all 100% natural according to the company. The promotion promises free gifts that include Acai Berry Face and Eye Creams for all customers who make orders that exceed $130. On the same webpage, the company promises to ship all orders for free so long as they exceed $50 purchase bulk. For purposes of efficiency, the site allows for one to create an account which will enable users or buyers to place an order and pay for the goods through a secure online system.