The application of concepts in a real-life situation is the fundamental requirement for experiential learning. The case provokes simple learning through a real-world learning activity and allow students to apply their knowledge of various cost concepts while taking decisions. The case is designed in such a way so that high level student engagement can be obtained from the initial stage of the course and can be used at an undergraduate or graduate level without calling for strong accounting background. The case could be used for classroom discussion or for individual or group assignment as well. The case contests students to think outside the business environment and apply cost concepts in a daily life for a small service company. Students' responses indicates that the case was comprehensively designed to cover all the relevant concepts of Cost Classification and Decision Making and helped them to learn their practical daily life usage.
There are different approaches to deal with the impending scarcity of water: conservation, recycling, or making water a tradable commodity and letting market forces decide. Water trading is already becoming more common than we realize. Water has become a commodity. This is a slow process, but it is imminent and quite soon we will be observing more and more derivatives built on this commodity and traded through public exchanges and brokers. Since transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, food is the way to invest in water -the water embedded in food. The aim of this research project is thus; to develop a new derivative product that derive its value from the quantum of water embedded in commodities.
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