BUS 475 Strategic Plan Part-I, II, III, Final and Presentation

BUS 475 Strategic Plan (4 papers and 1 presentation)

BUSINESS: CARIBBEAN RESTAURANT

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Part-I: Conceptualize Business

Write a 1,150- to 1,400-word paper in which you explain the importance of your selected business’s vision, mission, and values in determining your strategic direction. Please do not write about an existing business. Create a new business and include the following: My new business I discussed is a Caribbean Restaurant in Orlando, FL

•Define your business, products or services, and customers by developing a mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.

•Create a vision for this organization that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the future.

•Define your guiding principles or values for your selected business considering the topics of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.
•Analyze how the vision, mission, and values guide the organization’s strategic direction.

•Evaluate how the organization addresses customer needs and critique how they achieve competitive advantage.

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Part-II: SWOTT Analysis

• Resources: University library, Internet

• Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis for your proposed business.
( Orlando Caribbean restaurant)

Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should take into account, at a minimum, the following factors. From the lists below, your SWOTT should identify at least, if not more, three primary strengths, three weaknesses, three opportunities, and three threats or trends.

External forces and trends considerations:
• Legal and regulatory
• Global
• Economic
• Technological
• Innovation
• Social
• Environmental
• Competitive analysis

Internal forces and trends considerations:

• Strategy
• Structures
• Processes and systems
• Resources
• Goals
• Strategic capabilities
• Culture
• Technologies
• Innovations
• Intellectual property
• Leadership

Write a 1,400-1,750-word synopsis in which you analyze at least seven of the forces from the lists above. Your analysis must include the following:

• Include economic as well as legal and regulatory forces and trends.
• Critique how well the organization adapts to change
• Analyze the supply chain operations of the organization.
• Identify issues and/or opportunities:
• Identify the major issues and or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis above.
• Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.

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Part-III: Balanced Scorecard Assignment

Develop the strategic objectives for your business in the format of a Balanced Scorecard. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOTT analysis. Be sure to consider all of the following four quadrants of the Balanced Scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:
Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Market share
Revenues and costs
Profitability
Competitive position

Customer Value Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Customer retention or turnover
Customer satisfaction
Customer value

Process or Internal Operations Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Measure of process performance
Productivity or productivity improvement
Operations metrics

Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Employee satisfaction
Employee turnover or retention
Level of organization capability
Nature of organization culture or climate
Technological innovation

•Develop at least two strategic objectives for each of the following four balanced scorecard areas identified above (Financial, Customer, Process, Learning and Growth). Your objectives should be selected, in part, based on an evaluation of a number of potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOTT Analysis paper and table you completed last Week. Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes an identification of potential risks and mitigation plans, and a stakeholder analysis that includes mitigation and contingency strategies. You should also incorporate the ethical implications of your solutions into your selection.

•For each strategic objective, develop a metric and target using a balanced scorecard format. (For example, a strategic objective in the shareholder or Financial Perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, “The percentage of increase in market share.” The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of “Increase market share” could be “Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years” of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)

Write a 900- to 1,050-word summary that explains your critical thinking on how you derived your objectives from your vision, mission, values, and SWOTT analysis.

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Final: Final Strategic Plan and Presentation

Resources: Vision, mission, values, SWOTT analysis, balanced scorecards, and communication plan

Write a 700- to 1,050-word section for your strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your strategic objectives, measures, and targets. Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics. Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally. Finally, recommend actions needed to address ethical, legal, and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and how they can improve corporate citizenship.

Combine your completed strategic plan. This includes the vision, mission, values, SWOTT analysis, balanced scorecard, and communication plan. Your consolidated final strategic plan should be 2,800 to 4,200 words in length.

Prepare three to five Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides in which you briefly outline the vision, mission, values, and balanced scorecard that you have developed for your business.

Answer includes final strategic plan 4200 words and presentation with speaker’s note 6 slides.

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Cases and Assignments from BM350, BU320C, Bu330, Bu340, BU470, BU450, BU480, BZ480

Cases and Assignments 

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***************** BM350 Case-11 Harley Davidson******************
BM350 Marketing Management
 Directions: Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements. Case 11: harleydavidson.com and the Global Motorcycle Industry (pp. 354-358) This case discusses the success of Harley-Davidson and reviews its global position in 1998. It discusses the company’s initiatives that continued a thirteen-year record of growth in revenues and earnings. The company had a phenomenal 74 percent increase in the value of the firm in 1998 alone. It offers market share and sales information for global competitors in three regions, North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, and briefly discusses the product offerings of competitors including BMW, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha. The case has been kept relatively short since the Web sites for Harley and its competitors contain abundant additional information. The major objective of the case is to get you to visit these Web sites, compare them, and evaluate them as strategic marketing tools
Questions
1. Why is the Internet a particularly good promotion medium for Harley-Davidson? Discuss at least three (3) reasons. (55 points)
2. What different roles could Harley-Davidson’s Web site play for Harley owners, for people shopping for a motorcycle, and for people just interested in motorcycles in general? (45 points)

*********************** BM350 Case-22 Cowgirl Chocolates ***************
Case 22:  Cowgirl Chocolates (pp. 488-500)
Marilyn Lysohir, an internationally celebrated ceramic artist, started Cowgirl Chocolates to provide some funding support for a yearly published arts magazine, High Ground, that she and her husband, Ross Coates, started in 1995. Her love of chocolates and hot and spicy foods spurred the idea of making hot and spicy chocolates to be sold in creative, artistic tins and packaging, which she labeled Cowgirl Chocolates. Her small business, begun in 1997, had won a number of awards in fiery food competitions. While Cowgirl Chocolates had grown steadily over its four years in business, it still had only generated $30,000 in sales revenue in 2000, which was not enough to cover expenses. Marilyn had drained much of her personal savings to keep Cowgirl Chocolates in business. Her cash accounting methods and record keeping were not very sophisticated although she seemed to have a good sense of her costs in production and raw materials and the packaging. However, Marilyn had taken a shotgun approach to most of her marketing efforts and had tried a number of activities to increase product demand. She allowed herself to make one risky financial move each year in her pursuit of profitability and increased sales. She had just made her one risky move for year 2001: She had taken out a full-page ad in Chile Pepper magazine for $3,000.

Questions
 1.   The suggested retail price and wholesale prices of Cowgirl Chocolates products are displayed in Exhibit 2 (p. 491) along with the product and packaging costs. Based on this information, discuss the relative merits of using a cost-based, demand-based, and competition-based pricing method.  (50 points)
2.   What are four (4) options that Cowgirl Chocolates may consider as far as pricing? What would you recommend?  (50 points)

************ BU450  Leadership Skills  Assignment-4 charismatic leadership **********
BU450  Leadership Skills
Directions:  Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

Part A: What is charismatic leadership?
Part B:  Explain what is meant by the statement that charismatic leaders use active impression management with their followers to support their image. Provide and elaborate on one example.
Part C:  Why is charismatic leadership considered a double-edged sword that requires careful monitoring to avert abuse?

**********  BU450 Assignment-7 Leadership Skills Delegation *****************
BU450  Leadership Skills
Directions:  Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

Part A:  List and define five (5) potential benefits of delegation.

Part B:  List and describe the seven (7) guidelines for good delegation.

Part C:  Discuss why one of the major complaints of subordinates regarding delegation is the issue of dumping. Offer an example of a personal experience or observation of dumping taking place.

********* BU470 Strategic Management Assignment-03 Timber King **********
Directions: Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be a minimum of (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

Timber King is a new Midwest company in the portable saw mill industry. You have been asked to give Edward Perry, Timber King’s new CEO, general advice and guidelines to assist him in doing an external analysis of the portable saw mill industry.

Part A: Explain three benefits of conducting an external analysis.

Part B: Educate Mr. Perry on some of the challenges of conducting an external analysis.

Part C: Explain the two perspectives on the environment.

Part D: Explain the primary responsibility of Mr. Perry’s managers in conducting external analysis.

****** BU470 Strategic Management Assignment-07 Terry Wilson ******************
Assignment-7
Terry Wilson, a seasoned marketing veteran, has recently decided to explore growth options for Tuscan Treasures, an importer of Italian furniture. Profits are declining and Mr. Wilson must decide whether to downsize or expand to improve the situation. You have been asked to advise Mr. Wilson on which growth strategy would best aid Tuscan Treasures should he chose that route. You have also been asked to provide Mr. Wilson with a better understanding of why profits have been down recently, including possible causes of the decline. He also wants to know what he would need to do if he decides to downsize he operation.

Part A: Provide Mr. Wilson with three possible growth strategies.

Part B: What are the possible causes of his company’s decline?

Part C: What are some recommendations for handling a downsizing? 

******  BU480  eBusiness Strategy Assignment-4 Internet effect on planning  ************
BU480  eBusiness Strategy
Directions:  Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length;

Explain the Internet’s effects on planning by how it influences 1) the motivation for planning, 2) the processes for planning, and 3) the outcomes of planning.  Be sure to give complete explanations of each effect, using examples in your discussion.

******* BU480  eBusiness Strategy Assignment-7 B2B Exchange ***********
BU480  eBusiness Strategy
Directions:  Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

Describe each of the three (3) business-to-business (B2B) exchanges.  For each exchange type, discuss how the Internet acts as a resource in the exchange.

********* BU490 Business Ethics Assignment-3 Six steps *********
BU490 Business Ethics
Directions:  Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.
What are the six steps that a board of an organization can take to become effective?

******   BU490 Business Ethics Assignment-6 Business ethics-electronic monitoring  ******
BU490 Business Ethics
Directions:  Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.
Discuss the employer and employee position on electronic monitoring at the workplace.

*************** BU320C  Assignment-05 Marketing of services vs products ***********
Explain how the marketing of services differs from the marketing of products, including the four (4) marketing elements that distinguish services from products. Next, discuss six (6) ways that firms can help employees provide better service. Finally, explain the four (4) service gaps identified by the Gaps Model and list two (2) ways to overcome each of the four (4) service gaps.

****************** BU320C Assignment-08 – IMC **************************
Define Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and explain the goal of IMC. Also list and describe the seven (7) different components of the communication process. Lastly, discuss at least three (3) factors firms should use as marketing metrics to plan for and measure IMC success.

****************** BZ480 Assignment-4 Globalization and regionalization *****************
BZ480 international management – Assignment-4
Describe the strategies of globalization and regionalization and explain when each strategy can be used effectively. Give examples of successful companies that have followed each strategy.

************** BZ480 Assignment-08 Leadership style in EU *********************
BZ480 Assignment-08  International management
Discuss the appropriateness of using the same leadership style across all EU countries. Include in your discussion the research results for both views given in your textbook.

************* BU330 Assignment 04-Park Theater *****************************
Return on Investment and Residual Income

Portia Carter is the president of a company that owns six multiplex movie theaters. Carter has delegated decision-making authority to the theater managers for all decisions except those relating to capital expenditures and film selection. The theater managers’ compensation depends on the profitability of their theaters. Max Burgman, the manager of the Park Theater, had the following master budget and actual results for the month.

Master Actual
Budget Results
Tickets sold 120,000 480,000
Revenue–tickets $ 840,000 $ 880,000
Revenue–concessions 480,000 330,000
Total revenue $1,320,000 $1,210,000
Controllable variable costs
Concessions 120,000 99,000
Direct labor 420,000 330,000
Variable overhead 540,000 550,000
Contribution margin $ 240,000 $ 231,000
Controllable fixed costs
Rent 55,000 55,000
Other administrative expenses 45,000 50,000
Theater operating income $ 140,000 $ 126,000

1. Assuming that the theaters are profit centers, prepare a performance report for the Park Theater using the chart below. Include a flexible budget. Determine the variances between actual results, the flexible budget, and the master budget. (25 points)

Actual Flexible Master
Results Variance Budget Variance Budget
Tickets sold 110,000 ( ) 120,000
Revenue–tickets $ 880,000 ( ) ( ) $ 840,000
Revenue–concessions 330,000 ( ) ( ) 480,000
Total revenue $1,210,000 ( ) $1,320,000
Controllable variable costs
Concessions 99,000 ( ) ( ) 120,000
Direct labor 330,000 ( ) ( ) 420,000
Variable overhead 550,000 ( ) ( ) 540,000
Contribution margin $ 231,000 ( ) ( ) $ 240,000
Controllable fixed costs
Rent 55,000 55,000
Other administrative expenses 50,000 ( ) 45,000
Theater operating income $ 126,000 ( ) ( ) $ 140,000

2. Evaluate Burgman’s performance as a manager. (25 points)

3. Assume that the managers are assigned responsibility for capital expenditures and that the theaters are thus investment centers. Park Theater is expected to generate a desired ROI of at least 6 percent on average invested assets of $2,000,000.

a. Compute the theater’s return on investment and residual income using the chart below. (25 points)

Actual Flexible Master
ROI ÷ ÷ ÷
= 0.00% = 0.00% = 0.00%
Residual income – ( 0% x ) – ( 0% x ) – ( 0% x )
= = =

b. Using the ROI and residual income, evaluate Burgman’s performance as a manager. (25 points)

*************** BU340 Managerial Finance I Assignment 03 ****************

1. Cyber Security Systems had sales of 3,000 units at $50 per unit last year. The marketing manager projects a 20 percent increase in units volume sales this year with a 10 percent price increase. Returned merchandise will represent 6 percent of total sales. What is your net dollar sales projection for this year?
2.  Delsing Plumbing Company has beginning inventory of 14,000 units, will sell 50,000 units for the month, and desires to reduce ending inventory to 40 percent of beginning inventory. How many units should Delsing produce?
3. At the end of January, Higgins Data Systems had an inventory of 600 units, which cost $16 per unit to produce. During February the company produced 850 units at a cost of $19 per unit. If the firm sold 1,100 in February, what was its cost of goods sold (assume LIFO inventory accounting)?
4. Victoria’s Apparel has forecast credits sales for the fourth quarter of the year as:
   September (actual) ……………… $50,000
   Fourth Quarter
   October …………………………………. $40,000
   November ……………………………… $35,000
   December ………………………………..$60,000
   Experience has shown that 20 percent of sales receipts are collected in the month of sale, 70 percent in the following month, and 10 percent are never collected. Prepare a schedule of cash receipts for Victoria’s Apparel covering the fourth quarter (October through December).
5. The Manning Company has financial statements as shown below, which are representative of the company’s historical average. The firm is expecting a 20 percent increase in sales next year, and management is concerned about the company’s need for external funds. The increase is sale is expected to be carried out without any expansion of fixed assets, but rather through more efficient asset utilization. In the existing store. Among liabilities, only current liabilities vary directly with sales. Using the percent-of-sales method, determine whether the company has external financing needs, or a surplus of funds.
   Income Statement
   Sales $200,000
   Expenses 158,000
   Earnings before interest and taxes $42,000
   Interest 7,000
   Earnings before taxes $35,000
   Taxes $15,000
   Earnings after taxes $20,000
   Dividends $6,000

   Balance Sheet
   Assets
   Cash $5,000
   Accounts receivable 40,000
   Inventory 75,000
   Current assets $120,000
   Fixed assets 80,000
   Total assets 200,000

   Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
   Accounts payable 25,000
   Accrued wages 1,000
   Accrued taxes 2,000
   Current liabilities 28,000
   Notes payable 7,000
   Long-term debt 15,000
   Common Stock 120,000
   Retained earnings 30,000
   Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity 200,000

****************** BU340 Managerial Finance –I ************
BU340 Managerial Finance I

Directions: Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

1. What form of partnership allows some of the investors to limit their liability? Explain by giving examples. (25 points)

2. When does insider trading occur? What government agency is responsible for protecting against the unethical practice of insider trading? Explain by giving examples. (25 points)

3. Explain how the tax code allows depreciation to contribute to cash flow. (25 points)

4. Explain why inflation may restrict the usefulness of the balance sheet as normally presented. (25 points)

******************** BU440 Managerial Finance II **********************

BU440 Managerial Finance II

Directions: Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

NOTE: Show all work in arriving at the solutions requested.

1. Discuss four (4) advantages and four (4) disadvantages accruing to a company that is traded in the public securities markets.

2. Garland Corporation has a bond outstanding with a $90 annual interest payment, a market price of $820, and a maturity date in five years. Find the following:

a. The coupon rate

b. The current rate

c. The approximate yield to maturity
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3. An investor must choose between two bonds: Bond A pays $92 annual interest, has a market value of $875, and has 10 years to maturity. Bond B pays $82 annual interest, has a market value of $900, and has two years to maturity.

a. Compute the current yield on both bonds.

b. Based on your computations above, which bond should the investor select?

c. A drawback on the current yield is that it does not consider the total life of the bond. For example, the approximate yield to maturity on Bond A is 11.30%. What is the approximate yield to maturity on Bond B?

d. Has your answer changed between parts “b” and “c” of this question in terms of which bond to select? Explain.

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MBA6010 Assignments (with references and calculation in excel)

Week 1 assignment 4

For each of the five years of the provided financial statements, calculate and analyze MNQ Company’s thirteen financial ratios:

Current ratio

Quick ratio

Cash ratio

Total debt ratio

Times interest earned ratio

Cash coverage ratio

Inventory turnover ratio

Receivables turnover ratio

Profit margin

Return on assets

Return on equity

Price-earnings ratio

Market-to-book ratio

Additionally, critique these numbers. Do any patterns emerge with these ratios? Please explain.

Submit your answer in a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document and your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Week 2 Assignment 3

Based on the financial statements provided in SU_MBA6010_Final_Project_Information.xls in the Doc Sharing area, use the dividend growth model to calculate the intrinsic value of MNQ Company’s common stock in 2008.

Determine whether the stock is undervalued, overvalued, or fully valued. Justify the assumptions that you make.

Submit your answers in a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document and your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Week 3 Assignment 3

Assume that MNQ Company is looking to undertake a new project. The cash flows and applicable discount rate are provided in the third tab of SU_MBA6010_Final_Project_Information.xls in the Doc Sharing area.

Calculate the IRR, NPV, MIRR, and payback period of the project.

The company has a three-year payback cutoff period for projects. Determine if it makes financial sense for the company to undertake the project. Justify your decision.

Submit your answers in a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document and your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Week-4 Assignment-3

Based on the data on the fourth tab of SU_MBA6010_Final_Project_Information.xls, provided in the Doc Sharing area, create an equally weighted portfolio of all ten stocks (including MNQ Company and the other nine stocks) and estimate the beta of the portfolio.
Using the CAPM, determine the required rate of return for the portfolio.
Submit your answers in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document and your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Week 5 Assignment 2

• Locate ten organizations that currently pay a common stock cash dividend. Go to the Finance Web link provided in the Webliography, enter the ticker symbol of an S&P 500 company in the quote box, and see whether it indicates that the company pays a dividend.
• Calculate the organizations’ cost of equity using the dividend yield plus growth rate approach and the security market line (SML) model approach.
• For each organization, show how the cost of equity differs based on the two approaches.

Refer to the Web link Finance in the Webliography for information on beta of stocks.

Submit your answers in a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document and your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Week 5 Assignment 3

MNQ Company’s pretax cost of debt is 7 percent. Refer to the data on the first and second tabs of the spreadsheet SU_MBA6010_Final_Project_Information.xls provided in the Doc Sharing area. For this part of the assignment only, assume that MNQ Company’s book value capital structure weights equal its market value capital structure weights.

Estimate the company’s cost of capital for 2008.

Submit your answers in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document and your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Week 6 Assignment 2

Refer to the data on the first and second tabs of SU_MBA6010_Final_Project_Information.xls provided in the Doc Sharing area. Assume that all of MNQ Company’s sales are credit sales.

• Calculate and critique MNQ Company’s cash conversion and operating cycles from 2004 to 2008.
• Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation bringing together your findings from Weeks 1 through 6.

Submit your answers in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document, your calculations in a Microsoft Excel sheet, and your presentation in a Microsoft PowerPoint file.

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MGT4027 Global Business Management- Complete course

Week-1 Assignment-2
Globalization
This assignment consists of three parts.

1. From the textbook, read the closing case at the end of Chapter 1. Prepare a response to the following questions:

• Which parties experience advantages from the globalization of the flat-panel industry?
• Which parties experience disadvantages from the globalization of the flat-panel industry?
• What would happen, if the U.S. required that all flat-panel displays sold in the U.S. would also have to be manufactured in the U.S.?
• What does this case tell us about the future of production in an increasingly global economy?

Research another industry that has experienced globalization or may be a good candidate for globalization in the future and share your example with the class and explain why you selected the industry. Choose two countries (other than the U.S.) within the same region of the world. Assess the political risks, economic risks, and legal risks of each country. If you had to invest a large sum of money into one of these two countries, which one would it be? Why?
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Week-1 Assignment-3
Assignment 3: Dropbox Assignment
Country Research
China is on track to become the world’s largest economy in coming years. Research the implications of this development and draft a document addressing the following:

• What would be the impact of China’s economy on:

• The world trading system
• The world monetary system
• Western-based global corporations

How might the concepts of guanxi and guanxiwang come into play? Are there any ethical considerations for a western business? Discuss three cultural tips for US businesspeople doing business in China.
Please provide your answers in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.
Support your responses with examples.
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Week-2 Assignment-1
Corruption Index and Trade Restrictions
The corruption perceptions index (CPI) is a comparative assessment of integrity performance for a variety of countries.

• What is CPI? What is its purpose?
• What is the value of this index?
• What are the trends or similarities between countries with the highest and lowest CPI 2011 scores?
• What can be done to overcome corruption in the global marketplace?

Research three trade restrictions currently in place by the U.S. and basis the research, answer the following questions:

• Are these restrictions a tariff, subsidy, import restraint, voluntary export restraint, or embargo?
• What is the purpose of this restriction? Is the restriction achieving its purpose? Why or why not?

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Week-2 Asignment-2
Applying Porter’s Diamond
Apply Porter’s diamond of national advantage framework to an industry and the country you have chosen. Based on the four points of the diamond, are firms likely to be successful? Is there any chance of governmental variables at play in your industry or country? If so, how might they improve or detract from national advantage?
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides summarizing your findings. Be sure to use graphics or illustrations to enhance your presentation. Visual interest and professionalism should be taken into consideration as you present the information.
Add additional content in the Notes section of the presentation.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Submission Details
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Week-3 Assignment-1
Make a case for and against an establishment of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) between the U.S. and Canada.

• What are possible effects of such an agreement on North American businesses, North American consumers, and other nations?
• Are there any impediments to integration between the U.S. and Canada?
• How might the establishment of the FTAA impact the strategy of North American businesses?

Clickhereto watch IMF video, “IMF Outlook for Korea.” After watching the video, answer these questions:

• What is the IMF’s overall outlook for Korea?
• What impact will the condition of the global economy have on the country?
• What are the domestic risks facing Korea?
• What actions should the Korean government take?

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Week-3 Assignmnet-2
Opening a New Factory
Your firm is considering to open a new factory via direct investment in Latin America and management is evaluating the specific country locations for this project. The pool of candidate countries has been narrowed to Honduras, Chile, and Mexico.

• Discuss the national differences in political economy between these three countries.
• Discuss any cultural barriers your firm may experience in each of the three countries.
• Find each country’s rating on the corruptions perceptions index (CPI).
• Clickhereto read the country commercial guides (CCGs) prepared by the U.S. Department of State. Based on the reading, compare the FDI climate and regulations of these three countries.

Based on your findings, prepare a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document addressing the above questions and making a recommendation to your firm as to which country would be the best choice for your new factory.
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Week-4 Assignment-1
Modes of Entry
Provide a scenario where a company would enter a foreign market using the following modes of entry. Be sure to provide one scenario for each mode:

• Exporting
• Licensing
• Franchising
• Creating a turnkey project
• Establishing joint ventures
• Setting up a wholly-owned subsidiary

Give justification for your choices using the advantages or disadvantages for each mode discussed in course readings.
Read the closing case from the text at the end of Chapter 13. Prepare a response to the following questions:

• Why did Megahertz adopt a strategy for export-led growth?
• In this case, why might the opportunities for growth be greater in foreign markets?
• Would developing countries be a major opportunity for Megahertz? Why or why not?
• What does the experience of Megahertz tell us about challenges facings small firms that want to export? Use specific examples from the case to support your answer.
• What other solutions might Megahertz have considered for its financing difficulties (other than selling the company)?

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Week-4 Assignment-2
Credible Outside Research
Prepare a document based on credible research and course materials addressing the following:

• Discuss the four strategies firms can use when entering foreign markets.
• Using specific examples, describe the strategies used by the following companies in global expansion:

• Intel
• McDonald’s
• Goya
• Boeing
• Coca-Cola
• Nokia

Have any of these companies experiences an evolution of strategies as discussed in the text?
Please provide your answers in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.
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Week-5 Assignment-1
Entering a Foreign Market
Imagine you are the marketing manager for a U.S. manufacturer of paper products (including paper plates, paper towels, napkins, toilet paper, and tissues). Your company is considering entering the Argentinean market. Consider the following:
Should the pricing decisions in Argentina be delegated to the local managers? Why or why not?
Should the advertising message that has been effective in the U.S. be used in Argentina? Why or why not?
What are some of the considerations that might be taken into account regarding product attributes?
Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each type of staffing policy. Based on credible outside research, include a real-life example of where each type of policy has been successfully implemented. Be sure to use graphics or illustrations to enhance your presentation.
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Week-5 Assignment-2
Part I
Select one of the poorest countries of the world (one with under $1000 gross domestic product [GDP] per capita). Research your chosen country and provide answers to the following questions:

• Does this country provide exports? If so, what products or services are exported?
• What quality or condition is the land in this country?
• What is the rate of unemployment?
• What is the education situation or level of education for the people in this country?

Based on the information provided, discern whether this country has any national competitive advantage and discuss whether free trade can benefit this country and, if so, how. Be specific in your response.
Part II
Based on your country of choice, develop scenarios where firms may invest in your country using the following strategies:

• Global standardization strategy
• Localization strategy
• Transnational strategy
• International strategy

For each strategy, develop one scenario where an international firm would desire to enter the market of your chosen country. Describe the products or services offered by each firm and why the strategy was chosen. Cultural, political, and legal factors should be taken into consideration, as well as any informal or formal trade barriers.
Provide your answers in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.

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MGT4059 -Advanced Operations Management – Complete

******** MGT4059 W1 A1 Discussion *********

Post a brief autobiography to the Discussion Area. Introduce yourself to the class and outline your reasons for taking the course, your career aspirations, and anything else you wish to share with the class. Your introduction should cover the following details:

• Name
• Location
• Profession
• Work experience, especially if it pertains to operations management
• Your expectations from this course and interest in specific aspects of this course
• At least two objectives you hope to achieve through this course and the way you will attain these objectives

********* MGT4059 W1 A2 Discussion ************

Supply chain integration is an important issue for companies seeking to improve supply chain performance (and thus organizational performance). Identify major supply chain risks and discuss how supply chain integration may help to mitigate those risks.


********* MGT4059 W1 A2 Discussion-4 *********
Compare and contrast traditional performance metrics such as efficiency and inventory turnover with the newer metrics such as C2C and perfect order fulfillment. Discuss whether the new metrics provide any advantage or any additional motivation to an organization that has been using them to measure its supply chain or organizational performance.

********** MGT4059 W1 A3 Value Chain and Consumer Value ***********

Assignment 3: Value Chain and Consumer Value

Research on the Internet (use Google or Yahoo) using the keywords “value chain and Michael Porter” and read one online article.

Based on your research analysis, discuss the following:

• How does the value chain correspond to the supply chain in terms of functional elements?
• How do strategies of build-to-order and postponement help deliver better value to the customer?
• What advantages does are there to using a direct sales model?

**** ****** MGT4059 W1 A4 Supplier Selections *********

This Week: Supplier Selections

You are given “domestic-only” evaluation criteria for supplier selections. You must decide how these criteria should change in order to evaluate suppliers not located in the United States and submit your recommendations in a memo.

For this task, you will imagine your fictional company to be a competitor for a
well-recognized company (Note: Specifically choose one of the following two for your fictional company—a competitor of Hewlett Packard for printers and cameras or a generic competitor of Procter & Gamble in the personal care products category) to give you a context and an industry for reference. Your industry choice needs to be the one that has a significant supply chain and inventory of raw materials, components, and final products. Your company has been operating wholly in the United States with all domestic suppliers. The following factors have been used for domestic supplier evaluations:

• Item unit cost
• Proximity to your main location (you can choose your local city)
• Delivery reliability
• Quality performance (based on incoming inspection at your facility)
• The supplier’s capability to assist with new product development

These factors are equally weighted at 20 percent of the total criterion.

A limited number of your component items are being considered for outsourcing. Preliminary work has identified suppliers in Mexico, China, Taiwan, and India that appear to meet the basic criteria to be an approved supplier. You have some analysis to perform to support this outsourcing effort. You must develop a new set of supplier evaluation criteria elements that include the most significant elements of global sourcing.

• Proximity is no longer a valid factor when outsourcing to the suggested countries. Review all the domestic supplier evaluation factors and write a memo recommending how the supplier evaluation factors should be modified for offshore suppliers. You should maintain a minimum of five factors and recommend no more than seven factors in the new supplier evaluation system.
• Sourcing from all four countries mentioned above (Mexico, China, Taiwan, and India) may not be practical. In your memo, include a proposal stating how the final decision will be made to focus on a supplier in only one country or the rationale for sourcing from more than one country.

Create a two- to three-page memo in a Word document, providing your recommendations on the offshore supplier selection criteria and submit

************* MGT4059 W2 A1 Discussion ************

Discuss the risks and opportunities associated with inventory throughout the supply chain. How does a company balance the various tradeoffs related to inventory throughout the supply chain and still maintain a suitable customer service level?

******* MGT4059 W2 A2 Safety Stock Analysis ********

Assignment 2: Safety Stock Analysis

Based on the following data, calculate the safety stock quantities and the inventory cost associated with safety stock (based on the item unit cost) for the inventory items at four different service levels (50%, 80%, 90%, and 95%). Develop a table to present the inventory quantities and the safety stock costs at each service level. (Note: All items are independent demand items.)

Inventory Item	Average Demand (Annual)	Sigma (Std. Dev.) of Demand During Lead Time	Item Unit Cost
F-11001	15,000	100	$250.00
K-12002	100,000	300	$2.00
L-13003	250,000	200	$0.20
N-14004	300,000	400	$1.00
P-21001	50,000	60	$125.00
S-22002	80,000	75	$30.00

Submit your response in a Microsoft Excel worksheet with proper labeling for columns and all required calculations

NOTE: Comment on the differences not provided. Scored 32/50 on this assignment.

******** MGT4059 W2 A3 ABC Inventory Analysis ******

Assignment 3: Final Project

ABC Inventory Analysis

This week, you need to classify inventory items and recommend ways to reduce the total inventory dollar investment for your company.

Assume your company produces four different product lines. The total inventory on hand to support all four product lines is approximately $10 million. The following table contains the 25 inventory items for only one of those product lines. The total inventory for this product line is slightly more than $2.5 million.

ITEM	Annual Demand	Unit Cost
1	1,500	$1.00
2	3,000	$2.50
3	1,000	$2.20
4	10,000	$6.50
5	2,000	$4.80
6	2,000	$1.00
7	2,000	$3.45
8	500	$2.40
9	30,500	$12.50
10	1,000	$3.30
11	7,500	$1.05
12	14,000	$28.00
13	18,000	$0.45
14	25,000	$15.00
15	22,000	$2.50
16	15,000	$3.80
17	4,500	$10.00
18	30,000	$14.00
19	1,200	$2.00
20	40,000	$12.00
21	28,000	$2.50
22	24,000	$2.25
23	12,000	$1.00
24	8,400	$1.25
25	15,000	$3.25

Conduct an ABC inventory analysis for the 25 items in the table. Classify these 25 items into appropriate classes of A, B, or C. Use the ABC analysis to make general observations about the inventory and to develop possible ways to reduce the total inventory investment by 20 percent. (Note: The data for the other three product lines are very similar to the demand and cost patterns seen in this data.)

Submit your ABC inventory analysis in an Excel worksheet with proper labeling for columns and all required calculations. In addition, write a two-page Word document recommending ways to reduce the total inventory dollar investment. Provide a rationale for your recommendations.

************ MGT4059 W3 A1 Discussion **********

Discussion-1

Demand influencing is one of the strategies associated with capacity planning. Similar strategies that are popular today include demand sensing and demand shaping. Do you think these strategies are more effective than forecasting? Provide a rationale for your answers.

Discussion-2

Discuss some options other than back orders that companies may use to plan for the products that need to be produced. Describe a scenario (or environment) when different options would be preferred and describe a scenario where back orders would be preferred for planning.

********** MGT4059 W3 A2 Linear Programming *******

Assignment 2: Linear Programming: Production Problem

LoTech Manufacturing produces four different products. Each product requires material, labor, and machine time. The optimal combination of the four products is limited by the constraints of availability for these three resources. The formulation of the linear programming production problem is:

Maximize Z = 12×1 + 10×2 + 15×3 + 11×4 (objective function for profit)

Subject to the following constraints:

Material: 5×1 + 3×2 + 4×3 + 2×4 = 240 pounds

Machine time: 6×1 + 8×2 + 2×3 + 3×4 = 240 hours

Labor: 2×1 + 3×2 + 3×3 + 2×4 = 180 hours

Nonnegativity: x1, x2, x3, x4 = 0

Where: x1 = quantity of Product 1 produced

x2 = quantity of Product 2 produced

x3 = quantity of Product 3 produced

x4 = quantity of Product 4 produced

Use Excel and Solver to find the optimal solution for the production problem. Click here to download instructions on how to install Solver in Excel.

Include your interpretation of the results by stating:

How many of each product will be produced?

What is the profit for the optimal solution?

Submit the solution for the production problem in an Excel worksheet with proper labeling for columns and all required calculations. Submit your interpretations in a one- to two-page Word document.

******* MGT4059 W3 A3 Improving the Planning Process *****

Assignment 3: Final Project

Improving the Planning Process

In this week, the scenario will specify an existing problem with the BOM that affects the aggregate plan and MRP. You need to evaluate the problem and propose a remedy for the problem.

You are working in a printer manufacturing company. Currently your company produces six different configurations of a similar product (assume a printer that competes with Hewlett-Packard). Engineering changes occur on a frequent basis to correct quality or performance issues, and this means that a new part number and new item become part of the BOM. The new part replaces an old part that was causing the quality or performance problem. Engineering changes can be implemented at any time throughout the year as company policy stands today. This frequently results in production mistakes where old parts are used after the engineering change has been issued. In some instances, old parts and new parts have been used and shipped in the same order to distributors or retail customers.

Develop a proposal plan for handling engineering changes in a more controlled manner so that the BOM problems mentioned above are eliminated and the planning process is improved. Present the proposal as a memo to your boss, Mr. Matt R. Plann, the director of material management.

Submit your memo in a three- to five-page Word document

********* MGT4059 W4 A1 Discussion Question ***********

Discussion-1

First-come, first-served (FCFS) is commonly used in service settings such as seating facility for customers arriving at a restaurant. Small manufacturing firms like an industrial job shop that produces tools such as drill bits and other metal cutting tools for other manufacturing companies use priority rules—earliest due date (EDD) or shortest processing time (SPT)—to produce their products in moderate-sized batches ranging from 100–200 pieces per batch. Discuss why FCFS can achieve acceptable results for a restaurant but may not provide an acceptable scheduling solution for a manufacturing firm.

Justify your answers with appropriate reasoning.

Discussion Question 4

The DBR approach can be used for controlling the flow of material through an entire process according to the TOC philosophy. Discuss whether the DBR approach could be used to replace priority rules described for short-term scheduling in most manufacturing companies.

Justify your answers with supporting examples and appropriate reasoning.

******** MGT4059 W4 A2 ERP Business case ********

Assignment 2: ERP Business Case

You work for a company that is operating with legacy information technology systems implemented 20 years ago. Software experts were expecting the Y2K software problem towards the turn of the century. Y2K is a common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem, which was expected as a result of the practice of representing a year with two digits in early computer programming instead of four digits. You were fortunate that no problems occurred during Y2K, even though the company gambled and did not make any changes or updates to the systems and software at that time. The company has doubled in size (both number of employees and revenue generated) over that twenty year time period. The company desperately needs to upgrade the enterprise systems and software by implementing an
up-to-date ERP system.

You are required to conduct research of the marketing materials for at least two ERP providers, such as SAP, Oracle, SSA Global, or others and develop a brief business case (rationale or justification) for purchasing and implementing ERP at this time.

******* MGT4059 W4 A3 Technology Application *******

Assignment 3: Final Project

Technology Application

Your organization (use one of the two suggested in Week 1) is using supply management and demand management computer applications that are out of date. Several potential software applications such as S&OP, supply management, inventory management, and demand management are under consideration, and you need to make choices for inventory management and supply chain management.

You are required to research the companies that provide software applications solutions. On the basis of your research, write a memo to senior management with your recommendations to further evaluate only two companies so as to select a software solution that supports supply chain management, inventory management, and sharing of production plans with suppliers. State your plan for how the two companies will be researched and evaluated in greater detail. (Note: You do not have to recommend one company—just discuss the evaluation and selection process.)

Submit a memo in a Word document

*********** MGT4059 W5 A1 Discussion **********

Discussion Question 3

Reliability affects companies in two ways, through their products and through their production process equipment. From the customer’s perspective, discuss why product reliability is important to you. Then from the production manager’s perspective, discuss why process reliability is important for the company’s performance. Describe some of the ways to improve reliability in each of these areas.

Justify your answers with supporting examples.

Discussion Question 4

TPM and sort, straighten, shine, standardize, and sustain (5S) may seem to be out of place with other basic elements of the lean principles because they focus on maintenance and housekeeping respectively. Surely customers don’t see value in maintenance and housekeeping in the factory where products are made. Explain how maintenance and housekeeping do in fact help to accomplish the main objectives of lean production—delivering value to the customer through a flow system.

********* MGT4059 W5 A2 LEAN PROCESSING ********

Assignment 2: Final Project

Lean Principles

This week, you need to propose the use of lean principles for your company as if this is a completely new initiative.

You are working in a manufacturing company that is plagued by many performance issues such as:

• 20 percent of all the deliveries to customers are late
• The manufacturing operations are performing at 50 percent utilization of equipment because of maintenance problems and excessive downtime due to machine breakdowns
• The manufacturing operations currently have 100 days of supply (days of inventory) within the factory in various stages of completion (that is, raw material, subassemblies, work-in-process, and finished goods)
• Many assembly items are partially completed because the components required to finish the products have not been delivered by the supplier (this happens at least once per week)

Submit a memo to your top management explaining:

• Why you are recommending the implementation of lean principles?
• How these principles will address the company’s current problems?
• How the principles should be implemented?

*********** MGT4059 W5 A3 TPM and 5S **********

Assignment 3: Final Project

TPM and 5S

Your fictional company’s primary domestic manufacturing operation has traditionally given limited attention to the maintenance of their production equipment. Efforts are underway to implement lean production concepts. You plan to propose TPM and the 5S for workplace housekeeping and organization to improve the maintenance of the equipment.

Create a five- to six-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation including your reasons for proposing the use of TPM and 5S and the method of implementing them in the company’s current production process.

The slides should be structured in the same format as a formal presentation, including relevant information using the note feature to incorporate presentation material not included on each slide.

Submit your presentation

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BUS 3059 Entire Course Week-1 to Week-6

BUS3059 Week-1 to Week-6 Entire Course

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BUS 3059 Week-1 Assignment-3- Research Process

Research Process

A company is considering creating and selling a new soda. Create a report explaining the research process that should be used by the company to make this decision.

Your report should answer the following questions:

• What is the research question?
• What’s the proposed research?
• How would you design the research project?
• What data would you collect and how would you prepare that data?
• How would you analyze and interpret the data?
• How would you report the results?

Submit your report in a three- to four-page Microsoft Word document.

Assignment 5: Final Project Part I

Research and identify a publicly-traded company that is a leader in its industry. Using the six stage research process, explain how you decided on that company.

Review and critique at least 10 of the company’s financial ratios over the past five years and compare these to the relevant industry averages.

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document.

Submit the financial ratio analysis in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

Company: Amazon

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BUS 3059 Week-2 Assignment-2 Survey Analysis

A company’s cereal is not selling well. Create a 10–15-question survey that measures customers’ preferences for the company’s cereal product. Then, answer the following questions:

• How many scale items will you put in the survey? Justify your answer.
• Will you use multiple-choice questions? Why or why not?
• How many scale items will you use in the survey?
• Why did you select that number of scale items?
• How many scale points will you use in the survey? Justify your answer.
• What data type will be used in the survey? Justify your answer.

BUS 3059 Week2 Assignment-3 Questionnaire

Assume that you sell cars. You are attempting to measure how customers perceive the quality of the cars that you sell.

• Create three survey questions with simple category scales. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.
• Create three survey questions with multiple-choice, single-response scales. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.
• Create three survey questions with multiple-choice, multiple-response scales. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.
• Create three survey questions with Likert scale summated ratings. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.

BUS 3059 Week2 Assignment-4 Final Project part-II

Based on the company that you selected in Week 1, create a 10-question scale including, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Company’s goods/services compared to its competitors
• Financial performance relative to its competitors
• Geographical location
• Chief executive officer’s (CEO’s) tenure
• Number of employees
• Industry

Complete the survey assuming the role of an outside company analyst. Justify why you asked the questions that you did and why you answered the survey as you did.

Submit your answers in a four- to five-page Microsoft Word document.

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BUS 3059 Week-3 Assignment-1 Discussion Question 1

Discussion Question 1

It’s important for a researcher to conduct an accurate test of data.

• How does a parametric test differ from a nonparametric test?
• How does a null hypothesis compare with the alternative hypothesis?
• How does a Type I error differ from a Type II error?
• How does an acceptance region compare with a rejection region?
• How does a one-tailed test differ from a two-tailed test?

BUS 3059 Week-3 Assignment-1 Discussion Question 3

Discussion Question 3

What is the test procedure for a two-tailed test?

What are the various formats of hypotheses?

Name and describe the various test statistics for the following situations: known variance, unknown variance (assumed equal), and unknown variances (assumed unequal).

BUS 3059 Week-3 Assignment -2 Hypothesis Testing

Calculate the return on equity (ROE) for a sample of 20 banks for the year before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted. For the same sample of banks, calculate the ROE for the year following the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Then, answer the following questions:

• Was the average bank’s ROE lower following the enactment of the
  Sarbanes-Oxley Act than before the act? If so, why do you think that was the case?
• What’s the null hypothesis for this hypothesis test?
• What’s the alternative hypothesis for this hypothesis test?
• Choose at least three different significant levels to conduct the hypothesis test. Is it possible that a Type I error occurred with the hypothesis test? Why or why not?
• Is it possible that a Type II error occurred? Why or why not?

BUS 3059 Week-3 Assignment 3 Additional Hypothesis Testing

Locate 15 publicly traded retail firms. Consider searching for these retail firms using the following keywords: retail firms, retailers, and publicly traded companies.

Calculate the current ratio for each of the firms.

Then, answer the following questions:

• Is the average current ratio for the sample of 15 firms greater than 2.0?
• What’s the null hypothesis for this hypothesis test?
• What’s the alternative hypothesis for this hypothesis test?
• Choose at least three different significance levels to conduct the hypothesis test. Is it possible that a Type I error occurred with the hypothesis test? Why or why not?
• Is it possible that a Type II error occurred? Why or why not?

Submit your answers in a three- to four-page Microsoft Word document.

BUS 3059 Week-3 Assignment-4 Hypothesis testing- Amazon

Based on the company that you selected in Week 1, compute the company’s daily stock returns over the past year.

The null hypothesis is that the stock’s daily return over the past year is equal to 0 percent. The alternative hypothesis is that the stock’s daily return over the past year is not equal to 0 percent.

Make a decision on whether or not the stock’s daily return over the past year is equal to 0 percent and report your findings.

Explain the steps you conducted in completing this assignment.

Submit all your answers in a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document and the computations for the hypothesis test in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

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BUS 3059 Week-4 Assignment-2 Scatter Plot

Assignment 2: Correlation Analysis

For the period 1995 through 2008, obtain data on the average annual returns for U.S. stocks (represented by the S&P 500 Index) and long-term U.S. Treasury bonds. You can search this data from the Internet.

• Create a scatter plot of the average returns for U.S. stocks (represented by the S&P 500 Index) and long-term U.S. Treasury bonds.
• Compute the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (sample correlation coefficient) between these sets of returns.
• Interpret the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient.

• Test the hypothesis that the null hypothesis is that rho (the population correlation coefficient) equals zero.
• What does the test statistic equal?
• Is the null hypothesis rejected?

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document and the scatter plot in a Microsoft Excel sheet.

BUS 3059 Week-4 Assignment 3 Multiple Regression Analysis

Assignment 3: Multiple Regression Analysis

You have been assigned the task of creating a multiple regression equation of at least three variables that explains Microsoft’s annual sales.

Consider using a time series of data of at least 10 years. You can search for this data using the Internet.

• Before running the regression, predict what sign each variable will be and explain why you make that prediction.
• After running the regression, interpret the regression.
• Does the regression fit the data well?
• Does each predictor play a significant role in explaining the significance of the regression?
• Are some predictors not useful?
• If so, did you consider removing those and rerunning the regression?
• Are the predictors related too significantly to one another?

Submit your answers in a three- to four-page Microsoft Word document.

BUS 3059 Week-4 Assignment 4 Final Project Part IV – AMAZON

Assignment 4: Final Project Part IV

Based on the company you selected in Week 1, conduct a linear regression to compute the stock’s beta over the past year, relative to the S&P 500 Index.

Explain the steps you conducted in completing this assignment.

• Is beta an accurate measure of risk? Why or why not?
• Is the Fama-French model a better model in explaining securities’ returns? Why or why not?

Submit your answers in a three- to five-page Microsoft Word document and a Microsoft Excel sheet.

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BUS 3059 Week-5 Assignment-1 Discussion Question

Discussion-1

• How does an additive model compare with a multiplicative model?
• Regarding a time series, how does a cycle compare to a seasonal effect?
• What are the various phases of a business cycle? Which part of the business cycle is the U.S. economy currently in?
• What types of businesses face seasonal cycles? Name at least two.

Discussion Question 3

• How can trendless data be evaluated?
• How does a trailing-moving average compare to a centered-moving average?
• When should exponential smoothing be used for data? Explain with an example.
• In exponential smoothing, what type of smoothing constant should be chosen for little smoothing compared with moderate smoothing?

BUS 3059 Week-5 Assignment 2 Moving Average

Obtain daily price data over the past five years for three different stocks. Data can be obtained from the Internet by using the following keywords: stock price data, return data, company data, and stock returns.

• Create trend-moving averages with the following values for m: 10, 100, and 200. Graph the data with Microsoft Excel.
• Create centered-moving averages with the following values for m: 10, 100, and 200. Graph the data with Microsoft Excel.
• How do the moving averages for the same values of m compare between a trend-moving average and a centered-moving average?
• Explain how these moving averages can assist a stock analyst in determining the stocks’ price direction.

BUS 3059 Week-5 Assignment-3 – Trend Model

Assignment 3: Trend Models

Obtain Home Depot’s annual sales for the past 10 years. You can obtain this data from the Internet.

• Create a linear trend model of that data.
• Calculate the coefficient of determination.
• Interpret the coefficient of determination.
• Forecast Home Depot’s annual sales for next year.
• Would an exponential model be a better model to use here than a linear trend model? Why or why not?

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document and a Microsoft Excel sheet.

BUS 3059 Week-5 Assignment 4 Final Project Part V- AMAZON

Final Project Scenario

Based on the company that you selected in Week 1, forecast the company’s sales, earnings, and cash flows each year for the next five years.

Justify your results and explain which models you used to make the forecasts.

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document and a Microsoft Excel sheet.

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BUS 3059 Week-6 Assignment 1 Discussion Questions

Discussion Question 1

• What are the six stages in the research process?
• Which stage is the most difficult to complete? Why?
• Which stage is the most important? Why?
• How important is it to have accurate data?

Justify your answers using examples and reasoning.

Discussion Question 3

It’s important to create a high-quality final report. However, there are budgeting constraints that companies face. There may be valuable data available to conduct a study; however, the data may be extremely expensive.

Provide an example of how a company can legally still conduct a viable research study even though its budget for a particular project is reduced.

• What changes would you make to conduct a viable research study?
• Would you select a reduced sample size for the research study? Would you utilize less expensive software for the research study?
• Would you delay the research study until you are provided with a larger budget?

Justify your answers using examples and reasoning.

BUS 3059 Week-6 Assignment 2 Correlation Analysis of Wal-Mart vs. Sears

Assignment 2: Correlation Analysis of Wal-Mart vs. Sears

• Using Microsoft Excel, create a correlation analysis of Wal-Mart’s annual net income over the past 10 years compared with Sears’s annual net income over the past 10 years and interpret the results.
• Do both companies’ net incomes fall during a recession?
• Using Microsoft Excel, create a multiple regression equation that explains Wal-Mart’s annual net income and interpret the results.
• Using Microsoft Excel, create a multiple regression equation that explains Sears’s annual net income and interpret the results.

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document and a Microsoft Excel sheet.

BUS 3059 Week-6 Assignment 3 Final Project Part VI

Final Project Wrap-Up and Submission

By the end of this week, you should assemble all the documents you have created for the course and compile them into a portfolio. Add a cover page and a one-page summary of all the write-ups you have done on the project over the six weeks.

Compile the final projects from Weeks 1 to 6 in a Microsoft Word document.

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BIOL 101 – DNA and Principles of Inheritance Quiz

1. Conceptually speaking, order the following structures from smallest to largest: DNA, gene, genome, chromosome, nucleotide.
a. DNA, gene, genome, chromosome, nucleotide
b. genome, DNA, chromosome, nucleotide, gene
c. nucleotide, gene, DNA, chromosome, genome
d. gene, chromosome, nucleotide, genome, DNA
2. Which of the following are living things? DNA, gene, genome, chromosome, cell, nucleotide.
a. DNA, gene, and genome
b. chromosome and DNA
c. cell, chromosome, and genome
d. cell only
3. Which structures are considered the “basic unit of life” and the “basic unit of heredity”?
a. The basic unit of life is the cell, and the basic unit of heredity is the gene.
b. The basic unit of life is the cell, and the basic unit of heredity is the nucleotide.
c. The basic unit of life is the protein, and the basic unit of heredity is the nucleotide.
d. The basic unit of life is DNA, and the basic unit of heredity is the gene.
4. What is a gene?
a. the protein that results after translation is complete
b. a segment of DNA that is three nucleotides long
c. a segment of DNA that carries a unit of information
d. one arm of a single chromosome
5. Genes exist in pairs in cells. Where did each member of a pair of genes originate?
a. one from each parent’s gametes
b. the duplication of chromosomes during the S phase
c. crossing over during prophase I
d. the growth during G1 produced each member of the pair
6. What is wrong with this example? A heterozygous pea plant produces yellow seeds and its genotype is Yg, where Y represents the dominant yellow seed allele and g represents the recessive green seed allele.
a. The genotype should be presented as Gg because green is the recessive trait.
b. A heterozygous pea plant with yellow seeds would have the genotype YY or yy.
c. The correct genotype is Yy because yellow is the dominant trait.
d. The genotype Yg would produce green seeds.
7. Use your newfound knowledge of the inheritance of traits and Punnett Squares to predict the chances that a Gg pea plant producing green pods and a gg pea plant producing yellow pods, when crossed with one another, will produce offspring with yellow pods.
a. There is a 0-percent chance of this cross producing yellow pods.
b. There is a 25-percent chance of this cross producing yellow pods.
c. There is a 50-percent chance of this cross producing yellow pods.
d. There is a 100-percent chance of this cross producing yellow pods.
NOTE: Questions 8–13 refer to the offspring of the plant described in question 7.
8. What is the genotype of these offspring?
a. GG
b. Gg
c. gg
d. yellow
9. What is the phenotype of these offspring?
a. gg
b. yellow
c. heterozygous
d. dominant
10. Is this plant heterozygous or homozygous? Why?
a. Heterozygous—the genotype consists of two different alleles.
b. Heterozygous—the genotype consists of two identical alleles.
c. Homozygous—the genotype consists of two different alleles.
d. Homozygous—the genotype consists of two identical alleles.
11. What dominant alleles, if any, does this plant have in its cells?
a. G
b. g
c. none
12. What recessive alleles, if any, does this plant have in its cells?
a. G
b. g
c. none
13. Where are the alleles located in this plant?
a. on the golgi apparatus
b. in the nucleolus
c. on the amino acids
d. in the DNA
14. If purple flowers are dominant on pea plants, what alleles does a pea plant have if it produces purple flowers?
a. pp
b. WW
c. PP only
d. PP and Pp
15. A particular pea plant has the following characteristics:
height: tall, with a genotype of Tt seed
texture: wrinkled, with a genotype of rr pod
color: green, with a genotype of pp (purple is the dominant color)
Is the genotype for the color of the pea plant heterozygous or homozygous?
a. heterozygous
b. homozygous
c. neither of the above
16. What are the two general types of chromosomes in human cells?
a. autosomes and sex chromosomes
b. homozygous and heterozygous
c. dominant and recessive
d. X and Y
17. How many autosomes and sex chromosomes does a human male liver cell have?
a. 22
b. 23
c. 44
d. 46
18. How many autosomes and sex chromosomes does a human egg have?
a. 22
b. 23
c. 44
d. 46
19. How many Y chromosomes does a woman have in her cells?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 23
20. Normal human lung cells contain two copies of chromosome 3. Together these are called a pair of homologous chromosomes. How are homologous chromosomes similar and how are they different from one another?
a. Homologous chromosomes are identical to each other in every way.
b. They have the same genes, but they are located in different places on the chromosome.
c. They have the same length and shape but carry different genes.
d. They have the same length and shape and carry the same genes but may have different alleles.
21. Is it possible to have an autosomal sex-linked gene?

a. yes

b. no

c. sometimes

22. Is it possible to have a dominant recessive trait?

a. yes

b. no

sometimes

23. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Abbott has the genetic disease cystic fibrosis, but their newborn son, James, does. Based on this information alone, is it most likely that cystic fibrosis is an autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, or sex-linked genetic disease?

a. autosomal dominant

b. autosomal recessive

c. sex-linked

d. none of the above

24. The glucose dehydrogenase gene is located on chromosome 1 in humans. Is this an autosomal or a sex-linked gene?

a. autosomal

b. sex-linked

c. neither of the above

25. What holds the nucleotides in one strand of DNA together?

a. hydrogen bonds between adjacent nucleotides

b. covalent bonds between adjacent nucleotides

c. ionic bonds between adjacent nucleotides

d. electron bonds between adjacent nucleotides

26. If the sequence of one strand of a DNA molecule is AGTGCCAGATCGCATCC, what does the other strand of the molecule look like?

a. AGTGCCAGATCGCATCC

b. AGUGCCAGAUCGCAUCC

c. TCACGGTCTAGCGTAGG

d. UCACGGUCUAGCGUACC

27. How are these two strands held together in the double helix?

a. hydrogen bonds between base pairs

b. covalent bonds between base pairs

c. ionic bonds between base pairs

d. electron bonds between base pairs

28. When does DNA replication occur?

a. during the G1 phase of interphase

b. during the S phase of interphase

c. during the G2 phase of interphase

d. during prophase

29. Why do cells duplicate (replicate) their DNA?

a. to have enough DNA available to act as a template for RNA during transcription

b. to reduce the number of chromosomes present in each gamete

c. to ensure genetic variability among all cells

d. so that each of the daughter cells formed during mitosis will have an identical copy of the DNA

30. How is information stored and coded in DNA and genes?

a. in sets of three nucleotides called codons

b. in amino acids that are bonded together to form proteins

c. as mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA

d. by an RNA polymerase

31. Put the following in the correct sequence to show the general path in which genetic information “flows” from genes to traits: DNA, protein, RNA, trait, transcription, translation.

a. DNA, translation, transcription, protein, RNA, trait

b. transcription, DNA, translation, protein, RNA, trait

c. DNA, transcription, RNA, translation, protein, trait

d. DNA, RNA, transcription, translation, protein, trait

32. What is meant by the term genetic code?

a. the DNA in cells that carries information in genes to assemble proteins

b. all DNA and RNA found in cells

c. the proteins assembled during translation

d. the base pairing rules: A to T and G to C

33. What are the subunits from which DNA, RNA, and proteins are built?

a. uracil, thymine, and methionine

b. DNA and RNA = nucleotides, protein = amino acids

c. histones and nucleosomes

d. simple sugars

34. Compare and contrast transcription and translation.

a. In translation, RNA makes a copy of DNA in the nucleus; and in transcription, the RNA provides the code to assemble proteins in the ribosome.

b. In transcription, RNA takes DNA from the nucleus to the ribosome; and in translation, the DNA separates into proteins.

c. In transcription, DNA makes a copy of RNA in the nucleus; and in translation, the DNA provides the code to assemble proteins in the mitochondria.

d. In transcription, RNA makes a copy of DNA in the nucleus; and in translation, the RNA provides the code to assemble proteins in the ribosome.

35. What does the phrase differential gene expression mean?

a. Each cell has different genes present in its genetic code.

b. The protein coded for by a single gene may change in different cells.

c. Only some genes are turned on in each particular cell.

d. Different genes may code for the same protein in different cells

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ACC 205-Week-5 Financial Ratios

1. Liquidity ratios. Edison, Stagg, and Thornton have the following financial information at the close of business on July 10:

Edison Stagg Thornton
Cash $4,000 $2,500 $1,000
Short-term investments 3,000 2,500 2,000
Accounts receivable 2,000 2,500 3,000
Inventory 1,000 2,500 4,000
Prepaid expenses 800 800 800
Accounts payable 200 200 200
Notes payable: short-term 3,100 3,100 3,100
Accrued payables 300 300 300
Long-term liabilities 3,800 3,800 3,800

a. Compute the current and quick ratios for each of the three companies. (Round calculations to two decimal places.) Which firm is the most liquid? Why?
b. Suppose Thornton is using FIFO for inventory valuation and Edison is using LIFO. Comment on the comparability of information between these two companies.
c. If all short-term notes payable are due on July 11 at 8 a.m., comment on each company’s ability to settle its obligation in a timely manner.

2. Computation and evaluation of activity ratios. The following data relate to Alaska Products, Inc:

19X5 19X4
Net credit sales $832,000 $760,000
Cost of goods sold 440,000 350,000
Cash, Dec. 31 125,000 110,000
Accounts receivable, Dec. 31 180,000 140,000
Inventory, Dec. 31 70,000 50,000
Accounts payable, Dec. 31 115,000 108,000

The company is planning to borrow $300,000 via a 90-day bank loan to cover short-term operating needs.
a. Compute the accounts receivable and inventory turnover ratios for 19X5. Alaska rounds all calculations to two decimal places.
b. Study the ratios from part (a) and comment on the company’s ability to repay a bank loan in 90 days.
c. Suppose that Alaska’s major line of business involves the processing and distribution of fresh and frozen fish throughout the United States. Do you have any concerns about the company’s inventory turnover ratio? Briefly discuss.

3. Profitability ratios, trading on the equity. Digital Relay has both preferred and common stock outstanding. The com¬pany reported the following information for 19X7:
Net sales $1,500,000
Interest expense 120,000
Income tax expense 80,000
Preferred dividends 25,000
Net income 130,000
Average assets 1,100,000
Average common stockholders’ equity 400,000

a. Compute the profit margin on sales and the rates of return on assets and common stockholders’ equity, rounding calculations to two decimal places.
b. Does the firm have positive or negative financial leverage? Briefly ex¬plain.

4. Financial statement construction via ratios. Incomplete financial statements of Lock Box, Inc., are presented below.

LOCK BOX, INC.
Income Statement
For the Year Ended December 31, 19X3
Sales $ ?
Cost of goods sold ?
Gross profit $15,000,000
Operating expenses & interest ?
Income before tax $ ?
Income taxes, 40% ?
Net income $ ?

LOCK BOX, INC.
Balance Sheet
December 31, 19X3
Assets
Cash
Accounts receivable
Inventory
Property, plant, &. equipment
Total assets $ ?
?
?
8,000,000
$24,000,000
Liabilities & Stockholders’ Equity
Accounts payable
Notes payable (short-term)
Bonds payable
Common stock
Retained earnings
Total liabilities & stockholders’ equity $ ?
600,000 4,600,000
2,000,000
?
$24,000,000

Further information:
1. Cost of goods sold is 60% of sales. All sales are on account.
2. The company’s beginning inventory is $5 million; inventory turnover is 4.
3. The debt to total assets ratio is 70%.
4. The profit margin on sales is 6%.
5. The firm’s accounts receivable turnover is 5. Receivables increased by $400,000 during the year.

Instructions:
Using the preceding data, complete the income statement and the balance sheet.

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