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John Ozment, director of special projects and analysis for Ozment’s Corporation, is responsible for preparing corporate financial analyses and monthly statements and reviewing and presenting the economic impacts of proposed strategies to upper management. Data for such financial analyses are obtained from operations and financial databases through direct queries of Ozment’s department staff. Reports and charts for presentations are then prepared by hand and typed. Multiple copies are prepared and distributed to various users. The pressure on Ozment’s group has intensified as demand for more and more current information increases. A solution to this reporting problem must be found.The systems department wants to develop a proprietary software package to produce the reports automatically. The project would require the company to make a considerable programming investment. Ozment is concerned about the accuracy, completeness, and currency of data isautomatically produced reports. He has…

Under the topic of( Stage 3 Risk Assessment Process ) Answer these questions: (A) -Risk identification -Risk register -Profit and loss account -Balance sheet -Industry betas These are inputs for risk assessment process, briefly explain any 3 of them (explanation should not be more than 5-6 lines ) (B)What is CAPM analysis and for what purposes it is used in risk assessment process? (explanation should not be more than 5-6 lines)

Revenue and expense data for Bluestem Company are as follows:   Year 2 Year 1 Administrative expenses $ 37,000 $ 20,000 Cost of goods sold 350,000 320,000 Income tax expense   40,000 32,000 Sales 800,000 700,000 Selling expenses 150,000 110,000 ​ (a) Prepare a comparative income statement, with vertical analysis, stating each item for both years as a percent of sales. (b) Comment upon significant changes disclosed by the comparative income statement. Round percentages to one decimal place.

Manage Your Health, Inc. (MYH) is a Fortune 500 company that provides a variety of healthcare services across the globe. MYH has more than 20,000 full-time employees and more than 5,000 part-time employees. MYH recently updated its strategic plan; key goals include reducing internal costs, increasing cross-selling of products, and exploiting new Web-based technologies to help employees, customers, and suppliers work together to improve the development and delivery of healthcare products and services. Below are some ideas the IT department has developed for supporting these strategic goals: 1. Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project: Provide an application on the current intranet to help employees improve their health. A recent study found that MYH, Inc. pays 20 percent more than the industry average for employee healthcare premiums, primarily due to the poor health of its employees. You believe that this application will help improve employee health within one year of its rollout so…

Assume Tea brands ChotooChai and BaraChai are competing brands in the market. With arrival of winter season, ChotooChai announces good promotional deals. Using ‘Comparative Statics Analysis’ of demand and supply model: a)How will the managements of the two brands study the short-run and long-run impact on Tea Sales, after the announcement of promotions in the market of Tea? B)Demonstrate and explain, with clearly labelled two panel diagrams, the ‘Rationing Function’   and the Allocating or ‘Guiding Function’ of Price

TRADEKINGS is a soft drink manufacturer in Zambia. Although it has a commandingshare of the soft drink market in Zambia, it is facing increasing competition from asoft drink known as Atia from Kenya and the Coca-Cola line of soft drinks.Required:Use a Product Portfolio (SWOT) Analysis to:A. Identify the opportunity OR threat to the company.B. Identify the company’s strength OR weakness of the company.C. Recommend an appropriate strategy

Determine which factor of production is needed in the following problem. 1.The ABM manufacturing Co.hired a gardener.He uses a lawn mower for landscaping.Which factor of production would you consider this machine? 2.The owner of the company withdrew cash for the salaries of thw employees.which factor of production would you consider cash on hand? 3.The top manager of the firm said "the great ideas,consepts and emotional determination of a person to produce something that consumers want to buy" is very important for the company.What factor of production describes the ability to create great ideas? 4.The farmers planted pineapple cutting in the vacant area located in their locality.Which factor of production would you consider a pineapple plantation?

The sales value at splitof method: a. allocates joint costs to joint products on the basis of the relative total sales value at the splitof point b. allocates joint costs to joint products in a way that each product has an identical gross-margin percentage c. allocates joint costs to joint products on the basis of a comparable physical measure at the splitof point d. allocates joint costs to joint products on the basis of relative NRV

1. Formulate recommendations and solutions for Ardene for consideration by industry client.2. Outline advantages and disadvantages of each solution.3. Identify potential obstacles both within and external to the organization and strategies to overcome obstacles.4. Evaluate the role and various forms of outsourcing. Company selected is Ardene

Q3- Suppose there is a company that does all the work manually and has a particular system in each department. After spending a period of time, they wanted to automate all the company's functions and operations, and they decided to apply the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to their organization. Why did they determine to use the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system instead of manually working? Answer: Enterprise resource planning is a business suite that enables various organizations to manage the daily activities by integrating the finance, human resource, logistics, marketing, and operations functions as a single system. Enterprise resource planning systems allows various functions to communicate and exchange the information through compiling into a central database thus allowing all the employees a cross departmental visibility. The various advantages associated with the usage of ERP include, Generation of major time and financial savings through providing the…

Create a detailed marketing plan for ta credit card product. Your plan should cover all essential aspects of marketing strategy and implementation, and it should be well-supported by relevant research and analysis.Assignment Guidelines:1. Product/Service Selection : Choose a specific banking product or service to focus on.Explain why you believe this product or service is needed in your community/country andhow it aligns with current market trends and demands.2. Market Analysis : Conduct a thorough analysis of your target market. Define the targetaudience and provide demographic, psychographic, and behavioral insights. Identifycompetitors and analyze their strengths and weaknesses.3. Marketing Objectives and Goals : Set clear and achievable marketing objectives for thenew product/service launch. These objectives should be specific, measurable, attainable,relevant, and time-bound (SMART).4. Marketing Strategy : Develop a comprehensive marketing strategy that includes the 4Ps(Product,…

Special Order; Strategy; International Williams Company, located in southern Wisconsin,manufactures a variety of industrial valves and pipe fittings that are sold to customers in nearbystates. Currently, the company is operating at about 70% capacity and is earning a satisfactory returnon investment.Glasgow Industries Ltd. of Scotland has approached management with an offer to buy 120,000units of a pressure valve. Glasgow Industries manufactures a valve that is almost identical toWilliams’s pressure valve; however, a fire in Glasgow Industries’s valve plant has shut down itsmanufacturing operations. Glasgow needs the 120,000 valves over the next 4 months to meetcommitments to its regular customers; the company is prepared to pay $21 each for the valves.Williams’s product cost for the pressure valve, based on current attainable standards, follows:[LO 11-2][LO 11-2]Direct materials $ 6Direct labor (0.5 hour per valve) 8Manufacturing overhead (1/3 variable) 9Total manufacturing cost…

1.3) Evaluate the business level strategy implemented by Drip Footwear.

Driving-forces analysis typically does not include determining whether forces are acting to make competition more or less intense. O determining whether forces are acting to strengthen or weaken market demand. ○ determining whether forces are acting to cause fundamental changes in industry conditions and/or the industry's competitiveness. ○ determining whether forces are acting to cause industry rivals to shift to a different strategic group. ○ determining whether forces are acting to raise or lower industry profitability.

What are the activities aid HACCP in promoting GMP in alignment to a company’s Quality Assurance practices? Please explain in detail and clearly. Thank you!

13. With a fixed value stock bid, the only the bidding company’s shareholders face market and operational risk between the deal announcement and completion date. True/False and WHY

During the economic downturn arising from the COVID -19 pandemic in South Africa the government created the Covid-19 Loan Guarantee Scheme which provided loans, substantially guaranteed by government, to eligible businesses to assist them Funds borrowed from this scheme, through the banking industry, can be used for operational expenses, such as salaries, rent and lease agreements and contracts with suppliers. The scheme however has not been as great a success as had been envisaged. a) Describe how the scheme works; b) Analyse the reasons why the uptake has been so poor; c) Identify the losses which are being guaranteed by government; and d) Propose changes which could be introduced to improve the scheme.

As a student, you need to demonstrate your understanding in conducting the three stages of strategy including strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Therefore, you need to select an established organization and conduct the following:    Develop an Introduction that describes a summary of the organization including where the organization is located and what type of services/ product they provide    Q1: Question 1: Evaluate the Mission Statement of the organization against the 9-mission statement component and suggest the missing component with valid justification. (A1, B1, C1, C2)     Q2: Question 2: Conduct a SWOT analysis with the support of the critical analysis of the Literature Review (B1, D4)     Q3: Question 3: Evaluate the status of the organization and conduct a matching stage by considering the matching strategy (C1, C2)       Important Guidelines:     The assignment should be at least 1200 words; the assignment should be developed based on critical analysis…

Which of the following factors was probably the most important consideration in Uber's decision to purchase Postmates with respect to whether or not the meal delivery services industry presented a sufficiently attractive business opportunity? O constructing a strategic group map to assess the attractiveness of the competitive position of each strategic group to determine the overall attractiveness of all the strategic groups in the food delivery industry O using value chain analysis to determine the relative cost positions of rival firms in the food delivery industry and who is the industry's lowest-cost producer O determining which firms in in the food delivery industry have a competitive advantage and how they attained their advantage O determining the overall strength of the five competitive forces shaping the food delivery industry O determining the outlook for future profitability in the food delivery industry

4.    Analyse and explain ONE key risk the company faced when it operates overseas. 5.    With reference to the risk you mentioned in Q.4, what is your suggested action(s) for Sushiro? Explain.

How does a CRM system contribute to lead management, and what are the key stages in the lead-to-customer conversion process?

Q5. Discuss the Internet marketing possibilities for the product/service in Amazon retail company? Q6. Discuss the use of social media in the marketing of the product/service in Amazon retail company?

CVP Analysis; Commissions; Ethics Lionel Corporation manufactures pharmaceutical products sold through a network of sales agents in the United States and Canada. The agents are currently paid an 18% commission on sales; that percentage was used when Lionel prepared the following budgeted income statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019: Lionel Corporation Budgeted Income Statement For the Year Ending June 30, 2019 ($000 omitted) Sales $28,500 Cost of goods sold Variable $12,825 Fixed 3,500  16,325  Gross profit  $12,175  Selling and administrative costs Commissions $ 5,130 Fixed advertising cost 800  Fixed administrative cost  2,150  8,080  Operating income $ 4,095 Fixed interest cost 705 Income before income taxes $ 3,390 Income taxes (30%) 1,017 Net income $ 2,373 Since the completion of the income statement, Lionel has learned that its sales agents are requiring a 5% increase in their commission rate (to 23%) for the upcoming year. As a result, Lionel’s president has…

4. , Briefly explain how new data-capture devices such as RFID tags help organizations accurately identify and segment their customers for activities such as targeted marketing.

Wk 1-Apply: Strategic Supply Chain Management [due Day 7] Assignment Content You are inducted to the newly setup team of logistics and distributions in your company. You are analyzing the flow of goods from the suppliers to the final customer. You need to prepare a reference document for the team you are planning to build as a part of the setup process of a supply chain. Choose a large global company. Prepare an 875- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss the following items: -Define supply chain management. Define how supply chain management has evolved over the past 20 years. Describe the primary components of your selected company's supply chain and explain the importance of each component. Discuss how the 3 key supply chain decision phases are used at this company and provide examples. Provide examples of how your selected company has (or does not have) an advantage over its competitors using its supply chain. Analyze the financial impact establishing a supply chain had on your…

Case Study One: Consulting Services International Ltd Consulting Services International Ltd ( CSI Ltd) is a company incorporated in Hong Kong. The company is part of a multi- national group and acts as a holding company for a number of other entities. The group provides corporate management consulting services in various countries across the globe. CSI Ltd owns 80% of the shares in Consulting Services Australia Ltd (CSA) which is incorporated in Australia and carries on a business undertaking corporate consulting in Australia through various physical offices. CSI Ltd's main activities are raising finance and investing in order to generate funds and effectively manage the other companies in the group. CSI also provides centralised management and head office services to the other international companies in the group for fees at market value. The main income sources of CSI are therefore investment income, interest on loans to other companies and service fees. CSI's main head office is…