Question 2. 2. Q16-2: A company’s annual sales budget is for 120,000 units, spread equally through the year. It needs to have one and three quarter’s month stock at the end of each month. If opening stock is 12,000 units, the number of units to be produced in the first month of the budget year is: (Points : 3)

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1. Q16-1: Zero based budgeting is a technique where a department: (Points : 3)

A.    is required to make a case for its budget as if its activities were new

B.     a budget after taking into account current expenditure and an allowance for the next period’s expenditure

C.     prepares budgets on the basis of no increase in unit costs from the previous period.

D.    difference between budget and actual results will be zero

 

Question 2. 2. Q16-2: A company’s annual sales budget is for 120,000 units, spread equally through the year. It needs to have one and three quarter’s month stock at the end of each month. If opening stock is 12,000 units, the number of units to be produced in the first month of the budget year is: (Points : 3)

A.    10,500

B.     12,000

C.     13,000

D.    15,500

 

Question 3. 3. Q16-3: The standard costs for a manufacturing business are £12 per unit for direct materials, £8 per unit for direct labour and £5 per unit for manufacturing overhead. The sales projection is for 5,000 units, 3,500 units need to be in stock at the end of the period and 1,500 units are in stock at the beginning of the period. The production budget will show costs for that period of: (Points : 4)

A.    £175,000

B.     £150,000

C.     £140,000

D.    £125,000

 

Question 4. 4. Q16-4: Receivable increase by £15,000 and payables increase by £11,000. The effect on cash flow of the Statement of Cash Flow is a (an): (Points : 4)

A.    increase of £26,000

B.     increase of £4,000

C.     decrease of £4,000

D.    decrease of £26,000

 

Question 5. 5. Q16-5: Randy Airplanes Ltd is a privately owned business. It has budgeted for profits (after deducting depreciation of £41,000) of £150,000. Debtors are expected to increase by £20,000, inventory is planned to increase by £5,000 and creditors should increase by £8,000. Capital expenditure is planned of £50,000, income tax of £35,000 has to be paid and loan repayments are due totaling £25,000. What is the forecast cash position of Randy’s at the end of the budget year, assuming a current bank overdraft of £15,000? (Points : 4)

A.    18,000

B.     52,000

C.     66,000

D.    49,000

E.     None of the above

 

Question 6. 6. Q 17-1: The method of adjusting the budget to reflect the actual volume of sales is called (Points : 4)

A.    activity-based budgeting

B.     flexible budgeting

C.     programme budgeting

D.    incremental budgeting

 

Question 7. 7. Q17-2: A company has budgeted for materials of £170,000 but the actual costs are £164,000. The company has also budgeted for labor of £130,000 with actual costs being £133,000. The expense variance is:
@

  Budget for the year to date Actual for the year to date Variance
Materials 170,000 164,000 6,000 Fav
Labor 130,000 133,000 3,000 Adv
Total 300,000 297,000 3,000 Fav

A.    £3,000 adverse

B.     £3,000 favorable

C.     £6,000 adverse

D.    £6,000 favorable

 

Question 8. 8. Q17-3a: Higher prices from material suppliers will be reflected in the: (Points : 3)

A.    material price variance

B.     material usage variance

C.     labor rate variance

D.    labor efficiency variance

 

Question 9. 9. Q17-3b: Poor quality materials that require greater skill to work will be reflected in the (Points : 3)

A.    material price variance

B.     material usage variance

C.     labor rate variance

D.    labor efficiency variance

 

Question 10. 10. Q18-1: A concern with recognizing all the costs of a product or service from the design stage through to its abandonment can be described as a process of: (Points : 4)

A.    Kaizen costing

B.     target costing

C.     throughput costing

D.    life cycle costing

 

Question 11. 11. Q18-2: Trans PLC estimates that a new product will sell in sufficient quantities to justify its manufacture at a selling price of £175. The company needs to invest £5 million to produce a quantity of 10,000 of these new products per year and requires a return on that investment of 12% per annum. The current prediction is that the product will cost £140 to manufacture. To achieve the target selling price and target rate of return, the product needs to be re-engineered to reduce its cost of manufacture by: (Points : 4)

A.    £35

B.     £25

C.     £60

D.    £40

 

Question 12. 12. Q18-3: SkinTan’s top five customers generate sales revenue of £950,000 per annum. Each generates a different gross margin as a consequence of price negotiations that have been carried out over several years. Because of their location, each customer incurs different distribution expenses. Sales commissions are paid at the rate of 6% on all sales. Fixed costs are customer specific, covering salaries of sales and office staff who service each customer. The following table shows the information for each of the top customers for the previous year.

Sales            250,000            250,000            200,000            150,000            100,000
Gross margin % 30% 25% 21% 37% 39%
Distribution expenses               30,000               14,000               25,000               12,000                 6,000
Fixed costs               30,000               25,000               16,000               15,000               10,000

Carry out a customer profitability analysis in relation to SkinTan’s top customers. Then match the customer with the profitability.

(Points : 10)

 

Potential Matches:
1 : 19,500
2 : -11,000
3 : 17,000
4 : 8,500
5 : 0

 

    Answer
___: Customer A
___: Customer B
___: Customer C
___: Customer D
___: Customer E
 

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Imagine you work for a company that has recently merged with a global company. Write a brief introduction to your company as well as the company that merged with the company . Then develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist detailing what steps you would take as the HR manager to help unify the culture of both companies.

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Imagine you work for a company that has recently merged with a global company. Write a brief introduction to your company as well as the company that merged with the company . Then develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist detailing what steps you would take as the HR manager to help unify the culture of both companies.

Create two (2) company introductions and develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist in which you:

  1. Give a succinct overview of your fictitious company.
  2. Give a succinct overview of the fictitious company merged with.
  3. Develop an eight to ten (8-10) point checklist of steps you would take to unify company culture.
  4. Explain your rationale for choosing each of the steps in your checklist.
  5. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

a. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

b. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

c. Use APA formatting to reference your work, including in-text references when necessary. See the APA Guide located in the Student Center tab.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Determine the nature of globalization, cultures, and labor markets, and assess the impact on human Capital management (HRM).
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in global HRM.
  • Write clearly and concisely about global HRM using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

 

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Craft a brief (1-2 pages) strategy for a business concept that would directly compete with the small business you selected. Explain the rationale for the strategy in detail. Determine if it would make more sense to open the new business you describe or to purchase the existing business you selected. Explain your reasoning.

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Due Week 4 and worth 240 points

Select a small business that you visit often (e.g., coffee shop, bookstore, sporting goods store, etc.). Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

  1. Craft a brief (1-2 pages) strategy for a business concept that would directly compete with the small business you selected. Explain the rationale for the strategy in detail.
  2. Determine if it would make more sense to open the new business you describe or to purchase the existing business you selected. Explain your reasoning.
  3. Discuss the most appropriate form of ownership for your new business (assuming your current financial situation).
  4. Outline a business plan for your business. Visit http://www.sba.gov for tools and templates.
  5. Include at least two (2) references outside the textbook.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the nature of entrepreneurship, business ethics, and social responsibility in managing a successful small business.
  • Analyze a business strategy and supporting business plan for a small business concept
  • Describe and analyze the necessary activities and key decisions to start a small business.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in small business management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about small business management using proper writing mechanics.

FOLLOW THE RUBRIC BELOW TO GET AN A ON THIS ASSIGNMENT USE THE EXEMPLARY COLUMN TO GET 100% ON THE ASSIGNMENT. AS WELL AS THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVE ABOVE, IF YOU CAN DO THIS ASSIGNMENT AS IT IS REQUESTED THEN I CAN USE YOU IF NOT THEN DON’T BOTHER.

Points: 240

 Assignment 1: To Build or Buy
Criteria Unacceptable

Below 60% F

 Meets Minimum Expectations

60-69% D

 Fair

70-79% C

 Proficient

80-89% B

 Exemplary

90-100% A
1. Craft a brief (1-2 pages) strategy for a business concept that would directly compete with the small business you selected. Explain the rationale for the strategy in detail.

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2. Determine if it would make more sense to open the new business you describe or to purchase the existing business you selected.  Explain your reasoning.

Weight: 20%

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3. Discuss the most appropriate form of ownership for your new business (assuming your current financial situation).

Weight: 20%

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4. Outline a business plan for your business (either the new one you will start or the existing one you will buy).

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5. Two (2) references outside the textbook

Weight: 5%

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6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements.

Weight: 10%

 More than 8 errors present 7-8 errors present 5-6 errors present 3-4 errors present 0-2 errors present
 

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Analyze the role that customer service plays and determine the service management skills at Zappos. Evaluate the different way(s) that Zappos creates a superior customer service Choose at least two OM activities in Exhibit 1.1 from Chapter 1 of the text. Evaluate how each of the activities impacts the management of goods and services that Zappos provides. Include one to two examples from each activity to support your position.

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Analyze the role that customer service plays and determine the service management skills at Zappos. Evaluate the different way(s) that Zappos creates a superior customer service

Choose at least two OM activities in Exhibit 1.1 from Chapter 1 of the text. Evaluate how each of the activities impacts the management of goods and services that Zappos provides. Include one to two examples from each activity to support your position.

Choose an example of a global value chain and an example of domestic value chain. Compare and contrast the key challenges that the managers would face. Then, propose the ways to confront these challenges.

Utilizing the Exhibit 2.4 from Chapter 2 of the text, evaluate how each value chain you chose from Part 1 of this discussion can be described from a pre- and post-production service perspective. Provide at least two examples for each perspective.

Choose two models of organizational performance and compare and contrast them by evaluating their differences and similarities.

From the first e-Activity, suggest ways performance measurements might be used by a company or an organization to evaluate its customer satisfaction. 

From the second e-Activity, provide at least two examples of quality indicators that the company may opt to measure and defend its cause-and-effect linkage between the key measures of performance

 

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In each case, identify the argument’s two parts: what is the conclusion? (There may be more than one conclusion in the passage; this means that you could identify more than one argument per passage.) What is or are the premises? (Each premise and each conclusion should be formulated in your own words; each of them must be a simple and complete declarative sentence.)

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Analysis of faulty Arguments”

 

Go over the three arguments below. (Don’t read  your classmates’ posts until you are done with your own work.)

Then, choose TWO (2) of them.
In each case, identify the argument’s two parts: what is the conclusion? (There may be more than one conclusion in the passage; this means that you could identify more than one argument per passage.) What is or are the premises? (Each premise and each conclusion should be formulated in your own words; each of them must be a simple and complete declarative sentence.)

 

After you identify the argument, answer the following questions:

 

Is this a good argument? What’s misleading about it? Where is the reasoning mistake?

 

 

 

EXAMPLE 1

 

The following appeared in a local newspaper:

 

In the last school where Principal McArthur worked, he was known as very tough. The teachers resented him. Nobody liked him. He’d often call the teachers into his office and scold them for lateness, lazy work habits, and sloppy record-keeping. When Dr. McArthur arrives at his new position at the Willows High School next August, he will again create a hostile work environment.

 

 

 

EXAMPLE 2:

 

The following appeared in promotional literature for a billboard company:

 

Bye Bye Baby Store installed a large billboard on the side of the 95 highway exit. Sales of baby items in the store increased 13% in the next fiscal quarter. Dr. Mark Baldwin, a local dentist, would like to increase the profits of his dental practice. All that needs to be done is installing an advertising billboard next to a highway exist and his patient load will increase tremendously.

 

 

 

EXAMPLE 3

 

The following appeared in a local newspaper:

 

Two weeks ago, 12 female college soccer players went to the Governor’s office. They wanted to protest budget cuts for intercollegiate women’s sports. In the state, there are about 30,000 female college athletes. Because only 12 women went  to the protest, obviously most female athletes don’t care at all about the Governor’s funds for athletics. Therefore, there is no need for the governor to make any changes to his budget allocations.

 

 

 

When you reply to your classmates’ posts, help them in their analysis. Did they identify the argument in the right way? Is their assessment correct?

 

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Identify the name and artist of the painting in the opening seconds of the video. The subject in the painting is probably reading which book of the Bible?

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All answers should be typed in a WORD DOC and attached to the link provided in the assignment. This is the same process students use to submit writing assignments. I will not accept assignments that are not in the proper format. This also includes documents that are created in an .rtf, .wps, or .odt format. My computer only reads .doc and .docx. If a student has Word this is done for them automatically.

 

After watching the “Instructor Insights” video please answer the following:

 

Identify the name and artist of the painting in the opening seconds of the video.

 

The subject in the painting is probably reading which book of the Bible?

 

What point is the artist making by having the subject read the middle of the Bible and not the beginning?

 

The subject is sitting on a United States Army blanket. What two things might this indicate?

 

 

How is the painting an example of “determination and initiative”?

 

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Your discussion/essay should center around the following issues: (1) Was the concept of “40 Acres and a Mule” familiar to you before taking this course, and if so at what level or depth were you familiar with the concept? If you never heard of it before what is your reaction to the information? (2) Is there a connection between contemporary issues of poverty in urban and rural African American communities and the historical injustice of enslavement? Demonstrate why there is or is not such a connection. (3) Should society rectify such issues, and if so how, and if not why not?

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The textbook is African American Odyssey Volume 2, 6th edition (5th edition is also acceptable) by Darlene Hine, et. al.

THE ASSIGNMENT IS

In preparation for the 1st Discussion (which you should treat as an ESSAY): (1) Please read my paper “Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations” which is accessed thru the website of the journal Socialism and Democracy, www.sdonline.org, click onto Back Issues and then click onto issue # 31, scroll down to the title of article and click on it. (2) Review Chapter 12 page 302 (the topics are Special Field Order #15 and The Port Huron Experiment in case you have a different edition) and the two websites on “40 Acres and a Mule” which have been posted in the recent Announcement.

The debt of 40 Acres and a Mule, which was promised but not delivered by the US government, is one which African Americans are acutely aware of. If you are not African American, you may have never heard of the phrase before, but is well known the black American community.

Your discussion/essay should center around the following issues: (1) Was the concept of “40 Acres and a Mule” familiar to you before taking this course, and if so at what level or depth were you familiar with the concept? If you never heard of it before what is your reaction to the information? (2) Is there a connection between contemporary issues of poverty in urban and rural African American communities and the historical injustice of enslavement? Demonstrate why there is or is not such a connection. (3) Should society rectify such issues, and if so how, and if not why not?

The parameters of of your original post should be a minimum of 400 words, maximum of 650 words. In your Discussion/Essay you must demonstrate that you have done all of the reading though you, of course, have the right to agree or disagree and express your own opinions.

Read Chapters

Chapter 12: THE MEANING OF FREEDOM: THE PROMISE OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1868, pp. 298-323 and

Chapter 13: THE MEANING OF FREEDOM: THE FAILURE OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1868-1877, pp. 324-347

Please read them before reading my article “Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations”:

Please read the two following websites by clicking onto the links:

Forty acres and a mule – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule

The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’
CHAPTER 14: WHITE SUPREMACY TRIUMPHANT: African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877-1895, pages 348-379.
Chapter 15: AFRICAN AMERICANS CHALLENGE WHITE SUPREMACY, 1877-1918, pp. 380-411
Write 2 pages, double space.

 

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Summarize what you have read, boiling the book down into 400-600 words (no more than 2 pages). Prove you comprehend the readings by writing a no-nonsense summary. The abstract is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather an objective summary from the reader’s viewpoint. Abstract equals “boiled down.” This section should include a minimum of 2 footnotes to the text being reviewed.

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Please use the following format in preparing 4-MAT Book Reviews:

 

  1. Abstract. Summarize what you have read, boiling the book down into 400-600 words (no more than 2 pages). Prove you comprehend the readings by writing a no-nonsense summary. The abstract is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather an objective summary from the reader’s viewpoint. Abstract equals “boiled down.” This section should include a minimum of 2 footnotes to the text being reviewed.

 

  1. Concrete Response. Get vulnerable! In no less than 250 words and no more than 1 page, relate a personal life experience that this book triggered in your memory. Relate your story in first person, describing action, and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying. In the teaching style of Jesus, this is a do-it-yourself parable, case study, confession. You will remember almost nothing you have read unless you make this critical, personal connection. What video memory began to roll? This is your chance to tell your story and make new ideas your own.

 

  1. Reflection. This is the critical thinking part of the review (not critical in the sense of negative, but in the sense of questioning). In no less than 250 words and no more than 1 page, describe what questions pop up for you in response to what you have read. Keep a rough-note sheet at hand as you read. Out smart the author by asking better questions than he/she raised in the book. Tell how the author could have made the book better or more appealing to those in your field of service. One way to begin this section is by stating what bothered you most about the book. This is not a place to provide an endorsement or affirmation of the book.

 

  1. Action. So what are you going to do about it? In 400-600 words (no less than 1 page and no more than 2 pages) provide 2 actions that describe what changes you are going to make in your life, ministry, and/or work as a result of your reading. Actions should be measurable and reveal a commitment to specific time, specific people, and identified steps.

 

 

  1. Please provide a Turabian style* title page, pagination, footnotes & Bibliography.

 

*Or APA style which includes title page, pagination, citations and Reference page.

 

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Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

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Prepare a 10-minute presentation (10-15 slides, not including title or reference slide) on organizational culture and values.

  1. Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.
  2. Discuss how an individual can use effective communication techniques to overcome workplace challenges, encourage collaboration across groups, and promote effective problem solving.
  3. Identify a specific instance from your own professional experience in which the values of the organization and the values of the individual nurses did or did not align. Describe the impact this had on nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

 

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