Task: Scenario You work for Quantigration, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturing plant headquartered in the United States. Capitalizing on advancements in its product, Quantigration has aggressively expanded and acquired fabrication plants and workers around the world. You have recently joined the EWC, an employee-run Economic Watch Committee. Your department manager, Gregory, is putting together his staffing budget for the upcoming year, whic...
Situation Ah Lee, a financial manager at a US based mid-sized manufacturing firm, has been caught off-guard before. In an effort to earn the most on excess cash, Ah Lee once bought five-year US Treasury bonds (a maturity longer than the firm’s liabilities) only to see interest rates rise. The loss when the Treasury bonds were sold did not make Ah Lee’s supervisor, Carlo, Chief Financial Officer, very happy. Ah Lee is now...
Task Case Study Zappos Tony Hsieh’s first entrepreneurial effort began at the age of 12 when he started his own custom button business. Realizing the importance of advertising, Hsieh began marketing his business to other kids through directories, and soon his profits soared to a few hundred dollars a month. Throughout his adolescence, Hsieh started several businesses, and by the time he was in college he was making money selling pizzas ou...
Task: Morals of the Manufacturers (1837) by Harriet Martineau, a European visitor to America The morals of the female factory population may be expected to be good when it is considered of what class it is composed. Many of the girls are in the factories because they have too muchpride for domestic service. Girls who are too proud for domestic service as it is in America, can hardly be low enough for any gross immorality: or to need w...
Question: Section A: Case Study Question No: 1 Answer All Questions. Unilever, a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company, focuses not only on the specific activities of their company, but also the supply chain that supports it, as well as the activities of its customers and consumers. This effort to go above and beyond the norm by making sustainable living commonplace is why Unilever is widely regarded as one of the few truly sust...
Format guidelines • Give your literature review a title that clearly reflects the content of your review. • Include an Introduction section that states the purpose of the review and a Conclusion section. Include other sub-sections to help structure your work. • Use a professional looking font and a font size of 11 or 12 point. • Your review should be approximately . • Include appropriate citations throughout the review an...
Task The company ABC, L.C. manufactures some products with an average sales price of € 25/unit, with fixed annual costs of € 110,000. The average unit variable costs are € 5. Develop 1.a) At what volume of production will the threshold of profitability be reached? b) Assuming that annual sales are estimated at 20,000 units, being the distribution evenly over a year, on what date will the break-even point be reached? c) W...
Question: Managing Self and Others report and reflective blog. Evaluate concepts associated with career development strategies. Assess the development of a lifelong learning approach and skills development taken by yourself and others. Evaluate and apply a range of strategies that lead to ‘high performance’ people. Apply such strategies to working as an individual or as part of a team. Reflect on your personal performance to...
Task: 1. A company has in place a floating-for-fixed four year interest rate swap with payments due every three months. The company pays three month Libor & receives 6.00% APR based on a notional principal amount of $25 million. If 1Y £ibor is 5.70% at the end of the first period, what is the net cash flow to the company?2. A company which uses gold in its manufacturing process wants to fix its gold costs today for the next two years. It ...
Task: Assignment 1: The assignment will entail reading a range of academic papers, journals and books. You will be writing reports and designing Distributed Database Systems and Data Warehouse Systems. Tasks Task 1: Distributed Database Design Happy Cruise Lines is a cruise company with several ships and a variety of cruise itineraries, each involving several ports of call. The company headquarters is in New York and has regional offices in ...
Questions: This assignment is based in two part please Powerful point presentation only for the highlighted point on the attachment in red and circle Only two slides only two slides The second part is separate and explanation that can be less than 250 to thoroughly explain the two slides of the power point in part one as a support to presentation See attachments As per the attachement highlighted in red im presenting the last point Circled in re...
Question: As an engineer, very often you have to deal with problems that involve careful consideration, analysis, optimisation, interpretation, conclusion and decision. This assignment consists of three parts (A – Decision analysis, B – Network analysis and C – Shortest path analysis). Each part comprises a case study which poses real systems challenges in terms of planning, optimization and decision making. You will need to ...
TecSmart Electronics designs, manufactures, and repairs electronic power supplies for a variety of original equipment manufacturers in the computer, medical and office products field. The company’s focus is summed up by three simple words: quality, service and value. The top management team started its quality journey in the mid-1980s, basing it on Deming’s 14 points. They established a Deming Steering Committee to guide the process...
Question: Using spreadsheets to solve complex problems is a key competence – in fact a requirement – for many middle management positions in the workplace. Corporate finance provides many opportunities to use MS Excel to solve problems that cannot easily be solved manually. In this assignment, you will use MS Excel to prepare pro forma financial statements and also calculate free cash flow for a multi-year business opportunity. Wh...
Questions: Case: Ethical Dilemma As a buyer for a discount retail chain, you find yourself caught in a maelstrom. Just last month, your chain began selling an economy-priced line of clothing endorsed by a famous movie star. To be price competitive, you have followed the rest of the industry and sourced the clothing from a low-wa region of Asia. Initial sales have been brisk; however, the movie star has recently called you screaming and crying...
Task: Section A: Answer one question only from this section 1.Answer all parts of this question: (a) Explain the factors that affect the equilibrium exchange rate. (10 marks) (b) Explain what is meant by exchange rate “overshooting”. (10 marks) (c) During 2016, the sterling pound went from £0.67 per 1 US dollar to £0.80 per US dollar. By ...
Task Write a short essay (minimum 400 words) defining and explaining a key concept in your major. In your explanation, you should: Quote two different definitions of the term from different sources and comment on how it is defined, highlighting the key concepts involved. Explain the different aspects or types of this concept and/or how the term is related to other concepts. Explain the significance of the term for your major. Use the te...
Question: The submission is in the form of a report. The report should be technical and written in a concise and formal business style. As such, your choice of font face and font size should contribute to the clarity of the information. The report should be wellstructured, using headings, sub-sections and paragraphs as appropriate and should contain the sketch of the main scenario of the project as or if available or provided. Any images, grap...
Question: Manager of Intersnack Description You have been appointed as Innovation Manager of Intersnack/Largo Foods/Tayto to develop an outline, sustainable, innovation strategy report for one of the product/service areas in its organisation. The company is known by several corporate and brand names: Intersnack Ireland/Largo Foods/Tayto Snacks/Tayto Park, etc. The assets of the organisation have a complex ownership structure that are largely...
Question: Tactical Decisions (Learning Outcome 4) (25 Marks) Tactical decisions do not require significant or permanent resource commitments and can be changed or reversed relatively quickly if better opportunities arise. The impact of such decisions is short term and the financial impact of alternatives is usually analysed by considering theincremental revenue and costs of each alternative (Langfield-Smith, Thorne & Hilton, 2009). You...
Question: TMA Topic overview: Business Plan One vehicle for acquiring an understanding of the entrepreneurial process is through the preparation of a start-up business plan. The focus of this TMA is to select a business idea and create a complete and persuasive mini- business plan. Writing a business plan requires you to ask tough questions about the nature of the business. What are the benefits of your product or service? What is the tar...
Questions: 1. This assignment contains only ONE question that is set in both Malay and English. 2. Answer in Malay or English. 3. Learners are to submit assignment only in MsWord format unless specified otherwise. Please refrain from converting text/phrases into picture format such as .gif/ .jpeg/print screen / etc. 4. Your assignment should be typed using 12 point Times New Roman font and 1...
Questions: Q1 A.Spacecraft, Inc., is a large corporation that is audited regularly by a public accounting firm but also maintains an internal auditing staff. Explain briefly how the relationship of the public accounting firm to Spacecraft differs from the relationship of the internal auditing staff to Spacecraft. B.Feller the sole owner of a small hardware business, has been told that the business should have its financial statements ...
Task: This Assignment assesses the following module Learning Outcomes: Successful students will typically have a knowledge and understanding of: 1.The ethical issues relating to penetration testing and how to incorporate them operationally. 2.A deep and systematic application of the tools, methods and procedures (theoretical and methodological) used within the cyber security arena in the context of a penetration test 3.How to apply advanced ...
Question: Case Study: Mary Kay, Inc.: Building a Brand in India Sheryl Adkins-Green couldn't ask for a better assignment. As the newly appointed vice president of brand development at Mary Kay, Inc., she is responsible for development of the product portfolio around the world, including global initiatives and products specifically formulated for global markets. She is enthusiastic about her position, noting that, “There is tremendo...