Assignment 1: Creating a Culture of Innovation Due Week 3 and worth 200 points Imagine you are creating a new and innovative technology company. In this assignment, consider the culture, management, and leadership of your organization. Remember that your company should be a place that people want to work. Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you: Describe the characteristics of the people […]

Module 3: Discussion Forum (Minimum 150 words) Review your required reading by Yu-Chih Liu and Asri Rizki (2016). Examine Table 2 and Figure 1, and consider the discussion offered by the authors. Post your researched thoughts on how the risk factors mentioned in the reading impact ongoing projects with which you are familiar. Include your thoughts on the impact of these factors on international projects, […]

ACME Wholesalers, LLC. is considering whether to discontinue offering credit to customers who are more than 10 days overdue on repaying the credit extended to them. Current annual credit sales are $10 million on credit terms of “net 30”. Such a change in policy is expected to reduce sales by 10 percent, cut the firm’s bad-debt losses from 5 to 3 percent, and reduce its average collection period […]

A company manufactures a single product which has the following cost structure based on a production budget of 10,000 units. Materials – 4 kg at $3/kg $12 Direct labour – 5 hours at $7/hour $35 Variable production overheads are recovered at the rate of $8 per direct labour hour. Other costs incurred by the company are: $ Factory fixed overheads 120,000 Selling and distribution overheads […]

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Subject: On boarding Hiring Process & Exit Interview Process Question: 1) What roadblocks stand in your way to obtain the data needed, and where will you get the appropriate data to test your research question? 2) What statistical test will you use to test your hypothesis with a solid defense/justification of why that is the most appropriate test. Paper has to be […]

What about being disciplined in order to follow through? Managers need to be disciplined to monitor its employees regarding progress and employees need be disciplined in order to fulfill their job duties. For example, when I am working in one of our business offices due to being short-staffed – Even though I do have a lot of deadlines to meet in my other areas I […]

“Union Pacific Corporation” Please respond to the following: Perform an analysis of the social / demographic, technological, economic, environmental / geographic, and political/legal / governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Union Pacific. Describe how Union Pacific will be affected by each of these external factors. “Strong Brands” Please respond to the following: Several companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your […]

The opening “Q.M in Action” vignette in Chapter 8 of the textbook discusses how Chevron uses a linear programming tool and sensitivity analysis to plan refinery operations and to improve profitability. As a manager you will be required to analyze situations quantitatively to minimize costs or maximize profit. What other considerations might a manager at Chevron have to account for while planning production in such […]

Pepsi Corporation’s current ratio is 1.25, while Coke Company’s current ratio isPepsi Corporation’s current ratio is 1.25, while Coke Company’s current ratio is 0.75. Both firms willattempt to “window dress” their coming end-of-year financial statements. As part of their window dressingstrategy, Pepsi will triple its current liabilities by adding short-term debt and placing the funds obtained inthe cash account. Coke will double its total liabilities […]

This is for Managerial Finance. Two years ago a company issued $10 Million in bonds with a face value of $1,000 and a maturity of 10 years. The company is supposed to put aside $1 million in a sinking fund each year to pay off the bonds. Dolly Frisco, the finance manager, of the company, has found out that the bonds are selling at $800 […]