Tag: Business Finance

Assignment Question(s):

Q1. Distinguish between Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return.Give one pro and one con for each method.[15 marks]

Q2. Describe one advantage and one disadvantage for the following pricing methods:market-based and cost- based[15 marks]

Q3. The Coffee Revolution sells beverages in a variety of coffee flavors.Data for a recent week appear below:

Revenue (1,000 cups sold)

Cost of ingredientsSAR640

Factory Rent500

Depreciation expense –office3601,500

a.Suppose the company’s policy is to set prices based on a 250% markup above variable cost.Calculate the cost-based price per cup. [15 marks]

b.What is the mark up percentage if the company adopts product cost method and the required rate of return by shareholders is 10% on total assets of SAR 10,000[15 marks]

Q4. The City of Hail is considering the purchase of new road repair equipment costing SAR40,000 to achieve cash savings of SAR8,000 per year in operating costs.The estimated useful life is 10 years, with no terminal value.The city’s minimum expected return is 14%.

a.What is the net present value of this investment?[10 marks]

b.What is the internal rate of return? [10 marks]

d.What is the payback period?[10 marks]

Q5. Part A is used in one of Oraby Corporation’s products. The company’s Accounting Department reports the following costs of producing the 12,000 units of the part that are needed every year.

Per unit

Direct materialsSAR 4.50

Direct laborSAR 1.20

Variable overheadSAR 2.70

Supervisor’s salarySAR 3.00

Depreciation of special equipmentSAR 2.30

Allocated general overheadSAR 1.80

An outside supplier has offered to make the part and sell it to the company for SAR 15.70 each. If this offer is accepted, the supervisor’s salary and all of the variable costs, including direct labor, can be avoided. The special equipment used to make the part was purchased many years ago and has no salvage value or other use. The allocated general overhead represents fixed costs of the entire company. If the outside supplier’s offer were accepted, only SAR 5,000 of these allocated general overhead costs would be avoided.

Required:

a. Prepare a report that shows the effect on the company’s total net operating income of buying part A from the supplier rather than continuing to make it inside the company. [30 marks]

b. Which alternative should the company choose? [10 marks]

0% palagrisem Apa style more than 4 references

Chapter 10. Identification and Data Assessment

In Chapter 10 the focus of the material is identifying and assessing data. One of the chief concerns of identifying and assessing data is extrapolation and interpolation. Please explain both of these concepts and give a reason why these scenarios would occur.     

Activity 5

Choose a firm with which you are familiar in your local business community. Is the firm successful in following one (or more) generic strategies? Why or why not? What do you think are some of the challenges it faces in implementing these strategies in an effective manner?

TASK: You must write a paper based on your current or past work experience. Your paper will describe your work experience and utilize topics discussed from class related to your personal and professional experience.   

*Describe Importance of Company Culture, Company Ethics, and Goal Planning in the paper.*

POINTS TO USE IN ESSAY-

Past Work experience was at Tim Horton’s and Cashier at Kmart. 

These experiences made me the man I am today. 

Showed me that in America nothing is free and I must work for what I want. 

Current Work Expereicne- I OWN Hookah Lounge in Shelby Township and 1 BOOST Mobile Phone Store in Redford Township.

My PAST experiences prepared me for these roles. 

I’ve been the worker, not I am the boss. 

I wouldn’t be the boss I am today if it weren’t for those past experiences. 

For this Discussion Question, complete the following.

1. Review the three articles about Inflation that are found below this. 

2. Locate two JOURNAL articles which discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology.  

Links:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/b..

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/k…

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/notes/ifdp-notes/2016/drivers-of-inflation-compensation-evidence-from-inflation-swaps-in-advanced-economies-20161230.html

I’m working on a communications writing question and need an explanation to help me learn.

1. Have you ever been appalled or affected by the level of violence, misogyny, or racism in a video game you played (or watched being played)? What was the game narrative and what made it problematic?
2. Most electronic games produced have a white, male, heterosexual point of view. Why is that? If you were a game developer, what kinds of game narratives would you like to see developed?
3. To what extent are video game addiction and violent and misogynistic representations problems for the gaming industry?

Chapter 5. Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages

Overview:

Understanding the components of external and internal analysis, companies now have the building blocks and framework to develop strong business-levels strategies to create and sustain competitive advantages. There are three generic strategies: overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. This chapter explains how the successful attainment of generic strategies can improve the firm’s relative power and discusses the five forces that determine an industry’s average profitability. As managers evaluate these generic strategies, it is critical that they do not fall into specific pitfalls. Long term, the factors that determine the sustainability of a firm’s competitive advantage are discussed. Each company must evaluate where they are in the industry life cycle to determine their business-level strategy and have turnaround strategies to reposition themselves to be in a competitive position.  

Chapter 5. Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages

Learning Objectives

1. The central role of competitive advantage in the study of strategic management and the three generic strategies: overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
2. How the successful attainment of generic strategies can improve the firm’s relative power vis-à-vis the five forces that determine an industry’s average profitability.
3. The pitfalls managers must avoid in striving to attain generic strategies.
4. How firms can effectively combine the generic strategies of overall cost leadership and differentiation.
5. What factors determine the sustainability of a firm’s competitive advantage?
6. The importance of considering the industry life cycle to determine a firm’s business-level strategy and its relative emphasis on functional area strategies and value-creating activities.
7. The need for turnaround strategies that enable a firm to reposition its competitive position in an industry.

   Question

   Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

   1. Research Amazon. How has this firm been able to combine overall cost leadership and differentiation strategies?

I’m working on a management case study and need support to help me learn.

Your firm is attempting to learn the effectiveness of a newly developed television ad on its sales. To do this, it has randomly run the ad between 0 and 5 times during one week across a large number of television markets in the United States. It then recorded product sales for the following month for each market. To conduct the analysis, analysts at the firm have assumed the following data-generating process:

Salesi=?+?Adsi+Ui

Regressing Sales on Ads yields ?ˆ=350. The firm would like to use this number to project the change in Sales when increasing weekly television ads to 20.

   1. According to these results, what is the expected change in Sales when Ads increase from 5 to 20?
   2. Why should we be skeptical of our result from Part a?
   3. What can you do to find an estimate of the effect of increasing Ads from 5 to 20 that is more credible?

The project is to answer the questions at the end of the case study. Each question should be answered separately in an Excel sheet all to be in a single Excel file. If you click on the project submission link, you will find the project description and its accompanying Excel file.

This project is due in accordance with the course syllabus, via D2L Assignments. Late submissions will not be accepted (refer to the syllabus for policy). You should submit:

• A single Excel file that contains multiple sheets each corresponding to a project question.
• Name your file in the following manner: Last name First initial_Project
  For example, John Smith should submit the project submission files as: SmithJ_Project.