BUS 3041 Wee 6 Assignment 1

Week 6 Assignment 1 Questions

Respond to the discussion questions assigned by your facilitator and submit your responses to this Discussion Area. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates as early in the week as possible. You should review and critique the work of at least two other students in each discussion question.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Provided a clearly organized response with appropriate introduction, body, and conclusion and use of headings.	6
Used vocabulary relevant to the current week's topics to provide a detailed response (150–200 words).	6
Justified ideas with a well-explained response using appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, and other references or personal experience.	6
Presented a structured report free of spelling and grammatical errors and cited sources in APA format.	6
Participated in the discussion with two or more posts by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with rationale, challenging a point of discussion, or making a relationship between one or more points of the discussion.	6
Total:	30

Question 1: Explain each of the three key stages of preparing for and delivering a media interview, including preparation, performance during the interview, and activities after the interview.

Question 2: While going to your office, you read an article in the business section of the newspaper, which claims that your company stole ideas from your competitor. You know this is not true. You contact the public relations department to discuss this problem. How would you apply your crisis communication plan to this situation? Be sure to include issues such as speed of response, spokesperson, audience analysis, use of the Web, and plans for monitoring the situation and evaluating the response.

BUS 3041 Franklin Equipment, Ltd. case

DQ1:

Read the Franklin Equipment, Ltd. case in Chapter 11 and respond to the statements below:

• Analyze and evaluate the criteria FEL uses to assign managers to project teams. Discuss the efficiencies these criteria create. Discuss the resulting problems.
• Discuss why it is important that project team members work well together on international projects such as Project Abu Dhabi.
• Discuss the dilemma that Jobe now faces.
• Discuss what Jobe should recommend to Gatenby.

BU450 Assignment-4 charismatic leadership

Part A: What is charismatic leadership?

 Part B: Explain what is meant by the statement that charismatic leaders use active impression management with their followers to support their image. Provide and elaborate on one example.

 Part C: Why is charismatic leadership considered a double-edged sword that requires careful monitoring to avert abuse?

Aunt Ethel Cookie

Questions:

a)Determine the activity-cost-driver rate for packaging costs (three points).
b)Using the ABC system, for the sugar cookie, compute the estimated overhead costs per 1,000 cookies (three points).
c)Using the ABC system, for the sugar cookie, compute the estimated operating profit per 1,000 cookies (three points).
d)Using a traditional system (with direct labor hours as the overhead allocation base) for the sugar cookie, compute the estimated overhead costs per 1,000 cookies (three points).
e)Using a traditional system (with direct labor hours as the overhead allocation base) for the sugar cookie, compute the estimated operating profit per 1,000 cookies (3 points).
f)Explain the difference between the profits obtained from the traditional system and the ABC system. Which system provides a better estimate of profitability? Why? (three points).

Amazon.com with Google and microsoft

Present areas where Amazon.com is competing with Google™ and Microsoft®, and whether competition is a wise strategy.

Agency Problem

 

The separation of ownership and control is often a subject of concern for financial managers. Management decisions are sometimes not acceptable to shareholders. This, in turn, raises conflicts. These conflicts are called agency problems.
For example, a chief executive officer (CEO) may spend a considerable amount of the organization's capital on artwork to decorate the office premises. The shareholders may raise the concern that their investment has been inappropriately invested as decorating the office premises will not yield any financial benefits.

Provide at least two more examples of agency problems. Why does such a conflict develop? Are such conflicts more likely to occur in smaller or larger organizations? Why? What can be done to decrease the likelihood of these conflicts?

advantages and disadvantages of global versus domestic sourcing

Prepare a summary of no less than 1,000 words, accompanied by a flowchart that describes or outlines the steps that occur in a typical sourcing process for a global manufacturing firm. Provide a brief evaluation of the steps as illustrated in your flowchart. Address the challenges and opportunities for insourcing versus outsourcing parts, as well as discuss the advantages and disadvantages of global versus domestic sourcing. Include the following:

- Translating corporate objectives into procurement goals

· - Establishing business unit requirement processes

· - Conducting supply market research

· - Setting material management goals

· - Strategic execution

· - Reciprocity

 

AFN, capital budgeting and capital structure

What is the purpose of "Additional Funds Needed (AFN) equation?

Explain the purpose of Operating and Financial Leverage.

 

Provide a brief explanation on the purpose of Capital Budgeting and why this concept is important to the financial health of a corporation

Provide a brief explanation on the purpose of Capital Structure and Cost of Capital, and how these concepts relate to the financial health of a corporation