Assume you are planning to start a new business that will sell innovative consumer products via an online store. You will be pitching your idea to potential investors with the goal of securing funding. Your investors are very savvy and want to review a well thought out financial forecast. Using the examples provided in Chapter 6, construct a hypothetical 5 year Cash Flow estimate including depreciation and tax-related amounts. Be sure to show your detailed calculations and document at least five key assumptions. Also, explain why cash flows occurring at different intervals should be adjusted for a common date in order to allow for a proper comparison.
For each of the below points summarize the importance of brands for firms using the attached documents and give real-life examples for each point. Brands provide valuable functions for firms ¤ Simplify product handling and tracing ¤ Help organizing inventory and accounting records ¤ Offer the firm legal protection for unique features or aspects of the product ¤ Provide predictability and security of demand for the firm and creates barriers of entry for competitors ¤ Provide a powerful means to secure competitive advantage
SWOT and PEST Analysis Compare and contrast, as well as assess, the usefulness of SWOT and PEST analyses, which are frequently used by healthcare organizations in their strategic planning efforts. Your paper is expected to describe both tools briefly and explain how each is used in formulating strategy. In addition, your paper must describe the strengths, limitations, and challenges of each.
Include at least three current scholarly references
Given instructions: conduct research using 3 credible sources (online databases, government/organization websites, newspapers and magazines) and provide a summary of the researched information. Your summary must discuss the information from the 3 sources and must include embedded citations. Minimum 300 words, maximum 700 words.
Essentially, you have to have a conversation/discussion between resources, an example given is the following (take note this fake example only uses 2 resources whereas mine must have 3): Many studies regarding eating patterns in children have found a connection between family and childhood eating patterns (Gucciardi, 2016; Hatanaka 2012). Gucciardi (2016) carried out interviews and observations with 50 families over a 2 year time period. Her findings suggest that very young children learn eating patterns and food preferences from their parents. Hatanaka (2012) conducted a study on male youth aged 15-19 who have visited a doctor regarding weight issues. She found that 75% of the males were exposed to poor eating habits at home. Both Gucciardi (2016) and Hatanaka (2012) demonstrate a clear connection between childhood eating patterns and the family.
RUBRIC: ✓ Summary and discussion of topic with 3 researched sources
for a level 4: Provides a thorough summary of the topic and uses sources in a discussion with a high degree of effectiveness
Also, please don′t make it too smart because it does need to be believable that I wrote it. If it helps, I am in grade 10 so it should be about that level.
If topic does not have adequate information you can contact me and discuss a different topic Thanks
Facility location refers to the location of a service or manufacturing facility with respect to customers, suppliers, and other existing facilities such that it allows the company to gain a competitive and/or strategic edge. In making a location decision, both tangible costs (e.g., cost of operating the facility; cost of land (if it applies); cost of labor, taxes, and utilities; cost of inbound and outbound transportation) and intangible costs (e.g., availability of qualified labor and labor climate) must be considered. Because the location decision usually involves making a large capital investment, it not only affects the firm’s ability to compete but also has long-term strategic implications. Therefore, in making the location decision, we should consider issues related to marketing, production, transportation and other relevant costs as well as the strategy of the organization. The importance of various factors in relation to the location decision will vary between service and manufacturing organizations and from industry to industry as well.
Location decisions can have an impact on access to markets, costs (including materials, labor, rent, construction, and transportation), quality of work life (e.g., community-related factors), and growth potential.
The fact that similar businesses are located widely underscores the futility of searching for that “one best” location. However, it does not necessarily follow that little attention is needed in finding a suitable location. Many organizations that have not been successful are no longer in business (e.g., service stations in poor locations, motels bypassed by an expressway, and so on). Moreover, others currently in operation might be much more profitable in another location. For some businesses (e.g., restaurants) regional factors are not particularly significant, and even community-related factors are of little importance. However, site-related factors are extremely important. Similarly, there are numerous examples of firms that are less affected by community or site factors than they are by regional factors (i.e., nearness to market, labor, or raw materials). Important community factors include size of the community, public transportation, schools, recreational facilities, libraries, restaurants, shopping centers, cultural and entertainment selections, and so on.
Manufacturing and non-manufacturing organizations tend to approach location decisions in a similar way, but the factors that are important to each tend to differ. Although both tend to take costs and profits into consideration, manufacturing firms are often concerned with location of raw materials, transportation costs, availability of energy and water, and similar factors. Non-manufacturing firms often are more concerned with convenience, access to markets, traffic flow, and the like.
Foreign locations may offer lower taxes, access to markets, availability of raw materials, lower transportation costs (due to nearness to market), and lower labor costs than a comparable domestic location. Potential drawbacks often relate to the political and economic stability of the host country and attitudes of the populace towards a particular nation, industry, or firm. Low labor costs often represent a major reason why companies (especially manufacturing firms) locate in particular countries. It may be useful to have a slide handy that compares hourly wage rates across certain countries, including the U.S., Germany, Japan, Mexico, and certain low-wage Asian countries. Location rating, or factor rating, is a qualitative technique used to develop an overall composite index for an alternative, which can be used to compare location alternatives. It involves identifying relevant factors, assigning relative weights to the factors, and rating each alternative with respect to the factors.
The first step is to decide on the criteria to use to evaluate location alternatives (e.g., cost, profits, community service, etc.). The second step is to identify any important factors that will dominate the decision. The third step is to develop location alternatives (country, general region, small number of community alternatives, and site alternatives among the community alternatives). The fourth step is to evaluate the alternatives and make a selection.
Locational breakeven analysis generally assumes the following:
Fixed costs are constant for the range of probable output. Variable costs are linear for the range of probable output. The level of output that will be required can be estimated within a narrow range. A single product is involved. Recent trends include the location of foreign manufacturing plants in the United States, having smaller factories located close to markets, choosing nearby suppliers, low-cost labor is becoming less of a factor in many industries, and advances in information technology make it less important to have design, engineering, etc. close to the factory.
Due to economies of scale, the centrally located large facility will be more efficient. The scheduling and coordination between the large facility and suppliers or customers will be simplified. However, due to distance, transportation/distribution costs to or from the large facility will be much higher than those costs would be when using several smaller dispersed facilities instead. Having several smaller dispersed facilities will not only reduce the transportation cost but also increase the flexibility of the firm in terms of being able to reduce distribution lead time, thus resulting in faster deliveries or receipts of goods or merchandise.
Unlike the process design decision, the facility location decision is a macro decision and thus requires the involvement of top-level management. The larger the facility, the higher the level of involvement of the company personnel will be. In terms of various functions or departments within the company, manufacturing (or operations), logistics and distribution, marketing, and strategic planning must be involved. Depending on the type of facility considered, other groups may also need to be included in making this important decision.
You must decide which of several sites will be best for the location of a third restaurant in the company’s chain in a suburb of a medium-sized city. Compose an email to your employee, Jim Watson, outlining the information you will need from him before you can analyze the location alternatives.
Be sure to incorporate learnings from the lecture notes and powerpoints provided.
Explain three advantages and disadvantages for profit business structures. B. Who are the main users of accounting information? Explain what use the users are making Of the information
"Analyse the cross cultural management challenge in the business organisation that operates in multinational environmental.”
Week 6 E-Myth Questions Answer the following questions. Answer each question in a paragraph form, including an example from your own experiences or related research.
Part III Explain the “Primary Aim” concept and how it can change the focus of an entrepreneur endeavor.
Explain what “Strategic Objective” means to the small business owner, and how it relates to your “Primary Aim”.
How supply and demand drive the transportation industry
The requirements of this paper include a cover sheet (using the 6 line undergraduate entry), 3-5 numbered pages of text, and a reference page. The research paper requires at least five references. Subject is (How supply and demand drive the transportation industry)
Questions- 1)-What surprises you most about the article “The Future….”? 2) How do the changes described here relate a) to mergers? b) future career in technology? 3) How does a person or a corporation develop and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage in our modern world? 4) What are ways that finance, mergers and corporate governance are likely to be important in the technology field If not, think more broadly and describe how this corporate finance course applies to the technology field List a public company and ticker symbol that interests you?
Provide detailed summary of the case study Thoroughly: -Identify core problem of the case with applicable rationale and evidence. Discusses the severity of the core problem. Provides supporting rationale. Discusses implications of the core problem. How and to what extent may the core problem affect the stakeholders/those being led? Provides supporting rationale.
It must provide an in-depth analysis of the Harvard Business Publishing case study titled, GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership. (PLEASE READ ATTACHMENT)
The paper must be supported by the Organizational behavior: Managing people and organizations text (Griffin, Phillips, and Gully), Griffin, R.; Phillips, J.; Gully, S. (2016). Organizational behavior: Managing people and organizations (12th Ed.). Boston: Cengage. ISBN: 978-1-305-50139-3 As well as two other outside sources.
Consistently uses APA formatting such as running headers, page numbers, abstract, in-text citations, and a reference page accurately.
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