...Summary of Case "We're pulling your line of credit." These five dreaded words are a nightmare come true for a business owner. Ms. From is faced with creating a strategy that will support the development and the improvement of greater supply chain management and business relationships. Bravado! Designs must have a greater supply chain competitive advantage which can only be obtained through the creation of a sound purchasing plan and improving the long-term performance of the company and its supply chain as a whole. Provide a brief summary of the case. The summary must be at least three complete sentences and no more than 10 sentences (100 words). Primary Issue or Concern Supply chain management issues are of great importance, especially when operating a global business. Bravodo! Designs is a Canadian company and the exchange rate of the US and the Canadian dollar could cause substantial supply chain management problems. Nevertheless, Ms. From has experience, a general knowledge of business and a Master's of Business Administration. As a result of her expertise and her ability to coordinate supply chain procedures for the purpose of adding value for customers, stakeholders, and Bravado! Designs. State the primary issue or concern with out repeating the summary information. The primary issue or concern must be at least two complete sentences and no more than 5 sentences (50 words). Answer Case Study Questions 1. Make...
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...not contain any data storage facility; or (d) such other device as the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, prescribe; “computer output” or “output” means a statement or representation (whether in written, printed, pictorial, graphical or other form) purporting to be a statement or representation of fact (a) (b) produced by a computer; or accurately translated from a statement or representation so produced; "computer service" includes computer time, data processing and the storage or retrieval of data; "damage" means, except for the purposes of section 12, any impairment to a computer or the integrity or availability (a) of data, a program loss or system, or ten information, that causes economic aggregating thousand dollars in value, or such other amount as the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, prescribe except that any such loss...
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...courses and apply that knowledge to policy and strategy development in situations facing general managers and business leaders. Emphasis will be placed on situational analysis, strategy formulation, and strategy execution at all levels of the organization. Course objectives 1. Understand Strategic Management as a process and be able to apply its principles to diverse business situations. (Linked to MBA’s Learning Goal #1. B) 2. Develop skills necessary to analyze the competitive situation facing various types of economic organizations; isolate important sources of competitive advantage and disadvantage; generate and make decisions among various strategy alternatives; plan for successful execution of selected strategies; and persuasively communicate these analyses and recommendations to others within the organization. (Linked to MBA’s Learning Goal #3. A, B, and C) 3. Gain experience with the case analysis method as applied to business situations. (Linked to MBA’s Learning Goal #3. C) 4. Gain experience working in teams to solve business problems. (Linked to MBA’s Learning Goal #5. A) Class policies Attendance: You will be expected to attend all classes. If you have a good reason you must miss class, please let me know. Excessive or unexcused absences will result in a reduction in grade. General 1. Varying points of view, constructively offered, are welcome and encouraged. Complexity...
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...| Business Case [Project Name] NOTE TO READER: “Business Case Usage Guidelines” have been developed to accompany this template. | |Table of Contents | | | | Executive Summary 2 Background 3 Problem / Opportunity 3 Current Situation 3 Project Description 4 Project Description 4 Objectives 4 Scope 4 Out of Scope 4 Anticipated Outcomes 4 Stakeholders 5 Strategic Alignment 6 Environment Analysis 7 Alternatives 8 Business & Operational Impacts 9 Project Risk Assessment 10 Risk of Project and each Alternative (Not including Status Quo) 10 Risk of Not Proceeding with Project (Status Quo) 11 Cost/Benefit Analysis 12 Quantitative Analysis – Financial Cost & Benefit: 12 Qualitative Analysis – Non-Financial Benefits & Costs: 14 Assumptions 14 Conclusions & Recommendations 15 Conclusions 15 Recommendations 15 Project Responsibility 15 Project Accountability 15 Implementation Strategy 16 Review & Approval Process 17 Review Process 17 Approval Process 17 Business Case Signoff 17 |Section |Executive Summary ...
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...typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Executive Summary Question A Q1 Foreign exchange risk involves financial risk posed by an exposure to unanticipated changes in currency exchange rates. General Motor is one of the largest automakers in the world offering a comprehensive range of vehicles in more than 120 countries around the world. General Motors had a risk management committee, which reviewed its risk management strategies. General Motors’ exposure to the Canadian Dollar was of two types. They are as follows – • Transaction exposure (C$ 1682) – These are the gains and loses that arise when transactions are settled in some currency other than the company’s reporting currency, i.e. Canadian Dollar instead of US Dollar in case of GM. • Translation exposure (C$ 2143) - These are the gains and losses that arise when the assets and liabilities of a MNC’s foreign subsidiary are translated back into the MNC’s reporting currency for the purposes of preparing consolidated financial statements. Exhibit 9 shows the Transaction exposures of CAD faced by General Motors Canada in 2001. The cash inflows amount to C$ 11,613 millions and the outflows amount to C$ 13,294 millions. Thus the deficit being C$ 1682 millions. Exhibit 10 indicates the translation exposures of CAD. The liabilities outweigh the assets of General Motors Canada. Liability...
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...HCS/490- Health care Consumer- Trends and Marketing Thomas Kehoe, Instructor July 12, 2010 Demographic Paper In the following, the author was designated by the senior management team at a community hospital to write a summary on the effects of changes in population demographics on the needs and services for a selected population. The author must identify the population on which the case study will focus on the aging population, patients with a particular chronic disease, children, patients with AIDS, patients requiring long-term care, or emergency management. The author must identify the targeted population, gather data about the population demographics, and describe the general impact that changing demographics may have on the health care market. The author will discuss why and how the changes in demographics will affect health care. Two health care related challenges identified for the population is chosen. The author will also describe how a chronic disease wellness program may affect the costs for this demographic. In conclusion, the author will discuss the marketing needs or services needed for this population as well as how the chosen population can address these challenges. The population demographics that the author has chosen to write a summary on is the influence of illegal immigrations on emergency health care. Immigration reform is one of the most forming or expressing division or issues opposing the United States policymakers. The increase in the number of illegal...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this case study is to identify and present the factors that contribute to Family Dollar’s success through quantitative measures of internal data, external data, and common sense assumptions. The study consists of several parts, each with a distinctive purpose: • Mission Statement – provides a description of what Family Dollar seeks to accomplish on a day-to-day basis and sets the standard for quantitative performance measures. • External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix – outlines the opportunities and threats that could affect the company and rates Family Dollar’s current performance in addressing those factors. • Competitive Profile Matrix – outlines the success factors that are critical to the company’s continuity and rates Family Dollar’s performance as well as its rivals’ performances in addressing those factors. CASE STUDY FOR FAMILY DOLLAR STORES MISSION STATEMENT Existing Mission Statement To be a compelling place to shop for our customers; To be a compelling place to work for our team members; To be a compelling place to invest for our shareholders. Revised Mission Statement Family Dollar’s mission is to provide convenience and low prices for our customers (1), exceptional opportunities and incentives for our associates (9), and outstanding returns for our investors (5). Through our strategy of nationwide expansion (3), technological innovation in our logistics network (4), and energy reduction initiatives...
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...ECON-GA 1101 Section 003 - Class#: 4281 Fall 2014 Applied Statistics and Econometrics Data Report on Project – Due by 11:00pm on Tuesday November 25, 2014 Post as an attachment to a message in the “Data Report” in the Research Projects Forum on NYU Classes This data report is an opportunity for you to organize your thoughts and communicate to me about the data for your research project. You will receive a maximum of 3 points towards your Project Grade based on your Data Report. To receive the maximum points for the data report you need to turn it in on time (by 11:00pm on the date listed above) and address all the requirements listed below. The points will not depend the content of what you provide in this report, it will depend only on whether you have attempted to provide the information listed. Must of the information listed below must be included in your final paper. Your grade for the final paper will depend on what information you provided about the data you use in your research project, how you present that information and the clarity and the accuracy of that information. The requirements of this data report are listed below. If there is a requirement you are not ready to meet at this time, you will not lose points if you make a statement saying you are not ready and you give a brief explanation of what you are doing to ensure that you will be able to meet that requirement in the final paper. If there is a requirement that you do not think applies...
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...Case Study Review: U.S. DOT ARRA Website Vulnerabilities Executive Summary The United States experienced an economic shock, commonly referred to as the “Great Recession”, in 2008 that resulted in the most job losses in any year since WWII. Payrolls plummeted, home values dove, and slumps were experienced in almost every sector of the economy. The administration of President Bush had agreed to provide federal loans to prop up the automobile industry and President-elect Obama inherited an economy in collapse. In 2009, the newly elected President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law. The Act provided stimulus spending in infrastructure, health, energy, education, unemployment insurance, social welfare programs, and many other areas of government interest. To address concerns from political opposition to that Act, ARRA included strong provisions governing transparency of the spending of taxpayer money. ARRA funds would be dispensed with strong requirements that taxpayers be able to monitor how their tax money is being spent. A major beneficiary of the stimulus funds was the Department of Transportation. To address the transparency issue, the department established a number of websites supported by servers and databases that the public could access to monitor the spending of their tax dollars. The DOT’s expanded web interface inherently exposed it to greater risk. This case study reviews an audit of that risk, the department’s shortfalls...
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... Appendix F Summary, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation Review the four paragraphs below. There is one paragraph matching each of the following types: summary, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Once you have read each paragraph, complete the following chart to identify the type of paragraph for each. |Paragraph Number |Type of Paragraph | |1 |evaluation | |2 |summary | |3 |synthesis | |4 |analysis | 1. Alice Axia’s article discussed overlooked tax deductions. It talked about some of the most commonly missed deductions. Whereas her use of statistics seemed to bolster her arguments, it would have been nice to see her elaborate more about the specific deductions missed. She could have talked about what recourse, if any, a filer would have once he or she realized there was an overlooked deduction. She also should have focused more on why the deductions were overlooked, as that would have made the article more effective. 2. Alice Axia informs us of ways in which we can reduce our tax obligations in any given year. Based on studies she cited, there were cases in which some tax filers were unaware of various deductions they were eligible to claim. In some cases, those deductions would...
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...CASE STUDY: THE TROLLEY DODGERS 1. Identify the key audit objectives for a client’s payroll function. Comment on both objectives related to tests of control and those related to tests of control s and those related to substantive audit procedure. The key audit objectives for client’s payroll function in this Trolley Dodgers Case are: i. Occurrence ii. Completeness iii. Accuracy iv. Posting & Summarization v. Classification vi. Timing i. Key Audit Objective : Occurrence Dodgers must recorded payroll payments for existing employees only and should have separation of duties for each task. Test of Control: Examine internal control to see if the payroll payments are for exiting work and existing employees. The test could be examining all the workers time cards, personnel files and review organization chart. They also can discuss with employees and observe duties being performed. The tests would examine printouts of transactions rejected by the computer as having nonexistent employee numbers. Substantive Test of Transactions: The test to see if the right dollar amount in the payrolls were recorded and paid properly. They also test to review large dollar amount in the journal entries, general ledger and payroll earnings. Examine cancelled checks for proper endorsement could be compare with a personnel record. ii. Key Audit Objective : Completeness Dodgers must record all existent payroll transactions. Test of Control: The test is to see if the existing...
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...European Economic Review 48 (2004) 943 – 957 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Simultaneous entry and welfare LuÃs M.B. Cabrala; b;∗ a Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, USA b CEPR, London, UK Received 3 July 2002; accepted 13 June 2003 Abstract I examine the welfare properties of free entry under conditions of simultaneous entry. Specifically, I consider the second-best problem of in uencing the number of entrants while taking as given ÿrm behavior upon entry. I consider two alternative models of simultaneous entry: grab-the-dollar entry and war-of-attrition entry. I show that, if entry costs are low, then the results from previous models of sequential entry are fairly robust to the possibility of simultaneous entry. If however entry costs are high, then the welfare e ects of free entry depend delicately on the nature of the entry game being played. c 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classiÿcation: L1; L6; L9 Keywords: Entry; Welfare 1. Introduction Economists frequently presume that free entry is desirable from a social welfare point of view. In fact, free entry is one of the conditions underlying the First Welfare Theorem. However, it is well known that, once one of the conditions for the theorem is removed, the other conditions are no longer necessarily desirable (Lipsey and Lancaster, 1956). Speciÿcally, a number of authors have shown that, once we abandon the assumption of competitive...
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...Family Dollar Stock Analysis and Recommendation Recommendation: HOLD Relevant Stock Information Ticker: FDO Company Beta: * 0.32 * (calculated from 3-year weekly historical stock prices) Closing Price as of April 12th 2012: $63.38 Dividend Yield: 1.30% P/E Ratio: $20.12 Current Market Capital: 7.52 Billion Summary of recommendation: Due to the current economic conditions and high possibility of economic change based on the current recession, Family Dollar’s public equity should mainly be considered from a short-term perspective. Applying this notion, we recommend that current FDO stockholders continue to hold their shares for the dividend yields and the potential increase in share value over the next few years. Investors seeking to purchase a dividend paying stock may also be interested in acquiring shares over the short-term horizon (1-2 years). However, those interested in safer longer-term investments may want to steer clear of FDO stock. The company’s capital expenditures and debt are increasing with the growth and development of new and current stores, and whether this expansion strategy will prove successful while the country’s economic conditions improve is highly dependent on the company’s ability to retain its customer base. In addition, while “quality” is subjective in nature, it is our opinion that consumers still attach a stigma to discount retailers and will likely choose to trade up to higher “quality” goods with improved economic conditions...
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...APPLICATION For CNPCIW Vendor/Bidders List China National Petroleum Corporation International and Watan Oil & Gas Afghanistan Limited. (CNPCIW) June 2012 Application Submission Form NOTE: The application submission shall be presented on the Applicant’s company stationary, in the case of a Joint Venture, on company stationary of the lead partner and stamped by company seal. Date: [08, December, 2012] Reference: Execution of upcoming Services & Supply Projects under CNPCIW, Afghanistan Subject: Application for CNPCIW Vendor/bidder List |To: |CNPCIW | | |Attn: Contracts Office | | |House No. 1029, Street 15 | | |Lane 6, Wazir Akbar Khan | | |Kabul, Afghanistan | Dear Sir/Madam, Being duly authorized to represent and act on behalf of Green Tech Construction & Engineering Co., and having reviewed and fully understood all of the Application requirements and information provided, the undersigned hereby applies for Application to be included on the CNPCIW Vendor List for Works (Contractors). Your organization and its authorized representatives are hereby authorized to conduct any inquiries or investigations to verify the statements, documents, and information submitted in connection with this application, and to...
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...configuration of processes, product designs, and development of parterships with suppliers and channels of distribution. Although the development of analytical tools is not one of the primary objectives of the course, students should be comfortable with quantitative analysis. By the end of the course, you should have developed an appreciation for the major strategic issues trade-offs in supply chain management as well as the ability to use conceptual frameworks to make decisions. TEACHING/LEARNING METHODOLOGY The detailed course outline starting on page 6 lists, for every class session, the reading(s), case(s), assignment(s), and anything else of importance. Please read this outline carefully before every session. Because class time is our most precious and inelastic resource, please come to every class prepared. Essential preparation includes reading the assigned readings and cases and doing the assignments. Recommended Text Book1 (VM) Van Mieghem, Jan, Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice, Dynamic Ideas, Charlestown, MA, 2008. Optional Reference Chopra, Sunil and Peter...
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