...Perceptual Map Situation Analysis The Situation Analysis will help your company understand current market conditions and how the industry will evolve over the next eight years. The analysis can be done as a group or you can assign parts to individuals and then report back to the rest of the company. An online version of the Situation Analysis is available in the Getting Started area. (customers want better performing products) and for size is -0.7 (customers want smaller products). At the end of Round 1 the center of the Traditional segment will have a performance of 5.7 and a size of 14.3. 5.0 + 0.7 = 5.7 and 15.0 - 0.7 = 14.3 Table 2 displays the segment center locations at the end of each round. Print the Perceptual Map Form in the Industry Conditions Report then use Table 2 to find the location of each segment center for Rounds 1 through 8. Mark the approximate locations on the form (see the example in Figure 1). Remember, the locations in Table 2 are the centers of the segment circles, not product positions. Product positions are reported on page 4 of The Capstone Courier. The exercises require two reports: The Industry Conditions Report and The Capstone Courier, which are available from the website’s Reports link. The Courier is also available from the Capstone Spreadsheet’s Reports menu bar. The Courier available at the start of Round 1 displays the results for Round 0, when all companies are equal. If you access the report from the website, use the Round 0...
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...The Cost of Capital for Goff Computer, Inc. BUS650: Managerial Finance (MAH1209A) Dr Charles Smith March 18, 2012. The Cost of Capital for Goff Computer, Inc.: 1. Most publicly traded corporations are required to submit 10Q (quarterly) and 10K (annual) reports to the SEC detailing their financial operations over the previous quarter or year, respectively. These corporate fillings are available on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Go to the SEC Web site, follow the “Search for Company Filings” link, the “Companies & Other Filers” link, enter “Dell Computer,” and search for SEC filings made by Dell. Find the most recent 10Q and 10K and download the forms. Look on the balance sheet to find the book value of debt and the book value of equity. If you look further down the report, you should find a section titled either “Long-term Debt” or “Long –term Debt and Interest Rate Risk Management” that will list a breakdown of Dell’s long-term debt. Answer: The book value of a company's equity is the same as stockholder's equity, which can be computed by subtracting the total value of liabilities from total assets. (Total Assets) = (Total) Liabilities + Stockholder's Equity (book value of equity). Stockholder's Equity (book value of equity) = Total Assets –Total Liabilities. The book value of the company’s liabilities and equity was found from the site http://www.sec.gov . I found Dell’s Form 10K, dated January 28, 2011, and snap shot is attached here with. Dell’s...
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...resources available for you to conduct research, download financial statements, and increase your general knowledge about current accounting issues. In Cases 2 and 3, you will solve unstructured problems like you will do in the real-world. 2. HOW DO I USE THE DATABASES? Download the Accounting Research Handbook that is now available on WebCampus. Included in this booklet are detailed instructions on how to use these databases. This handbook will give you enough information to get you started. (The following pages may be turned into me – you do not need to type up your responses in a separate document. If you are working with a partner, make sure BOTH of your names appear on the assignment). ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CASE 1 – PART A: SEC EDGAR DATABASE This first exercise involves EDGAR, the SEC’s database. You will use EDGAR to find out information about one company. Your company is based on the first letter of your last name. Using the table below, determine which company you are assigned. At the EDGAR home page (www.sec.gov), go to “Company Filings Search” under the heading “Filings.” On the new screen, search by company name (EDGAR is picky about the exact form of the company name, so you may want to click the “contains” button.)...
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...is encapsulated in the SEC filing statement “to organize the world’s information …. and make it universally accessible and useful”. Google explains that it believes that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. Offering a high-quality user experience has led to strong word-of-mouth promotion and strong traffic growth. Read further details on the culture and ethics of Google in their Ten Things Manifesto. Notable tenets of the Google philosophy are: Focus on the user and all else will follow. It's best to do one thing really, really well. You can make money without doing evil (the founders are well known and chastised for making this statement). Putting users first is reflected in three key commitments illustrated in the Google SEC filings: “1. We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and we will not accept payment for inclusion or ranking in them. We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful advertising. Advertisements should not be an annoying interruption. If any element on a search result page is influenced by payment to us, we will make it clear to our users. We will never stop working to improve our user experience, our search technology and other important areas of information organization”. In the Google Annual SEC filings (the best source...
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...The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was reeling in the wake of harsh but justified criticism for failing to predict, control or even contain the global financial crisis. Under its watch, fraudster Bernard Madoff managed to ¬operate the largest Ponzi scheme in history and Wall Street stalwart Lehman Brothers collapsed, taking billions of dollars, business confidence and reputations down with it. It was a heady time with traders investing in schemes they, let alone the regulators, didn’t understand and whose behaviour they couldn’t predict. Related: SEC skirmishes over standards The SEC, along with many of the world’s financial regulators, was starkly exposed as ill-equipped to deal with the chaos erupting across the globe. The US Government snapped into crisis mode and took the extraordinary move of handing the ¬financial sector a multibillion-dollar bailout. But still the economy shook. Enter Mary Schapiro, a career regulator, to rescue a languishing SEC. Her job was to assess what went wrong and to ensure it didn’t happen again. ¬ Schapiro was appointed by US President Barak Obama as the 29th chairman of the SEC and its first female chair – though that fact, she says, got lost in the enormity of the task assigned to her. “When I joined in June 2009, my thought was of restoring the agency’s vigour and credibility within the financial regulatory community,” Schapiro told INTHEBLACK during a visit to Sydney recently. “I understood how really critical it...
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...Case 1: Heart Attack Managing People and Ethics 3/25/2011 Management 301- Business Organization and Management Eboni Thrower, Jennifer Jackson, Gerald Grant III, Taneisha Pryor Dr. Makamson 1.___________________________ 2.___________________________ 3.____________________________ 4.____________________________ I. Problem Statement Was Mr. Hamid wrong for firing Shauna? Mr. Hamid placed an ad for a part-time bookkeeper at a local college and Shauna came across it. The work Mr. Hamid needed finished for his company would only require the bookkeeper to stay in work with him for about two months. She applied for the job and received the job the same day. During the interview Mr. Hamid stated that he would pay her $150 per week. Realizing that if she accepted $150 per week she would not be making as much money as she would if she worked on an hourly rate; she had to come up with a plan. Shauna negotiated with Mr. Hamid and agreed to work Monday, Wednesday and Friday for seven hours a day for 21 hours a week at $10 per hour. In this agreement Shauna would be put on a three month probationary period, which consisted of no time off, vacation, sick days or holidays off. Shauna was a hard worker and an excellent bookkeeper for Mr. Hamid. She always completed every project and obligation that was ever asked of her beforehand. Shauna constantly asked Mr. Hamid for extra work to do in the office to keep her busy. She never took any time off from work, nor did she ever...
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...occurred? | My co-worker thought that I was trying to take over as the representative of his student. | How could the misunderstanding have been avoided? | The misunderstanding could have been avoided if the co-worker would have called me back before going to his supervisor. | In this situation, I was the one who made the first mistake; that being that I didn’t put my notes into our database when my student referred her husband as a possible student. My student’s husband then called the next day and spoke with my co-worker, Michael, who took all of his information and enrolled him. I received a phone call from my student the next asking why I had told her one thing and Michael had told her husband another. With Michael being new to the job, I thought he made a simple mistake, so I called and left him a voicemail suggesting that we talk about the students to make sure that we were on the same page in what we were telling our students. I then wrote my supervisor an email telling him what I did and said. Michael, upon hearing the message, went to his supervisor because he had the impression that I was trying to take his student from him. His supervisor went to mine asking what was going on. My supervisor explained everything and the matter was resolved. As a result, both the students did not complete the enrollment process or start school. The main thing I learned from this whole ordeal was to make sure that all of my notes are complete and to make sure...
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...benefits of tuition reimbursement to student-employees. She states that these companies help a student with their school costs as well as money in pocket. As well as filling your pockets the author explains how building a solid resume while in college is also important. Ramachandran sums up her article with explaining how important your schoolwork can be. She states some helpful tips; do not expect to pay off college while still in college. The author brings everything into perspective by explaining that students that work 10 hours a week on average have a much better GPA than those students that work 25 or more hours. With dealing with the financial stress of college jobs are not always the answer. Financial aid advisors can help you get money that you won’t have to pay off until later. “After all, the primary job for those in college is to be a...
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...director. The participant group was asked to self-report on perceptions of role ambiguity, experienced levels of anger, anxiety and workplace threat appraisal. In this study, participants were asked questions as to whether they fully understood what was expected of them at work on a day-to-day basis regarding particular tasks, or a range of tasks. This data was then compared with responses to questions which probed whether they had felt anxious or angry at work. Threat appraisal was determined by whether the respondent felt it was more or less likely that their work day was going to be a negative experience for them. Dr Searle’s study found statistically significant correlations between a lack of clarity an individual has regarding their job requirements and reported feelings of anger, anxiety and their threat appraisal. These findings reinforce earlier research conducted by Robert Pearsall from the University of Maryland which demonstrated that these increases in anxiety, anger and threat appraisal can...
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...many organizations implementing the same. It provides flexibility to work part-time and work from home, which is a critical issue for many working females particularly and also among the male members where they can manage their family and work life very well. It provides a heightened sense of loyalty to the employees because they know that their boss trusts them to do their job sincerely, which in turn increases their pride and responsibility towards their work. It has been witnessed that productivity improves when the focus on work improves. It allows people to develop a better understanding of their job and eliminate office space time-wasters like "fake meetings" etc. ROWE also eliminates the illusion of productivity created by the "come early, leave late" mentality many firms require for promotion. Thus the focus is primarily towards results instead of punching the time clock or logging desk time. 2. Identify factors in the ROWE program that might make using it for retail employees more difficult than using it for managers and employees in corporate offices, technical centers, and nonretail jobs and locations. The ROWE-type program has been implemented by various organizations across a broad spectrum in different departments such as IT, back office, etc. But at places like retail stores or bank branches, where one to one customer interaction and service...
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...environment may cause can be detrimental to a person’s health. When anyone| | |is stressed, it can create a number of problems with their health. | |Identify a situation in which you experienced stress in the workplace or provide a |Fictional example: I had been scheduled to work 4 late shifts, out of 5 working days. Every other | |fictional example. |employee only had to work 1 late shift. I brought it to her attention and explained that it was not part| | |of the job requirements when I was hired on. She was visibly upset that I had brought it up and did not | | |want to discuss it at all. Instead, she changed the schedule and made it unbearably tense for the | |...
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...website. The matter of stress is serious and is an ongoing concern. As indicated by both articles that the tough economic times that lead to significant changes within the workplace, has contributed to the increased in stress factors among workers and greatly affect businesses. One major stress factor stemmed from the economic crisis is uncertainty or the fear for the lost of job. The American Psychological Association explains that bankruptcies are among the list of things that caused hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Additionally, while millions more have been shifted to unfamiliar tasks within their companies, this dramatic shifting has caused many to wonder how much longer they will be employed. Holmes-Rahe Life Events Scale, in the PDU Magazine Article, also pointed out that many of the most stressful events are related to the workplace and in addition to the lost of job, “firings” on the list mentioned, is the changes in financial status. Undoubtedly, being put out of a job has alarming effects on the individual. According to the American Psychological Association, “the loss of a job can be devastating, putting unemployed workers at risk for physical illness, marital strain, anxiety, depression and even suicide”. In the same light, the PDU Magazine Article has listed the same effects and more, but looked at these effects as a “heavy price” since they take a toll on the individual not only physically but psychologically. Employers and employees within various...
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...Effective Communication will help with better understanding of each other, and have a broader perspective. With effective communication bring more confidence, admiration, and a better work environment where we as people would be able to excel within the work place, having more creative thoughts, being able to problem solve more complex situations. Effective communication is good to have so that both parties will be able to convey the message in which each will understand. It will also help with everyday life setting whether it be dealing with work related relationships , or personal life. I have a experience a few times where I was to use effective communication in the workplace. One time I can recall, were there had been a discrepancy between a co-worker and I that was work related . I work for a Bank, within their retail card service department, lending for private label credit cards where I have to make decisions for financing based on a clients credit ratings, and my co-worker and I had a issue pertaining to lending of credit to the client. A few weeks had went pass where my co-worker and I had not spoken to each; although we were both on the same team, we had no form of communication towards each other, we were both stubborn when it came to issue at hand and wasn't backing down to each other opinions. It soon became a problem where it was becoming noticeable in the work place, and affecting my quality of work. Not only was the discrepancy affecting me and work-related...
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...limitations in the workplace, but older employees have more limitations than the younger workers. Many studies have been conducted on age and work performance, and there were no difference in older workers and younger workers performance. They both have positive and negative effects in the workplace, but there no research that will make the claim that one age group performance is better than the other (Warr, 1993). However, most people think that older workers are more stability, experience, productivity, and this is commonly not originate in younger workers. They believe with all the good work ethic that older employees have they should do well in the workplace. There has been a study that shows that older workers are more faithful to their job, more realistic and more responsible about their standing in a business, as contrasted to younger employees. Both younger and older employees have their advantages and disadvantages in the workforce. Both groups have some decline in the workplace, and it will be difficult to say which...
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...When thinking about transformational changes, many don’t know that if can be something that has happened to them in the past or even present. Transformational changes can be anything from recognizing a significant problem such as not being able to get promoted in a job that you are working for. When thinking about confronting it intensely can be you thinking of reasons on why you’re not getting promoted such as education wise. When finding the solution it could be to get back into school to earn a degree so that when a promotion comes up you are on top of your game and know what to expect. Integrating a new perspective and a new set of assumptions into your life pattern was to take the knowledge that the person has learned as used it in their career. Many people may take the transformational changes to make themselves better but to also make their job more of a career then something that they have to do on an everyday base to base. A transformational change that I did to myself was when working in a child care setting it is hard to want to move up the line to better yourself as a coworker. I had recognized a significant problem about my career and that was the promotion part. Being in the child care setting and working on post for the military they would like to have their co-\workers to have some sort of degree when working in that kind of setting. That was the confronting the intensely part was knowing that I didn’t have a degree. So what I wanted to do was to better myself...
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