...New product Recomendation ABC Company is trying to increase sales from 1.2 million to 3 million within a 3 year time frame which is a very aggressive move to make since that goal of 3 million in sales is more than twice what the company is currently brining in. The company will need to review several factors to determine if this type of an increase is even possible to make by adding an additional product of making cedar doll houses to try to supplement the income. There are several factors that need to be taken into consideration before any determinations can be made and before production of the doll houses could begin at all. Some of those possible set backs are: quality, competition, completion, and raw materials. Just looking at the numbers the company wants to grow starting a new product line does not appear to be a viable option at the moment but the correct answer would not be known for sure until all the numbers are run, a cash flow statement is created, the NPV is determined, and all potential risk factors are determined. When the company is trying to decide if they want to add an additional product line to their factories they need to look at several different factors before any decisions can be made on if or how they should go ahead with the new product line. Some of these considerations are quality, competition, completion times and raw materials. Quality needs to be considered because the company already has a set standard for quality it gives its customers...
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...Key Characters • Jeffrey P. Bezos: Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer • Brian T. Olsavsky: Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President • • Jeffrey A. Wilke: Senior Vice President-Consumer Business • Craig Berman Vice President • • Diego Piacentini: Senior VP-International Consumer Business • Jay Carney Senior Vice President-Global Corporate Affairs • • Kathy Sheehan: Associate General Counsel • Jeff M. Blackburn: Senior Vice President-Business Development • • Michael Paull: VP-Content Acquisition & Business Development • Seth Dallaire: Vice President-Global Advertising Sales • • Shelley L. Reynolds: Chief Accounting Officer, VP & Controller • Phil Hardin: Head-Investor Relations quotes.wsj.com/AMZN/company-people Organizational Facts Amazon.com, Inc. provides online retail shopping services. It provides services to four primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, enterprises, and content creators. The company also provides other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising and co-branded credit card agreements. It serves consumers through its retail websites with a focus on selection, price, and convenience. It designs its websites to enable its products to be sold by the company and by third parties across dozens of product categories. It also manufactures and sells the Kindle e-reader and strives to offer customers the lowest prices possible through low every day product pricing and free shipping offers, including...
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...John Johnson 123 A Street Citycenter, NY 12345 January 21, 2012 John Smith 345 B Street Citycenter, NY 12345 Dear Mr. Smith, I am writing to recommend Tom Thompson for the position of Sales Manager at ABC Company. I had the pleasure of working directly with Tom during his time as a salesperson at XYZ, Inc., and his tremendous abilities never ceased to amaze me. I was Tom’s direct supervisor at XYZ, and during that time, we worked together closely, so I fully understand his capabilities. Tom’s incredible adaptability with potential clients has let him excel in sales. His uncanny ability to know what the client wants before they tell him makes customers feel comfortable with him. His flexibility also allows him to quickly switch tactics if the customer changes their mind about something at the last minute. While at XYZ, Tom managed to sell our product to several clients who had been on the fence about wanting to buy our products for years. Tom’s great connection with the customers and relentless perseverance to always make the customer happy allowed him to become the number one salesperson at our company for five years in a row. The sales numbers he reached far exceeded any previous winners. Tom is also able to work effectively with other coworkers, making him a great addition to the team. After taking the initiative to sign up for classes on leadership and interpersonal skills, he even presented the information he learned to the rest of the company, which dramatically improved the way we communicate...
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...МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ УКРАЇНИ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ «ЛЬВІВСЬКА ПОЛІТЕХНІКА» ІНСТИТУТ ЕКОНОМІКИ І МЕНЕДЖМЕНТУ КАФЕДРА ФІНАНСІВ МЕТОДИЧНІ РЕКОМЕНДАЦІЇ до виконання дослідницької частини магістерської кваліфікаційної роботи для студентів денної та заочної форм навчання спеціальності 8.03050801 “Фінанси і кредит” Львів - 2014 Методичні рекомендації до виконання дослідницької частини магістерської кваліфікаційної роботи для студентів спеціальності 8.03050801 “Фінанси і кредит” денної та заочної форм навчання / Уклад. Алєксєєв І.В., Партин Г.О., Кондрат І.Ю., Бондарчук М.К., Хома І.Б., Кльоба Л.Г., Гориславець П.А., Задерецька Р.І. – Львів: Видавництво Національного університету „Львівська політехніка”, 2013. –с 59. Укладачі: д.е.н., проф., Алєксєєв І.В., к.е.н., проф., Партин Г.О., к.е.н., доц. Кондрат І.Ю., д.е.н., доц.. Бондарчук М.К., д.е.н., доц. Хома І.Б., к.е.н., доц. Кльоба Л.Г., к.е.н., доц. Гориславець П.А., асист. Задерецька Р.І. Відповідальний за випуск: к.е.н., доц. Червінська О.С. Зміст 1. Загальні положення…………………………………………………………5 2. Рекомендації до виконання дослідницької частини магістерської кваліфікаційної роботи для підприємств…………………………………………6 2.1 Дослідження чинників впливу зовнішнього і внутрішнього підприємницького середовища на фінансово-економічний стан підприємства - об’єкта дослідження та визначення його основних можливостей...
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...Sample Business Recommendation Introduction This report examines two potential investment opportunities in which in which only one has to be recommended for funding. The start –ups are, Family Branch , a new global genealogy website where people connect up with other family trees, and the other being Paddy Pizza which would like to open up a restaurant in Dundrum Town Centre . In this project I will elaborate on economic factors that will help to determine the choice of project to undertake. To understand the market Paddy Pizza Family Branch would competes in, a review of the Pizza and family tree business sectors conducted. PESTLE and SWOT analyses to familiarize with the business environment of the same would operate in were under taken too. Additionally, to comprehend the competitive environment Five Forces analysis that focused on Paddy Pizza’s and Family Branch’s would be competitors was drawn . All these analyses were consolidated in the respective business plans for the two proposals. Consumer analyses as well as projected first year’s Final accounts were also assumed. Paddy Pizza The scenario for Paddy Pizza is the first to be considered. After scanning through pizza market environment in Dundrum it is clear that there is a few very large companies in the area. Their behaviour is interdependent that is to say what one company does the rest quickly follow. This is prevalent in their pricing behaviour, that is when one raise or lowers the price the others follow...
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...Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez Departamento de Ingeniería 25 de noviembre de 2014 Juan A. Ortiz, PhD Director de Estudios Graduados Departamento de Ingeniería Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico Campus San Juan Avenida Ponce de León 377, Hato Rey, PR 00918 Estimado doctor Ortiz: Me da mucho gusto recomendar a Henry Rodríguez para que sea admitido al programa de posgrado en Ingeniería de la Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico. El Sr. Pérez, quien en mayo recibirá su licenciatura en ingeniería industrial, es el estudiante de pregrado más destacado con el que he trabajado en la última década, y creo que será un excelente investigador. Durante su primer año en de ingeniería, el Sr. Pérez tomó el curso requerido de Ergonomía y Diseño de Estaciones de Trabajo que yo dirijo. De los 160 estudiantes en el curso, él fue uno de las 18 que recibieron una carta de reconocimiento. Sus calificaciones en los dos exámenes fueron extraordinarios, y el profesor que lideró su grupo de discusión escribió que el Sr. Pérez “es excepcionalmente apto para diseñar y criticar diseños de investigación, presenta excelentes habilidades cuantitativas y verbales, y trabaja arduamente.” Desde que completo el curso, el Sr. Rodríguez me ha visitado al menos dos veces para discutir las carreras la ingeniería industrial. Me impresiona el gran conocimiento e interés hacia este campo, y lo bien pensado que son sus comentarios al respecto. Cabe mencionar que cuenta con...
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...MERIDIAN MANAGEMENT SCHOOL (MMS) Mini Case Study Analysis (Human resource Perspective) 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Management School of Meridian University is a specialist Postgraduate management school. MMS has being established 15 years before this case study was written since then MMS became leader in the field of postgraduate management. MMS has wide portfolio of courses both fulltime and part-time basis this was partly because of easy procedure for introducing new course. MMS has its own dedicated staff headed by head of school. The other staff of MMS composed of 20 academic staff, one SAO and 4 administrators from the four different divisions of MMS namely: Organisational Behaviour/Human Resource Management, Operation Management, Finance & Economics and Marketing. The organisational structure of MMS had relative flat structure, the academic staff who were equally divided into the four subject divisions were either lecturer or senior lecturer. In addition to that senior lecturer were only in a higher grade of the Salary scale of MMS but had same condition of employment with the lecturers. Currently MMS is facing problem of losing important staff who were important for the smooth going of school activities at a critical time of the year when MMS is getting ready for the new intake. 2.0 ISSUES: There a number of issues related to this case but I will concentrate more on issues on staffing since it is the most critical issue in this case. For the staffing...
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...Recommendation 1. Urge the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Congress as appropriate, to provide for the creation by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) of a national center to facilitate auditing firms’ and other market participants’ sharing of fraud prevention and detection experiences, practices, and data and innovation in fraud prevention and detection methodologies and technologies, and commission research and other fact-finding regarding fraud prevention and detection, and further, the development of best practices regarding fraud prevention and detection. a. Discuss three arguments in favor of the recommendation. Choose the three that you think provide the strongest arguments supporting the recommendation. “Auditor’s need greater obligation to act when there is reasonable suspicion of fraud” This first argument is my opinion entirely valid because when a professional has a higher set standard requirement there is more commitment to act actively to execute his/her duty due to the consequences of not actually exercising professional skepticism. Therefore, an auditor would have to have a higher reasonable assurance to give an unqualified opinion, and he/she would be less tempted to overlook material misstatements and frauds. “It enhances the competitiveness of United States capital markets.” This argument has one of the strongest support for the recommendation because the share of existing cases, evidence, and studies will provide the...
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...SECURITY WEAKNESSES FOR QUALITY WEB DESIGN Contents Course........................................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Abstract .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Company Background.............................................................................................................................. 4 Software Weaknesses and Recommendations......................................................................................... 5 Hardware Weaknesses and Recommendations........................................................................................ 6 Network Security flaws and Recommendations ....................................................................................... 7 REFERENCES:........................................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction A company that deals with making web site and web business solutions is known as Quality web design. The company provides its customers to provide an opportunity so that they can spread their business through the internet. The other business solutions accompanied are accounting...
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...Article 1 Title of Journal Article: Testing for the Weak-Form Market Efficiency of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange DETAILS:- Author(s)- Year- Name of Journal- Volume- Issue- Page number | Authors : Yilmaz Guney - University of Hull, Gabriel Vitus Komba - Mzumbe University, School of BusinessDate: October 21, 2015. | - RESEARCH OBJECTIVES(s)-RESEARCH QUESTION(s) | This study investigates into the weak-form efficiency of the Dar es Salaam stock exchange (DSE), a frontier market, in Tanzania. | - HYPOTHESES- VARIABLES:Eg: Dependent variables, Independent variables | The weak-form efficiency of the Dar es Salaam stock exchange (DSE), a frontier market, in Tanzania.Dependent Variable: Weak-form efficiency of DSE | METHODOLOGY:Eg: Scope of study, Respondent type & number, Analysis used | The study covers the period from January 2007 to December 2014. To establish the consistency and robustness of the obtained conclusions, we employ different tests (i.e., Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, variance-ratio test, and Ranks and Sign test) to examine the hypothesis that the returns based on the price and return indices follow a random walk process | FINDINGS & DISCUSSION:Eg: Types of relationships (support or not), Reliability & variance | Wright (2000) shows that ranks and sign tests can be exact, and have better power properties than the conventional variance-ratio tests. Moreover, they demonstrate that rank-based variance-ratio tests have, generally, more power than...
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...AUGUST 8, 2014 ARIEL G. VILLANUEVA BSBA-111 CASE STUDY: QUALITY IN PRACTICE “UNDERSTANDING THE VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER AT LAROZA’S PIZZA” I. COMPANY PROFILE: LaRosa’s is a privately held chain of neighborhood pizzerias with 54 location in Cincinnati, Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana, that offers full-service dine-in, carry-out and take home delivery. In 1997, as a part of a new strategy planning process, LaRosa’s identified growth as a key strategic goal. The executive management team had developed three growth strategies but could not agree on which one to follow because of a lack of a fact-based foundation for the decision. In 2000, a project team was formed to tackle this issue and was given complete latitude to make any recommendation for an Italian/pizzeria concept based on customer needs and expectations. The key tool that successfully led to an understanding of their customer’s and to a new and innovative restaurant design was Voice of the Customer ( VOC). VOC is a structured methodology for listening to customers that is promoted by the center for Quality of Management ( CQM) an industrial consortium based on Boston. The experience of using VOC changed the company focus from “ product-out” to a “market-in” mentality. It gave them a decision making tool based on factual data, broke down communication silos within the company, and eliminated the age old sales and marketing versus operations conflict. II. MAJOR ISSUES: ...
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...ADVISER MAY 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE APPROVAL SHEET ACKNOWLEDGMENT ABSTRACT CHAPTERS I. THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Some peple doesn’t now w Theoretical Framework Conceptual Framework Statement of the Problem Hypothesis of the study Assumption of the study Significance of Study Scope and Limitation Definition and Terms II. REVIEW OF RELATED READINGS Conceptual Literature Research Literature III. METHODOLOGY Materials Procedures Flowchart Set-Up IV. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION OF DATA Question Number 1 Question number 2 V. SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMENDATION Summary Major findings Conclusion Recommendation BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX APPROVAL SHEET Name of Candidates : Amza Aulia Zamani Devano Arsyandiaz Syahreza Milvan Mohammad Fahri Shahab Title of the Study : What’s On Your Plate Mr. Rizaldy Santos Instructor Date : ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank our instructor,Engr. Carlos G. Peña, for guidingand supporting us all throughout this project. His constant reminders andprogress report checks have helped us become more focused during this thesiswriting process. He taught us how to undertake this writing task and evenprovided us with examples, which were of great assistance.We would also like to thank Chemrez Technologies , specifically their employees namely Engr. Alfredo Urlanda Jr. and Mr. Carlos...
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...(Farabee, Prendergast, Cartier, Wexler, Knight, Anglin) Possible issues: Clearly, some of the issues that had to be considered while developing the program were the manner in which inmates were selected using “limited criteria” that might exclude certain inmates because of gang affiliations, the lack of “qualified staff” which can adequately treat inmates, the turnover of correctional staff, a the debate among administrators on the type of treatment to be used which is “correctional-rather than a therapeutic-response.(Farabee, Prendergast, Cartier, Wexler, Knight, Anglin) Findings/Recomendations: The research project findings and recommendations indicate that if prisons expand the “limited criteria” to include inmates that do not qualify recidivism dramatically decreases. The treatment staff/correctional staff issue needs to be addressed by recruiting individuals that have proper training suitable for correctional treatment programs. Finally, it was recommended that a more “therapeutic-response” be used instead of the correctional model. (Farabee, Prendergast, Cartier, Wexler, Knight,...
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...Recomendation: Lookheed made a huge mistake when estimating the breakeven point at 210 units by selling each unit for $16 million (see Appendix 1). This amount is not enough to cover the fixed cost that the company incurred before the L-1011 was on the market. Lookheed should have set a break even around 540 units in order to be profitable for investors. My recommendation for Lockheed would be to take advantage of its competitive advantage in the military aircraft field and apply its experience, know-how and financial resources on the commercial aircraft market in general. The company should have done a more extensive research about market and strategy opportunities when calculating the breakeven point. Rationale for Decision The fixed and variable costs that Lookheed incurred to make the L-1011 were too high if we consider only military client base. The gap between the price ($16 million) and variable costs ($14 million) was the insignificant amount of $2 million, not enough to cover the initial investment ($900 million) with only one market. Diversification does not only bring a higher cash flow, but also lower required rate of return. To my opinion, the required rate of return with which Lookheed Chief Financial Officer estimated the profitability of the project did not show the risk of offering only one client base. Definition of Problem The main issue in this case is the randomly estimations made by the company in order to make the project looks...
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...Company Background Chilyn’s Pharmacy and Convenience store is a family business established by the Ong family residing in Jolo Sulu. This store has two branches. One located in Jolo, Sulu and the other in Putik, Zamboanga City. The branch located in Putik, Zamboanga City is actually the second branch of the said store. Chilyn’s Pharmacy and Convenience Store is owned by Mrs. Micheline Ong and the management of such business is given to Ms. Jaydellyne T. Ong. Chilyn’s Pharmacy and Convenience Store here in Zamboanga commenced its business last Nov. 5, 2011 while the one located in Jolo, Sulu has been in the business for two years already. System Background The store uses a manual inventory system and sales system in monitoring its inventory and sales level. The systems used on both branches do not differ so much. Both branches has a manual inventory system wherein they personally and manually check the remaining inventory in their store room and uses only a calculator in computing for the total costs of the products bought by customers Problem Statement Matrix |PROJECT: point of sale inventory management system/electronic cash |PROJECT MANAGER: SUV2D | |register | | |CREATED BY: SUV2D/SAUSVAVIDA |LAST UPDATED BY: Saipudin, Ivy Rose C. ...
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