The topics and guidelines for the 20-page APA formatted paper for those who did not pass the MBA comprehensive exam are as follows:

The paper will consist of four major sections:

A.Marketing

B.Management

C.Finance

D.Accounting

The student will need to use the above-mentioned sections in their 20 page APA paper and will need to research, define, describe, and explain the following subsections of the same:

A.Marketing

1.What are metrics and control measures mechanisms in marketing?

2.What are the factors that influence consumer business purchasing?

3.What is segmentation?

4.What is competitive intelligence?

5.What are the 4 Ps of marketing?

Research, define, describe, and explain the above-mentioned.

B.Management

1.What is conflict and conflict resolution?

2.What is motivation and why is it important to managers?

3.What is recruiting and selection in the HR process?

4.What is employment planning, training, and development?

5.How does organizational structure affect organizational strategy?

6.What is supply chain logistics?

7.What is planning and control when it comes to supply chain management?

Research, define, describe, and explain the above-mentioned.

C.Finance

1.What is capital budgeting?

2.What is an operating budget?

3.Explain capital structure.

4.Explain what financing instruments are and discuss options, futures, derivatives and securities valuation.

5.Explain what the money market is and market efficiency

6.List three different types of financial ratios and explain them.

Research, define, describe, and explain the above-mentioned.

D.Accounting

1.What is the theory of constraints?

2.What is forecasting? Explain with an example.

3.What is cash budgeting?

4.What is variance analysis?

5.Describe and explain the break-even analysis.

6.What are the main financial statements that every organization uses (list three)?

7.Describe and explain the regulatory environment.

Research, define, describe, and explain the above-mentioned.

Do not type an introduction or a conclusion to this paper. This make-up comprehensive test paper should only include your research, definitions, descriptions, and explanations of the above-mentioned concepts and tools within each of the four major disciplines.

Please remember that this is only a Pass/Fail paper and that you must be thorough in all of your answers.

20 APA formatted pages = 5 pages for each of the 4 major sections (Marketing, Management, Finance, and Accounting).

APA formatting includes the following guidelines: Times New Roman 12 font, double-spacing, title page, reference page, 1-inch margins top/bottom and left/right, page numbers in the top right margin in the header, running head, in-text citations, properly formatted references on the reference page, etc…

Do not include an abstract, executive summary, or conclusion. Simply research, define, describe, and explain your answers to the questions.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated, so please look to the Academic Integrity rules as noted in the syllabus for your course. Cite your sources, even when you paraphrase.

Identify best public sector uses of customer relationship management application. Explain why these are the best. How do you think government use of customer relationship management technology compares to private sector use?

From a federal government perspective, what is an IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process? In terms of how projects have been managed in the past, what changes in management need to be made in order to implement an investment management approach?

What are the key elements of an effective CPIC process? How is IT portfolio analysis similar to and different from financial portfolio analysis? What is done with the results of an IT portfolio analysis?

Explain what we mean by enterprise architecture in the public sector? What is an enterprise architecture used for any by whom?

Find an article of your choice and discuss it in the forum. Must be a peer-reviewed article published within the last 5 years and located on Google Scholar.

APA Format, Citations, Reference.

2 Pages is enough.

There are 4 assignments, there is no word or page count each should be in separate documents titled by the deliverable it is (ex. Deliverable 1 – Factors Affecting International Business Expansion) and a turnitin report should be provided for each individual assignment. although no word or page count, each prompt should be fully spoken on with subheadings of each prompt, a document is uploaded for deliverable assignment 1 for your benefit and all 3 afterwards should mimic this exact document but relate to that specific assignment

ASSIGNMENT 1 (NO WORD OR PAGE COUNT BUT ANSWER ALL PROMPTS FULLY AND DETAILED

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Deliverable 1 – Factors Affecting International Business Expansion

Competency

Determine relevant factors allowing international business to succeed in a particular region or country.

Instructions

Case Study

Review the case study above and prepare the necessary document as explained below.

Use the following website as a starting point for research on this project:

The World Factbook

In addition, you may likely need to do some additional research to help complete this project.

Please choose from one of the following countries to expand into: Japan, Brazil, India, Liberia, Ukraine, or Thailand.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF) has hired you as a consultant to help them with a planned expansion into a new market. Your role is to help facilitate this expansion into a new country/region, and to point out options and possible hurdles the company will face that they aren’t aware of. Write a report to the Chief Operations Officer (COO) and outline the overall business environment for the expansion, including the following:

1. Choose a country or region for the expansion, considering the details of the case study.
2. Identify the four relevant factors that will affect an expansion into this new market in a positive way.
3. For each factor identified, identify how these factors will directly benefit RMCF in its expansion into the new market.
4. What are at least two obstacles will need to be overcome in this expansion effort, and what is the recommendation to overcome them?
5. Ensure your report has an introduction properly describing the general scenario of what it will address, and then a conclusion wrapping up your points and what you addressed in the report.

ASSIGNMENT 2 (NO WORD OR PAGE COUNT BUT ANSWER ALL PROMPTS FULLY AND DETAILED

Deliverable 2 – Market Entry Methods for International Expansion

Competency

Analyze the right market entry method(s) for a given company for a particular region.

Instructions

Case Study

Review the case study above and prepare the necessary document as explained below.

Use the following website as a starting point for research on this project:

The World Factbook

In addition, you may likely need to do some additional research to help complete this project.

Please choose from one of the following countries to expand into: Japan, Brazil, India, Liberia, Ukraine, or Thailand.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF) has hired you as a consultant to help them with a planned expansion into a new market. Your role is to help facilitate this expansion into a new country/region, and to point out options and possible hurdles the company will face that they aren’t aware of. Write a business memo to the Director of New Business (DNB) outlining the overall business environment for the expansion, including the following:

1. Indicate what the expansion strategy method should be for the country or region of your choosing.
2. Identify three different factors that would support your entry strategy that you choose for your particular country or region and explain why they will beneficial.
3. For the market entry method you choose, discuss two disadvantages to using this method for the expansion.
4. Ensure your report has an introduction properly describing the general situation of what it will address, and then a conclusion wrapping up your points and what you addressed in the report and validating the market entry method you choose for RMCF.

ASSIGNMENT 3 (NO WORD OR PAGE COUNT BUT ANSWER ALL PROMPTS FULLY AND DETAILED

Deliverable 3 – The Role of Culture and its Effect in International Business

Competency

Analyze the role of culture and its impact on international business for a particular country or region.

Instructions

Case Study

Review the case study above and prepare the necessary document as explained below.

Use the following website as a starting point for research on this project:

The World Factbook

In addition, you may likely need to do some additional research to help complete this project.

Please choose from one of the following countries to expand into: Japan, Brazil, India, Liberia, Ukraine, or Thailand.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF) has hired you as a consultant to help them with a planned expansion into a new market. Your role is to help facilitate this expansion into a new country/region, and to point out options and possible hurdles the company will face that they aren’t aware of. Write a cultural assessment report to the Director of Human Resources and outline the overall business environment for the expansion, including the following:

1. Review the cultural aspects that need to be considered with the expansion into the new country or region.
2. Identify how the company culture and the business of selling chocolate will work with the culture of the target market you will expand into.
3. Identify and discuss at least two strategies that RMCF will need to adopt in order to effectively do business in the new country or region
4. Ensure your report has an introduction properly describing the general situation of the target country and what the general culture is like, and then a conclusion wrapping up your points and what you addressed in the report and validating the strategies to deal with the target market culture in general.

ASSIGNMENT 4 (NO WORD OR PAGE COUNT BUT ANSWER ALL PROMPTS FULLY AND DETAILED

Deliverable 4 – Methods for Marketing, Recruiting, Leading, and Human Resource Management

Competency

Select proper methods for marketing, recruiting, leading and human resource management within an international business.

Instructions

Case Study

Read the above case study and prepare the necessary documents as explained below.

Use the following website as a starting point for research on this project:

The World Factbook

In addition, you may likely need to do some additional research to help complete this project.

Please choose from one of the following countries to expand into: Brazil, India, Japan, Liberia, Thailand or Ukraine.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory International (RMCF) has hired your consulting firm to outline The Marketing Mix by product mix and product categories for the introduction of RMCF products into a new country/region of your choice. In addition, in preparation for entering the new market set forth a recruiting campaign in order to get personnel in place. Coupled with the recruiting campaign will be determining the scope of Human Resource Management in leading, training and development, and compensation. Read the above case study and any additional research needed to create your analysis. In your analysis, be sure to include the following:

1. Introduction to your findings.
2. Identify The Marketing Mix by product mix, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, creams, caramels, nougats, nuts and product categories, chocolates, fudge, and novelties for entry into the country/region.
3. Develop policies and procedures for recruiting managers for foreign assignment.
4. Examine ways to provide diversity training as a leadership development opportunity, a training and development program, a program on how to appraise performances, and provide compensation and benefits information to all employees of RMCF and their franchisees.
5. Based on your findings, prepare a report to the Vice President of Marketing and the Vice President of Human Resources of RMCF.
6. Conclusion of your findings.