4. You run an upscale, fashionable, boutique for pet lovers in Beverly Hills. You need to replenish your inventory with 100 Gucci-brand, jewel encrusted, fleece lined, snakeskin collars for pet iguanas. Your customers have been very late in paying you and therefore your cash flow situation is not very good right now. Basically, you are barely getting by. Your vendor offers the following terms for your inventory purchase: 2/7 net 40. (A) Explain what “2/7 net 40” means. (B) Calculate the interest rate implied by these terms if you do NOT take advantage of the early pay discount and were going to avail yourself of vendor financing. Calculate your answer to 2 decimal places. (C) If you didn’t have the cash to pay early and take the discount but you could take a cash advance from your credit card at 16.9% APR, should you take the temporary cash advance so that you could take the vendor discount? Explain what you should do and why. Assume a 360-day year. You must show your calculations to receive credit.

Based on a SWOT of Amazon.com – need to answer the following questions with a minimum of 100 words for each. 1. List at least FIVE sources you will use to obtain information about the firm’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Discuss what categories of the SWOT elements of information are readily available on the Internet. What categories of data are difficult or impossible to find on the Internet? (When using the Internet, be sure to provide specific websites or URLs.) 2. Rate, from the best to the worst, each of the sources you indicated in #1 above as being sources you will use in your analysis in terms of its probable reliability. Discuss the steps and/or actions you can take to validate the reliability and accuracy of the information you obtain. 3. As a manager, how confident would you be in basing strategic decisions on the information that you’ve obtained online for the SWOT? What other sources of information can you use to effectively complete the SWOT analysis?

Determine the domain of the function H(x) = 7x/x(x^2-49)

To: Consulting Team Expert

From: CEO

RE: ACI Case Study

We have been approached by a new startup company “Attitude Clothing, Inc.”, (or ACI), which has an innovative new line of business clothing that reflects a person’s mood. Their research and development department has teamed up with expert mood psychologists to create clothing of a certain color, material, and design which will reflect a person’s attitude and mood. ACI also manufactures the “AT-ME”, which is a specially designed attitude meter that determines a person’s attitude, and suggest the appropriate clothing to be worn that day.

ACI’s marketing campaign is “Wear your attitude on your sleeve”. ACI is promoting this clothing as a way to increase better communication among workers because co-workers will know just by looking at someone how to approach them. ACI’s business strategy is to provide high quality customer service along with this unique product. ACI recognizes that this high end product comes with a high price tag, and wants its employees to create a service-oriented atmosphere for which customer are willing to pay. Consequently, ACI’s sales staff is essential to its success as the sales staff must be highly motivated to get the unique product off the ground.

I am bringing you in as an expert to create a system for ACI’s sales staff that motivates them and creates a competitive advantage over other clothing lines to assure ACI’s success. I will give you a good amount of latitude to create this system. Market competitive salaries have already been established, but ACI has decided to allocate 10 percent of the company’s profits for you to use in the system you create to motivate the sales staff in any way you see fit.

 Working individually, please discuss the following questions, and then draft a memo to me with your suggestions. Remember to idenitfy and apply the material from the text when answering the questions and use heading to correspond to the questions.

1.        What behaviors would you advise ACI to look for in hiring ACI’s sales staff?
2.        What goals would you set for the sales staff, given your answer to number 1?
3.        What types of reward systems would you advise ACI to set up to reward the behaviors and goals you have outline? Discuss in detail 4 types of reward systems, and explain why you chose these.

 

Provide a title page with your name, course, and date. Your content should include 600 words, and use a double-spaced Times New Roman font. You should include headings, topic sentences, and the inclusion of the weekly learning. Include at least two references in APA format.