M5-Assignment 1: LASA: IPO Presentation

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Part I: IPO Presentation:

You work for a medium sized privately held electronics firm which is considering transitioning to a publically held organization. Your boss found out that you were taking business courses at Argosy University and has asked you to prepare a presentation for upper level management to explain the process by which a privately held company would transition to publicly held company.  He has asked you to  describe the general accounting processes involved in establishing an initial public offering (IPO), including but not limited to accounting for all assets, liabilities and equities of the firm. Prepare a 15-20 slide professional MS PowerPoint presentation which covers the following:

 

  • Identify and explain the top five reasons private companies go public.
  • Explain information the firm is required to provide to the investor with complete transparency.
  • Compare and contrast the differences in accounting processes and procedures that medium sized companies such as yours go through when going public.
  • Discuss any concerns you believe the company should guard against while transitioning from privately held to publicly held (shareholder apprehension, fair market value, etc.) and provide solutions to each concern.

Use the notes section in MS PowerPoint to explain your talking points. Use at least two charts and two additional graphics which support your points. Utilize at least three references (one of which may be your text) in your presentation. 
By Week 5, Day 5 deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

 

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified and explained the top five reasons private companies go public.
8
Explained the information the firm is required to provide to the investor with complete transparency.
8
Compared and contrasted the differences in accounting processes and procedures that medium sized companies go through when going public.
28
Discussed any concerns the company should guard against while transitioning from privately held to publicly held (shareholder apprehension, fair market value, etc.) and provided solutions to each concern.
36
Included at least 2 charts and 2 additional graphics to support points. Utilized at least three references in presentation
12

Presentation components: 
Organization (16 pts)
Style (12 pts)
Usage and Mechanics (16 pts)
A PA format and inclusion of at least three appropriate, scholarly resources (20 pts)
64

Correct answers to Chapter 6-b Post Test
36

Correct answers to Chapter 8-b Post Test
36

Correct answers to Chapter 9-b Post Test
36
Correct answers to Chapter 10-b Post Test
36
Total:
300

 

chch fundamentals of chemistry engg v4

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chch – FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY (ENGG.) – V4

no similarities please

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see below BUS 499 Assignment 2

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I need the following done on Pepsi Co as the company.

 

Assignment 2: External and Internal Environments
Due Week 4 and worth 350 points

 

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
  2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
  3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
  4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
  5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
  6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
  7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
  8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
  • Identify the five forces of competition.
  • Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
  • Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

What are the keys to designing a successful data communications network?

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What are the keys to designing a successful data communications network?

team management activity and reflection 7

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This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in your workplace. Using the Ashford University Library and other credible online resources, find three Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) that provide information on Amazon.com’s business structure.

Here is the scenario and situation:

Assume you are an employee working in the Amazon warehouse, and you pack orders and categorize them into small, medium, and large batches. You are considered a packer. You have experience packing all sizes and have been with the organization for two years. You are considered one of their best employees, you have a solid reputation for being a hard worker, and all of your orders are packed correctly. You have also been busy; you recently completed Amazon’s management training program, and you have completed your BABA degree at the Forbes School of Business and Technology at Ashford University.

Congratulations: You have just been promoted to manager. You will be relocated to a new plant that is two hours away that employs 100 employees. You will oversee a team of 10 supervisors and 90 packers and will now oversee the entire warehouse operation. How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management?

Now let’s apply the five functions. In your paper, include the following sections:

  • Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.
    • For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use?
  • Organizing: Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.
    • Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.
  • Staffing: Analyze your staffing needs.
    • How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things (if any) will you suggest?
  • Leading: Justify the leadership theory and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.
    • Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not?
  • Controls: Identify what controls and measures you will implement.
    • How will you apply the four steps of control (these are in Chapter 7; i.e., establishing standards, measuring performance, comparing performance, and making decisions)?

Be sure to integrate vocabulary learned throughout this course and citations from the text to support your analysis. The paper should be five to six double-spaced pages in length, must include at least three scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook, and be formatted according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

The Team Management Activity and Reflection paper

  • Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least three scholarly, peer reviewed, and/or credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

entrepreneurship executive summary assignment

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Executive Summary

Over the next weeks of the course, you will be developing a venture of your own. Though realistically this is not expected to be a viable venture, choose an idea that you have for a venture that you would like to develop or would like to see developed. You may use a product of service to provide for your clients.

Using the information from this week’s lectures and research, develop an executive summary for your company.

Remember that the executive summary is a company-marketing document intended to excite potential investors, customers, advisers, and employees. Its purpose is to get the call back and start the serious discussions—the process that will result in action.

Your executive summary should include:

  • The Mission Statement
  • Company information
  • Growth highlights – Graphs and charts can be helpful in this section.
  • Your Products/Services
  • Financial information – If you are seeking financing, include any information about your current bank and investors.
  • Summarize future plans –
  • The elevator speech—for this assignment it will take the place of an abstract. It should be crisp, clear, and convey what the company is all about in less than 250 words.

This paper should have a title page, abstract (the elevator speech), body, and reference page. Points will be deducted if any of these four sections are missing. Make sure papers are written in correct APA style.

All papers should be written in the third person (he, he, it, and they). Make every effort not to shift to second person (you, your) as in, “When starting a company you need money.” Try to avoid shifting to the first person (I, we) as well. It is distracting to the reader and bad style to shift persons in a paper—students often do it in the middle of a sentence.

The executive summary should be between 400-600 words (not including the elevator speech/abstract), double spaced, and use font size 12. Structure the paper along the lines advised above.

Please provide original work. No plagiarizing.

Discuss the symbolism of the yin and the yang as they relate to the notion of necessary balance in C

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Discuss the symbolism of the yin and the yang as they relate to the notion of necessary balance in Chinese culture. Identify technological and/or cultural influences of India, China?

Emotional Intelligence and Commitment

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1. Emotional intelligence is a value that keeps leaders respected, admired, emulated, and followed. Because emotionally intelligent leaders constantly better themselves to better serve others; they are self-aware, confident, enthusiastic, and energetic. Chapter 10 identifies the following principles to enhance emotional intelligence:

 

 

 

–Develop feedback mechanisms

 

–Know your intentions

 

–Make time for self-reflection

 

–Get a coach, confidant or mentor

 

–Manage your emotions

 

–Learn to deal with setback

 

–Manage your energy level

 

 

 

Visit: http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl_eq_quiz.htm and complete the Emotional Intelligence Quiz. Explain, in details, how YOU can improve your emotional intelligence based on three of the above listed principles.

 

 

 

2. Commitment is a value that measures the leaders’ dedication to her/his profession. Because commitment binds people to their work, it generates from them a strong work ethic, loyalty, pride, productivity, ownership and even joy. Chapter 9, identifies simple steps to maintain your commitment to your organization. What does commitment mean to you? Name three steps that are most important for YOU to maintain commitment. Explain your answer.

 

 

 

This post is a word count of 300 (150 for each question minimum) using APA formatting, with in text citations, and references. Due on Sat. March 21, 2015

 

Consider the experiment of selecting a card from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards and determine

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Consider the experiment of selecting a card from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards and determine the probability of
the stated event.
A black card or a seven is drawn.

critical analysis exercises 9

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Critical Analysis Exercises(the first 2 @ 7.5% each; the third one is 15%): You areresponsible for submitting threeindividualcritical analyses of a problem or opportunity described in an article or case listed in the syllabus(also on CANVAS). Critical analyses must be a maximumof three pages long; only the first three pages will beread and evaluated. You must first identify aproblem or opportunity and discuss a viable,themedintegratedoperations(how do you DOthis?) solution based on your analysis of the firm’s circumstances. The general structure of papers involves a well-reasoned emphasisinvolving the followingelements. Depending on yourtheme, your emphasis may shift among them.1.Conciselydescribe the case-specificbusiness situation, including the relevant macro-environmental, landscape and micro-environmental conditions facing the organization.2.Develop yourproblem/theme statement: State the opportunity orthreat facing the organization. This theme statement goes in paragraph #1 or #2 asa clear, concise phrase.3.If, and only if,realistic alternative approachesexist, present each alternative in sufficient detail to give the reader an idea of why it may be beneficial as opposed to another course. Do not discuss meaningless or unrealistic alternatives: doing that hurtsyour grade a lot.4.Explainyour specific, well-integrated reasons for any recommendedactions. This shouldinclude relevantvalue enhancing information (financials;profit-loss; brand value, etc.).Useful data, methods and/orexpert opinion, well assessed, are expected.5.Since this is an integrative applicationscourse, your paper’s focus is always on: 1) specifically how will you dothis and2) how does your recommended actionaffect various important operationalareas of the business’ performance(in other words, integrate the implications of your actions across variousbusiness operations areaslike finance, marketing, risk, etc.).You are strongly encouragedto do external researchon the industry and company for your paper. Don’t expect above a “C” for papers that use only the case itself without external, professional quality researchto add further value.In-text source citations that include author, year and page (if possible) and a comprehensive bibliography arerequired. Example: (Smith