The assignment for Week 4 gives students a chance to examine their own decision-making process as well as use a creative method to illustrate the stages of the process. This gives students the opportunity to take their real world, personal decision and relate it to their future work and careers.

Assignment Steps

Develop a 700-word evaluation of a recent business decision in your work or desired career.

Include the following:

• Discuss the influence the decision-making process had on the outcome.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the process. What stages were most challenging and why.
• THIS IS A TWO PART ASSIGNMENT!! 1. INFOGRAPHIC 2.700 WORD EVALUATION.

Create a “Decision-Making Process” infographic in an appropriate format for the organization based on the action plan. This can be done using Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®, Microsoft^®Publisher^®, Word, or sites such as Glogster^® and PiktoChart^®.

• Select a decision you made recently as it relates to your work or desired career.
• Identify the stages of the decision making process as it relates to your decision.

Format consistent with APA guidelines.

throughout this semester, we’ve talked–directly and indirectly–about the importance of the relationship between the ED and the board. We’ve identified that it is, by its very nature, a tricky relationship to manage, as the goal is to have a true partnership between unequals due to their positions on the organizational chart. It is compounded by the fact that, very often, the ED must educate, nudge and manage her/his boss. Look honestly at your executive director:

a) analyze the performance of your executive director both in terms of how well s/he executes the ten responsibilities of his/her job and

b) assess the balance in the relationship s/he has with the board.

I just need two detailed paragraphs.

STUDENT 1: Vicky

Business documents are created with the sole purpose of putting out information to one or multiple individuals. The organization and structure of it should be the writer’s first thought. I always organize things in my head before actually writing them out. I consider who I am writing to and that determine what heading I use. Next, I think about what information I want to include. This helps me develop a layout and format. I then decide on how I will present the information. Will I use bullets, list the information, or number my thoughts in order of importance? If my document is a PowerPoint Presentation, I utilize the same thought process but create the presentation including pictures, symbols, graphs and charts if necessary. Presentations is a visual way to put out information, therefore, my core thought shifts to keeping my audience stimulated visually.

I am big on using pictures to get my point across but including pictures even on PowerPoint Presentations has proven to be difficult for me in the past. The size of the inserted picture or file type needs to be exact, otherwise it will be time-consuming adjusting the settings so it can fit. I am often tasked to give training on different things at work. In preparing presentations for my training, I normally try to include an ice breaker in the beginning to lighten up the mood. Including jokes is a great way to break the ice but finding the perfect emojis or graphics is not always easy.

STUDENT 2: LeeAnn

When I’m writing emails at work to members the structure of the email is usually the same. I start off with that person’s name, and then may ask how they are doing, and then ask the reason why I’m contacting them. Then finally I would give them the information so they will be able to contact me. I would thank them and end the email with my name. I would organize my information from the beginning of the event all the way until the ending of the event by calendar date. If I were to organize information and wanted reader to “get” it, I would put the valuable information in quotes or bolded. Depending on how your information gets presented will determine how the order of the information or the storyline plays out.

I would like to use Quicken Software for all my company’s accounting needs instead of the recreating templet software that my business provides. Because Quicken software is equipped with many more useful tools. To be innovated with visual appeal while using information Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is a great tool to use to deliver a message effectively. For example, in the restaurant industry one statement that ought to be revised to make that statement sound more elite would be “the soup of the day” can be revised to say “la soupe du jour.”

Develop a 4-6-page analysis of St. Anthony Medical Center’s finances over three fiscal years. This analysis will include considerations such as assets, liabilities, revenues, and changes in financial position.

GRADING RUBRIC MUST BE FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER

Resources:

Finkler, S. A., Smith, D. L., Calabrese, T. D., & Purtell, R. M. (2017). Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press. Available from the bookstore.

• Chapter 4, “Understanding Costs,” pages 125–174.
  • This chapter helps to provide a foundational understanding of the various costs that an organization encounters, as well as how to plan to break-even with regard to costs.
• Chapter 5, “Capital Budgeting,” pages 175–218.
  • This chapter defines capital budgeting and examines the considerations and processes key to constructing an effective capital budget.

  Finkler, S. A., Smith, D. L., Calabrese, T. D., & Purtell, R. M. (2017). Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press. Available from the bookstore.

  • ‹Chapter 9, “Taking Stock of Where You Are: The Balance Sheet,” pages 316–356.
    • This chapter introduces a framework for financial accounting and how to effectively utilize a balance sheet.
  • Chapter 10, “Reporting the Results of Operations: The Activity and Cash Flow Statements,” pages 357–407.
    • This chapter examines how to track and report financial activity, as well as how to summarize a set of financial statements.
  • Chapter 14, “Financial Statement Analysis,” pages 510–558.
    • This chapter provides an examination of financial statement analysis and a number of key concepts and considerations.
  • Chapter 15, “Financial Condition Analysis,” pages 559–587.
    • This chapter defines what a financial condition analysis is and how it is different from a financial statement analysis.

***NOTES FROM ME: Company chosen is Starbucks, and must be compared to Peets Coffee, and possibly other companies like Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, if necessary/helpful. Please provide robust speaker notes since I will not use any content I do not truly understand. Please cite ALL sources used within the speaker notes with specific page each item is found, along with References slide at the end. My professor is big on citing ALL sources, whether websites or scholarly sources. Don’t just paraphrase content from random websites which I notice happens often with tutors. References need to include HYPERLINKS to websites I can easily access online. Google Scholar is preferred but I must be able to access the page references (sometimes scholarly sources only allow free access to certain pages). If you choose to use course textbook mentioned please use the 11th edition from 2015, not 2014 or earlier. Thanks for the help!