Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to help you become familiar with examining the stockholders’ equity section of the balance sheet.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, Ch. 11

Answer the following questions in 1,050 words using the Lachlin Corporation Balance Sheet located on p. 575 of Financial Accounting:

• How many shares of common stock are outstanding?
• Assuming there is a stated value, what is the stated value of the common stock?
• What is the par value of the preferred stock?
• If the annual dividend on preferred stock is $36,000, what is the dividend rate on preferred stock?
• If dividends of $72,000 were in arrears on preferred stock, what would be the balance reported for retained earnings?

Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

The chief executive officer (CEO) of your firm is being asked to approve a major expenditure for a new warehouse. Before he approves it, you were asked to discuss with him an alternative he has heard of: public warehousing. Prepare a short discussion covering the following specific points:

• What exactly is public warehousing?
• What are the pros and cons of using it?
• What is the range of services they typically offer?
• If the objective is to avoid the cost of building and staffing a new warehouse for the firm, which of these services, or others as well, would you ask the public warehouse to perform for you? Why?
• What is the downside of using public warehousing?

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

• Read from Page 387 through to Page 414
• Turn to Page 394 and read: IT at Work 13.2: Microsoft International’s HR Team Optimizes Business Processes
• Answer the 3 Questions on Page 396
• Turn to Page 401 and read: IT at Work 13_4: High-Tech Census Project Fails – An Analysis
• Answer the 2 questions on p. 402
• Turn to Page 416 and read the Pep Boy’s IT Planning Process Case study.
• Answer the 4 questions on Page 416

QUESTIONS ARE BELOW!!!

1.Why did Microsoft Internation have inefficient HR business processes – until this HR initiative was completed in 2-10?

2.Does it seem strange that a mega-multinational computer software and services company had not been able to “ensure that the right people are doing the right work at the right time across our business processes” until 2010?

3.What may have motivated or pressured Microsoft Internation to standardize its HR processes?

4.What went wrong? Make a list of things that went wrong and classify them as technology-related, management-related, and/or project-related (due to changes in the scope of the project).

5.. Consider the statement: “hope is not a plan.” Does that statement apply to this project failure? Explain why or why not.

6. Diagram the process by which Pep Boys had collected data during it’s budget planning process.

• Use Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint or Word to create a diagram. (remember smart art?)
• Note the point value, make the diagram detailed.
• Attach the file to this question.

7.

View some of the Adaptive Planning’s pre-recorded online demos at Link (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . https://www.adaptiveinsights.com/learn/demos (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

• ***Use your school email to register for the demos, and you can make up the rest of the data. Indicate you are a student, and you’ll be good to go.***
• Explain how this companies software improves the various planning processes?

8.Evaluate Pep Boys software vendor selection process. The outcome was successful, but given the selection process, what risks did they take?

9.In your opinion, why did the Adaptive Planning company provide Pep Boys with excellent service and support?

Watch this video of spoken-word poet Madiha Bhatti as she speaks about sexism in popular music: http://www.groundswell-mvmt.org/faithshare/listen-up-jay-z-this-muslim-womans-got-something-to-say-to-you/. After watching the video, write an 600-750 word argumentative essay and argue whether or not her points about the music industry are valid.

A thesis statement is a sentence or two that makes your provable point—what you are attempting to prove in your writing. Your thesis statement should take a stand. If your statement can be debated or disagreed with, then you have most likely made a worthy, arguable point. Your essays will be arguments not reports.

A thesis idea also takes a stand and makes a provable point. But it generally permeates the essay and is clear to the reader but does not make that statement in one sentence.

Either one, statement or idea, is acceptable. But, I will say that a thesis idea tends to be more challenging for beginning writers. If you tend to drift from your topic (nobody out there does that, right?), then I would suggest that you start with a thesis statement and work up to a more collective thesis idea later on.

MLA Format!

This is a two part assignment – explain the job aid you created and then show the actual job aid you developed.

Start the paper by explaining the following:

• How the job aid will be used – for what specific job or task…
• How will changes be made to the job aid as needed and how will employees know there have been changes? ?
• Analyze if any technology will be utilized with you job aid.
• Summarize what the outcomes will be when using a job aid.

The create a job aid using one of the topics below.
This is a job aid you will develop and not one that already exists. The
point is to demonstrate you can develop job aids.

# Purchase a product from a vending machine that has many selections.

# Make a complete turkey dinner that includes a vegetable and mashed potatoes.

# Change the oil and filter by yourself in a car.

# Connect a computer to the internet from a location that it is not already connected to.

# Use your mobile device(cell phone) on an automated Teller machine (ATM) to obtain cash from your checking account.

# build a table from wood that includes one drawer.

# Do three loads of wash at a laundramat (wash and dry). You only have on washer and dryer to use.

Remember this should help someone with no idea of how to do the task be able to complete it.