how you will incorporate these values in your career. In what situations will you find them useful?

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how you will incorporate these values in your career. In what situations will you find them useful? How will these values help the stakeholders of your company, your community, society as a whole, etc.? How will you use your Regis education to benefit those around you? What opportunities do you believe will become available to you if you apply the Jesuit values to your accounting career and the accounting profession?

Margaret O’Flaherty, a portfolio manager for MCF Investments, is considering investing in Alpine Che

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Margaret O’Flaherty, a portfolio manager for MCF Investments, is considering investing in Alpine Chemical 7% bonds, which mature in 10 years. She asks you to analyse the company to determine the riskiness of the bonds.

From Table 2, select an appropriate credit rating for Alpine Chemical, and comment on the performance of Alpine in relation to each of the ratios, and on the overall performance of the company.

Alpine Chemical Company Financial Statements Years Ended December 31, ($ in millions) 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Assets Cash $ 190 $ 55 $ 0 $ 157 $ 249 $ 0 Accounts receivable 1,637 2,087 1,394 2,143 3,493 3,451 Inventories 2,021 945 1,258 1,293 1,322 1,643 Other current assets 17 27 _ 55 393 33 171 Current assets 3,865 3,114 2,707 3,986 5,097 5,265 Gross fixed assets 4,650 5,038 5,619 5,757 6,181 7,187 943 Less: Accumulated depreciation 2,177 2,543 2,841 3,138 3,465 3,893 Net fixed assets 2,473 2,495 2,778 2,619 2,716 3,294 $ 6,338 $ 5,609 $ 5,485 $ 6,605 $ 7,813 $ 8,559 Total assets Liabilities and net worth 525 Notes payable Accounts payable $ 750 638 $0 681 $ 1,300 $ 1,750 $ 1,900 338 743978 673 Accrued liabilities Current liabilities Long-term debt 303 1.501 1,985 172 483 172 1.560 1,044 _761 359 359 1,040 1,401 359 359 ,997 1,457 1 483 2,976 1,542 761 3,639 1,491 We were unable to transcribe this imageIncome statement Net sales Cost of goods sold Gross profit Operating expense Operating income Interest expense Depreciation expense Profit before tax Income taxes Net income 2012 $ 14,100 10,200 3,900 2,065 1,835 275 475 1,085 193 892 2013 $15,508 11,220 4,288 2,203 2,085 465 477 1,143 115 $ 1,028 2014 $13,875 9,366 4,509 2,665 1,844 275 479 1,090 265 $ 825 2015 $14,750 10,059 4,691 2,685 2,006 319 478 1,209 _ 145 $ 1,064 2016 $19,133 13,400 5,733 3,472 2,261 2017 $19,460 13,117 6,343 3,885 2,458 318 511 1,629 150 $ 1,479 376 495 1,390 192 $ 1,198 TABLE 1 Alpine Chemical Company 2012- 2013- 2014- 20154 4.95€ 3.460 4.96- 4.794 2016- 4.70 6.12- + EBIT/Interest expense- Long-term debt/Total capitalization- Funds from operations/Total debte 44% 28%+ 34% 34% 34% 34% 54%+ 13% 84%- 93%- 56% 13%- 13%» 14% 51% 12% 59% 13% Operating income Sales TABLE 2 Industry Data- Three-Year Medians (2015–2017) by Credit-Rating Category- EBIT/Interest expense- Long-term debt/Total capitalization Funds from operations/Total debte Operating income Sales Aaa Aa- A- Bbb- Bb BP 11.0- 9.54 4.52 3.0+ 2.0+ 1.0- 13.0- 16.52 29.54 39.0+ 45.54 63.5+ 83.0- 74.0- 45.54 31.54 18.50 8.0- 21.54 16.0- 15.0- 12.0- 11.00 9.04

Please answer ALL requirements. P14-28 (final answer) ! Question Help o Jewel Delights is a new comp

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Please answer ALL requirements.

P14-28 (final answer) ! Question Help o Jewel Delights is a new company that manufactures custom jewelry. Jewel Delights currently has six customers referenced by customer number: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, and 06. Besides the costs of making the jewelry, the company has the following activities: (Click to view the activities.) (Click to view the customer data.) Read the requirements Requirement 1. Calculate the customer-level operating income for each customer. Rank the customers in order of most to least profitable and prepare a customer-profitability analysis. (Use parentheses or a minus sign when entering operating losses.) – 01 02 03 Customer 04 D 05 06 Customer-level operating income (loss) C D C D T Enter any number in the edit fields and then click Check Answer. 4 parts 4 remaining Clear All Check Answer More Info – X 1. Customer orders. The salespeople, designers, and jewelry makers spend time with the customer. The cost driver rate is $50 per hour spent with a customer. 2. Customer fittings. Before the jewelry piece is completed, the customer may come in to make sure it looks right and fits properly. Cost driver rate is $29 per hour. 3. Rush orders. Some customers want their jewelry quickly. The cost driver rate is $105 per rush order. 4. Number of customer return visits. Customers may return jewelry up to 30 days after the pickup of the jewelry to have something refitted or repaired at no charge. The cost driver rate is $26 per return visit. Print Done i Data Table Information about the six customers follows. Some customers purchased multiple items. The cost of the jewelry is 60% of the selling price. Customer number 01 02 03 04 05 06 Sales revenue $ 550 $ 4,500 $ 300 $ 2,600 $ 5,200 $ 750 Cost of item(s) $ 330 $ 2,700 $ 180 $ 1,560 $ 3,120 $ 450 Hours spent on customer order 1 5 3 1 5 18 Hours on fittings 0 4 1 0 1 2 Number of rush orders 1 1 130 Number of return visits 0 2 2 1 4 1 نية Print Print Done Done Requirements 1. Calculate the customer-level operating income for each customer. Rank the customers in order of most to least profitable and prepare a customer-profitability analysis. 2. Are any customers unprofitable? What is causing this? What should Jewel Delights do about these customers? Print Done

Marketing Paper- 5 double spaced pages

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Principles of Marketing

Writing Assignment

Part 1 – What is Strategic Marketing?

Learning Outcomes

  1. Creating Value for Customers: Student can demonstrate an understanding of the concept of value creation.
  2. The Role of the Customer in the Company’s Strategic Planning. Student can assess the company’s commit to serving customer needs as evidenced in a company’s mission statement.
  3. SWOT analysis: Student can conduct a simple SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) of a product or service offering and draw inferences from an analysis of the results.
  4. Competitive Analysis: Student can conduct a simple competitive analysis based on criteria important to the customers of the product or service.

Directions

  • Select your product or service offering from the list. Please select one of the product or service
    offering from the list below.

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    Tesla S

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    Amazon Echo dot

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    Ford F-150

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    Amazon Prime

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    Play-Doh

  • Research your product or service offering through the Internet and UMUC’s virtual library (your references will need to be mostly academic sources. See library services if you do not know what an academic source means). Do not limit yourself to searching solely on the product or service name. Look up the industry it is in (Hoovers.com is a good source for this via the UMUC library) and search on that industry as well. Look up the direct competitors. Check industry journals and the trade press. Ask your family, friends, coworkers and others what they think about the product and each of the competitors. You may want to visit a retailer to compare the products on the shelves or visit all of the websites. Keep all your research as you will need it for future writing assignments.
  • Prepare your assignment beginning with a title page with your name and the name of your product or service. Then answer each of the following eight questions (four in part 1 and four in part 2) in order and number the beginning of your response to each question. Although you do not need to repeat the question, each section should have a heading. The paper should contain approximately 5+ pages of analysis for the responses to the eight questions.
  1. Creating Value for Customers. Consider the customers you believe currently use your product or service and the definition of marketing offered in the course content. As we begin our study of marketing, what are your preliminary thoughts as to how you think the company creates value for its customers based on the concepts in this week’s readings.
  2. Role of the Customer in the Company’s Strategic Plan. The readings indicate that the best marketing begins with the customer and that commitment to the customer begins with including the customer in the company’s mission statement. Find your company’s mission statement. Repeat it (or attach as an exhibit if it is too long) and comment on its effectiveness in demonstrating the company’s commitment to having a customer focus. Could the mission statement have more focus on the customer? How would you recommend it be modified? Is it supported with value statements or other evidence of a customer focus?
  3. SWOT analysis. Identify at least one element of each of the SWOT categories (a strength, a weakness, an opportunity, and a threat). Explain your choice using a citation if needed. Then identify possible implications for each of the four elements. Create a Table in which these elements are posted. For example, if a strength is a a strong national brand name, the implication is that the company may be able to launch other related products under the positive umbrella of the same brand name. Conversely, if a major weakness is the company is carrying a lot of debt, the implication is that the company not not be able to achieve significant growth, but may have to consider retrenchment strategies.
  4. Competitive Analysis. Identify at least two major competitors or those two products that are trying to sell essentially identical products to the same type of consumer. Then, identify at least three criteria that are important to those consumers when they are making their decision as to which of the three competing offers to buy (e.g. price, specific benefit, service, warranty, convenience, specific feature, etc.). Make a little chart with the three criteria along the left-hand side and the competitor products (including your own product) across the top. Rank each of the products on a scale from 1= low to 5= high on each performs on each of the three criteria. Add down each column. Which product ranked highest overall based on the sum of the columns. Then, look at the highest score in each of the criteria boxes. Which products ranked the highest on each of the three criteria? Was it the same product, was it three different products? What do these results tell you about the competitive environment of your product category. Which product is the leader? Which product is the follower, challenger and nicher if those categories apply? Attach your chart as an exhibit.

Part 2 – Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, Management and Empowerment

Learning Outcomes

  1. Customer empowerment. Student can identify how their chosen product or service offering uses social networks to communicate and empower customers to be part of the marketing process.
  2. Customer satisfaction. Student can identify how customers communicate their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the chosen product or service offering.
  3. Customer Relationship Management. Student can explain customer lifetime value and how a customer relationship management program can have a role in attracting and retaining most valuable customers.
  4. Customer privacy. Student can identify the product or service offerings privacy policy and analyze its effectiveness in protecting their customer’s information.

Directions

  • You may want to find a Most Valuable Customer (MVC) of the product or service if you are not one yourself, or alternatively think like an MVC. What is the evidence of an MVC of your product or service? It isn’t just that the customer regularly buys the product or service. It means that the customer is treated differently — better — than other customers. It means that the MVC represents about 20% of the company’s revenues. These are the customers with whom the company regularly communicates, offers special deals, and other ways as outlined in the text and as you can find with just a little bit of googling on the internet.
  • You may want to calculate the lifetime value of a most valuable customer. See the discussion of the lifetime value calculation in the week’s reading, and calculate the LTV using this simple equation: LTV = (Price – cost to produce the product) * number of annual purchases * number of years expected to purchase – initial acquisition costs. For simplicity sake, you can assume your customer will have a relationship with you for ten years and you can make an educated guess as to how much the initial acquisition costs were to get him as a customer in terms of advertising or other types of promotion efforts. If you are not an MVC yourself, make and share your assumptions about your calculation. If you are not an MVC, you might want to find someone who is and ask them why they are loyal to the product or service and what they feel the company does for them that is special that they don’t do for other customers.
  • You may need call or visit a store to take a look at your product or service if the website does not provide you everything you need to evaluate the company’s product or service privacy policy. Usually the privacy policy is available on the website.
  • Answer the following four questions in order and number the beginning of your response to each question.
  1. Customer Empowerment. How does your product or service offering empower its customers as discussed in the course readings this week? In other word, how are customers part of the marketing for the company? Identify the feedback vehicles they may use, especially social media. Do the social media efforts seem to be creating buzz marketing? If not, what could they do to generate more ‘buzz’?
  2. Customer satisfaction. How does your product or service offering communicate ways for customers to express their dissatisfaction? If possible, outline what remedies the product or service may be taking to ensure satisfaction.
  3. Customer Relationship Management. Does it appear that your product has a customer relationship management strategy? In other words, do they treat the top tier of customers differently than other customers? If so, what is your evidence? If not, should they have a CRM strategy? Or, are there compelling reasons why your product or service should treat all customers the same? Refer to course content concepts in your response.
  4. Customer privacy. Review your product or service offering’s privacy policy (usually published on its website). Analyze whether you think they do enough to protect the customer’s privacy or what steps you might suggest they take to protect customer’s privacy. Refer to the privacy policies or the information on warranties and guarantees. The company’s customer support page might also be useful. Do they publish a remedy should the customer’s privacy be breached? Should they?

General Submission Requirements

  • Prepare as a word processed document (such as Microsoft Word). Use a simple 12-point font such as Times New Roman. Use black ink for majority of your work and only use colors if it enhances your ability to communicate your thoughts.
    • Your assignment should be the equivalent of approximately five pages of double-spaced text (although more are acceptable), approximately 1/2 page for each of the eight questions (four in Part 1 and four in Part 2). You may attach exhibits that will not be counted towards the page count of double-spaced text. The cover page and References page are not part of the written analysis.
    • Be sure your name, writing assignment number, and the name of your product or service are on the cover page of your writing assignment.
    • Include a References page, which includes references that explain the concept and references to the actual product.
    • You should use a minimum of six (6) references, four (4) of them dated 2015 to the present.
    • You should use APA style for a paper which includes formatting for page numbers, page margins, etc. More information about using a style guide can be found in the UMUC’s virtual library accessible from your LEO classroom in Content “Learn to Use APA” or at umuc.edu/library.
    • Refer to the grading rubric associated with the assignments. Be sure to note that 20% of your grade on this assignment will be based on your grammar, composition, adherence to the submission requirements, and use of an appropriate college-level style guide for writing and referencing.

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Why do you think American Imperialism stirred debate?

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This is an exercise in ethics and civics.

The United States, like many industrial nations, entered into a new
race for colonies at the end of the nineteenth century (the Age of High
Imperialism). The Europeans squared off in a Scramble for Africa, the
United States and Japan were vying in the Pacific, and everyone was
carving up spheres of influence in Asia. While the United States did
create a formal empire and expand its informal empire over Latin America
during this time, the concept of American Empire stirred quite a bit of
debate.

Prompt: Why do you think American Imperialism stirred
debate? Which side of the issue (imperialist or anti-imperialist) had
the best argument? (for this latter, do not use presentist (looking at
the past from our own perspective in the early 21st century) arguments –
use the reasoning of the time when considering your response).

In
your answer, you must provide a clear thesis statement (which states
your position as to which side had the best argument). You must discuss
both formal and informal empire and address both the pro- and
anti-positions, must include a minimum of TWO primary sources (from
which you pull evidence and analyze in a meaningful way), and you must
utilize specific and detailed historical facts (which can be specific
people, events, places, or ideas/concepts).

Be sure to properly cite using Turabian/Chicago style FOOTNOTES

When is a company legally barred from paying cash dividends?View Solution: When is a company legally

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When is a company legally barred from paying cash dividends?View Solution:
When is a company legally barred from paying cash dividends

Pro Weave manufactures stadium blankets by passing the products through a weaving department and a s

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Pro Weave manufactures stadium blankets by passing the products through a weaving department and a sewing department. The following information is available regarding its June Inventories materials inventory Work in process inventory Work in process Inventory-Seine Finished goods Inventory Seginning Tventory $ 132,000 420,00 S . 1.425,000 mentory 5 251.000 475.00 225.000 1,206,000 The following additional information describes the company's manufacturing activities for June $ 530,000 3,350,000 156,00 materials purchases on credit Factory payroll cost paid in cash) Other factory overhead cost other accounts credited) Materials used Direct-weaving Direct-Sewing $ 250,000 156,000 Labor used Direct-eaving Direct-sewing Indirect Overhead rates as a percent of direct labor $1,325,000 50.000 1,635.000 Sales on credit) $5,050,000 1. Prepare journal entries dated June 30 to record: a) raw materials purchases, direct materials usage. (c) indirect materials usage (d) direct labor usage, le) indirect labor usage, if other overhead costs, igl overhead applied, and the payment of total payroll costs View ansactions Journal entry worksheet Record the purchase of raw materials on account General Journal Debit Credit Cey View Journal entry worksheet Journal entry worksheet Record the cost of director incurred, but not yet paid. Note: Enter debits before credits Transaction General Journal Debt Credit Record entry Clear entry View ournal Journal entry worksheet Journal entry worksheet Record the cost of indirect labor incurred, but not yet pald. Record the cost of other overhead crot Other accounts Nobet Enter debts before credits Transaction General Journal Debit Credit Hecordertry Ceny View general journal Journal entry worksheet

Ethical Decision Making and Hiring

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Week 3 Assignment: Ethical Decision Making and Hiring
MGMT314: Week #3 Paper:
Include an abstract
3-page BODY of the Paper
For this assignment, you should focus on the reading material for week 3 AND use our library for research and support.
The paper should focus on the following:
The body of your paper: (3 Pages total BODY in length)-Your thoughts should be supported with relevant course content and library research.
Explain the differences, importance, and purpose of both the code of conduct and the code of ethics. Secondly, tell me about some of the factors that you would use to make ethical hiring decisions in an organization. Why would these be important to include in the hiring process (Example of things that you might include: Legal Ground Rules or other items in our reading material or library that would be considered in the process). Format: APA Paper (With an abstract).

answer the question

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answer each question separately ((make sure to use tools and concepts from the text attached))

please write the question then answer it

1- Crawford Chapter 14, page 317 (Ch 14 Provo Craft)

Answer Question 1

2- chapter 17 Q2

How can they make prospects aware of the new service?

What is the purpose of the trial package?

(Think about the concepts in the chapter and about ATAR)

3- Ch 16- Iridium Q1

Crawford Chapter 16

Q1 What could Iridium management have done strategically in the critical 1998-1999 opportunity window?

Use tools in text where possible.

4- Chapter 14, Application question #1

Why might the manufacturing and sales people object to the new product? (Evaluation?)

What does this say about the new product process that the chairman had to push a project through the organization?

Intercultural Management

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As the managing director for your company, based in India, that manufactures computer equipment, you are negotiating with an official in China. His job is to select computer equipment for city employees. You are adamant that you want all the specifications named clearly in a contract. However, the Chinese official is not interested in the technical and financial details. In one to two pages, explain why having a cultural profile of people in the official’s cultural group could help you avoid a breakdown in communication in this situation. How can you get through the intercultural impasse and obtain a contract that both you and the Chinese official find acceptable?

Your case study should be properly formatted to include a title page, running head, page numbers, and reference list. The paper should follow APA guidelines for all resources for in-text citations, paraphrasing, and references