Category: Management

Financial Analysis of Company XYZ

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It should be organized like a professional report. Report should be in around 10 pages double space, including tables and references.

As a general guideline in doing the above analysis you should focus on the following aspects:

Financial Statement Analysis: Find the financial statements of your selected company and analyze its financial ratios.
Valuation: Cash Flows, growth pattern, any special project that the company is heavily dependent upon.
Risk and Return: What is the risk profile of your company? (How much overall risk is there in this firm? Where is this risk coming from (market, firm, industry or currency)? How is the risk profile changing? What is the performance profile of an investment in this company? What return would you have earned investing in this company’s stock? Would you have under or out-performed the market? How much of the performance can be attributed to management? How risky is this company’s equity? Why? What is its cost of equity? How risky is this company’s debt? What is its cost of debt? What is this company’s current cost of capital?
Changes in stock prices and returns: Record opening, closing, high and low prices on a daily basis. Analyze any major swings in prices whether they are driven by any company-specific event or are market-driven. For example, most companies might fall because of a major issue (think of Greek crisis) or a company might fall because it was caught offering a bad product (e.g. Lumber Liquidators)

 

Leadership Challenges in the Tech Industry

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Find a current business event from The Wall Street Journal that represents a leadership challenge. Now, imagine you have been asked to step into the leadership role to manage the challenge.
Discuss the steps you would take in the first 90 days of your leadership. Explain your approach by applying learning from the lectures, videos, and readings this week, as well as any relevant concepts from earlier in the course.

 

Balancing Culture, Engagement, and Results

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Culture, Engagement, and Results
The article by Kantor & Streitfeld from the New York Times in this week’s readings discusses culture and leadership at Amazon.
Applying leadership concepts we have covered in this course, what is your perspective on how culture drove results at Amazon at the time this article was written?
The article was published in 2015. The impact of the pandemic and historically low unemployment rates have contributed to changes in what workers will tolerate in working conditions. Locate and post a news article published within the last year addressing how workers are reacting to unfavorable working conditions.
What should leaders do to address movements such as “quiet quitting” and successfully drive performance while balancing the needs of individuals?

 

 

Evaluate the success of the program

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Your grant application is nearly done! There’s just one more piece you’ll need to complete for the application process to be complete.
In addition to laying out all of the goals and objectives, you’ll need to show the funders how you plan to measure whether or not those goals and objectives are being met. This is all part of the grant management that will take place after you receive a grant.
Your job now is to determine how you will evaluate the success of the program. You will need to create a document that considers the following questions:
What questions will the organization’s evaluation activities seek to answer?
What are the evaluation plans and time frames?
What kinds of data will be collected?
At what points?
Using what strategies or instruments?
Using what comparison group or baseline, if any?
If the intention is to study a sample of participants, how will this sample be selected?
What procedures will be used to determine whether the program was implemented as planned?
Who will conduct the evaluation?
Who will receive the results?
How does this program or project define success?
Create a 2-3 page document that answers each of the questions at a high level. This document should be written in such a way that it can be shared across the Resource Center as well as with volunteers and partners in the program so they can understand how the program will be evaluated throughout the grant cycle. While you want the information to be clear and specific, it’s not necessary to go into great detail. It should be easily understood by all.

 

The total cost EOQ BBE

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Case 9.2. Baseball Card Emporium
Baseball Card Emporium (BBE) of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, is a distributor of baseball cards to sports card retailers. Its market area encompasses most of Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and New Jersey. The cards are printed in Neenah, Wisconsin, and currently shipped to Lewistown via motor carrier transportation. Kenny Craig, vice president of logistics, has asked his staff to evaluate using air carrier service to ship the cards.
Nick Gingher, director of distribution, has collected the following information:
• Annual demand: 6,000 cases of cards
• Case value (price): $96 each
• Inventory carrying cost (annual): 30%
• Cost per order to replenish inventory: $75
• In-transit inventory carrying cost: 18%
• Transit time using motor carrier (parcel ground): 4 days
• Cycle time using motor carrier (parcel ground): 7 days
• Transit time using air carrier: 1 day
• Cycle time using air carrier:2 days
• Motor carrier rate: $1.20 per cwt. (100 lbs.)
• Air carrier rate: $2.50 per cwt.
• Unit weight: 50 lbs. per case

1. Based on the data provided in Case 9.2, calculate the total cost EOQ BBE ($).
2. Based on the data provided in Case 9.2, calculate the EOQ BBE (in pounds).
3. What is the total cost of using motor transportation?