How will the company’s philosophy affect the cost and efficiency of its operation? Is Starbucks able to balance the triple bottom line and reinforce its culture of corporate and social responsibility?

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Starbucks sourcing philosophy

How will the company’s philosophy affect the cost and efficiency of its operation? Is Starbucks able to balance the triple bottom line and reinforce its culture of corporate and social responsibility? In other words, does Starbucks successfully fulfill environmental and social responsibilities while maintaining financial success? How should Starbucks prioritize its financial, environmental, and social investments to achieve long-term success? 500 words

Explain why common-sized financial statements are a convenient way to compare financial statement items within the same period, between periods, and between competing companies.

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Discussion 6 Number 2

Using the APPLE company and annual reports:

Prepare common-size balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows for your chosen company for the latest 2 years. Identify one company that competes with your chosen company, obtain their financial statements for the most recent two years, and prepare common-size balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows for the APPLE company for the latest 2 years.

  • Explain why common-sized financial statements are a convenient way to compare financial statement items within the same period, between periods, and between competing companies.
  • Perform a vertical analysis of at least one item on the common-size balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows you prepared for the most recent year. Compare each item to the same item on the common-size financial statements for the previous period and to the same item on the common-size financial statements you prepared for the competing company.
  • Discuss what this comparison tells you about your chosen company’s current financial condition, how it compares to the previous year, and how it compares with the financial condition of your chosen company’s competitor.

Your initial response should be a minimum of 250 words. Students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly and/or credible resource, in addition to the text.

Understand the rule regarding the remedies for merchant buyers when merchant sellers breach a contract by delivering non-conforming goods. What can, and should those merchant buyers do with the non-conforming goods?

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HINTS FOR SALES EXAM: CH.21-24

Class, for the exam you might want to focus on merchant buyer’s remedies for breach of contract of a merchant seller, entrusting/entrustment, void and voidable title and bona fide purchaser aka good faith purchaser.

  1. Know what the difference is between a “void” and “voidable” title/transaction? Does a bona fide purchaser aka good faith purchaser always get to retain goods? Why or why not? Be able to state a rule of law.

 

  1. Know what type of title a seller gives to a buyer when the goods are sold, stolen, entrusted, or obtained by fraud.

 

  1. Understand who is a buyer, is that person a bona fide purchaser aka good faith purchaser, and why the seller’s fraud or thief does or does not allow that buyer to keep the goods. Also, why a buyer/consumer who buys goods that was entrusted to a merchant may or may not be able to keep the good. It will depend on if that buyer was a buyer in the ordinary course of business.

 

  1. Understand the rule regarding the remedies for merchant buyers when merchant sellers breach a contract by delivering non-conforming goods. What can, and should those merchant buyers do with the non-conforming goods?

Evaluate Google’s mission statement and to develop an improved mission statement for the company.

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Discussion 1: Mission Statement Critique

Instructions
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the chance to evaluate Google’s mission statement and to develop an improved mission statement for the company.
This activity corresponds with learning objectives 5, 6, and 7 of the lesson.

1. Critique Google’s mission statement :
“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our company has packed a lot into a relatively young life. Since Google was founded in 1998, we’ve grown to serve millions of people around the world”.

2. Develop an improved mission statement for the company, following the chapter guideline.

What are the maior forces at work? How will the problems of democracy in Nigeria be resolved? Will liberal democracy every come to the country? What is the significance of the 2023 election?

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Business Question

Nigeria has struggled to build a durable democracy since becoming independent of Britain in 1960. Its first democracy collapsed in 1966. Its second democracy collapsed in 1983. An attempt to return to democracy was overthrown in 1993. Since 1999, it has maintained reasonably fair and free elections for a poor and populous country. You are a correspondent for a major American newspaper who has been asked to write a feature-length news story updating the results of Nigeria’s 2023 election and the broader debate on the future of democracy in the country. Start with the latest developments post-election.

Then delve deeper:

What are the maior forces at work? How will the problems of democracy in Nigeria be resolved? Will liberal democracy every come to the country? What is the significance of the 2023 election?

Share your observations and takeaways of this week’s learning objectives as they relate to my nursing role.

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Managing in Competitive, Monopolistic, and Monopolistically Competitive Markets

Share your observations and takeaways of this week’s learning objectives as they relate to my nursing role.

Your initial post should comprise a minimum of 250 words supported by at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed references.

See the following shorts videos:

As you learn more about personalities and traits, how would you describe your own personality? Do you think that your personality type and traits have a positive or a negative impact on your work relationship with others? How do you deal with individuals who may have an opposite personality?

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Personality and Values and Perception and Individual decision making

As you learn more about personalities and traits, how would you describe your own personality? Do you think that your personality type and traits have a positive or a negative impact on your work relationship with others? How do you deal with individuals who may have an opposite personality?

“Analytics can be used to identify improvement opportunities in HCOs”. Do you agree with this statement? If you do, how would you use analytics in your HCO for this purpose? What areas of HCO could be addressed for identifying improvement opportunities and how?

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Analytics Assignment

“Analytics can be used to identify improvement opportunities in HCOs”. Do you agree with this statement? If you do, how would you use analytics in your HCO for this purpose? What areas of HCO could be addressed for identifying improvement opportunities and how?

Your APA formatted assignment comprising 2-4 double-spaced pages, typed in 12 points Times New Roman (or 11 points Calibri) citing 2-3 credible sources excluding the Cover and Reference pages

Some Resources:

Who are the stakeholders that will be affected by your decision, and how will they be affected? Should companies take a position on social issues, or should they refrain from doing so?

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Ethics Writing Assignment 2

Instead of a full two-page research paper, the requirement for this is a minimum one-page document Times New Roman 12, pt., double-spaced. You may write in first-person or third-person prose. Please cite all outside sources used accordingly, including a “works cited” page if necessary. Please select one of the following scenarios to write about. There are no right or wrong answers regarding these essays. Welcome to the gray area of organizational ethics.

Scenario 2

The President has mandated Covid 19 vaccines for organizations employing over 100 employees. Your firm employs well over 100 employees.

In this essay, you will write from the perspective of the Chief Operating Officer of your firm. As COO, you are responsible for safety and well-being of your employees.

Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay to the CEO of your firm stating 1) whether you recommend or do not recommend requiring employees to be vaccinated at your workplace, 2) your reasoning for doing so, and 3) explaining the ethical issues the company should consider in making this decision.

Your essay must answer the following questions:

  1. Who are the stakeholders that will be affected by your decision, and how will they be affected?
  2. Should companies take a position on social issues, or should they refrain from doing so? Companies may be criticized for taking a position on social issues, and they may also be criticized for not taking a position on social issues.
  3. How should a company respond to these criticisms? Please note: This assignment does not ask you to decide any issues relating to vaccine mandates, or the meaning behind them. You might agree with or disagree with the mandates or have no opinion. You should put your personal feelings aside and make the best possible business decision for your company.

Using the pay structure that you created in Problem 5, calculate the compa-ratio for each individual below. What does each compa-ratio tell us about their pay rate?

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Business Question

E-Sonic is a fictional online music company that is just starting out. E-Sonic’s mission is to create the world’s leading music distribution entity; ensuring its parent company Sonic Records’ prominence in the industry’s future. As a consultant for E-Sonic, you built a point evaluation method and acquired compensation survey data for benchmark jobs.

 

  1. The compensation survey data you acquired has an “as of” date of December 2019. Let’s imagine you’ve been asked to update the salaries to the current cost-of-living in Seattle, WA. Use the following CPI-U data from the BLS website:
  • What was the CPI-U in December 2019? (2.5 pts)
  • What is the most recent CPI-U? (2.5 pts)
  • By what percent would need to adjust the compensation survey salaries? (2.5 pts)

 

 

  1. Using the job evaluation points and the updated compensation survey data, you ran a regression analysis to predict salaries thereby integrating the internal pay structure with external market rates. After running the regression in Excel, you found that the market pay line is  and the R2 = 0.82.
  • How would you interpret the market pay line? (2.5 pts)
  • How would you interpret the R2? (2.5 pts)

 

 

  1. Using the market pay line equation in Problem 2, what would be the market salary for individuals with job evaluation points of… (10 pts)
  • 500
  • 800
  • 1000
  • 1200

 

 

  1. E-Sonic plans to gain a competitive advantage by offering a unique online music platform that uses advanced technology to attract customers.
  • Based on this information, what strategy do you think they use to gain a competitive advantage? And what pay policy might they use based on this strategy? (5 pts)
  • If they decide to use this pay policy, would they need update the market pay line? If yes, how would they do it? (5 pts)

 

 

  1. E-Sonic decided to establish 3 pay grades after determining its pay line. Grade A ranges from 400-800 job evaluation points, Grade B ranges from 800-1000 job evaluation points, Grade C ranges from 1000-1400 job evaluation points. They also decided the range spread for Grade A and Grade B is 20% above and below the midpoint and the range spread for Grade C is 30% above and below the midpoint. Using the market pay line from Problem 2, complete the pay structure. (10 pts)

 

Pay Grade Job Evaluation Points Range Minimum Range Midpoint Range Maximum Range Spread (% above & below midpoint)
 

 

A

 

 

  

 

400-800

       20% above and below the midpoint
 

 

B

 

 

  

 

800-1000

       20% above and below the midpoint
 

 

C

 

 

  

 

1000-1400

       30% above and below the midpoint

 

 

  1. Using the pay structure that you created in Problem 5, calculate the compa-ratio for each individual below. What does each compa-ratio tell us about their pay rate?
  • Mike is in Grade A and he is paid $40,160.71. (2.5 pts)
  • Jhon is in Grade B and he is paid $53,465.66. (2.5 pts)
  • Lupe is Grade C and she is paid $75,789.45. (2.5 pts)