Evaluate each company’s liquidity relative to its competitor using at least three ratios

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The purpose of this assignment is to employ accounting principles and relevant business practices to evaluate a company’s performance and financial position through a comparison to industry data.
Locate the Critical Thinking CT 10.4 problem at the end of Chapter 10 in the textbook. This will serve as the structure for your assignment. Begin by choosing two competing publicly traded companies from the list below.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo
Walmart and Target
Nike and Adidas
For the pair of companies selected, you will need to use each company’s stock symbol to locate the liquidity, solvency, and profitability ratios on the MSN Money website. As part of your research, you will need to identify each company’s stock symbol for the American market.
Review the competing companies’ ratios provided at the MSN Money website . Navigate to My Watch list and enter the name of the company in the Quote Search. Identify and select the correct stock symbol.
Under the “Analysis” heading, use the Growth, Profitability, Price Ratios, Financial Health, Trading Statistics, and Management Effectiveness information to complete a 750-1,000 word comparison addressing the following:
Evaluate each company’s liquidity relative to its competitor using at least three ratios
Evaluate each company’s solvency relative to its competitor using at least two ratios
Evaluate each company’s profitability relative to its competitor using at least three ratios
Note: You will be assessed on your ability to evaluate each company’s performance based on the information provided at MSN Money. You do not need to calculate the ratios for individual companies or the industry averages.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Lopes Write. A link to the Lopes Write technical support articles is located in Course Materials if you need assistance.

1.2: Utilize financial statements to measure the fiscal performance of an organization.

Would the formation of strategic groups in addition to customer groups and product technologies also make sense after the product functions? Give reasons for your remarks.

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DEVELOPMENT OF A POSITIONING STRATEGY

For this course work, very good excel skills are needed. As well as a good understanding and application of strategic business tools like  BCG Matrix,Trend analysis, Mc Kinsey Matrix and cost structure analysis.

The whole course work can be done in an Excel file. Two sentences per answer are enough. It is more important to build the correct excel tables, matrix and graphs to support the answers.

a. Do you think the proposed SBUs make sense? If you do not follow this recommendation, which SBUs do you think should be created? Would the formation of strategic groups in addition to customer groups and product technologies also make sense after the product functions? Give reasons for your remarks.

b. BCG Matrix: In the event that you have decided to change the SBUs, perform a market growth/market share portfolio analysis for the years 2014 to 2016. This also applies to an unchanged takeover of the SBUs. Display your results in tabular and graphical form in individual matrices. In addition, you should also present the appropriate contribution margin pro rata in the individual SBUs. Provide an initial estimate of the cost structure.

c. Use a trend analysis to determine the possible positioning of Company X and Company Y for 2017 using data from 2011 to 2016 and incorporate your results in a comparative development analysis based on market growth/market share portfolio analysis.

d. McKinsey Matrix: Also determine the positioning of Company X and its SBUs based on a market attractiveness/competitive strength portfolio analysis for 2016.

e. Perform a cost structure analysis of Company X for each SBU based on data from 2011 to 2016. Present your results in detail and comment on the problem areas identified. (Note: Only the cost structure at SBU level is relevant, other cost structures can be neglected here.

 

How can an employee’s unique perceptions impact their relationship with their manager?

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Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors

In the study of human behaviors, organizational leaders must understand concepts such as values, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of people. The objective is to align their thoughts, emotions, and competencies with organizational success. We often ask why people do things the way they do or behave in a certain way. Research these attributes and provide references.

Address one of the following questions:

How are values formed? How do they influence our attitudes toward our work and our colleagues? Do values tend to stay fixed and static, or do they change over time?
There is a saying from the literature of cognitive psychology that “perception is reality.” How can an employee’s unique perceptions impact their relationship with their manager? How can managers mitigate the impact that differences in perception might have?

What can organizational leaders do to foster a positive work environment? Should leaders discourage all negative feelings and behaviors in the workplace? Explain your rationale.

Use APA citations and references for the textbook and any other sources used.

.Describe the conditions under which you would offer price discounts for the products and/or services sold through your chosen retail establishment in the course project. Explain your reasons for those decisions.

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For this Discussion Board Forum, choose no more than 2 of the following questions to discuss in your thread:

For the category of retail sales that you selected for your project in this course, describe the pricing strategies that you would use and explain why. Describe the pricing strategies that you did not choose and explain why.
1.Describe the conditions under which you would offer price discounts for the products and/or services sold through your chosen retail establishment in the course project. Explain your reasons for those decisions.
2.What types of sales promotions have been successful with you as a consumer? Which ones have not been successful? Explain your examples.
3.As an intern for Dunkin’ Donuts, you have been asked to develop a social media campaign for a new glazed muffin. The objective of the campaign is to increase awareness and trial of the new line of muffins. How would you go about putting such a campaign together?

Analyze the points at which the supply chains intersect with logistics. What role does logistics play in each supply chain design?

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For this assessment, choose either Option 1 or Option 2. You do not need to do both. Both options will be graded using the same scoring guide.

Option 1
Wild Dog Coffee Company, a locally owned company with a single coffee shop location, serves a wide selection of espresso products, small breakfast and lunch menu items, and a limited evening menu. The company is planning to expand the business by adding an additional location. While different menu items may be tested at the new location, the espresso beverage preparation process will remain exactly the same. You and your business partners need to make a decision about the supply chain before the move. The following information may help support your analysis for Wild Dog Coffee Company:

· You have one espresso maker that brews the espresso and froths the milk at each location.
· Each espresso beverage requires 1.5 minutes of the barista's time.
· Each espresso beverage requires some combination of espresso beans, milk, and flavoring.
· Each espresso beverage is served in a paper cup with a lid and sleeve.
· Monthly cleaning and maintenance of the espresso maker is outsourced to a services company.
· You stock one type of espresso bean. If you run out of inventory, you have to close the business until the next shipment of beans arrives.
· Espresso beans are received seven (7) days after placing the order.

Create a PowerPoint presentation of your supply chain management plan, which you will present to your business partners. Include the following:

· Analyze supply chain designs.
o Your analysis should detail two different supply chain scenarios for either Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business.
o Use a flow chart to indicate all inputs and outputs for each supply chain and to clearly indicate areas in the supply chain designs that are different.
· Analyze the points at which the supply chains intersect with logistics. What role does logistics play in each supply chain design?
· Assess bottlenecks in the supply chain designs. How would you overcome each bottleneck in the two supply chain designs?
· Analyze how supply chains and logistics create value for the selected business. Why is it important for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business to focus on supply chains?
· Recommend a supply chain design for the selected business.
o Include your rationale for the most appropriate supply chain for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business.
o Be sure to include any assumptions you had to make to develop the supply chain designs that support your recommendations.

Deliverable Format

Requirements:

· Presentation is 10–12 slides (in addition to title, reference, and appendix slides).
· Select a PowerPoint slide template appropriate for a professional presentation. Include the content of the slides as well as the supporting narrative. Do not overbuild your slides; information that supports what you will be saying should appear at the lower portion of each slide as notes.
Related company standards:

· The PowerPoint is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding Academic and Professional Document Guidelines.
· Use 2–3 scholarly or academic sources, where applicable, one of which must come from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, or MIT Sloan Management Review.
· Use APA formatting for citations and references.

Evaluation

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Analyze how operations management theories and models effect the development and delivery of products or services to the marketplace.
o Analyze how supply chains and logistics create value for the selected business.
· Competency 2: Use logistics and supply chain management tools to manage the distribution of products and services.
Analyze the points at which the supply chains intersect with logistics.
Assess bottlenecks in the supply chain designs.
· Competency 3: Use data to evaluate the effect of operations management decisions on organizational goals.
Analyze supply chain designs.
· Competency 4: Evaluate the effectiveness of operations management strategies to achieve quality and customer service goals.
Recommend a supply chain design for the selected business.
· Competency 5: Communicate business needs, opportunities, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.

-identify one ethical consideration adopted by Real Recruit that your organization can also adopt as best practice. Explain the reason.

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Consulting Report

Review the attached case study from Real Recruit. Write a consulting report to share your observations and recommendations based on the Real Recruit case, and address the following criteria:

-identify one ethical consideration adopted by Real Recruit that your organization can also adopt as best practice. Explain the reason.

-In adopting your identified best practice above, what could be an overlap between the ethical consideration and a possible legal issue?

Compare and contrast your personal Leadership Circle profile results with the recommended competencies.

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Guidelines for Submission
Submit a 3- to 4-page leadership core competencies report for your manager that includes your recommendations and rationale. This should be a Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Overview
You work as a director of leadership and learning for a company that makes prosthetics. The company has been in business since 1999 and employs over 350 people in its Tampa, Florida, headquarters and three plant locations across the Southwest. While the business is currently based in the United States, the company is exploring ways to move into Canadian markets within the next three years.
This year’s employee engagement survey results for the company show that some leadership areas were rated lower, while some were rated higher.
The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) meets with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees the focus will be on specific leadership development areas that are perceived as strengths and areas for improvement, primarily in regard to social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders. As part of the change management, the vice president of leadership and learning, your manager, asks you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit and, subsequently, to self-assess and create a personal leadership plan to test its efficacy.
Prompt
Revisit your Leadership Circle self-assessment results from the Module One journal assignment. This self-assessment is located in the Wiley Course Resources module of Wiley PLUS under the Course-Wide Resources drop-down menu. The assessment is titled The Leadership Circle Profile 360: Self-

Assessment.
• Creative Competency Identification
o Select one creative leadership core competency from the inner circle on the top half of the profile (relating, self-awareness, authenticity, system awareness, or achieving). Select this competency based on your determination that it is critical for success based on your assessment of the organization’s employee survey results.
o Select one to two competencies from the outer circle associated with your chosen inner circle competency, and provide your rationale justifying the inclusion of these competencies in the adaptive leadership toolkit.

• Comparison: Recommendations for Competencies and Leadership Circle

Results
Compare and contrast your personal Leadership Circle profile results with the recommended competencies.

Guidelines for Submission
Submit a 3- to 5-page leadership core competencies report for your manager that includes your recommendations and rationale. This should be a Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Discuss how this change impacts the company on a global scale.

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Purpose of Assessment

Develop specific strategies with supporting tactics to implement positive change within an organization. You may refer to the information that you prepared in Week 5 to complete this assignment, but your submission should add to your prior research and not just copy your Week 5 assignment.

Scenario:

You’ve been hired as a consultant to develop strategies with supporting tactics to implement positive changes in the corporation you chose in Week 5.

Review your analysis of the corporation’s change process from Week 5 to be sure you have a thorough understanding of the change and the need for the change.

Prepare a 12- to 13-slide Change Management Presentation for the company’s Board of Directors. Include the following:

Evaluate why this change needed to occur.
Discuss how this change impacts the company on a global scale.
Discuss how this change impacts employees.
Using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, chart strategies and tactics for positively implementing the organizational change. In your chart, complete the following:
Develop strategies for each of the 8 steps in Kotter’s model
Develop tactics to support each strategy
Justify the effectiveness of each strategy and tactic with a rationale.
Conclude your presentation with an explanation of how this positive organizational change will help the company sustain a competitive advantage in the global market.

Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.

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Here is the scenario and situation:Assume you are an employee working in the Amazon warehouse, and you pack orders and categorize them into small, medium, and large batches. You are considered a packer. You have experience packing all sizes and have been with the organization for two years. You are considered one of their best employees, you have a solid reputation for being a hard worker, and all of your orders are packed correctly. You have also been busy; you recently completed Amazon’s management training program, and you have completed your Baba degree at the Forbes School of Business and Technology at the University of the Arizona Global Campus.

Congratulations: You have just been promoted to manager. You will be relocated to a new plant that is two hours away that employs 100 employees. You will oversee a team of 10 supervisors and 90 packers and will now oversee the entire warehouse operation. How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management?

Now let’s apply the five functions. In your paper, include the following sections:

Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.

For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use?

Organizing: Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.
Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.

Staffing: Analyze your staffing needs.
How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things (if any) will you suggest?
Leading: Justify the leadership theory and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.
Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not?

Controls: Identify what controls and measures you will implement.
How will you apply the four steps of control (t., establishing standards, measuring performance, comparing performance, and making decisions)?

Summarize what you learned in chapters 1 AND 2 and explain how three of these concepts will help you professionally.

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Summarize what you learned in chapters 1 AND 2 and explain how
three of these concepts will help you professionally.

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