What suggestions would you give Jorge for making the maximum use of the financial statements?

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Questions:

8-22. Kate Snow just retired from a career with Walmart, cashing out a sizable retirement fund at the time of doing so. To start a second career, she is looking at the possibility of buying three different businesses. She has three years’ historical financial statements for each business and has been pouring over the numbers. She was puzzled when she read the following statement in a book about small business financial management, “Be careful when looking at balance sheets to fully understand what you’re looking at. In some respects, balance sheets are very revealing, and in other respects they can be very deceiving.” What do you think the author of the book meant by that statement?

8-24. Jorge Martinez is thinking about buying an existing printing business and has been carefully studying the records of the business to get a good handle on its historical financial performance. Jorge heard that you are taking a class in entrepreneurship and asks you, “What suggestions do you have for me to make the best use of this financial information (i.e., three years of audited income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flow)?” What suggestions would you give Jorge for making the maximum use of the financial statements?

8-27. Suppose a colleague of yours is gearing up to write a business plan for a business she intends to start. She told you she plans to prepare the financial statements first to get that job out of the way before she tackles the rest of the plan. What is the flaw in your colleague’s logic as described to you?

Your response should be 500 to 700 words that answers these questions. Your paper should adhere to APA format, include a title page and be in MS Word format.

Which of the Business Models are your 3 favorite ones? Explain, giving reasons for that.

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1. Here is the link to the original article, copy and paste to your browser: (Links to an external site.)

2. After reading it, answer the following questions, and comment on at least 3 of your classmates’ responses.

Q1. Which of the Business Models are your 3 favorite ones? Explain, giving reasons for that. (15 points)

Q2. Can you think of other real companies that could be performing better if using any of your three favorite business models from question 1? Which ones? Why? (15 points)

Q3. Search online for 3 other business models not mentioned in the article, and explain them here. (15 points)

Describe your strategic position in the market and what differentiates the products or services

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o Write an Overview of one page, presenting the key points of the overall Business Plan.
Address all sections of the plan in Summary fashion. This should include something from
every section.
* Note: the Executive Summary is the first section in your paper, but it is the last section you will write.
This works best because the Executive Summary provides an overview of your entire Business plan.
GROWTH STRATEGY
o Describe your strategic position in the market and what differentiates the products or services you plan to sell.
o How you will develop a loyal customer base for the products or services you sell?
o How fast will you grow? Where and how do you believe you can expand your business?
MANAGEMENT TEAM and KEY ROLES
o Provide a list of the key management roles that will need to be filled.
o For each key role, specify what the requirements for the roles include.
MARKETING YOUR BRAND
o Provide a detailed marketing plan. Be sure to include both Promotions Strategy and
Marketing Strategy.
o In your plan, show how you will incorporate “The Four Ps of Marketing.” For information on
this concept, refer to The Four Ps of Marketing document in your Assignment 3 Resources.

Identify the reasons and purpose for conducting employee orientation.

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This Competency Assessment assesses the following learning outcome:
HR400M5-5: Develop an orientation plan to use when onboarding new employees.
Compose a 3-page paper that outlines an employee orientation plan for the following scenario. You are the human resource manager for a 300–employee insurance company and you would like to start a new employee orientation program. To get approval from the company’s senior managers, you develop a plan that outlines the reasons for conducting orientation and what content the program will include. In this plan you will need to:
1. Identify the reasons and purpose for conducting employee orientation.
2. Outline what would be covered in organizational and departmental orientation.
3. Indicate the length of the program, who conducts it, and what formats will be used.
4. Describe if and how you would incorporate a web–based component into the program.

Minimum Submission Requirements
• Proper notification of any Resubmission, Repurposing, or Reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
• This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 3-4 page) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
• Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
• Your paper must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
• Your paper should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
• Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
• A separate page at the end of your research paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the Internet for research.
• Be sure to use in-text citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. For additional help with writing and APA formatting, please visit the Writing Center, accessed through the Academic Success Center within the Academic Tools area of the course. (Your paper should include a title page, be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font, include correct citations, in Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and list correct references on the references page.)
If work submitted for this Competency Assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.

Conduct a Comparative Analysis of Non-Parametric Statistics in Extant Literature

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Non-Parametric Statistics

Sometimes the data we collect from a sample does not meet the assumptions necessary to perform traditional statistical research. For example, we might examine our data in advance of running a correlation analysis and find that we do not come close to meeting the assumption of normality or homogeneity of variance. In this case, we might run the Pearson analysis, or we may need to use an alternative tool that will help to mitigate the effects of the violations, or at least be more appropriate to the conditions of the analysis. These alternative tools are called non-parametric statistics. Parametric statistics are used to make inferences about population parameters. Non-parametric statistics cannot make this leap and simply define what happened in a set of data (Weiers, 2011).

Examples of non-parametric statistics include the chi-square analysis, which is used to compare proportions, usually in nominal level data. The Spearman analysis is a non-parametric form of correlation analysis. The Wilcoxon methods allow us to test single samples, paired samples, and independent samples. This method is the non-parametric version of the different forms of t-tests discussed two weeks ago. The Kruskal-Wallis test is the non-parametric form of the one-way analysis of variance. There are many more, including the “benefit of the doubt model” (DeWitte, Rogge, Cherchye, & Van Puyenbroeck, 2013).

Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

You first will identify a topic of interest that you might want to pursue research.

Next, conduct a literature search to locate two studies examining your selected topic and in which the researchers used non-parametric statistics. In your search for articles, you should use any combination of the term “non-parametric” as well as the different tools discussed in this week’s lesson (e.g., Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman, Friedman, etc.).

Once you have located articles, you will prepare a short paper using the following format:

Introduction to the selected topic of interest

Brief summary of first article

Include research question, statistical test(s), and general findings

Brief summary of second article

Include research question, statistical test(s) and general findings

Synthesis

Specifically, compare and contrast the two articles, assessing the types of statistical methods and analysis used
Conclusion
Assess what approach you might take if you were to conduct a study in this topic area.

My topic is: Assessment of the Impact of a Pandemic on FBC Bank Limited Zimbabwe

How can quality managers test their strategic aware-ness to assess the effects of technology?

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How can quality managers test their strategic aware-ness to assess the effects of technology? An immediate issue is whether planning is, in fact, collective or top-down. Another is how strategic decisions are defined. How many encompass the whole firm, require commitment and are not easy to reverse?

Is quality included in strategic, as well as operational, decisions? How many include technology? Even if everyone is not yet invited to the table, some simple approaches can help. One approach is to formulate a strategy statement.

How difficult is it to write a 35-word statement encompassing your organization’s strategy?

If it’s too challenging, especially for quality managers, something is wrong. Some questions to consider include:+Does the statement reflect prospects of purposeful engage-ment of technology? +Do the organization’s systems support the strategy?

Are human resources and training, for example, a good fit with new technologies? +How is strategy communicated? +Is it linked to quality?

+What kind of leadership is required to integrate elements of strategy and inspire collaboration?

Evaluate the expected economic effects of the interest rate cuts by the Bank of England on the UK economy facing the coronavirus crisis, using information from Case Study II and concepts discussed earlier in question 3.

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Note: Questions 1 and 2 should be answered using Case Study I (‘Circular economy’: the tannery making leather from billy goats)

Question 1

Describe the product that is being offered by Billy Tannery, using concepts from Block 4, Reading 31, and information from Case Study I. (20 marks)

Question 2

Evaluate the environmental issues that are mentioned in Case Study I, using concepts from Block 4, Reading 36. Analyse the driving forces that encouraged Billy Tannery to address these environmental issues, applying Peattie and Charter’s theory from Block 4, Reading 36, and using evidence from Case Study I. (25 marks)

Block 5

Note: Questions 3 and 4 should be answered using Case Study II (Bank of England cuts interest rates to all-time low of 0.1%)

Question 3

Describe the types of monetary policy, using concepts from Block 5, Reading 41. Identify the kind of monetary policy that the Bank of England has adopted, using concepts from Block 5, Reading 41 and evidence presented in Case Study II. (25 marks)

Question 4

Evaluate the expected economic effects of the interest rate cuts by the Bank of England on the UK economy facing the coronavirus crisis, using information from Case Study II and concepts discussed earlier in question 3. (20 marks)

Identify anticipated resistance to the change and the process for reconciliation.

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Creating an Organizational Development Proposal

[WLO: 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Prior to beginning work on this final assignment, read Chapter 10 in the course textbook, and review Chapters 3 through 9 if you need to (it is recommended). Additionally, read Finally! Global OD Competencies and Dialogic OD (Links to an external site.). Dialogic OD – OD Network

The Action Research Case Study assignment in Week 3 had you select a case study, identify the change challenge of the case, and design an action research process for the change process. During Week 4, the Intervention Selection and Application assignment had you select an intervention method that best suited the change challenge within the organization. You are now ready to complete the final paper based on the case study selected in the Action Research Case Study assignment from the Week 3 – Assignment. Be sure to incorporate all instructor feedback from prior weeks’ assignments in your final paper.

Consider that you have been hired as a consultant to help the organization with the change challenge. In your paper, you will introduce the overall purpose of the project as related to organizational development and change challenges.

Section 1

For Section 1 of your paper, you will

  • Summarize the Action Research Case Study assignment in Week 3.
  • Justify why it is a problem and the type of problem.
    • Example: is it turnover, diversity, ethical, job satisfaction, downsizing, restructure, or other?
  • Define the selected action research process based on the Week 3 Action Research Case Study assignment paper.
  • Identify the intervention type selected in the Week 4 Intervention Selection and Application assignment.
  • Describe the intervention process.

Section 2

For Section 2 of your paper, you will

  • Describe the role of the consultant during the intervention.
  • Categorize the competencies and ethical behaviors needed for the intervention.
  • Define the recommended research methods that will be utilized during the intervention.
  • Describe recommended data collection and evaluation methods during the intervention.
  • Define a timeline for the intervention process.
  • Identify anticipated resistance to the change and the process for reconciliation.

Section 3

For Section 3 of your paper, you will

  • Hypothesize the projected outcomes for the OD change project.
  • Validate your reasoning for the projected outcome.

Discuss effects of COVID-19 on the German automotive supply chain

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Discuss effects of COVID-19 on the German automotive supply chain

What general principles or rules of thumb did the story of this venture reinforce in your mind, lead you to modify, or cause you to reject?

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Interview a business owner and analysis their story.
Over the years, students have found value in interviewing real entrepreneurs. The specific purpose of your interviews with an entrepreneur is to gain information and insight about the entrepreneur’s reasons, strategies, approaches, and motivations for starting and owning a business so as to help you sharpen your own ideas about who an entrepreneur is and what he or she does. The more general purpose is to give you practice in using the interviewing process as a way to gather information and impressions about an unfamiliar topic.
From a study of what you consider to be a successful entrepreneurial venture:
Describe: the basic story of the venture and the entrepreneur(s) who made it happen. Your narrative should include the entrepreneur’s background, the factors creating the opportunity, the obstacles faced, the process used to develop the business and achieve customer satisfaction, significant milestones, etc.
Evaluate/Analyze: the venture creation process, strategies employed and the results obtained: What really made the venture a success? By what criteria was the venture successful? Where did it fall short? What did you find particularly admirable or insightful about the entrepreneur’s actions? How could they have been improved upon?
Reflect: upon the broad ideas illustrated by the specific story. What general principles or rules of thumb did the story of this venture reinforce in your mind, lead you to modify, or cause you to reject? What did you learn that will influence your career in the next five years?