Research a company’s Annual Report or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report to determine the extent to which it values quality. Review the Annual Report or CSR Report of the company that you are studying. Identify areas in the report where they discuss quality.

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Unit 6 Assignment: Final Project Part III- Using Baldridge Criteria

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Points: 100

Overview:
Research a company’s Annual Report or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report to determine the extent to which it values quality. From there you will use Baldrige 7
 to guide the process of how the company is performing.

Final Project Overview:
In your final project, you will use the contents of Parts I, II, III, and IV in a final
PowerPoint presentation. Imagine you are giving this presentation to corporate.
• Unit 3 Assignment – Final Project Part I- Company Background & Quality Issues Paper
• Unit 4 Assignment – Final Project Part II- SWOT Analysis for the Company’s Product or Service
• Unit 6 Assignment – Final Project Part III- Using Baldridge Criteria
• Unit 7 Assignment – Final Project Part IV- Recommendations
• Unit 8 Assignment – Final Project Part V-Final Project PowerPoint Presentation to Corporate

Instructions:
Review the Annual Report or CSR Report of the company that you are studying. Identify areas in the report where they discuss quality. (Copy and paste the document in Word, and search for the word ‘quality’). See how many times they mentioned quality and for what reasons. More knowledge about the company should help you with your SWOT analysis to determine Strengths and Weaknesses.

Used the data you collected in order to arrive at the most-informed decisions possible regarding changes to the organization. What steps would you follow and what information would you collect to ensure sound data-driven decisions?

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Discussion Essay

Scenario

As the lead consultant for Workplace Solutions Consulting, you are the one to deliver recommendations for organizational change to the management of Informational Systems. Some of the ideas involve centralizing some duplicated administration functions in regional locations and others involve de-centralizing product departments to break down silo walls across locations. You collected significant data in order to conduct the best analysis. The bottom line: although all of these changes are for the better for organization, they will be quite disruptive to the personnel at IS.

Your Task

Part I

You used the data you collected in order to arrive at the most-informed decisions possible regarding changes to the organization. What steps would you follow and what information would you collect to ensure sound data-driven decisions?

Part II

It is now time to execute the reorganization of Informational Systems. Describe how you would implement the following:

  1. The centralization of Finance and HR (no jobs lost, but increased specialization and responsibility).
  2. The de-centralization of the heretofore separate product departments (break up of existing teams, reforming new teams, and new reporting relationships).

 

What will be the new product position? How will it complement the objectives? What will be the new product competitive pricing strategy? How will it complement the objectives? How will this be reflected in the packaging? How will it complement the objectives?

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Branding Presentation

Develop a brand presentation of 8 12 slides for a new pet food product (or new product or line extension at your employer or future employer), using the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points.

Introduction
Branding is a means of differentiating a product from its competitors. Branding is an important aspect of marketing because it provides a distinctive identity to a product or family of products that sets it apart from competitors. This assessment introduces the concept of brands and discusses the various ways marketers position their products within the brand structure. By the end of the assessment, you may look at branding and products a bit differently than you do right now!

Introduction
Completion of this portfolio work project will help you understand the key components of a brand presentation.

Scenario
The Vice President of Marketing at MSH Brands (or at your employer or future employer company) was impressed with your marketing plan submitted in Assessment 1. They have now asked you to develop a brand presentation based on this work.

Your Role
You are a Brand Manager at MSH Brands (or at your employer or future employer company). You are being asked to develop a brand presentation for a new pet food product (or new product or line extension at your employer or future employer.)

Requirements
You are to develop a brand presentation including the following elements based on your research, building on your work submitted in Assessment 1. Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides that synthesize the work, using the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points. Be sure your presentation includes:

What is the brand name for the product? What role does the new product play in the brand portfolio?
Who is the target market?
What will be the new product’s objectives (create greater customer loyalty, increase trials, expand usage among current users, support trade relations)?
What will be the new product position? How will it complement the objectives?
What will be the new product competitive pricing strategy? How will it complement the objectives?
How will this be reflected in the packaging? How will it complement the objectives?
How will this be reflected in the promotion? How will it complement the objectives?
How will this be reflected in the placement? How will it complement the objectives?

Is it necessary to register the Pampered Pooches shares? May Smith freely resell his Pampered Pooches shares? Would it matter whether the shares were registered in connection with the merger?

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Week 1 Project

Legal and Ethical Scenarios

Select two of the three scenarios. Support your responses with appropriate cases, laws and other relevant examples by using at least one scholarly source from the SUO Library in addition to your textbook for each scenario. Do not copy the scenario text into the paper. Label the beginning of each scenario with the number you selected (e.g., Scenario 1). Cite your sources in APA format on a separate page. Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Scenario 1:Securities

In 2012, after working at First National Bank for six years, Billy Bryant helped establish Breakstone Capital Corporation (BCC), a venture capital firm that invested in the communications and technology sectors. BCC went public in 2014, and Bryant served as its CEO and chairman of the board. Various documents filed with the SEC stated that Bryant earned a BBA degree in accounting from Northwest University. In fact, Bryant attended Northwest for four years, but he did not graduate. After being pressured by a journalist, Bryant disclosed the misrepresentation to the BCC board. The same day, the company issued a press release correcting the statement.

The press responded negatively to “another CEO that lied about his resume” and speculated about “what else might not be right.” On the day the press release was issued, BCC’s stock price dropped from $32.45 per share to $16.22, but it fully recovered within a month.

Shareholders sued, alleging that the misrepresentation violated section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933, section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rule 10b-5 under the 1934 Act.

Was Bryant’s lie about having a college degree material?
Would your answer be the same if a CEO lied about having helped to take a company through an initial public offering and subsequent acquisition by another company?
Would a reasonable member of the BCC board be comfortable keeping Bryant as CEO once they learned that he lied about having a college degree?

Scenario 2: Securities

Pampered Pooches, Inc. proposes a merger with Sit Means Sit, Inc. (SMS). SMS will obtain the approval of its shareholders; and then, by operation of law, SMS shares will become shares of the surviving corporation, Pampered Pooches, Inc.

Assume that prior to the merger Paulie Smith owned 25% of SMS stock that he purchased three years before in a private placement. Smith will only own 2% of the Pampered Pooches shares and will not be an officer or director of the merged company.

Is it necessary to register the Pampered Pooches shares?
May Smith freely resell his Pampered Pooches shares?
Would it matter whether the shares were registered in connection with the merger?

Scenario 3: Shareholder Rights

Katy Kirkland, a former employee of the Sand Dune Resorts, Inc., owned 500 shares of stock (10%) in the company. Kirkland was terminated after five years of employment at Sand Dunes; however, she became part owner of Holiday Isles, Inc., a competitor of Sand Dunes. When Sand Dunes made Kirkland an offer to purchase her stocks, she requested access to Sand Dunes’ corporate books to determine the value of her 500 shares of stock. Sand Dunes refused on the basis that Kirkland was a competitor.

Does Kirkland have a right to view the books? Why or why not?
Propose a solution to the situation.

Should decision management and decision control be separated? As part of your discussion, provide a real-world example of a firm where the control resides with the same individual as well as an example of a firm where the control is separated.

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Decision management and Decision control

Should decision management and decision control be separated? As part of your discussion, provide a real-world example (or provide a fictitious example) of a firm where the control (correctly) resides with the same individual as well as an example of a firm where the control is (correctly) separated.

 

Explain Other Risks outside of financial specific to the company.

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Verizon is a multinational telecommunications company

Explain Other Risks outside of financial specific to the company.

1.5 pages

 

Prepare a response letter to the IRS requesting abatement of the penalties based on Rev. Proc. 84-35.

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An email response

Prepare an email response (including headers) to the following emails. Assume you are a CPA working for a local public accounting firm called Allen, West, and Dove, LLP. Your firm provides tax and accounting services including audits, reviews, and compilations. There are three partners and a professional staff of sixteen. Financial statement reviews typically cost from $6,000 to $18,000. Individual income tax return preparation typically ranges from $1,500 to $3,500 while business returns range from $2,500 to $12,000.

  1. Request for information about your CPA practice. Note: Andy Walters is an existing, long-time client.

From: William Davis

Sent: Monday, March 19, 20XX 8:27 AM

To: <your name>

Subject: CPA Services

Andy Walters gave me your name. I have a small computer service consulting business and am looking for a CPA firm that can help with accounting and tax issues. My company is an LLC and I have two partners. We have four employees. Our bank requires a financial statement review each year. We need the review and our business tax return completed by April 15th. We would also want the three partner’s individual tax returns prepared by your firm.

If you are interested in working with us can you give me some information about your firm? Can you meet the April 15th deadline? Can you provide a fee estimate?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

William Davis

Computer Technologies LLC

  1. Request for technical information from a client of your firm:

From: Angela Boyd

Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 20XX 9:10 AM

To: <your name>

Subject: Question

Hi <your name>. Hope you are doing well. We purchased a commercial rental building last year and our tenant paid six months’ rent in advance in November of last year. The rent covered November and December of last year and the first four months of 20XX. I appreciated getting the cash up front but now that I have had time to think about it, will this cause a tax problem for us? How do we treat this prepaid rent for tax purposes?

Angela

  1. You are the controller for a mid-range manufacturing firm located in San Diego. The annual audit has been nearly completed and you want to schedule a meeting with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, the audit partner, and the executive management team to discuss issues that arose during the audit and to receive final “sign-off” on management’s assertions and the audit opinion. This must be completed before the audit opinion can be released. Prepare an email inviting the parties to this meeting.

Important info:

  • Today is March 21, 20XX
  • Members of the Audit Committee: Richard Baxter and Penny Arthur
  • Executive Management: CEO Patty Byers, CFO Emma Besler
  • Audit Partner: Mary Epstein
  • The deadline for the audit opinion is May 15, 20XX
  • There were some contentious issues that arose during this year’s audit
  • The suitable conference room in your office building is the “Walter Allen Conference Room”
  • You should create any other necessary details on your own and they should be reasonable

Part 1 requirement: Write responses to each of the three emails in Word. These will be combined with your submission for Part 2 into a single document (see below).

ICW Part 2 – IRS Response Letter

Important Note: Please use the accompanying IRS Tax Notice (located In the ICW #6 Module) as the notice to which you will write your response letter.

You are a staff accountant for a local CPA firm, Meyers and Meyers, LLP. One of your clients, Paula Evans contacted you in February of 2022 about a new partnership she formed with four others. The partnership, Wildwood Acres Partnership, was started in the middle of 2020 and reports on a calendar year basis (the tax year ends on December 31). Unfortunately, this was a little late since the 2014 partnership return was due on April 15, 2021. Paula provided the information and your office promptly prepared the return in late February, The transmittal letter to Paula included a paragraph warning her that the IRS would probably assess penalties for late filing. Penalties for partnerships that file late are $195 per partner, per month (or any part thereof). On March 29, 2022, Paula called and said she received a late filing penalty notice assessing $10,725. She faxed the notice to you for review. Based on your review, the assessed amount is correct.

Facts regarding the partnership:

  1. All five partners are individuals and US citizens.
  2. All five partners timely filed their 2020 individual income tax returns in September 2021 and included their share of the partnership’s taxable income.
  1. All five partners are equal owners of the partnership Paula wants you to respond to the IRS notice and request relief from the penalty.

Part 2 requirement: Prepare a response letter to the IRS requesting abatement of the penalties based on Rev. Proc. 84-35. Be sure and reference any attachments you would include with the response letter, even though you won’t be submitting the attachments on Turnitin.

 

Describe how the components of the Hawthorne study are incorporated in current human resource functions. What was the main idea behind this study? How have you been impacted by the components of this study in your current or past work setting? 

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Organizational Culture Analysis

Week 1 – Discussion 1

Describe how the components of the Hawthorne study are incorporated in current human resource functions. What was the main idea behind this study? How have you been impacted by the components of this study in your current or past work setting?

Week 1 – Discussion 2

Contrast the dynamics between dominant cultures and subcultures either in a work setting or in society. Explain why it is important to understand the impact of culture. Give an example where you demonstrated your awareness and or openness to understanding a cultural difference. Explain how these differences underscore the need for understanding diversity. From the information given, develop guidelines for embracing diversity. Respond to at least two of your peers for this posting and offer some additional ideas of your own.

Week 1 – Assignment

[NACE: 3, 8]

Symbols of culture are called artifacts. Artifacts are the most visible and accessible level of culture. These include behaviors, stories, rituals (everyday practices that are repeated frequently), and symbols (e.g., company logos, company colors). For example, the president of a company volunteering at Habitat for Humanity is an artifact of culture. An example of symbols as an artifact of culture is University of Arizona Global Campus’ shield that serves as our logo and is printed on transcripts, diplomas and letterhead paper. Submit a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) describing the culture of either your current or past place of employment.

Your paper should provide examples of and address each of the following topics:

  1. Observable artifacts
  2. Espoused values (These are what organizational members say they value, like ethical practice.)
  3. Enacted values (These are reflected in the way individuals actually behave.)

In addition, describe how each item listed above impacts the values and culture of the organization.

Your paper must use a minimum of two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook. Your paper must also follow the APA Style guide.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric Links to an external site.for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

 

How did Stephanie become an entrepreneur? What challenges did she encounter by entering the business in this way? Has Salute considered becoming a franchise? Why or why not? Would you recommend franchising to Stephanie and Tania? Why or why not?

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Assignment

https://cambriancollege.zoom.us/rec/play/zJ1-MQ9oD…&y=jnWC6

What was Stephanie’s motivation to enter the coffee/restaurant sector?

Salute is a local coffee company. What does Stephanie see as their biggest competitive advantage over the larger brand names in Sudbury?

How did Stephanie become an entrepreneur? What challenges did she encounter by entering the business in this way?

Has Salute considered becoming a franchise? Why or why not? Would you recommend franchising to Stephanie and Tania? Why or why not?

 

Discuss the importance and benefits of improving the quality system. What are some remaining quality challenges that any company may?

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Week Discussion

Discuss the importance and benefits of improving the quality system. What are some remaining quality challenges that any company may?

200 words and must include work cited