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Types of costs that decision makers may fail to consider
$5.00For this discussion, post 2–4 paragraphs about the types of costs that decision makers may fail to consider when looking at a potential expansion. Include in your discussion:
* What other expenses might be commonly forgotten when considering the costs of an expansion decision (for example, trash removal, water)?
* Would these expenses make a material difference in the decision?
* What processes might be put in place to assure that these seemingly small expenses are considered when planning an expansion project?
Review the following article for details on including energy costs as part of business expansion decisions:
* Energy costs factor into business development, expansion decisions. (2017, February 15). Energy Monitor Worldwide.
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ZXY food product company case
$0.00Scenario
ZXY Company is a food product company. ZXY is considering expanding to two new products and a second production facility. The food products are staples with steady demands. The proposed expansion will require an investment of $7,000,000 for equipment with an assumed ten-year life, after which all equipment and other assets can be sold for an estimated $1,000,000. They will be renting the facility. ZXY requires a 12 percent return on investments. You have been asked to recommend whether or not to make the investment.
Your Role
You are an accounting manager. Your boss has asked you to review and provide a recommendation on the expansion based on information that has been provided.
Requirements
In preparing and supporting your recommendation to either make the investment or not, include the following items as part of your analysis:
* Analysis of financial information.
* Identification of risks associated with the investment. Consider:
* How risky the project appears.
* How far off your estimates of revenues and expenses can be before your decision would change.
* The difference if the company were to use a straight line versus a MACRS depreciation.
* Recommendation for a course of action.
* Explanation of criteria supporting your recommendation.
Financial Information
As part of your analysis you might find that additional information from marketing, accounting, or finance would be useful in making an informed and well-supported recommendation. In a real workplace setting you would have the ability to ask for that information. However, for the purposes of this assignment, you can make assumptions about the values of that data or ratios in support of your recommendation.
Accounting worked with the marketing group to create the ZXY Company Financial Statements spreadsheet provided in the Resources for the new products business and the new facility.
Notes about the financial information:
* The expense line labeled SQF FDA Mandates refers to the costs of complying with Food and Drug Administration requirements.
* Depreciation expense is calculated using 7-year life modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS).
Deliverable Format
Depending on the audience you choose to address, use one of the following options:
* Report for a mid-management audience. Prepare a 3–4 page report detailing your recommendation and the information you used to make your recommendation.
* Presentation for top leadership. Prepare a presentation of at least 12 slides detailing your recommendation and the information you used to make your recommendation. You may use your choice of presentation software. Include notes with additional details.
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Interpret the Implications of Unethical Behavior
$35.00prepare a presentation with a PowerPoint file. You will create your audio presentation by using an audio/video capturing tool located in NCUOne. To access the capture tool, follow the tutorial found in your Books and Resources for this Week.
Now is the time to compile all the concepts you have learned in this course into a comprehensive case study analysis. Assume you are an instructor presenting an unethical case study to your graduate students. Develop a PowerPoint presentation on a business of your choice, highlighting unethical business actions that occurred from 2015 to present. Be sure you include clear examples to support your findings. Address the following key components for your student audience:
Provide a brief historical summary of the organization.
Identify and explain the unethical business practice examined.
Reflect on ethical standards and why this practice was a violation of ethical behavior.
Determine the influence of leadership regarding this behavior.
Explain any related cultural, environmental, and legal implications related to the behavior.
Interpret the impact of the behavior on individuals, the organization, and society as a whole.
Explain the outcome of the event or events, along with a comparison of the consequences (mention legal implications for the action).
Determine the fairness of punishment. Explain your rationale using ethical theory, as found in the literature, to justify your rationale for the punishment’s fairness.
Explain how organizational policies and procedures could be implemented to deter future occurrences like this from happening.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Your speaker notes serve as the video’s transcript.Also, prepare a brief handout that your audience could take with them. Include recommendations for responsible and ethical strategies based on organizational consequences of unethical behaviors. You may include these in the form of a table or chart.
Support your presentation with at least seven scholarly and professional resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 10-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
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Support Integrity in Research
$25.00The aim of this assignment is to conduct an ethical assurance analysis to ensure research integrity. You should be able to explain the ethical assurance statement pertaining to a specific area of ethics in research. For example, when conducting research involving human subjects, ethical issues can range from protection from harm, informed consent, right to privacy, and honesty with professional colleagues. Building upon last week’s research, use the same research area to conduct additional research for this week’s assignment.
Assume that your educational pamphlet prepared last week was successfully implemented, but now the organization’s leadership team, who will eventually approve beginning the study, wants more information. Prepare a white paper to officially report the following:
Provide an ethical assurance statement to address ethical concerns in the specific area of ethics in research.
If the risk to participants is greater than minimal, explain the relevant ethical issues and how they will be addressed.
Verify how confidentially or anonymity will be achieved.
Determine how the data will be securely stored in accordance with IRB requirements.
Briefly introduce the role of the researcher in the study. Explain potential biases and experiences and how you would prevent them from influencing the analysis or findings.
Support your white paper with a minimum of three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your white paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating direct
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SP001 Information Systems
$50.00Part I: Components and Categories of Information Systems
List and describe the key components and categories of information systems. (1–2 paragraphs)
Part II: Roles of Business Information
Read and evaluate each of the 10 provided business scenarios, and then respond to the following prompts for each business scenario to convey your understanding of the type of business system needed to support each scenario. (The response for each scenario should be 1–2 paragraphs.)
- Identify and describe the key issues or problems that need to be addressed in the scenario.
- Choose an appropriate type of business information system to resolve the issues in the scenario. Provide supporting reasons for the selection.
- Describe how this business would benefit from implementing the selected system.
Part III: Optimizing Business Value with Information Systems
Read the “WestJet Airlines Case Study.” Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation and include speaker notes for supporting details on every slide as follows:
- Recommend two business information systems that should be implemented by this company. (1 slide)
- Create a cost-benefit analysis for the business information systems selected. (1–2 slides)
- Describe how each recommended system applies to Porter’s Five Forces and Value Chain. (1–2 slides)
- Explain how the two recommended systems align with WestJet Airlines’ business strategy. (1 slide)
Part IV: Trends in Business Information Systems
Using the “WestJet Airlines Case Study,” create a management report on Emerging Trends Analysis and Recommendations with responses to the following prompts:
- Compile a list with descriptions of four emerging trends in business information systems that should be considered by WestJet Airlines. Then, choose two emerging trends that you would consider the most important for WestJet to implement. (3–4 paragraphs)
- Explain why you have selected these trends for the company. How do the trends you selected apply to this particular business? (2–3 paragraphs)
- What business benefits do you expect these selected trends to deliver to the company? (2–3 paragraphs)
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Organizational Influence on Behavior
$10.00Instructions : provide a great deal of information regarding the impact that organizational systems have on unethical behavior. For example, researchers note that rivalry can often increase unethical behaviors (Kilduff et al., 2016). This week, you will explain how an organization’s culture (e.g., systems and practices) can unknowingly or unintentionally increase unethical behavior among employees.
Assume you have been tasked with researching these concepts for your organization’s management team, who are concerned about possible cases of unethical behavior stemming from organizational systems in place. Prepare a professional business memo to share with managers at the next team meeting. Be sure to include the following in your memo:
Explain the importance of organizational culture and codes of conduct in encouraging ethical behavior.
Assess three organizational policies or practices, as found in the readings and outside research, which can increase unethical behavior among employees.
Propose informal and formal system solutions to reduce unethical behavior in your organization. Explain the benefits of these system solutions, as well as possible implications for these solutions.
Support your memo with a minimum of three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.Length: 1-2 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your memo should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate.
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Evaluate a Company’s Behaviors
$25.00While Walmart may employ many individuals (e.g., 2.1 million worldwide), the company has received negative attention in terms of its business model and practices. Not only has Walmart been accused of treating employees poorly, but it has also been the target of discrimination scandals.
After reviewing this week’s resources, conduct a review of relevant research regarding Walmart and its practices. Then, prepare a written report of your findings that addresses the following:
Briefly summarize Walmart’s mission, vision, and values.
Evaluate Walmart’s actions (e.g., any unethical behaviors and cases of ethical actions found in your research).
Elaborate on whether specific actions taken by Walmart are illegal as well as unethical. Justify your rationale.
Determine how Walmart can improve its corporate culture and leadership. Then, recommend steps for improvement that could be taken to improve Walmart’s culture.
Support your report with a minimum of five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your report should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
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Valuation of company assets for return on investment (ROI)
$20.00A.
This week’s discussion is about valuation of company assets for purposes of computing return on investment (ROI). Use the following scenario for your discussion:
A company owns two identical apartment buildings.
* Both buildings were built at the same time.
* The first building was acquired by the company ten years ago.
* The second building was acquired by the company two years ago at a higher price.
* The net book value of the first building will be much lower than the net book value of the second building due to accumulated depreciation and a lower purchase price.
* Each building has a different manager.
For your post, prepare 3–4 paragraphs about managing these properties. Discuss how to measure the ROIs so that the manager of the older building does not show a much higher ROI, even if actual job performance is worse in terms of keeping the units rented and containing maintenance costs.
B.
For this discussion, consider the following scenario:
You are the division manager of a company with four departments. Your company evaluates department managers on the basis of return on investment (ROI), with investment measured by net book value (that is, original cost minus depreciation). You have a favorite person you want to put in a place where she can achieve a high ROI. You know if she is the manager of the older division, where the net book value is low, she will achieve a high ROI.
Post a discussion of 2–4 paragraphs about the ethics of this scenario. Consider for your post:
* The ethics of what you are about to do.
* The ethics of not bringing the measure of ROI with the investment defined as net book value to the attention of management.
* What is your “return on investment” to your current or potential employer?
* How can you continue to demonstrate your value to enhance your career?
* Identify a professional achievement you are proud of. Using the CARD model, draft an accomplishment statement that showcases this achievement
clearly and concisely and add it to your resume.
* How does your resume present your value to a potential employer? See the resources in the Career Center on building a dynamic resume.
Refer to the following article for a good overview of ethical considerations that will help inform your post:
* Robin, D. (2009). Toward an applied meaning for ethics in business. Journal of Business Ethics, 89(1), 139–150.
* C.
You are not required to know generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), as you are not studying to be an accountant. However, GAAP is important, as all publicly traded companies must use GAAP in their accounting and reporting practices. So, it is important to you, as a manager, for compliance reasons. Recognizing the existence of GAAP and the reasons for using non-GAAP reporting can be important to your job as a business manager.
For this discussion, read the articles and textbook page below, and then post a discussion of 3–4 paragraphs about GAAP and non-GAAP reporting. Consider as part of your post:
* Your beliefs about the pros and cons of reporting company performance using non-GAAP measurements.
* Your understanding of the reasons for the reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP reporting in the Campbell’s Soup financial statements on page 645 of your textbook.
You are not expected to be an expert; look at this discussion post as a manager. If you have questions, include them in your post.
The following resources will be useful in preparing this discussion post:
* Afterman, A. B. (2015). Non-GAAP performance measures: Virtue or vice? The CPA Journal, 85(10), 48–49.
* Diffley, E. A, & Greenstein, A. (2016). Presenting non-GAAP financial measures in the face of increased scrutiny. Insights, 30(6), 3–9.
* Marshall, D., McManus, W., & Viele, D. (2020). Accounting: What the numbers mean (12th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Available in the courseroom via the VitalSource Bookshelf link.
* Read page 648.
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Acme Pickle Company Case
$20.00A.
The Acme Pickle Company has distributed pickles under the “Florida’s Best” brand for eight years from its production facility in Jacksonville, Florida. It sells the pickles to stores in the southeastern United States. Acme normally produces between 8,000 and 10,000 cases of pickles a month but has the capacity to produce 12,000 cases without adding equipment or personnel.
The owner of a twenty-store supermarket chain in Wisconsin, called Super Deals, visits friends in Florida and is impressed with the quality of “Florida’s Best” pickles. He approaches you, an Acme Pickle account manager, with an offer to buy 2,000 cases of pickles to use in a special promotion at his stores. He is thinking of something such as:
“Free jar of Florida’s Best pickles with every purchase of forty dollars or more—this month only!”
He offers Acme a price of $9.50 per case, knowing that it is a very substantial discount from the normal selling price of $20 a case. Acme’s management is inclined to turn the offer down, because their cost is calculated at $10.00 a case. They believe they would lose money if they sold at $9.50 a case. You, on the other hand, believe that some errors have been made in the cost accounting.
Your Role
You are the account manager for Acme Pickles.
Requirements
Your analysis for the Controller and Sales Manager is needed to suggest a different way of calculating the pricing of the pickles that may be lower. As part of your analysis, address the following items:
* Explain why some production costs are variable and some are fixed.
* Analyze the benefit of recalculating the cost of pickle production.
* How would you recalculate it?
* What would the result be?
* What is the benefit to the company of recalculating the cost?
* Analyze how financial accounting of production cost differs from managerial accounting of production cost.
* Explain the difference between the two accounting methods.
* Identify the benefits and drawbacks of each method.
* Recommend a plan of action to management regarding Super Deals’ offer.
Below is the cost report for a recent month. In this month, Acme produced 9,000 cases and sold them at $20 per case, which is Acme’s normal selling price. Nine thousand cases are well beyond Acme’s break-even point, enabling Acme to record a substantial profit at the nine-thousand-case level.
Item
Cost
Cucumbers
$15,000
Spices and vinegar
11,000
Jars and lids
10,000
Direct labor, paid by the case
30,000
Line supervisors, on salary
10,000
Depreciation on factory
10,000
Property taxes on factory
3,000
Insurance on factory
1,000
Total Costs:
$90,000
Cost per case (9,000 cases produced) $10.00
Deliverable Format
Your team lead wants to share this analysis across remote locations of the organization and is hoping you will set the standard for how analyses and decisions of this type should be presented and supported. Your team has requested either a recorded presentation (including slides and notes) or a presentation and supporting reporting that can be distributed as a model. Prepare a presentation of at least 9 slides using PowerPoint or software of your choice detailing your recommendation and the information you used to make your recommendation. You can either record the presentation or prepare a separate report supporting the presentation.