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  • Bus 640 Assignment Solutions

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    Bus 640: Assignment

    1. Jennifer Trucking Company operates a large rig transportation business in Texas that transports locally grown vegetables to San Diego, California. The company owns 5 large rigs and hires local drivers paid fixed salaries monthly, regardless of the number of trips or tons of cargo that each driver transports each month. The below table presents details about the number of drivers and the total cargo transported by the company at different staff levels.

    Drivers employedTotal Cargo Transported (tons)
    15
    212
    321
    432
    540
    646
    751
    850

    • a. Which inputs are fixed and which are variable in the production function of Jennifer Trucking Company? Over what ranges do there appear to be increasing, constant and/or diminishing returns to the number of drivers employed?
    • b.What number of drivers appears to be most efficient in terms of output per driver?
    • c.What number of drivers appears to minimize the marginal cost of transportation assuming that all drivers are paid the same salary?

    2. The Palms Dry Cleaning Shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, faces a highly seasonal demand for its services, as the snow-birds retirees’ flock to Florida in mid-fall to enjoy the mild winter weather and then return to their main homes in mid-spring. Given this seasonality, Palms tries to keep the overhead costs as low as possible and therefore, often uses seasonal contracted labor to man its operations. The following table shows the labor costs in each month of operation over the past 12 months as well as the total number of garments that were dry-cleaned in each month. Palms pay fixed wages per hour to each employee, and we can assume that the costs of other variable inputs (such as chemicals, electricity, etc) have remained constant.

    MonthTVC ($)Garments Cleaned
    June35,4904,500
    July42,4705,575
    August48,9806,300
    September52,5306,525
    October37,4805,325
    November33,5104,050
    December31,8502,850
    January27,8602,450
    February22,1601,525
    March19,520925
    April25,9601,925
    May32,9803,500

    • a.Derive average variable cost (AVC) data from the data in this table.
    • b.Use gradient analysis to provide an estimate of eleven data points that seem to represent the MC curve over this range of outputs. Plot these data points and sketch in estimated MC and AVC curves that seem to best fit these data points.
    • c.Suppose that demand is estimated to move from its present (May) level of 3,500 units to 4,000
    • d.Assuming that Palm’s price to dry clean a garment has been constant at $15 over the past year, and will remain at that level, what contribution to overheads and profit can it expect in June?

    3. Over the past 12 months the Four Winds Novelty Company firm has recorded its internet sales (equals monthly output levels) and its monthly total variable costs (TVC) for a particular novelty item as shown in the following table. Sales have grown over this period with relatively few shocks due to uncontrollable weather, political and sporting events. This online retailer carries no inventories; when it receives a pre-paid on-line order from a customer, it simply buys the product from a supplier and ships it out to the customer.

    Sales = OutputTVC ($)
    102,813201,953
    176,163340,608
    196,121377,940
    222,885432,863
    226,356441,714
    296,416629,267
    378,446867,596
    450,6661,103,807
    579,6961,701,125
    607,0821,917,861
    624,6802,195,352
    636,1332,479,195

    • a. Using regression analysis, find an equation that best fits the data to represent the TVC function.
    • b. At what sales/output level will marginal costs (MC) reach a minimum?
    • c. Estimate the value of TVC for sales/output level 250,000 units, and calculate the 95% confidence interval for your estimate.
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  • Describe Branson’s leadership style

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    Bus 520 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior

    1- Describe Branson’s leadership style in terms of the leadership models addressed in chapter 10 and 11 and evaluate the likely effectiveness of that style in the U.S. today.

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  • BUS 200 Small Business Management

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    Assignment #1 – Read Case 1 on page 645 and answer questions 1-5

    1) How did Hennessy’s background prepare him for starting a business? What entrepreneurial qualities does he embody?

    2) What were Hennessy’s entrepreneurial motivations for founding Dash Locker?

    3) What type of entrepreneurial opportunity did Hennessy identify, and how did he capitalize on those opportunities?

    4) Describe Dash Locker’s growth potential.

    5) Describe Dash Locker’s competitive advantage.

    Study Tips 101: Take Breaks
    It’s important to take breaks while you’re studying, especially if you’re feeling tired or frustrated. Working too long on a task can actually decrease your performance.
    When you take a break, make sure you get away from your desk or study space. A bit of physical activity – even just a walk around the block – can sometimes help you to look at a problem in a different way and could even help you to solve it.

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  • Supply Chain Management (Part B) Assignment

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    1.3  Module Aims & Learning Outcomes:

    This course aims to provide delegates with:

    • A broad understanding of supply chain management and how it relates to the energy industry
    • Detailed understanding of supply chain management techniques and related operations management concepts that are important to the energy industry

    Learning Outcomes:

    On completion of this module, delegates will be able to:

    • Explain how supply chains can be effectively designed and controlled in a range of circumstances
    • Evaluate approaches to the management and development of the supply chain
    • Discuss the characteristics of contemporary supply chains and assess their contribution to organisational effectiveness

    Part B: Carry out the investigation and prepare consultants initial report that will focus the client attention on the root causes of the problem or challenge and set out the basis for a solution. This paper should demonstrate a good understanding of the challenges but also reflect on the how the challenges link to current academic approaches to the subject.

    This part will require have introduction, body with various sections and conclusion as report format. Remember to use theory/concept in this section.

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  • Supply Chain Management Assignment (Part A)

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    Individual Assessment:

    Using the understandings you have gained though the material presented in this module supply chain management.

    Choose an industry, and select a supply chain or logistics based challenge or challenges facing then whole industry or a particular organisation operating within the industry and:

    Part A: Define the problem and set out a remit for a consultant that clearly describes the scope of an investigative project to find a solution for the client.

    This part will require have introduction, body with various sections and conclusion as report format to deliver to the client.

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  • International Finance Problems

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    1. Mississippi Mud Pies, Inc. needs to buy 1,000,000 Swiss francs (CHF) to pay its Swiss chocolate supplier. Its banker quotes bid–ask rates of CHF1.3990–1.4000/USD. What will be the dollar cost of the CHF1,000,000?
    2. Western Mining of Australia has called Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial to get its opinion about the Japanese yen–Australian dollar exchange rate. The current rate is ¥67.72/A$, and Mitsubishi thinks the Australian dollar will weaken by 5% over the next year. What is Mitsubishi’s forecast of the future exchange rate?
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  • Operating Exposure: Xian- Janssen Pharmaceutical (China) and the Euro (Case Questions and Answers)

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    1. How significant an impact do foreign exchange gains and losses have on corporate performance at XJP? What is your opinion of how they structure and manage their currency exposures?

    2. J&J has roughly 200 foreign subsidiaries worldwide. It has always pursued a highly decentralized organizational structure, in which the individual units are responsible for their own performance from the top to the bottom line of the income statement. How is this reflected in the situation XJP finds itself?
    3. What is the relationship between actual spot exchange rate, the budgeted spot exchange rate, the forward rate, and the expectations for the Chinese subsidiary’s financial results by the U.S. parent company?

    1. If you were Paul Young, what would you do?

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  • Explain how treasurer can hedge the risk through Eurodollar futures contract

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    FRM interest rate future

    4. A treasurer of an American company in March realizes that it needs to raise $25 million zero-coupon bond in August for a period of 6 months. Zero-coupon bond of similar quality is currently yielding 4%, a cost, which the treasurer finds acceptabl(e) The treasurer is of the view that interest rate will rise before the company will issue the debt, hence will increase the cost of debt. So to hedge the interest rate risk the treasurer decided to hedge the risk using September Eurodollar futures contract. September 90-day Eurodollar futures contracts are currently trading at 96.25.

    You are required to

    • a.Explain how treasurer can hedge the risk through Eurodollar futures contract? How many futures contracts are required to hedge?
    • b.If the September futures contract in August closes either at 95.75 or 96.80, calculate the cost of the bond to the company in each case.
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  • Finance Solutions

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    1. Annuities:

      You are saving for the college education of your two children. They are two years apart in age; one will begin college 15 years from today and the other will begin 17 years from today. You estimate your children’s college expenses to be $23,000 per year per child, payable at the beginning of each school year. The annual interest rate is 5.5 percent. How much money must you deposit in account each year to fund your children’s education? Your deposits begin one year from today. You will make your last deposit when your oldest child enters college. Assume four years of college

    2. Calculating Annuity Values:

      Bilbo Baggins wants to save money to meet three objectives. First, he would like to be able to retire 30 years from now with retirement income of $25,000 per month for 20 years, with the first payment received 30 years and 1 month from now. Second, he would like to purchase a cabin in Rivendell in 10 years at an estimated cost of $350,000. Third, after he passes on at the end of the 20 years of withdrawals, he would like to leave an inheritance of $750,000 to his nephew Frodo. He can afford to save $2,100 per month for the next 10 years. If he can earn an 11 percent EAR before he retires and an 8 percent EAR after he retires, how much will he have to save each month in years 11 through 30?

    3. Valuing bonds:

      Mallory Corporation has two different bonds, currently outstanding. Bond M has a face value of $20,000 and matures in twenty years. The bond makes no payments for the first six years, then pays $1,200 every 6 months over the subsequent eight years, and finally pays $1,500 every 6 months over the last years. Bond N also has a face value of $20,000 and a maturity of 20 years; it makes n coupon payments over the life of the bond. If the required return on both these bonds is 10% compounded semiannually, what is the current price of bond M? Of bond N?

    4. Non-constant growth:

      Storico Co. just paid a dividend of aud 3.5 per share. The company will increase its dividend by 20% next year, and will then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5% per year, until it reaches the industry average of 5% industry average growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. If the required return on Storico stock is 13%, what will a share of stock sell for today?

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