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  • HRM/531 Clapton Commercial Construction Company (Medium Business)

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    HRM 531 Week 4 Performance Management Plan Landslide Limousines

    Complete the Performance Management Plan task as described in the Email from Traci on the Atwood and Allen Consulting page.

    Hello,

    It’s Traci again. This week, I need you to develop a performance management framework to recommend to the client. You’ll need to make sure you address the following:

    Alignment of the performance management framework to the organizational business strategy
    Organizational performance philosophy
    The job analysis process you will complete to identify the skills needed by employees
    Methods used for measuring the employee’s skills
    Process for addressing skill gaps
    Approach for delivering effective performance feedback
    Oh, and make sure to reference my communication with the client for any relevant information. I look forward to seeing what you develop.

    Thanks,

    Traci Goldeman
    Manager
    Atwood and Allen Consulting

    Required elements:

    No more than 2450 words

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  • FI 415 Week 4 homework Chapter 4 problems 3,5,8

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    3. Are the following statements true or false? Please explain why.

    1. The only way a company can grow at a rate above its current sustainable growth rate is by issuing new stock?
    2. The stock market is a ready source of new capital when a company is incurring heavy losses?
    3. Share repurchases usually increase  earnings per share.
    4. Companies often buy back their stock because managers believe the shares  are undervalued.
    5. Only rapidly growing firms have growth management problems.

    5. Increase  growth increases stock prices. Look at Figure 4.5, describe the trend in net equity financing in the U.S. during the last 30 years.  What does this say about the use of equity financing in U.S. corporations?

    1. Genentech Inc. is a California-based biotech pioneer recently acquired by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG. Roche paid $46.8 billion in cash for the 44 percent of Genentech it did not already own, implying a market value of over $100 billion for the entire  company.  For a look at Genentech’s recent  sustainable growth challenges, consider the following selected  financial data.
    2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
    Profit margin (%) 17.0 17.0 19.3 22.8 23.6
    Retention ratio

    (%)

    		 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
    Asset turnover (X) 0.38 0.49 0.55 0.63 0.32
    Financial leverage

    (X)

    		 1.64 1.44 1.79 1.99 2.00
    Growth rate in sales  (%) 26.1 40.0 43.5 40.0 26.3
    • Calculate Genentech’s annual sustainable growth rate for the year 2003-2007
    • Did Genentech face a growth management challenge during this period?
    • How did Genentech cope with this challenge
    • Calculate Genentech’s sustainable growth rate in 2007 assuming an asset turnover of 0.72 times
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  • ECO 561 Week 4: General merchandise and operates in the retail industry

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    You will apply economic principles presented in Weeks One through Three in this week’s assignment. Your assignment will be reviewed by your facilitator in week five and should be revised as necessary based on feedback as the first part of the final assignment in week six. 

    Select a new, realistic good or service for an existing industry.

    Write the economic analysis section of a business proposal.  This will include statements about the market structure and the elasticity of demand for the good or service, based on text book principles. You need to create hypothetical data, based on similar real world products to estimate fixed and variable costs.
    Required Elements:

    • Identify market structure
    • Identify elasticity of the product
    • Include rationale for the following questions:
      • How will pricing relate to elasticity of your product?
      • How will changes in the quantity supplied as a result of your pricing decisions affect marginal cost and marginal revenue?
      • Besides your pricing decisions, what are your suggested nonpricing strategies? What nonpricing strategies will you use to increase barriers to entry?
      • How could changes in your business operations alter the mix of fixed and variable costs in line with your strategy?
    • No more than 1400 words
    • Your proposal is consistent with APA guidelines

    Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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  • Jim’s Training Needs Analysis

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    BUS 680 Week 4 Jim’s Case Analysis

    Jim’s Case Analysis.  Read the Case Analysis on pages 312-313 and answer the case questions on page 313.

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  • IS3110 Week 4 Assignment Business Continuity Planning

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    Week Four Assignment Business Continuity Planning

    • What kind of exercise will be done?
    • What is the scenario being simulated or addressed in the exercise?
    • What areas of the organization will need to participate in the exercise?
    • What resources will you need to conduct the exercise?
    • How will you determine the success of the BCP documentation and processes following the exercise?
    • How will you update the BCP documentation after the exercise
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  • BA301 Week 4 Assignment Six Rights of the Consumer (Option 3)

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    Six Rights of the Consumer

    Read

    Basic Consumer Rights
Get to Know Your Basic Consumer Rights: How Do They Work for You?

    http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/U/UNP-0040/

    Responsibilities of Consumers
Consumer rights and responsibilities are inseparable. Each consumer right is paired with its corresponding responsibility to demonstrate that as consumers without partnership between Rights & Responsibilities, we cannot operate efficiently.

    http://www.ftc.gov.bb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=178&Itemid=27
Consumer Protection Laws

    Federal and state consumer protection laws exist to give protection against many forms of fraud and unfair business practices.

    http://consumer-law.lawyers.com/consumer-fraud/Consumer-Protection-Laws.html

    Choose ONE of the three options below:

    Option 1: Get Creative

    Create a 6 – 8 slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation identifying and discussing each of the six rights of consumers, as well as why each one is important.

    Option 2: News Flash

    Choose a learning objective from Week 4 and research an article on the Internet that relates to it. Write a summary of the article discussing it as well as what it means to you.

    Your summary should be a minimum of 1 – 2 pages in length and should be in your own words.

    Option 3: Traditional Paper

    Identify, research and discuss the six rights of the consumer, as well as why each one is important.

    Your paper should be a minimum of 2 – 3 pages in length

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  • Week 4: Analysis of Marilyn and Len

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    Marilyn and Len exchanges – HR 595 week 4 assignment

    Using the Marilyn and Len exchanges, analyze the following:

    • What are the objectives of both parties in the exchanges?
    • How would you describe the general “tone” of the exchanges?
    • Were Marilyn’s objectives on the way to being effectuated in the first exchange?
    • Were Len’s objectives on the way to being effectuated in the first exchange?
    • What do you project the outcome of the first exchange to be?
    • Were Marilyn’s objectives on the way to being effectuated in the second exchange?
    • Were Len’s objectives on the way to being effectuated in the second exchange?
    • What do you project the outcome of the second exchange to be?
    • Identify two points of transition in each exchange and analyze the impact of the transition on the negotiation
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  • ACC/400 Week 4 Assignment from Textbook: Chapter 23 & 24

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    Brief Exercise 23.6 – Elements of the Budget

    Identify the budgets in Column B from which dollar amounts are transferred directly in constructing the budgets listed in Column A

    Exercise 23.1 – Budgeting Purchases and Cash Payment

    The following information is from the manufacturing budget and the budgeted financial statements of Fabor Fabrication:

    Direct materials inventory Jan.1…….……………………………………. $73,000

    Direct materials inventory Dec.31………………………………………       85,000

    Direct materials budgeted for use during the year……………………… 264,000

    Accounts payable to suppliers of materials Jan.1………………………    46,000

    Accounts payable to suppliers of materials Dec.31……………………… 77,000

    Compute the budgeted amounts for:

    1. Purchases of direct materials during the year
    2. Cash payments during the year to suppliers of materials

    Exercise 23.8 – Budgeting Cash Receipts

    Sales on account for the first two months of the current  year  are  budgeted as follows: Jan………………………………………  $800,000

    Feb………………………………………     880,000

    All sales are made on terms of 2/10, n/30 (2% discount if paid in 10 days, full amount by

    30 days);  collection on accounts receivable are  typically made as follows: Collections with the month of sale:

    Within discount period…………………………………..   70% After discount period…………………………………….   10

    Collections within the month following sale:

    Within the discount period……………………………       12

    After the discount period……………………………..         6

    Returns, allowances, and uncollectibles……………………        2

    Total………………………………………………………  100

    Compute the estimated cash collections on accounts receivable for the month of

    Exercise 23.9 – Budgeting an Ending  Cash Balance

    On March 1 of the current  year,  Spicer Corporation compiled information to prepare a cash budget for March, April, and  May.  All of the company’s sales are made on account. The following information has been provided by Spicer’s management:

    Month                                                                     Credit Sales Jan……………………………………… $300,000 (actual) Feb………………………………………      800,000 (actual) Mar………………………………………     600,000 (estimated) Apr………………………………………     700,000 (estimated) May………………………………………    800,000 (estimated)

    The company’s collection activity on credit sales historically has been as follows: Collections in the month of the sale………………………………………  50%

    Collections one month after the sale……………………………………… 30

    Collections two months after the sale…………………………………….  15

    Uncollectible accounts……………………………………………………..     5

    Spicer’s total cash expenditures for March, April and May have  been estimated at $1,200,000 (an average of $400,000 per month).   Its cash balance on March 1 of the current  year  is $500,000.  No financing or investing activities are  anticipated during the second quarter. Compute Spicer’s budgeted cash balance at the ends of March, April and May.

    Exercise 24.2 – Relationships among Standard Costs, Actual Costs and Cost Variances

    The standard costs and variances for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead for the month of May are as follows:

    Variances

    Standard Cost      Unfavorable    Favorable

    Direct Materials                              $85,000

    Price Variance $5,000
    Quantity Variance $3,000
    Direct Labor $150,000
    Rate  variance $2,700
    Efficiency variance $6,200
    Manufacturing

    Overhead

    		 $300,000
    Spending variance $4,000
    Volume variance $5,000

    Determine the actual costs incurred during the month of May for direct materials, direct labor, and  manufacturing overhead.

    Exercise 24.4 – Computing Materials Cost Variances and Volume  Variance

    Gumchara Corporation reported the following information with respect to the materials required to manufacture amalgam florostats during the current  month:

    Standard price per gram  of materials…….……………………………………. $4

    Standard quantity of materials per amalgam florostat..………………   5 grams Actual materials purchased and  used in production……………… 6,000  grams Actual amalgam florostats produced during the months…………… 1,000  units Actual cost of materials purchased………………………………………  $18,000

    Normal monthly output…………………………………………………..   900 units a.    Determine Gumchara’s materials price variance.

    1. Determine Gumchara’s materials quantity variance.
    2. Will Gumchara’s overhead volume variance be favorable or unfavorable? Why?

    Exercise 24.6 – Computing Labor Cost Variances

    Marlo Enterprises produces radon  mitigation pumps.  Information pertaining to the company’s monthly direct labor usages is provided below:

    Standard labor rate per hour…….…………………………………..………. $16

    Standard hours  allowed per radon  mitigation pump..………………  0.5 hours Actual pumps produced during the current  month…………..……  9,000  units Actual labor hours  worked during the current  month……………. 3,600  hours Actual labor cost for the current  month…..……………………………  $64,800

    1. Compute the company’s labor rate variance.
    2. Compute the company’s labor efficiency variance.
    3. An extremely large order of radon  mitigation pumps was filled during the month for exportation to Saudi Arabia.  Filing this order  resulted in extended hours  for many of the company’s workers.   Which labor variance reflects the extra hours  worked by Marlo’s employees?  Was their time utilized? Explain.
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  • Job Analysis/Job Description Assignment

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    HRM 530 Assignment 2: Job Analysis / Job Description
    Go to YouTube, located at http://www.youtube.com/, and search for an episode of “UnderCover Boss”. Imagine you are the CEO of the company in the selected episode.
    Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
    • Compare two (2) job positions from the episode and perform a job analysis of each position.
    • Describe your method of collecting the information for the job analysis (i.e., one-on-one, interview, survey, etc.).
    • Create a job description from the job analysis.
    • Justify your belief that the job analysis and job description are in compliance with state and federal regulations.
    Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
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