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  • Chocoberry You Decide Case Study cacao beans

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    YOU DECIDE Scenario Summary
    Chocoberry (CB) is a major independent importer and processor of cacao beans from West African countries. They sell to major chocolate manufacturers in Europe and the Americas.
    CB roasts and grinds the cacao beans offering chocolate liquor to the major candy makers and block liquor to small candy shops. Chocolate liquor is what most consumers know as baking chocolate – dark and bitter. In later years, CB has pressed some of the liquor to produce cocoa powder and cocoa butter – a high fat, white component that can be added to chocolate to render it smoother.
    Cocoa powder could be further processed to form the base for beverages and coatings. Q & Q, Neshey, Cadmerry and Hershel added sugar to the liquor to form dark chocolate, which was not the most popular product. But the blending of sugar, liquor, and cocoa butter produced milk chocolate, one of the most popular food products ever. The candy makers made and distributed their milk chocolate products almost everywhere – and continue to expand their offerings.
    Raw material and ingredient supplier CB, meanwhile, has been watching this gradual transformation from fun to health food; pondering the issue of how to take advantage of this revolution. To determine its future strategy in the new universe of chocolate and cocoa, CB must determine the potential for a new family of added value chocolate or cocoa-based products among consumers in the United States and, later, other countries. To start, the United States would be a target market to determine if one or more product concepts might be feasible.

    Your Assignment
    You are a consultant who has been engaged by CB to create and evaluate their alternatives.
    The following are some areas your report should address:

    Idea Generation (50 points)

    • What techniques will you propose to CB to generate ideas that can be developed into viable concepts?
    • Of the many methods for ideation offered in contemporary literature, which represents the best for CB in this situation, and why?
    • Who might be selected to perform the ideation, and why? Why might you not select certain groups to perform the ideation?
    • Having screened the ideas to a select few, how are concepts generated from the ideas, and when?

    Idea Evaluation (50 points)

    • Once the ideas are generated, how might they be evaluated to maximize the number that has the greatest potential and to minimize the probability of rejecting excellent ideas?
    • Enumerate the criteria that might be applied to appropriately assess the ideas and to eventually rank them according to their potential for CB.
    • Who would conduct the evaluation and why?
    • Focusing on the select few concepts, what are the evaluative criteria that might be used to isolate the one or two that should be recommended for further development?
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  • BUSN 5200 Homework Assignment for Week 4:

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    Homework Assignment for Week 4:

    For Week 4, please complete the following for Joe’s Fly-By-Night Oil Company, whose financial statements are shown below:

    • Prepare a ratio analysis for the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2012. Organize your analysis per the following outline:

    (1) Liquidity
    – Current ratio
    – Quick ratio
    Comments on liquidity

    (2) Asset management
    – Total Asset turnover
    – Average collection period (ACP)
    Comments on asset management

    (3) Debt management
    – Debt ratio
    – Times interest earned
    Comments on debt management

    (4) Profitability
    – Net profit margin
    – Return on Assets (ROA)
    – Return on Equity (ROE)
    – Extended Du Pont equation
    Comments on profitability to include your comments on the sources of ROE
    revealed by the Du Pont equation

    (5) Market value ratios
    – PE ratio
    – Market to book ratio
    Comments on the market value ratios

    For the purposes of this exercise, assume the following data for Joe’s Fly-By-Night Oil:

    Stock price on Dec 31, 2012…$50.00
    Number of common shares outstanding on Dec 31, 2012…1,000

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  • BUSN 5200 Homework Week 2

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    1. Define the process of accounting.
    1. What are the three major divisions in the accounting field?
    2. What is the Fundamental Accounting Equation?
    3. What is the purpose of a balance sheet?

    What are some examples of typical balance sheet accounts?

    1. What is the purpose of an income statement?

    What are some examples of typical income statement accounts?

    1. What is the purpose of a statement of cash flows?

    What are some examples of typical statement of cash flow accounts?

    1. Based on the financial information below, prepare an income statement and a balance sheet for Joe’s-Fly-by-Night Oil Company for the year ended December 31, 2012. Unless otherwise indicated, assume all information below is either for the year 2012 or as of December 31, 2012.

    Accounts receivable…………………………………..   $3,000

    Accumulated depreciation…………………………… $12,000

    Cost of goods sold……………………………………   $4,000

    Income tax expense…………………………………..   $1,000

    Cash…………………………………………………..   $5,000

    Sales………………………………………………….. $10,000

    Equipment (gross)……………………………………. $27,000

    Selling, general, & administrative expenses………….   $3,000

    Common stock (1,000 shares)…………………………  $7,000

    Accounts payable……………………………………. $17,000

    Retained earnings……………………………………. $13,000

    Interest expense………………………………………       $200

    Inventory……………………………………………..  $17,000

    Long-term debt……………………………………….  $3,000

    Dividends declared and paid…………………………     $600

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  • ECO/561 Business Proposal Week 4

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    ECO 561 Week 4 Business Proposal

    Option 2: Existing Good or Service Business Proposal Select an existing good or service from the Will Bury’s Price Elasticity, Incremental Costs, or Thomas Money Service Inc. scenarios, or select an existing business with which you are familiar.

    Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word business proposal to improve an existing good or service for your chosen company. Include assumptions about the elasticity of demand and the market structure for the company’s good or service. Analyze data to determine fixed and variable costs.

    Include rationale for the following questions:

    • How will you increase revenue?
    • How will you determine the profit-maximizing quantity?
    • How could you use the concepts of marginal cost and marginal revenue to maximize profit? What information do you need to determine this? Without this information, how would you make a decision?
    • What is your suggested mix of pricing and nonpricing strategies? Explain your answer.
    • Can you create or increase barriers to entry? If so, how? · How will you increase product differentiation?
    • Are there other ways to minimize costs for the product?

    Format your business proposal consistent with APA guidelines. Do not use Wikipedia, Investopedia, or Quick MBA as sources.

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  • BUS670 Week 1 Assignment Legal Underpinnings

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    BUS 670 Week 1 Individual Assignment Legal Underpinnings of Business Law

    Legal Underpinnings of Business Law. The paper must be two to three pages, excluding title page and references page(s), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

    Imagine that you own each of the following businesses:

    • Tinker’s Home Security Service (sole proprietorship)

      Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (general partnership)

      Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (LP)

      Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, Inc. (corporation)

      Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, LLC (LLC)

    a. The businesses are being sued for breach of contract. In a chart that does not exceed one-half of a page, compare and contrast your personal liability exposure as a result of the different lawsuits. In one paragraph, discuss how you might limit your liability exposure within each particular business organizational form.

    b. After completing the first part of this exercise, describe one business that you may own some day or that you currently own. (Even if you never plan to own a business, pretend as if you will do so for the purposes of this assignment.) Identify the best business organizational form for the type of business that you have described, considering personal liability exposure as well as management, taxation, and ease of formation.

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  • Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity Case Study

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    BUS 644 Week 4 Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity
    Week 4 Assignment
    Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity. Read the “Beck Manufacturing” case study in Chapter 8 of your text. Answer questions one through three in a two- to- four page paper in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
    • a. Calculate the capacity of each machine center and the capacity of the system.
    • b. If Beck wants to expand capacity, where should he focus the company’s efforts? How much extra capacity can he get without causing another operation to become the bottleneck?
    • c. How may Mr. Beck expand capacity without purchasing new equipment? Be specific.
    Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with any formulas, calculations, and concepts outlined in your text. Do not include the original questions of the assignment in the paper.
    Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your answer/solution

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  • Space Age Furniture Company Case Study

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    Space Age Furniture Company

    Read “Space Age Furniture Company” in Chapter 9 of your text. Respond to the following and include any Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) calculations:

    • Develop an MRP for Space Age Furniture Company using the information in the case including the production of sub-assemblies in lot sizes of 1,000.
    • The lot size of 1,000 for sub-assemblies has produced a lumpy demand for part 3079. Suggest ways for improvements over sub-assemblies in lot sizes of 1,000.
    • Analyze the trade-off between overtime costs and inventory costs.
    • Calculate a new MRP that improves the base MRP.
    • Compare and contrast the types of production processing—job shop, batch, repetitive, or continuous—and determine which the primary mode of operation is and why.
    • Describe ways that management can keep track of job status and location during production.
    • Recommend any changes that might be beneficial to the company and/or add value for the customer.

    The final case study should demonstrate your understanding of the reading as well as the implications of new knowledge. The paper should integrate readings, scholarly sources, and class discussions into work and life experiences. It may include explanation and examples from previous events as well as implications for future applications.

    The purpose of the final case study is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by describing your understanding and application of knowledge in the field of operations management.

    11 Pages

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    spaceagefurniture.docx

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  • BUS 640 Week 4 Assignment

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    BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems

    Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems. Please, complete the following 2 applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button.

    A small business which produces plastic vacuum-suction covers for round household dishes has a monopoly that is protected by a utility patent. The market demand curve for this product is estimated to be: – 25P where Q is the number of plate covers per year and P is in dollars. Cost estimation processes have determined that the firm’s cost function is represented by + 2500Q -0.25*Q2.

    (i) What is the profit-maximizing price and output level? Solve this algebraically for equilibrium P and Q and also plot the MC, D and MR curves and illustrate the equilibrium point.

    (ii) What profit do you expect that the firm will make in the first year?

    (iii) Do you expect this profit level to continue in subsequent years? Why or why not?

    2. Greener Grass Company (GGC) competes with its main rival, Better Lawns and Gardens (BLG), in the supply and installation of in-ground lawn watering systems in the wealthy western suburbs of a major east-coast city. Last year, GGC’s price for the typical lawn system was ,995 compared with BLG’s price of ,100. GGC installed 9,130 systems, or about 55% of total sales and BLG installed the rest. (No doubt many additional systems were installed by do-it-yourself homeowners since the parts are readily available at hardware stores.)

    GGC has substantial excess capacity—it could easily install 25,000 systems annually, as it has all the necessary equipment and can easily hire and train installers. Accordingly, GGC is considering expansion into the eastern suburbs, where the homeowners are less wealthy. In past years, both GGC and BLG have installed several hundred systems in the eastern suburbs but generally their sales efforts are met with the response that the systems are too expensive. GGC has hired you to recommend a pricing strategy for both the western and east¬ern suburb markets for this coming season. You have estimated two distinct demand functions, as follows:

    Qw =1,035.548 – 6.07164Pgw + 2.83Pbw + 2,100Ag – 1,500Ab + 0.2348Yw

    for the western market and

    Qe = 49,714.29 – 30.7692Pge + 6.984Pbe + 1,180Ag – 950Ab + 0.0825Ye

    for the eastern market, where Q refers to the number of units sold; P refers to price level; A refers to advertising budgets of the firms (in millions); Y refers to average disposable income levels of the potential customers; the subscripts w and e refer to the western and eastern markets, respectively; and the subscripts g and b refer to GGC and BLG, respectively. GGC expects to spend .5 million on advertising this coming year and expects BLG to spend .2 million on advertising. The average household disposable income is ,000 in the western suburbs and ,000 in the eastern suburbs. GGC does not expect BLG to change its price from last year, since it has already distributed its glossy brochures (with the ,100 price stated) in both suburbs, and its TV commercial has already been produced. GGC’s cost structure has been estimated as TVC 5 755.363Q 1 0.005Q2 where Q represents single lawn watering systems.

    a. Derive the demand curves for GGC’s product in each market.

    b. Plot graphically the demand and MR curves for each market, and also show GGC’s combined marginal revenue curve (MR) and its MC curve. Show graphically the quantities that should be produced and sold, and the prices that should be charged, in each market.

    c. Confirm your quantity and price results algebraically.

    d. Calculate the price elasticities of demand in each market and discuss these in relation to the prices to be charged in each market.

    e. Add a short note to GGC management outlining any reservations and qualifications you may have concerning your price recommendations.

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  • Preparing a Comprehensive Case Analysis, Part 1

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    BUS 490 assignment 1

    Preparing a Comprehensive Case Analysis, Part 1 (Sears)

    1. Identify the firm’s existing objectives and strategies.
    2. Explain one (1) strategy that the company might use to take advantage of an external opportunity, and one (1) strategy that the company might use to address a potential threat.
    3. Construct a Competitive Profile Matrix. Include the company you are researching and one or two (1 or 2) of its major competitors and at least six (6) success factors that you believe to be critical to success in this industry. This Matrix should follow the format of the examples in Chapter 3.
    4. Construct an External Factor Evaluation Matrix. This Matrix should follow the format of the examples in Chapter 3.
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