Tag: homeworks and essays

How many search results did you get after adding this database?

WRTG 393 students,

The following task is designed to expand your familiarity with UMUC’s Information and Library Service’s OneSearch function.

As with the previous two library tasks, completing this exercise will help inform your research for the white paper in our class.

Please watch library tutorial #3.  The tutorial is linked to at the top of the list of Content items for this week.

After you have watched the tutorial, please complete the following tasks.

1. Conduct a keyword search on a topic that interests you.  You can conduct the same search you made in one of our previous library exercises if you would like.

What word or phrase did you search on?

How many search results do you get?

2. Follow the instructions provided on the video and select a new database on the right-hand side of your screen.  Then answer the following questions:

What database did you select?

How many search results did you get after adding this database?

3. Next, locate the research guide for your major.  If you have not declared a major yet, please select one from that interests you from the options from the drop-down menu.

Peruse the research guide for that major.  Describe to the rest of the class in a few sentences any interesting resources you discovered.

If you have the same major as another student in the class, this would be a great time to  collaborate and share any resources you found with which others might no be familiar.

Topic:

Discovering How Companies Increase Performance and Profit Through Purchasing Automation.

The Vang Hotel

The Vang Hotel opened for business on May 1, 2012. Here is its trial balance before
adjustment on May 31.
VANG HOTEL
Trial Balance
May 31, 2012
Debit Credit
Cash $ 2,500
Prepaid Insurance 1,800
Supplies 2,600
Land 15,000
Buildings 70,000
Equipment 16,800
Accounts Payable $ 4,700
Unearned Rent Revenue 3,300
Mortgage Payable 36,000
Common Stock 60,000
Rent Revenue 9,000
Salaries and Wages Expense 3,000
Utilities Expense 800
Advertising Expense 500
$113,000 $113,000
Other data:
1. Insurance expires at the rate of $450 per month.
2. A count of supplies shows $1,050 of unused supplies on May 31.
3. Annual depreciation is $3,600 on the building and $3,000 on equipment.
4. The mortgage interest rate is 6%. (The mortgage was taken out on May 1.)
5. Unearned rent of $2,500 has been earned.
6. Salaries of $900 are accrued and unpaid at May 31.
Instructions
(a) Journalize the adjusting entries on May 31.
(b) Prepare a ledger using T accounts. Enter the trial balance amounts and post the adjusting
entries.
(c) Prepare an adjusted trial balance on May 31.

Identify what part of the ad fails to abide by the Principles for Ethical Communication

Question 01

Part I

Go to the following links and review the two advertisements.  Choose 1 of the ads and evaluate whether or not the ad effectively measures up to the characteristics of a technical document based on your reading of Chapter 1. Please note that I am not merely asking whether or not you like the commercial; you are to showcase your understanding of the reading through your analysis of the ad.  Respond to one other classmate.

Part II

Identify what part of the ad fails to abide by the Principles for Ethical Communication or contains unethical techniques as outlined in Chapter 2. How might the information have been presented more accurately.

Watch VideoCompare The Market Meerkat Baby Oleg Cute and Funny Commercials EverDuration: 5:08
User: n/a – Added: 11/10/16
Question 02

 

Myles Jordan must communicate effectively to his staff. A part of his job duties as Vice President of Marketing requires him to write memos to his team. These memorandaare, in turn, reviewed by company CEO, Brad Goodeye.

Part 1 – After you have read Chapter 14, analyze and respond to the written memo listed below, citing 3prominent errors of the memorandum. Make sure that you particularly analyze its weaknesses according to what you have learned about memos and are not merely responding to superficial issues or copying classmates’ posts.  Include whether you believe this is an effective technical document and why.

Part 2 – Should Mr. Jordan be removed from his duties as VP of Marketing? Support your position with concrete reasoning that clearly highlights your understanding of thechapter (not simply “yes” or “no”) and respond to another student’s posting (be sure to identify the student to whom you are addressing your response).  Your response to your peer should move beyond “I agree” or “I disagree” and add depth to the discussion.

MEMO

Date: March 23, 2013To: Lucia Smith, Manager, MarketingFrom: Mr. Myles Jordan, Vice President, MarketingSubject: Need HelpDear Lucia,In all probability, you probably know that the Marketing Division has the responsibility of planning the fall training conference to be held in Miami. Here are the speakers I have liked up for the training sessions. I’m thinking that on Tuesday, October 11, we sill have Marley A. Moody. Her scheduled topic is “Using E-Mail and IM Effectively.” Jackson J. Huggins said he could speak to our group on October 12 (Wednesday). “Leading Groups and Teams” is the topic for Huggins. The last speaker is Sebastian Estrada, scheduled for Thursday, October 13. Here are their email addresses–Estrada: [email protected]. Huggins: [email protected]. Moody: [email protected], you can help us make this one of the best traininsessions ever if you will do your job right. I need you to send each of these people an e-mail and confirm the dates and topics. Due to the fact that we must print the schedules soon, I will need this done asap!

President Obama has commissioned everyone to work hard. I expect you to do the same. Don’t hesitate to call if you have questions.

Sincerely,Myles Jordan

Excerpt modified from Business Communication: Process and Product by Mary EllenGuffey (c) 2008 Cenage Learning

the Halloween rush

Pick only one scenario below and decide what your reaction as project manager would in the situation you chose. Relate your response to all of the course readings/lectures in Project Management MGMT-260.

Scenario 1

One month prior to the delivery of a new patient billing system to your hospital system, the customer account manager proposed including an upgraded e-Mail receipt capability recently developed — at no additional cost to the customer. The change is expected to require additional development and test resources, but according to the account manager, will help “build a relationship” with the customer.

As project manager, what is your response?

Scenario 2

Your project is to get caramel apples to a client by the end of September in time for the Halloween rush. Your company is responsible for acquiring the apples, coating them in candy or caramel, and delivering them to the client. An apple vendor mismanaged its sanitation procedures, causing a listeria outbreak among 1/4 of your supply (you would never be so foolish as to rely on a single vendor). The other vendors are willing to supply the difference, but this may cause a delay in order fulfillment if you wait for all the batches to run before delivering to the client. Cost overruns are going to occur, and you have the choice to pass those costs on to the client.

As project manager, what is your response to the customer?

Scenario 3

An online bookstore is scheduled for launch in mid-May. The original target date was mid-April, but the client was late in providing the original data, the data was of poor quality, and several significant enhancements have been added to the site. In addition, a deposit was taken for the web work, but the work performed is well over twice that amount, and the client’s credit status is somewhat shaky. The client calls daily about the project, and if it is not completed soon (it is early May), the store risks losing its important sales for summer vacation reading.

As project manager for the Web site development firm, what do you say to the client?

the Initiation Process for implementing an Email System

Your organization has just completed the Initiation Process for implementing an Email System Upgrade. It was identified in a recent meeting with management leaders from the Sales, Consulting and IT departments that the current email system is causing significant amount of business interruptions and must be updated immediately. You have been assigned the role of project manager to develop the project schedule and budget. As project manager, you are responsible for implementing and enforcing the project schedule and its estimates, expected costs, and the techniques and methods that will be chosen to execute and control the project. The project is being initiated with the following initial project scope in mind:

  • There are five email systems currently being used across twelve departments and offices. These will be      replaced and consolidated into one email system.
  • New Email Standards and Protocols will be established and training provided to all departments.
  • All 2000 current email users will be converted to the new system, and 500 new users that did not have email before will be added.
  • Users will have both LAN and remote access to email.
  • Help desk and support infrastructure will be set-up to accommodate the new system.
  • Equipment will be salvaged.

User PCs will be upgraded to accommodate the new email system.

Assignment:

800 words.

There are various ways of forecasting the schedule and cost of a project. You know that the forecasting techniques that you use and their accuracy will affect the CIO’s perspective on your work. Your CIO would now like for you to address the following issues in a presentation for the various staff members involved in the project:

  • What are the advantages of inflating  a project based on PERT estimating or incorporating risk?
  • What are the disadvantages of inflating a project based on PERT estimating or incorporating risk?
  • How does this technique compare with estimating or forecasting techniques you have used in the past?

Game Theory

“Game Theory and Segmentation” Please respond to the following:

•Read the article titled “Game Theory” at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/GameTheory.html. In the article, the authors discussed a classic case of game theory (zero-sum games) of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). There are many variations of this game in use. Suggest the manner in which organizations could apply PD to their business’ strategy formulation. Provide support for your response.

•Refer to “Case 11 Ford and the World Automobile Industry in 2015” located in the “Excess Capacity” section, page 542 in your textbook, or use the Internet to research two to three (2-3) articles on the North American automobile and its market segments. Next, analyze the key ways that segmentation provides a competitive advantage or disadvantage to the North American automobile. Provide a rationale for your response.

the Original Post

GRADED DISCUSSION WEEK 5

Please note that if you edit your initial response (Original Post), you will not get credit for the Original Post. The discussions are set up as “Must post first”.

EVALUATION OF PORTFOLIO BETA AND THE REQUIRED RETURN ON STOCK

The tendency of a stock’s price to move up and down with the market is reflected in its beta coefficient. Therefore, beta is a measure of an investment’s market risk, and is a key element of the CAPM.

In this part of the project, you get financial information using Yahoo!Finance (found at http://finance.yahoo.com/ )

To find a company’s beta, enter the desired stock symbol and request a basic quote. Once you have the basic quote, select the “Key Statistics”. Scroll down this page to find the stock’s beta.

In your initial response to the topic you have to answer all 5 questions.

You are expected to make your own contribution in a main topic as well as respond with value added comments to at least two of your classmates as well as to your instructor.

From Yahoo!Finance obtain a report on any two companies.

What are the betas listed for these companies?

If you made an equal dollar investment in each stocks what would be the beta of your portfolio?

If you made 70% of dollar investment in stock A, and 30% of dollar investment in stock B, what would be the beta of your portfolio? Please how your work.

Apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Security Market Line to estimate the required return on these two stocks. Assumptions and Data: Note that you will need the risk-free rate and the market risk premium. Assume a 5% market risk premium. To get the current yield on 10-year Treasury securities go to Finance!Yahoo’s (www.finance.yahoo.com) -click on Market Data – Bonds. You will use the current yield on 10-year Treasury securities as the risk-free rate to estimate the required rate of return on stocks. Please show your work.

Compare the required return on these stocks calculated using CAPM in question #4 against their historical return over the last 52 weeks, found in the Yahoo!Finance – Key Statistics. Is there a difference between these returns? Is this a problem? Why is there a difference?

Assignment Overview

Pivot Table and Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis

Assignment Overview

You are the lead consultant for the Diligent Consulting Group. It is mid-October. One of your top clients, Sunshine Floor Barn, has just closed the books for the first three quarters of the year (January through September). Sunshine Floor Barn requests that you analyze the sales performance of its 5 product lines over this 3-quarter period. From past consulting work you have done for the company, you know that Sunshine Floor Barn has 4 regions and 18 total store locations. Each Regional Manager at the company has compiled the data for his/her region. The raw data provided consists of the sales revenue for each of the 5 premium flooring lines for all 4 regions and 18 locations for the first three quarters of the current year.

Case Assignment

The data have been provided in list format. Generate a Pivot Table Report with Charts. Use the Pivot Table and Charts to analyze the data. Following your in-depth analysis of the data, write a report to Sunshine Floor Barn in which you discuss and analyze the data, and make appropriate recommendations relative to how Sunshine Floor Barn should improve its sales performance going forward.

Strategy Integration and Synthesis

Title: Strategy Integration and Synthesis

Write a 3 page analysis focused on the role of strategy, its relationship to different business activities across an organization, and how these business activities inform the formulation and implementation of strategy for your selected firm.

1. Explain why strategy is important and what impacts it has on an organization.

2. Explain how strategy is formulated.

3. Explain how strategy can be effectively integrated and implemented.

4. Are there places in the identification and development of strategy where an organization could make critical mistakes? If so, how would you recommend an organization avoid doing this?

5. How does strategy help an organization? Why not just make a tactical plan and complete the relevant activities?

6. What are key barriers to organizations successfully implementing strategy?

7. Does successful implementation of strategy always provide a win for an organization?

8. Is there a situation where an organization can implement its strategy flawlessly and still not win in the marketplace?

9. Analyze how strategy informs (and how is it informed by) key activities of your firm, including leadership, marketing, accounting, finance, and others.

Conclusion

· Logically summarize analysis

****IMPORTANT****

· 3 pages without Title page and Reference

· APA format: 5 academic sources

· Minimum 5 sentence complete paragraphs