You have been asked to join the board of a large corporation. From what you learned in this week’s module, what would be some of the questions that you should ask and what are the answers that you are expecting? Explain the Sarbanes and Oxley Act of 2002 and impact on corporate governance. Please read and respond to the above questions.
You should submit a paper proposal of no less than 500 words. This will be a preliminary discussion of the topic for your research paper (see the syllabus for more on the paper itself). The proposal should give an overview of the problem (i.e. what’s the moral issue?), and also give a sketch of your argument. Remember that your topics need to involve or be associated with business or economics. For example, writing about gun control would not be an appropriate topic. However, writing about whether or not major retailers should sell guns would be acceptable. In short, make sure your topic has to do with business and/or economics. Of course, since this is just the proposal, you do not need to have done all the research you intend to do yet but there should be some indications that you have done at least some of it.
You are a project manager for a large electronics retailer (for example, Best Buy) who will be implementing a new time-keeping system to track hourly and salaried employees’ time and attendance. You have been asked to develop a balanced scorecard that can be used to manage the effectiveness of this project. Create a balanced scorecard for the financial, customer, business, and learning aspects of the project and insert it onto the discussion board. Explain how you will measure the effectiveness of the project.
You are a project manager on a project that uses earned value management. The project has the following budget and status: Project Duration (months): 14 Current Reporting Period (month): 6 BAC: $387,000 Cumulative PV: $68,345 Cumulative AC: $78,379 % of the project completed through the reporting period: 19% Estimate to Complete: $294,677 Based on this information, determine the following: Cumulative EV Schedule Variance (SV) Schedule Performance Index (SPI) Cost Variance (CV) Cost Performance Index (CPI) EAC (bottom-up) VAC (bottom-up) TCPI Based on your calculations in Question 1 above, respond to the following: What is the status of project accomplishment performance through the current reporting period? Why? What is the status of project cost performance through the current reporting period? Why? Is the project projected to complete over- or underbudget? Why? Interpret the TCPI metric. Based on your calculations in Question 1 above, an inexperienced and arrogant project analyst from the project management office has computed an additional metric: Cost Schedule Index, which equals SPI * CPHe wants you to report this metric to the customer, instead of SPI and CPI separately. What should you do and why? The Program Manager doubts your numbers. In particular, he does not believe your EAC number and requests that you calculate the EAC NOT assuming future performance will behave like past performance. Compute EAC when cost performance is negative and schedule dates must be met: EAC = AC + [(BAC EV) / (CPI × SPI)] Compute EAC using actual costs to date and assuming ETC uses budgeted rate: EAC = AC + (BAC EV) Interpret the results of the EAC in a. Interpret the results of the EAC in b. Based on items a-d above, what do you think the Program Manager will request from you regarding the bottom-up EAC? You are having a hallway conversation with the same project analyst from Question 3 who is realizing that he may not know as much about earned value management as he thought when he joined the company. Still, he is convinced that the following statements below are correct. How would you respond to him based on each statement (i.e., formulate a specific response and supporting rationale for each statement below)? EAC becomes Cumulative AC at project completion. Cumulative EV can be greater than BAC at project completion. EAC can be smaller than BAC at project completion. ETC can be greater than 0 at project completion.
You are summoned to use Microsoft Excel to create a budget worksheet. If you specifically do not have earnings and expenses, you can create by thinking of what you will earn in the future and what expenses, savings, and discretionary you will have. Following criteria are minimum, but you should be creative and use as many topics as you learned in this section. rename the worksheet appropriately write down each category in a column put in your estimated budget for the month for each category (2 decimal places) put in all your actual earnings and expenses for a month for each category (2 decimal places) calculate the total earnings and total expenses (2 decimal places) calculate the difference between earning and expenses use the currency formatting for budget use the accounting formatting for actual all headings and categories should be bold format for printing in one page add in the header and footer appropriately (with your name, worksheet name, date and time, page , etc.)
Write a paper (1,600-1,800 words) in which you address the following based on the information provided in the ‘West Coast Transit Case Study’ resource. Describe the three criteria for evaluating effective team/group work (as stated in the textbook) and use the criteria to analyze the effectiveness of the team. Review each of the five stages of group formation. Determine what stage(s) are evident in the case and provide a justification of your response. Apply Schein’s three behavioral profiles to specific members of the team. Identify how the profiles are demonstrated in the case. Evaluate whether the communication among the participants in the case was effective or not. Justify your answer by considering any existing barriers to communication. Review the two main types of conflicts described in the textbook. Explain how each type of conflict is evident in the case. Propose how Denson should resolve the conflict in this case using one direct conflict management approach. Justify your response as to why this is the most realistic direct conflict management approach given the existing dynamics between and among team members. Identify one specific leadership activity and one specific maintenance activity that should be encouraged. Identify the most significant disruptive behavior that should be discouraged. Identify a significant motivational problem experienced by each individual: Jing, Mahonney, and Tanney. Describe how Denson should motivate each person. Be sure to provide a specific motivational suggestion for each person based on their motivational needs. Ensure that you have at least one suggestion from each of the motivational theory/techniques: content theories, process theories, and reinforcement strategies. You are required to use at least two external scholarly sources in addition to the textbook and the case study resource. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. MGT-420-RS-West-Coast-Transit-Case-Study-2.docx
write a summary of minimum 250 words from the book: Principles of Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach, 3rd Edition 12 point Times New Roman, double spaced Chapter 5 DEMAND FORECASTING Forecasting is only one of the three key activities in CPFR [Collaborative Planning,Forecasting and Replenishment]. Planning is the process of working together to organizeand to resolve key barriers to rapid and efficient delivery of goods in the supply chain.Replenishment is the activity of accomplishing timely, accurate and complete fulfillmentbetween partners in the supply chain and between distribution centers and sellinglocations. The middle activity, Forecasting, has to have as its end result a reliable orderforecast that the supplier actually uses to drive acquisition and manufacturing tosupport on time and complete shipping. Many companies have spent a lot of effort oncollaborative forecasting, but few are addressing order forecasting. Those partnersthat are not arriving at an order forecast actually used by the supplier are not gettingat the heart of the matter.Larry Smith, West Marine1Learning Objectives After completing this chapter, you should be able to¢Explain the role of demand forecasting in a supply chain.¢Identify the components of a forecast.¢Compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative forecasting techniques.¢Assess the accuracy of forecasts.¢Explain collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment.
Write an analysis in which you select two publicly-traded companies within the same industry and present the DuPont analysis for each of these companies. Write a research report that outlines the topics – Explain how the debt has served to influence the ROE DuPont performance results for each company you choose, and then describe how volatility plays a role in the debt choices in the context of this DuPont analysis. Explore the factors that influence the valuation of equity. Consider each of the following capital structure theories: the trade-off theory, the signaling theory, the debt financing to constrain the manager’s argument, and the pecking order hypothesis. Describe each of capital structure theories, and then order them in terms of which theory you believe to be most persuasive down to which you believe to be least persuasive. Form arguments defending your rankings and reference and discuss related academic studies to support your position.
Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following questions: Why is it important for health care leaders to have a strong and positive mentor? Provide specific examples. Do you have a mentor? If so, share your experiences. If not, how might you find one?
Words can be intelligible, cultural and storied. It may mean different things to you and to others. It may have one, several to many meanings, depending on where and who you are.’ Pick one word or one phrase you feel you can write about to show you understand this. According to Communications and Culture: Define it. 2. Explain its significance and meaning to you and us in our society 3. connect/refer to some topics /concepts from course lectures Other external book references will not be accepted. APA citation and references not required. No Cover Page Required – name and section on page header right No. of Pages: 3 font size: 10 single-spaced
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