You have just begun work at XYZ Manufacturing Company. Among its benefits offerings is a generous qualified 401(k) plan with an employer match. In 2015, your annual salary is $45,000 and you are age 55. You’ve decided to contribute 10 percent of your annual salary to your 401(k) plan even though the Internal Revenue Service allows you to contribute up to $24,000 in 2015 ($18,000 plus a $6,000 catch up contribution for employees age 50 or more). The annual addition is $53,000.

Questions: 9-9. How much more money would you need to contribute to meet the allowable maximum contribution?

9-10. In 2015, the company offers a $0.75 match for each dollar that you contribute between 3 percent and 6 percent of your annual salary. How much is the company match based on your 10 percent contribution?

9-11. Based on the sum of your answers to questions 9-9 and 9-10, what is the difference between the IRS maximum annual addition for 2015 and the total contribution to your 401(k) plan?

Background
Amanda is the owner of CatsCafé located in Timmins, Ontario. In addition to the owner, CatsCafé employs 16 individuals (4 full-time (2 are managers) and 12 part-time). The café serves coffee, tea, soups, sandwiches and desserts. It has a small eat-in area for roughly 30 patrons. Amanda has heard about corporate social responsibility and that it is important but she doesn’t know much about it so she has come to you for advice.

Questions
1. Amanda doesn’t know what it means to implement a CSR strategy. What do you tell her?
2. What considerations should CatsCafé use when implementing its CSR strategy?
3. What knowledge and skills do the employees of CatsCafé need to implement CSR initiatives?
4. Amanda doesn’t know how the CSR initiative should be communicated. What do you advise?
5. Amanda doesn’t know what a CSR evaluation is. What do you tell her? Why are CSR evaluations important?

ABC Company a Northwest manufacturer makes woman’s shoes, for which demand is highly seasonal. The company has experienced difficulty in making accurate forecasts. The following table gives the quantity of hose sold by quarters in the last three years.   

Demand Quarter 1998 1999 2000 I 540 590 649 II 70 72 82 III 110 126 130 IV 443 460 510

Decompose the data series into trend and seasonal factors and make forecasts for each quarter in 2001

I need to prepare a budget for a one-day vaccine clinic at the outdoor parking lot with a booth on a basic spreadsheet with these things itemized in each budget.

1)The mission of the vaccine clinic and its target market - the same for both.

2)Budgets $ for staffing this clinic and the hours it will be open - detail needed on types of staff, salaries, wages, hours of the clinic.

3)Budgets for supplies - detail of items needs, cost and volumes needed.

4)Budget for marketing expenses to reach the target population - detail needed for costs and why these expenses are needed

No other information provided, I need to pick my own numbers and create the budget from scratch

Thanks

Brief two cases--

One that predates the ACA, and

One after ACA’s passage, that demonstrates the importance of compliance with these laws:

Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse claims for all applicable violations of CMS, False Claims Act.

describe the challenges managers face in today's business environment.

QUESTION 5     [10

A department has five employees and five jobs have been received which must be assigned to the employees for completion. The time (in hours) each person will take to complete each job is given in the table below. Assign the jobs so as to minimize the total number of man-hours required to complete the jobs. Identify the optimal assignments and compute the total minimum time required to complete

all jobs.                                                                                                                                  

Under which situations Earnings Per share goes up and stock price goes down ?

Try to find different reports on the same issue; e.g., results of political trends or opinions as reported by different news sources. For example, you might see a news segment on public opinion toward social security reform reported by CNN and by Fox news. If the survey opinions differ, think about why these results were different. For example, were the questions on one of the surveys biased, or was the sample appropriate, etc.

Q.1) Why is writing a business plan a critical step in starting a new business?

Q.2) What are the advantages of buying a business rather than starting one from scratch?

Q.3) What things should you consider when evaluating a franchise agreement?

Social Media: Foursquare is one of the leading providers of location-based social networking services. Millions of people use Foursquare for social engagement and friendly competition, and many business owners are starting to recognize the marketing potential of having people who are on the move in local areas broadcasting their locations and sharing information about stores, restaurants, clubs, and other merchants.

Your task: Review the information on Foursquare’s Merchant Platform. Now write four brief messages, no more than 140 characters long (including spaces). The first should summarize the benefits to stores, restaurants, and other brick-and-mortar businesses of participating in Foursquare, and the next three messages should convey three compelling points that support that overall benefit statement.

PLEASE! DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THE ANSWER ALREADY GIVEN ON CHEGG FOR THE SAME QUESTION!

thank you in advance:)

Fact: there are always costs associated with imitating resources and capabilities.

a. Fully explain why socially complex resources and capabilities are costly to duplicate by competitors. In fact, these types of resources and capabilities might not be subject to duplication at all.

b. Using one (1) specific business example (real or fictitious) of a situation where socially complex resources and capabilities exist, illustrate how possessing these unique resources and capabilities can specifically translate into a positive impact on performance.

Ideally, the performance management process should be outlined to a new employee during the recruitment and selection process. Commonly overlooked,discuss why this is an important activity to be auctioned by human resource practitioners.

Use the data below to answer the question parts (a) and (b). This data is for forecasting fure sale consdiering additive seasonality approach and answer related questions.

SHOW EACH CALCULATION STEP AND DESCRIBE IT

ROUND answers to 2 decimal points.

PART a) What is the seasonality index for second season (Q2) ?

Part b)   

Assume that we run the regression for the deseasonalized data after calculating seasonality index . We find that regression line slope is 0.4 , and intercept is 2.8. By considering the slope and intercept, what is your final forecast for second season of 2020 by considering both trend and seasonality?

For this assignment, you will take a position on whether “the image of the intermediary does not need to be consistent with the image of the brand" or "the image of the intermediary must match the image of the brand." Support your position with credible research.