Anazi Leather Company manufactures leather handbags and moccasins. The company has been using the single plantwide factory overhead rate method but has decided to evaluate the multiple production department factory overhead rate method to allocate factory overhead.  The factory overhead estimated per unit together with direct materials and direct labor will help determine selling prices.

​Handbags = 60,000 units, 3 hours of direct labor

Moccasins= 40,000 units, 2 hours of direct labor

Total budgeted factory overhead cost = $360,000

The company has two different production departments: Cutting and Sewing. The Cutting Department has a factory overhead budget of $80,000.  Each unit will require 1 direct labor hour or a total of 100,000 direct labor hours.

​The Sewing Department estimates factory overhead in the amount of $280,000. Handbags require 2 hours of sewing time, and Moccasins require 1 hour for a total of 160,000 direct labor hours.

Using the multiple production department factory overhead rate method, compute the total factory overhead to be allocated to each product using direct labor hours as the allocation base.

College has not been easy for you, but you made it through this far and should be proud of yourself. Over the course of your college education, you more than likely faced several life factors that played a role in the grades you received. In other words, what activities did you spend a lot of time doing away from class and studying, like working, family, video games, partying, etc.

In a one (1) page, double-spaced Word document, with margins set at 1" all around, discuss some of those activities and in particular, choose one that you spent more time doing than any other. Now, consider the time, in hours per week, spent enjoying your most favorite activity and compare it to the time, in hours per week, you spent studying for this course. Finally, look at your current grade for this course. Describe the correlation between your favorite activity and your grade for this course? If you were to graph it, what would it look like? What could you do to change it without jeopardizing fun activities? Finally, do you believe there is a correlation between a high GPA and a good paying job? Why or why not?

What is Leadership? Develop a three-paragraph essay that explains what it is, provides several characteristics, and gives a few examples past and present.

1. Give examples of security measures that might be used to control information security, personnel security, and health hazard security issues.

2. Should the federal and state governments enact tougher laws or regs to deal with security violators? If so, what are your recommendations?

Question 4 . Using an example of private higher institution ,discuss the steps in the planning process.

CASE STUDY: Jack Morton Worldwide recasts storytelling as a sales enabler for Marriott International

Background

Marriott International was seeking a new way to engage and align its Asia-Pacific sales and marketing teams. Jack Morton proposed a conference to create an experience that would educate associates via internal and external speakers, simultaneously allowing them to network, team build, and learn from each other. At the same time Marriott also wanted to celebrate the company’s success of the past year, recognize team efforts and continue to drive results. Storytelling, as a concept, provided the basis for the development of an immersive and compelling experience. This aligned
with Jack Morton’s corporate philosophy that extraordinary experiences define brands and transform businesses.

Idea

To engage the sales and marketing associates in an inspiring way, the agency created the conference’s key event ID ‘Get your story on’ and tagline ‘Shape It. Sell It. Share It.’, which became the driving force of the overall story arc and agenda of the conference. Jack Morton worked with Marriott to co-create the content and design of the conference around the event ID and tagline. The goal was to encourage and motivate teams, representing the breadth of all the Marriott brands, to build their own stories, giving them the tools and confidence to embrace the practice of storytelling in their day-to-day work. ‘Get your story on’ provided associates with the building blocks for storytelling and insights into reflecting on business results, sharing business priorities, content development, and defining the brand. Idea To engage the sales and marketing associates in an inspiring way, the agency created the conference’s key event ID ‘Get your story on’ and tagline ‘Shape It. Sell It. Share It.’, which became the driving force of the overall story arc and agenda of the conference. Jack Morton worked with Marriott to co-create the content and design of the conference around the event ID and tagline. The goal was to encourage and motivate teams, representing the breadth of all the Marriott brands, to build their own stories, giving them the tools and confidence to embrace the practice of storytelling in their day-to-day work. ‘Get your story on’ provided associates with the building blocks for storytelling and insights into reflecting on business results, sharing business priorities, content development, and defining the brand.

Execution

The conference took place at the JW Marriott, Hanoi, from 2 to 5 February, and included a Vietnamese-themed welcome reception, an MTV-inspired gala awards night, a fashion show and team-building activities, which enabled contributions to various charities. The agency oversaw and managed external facilitators and speakers who helped drive the discussion around storytelling. The theme was reinforced from the first pre-event communication throughout the conference. Onsite, associates learned how to share their stories with others and bring them to life in the most compelling and memorable way. A highlight of the conference was a unique fashion show choreographed by Jack Morton. It aligned the core values and brand attributes of each Marriott hotel group and tied them back to well-known fashion labels.
This demonstrated to associates that storytelling can be a multi-sensory experience. In designing the audience experience, Jack Morton implemented concepts from Meetingsimagined.com, Marriott’s own new website, where it shares ideas and inspirations with the world to fuel more thoughtful and purposeful meeting designs.

Results

About 350 sales and marketing associates, including the global and Asia-Pacific management team, brand marketing team, associates from sales and marketing from the corporate office and local markets and hotels (general managers, sales and marketing directors, marketing managers) across the Asia-Pacific region attended. The event provided them with the tools and confidence to tell their Marriott story and help them customize it to different customer groups. In addition, a collection of post-event videos summarizing key messages from workshops will circulate to associates who were unable to attend, ensuring they also have the opportunity to implement storytelling into their day-to-day business operations. The case demonstrates how a well executed internal communications effort can help improve external comms and help drive bottom line performance. http://www.prweek.com/article/1338228/internal-­?event-­?helps

Discussion questions on how internal coms plays a part in the total customer brand experience and how that plays out in the PR process.

Please answer the following questions and discuss:

What was the objective?

What was the strategy?

How did they execute it?

How could they have evaluated/measured the success of the event?

How do employees (in general and in this specific case) affect the PR process and the customer's brand experience?

write a paragraph in your own word about 13.1 The importance of offering a product suitable for the intended

an us company has two manufacturing plants one in UAE and one in another country. Both produce the same items,eath for sale in their perspectives countries. However their productivity figures are quite different. The analyst thinks this is because the UAE plan uses more automated equipment for processing while the other uses a high percentage for labor.
1-explain how that factor can cause productivity figures to be misleading.
2-Is there another way to compare the two plants that would be more meaningful?

You are given four examples of Business Processes below. For each example, you are to generate a complete Business Process Flow diagram and a detailed Swimlane diagram. The Swimlane diagram should also include labels on the connectors or a legend to describe the type of data that is flowing between blocks. Each example should have at least 1 alternate or non-ideal path in addition to the ideal “sweet” path. Each example should have at least 5 major blocks in the flow process and at least 2 actors.

Business Processes:

1. Car Sales
2. Payroll
3. Helpdesk Ticket Submission/Resolution
4. User Account Creation, Access Privileges, and Termination for New Employee

a) Discuss George Wiedemann’s LaunchPad concept as it relates to NPD. (b) Write him a 1-2 page memo as his consultant discussing ways to use LaunchPad going forward.

Summarize each section in a paragraph in your own word

15.1 The variety of distribution channels and how they affect cost and efficiency in marketing
15.2 The Japanese distribution structure and what it means to Japanese customers and to competing importer of goods
15.3 How distribution patterns affect the various aspects of international marketing
15.4 The function, advantages, and disadvantages of various kinds of middleman
15.5 The importance of selecting and maintaining middlemen
15.6 The growing importance of e-commerce as a distribution alternatives

15.7 The interdependence f physical distribution activities.

1. List and discuss the three payment-determination bases.
2. Explain the difference between a specific services payment unit compared to a bundled services payment unit.
3. What are the three major ways that health care providers can control their revenue function?
4. What are the three factors that influence pricing?
5. Why does market share matter to a health care provider?
6. What contract provision will best protect a hospital being paid on a DRG basis for inpatient services from a catastrophic patient?
7. Why should providers seek whenever possible to minimize health plan rate differentials?
8. What can a health care provider vary across different payers?
9. What is the best way to compare hospital costs?
10. What measure(s) is used directly as one of the means of determining the reasonableness of a hospital’s charges?
11. What are the four major activities of a health plan?
12. Explain coordination of benefits.
13. What does a high deductible health plan with a savings option include?
14. What is a withhold feature for payment to health care providers?
15. What promotes the growth of Integrated Delivery Systems?
16. Why are capitation plans more common for physician payments?
17. The James Clinic is an organization of 100 physicians in a variety of specialties. They recently contracted with Prudential Health Plan on a capitated basis to provide all medical services to Prudential's members for the next three years. What would this HMO model be defined as?
18. What provision would a medical group include in its contract with an HMO to receive larger PMPM payments if the HMO members are chronically ill?
19. You are trying to establish a PMPM rate for Primary Care Physicians. Actuarial estimates project 2,500 visits per 1,000 members per year. You have contracted with a Primary Care Medical group at $45.00 per visit with a $5.00 copayment that you will receive. What PMPM rate should you set?
20. An HMO has a Point of Service (POS) option for its members, but will pay only 80% of approved charges. If a member goes out of network for a medical procedure with a charge of $2,000, of which $1,200 is approved, how much must the member pay?
21. A hospital has contracted with an HMO to provide acute care inpatient services for $1,000 per day, subject to a 10% withhold. The proposed budget for inpatient services is based upon expected utilization of 600 days per 1,000 members at $1,000 per day, or $600,000 per 1,000 members. The hospital risk pool will be split equally between the hospital and a primary care physician group. If only 450 days per 1,000 members were utilized in the first year, how much would the hospital be paid per 1,000 members?
22. A nursing home contracts with an HMO for skilled nursing care at $2.00 PMPM. If costs are expected to average $120 per day, what is the maximum utilization of days per 1,000 members that the nursing home can experience before it begins to lose money?

1. a) Describe the new products process and point out why each component is important. b) Discuss how to develop a good quality PIC.

1) A woman wishes to attend an all male, publicly supported college. She claims the college is violating the equal protection clause of the Constitution. What level of scrutiny will the court use when deciding this case?

2) When Mohammad was hired by Pomico, Inc., he signed the following agreement, "Upon termination of my employment with Pomico, I agree not to work for a competing company within 50 miles of Pomico's headquarters for one year."

3) An agreement that relieves one part of liability for injury or damages caused by his/her negligence is called a(n):

4) If the title of an appellate court case appears as Jones v. Smith

5) Jaime offered to buy Kevin's bike, Jaime is the offeror.

True

False

write a paragraph in your own word about 16.1 Local market characteristics that affect the advertising and promotion of product