So my company wants our employees to install Teramind in their personal computers during the pandemic because bosses are worried that our team will slack off. and I received the email from our manager today about it. Now being the senior team leader, I just need help writing the first paragraph, which will be a buffer for the rest of my email to the manager convincing him to not use Teramind so he can message the superiors. Buffer basically means that its the first defence against toxic messaging. [t is a meaningful, neutral statement that establishes rapport with the reader without forecasting the bad news. It reduces the surprise a reader might otherwise experience upon suddenly learning unpleasant news. With its conciliatory tone, the buffer puts the reader in a more agreeable frame of mind, helping to neutralize the bad news when it is finally revealed. A buffer can be an expression of agreement, appreciation, or general principle or a chronology of past communications. An effective buffer never misleads the reader into thinking that positive news will follow. Instead, it guides the reader toward the explanation, often by planting a keyword that carries over to the next paragraph. Internal messages on routine matters may not require buffers, but messages intended for superiors, customers, or job applicants benefit from the sensitivity this device helps to show. One thing you can also mention smoothly in the buffer for this situation is that employee output has been the same as before the pandemic too (eg: code, documentation etc)

Read the following email message, and do as directed: (10 marks each)

Analyze the message and point out the weaknesses, mention the points citing an example from the message.

Rewrite the message to improve the effectiveness.

Subject: Printing costs are out of control

I am not sure what everyone is printing or even who is doing all the unnecessary printing, but a look in the recycling bin showed a number of areas of waste:

Printouts of email messages

Unneeded copies of document

Draft copies of documents containing errors

Blank (or almost blank) sheets containing only page numbers or empty spreadsheet cells

This wasteful practice has to stop. Therefore, I had no choice but to remove all printers and photocopiers from the office and replace them with a single printer/photocopier.

This, of course, means that printing will not be as fast or as convenient as it has been, but the old machines were noisy, inefficient, and a possible cause of indoor pollution, so I know that everyone will welcome the change. I expect everyone to work towards reducing their thoughtless use of valuable resources by not printing out email messages, finding other ways to reduce paper waste, and sending large orders to Document Processing.

To ensure that this happens, the new printer/ copier will require you to enter an individual ID code before printing so that print volumes can be recorded. No further action will be taken with this information right now, but if wasteful printing is not reduced during next 3 months, heads will roll.

Brit has gone to the local BJ LoFi store to purchase a new mobile plan for her tablet computer. She has no real intention of getting a new tablet computer – the recent COVID-19 events have left her with no spare cash. She can afford a $40 a month plan at the moment on her budget.
As she enters the store, she sees a display with the well-known Fudge brand of tablet computers offering their latest award winning model, the “fTab”, on display for $10 a month with a $30 plan. Britt is over the moon – finally she has caught a break as she can afford this plan (which has all the features she wants) and the new tablet.
Brit goes up to Jaz, the sales assistant, and states clearly, “I accept the offer of a $10 fTablet on the $30 plan” pointing to the tablet computer on display.
Jaz looks up with alarm and says, “Oh no, not again! That should read $120 a month for the tablet on that plan. I can’t sell that to you at that price.”
“It’s too late – we have a contract,” states Brit sternly.
After Jaz continues to argue, Brit storms out saying that the store “Will be hearing from my lawyers.”
The Manager of the store has asked you to write a Memo (using the ILAC format) asking if Brit is correct – is there a contract? Use only the principles from Contract Law in your answer (i.e. do NOT use any Consumer Law). Make sure you mention all three principles of a simple apparent contract in your answer.

ABC Investments manages portfolios for a number of wealthy clients. They consider three investment types for their clients: a growth stock fund, an income fund, and a money market fund. For diversification purposes, they impose the following minimum and maximum percentages for each type of investment in each portfolio: Investment Type Minimum % Maximum % Growth Stock Fund 20% 40% Income Fund 20% 50% Money Market Fund 30% 60% The risk index and the annual yield forecast for each type of investment are as follows: Investment Type Risk Index Annual Yield Growth Stock Fund 0.1 18.0% Income Fund 0.07 12.5% Money Market Fund 0.01 7.5% Drexel has a new client with $800,000 to invest, and he would like the weighted average risk index of his portfolio to be no more than 0.05. Help Drexel come up with an investment plan that maximizes the expected annual yield of this client's portfolio.

a) If the client's risk index is increased to 0.055, how would the portfolio yield be affected?

b) If the annual yield for the growth stock fund decreased to 16%, how would the portfolio allocation be affected?

c) The client wants to add a constraint to ensure that the amount in the growth stock fund is no more than the amount invested in the income fund. Would this change the portfolio allocation - if so, how?

d) If the risk index of the income fund is revised downward to 0.06, how would this affect the portfolio yield?

Please use excel solver and mention all formulations!

1.  What information does the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement provide to various users? Why is the Income Statement constructed first and the Cash Flow Statement contructed last? What type of accounts are in each statement?

2. What is the difference between an accrual basis and cash basis of accounting? What type of companies might use each basis and why? What is GAAP and who determines GAAP? What is IFERs and what impact might it have in the future towards U.S. GAAP?

3. What is the accounting cycle? What types of accounting records are needed within this accounting cycle? How might an accounting system be expanded beyond the basic accounting records? What types of accounting checks are available to make sure we are constructing the statements accurately?

4. Identify and explain five theoritical concepts, assumptions and/or constraints that might be within an accrual basis of accounting, (i.e. matching concept). Give an example of an account affected by each theory you mention. What are some differences with U.S. GAAP and IFERs in certain financail accounting areas?

5. Identify five different accounts that might be affected by different accounting treatments, (i.e. inventory could be accounted for by the LIFO or FIFO cost flow assumptions).

6. How does the type of company, (service, merchandise or manufacturing) affect the accounting records?

7. How does the ownership of a company, (sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation affect the accounting records?

8. What limitations are present in the financial statements for various users? Be as specific as possible.

1. What is the function of skeletal muscle?

2. Describe the major components of skeletal muscle cels:

• Myofibrils
• Sarcomeres
• Motor unit
• Neuromuscular junction

3. How does skeletal muscle produce movement?

4. How do actin and myosin interact in a sarcomere to bring about muscle contraction? What roles do ATP and calcium play?

5. What is the functiion of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in muscle cell contraction?

6. Explain why calcium ions and ACh are vitals for muscle contraction.

7. What is a motor unit? Why does a rapid series of muscle twitches yield a stronger overall contraction than a single twitch?

8. What are the structural and functional differences between slow and fast muscle?

9. The__________and__________systems work together to move the body and specific body parts.

10. The 3 types of muscle tissue are:

11. Muscle fibers shorten when__________slides over__________

a. myosin, actin b. actin, myosin c. myoglobin, actin d. myosin, sarcomeres

12. The__________is the basic unit of muscle contraction.

a. myofibril b. sarcomere c. muscle fiber d. myosin filament

13. Skeletal muscle contraction requires__________

a. calcium ions b. ATP c. arrival of a nerve impulse d. all of the above

14. Nerve impulses first stimulate a skeletal muscle fiber at___________

a. T tubules b. sarcomeres c. neuromuscular junctions d. actin binding sites

15. Mention the muscles located in:

• Torax
• Abdomen
• Arms
• Legs
• Back
• Gluteus

Give more details on the following answer

Question:

Give a detailed explanation about what is happening with the oil prices.

mention coronavirus, OPEC, Saudi Arabia.

give references

Answer:

Oil prices is dropping.Major causes behind the fall is given below:

• Increase in Supply.
• Decrease in demand and
• fall of monopoly power in oil producers.

The price of oil sunk to levels not seen since 2002 as demand for crude collapses amid the coronavirus pandemic.Oil prices have fallen by more than half during the past month as companies cut back or close production.Oil prices failed to keep pace,with growing (coronavirus)lock down measures and that could drive global demand down 20%,potentially pushing the world to run out of storage capacity.

Organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC) controls almost 80%of the world's oil reserves.OPEC is the main influencer in fluctuations in oil prices.OPEC and its allies due to covid 19 outbreak,agreed to historic production cuts to stabilize prices,but they dropped to 20 years lows.Supply and demand influences oil prices to change.From global perspective,political instability in middle east causes oil prices to change.

Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil producer in the world.It will suffer financially from cheap oil.It can afford temporary falls in oil prices because they have substantial reserves.If low prices persist,Saudi Arabia may have to cut back on some of the social programms.

References:

BBC News(30 March 2020) Coronavirus:oil price collapses to lowest level for 18 years

Q1. Explain what companies should do to make employees contribute towards the strategic management process in the organization.

Q2. Why do many organizations fail to implement plans successfully?

Q 3&4 : Case: Maestro Pizza

Entering the food industry nowadays became harder than before. The people now pay extra attention to even small details when it comes to food. The variety of food kinds, the way the food being served, the quality of food, the price, and even the place decoration! Furthermore, there are tons of restaurants (competitors) those being in the food industry for decades which makes it even harder to compete with them. Not to mention if a new restaurant will serve one kind of food that already being served by other expert restaurants.

Here we talk about a new restaurant in Saudi Arabia that successfully entered the food industry and managed to compete existed restaurants who are serving the same kind of food for a long time and even considered the best in the world of serving such food! The restaurant's name is Maestro Pizza which is locally founded and operated by Saudi people. This restaurant has successfully dominated the market and stole the throne from underneath of many other pizza restaurants like Pizza Hut and Domino’s Pizza and others.

In the context of the above case analyze and provide solutions to the following questions:

Q3. Bargaining power of consumers.

Q4. Suggest strategies to differentiate Maestro Pizza products and services with its competitors.

Case Study

ABC Company observes that the confidentiality of their workers is compromised while using the eservices provided by the partner company. Further investigation has highlighted that whenever a user uses their unified profiles to access the partner’s company services from the relevant mobile application, their confidentiality is compromised and data theft patterns are observed. The situation is alarming and makes them focus on how the mobile application that gives access to partner’s eservices are vulnerable. Further investigation is done in this regard and it is found out that whenever a user sends a request to use any of the partner company’s eservice, only at that instance the confidentiality is being compromised. This may mean that the gateway at either one of the party’s end has already been compromised. Further investigation highlights that the cause is not the gateway but the common reusable APIs used in their mobile application. It is also noted that the same mobile application is working fine for the internal accessible services but start malfunctioning when partner company’s eservices are accessed. A team of researchers is hired to establish a framework of utilizing the known reusable component for unified service consumption from multiple sources considering the security dynamics of ABC country.

A : Identify the problem area from the above Case study description and elaborate how this problem area can be resolved using the current world technical solutions or tools.​​

​B: ​Highlight the titles of SIX (6) possible generic research design phases applied for any research.​
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​-Mention which of these highlighted phases are applicable in this case.
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​-Also highlight whether the research methodology be quantitative or qualitative in this case.