You are the appointed Supply Chain Manager for a company that manufactures and sells its products to retailers and to end consumers. The company uses its own trucks to deliver to retailers and UPS for its online orders to deliver to end consumers.

Apply your understanding of the 5 components of Supply Chain by explaining to me as your CEO how are you going to successfully plan, source material & equipment, manufacture, deliver and handle returned items. Give examples and elaborate as necessary.

Remember the 5 basic components are:

1. Planning

2. Sourcing

3. Making

4. Delivering

5. Returning

Note to students: the exercise is meant to be individual and unique to every student. That is why the assignment is not limited to a specific brand or product.

Grading Criteria - Rubric

This assignment will be graded out of 15 marks as follows:

Presentation 3 marks

Cover page, organization, neatness

Word processed, spelling, grammar, medium, quality of in class presentation, clarity, interest, understanding.

Note: Proper citation of references is required (MLA or APA format)

It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the proper procedure for maintaining academic honesty. You can also seek assistance from Student Services in understanding the policy and procedures for Academic Honesty.

Content 6 marks

Demonstrated understanding of the subject matter (i.e.. not simply cutting and pasting content from websites)

Analysis 6 marks

Logic, methodology, originality, creativity

MGMT5018 Individual Assignment 1

Week 3 MGMT 5018 Individual Assignment # 1, Due in Week 4 - 15% of Overall Mark
You are the appointed Supply Chain Manager for a company that manufactures and sells its products to retailers and to end consumers. The company uses its own trucks to deliver to retailers and UPS for its online orders to deliver to end consumers.
Apply your understanding of the 5 components of Supply Chain by explaining to me as your CEO how are you going to successfully plan, source material & equipment, manufacture, deliver and handle returned items. Give examples and elaborate as necessary.
Remember the 5 basic components are:
1. Planning
2. Sourcing
3. Making
4. Delivering
5. Returning

Note to students: the exercise is meant to be individual and unique to every student. That is why the assignment is not limited to a specific brand or product.
Grading Criteria - Rubric

This assignment will be graded out of 15 marks as follows:

Presentation 3 marks

Cover page, organization, neatness

Word processed, spelling, grammar, medium, quality of in class presentation, clarity, interest, understanding.

Note: Proper citation of references is required (MLA or APA format)

It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the proper procedure for maintaining academic honesty. You can also seek assistance from Student Services in understanding the policy and procedures for Academic Honesty.

Content 6 marks

Demonstrated understanding of the subject matter (i.e.. not simply cutting and pasting content from websites)

Analysis 6 marks

Logic, methodology, originality, creativity

Accounting Changes-Depreciation
Described below are two independent and unrelated situations involving accounting
changes. Each change occurs during 2016 before any adjusting entries or closing entries
were prepared.
a. On December 30, 2012, Rival Industries acquired its office building at a cost of
$1,000,000. It was depreciated on a straight-line basis assuming a useful life of 40
years and no salvage value. However, plans were finalized in 2016 to relocate the
company headquarters at the end of 2020. The vacated office building will have a
salvage value at that time of $700,000.
b. At the beginning of 2013, the Hoffman Group purchased office equipment at a cost of
$330,000. Its useful life was estimated to be 10 years with no salvage value. The
equipment was depreciated by the sum-of-the years’-digits method. On January 1,
2016, the company changed to the straight-line method.
Instructions:
a. Briefly describe the way company should report this accounting change in the
financial statements.
b. Prepare any 2016 journal entry related to the change.

The natural rate of unemployment is the unemployment rate at which the inflation rate has no tendency to increase or decrease.​ However, the natural rate of unemployment is not fixed. What causes changes in the natural rate of​ unemployment? Which of the following will not cause the natural rate of unemployment to​ change?

A. Many previous periods with high rates of unemployment.

B. Changes in the money supply resulting from monetary policy.

C. Changes in labor market institutions.

D. Changes in an​ economy's demographics.

E. All of the above can cause changes.

True or false and explain why.

List some of the changes that can occur late in life, which affect living arrangements. How many are positive changes? How many are negative changes? In what way?

If we want to assess changes in the real economic activity in an economy, why do we use changes in real GDP for finding an answer, instead of changes in nominal GDP?

Brief down in at least 200 words of what do you think about the following summary of an article related to the impact of COVID-19 on mergers and acquisitions. Include your personal views about the following article summary statement.

The article first opens up talking about the effect that COVID-19 has already had on the economy and businesses whether it meant them closing for good, furloughing their employees or consumer spending declining tremendously. Richard D. Harroch, David A. Lipkin, and Richard V. Smith, the authors of this piece state that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have recovered from economic crisis in the past such as the “dot-com bubble” in 2000-2002 as well as the Great Recession of 2007-2009, but they believe that this time it may be a lot different. Coronavirus isn’t just making an impact on the financial system but also the way deals are having to be made. With the majority of businesses working from home or remote locations, effect use of technology and techniques become critical as the environment has changed. Later in the article, M&A deal activity and how it has changed since the beginning of the pandemic is discussed. It is stated that in the first quarter merger and acquisition levels have fallen by more than fifty percent and most of the transactions from that quarter were done before the crisis became global. The writers also believe that these transactions have slowed down because companies that are usually strategic buyers were having to focus on the future health of the company and not so much about growth. Moving along they also talked about the changes that would need to be made to ensure that these deals could get completed. This article has shown how big of an effect that COVID-19 has had on businesses and mergers or acquisitions in the past six months or so.

The riskless rate for this period is 3.5%, and the covariance between returns on IBM stock and the S&P500 over this period is 0.02276.

1E. What is the variance of the S&P500 over this period? 2 points

1F. What is IBM’s CAPM beta according to this data? 5 points

1G. What is IBM’s CAPM cost of equity according to this data? 5 points

1H. If IBM’s debt to equity ratio is 0.57, what is their unlevered cost of equity according to this model? 5 points