Please construct 1 full page memo on Starbucks Co. Information must be relevant to the last 5 years. Please list the reference links used for conducting the research. Construct the memo answering the questions below.

• An introduction in which you describe the company, their position in the industry, their history over the last five years, and why you are interested in researching the company.
• A top level analysis of the company. Are they a job order or a process system company? What type of company are they? How are they organized relative to centralized or decentralized? What are the major drivers of their costs? How do they capture and measure their cost? Your analysis should include research using the web into publicly available articles, analyst reports, and blog sites. You will note these sources on your reference page.

No matter what your business, to stay in business you have to attract and retain customers. How do you do that? One way is to deliver a quality product or service in a high-quality manner. In other words, it is a combination of what is offered and how it is offered that determines whether a buyer will become a loyal customer. Training is one way to make sure that employees’ technical skills and customer-service skills meet customer expectations. When making a business decision, two basic elements are typically considered: costs and benefits. In the case of training, the issues are: (1) how much does the training reduce costs? and (2) how much does the training increase revenues? If the training sufficiently reduces costs and/or increases revenues, then there is a strong business case to conduct the training. Your ability to identify the potential sources of revenue and costs and to estimate their levels can be an important business skill. It can be the basis by which you can successfully make the case for needed training for your employees.

1) Given your answers to the previous questions (1. How much does the training reduce cost? and 2) How much does the training increase revenues - no data necessary), estimate the combined impact on the bottom line of direct and indirect savings generated by training. Extrapolate this number over a one- or two-year time period.

2) As you have read, training can increase revenue. The revenue could come from increased quality of the customer experience due to the impact of training. Consider, as an example, the following table of customer survey responses before and after training. The number are percentages of customers in each satisfaction category six months before and six months after employees received their training. A key change is a reduction in the "Very dissatisfied-will never return" category of customers, which fel from 15 to 5 percent.

A) What will this 10-percent change mean to the bottom line? Assume that the avergae revenue renerated per month by a customer is $500. Also assume that you have 500 customers.

B) What is the increased revenue due to the training for the past six months?

C) What would be the revenue generated if you had 1,000 customers?

3)  Make assumptions about the costs in each of these direct cost categories and any other direct costs you can think of. Also assume that you can expect a 10-percent reduction in each of these categories. Generate the direct cost savings estimate due to the training. Training can also impact the bottom line by reducing indirect costs. These are costs that may not be obvious, but that are still important. For example, the safety of work processes or equipment can be improved due to training if workers handle materials or equipment more safely. Employee turnover can also be reduced, because of improved job satisfaction due to the training.

4)Assume that training results in a 10-percent reduction in your turnover rate. Also, assume that the cost of a turnover is 1.5 times the departing employee’s salary. For a given average employee salary of your choosing, estimate the reduced costs due to the reduction in turnover.

Is all of this correct?

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The firm, competing in a very highly competitive market, is manufacturing and selling headphones. The firm’s total revenue and cost functions are:

Rq=q3+14q2+35q+40

Cq=13q3+20q2+19q+15

1. How many headphones must the firm manufacture and sell to maximize profits?
2. What will be the price the firm must charge to its customers to maximize profits?
3. What will be the average revenue generated for each unit sold and what will be the average cost of producing a headphone?

Alternative Inventory Methods

Frate Company was formed on December 1, 2018, and uses the periodic inventory system. The following information is available from Frate's inventory records for Product Ply:

A physical inventory on March 31, 2019, shows 8,800 units on hand.

Required:

Prepare schedules to compute the ending inventory at March 31, 2019, under each of the following inventory methods.

1. FIFO

2. LIFO

3. Weighted average

Suppose a marketing company wants to determine the current proportion of customers who click on ads on their smartphones. It was estimated that the current proportion of customers who click on ads on their smartphones is 0.65. How many customers should the company survey in order to be 94% confident that the margin of error is 0.22 for the confidence interval of true proportion of customers who click on ads on their smartphones? Answer: (Round up your answer to nearest whole number,do not include any decimals)   

Problem 9-5A (Part Level Submission) At December 31, 2015, Grand Company reported the following as plant assets. Land $4,147,000 Buildings $27,842,000 Less: Accumulated depreciation—buildings 10,769,000 17,073,000 Equipment 48,828,000 Less: Accumulated depreciation—equipment 5,126,000 43,702,000 Total plant assets $64,922,000 During 2016, the following selected cash transactions occurred. April 1 Purchased land for $2,195,000. May 1 Sold equipment that cost $786,000 when purchased on January 1, 2012. The equipment was sold for $471,600. June 1 Sold land purchased on June 1, 2006 for $1,456,000. The land cost $391,000. July 1 Purchased equipment for $2,309,000. Dec. 31 Retired equipment that cost $484,000 when purchased on December 31, 2006. No salvage value was received. Collapse question part (a) Journalize the above transactions. The company uses straight-line depreciation for buildings and equipment. The buildings are estimated to have a 50-year life and no salvage value. The equipment is estimated to have a 10-year useful life and no salvage value. Update depreciation on assets disposed of at the time of sale or retirement. (If no entry is required, select "No entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

A cloud computing provider has 475 customers and a farm of 250 compute servers each having 4 cores. The company statistics indicate that at the peak hour the workload requirements of its customers are such that each requires {0,1,2,3,4} cores with uniform probability. Use the approximation based on Central Limit Theorem to answer the following questions.

1. Compute the outage probability, i.e., the probability that there are not a sufficient number of cores to meet customers demands.

2. The company decides to offer its customers a new super fast service which would speed up their quality of service by automatically doubling the number of cores allocated to each customer. Each customer would thus be allocated {0,2,4,6,8} cores with uniform probability. How many extra (4 core) machines should you need to buy in order support new service while maintaining the same outage probability ?

3. The server vendor is quite happy to sell you the number of 4 core servers determined in the previous question, but offers you a great deal on the same number of 8 core servers. If you purchased the same number of servers but now with 8 cores, how many super fast customers could you support same outage probability?

Crane Clark opened Crane’s Cleaning Service on July 1, 2020. During July, the following transactions were completed.