The year is 1997, California Pizza Kitchen is thinking to launch a new brand of frozen pizza. You are the Brand Manager for CPK.

Your task: develop a one-page executive summary to G.J. Hart, CEO persuading him that the company should launch this product

What is CPK's key POD?

What is your recommended S-T-P?

Include a proper positioning statement (using Kotler's model) What are the company's calculated risks?

WHY should the company pursue this endeavor?

Include an introduction, and summary conclusion

Assume that you are deciding whether to acquire a four-year university degree. Your only consideration at this moment is the degree as an investment for yourself. Costs per year are tuition fees of $600 and books at $100. The government also pays to the university an equivalent amount to your tuition fees to cover the real cost. If you don't go to university, you could earn $6000 per year as an acrobat. With a university degree, however, you know that you can earn $10,000 per year as an acrobat. Because of the nature of your chosen occupation, your time horizon for the investment decision is exactly 10 years after university; that is, if the investment is to be worthwhile, it must be so within a 10-year period after graduation. The market rate of interest is 5 percent. Would you make the investment in a university degree? This problem involves calculating the present discounted value of a flow of future earnings. Please assume that you face a 14-year horizon. The first four year are the only opportunity you have to go to university; either you choose to go to university at the beginning of year one or never. After attending university graduation, you have exactly 10 years to work as a university educated acrobat. You will need to use a calculator for this problem. Please show your work. Using an Excel spreadsheet for your calculations is allowed.

Assume you are in the manufacturing business here in the US, and your Company exports the majority of its products overseas. Assume the US Dollar strengthens against many of the key the currencies of the countries into which you sell your products, and that seems to be a condition that will exist for some time.

a. How might that exchange rate move impact your Company and why would that be so?

b. What long term strategy might help your Company mitigate the impacts of the exchange rate shift and why might it be effective?

My thinking is that the responses may be between 1 and 3 pages

Lean Conductors Ltd is a mid-sized Public limited company engaged in the manufacture and sale of electrical cables. As a public limited company the organization was performing reasonably well, earning steady profits and declaring a stable dividend of 12-15%.

The CEO was feeling the urge to expand the business and taste the growth of business operations and profits. He started addressing various options and shortlisted 2 options namely manufacture of LED bulbs and solar panels.

He called the Gen Mgr. - Finance for a discussion in this regard to probe the matter further. He also went on to share his dream of making the company a larger one and his belief in people like the GM who needs to stay and grow with the organization.

The GM felt excited at this prospect and started making a project report. He decided in his own mind the solar panel project with a larger profit margin looked to be a better one than LED bulbs which was dealer intensive and lesser in terms of unit margin.

Feeling the need to expand rapidly on the investment of the company and make it bigger and become a CFO in the bargain, he chose the solar panel project which was more capital intensive. An assumption about a capital structure and cost congruent to the existing structure was assumed and the projected financials were prepared.

The board of directors representing the majority of shareholders believing in the recommendations of the report adopted it for implementation. The project faced various hurdles in its implementation such delay in signing collaboration agreements, inflated cost due to poor supply of money in the market, downturn of the economy and so on. The project cost started spiraling up and to fund the expansion the funds of the existing business line were inducted into the new project since no further borrowing could be made. The company slipped into the red and reached a stage of bankruptcy without the new project even taking off.   

Questions:

1. Trace the conflict between the management and the shareholders in this case study.
2. Is the act of the GM Finance an error or sin?
3. Where do you think the CEO went wrong?
4. What according to you is the approach the CEO should have taken?

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Laker Company reported the following January purchases and sales data for its only product.

The Company uses a perpetual inventory system. For specific identification, ending inventory consists of 270 units, where 240 are from the January 30 purchase, 5 are from the January 20 purchase, and 25 are from beginning inventory.

Required:
1. Complete comparative income statements for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods. Assume expenses are $1,550 and that the applicable income tax rate is 40%. (Round your Intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Laker Company reported the following January purchases and sales data for its only product. Date Activities Units Acquired at Cost Units sold at Retail Jan. 1 Beginning inventory 140 units @ $ 6.00 = $ 840 Jan. 10 Sales 100 units @ $ 15 Jan. 20 Purchase 60 units @ $ 5.00 = 300 Jan. 25 Sales 80 units @ $ 15 Jan. 30 Purchase 180 units @ $ 4.50 = 810 Totals 380 units $ 1,950 180 units The Company uses a perpetual inventory system. For specific identification, ending inventory consists of 200 units, where 180 are from the January 30 purchase, 5 are from the January 20 purchase, and 15 are from beginning inventory. Required: 1. Complete comparative income statements for the month of January for Laker Company for the four inventory methods. Assume expenses are $1,250, and that the applicable income tax rate is 40%. (Round your Intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

Bank of America (USA) believes that New Zealand dollar will appreciate over the next 90 days from US$0.48/NZ$ to US$0.50/NZ$. The following annual interest rates can be applied:

Currency                                        Lending rate (Annual)   Borrowing rate (Annual)

US dollar                                                    7.10%                           7.50%

New Zealand dollar                             6.80%                           7.25%

Bank of American has the capacity to borrow $5million from Chase bank. If Bank of America’s forecast is correct, what will be its US dollar profit of Bank of America from this foreign exchange speculation over the 90 days period?

Group of answer choices

About $5,093,750

About $5,296,875

About $203,125

About $266,451

Flatiron Corp has the following budgeted sales in each quarter of the year 2020:

Expected Sales

Q1 $ 300,000

Q2 $ 320,000

Q3 $ 340,000

Q4 $ 360,000

Cash collection information are as follows:

1. Of all sales, 80% are on credit.

2. For the credit sales made in the year 2020; 60% of credit sales are collected in the quarter in which the sale is made; 30% are collected in the following quarter; and 10% are collected in the second quarter after sale.

3. Accounts Receivable is estimated to be $60,000 on December 31,2019. The company expects to collect all outstanding receivable in the first quarter of 2020.

What is the total cash collection for the first quarter of 2020?

Look at the data for the Japanese yen from 2000 to the present. Assume that you were in Tokyo for New Year’s Eve from January 1, 2010 to January 1 this year and bought a bento (box lunch) for 1000 yen each year. Convert this amount to dollars for the first day in January that data is available for each of the years you were in Tokyo.

1. Create a chart that plots the dollar price of the bento box overtime on each of the days in January you used.
2. Has the dollar appreciated or depreciated against the yen during this time period?
3. What the least amount in dollars that your box lunch cost ($ amount and date)?
4. What the most amount in dollars that your box lunch cost ($ amount and date)? please Make sure you calculate the US$ price of the bento box for every January between 2010 and the present. please no handwriting

Crude futures in New York were lower on Wednesday, following a record decline in the first quarter

Oil held near $20 a barrel as Saudi Aramco’s output surged above 12 million barrels a day, but Russia said it would refrain from further production hikes.

Crude futures in New York were lower on Wednesday, following a record decline in the first quarter.

While state-run Aramco’s oil supply has surpassed 12 million barrels a day and is ticking higher, Russia said it won’t lift output as it’s not profitable to do so, according to a government official familiar with the country’s plans.

President Trump has said the US will meet with Saudi Arabia and Russia in an attempt to bolster prices.

The market is grappling with a bumper oversupply, while demand is set to fall by as much as 30 million barrels a day in April, according to an executive at the world’s largest independent oil trader.

Any agreement to cut output would likely be too late and would fall short of the loss in consumption, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Industry data signaled that US oil stockpiles are set for their biggest weekly increase since 2017.

“I don’t think they’re going to come to the table for talks just yet, because for both sides, it would require a significant step-down,” Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “I do think both Russia and Saudi Arabia will be forced to cut back production, not because there’s a deal or they’re talking, but because of market forces.”

Prices:
West Texas Intermediate lost 21 cents to $20.27 a barrel as of 10.35am in London
Brent crude for June settlement fell 4.8 per cent to $25.09
Dated Brent, the benchmark for two-thirds of the world’s real oil supply, was assessed at $17.675 on Tuesday, down 11.5 cents from Monday when it was already the lowest price since 2002

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Required Question

Question 01: What are the entrepreneurial skills needed in order to draw different businesses in the Gulf countries?