Marketing at Pepe’s Pizzeria focuses on the development, growth, and maintenance of cost-effective, high-value relationships with each of its customers. This type of marketing is known as _____.
a. direct marketing b. relationship marketing c. transaction-based marketing d. value-based marketing
The relationship between Pepe’s Pizzeria and its customers functions at which level of the relationship marketing continuum?
a. Fourth Level b. Third Level c. Second Level d. First Level
Pepe’s Pizzeria indulges in social interaction and interactive marketing with its customers on Twitter and Facebook. Thus, Pepe’s Pizzeria builds buyer–seller relationships through _____.
a. grassroots marketing b. database marketing c. frequency marketing d. interactive television
If Pepe’s Pizzeria built its brand equity by letting satisfied customers get the word out about its pizzas to other consumers, the type of marketing initiative used is known as _____.
a. affinity marketing b. ambush marketing c. viral marketing d. direct marketing
How can Pepe’s Pizzeria determine the costs it incurs to serve each customer and thus develop ways to increase its profitability?
a. By calculating the customer churn b. Through the payback method c. Through tracking rebates, coupons, and credit card purchases d. By calculating the lifetime value of its customers
In: Accounting
After analysing the financial data of Q-Constructions, you notice that they are trending in the right direction. A new 12-month construction proposal has come to the company worth $1,000,000 and an important question is whether it will be financially viable. They want you to analyse the proposal, in particular, the recommended cash flow schedule and to understand the key financial points during the construction project. The following cash flow schedule is summarised below.
To ensure that all upfront and on-going outlay costs are covered in advance, Q-Constructionsincur an initial start-up cost of $200,000. The proposal states that they will receive a deposit from the client of 10% of the total project cost at the beginning. They then receive four equal instalment payments of 20% of the total project cost associated to project milestones from the client at the end of the 2nd, 6th, 8thand 10thmonth. Finally, they receive the last 10% project milestone on lock-up which occurs at the end of the 12thmonth. Q-Constructionshas ongoing project costs of $20,000 to pay salaries and services at the end of each month. In additional, there are material costs of $100,000 associated for each of the project milestones at the end of the 2nd, 6th, 8thand 10thmonth. The current cost of capital for company is 8% per annum compounded monthly. You have been tasked with the important objective to determine whether this future project is financially viable. In addition, they want you to determine which milestone is needed to be completed in the project proposal such that it will be financially viable. It’s time to show your Quants knowledge andexpertise with Excel to determine the financial viability of this project.
b. Set up a cash inflow and outflow for the 12-month construction project proposal based on the information provided by the company above. By using the current 8% p.a compounded monthly cost of capital, calculate the Net Present Value of this proposal and whether it is financially viable project. Use EXCEL to calculate the net present value of the current situation.
- The full spreadsheet with all completed entries. Show how you entered cash inflow and cash outflow amounts at the beginning, 1st, 2nd, 3rdmonths. You can type this in Word.
EXCEL Instructions: Set up your spreadsheet as below and add yourinitials to column names (i.e. unless your initials really are NFY!). The coloured boxes below contain instructions. We used the NPV function in Lectures (Week 2) – see lecture recordings for a demonstration.
d. Q-Constructionswould like you to create a visualisation of the completed NPV spreadsheet from part (b). Include the graph here.
In: Accounting
This assignment concerns the idea of "private equity," a notion that is very important to the financial strategy of firms. We had a brief discussion on Blackrock, which is a private equity firm. Many companies have recently been bought by private equity, including Dell. Private equity firms argue that they can re-engineer the firm without shareholders breathing down their neck.
But private equity can be a very dangerous thing. Private operators buy companies by borrowing money, then load the debt on the companies books, strip it of all value, and leave it to go bankrupt. A particularly egregious case involved the Simmons mattress company, and the same might be unfolding at Toys R Us.
In his 2014 letter to investors, Warren Buffet had warned about the ethics of this phenomenon:
Families that own successful businesses have multiple options when they contemplate sale. Frequently, the best decision is to do nothing. There are worse things in life than having a prosperous business that one understands well. But sitting tight is seldom recommended by Wall Street. (Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.)
When one part of a family wishes to sell while others wish to continue, a public offering often makes sense. But, when owners wish to cash out entirely, they usually consider one of two paths.
The first is sale to a competitor who is salivating at the possibility of wringing “synergies” from the combining of the two companies. This buyer invariably contemplates getting rid of large numbers of the seller’s associates, the very people who have helped the owner build his business. A caring owner, however – and there are plenty of them – usually does not want to leave his long-time associates sadly singing the old country song: “She got the goldmine, I got the shaft.”
The second choice for sellers is the Wall Street buyer. For some years, these purchasers accurately called themselves “leveraged buyout firms.” When that term got a bad name in the early 1990s – remember RJR and Barbarians at the Gate? – these buyers hastily relabeled themselves “private-equity.”
The name may have changed but that was all: Equity is dramatically reduced and debt is piled on in virtually all private-equity purchases. Indeed, the amount that a private-equity purchaser offers to the seller is in part determined by the buyer assessing the maximum amount of debt that can be placed on the acquired company.
Later, if things go well and equity begins to build, leveraged buy-out shops will often seek to re-leverage with new borrowings. They then typically use part of the proceeds to pay a huge dividend that drives equity sharply downward, sometimes even to a negative figure.
In truth, “equity” is a dirty word for many private-equity buyers; what they love is debt. And, because debt is currently so inexpensive, these buyers can frequently pay top dollar. Later, the business will be resold, often to another leveraged buyer. In effect, the business becomes a piece of merchandise.
So workers and customers suffer, while financiers make money.
In this assignment, please write a 500-word analysis of private equity. Give your essay an original title. You can be pro-private equity or anti. I want you demonstrate how well you understand this concept.
In: Finance
Written Assignment 2 – Drafting a Legal Contract Instructions:
You are a garment manufacturer and retailer in Los Angeles named “[YOUR LAST NAME]’s Academy Award Clothes” who manufactures, distributes and sells suits and other clothing from a factory/warehouse/showroom building at 711 S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA 90017. Prepare a contract for the purchase and sale of [choose and insert your favorite, most striking or outlandish color/pattern/texture combination] custom sport coats to one of your company’s biggest customers, “Century 22 Real Estate”. The customer wants to custom order and utilize these distinctive colored/textured jackets for all of their sales people to wear as walking business cards. Apply your knowledge of business, law and contracts to draft this contract. Use and insert your last name to create your company name. Determine which type of business entities the parties are (see Ch 16, pp 498-499 Business Entities chart). Be sure to insert the business entity form in the name of each party. Be sure to include ALL the relevant necessary contract provisions drafting the contract. The contract must include EACH of the following, as set forth, and IN THE NUMBERED ORDER and DETAILED, as follows: I. Introduction: In the introductory paragraph set forth the names of the parties to the written contract - buyer(s) and seller(s), and FOR EACH PARTY MUST: State party’s complete name, including designation of the type of business entity (whether a business organization or an individual) Identify what type of business entity form (LLC, Corporation, Limited Partnership, Limited Liability Partnership, General Partnership Sole Proprietor, etc.) State the individual signor’s name of that person signing on behalf of the business State the signer's official title for the company (Managing Partner, Managing Member, President, CEO, Sole-Owner, etc.) II. The specific terms of the sale including EXACTLY the following contract clause provisions NUMBERED EXACTLY IN ORDER as follows: Sale of Goods and Purchase Price. (including: description of the products, quantity, individual unit prices and total price) Invoices, Payments (incl. late fees) Delivery, Risk of Loss, Title Acceptance Notices Warranty Warranty of Title Indemnification Liquidated Damages Taxes Security Interest Time is of the Essence Severability (of individual provisions) Force Majeure (Act of God) Assignment; Delegation Arbitration and/or Mediation Provision Cancellation Governing Law and Forum Selection Service of Suit Attorney Fee Provision Severability Entire Agreement (Integration Clause statement that contract constitutes entire agreement) Counterparts III. Signatures blocks of authorized signatories with: names and official titles typed in; a line for authorized signors to sign their signature; and a line for the signing date Format: Your assignment should be typewritten with your name and class section number at the top. Upload as a PDF or WORD file. Use the SAMPLES of contracts and clause provisions (Word document) attached with this assignment, or you may perform internet searches to find the correct clauses to compose the contract.
In: Economics
Case Study Description - Payment Time Case Study
Major consulting firms such as Accenture, Ernst & Young Consulting, and Deloitte & Touche Consulting employ statistical analysis to assess the effectiveness of the systems they design for their customers. In this case, a consulting firm has developed an electronic billing system for a Stockton, CA, trucking company. The system sends invoices electronically to each customer’s computer and allows customers to easily check and correct errors. It is hoped the new billing system will substantially reduce the amount of time it takes customers to make payments. Typical payment times—measured from the date on an invoice to the date payment is received—using the trucking company’s old billing system had been 39 days or more. This exceeded the industry standard payment time of 30 days.
The new billing system does not automatically compute the payment time for each invoice because there is no continuing need for this information. The management consulting firm believes the new system will reduce the mean bill payment time by more than 50 percent. The mean payment time using the old billing system was approximately equal to, but no less than, 39 days. Therefore, if µ denotes the new mean payment time, the consulting firm believes that µ will be less than 19.5 days. Therefore, to assess the system’s effectiveness (whether µ < 19.5 days), the consulting firm selects a random sample of 65 invoices from the 7,823 invoices processed during the first three months of the new system’s operation. Whereas this is the first time the consulting company has installed an electronic billing system in a trucking company, the firm has installed electronic billing systems in other types of companies.
Analysis of results from these other companies show, although the population mean payment time varies from company to company, the population standard deviation of payment times is the same for different companies and equals 4.2 days. The payment times for the 65 sample invoices have been taken and the sample mean has been calculated to be 18.10 days. If this sample can be used to establish that new billing system substantially reduces payment times, the consulting firm plans to market the system to other trucking firms.
Develop a 600-word Microsoft Word report including the following calculations and using the information to determine whether the new billing system has reduced the mean bill payment time:
In: Statistics and Probability
Rio’s [Rio Tino Ltd] latest climate change report, released in February, says that it has modelled the likely performance of its assets at a range of carbon prices, including the global $US120-a-tonne equivalent that experts say are probably necessary to keep global warming to less than 1.5C.
Rio concedes such a price, combined with other carbon abatement measures, would cut margins at its dominant iron ore division, which delivered $US17bn in underlying earnings in 2019, and threaten the viability of its two Australian aluminium smelters powered by fossil fuels.
“The potential downsides to iron ore revenues from a greater use of scrap across the steel value chain are expected to be offset by upsides for aluminium and copper — which are both essential for the electrification of the global energy system, including electric vehicles, and the deployment of low-carbon power solutions such as solar and wind,” Rio said.
“Importantly, the competitive position of our assets, both on industry cash cost and carbon intensity curves, is expected to protect the margins of our assets, even for commodities such as iron ore where we may face a negative impact on demand and price. In the case of aluminium, the attractiveness of our hydro-based assets is expected to increase relative to coal-based smelters, which would face increased carbon costs that may result in higher aluminium prices.”
Rio has said a carbon price is an “indispensable” part of any strategy to combat climate change.
It says its greatest fear about the move to a carbon price as a means of combating climate change, however, was that the same price would not be applied by all global governments, putting some of its assets at a competitive disadvantage against producers in other jurisdictions.
While Rio has set a goal of reducing its own carbon emissions by 15 per cent by 2030, from 2018 levels, it has so far resisted pressure to follow the lead of rivals such as BHP and Vale and set goals for the reduction of so- called scope 3 emissions — those attributable to customers that buy it products, rather than its own operations.
On Thursday Rio’s resistance was met with a strong backlash from institutional investors, with almost 37 per cent of votes at its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday backing a resolution calling on the company to match the promises made by its major competitors.
Extract from Evans, N. Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson linked to carbon price pledge. The Australian. 8 May 2020.
Required:
a) From the content above, explain fully what theories from
ACC30008 can be used to explain:
i. Rio’s response to the prospect of a price on carbon (maximum
word limit 500 words) ( 8 marks)
ii. TheresponsefromRio’sinstitutionalinvestors?(Maximumwordlimit500words) (8marks) b) What is the meaning of the term ‘underlying earnings’ used by Rio Tinto Ltd in explaining the impact
on its iron ore division of putting a price on carbon? (maximum word limit 250 words)
In: Accounting
are provided with the unadjusted trial balance (Microsoft® Excel) and your manager’s meeting notes and questions (Microsoft® Word) for your new tax client – Phoenix Medical. 2. Following the notes, modify the unadjusted trial balance to generate a trial balance workpaper (in Microsoft® Excel) that includes: a. Adjusting Journal Entries b. Adjusted Book Income c. Tax Journal Entries d. Taxable Income e. Answers to your manager’s questions (Microsoft® Word or Excel). 3. The client depends on you, the CPA, to provide journal entries for activity in fixed assets. While discussing fixed assets, the client divulges that he got a great deal to upgrade his laser dermatology equipment. Ultimately, you find out that $569,888 of new equipment was purchased and placed in service on 6/18/2015. 4. Furthermore, and much after the fact, you discover that old medical equipment was sold to an unrelated party for $75,000 cash. The original cost of the equipment was $300,000 and it was fully depreciated (no Sec. 179). The cash was deposited in one of the shareholders personal accounts. a. Provide a journal entry to calculate the gain on sale and adjust the fixed asset and accumulated depreciation accounts. b. What is the nature of this gain? The nature of this gain is going to be long term since it is over more than one year. c. Could the Dr. have structured this sale in a different way to avoid taxable income? How? Yes only if the equiptment was gifted to a spouce then there would not have been any income tax. 5. The client depends on his accountant to provide a journal entry for the annual depreciation expense. They have adopted a policy of treating book depreciation equal to tax depreciation. Depreciation expense for the year will include: a. Depreciation on assets placed in service prior to 2015 is: $86,769 b. Maximize Sec. 179 expense on assets placed in service in 2015. c. Take Sec. 168(k) – 50% Bonus – on new equipment if applicable.
Week 3 Determine Taxable Income: 1. Determine taxable income. Show all adjustments in the Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet. Footnote references are provided to assist you. 2. The Dr. has filed his prior tax returns on the cash basis. a. What questions will you ask to be sure he can continue to file on the cash basis? 3. You find that in 2015, the Dr. qualifies, and choose to file on the cash basis. His books are kept on the accrual basis. Determine the adjustments needed. 4. No federal taxes were paid in 2014, and no estimated taxes were paid in 2015. 5. Within the state tax expense, you find $4,389 is late payment penalties. 6. While analyzing the financial information, you find that hidden in “Accounts Payable” is $28,953 of accrued salaries. You also find that the salaries were paid in the first week of February. a. Does this have an impact on taxable income? 7. Determine the accrual to cash adjustments for accounts receivable and accounts payable. a. A charitable contribution carryforward of $40,000 is available. b. Included in insurance expense is $12,523 of officers’ life insurance. You determine the company is the beneficiary, and each officer is a greater than 20% shareholder
In: Accounting
In: Operations Management
XML and JAVA
Write a Java program that meets these requirements. It is important you follow these requirements closely.
• Create a NetBeans project named LastnameAssign1. Change Lastname to your last name. For example, my project would be named NicholsonAssign1.
• In the Java file, print a welcome message that includes your full name.
• The program should prompt for an XML filename to write to o The filename entered must end with .xml and have at least one letter before the period. If it does not, print a warning and prompt again. Keep nagging the user until a proper file name is entered.
• Prompt the user for 3 integers.
o The three integers represent red, blue, and green channel values for a color. o Process the numbers according to the instructions below
o Once you have handled the 3 input values, prompt the user again o Keep prompting the user for 3 integers until the user enters the single word DONE
o Reading input should not stop for any reason except for when the user enters DONE.
o The user will not mix DONE and the numbers. The user will either enter 3 integers OR the word DONE
• Once the user is done, open the filename entered in the first step and output the data.
o If no numbers were entered, then do not open the file for writing. Simply print a message that no data was entered.
o When 1 or more colors are entered, write out the XML data for each color. See below for the format.
o Sometimes users may enter integer values that are larger than 255 or less than 0. Values like this will need to be “clipped”, that is, converted to good values. For example, if the user enters 300 for red, then the actual red channel value will be 255. If the user entered -10 for the blue channel, then the actual blue channel value will be 0.
You should follow the sample below and your program should
exhibit the same behavior. For full credit, your generated XML
files must pass validation with NetBeans Check XML.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
All Java-related assignments will have the requirements below. While you may find them limiting, their purpose is to help you adopt good programming habits.
1. You should not have one, ginormous main() function. Your program should be modular, that is, define several (more than 2) meaningful functions in addition to main().
2. All functions should have a comment describing their purpose.
3. You may not use the System.exit() function
4. You must include a comment at the top of your .java file in this
format:
/*******************
John Nicholson
CSCI 3020 Section 04
Fall 2019
Assignment 1
This program does ...
*******************/
You should obviously change the name to your name, the section to
your section, and write a real description of the program. If this
comment is missing, you will automatically lose 50% of the points
on the assignment. Your assignment will not be regraded if you do
not put in the correct comment.
XML
In: Computer Science
Assignment: Square Matrix ("Caesar Block")Cipher
C++ ASSIGNMENTS
*REMEMBER IT SHOULD NOT ONLY READ ONE LINE OR A SINGLE WORD
remember, read, understand, and use the waterpump.cpp program
will process an arbitrary amount of input text, however long.
Arrange a stream in a two dimensional array of characters by filling up
the array a line at a time, from leftmost column to rightmost column.
DO NOT USE A GETLINE: this program should be able to input an entire library,
not a single line or word. Remember: we're building tools real people
would use for real tasks. Remember, read, and use the "waterpump"
design, that is why it was provided you.
Then, to encypher the text, print out the array from top row to bottom
row, leftmost column to rightmost colum.
In Programmer Speak, we create a Row-Major character matrix, then print it
as a Column-Major character matrix.
Example:
Here's a message: "meetmeinsaintlouis"
It has 17 characters.
We need a square array of char to hold it...but 17 isn't a square number.
What's the next-largest square (bigger than 17?)
2 . 2 = 4
3 . 3 = 9
4 . 4 = 16
5 . 5 = 25 HAH!
25. (And what's the square root of 25? 5 )
So create char matrix[5][5] ;
So write the message into a 5 x 5 square going left to
right/top to bottom:
meetm
einsa
intlo
uisxx
xxxxx
(Note we padded out the extra cells with 'x'. In reality,
we'd use random letters.)
Print it out going top to bottom THEN left to right:
STOP: BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE PRECEEDING SENTENCE. CAN YOU SEE
HOW TO DO IT IN YOUR MIND? If not, keep thinking about it.
Here's the enciphered message:
meiuxeinixentsxtslxxmaexx
input:
Karla: The young woman named Alexandra Borisovna Ostrakhova is your daughter.
OUTPUT:
KonasaoeqauanokurbrnmdvhrnhlgernodwcawdaavaldToABOaurahmlosigbreaertshbzynxirytmo
Tools needed for this Assignment:
std::string
string::length()
string::erase()
string::[]
If there is ANY EXTRANEOUS TEXT in the stream, (LIKE FROM EXTRA PROMPTS
AND WARNINGS FROM YOUR PROGRAM) your code will only produce gibberish.
We're here to build tools for serious workers to use. Please keep
that goal uppermost in your mind, and never add anything unnecessary.
Good machines are simple and solid. Build only good machines.
All contents copyright (C) T.E.H., all rights reserved. None of this
code may be displayed or stored on any public access or private access
system without the written consent of the author. This means any and
all commercial cheating ("Homework Helping/Counselling") services.
Since we're desling with functions() in the text this week, let's break down the
parts fo the program into functions:
int side_length(int length)
{
// call side_length with the length of the message
// it should return you an integer which is the
// correct length of the square array of characters
// to hold the message, plus any padding characters.
}
int randchar(void)
{
//return a random lower-case alphabetic character when called
// note: (((rand() * some multiplier) % 26 )+ 'a') will produce such a character
}
In: Computer Science