There are a number of differences and challenges when a company looks at marketing domestically and internationally. Pick a country (not the United States) and share what country you have selected. Discuss the differences and challenges of marketing in that country when compared with the U.S. What things should a company take into consideration when developing marketing plans internationally? Areas of focus in your post may include:

• the customers: Are the customers the same?
• human resources
• currencies, governments and rules and regulations
• different customs, etiquette, etc.
• advertising issues and resources
• language differences

You must use a minimum of three scholarly resources, cited with parenthetical APA style citations in the body, and referenced at the bottom with APA style references.

After several months of negotiations, the CEO of BIG Pty Ltd made the long-awaited announcement to board members that BIG Pty Ltd would be buying Melbourne based company, YAY Pty Ltd for $25m. The following persons were present at the meeting: Helen and Liam (Company Directors) and Tammy (Receptionist taking meeting minutes). News of the take-over would not be released to the public until the following week.
(a) Assume Helen owns 50,000 shares in YAY Pty Ltd . Discuss whether she would be breaching any duties if she makes a secret profit of $500,000 from the takeover. What can Helen do to avoid breaching any duties?

answer structure

Issue: Whether Helen would breach any duties…
Rule: According to Hospital Products Ltd v US Surgical Corp…
Furthermore: According to Aberdeen Railway Co v Blaikie Bros…
Analyze: Here, the facts tell us…
Conclusion: Clear that Helen would be breaching Duty __   … (remember to also mention what she can do to avoid the breach)

Springfield Acting Co. is a professional actor training group that trains stage actors and is headquartered in Los Angeles. The CEO of the company, Milhouse Van Houton, is considering expanding and opening an office in New York City but he just received an interesting business opportunity in the San Francisco area to partner with a movie production company located there. Milhouse knows he can only accept one of these opportunities at the current time. He has already purchased his non-refundable ticket to New York, but his hotel reservation is still cancelable. The cost of each trip is outlined below.

Required:

1. What are the relevant costs of each trip?
2. What is the incremental cost?
3. Without considering qualitative factors (thus use numbers to analyze), which alternative should Milhouse choose? Why?
4. What are two qualitative factors that Milhouse might consider?

Based on the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC reporting requirements for publically traded companies,

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

Assess the roles of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of a public company for establishing an ethical environment that generates quality accounting and reliable financial reporting for use by shareholders and investors. Provide support for your assessment.

Recommend a strategy for a CEO to implement, leading to an ethical environment that leads to high-quality accounting, reporting, and forecasting. Provide support for your recommendation.

Suggest how corporate management can provide assurances to investors that the performance forecast and expected earnings will be realized, minimizing the volatility of the stock price. Provide support for your suggestions.

Evaluate the consequences to a publically traded company when there is a lack of quality within financial accounting and reporting, indicating how these consequences may be minimized. Provide support for your answer.

Assess the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act related to accounting quality, indicating whether or not you believe the requirements are sufficient to protect stockholders and potential investors. Provide support for your position.

Select someone in a leadership position at your organization or at a local company where you might seek employment. This individual could be a director, manager, supervisor, or CEO of the organization.

Write a 1,050-word profile of the individual that you interviewed for your company's newsletter, and include the following:

Identify the individual and their position within the company, and briefly describe the organization.

Interpret the individual's leadership style based on the Five-Factor personality model, and offer one or more examples of the management and leadership roles of this individual.

Explain one incident where this individual had to solve a difficult problem or situation because things did not go as planned.

Describe the lessons that she/he learned from being able to problem solve, even when what she/he had been taught did not work.

Format your profile in the form of a newsletter (the final format may vary depending upon the company's style; please feel free to use either the provided template or to check the Internet or Microsoft^® Word for additional newsletter templates).?

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Reporting of Subsequent Events.

Overview:

Corporate executives make thousands of operational decisions every day on behalf of their companies. Those decisions are often made to present the best possible financial picture, but is that ethical? Instructions: Lionel Industries, Inc. Board of Directors authorized the sale of $15,000,000 of corporate bonds in May, 2017. The treasurer, William Browning, is concerned about the date when the bonds will be issued. The company really needs the cash, but he is worried that if the bonds are issued before the December 31, 2017, year-end that the additional liability will have an adverse effect on a number of important financial ratios. In June, 2017, he explains to the company CEO Julie Friesling that if they delay issuing the bonds until immediately after December 31, 2017 the bonds will not affect the financial statements until 2018. The 2017 financial statements would then only need a footnote disclosure and Browning feels that "no one pays attention to those numerous pages of notes anyway."

Answer the following questions:

1)What ethical issues are involved in Browning's suggestion and do you think that Friesling should agree to the delay?

NOK/NZD swap arrangements

(a) You are CFO for a company that borrows NOK 100M at 10% for seven years, and you swap the load into NZD at a spot rate of NOK/NZD 4 and the sevenyear swap rates of 7% (NZD) and 8% (NOK). What are the payments on the loan, on the swap, and on the combination of them? Is there a gain if you could have borrowed NZD at 9%?

(b) The swap now has three years to go and your CEO asks you to estimate the value of the swap contract. To recap, your company has now an outstanding fixed-for-fixed NOK/NZD swap for NOK 100M based on the historic spot rate of NOK/NZD 4 and initial swap rates of 7% (NZD) and 8% (NOK). With three years to go and current rates at NOK/NZD 4.5, 6% (NZD) and 5% (NOK). What is the market value of the swap contract?

(c) Use the same data as in the previous part, except that now the NZD leg is a floating rate. The rate has just been reset. What is the market value of the swap?

Organizational Behaviour

This assignment must be completed within your assigned teams

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Ticker Symbol: FFH) is a Toronto-based financial service holding company whose CEO is Prem Watsa.

You must provide references for your research

1.Is FFH centralized or decentralized? Provide evidence to support your answer.

2.Based on your answer to Question 1, is there a narrow or wide span of control at the holding

company? Explain why with evidence to support your answer.

3.What structure is employed at FFH? Explain your answer and provide evidence to support it.

4.How would you describe the culture at FFH? Hint: This requires research!

Your responses should be informal sentence/paragraph structure with correct spelling and grammar.

Point form responses are not acceptable. Assignments are graded on quality, not length.

Grading

All questions will be graded using the rubric below and then a mark out of 25, and 5 marks will be

assigned for Spelling, Grammar, Format, Neatness, Overall readability, Research

Total Marks= 25

Fernandez Corp. invested its excess cash in securities during 2020. As of December 31, 2020, the securities portfolio consisted of the following common stocks. Security Quantity Cost Fair Value Lindsay Jones, Inc. 1,000 shares $15,000 $21,000 Poley Corp. 2,000 shares 40,000 42,000 Arnold Aircraft 2,000 shares 72,000 60,000 Totals $127,000 $123,000 Correct answer iconYour answer is correct. What should be reported on Fernandez’s December 31, 2020, balance sheet relative to these securities? What should be reported on Fernandez’s 2020 income statement? (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) Fernandez Corp. Balance Sheet (Partial) Equity Investments $ 123,000 Income Statement Unrealized Holding Gain or Loss - Income $ 4,000 eTextbook and Media List of Accounts Correct answer iconYour answer is correct. On December 31, 2021, Fernandez’s securities portfolio consisted of the following common stocks. Security Quantity Cost Fair Value Lindsay Jones, Inc. 1,000 shares $15,000 $20,000 Lindsay Jones, Inc. 2,000 shares 33,000 40,000 Duff Company 1,000 shares 16,000 12,000 Arnold Aircraft 2,000 shares 72,000 22,000 Totals $136,000 $94,000 During the year 2021, Fernandez Corp. sold 2,000 shares of Poley Corp. for $38,200 and purchased 2,000 more shares of Lindsay Jones, Inc. and 1,000 shares of Duff Company. What should be reported on Fernandez’s December 31, 2021, balance sheet? What should be reported on Fernandez’s 2021 income statement? (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) Fernandez Corp. Balance Sheet (Partial) Equity Investments $ 94,000 Fernandez Corp. Income Statement (Partial) Loss on Sale of Investments $ 1,800 Unrealized Holding Gain or Loss - Income 38,000 eTextbook and Media List of Accounts New attempt is in progress. Some of the new entries may impact the last attempt grading.Your answer is partially correct. On December 31, 2022, Fernandez’s securities portfolio consisted of the following common stocks. Security Quantity Cost Fair Value Arnold Aircraft 2,000 shares $72,000 $82,000 Duff Company 500 shares 8,000 6,000 Totals $80,000 $88,000 During the year 2022, Fernandez Corp. sold 3,000 shares of Lindsay Jones, Inc. for $39,900 and 500 shares of Duff Company at a loss of $2,700. What should be reported on the face of Fernandez’s December 31, 2022, balance sheet? What should be reported on Fernandez’s 2022 income statement? (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) Fernandez Corp. Balance Sheet (Partial) Equity Investments $ 88,000 Fernandez Corp. Income Statement (Partial) Loss on Sale of Investments $ 10,800 Unrealized Holding Gain or Loss - Income____?

A new aerated sewage lagoon is required in a small town in 2020. In 2015, one was built on a similar site in a nearby city for $3 million.The new lagoon is 75% larger, and its power sizing exponent is 0.90. The cost index for 2015 is 180, whereas the one in 2020 is 400. Estimate the cost of new lagoon in 2020.