What are five leadership and development strategies for a CEO? Some examples below.

Create a program for planning, training, and coaching that will ensure the effective performance of company leadership. The HR manager will be the resource for talent assessment, career path support, conflict counseling, and the development of training plans.

Develop and deliver a quarterly leadership training program.

Partner with management to target employees to focus talent assessment and coaching feedback.

Identify management that has high potential and execute a plan to drive their development.

Identify management that has performed poorly and execute a plan for performance improvement.

Identify positions where management has consistently performed poorly with lack of improvement after coaching, develop a plan to recruit a replacement.

...."Imagine you are a branding executive for a new Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of a major Hollywood movie studio. (For example, Pixar is an SBU of Disney Studios.)

1. Come up with the SBU’s name and trademark
2. Write a positioning statement for the SBU
3. Develop a brand new creative movie, name and theme
4. List the S-T-P of your movie (think: CLV, IP, Core competencies)
5. present a one-page executive summary to the CEO of the parent company, trying to convince him/her to invest studio funds for your movie concept. Remember, all proposals have a beginning, middle, and conclusion. Therefore, similar to advertisements, you must Attract/Intrigue/Persuade!

Hint: Think Differentiation

1. Megaphone is a cellular telephone service provider with 40% market share of the telephone service market in the United States. The CEO, Schubert Purdoch, has achieved that share in large part by acquiring small competitors. Megaphone is seeking to acquire Vinaphone which provides cellular telephone service as well. Vinaphone has become a household name in large part because of their ads making fun of Megaphone as an “out of touch dinosaur” of a company, featuring a dinosaur with the head of Schubert Purdoch. After this merger, Megaphone will not only be able to pull those ads off the air, but will also have 60% market share for telephone service. How would the FTC analyze this merger? What question(s) would be asked?

Mr Ahmed Kumar runs a snack distribution business located in the Light Industrial area in Lusaka. The following list of balances was extracted from his ledger as at 31 March, 2020; the end of his most recent financial year.

K

Capital                                                                                                83,887

Sales                                                                                                  259,870

Trade accounts payable                                                                 19,840

Returns outwards                                                                             13,407

Allowance for doubtful debts                                                          512

Discounts allowed                                                                            2,306

Discounts received                                                                          1,750

Purchases                                                                                         135,680

Returns inwards                                                                               5,624

Carriage outwards                                                                           4,562

Drawings                                                                                           18,440

Carriage inwards                                                                              11,830

Rent, rates and insurance                                                              25,973

Heating and lighting                                                                         11,010

Postage, stationery and telephone                                               2,410

Advertising                                                                                        5,980

Salaries and wages                                                                         38,521

Bad debts                                                                                          2,008

Cash in hand                                                                                    534

Cash at bank                                                                                    4,440

Inventory as at 1^st April 2019                                                         15,654

Trade accounts receivable                                                             24,500

Fixtures and fittings - at cost                                                          120,740

Prov. for depreciation on fixtures and fittings – 31/03/2020     63,020

Depreciation                                                                                     12,074

The following additional information as at 31^st March, 2020 is available:

(a) Inventory at the close of business was valued at K17,750

(b) Insurances have been prepaid by K1,120

(c) Heating and lighting is accrued by K1,360

(d) Rates have been prepaid by K5,435

(e) The allowance for doubtful debts is to be adjusted so that it is 3% of trade accounts receivable.

Required:

For the year 2020, prepare Mr Kumar’s:

Unadjusted Trial Balance as at 31^st March, 2020.

                                                                                                                              [10 Marks]

General Journal recording the adjustments highlighted above.

                                                                                                                              [10 Marks]

Trading, Profit or Loss statement for the year ended 31^st March, 2020.

[10 Marks]

Statement of financial position as at 31^st March, 2020.

                                                                                                                              [10 Marks]

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1. Suppose the initial Brazilian real to US dollar exchange rate is 4 reals (or “reais”) to 1 US dollar. The cost to buy a specified market basket of same quality products is $500,000 in the U.S. and R$1,400,000 in Brazil. Valued in U.S. dollar terms, the market basket in Brazil costs $350,000. (This market basket cost represents the combined price of thousands of products, and so also indicates an average price for those products.)

(e) Product prices in the U.S. and Brazil have changed. Using the prices in domestic currencies

for the two countries, does the ratio of Brazilian market basket price US market basket price (brazilian market basket price/ us market basket price) move toward or away from the initial nominal exchange rate?

· For (e and j), use the (Brazilian price/US price) ratio so as to match the (Brazilian reals/US dollar) ratio.

(f) There has been a change in the amount of imports that Brazilian firms (wholesalers, retailers etc.) buy. With this change in the buying of foreign products, what happens to the supply of Brazilian reals in foreign exchange markets? (Compared to the previous period, for example.)

(g) What happens to the price (strength, value) of the Brazilian real?

(h) There has been a change in the amount of imports that American firms (wholesalers, retailers etc.) buy. With this change in the buying of foreign products, what happens to the supply of American dollars in foreign exchange markets? (Compared to the previous period, for example.)

Some investors believe the VIX follows a mean-reversion process. Do you agree? Why? (Please proof your answer based on VIX returns from Jan. 02, 2000 to Apr. 25, 2020)

Why are Americans consuming more of their energy from sugar than might be healthy? What recommendations do the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015-2020 make in regards to sugar consumption? How can these recommendations be implemented?

Case - Instashop

When John Tsioris moved to Dubai in 2013 with a well-paid job working for a lighting subsidiary of the Dutch consumer electronics group Philips, he did not feel entirely satisfied by his career move.

"I had a very strong desire to create something of my own and make the calls and give myself the chance to actually prove if something meaningful could be created on my own," says Mr Tsioris, the co-founder and chief executive of Instashop.

Two years later, at the age of 28, he quit his job as a marketing intelligence manager and started Instashop, an on-demand online grocery delivery company. The app-based service allows customers to order groceries for delivery on-demand from a wide selection of supermarkets and local neighbourhood retailers. Users can choose for their shopping to be delivered in scheduled time slots or within 60 minutes from some vendors.

"On the one hand it [was about] avoiding the limitations that naturally exist in large corporations and on the other [it was about] the strong desire to create something of my own," says Mr Tsioris, from Greece.

Today, Instashop has expanded to five countries, with more than 350,000 users and one of the highest retention rates for a mobile app.

In less than four years, InstaShop has expanded from the UAE to Qatar, Egypt, Lebanon and Bahrain. From 2016 to 2018, the app was nominated one of the region’s most promising start-ups to watch by Forbes Middle East. With a fast-growing monthly active user base of more than 350,000 people and over 150 employees, InstaShop aims to fulfil customer orders in under an hour. The platform lists several well-established supermarket names, including Union Co-op, Choithrams, Al Maya, Zoom, Aswaaq and Bluemart.

Reading resource

• The National: https://www.thenational.ae/business/economy/generation-start-up-instashop-eyes-global-expansion-for-its-grocery-delivery-app-1.979277
• The Gulf News: https://gulfnews.com/business/how-did-instashop-win-over-350000-monthly-active-users-1.1572357945304

On January 1, 2018, Co. P acquired 90% of Co. S for $550,000, plus $15,000 in acquisition costs. On the date of acquisition, Co. S had the following balance sheet:

An appraisal indicates that the following items have fair values that differed from their book values:

Immediately after the purchase, Co. P had the following balance sheet:

(1) Record the investment in Co. S.

(2) Prepare a value analysis schedule for the Investment in Co. S.

(3) Prepare a determination and distribution schedule for the investment in Co. S.

(4) Prepare all required elimination ertries for the January 1, 2018 consolidated worksheet in general journal form.

*Below is what I have for parts 1-3 so far, but I'm struggling with part 4 (something in 3 may be incorrect).

(1)       Investment in State                                                                550,000

            Acquisition Expense                                                                15,000

                        Cash                                                                                        565,000

(2)

(3)

Which of the following scenarios would it be appropriate to use a normal approximation for the sampling distribution of the sample proportion?

Select one:

A researcher wishes to find the probability that more than 60% of a sample of undergraduate students from UNC will be female. She samples the first 42 students that walk into the gym on Monday morning. The population proportion of undergraduate females at UNC is known to be 60.1%.

A researcher wishes to find the probability that less than 5% of a sample of undergraduate students from Appalachian State University will be between the ages of 25 and 34. He randomly samples 50 undergraduate students from the student database. The proportion of undergraduates between the ages of 25 and 34 is 5.3%.

A grad student at NC state wants to know how likely it is that a group of students would be made up of more than 27% graduate students. She will randomly select 38 students and ask them if they are a graduate student or an undergraduate student. The population proportion of grad students at NC state is 26.6%.

A full-time student at Fayetteville State University wants to know how likely it is that a group of students would be made up of less than 70% full-time students. She will ask 30 people that she sees parking in the parking deck if they are full-time or part-time. The population of full-time students at Fayetteville State is known to be 72%.