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Describes the results of your assessment of the labor market from which your selected organization draws candidates for open positions. Explains the population, demographics of the population, levels of education, and how much training may be required to prepare new workers drawn from this pool for positions in the firm. Use regional economic corporations, US Department of Labor and other sources to provide data.
In: Economics
Fatigue, a domestic corporation, sells energy bars and has $6,000,000 of domestic sales and $2,000,000 of foreign sales and taxable income of $600,000 from the domestic sales and $200,000 from the foreign sales. Fatigue's adjusted basis in its depreciable business assets is $500,000. Fatigue pays foreign taxes of $21,000 on its foreign sales. Title to the foreign inventory passes outside the US. What are the tax consequences to Fatigue?
In: Accounting
Discussion Question:
1. Matt talks a lot about "Fair Market Rent" and how realtors and landlords make more money in poor neighborhoods than in nicer ones. How is it possible to make more profit from renting run-down properties to poor people than from renting luxury apartments to wealthy people? What does this tell us about the relationship between wealth and poverty?
In: Anatomy and Physiology
Does the firm continue to exist in bankruptcy or does it dissolve immediately? How is the money divided between the debtors? Who gets the money first? Who gets the short-end of the stick? Are there any strategic reasons for declaring bankruptcy? Do you know of any companies that have gone bankrupt? Any other comments you have about company bankruptcy
In: Accounting
The composite scores of individual students on the ACT college entrance examination in 2009 followed a normal distribution with mean 21.1 and standard deviation 5.1.
In: Statistics and Probability
Question 6: Assume you are a credit manager in charge of approving commercial loans to business firms. Identify three aspects of a firm's cash flows you would review and explain the type of information you hope to gain from reviewing each of those five aspects. Question 7: Give some examples of ways in which manager's goals can differ from those of shareholders. Question 8: Describe the major differences between individual and institutional investors.
In: Finance
You want to buy a car which will cost you $10,000. You do not have sufficient funds to purchase the car. You do not expect the price of the car to change in the foreseeable future. You can either save money or borrow money to buy the car.
a) You will make regular deposits in your bank account at the start of each month for the next 2.5 years. Calculate the minimum required monthly savings to be deposited into the bank such that you would have sufficient funds to purchase the car in 2.5 years. (1 mark)
b) You will make regular deposits in your bank account at the start of each week for the next 2.5 years. Calculate the minimum required weekly savings to be deposited into the bank such that you would have sufficient funds to purchase the car in 2.5 years.
c) You will make regular deposits of $2,000 at the end of each year. Calculate how long will it take for you to have sufficient funds to purchase the car. (1 mark)
- Option 1: The first repayment will not start until you graduate from university. Therefore, no month-end-instalments will be made for the first 36 months. Then, commencing at the end of the 37th month, a total of 30 month-end-instalments of $X will be made over the life of the loan. The nominal interest rate is 6% per annum compounded monthly.
d) Calculate X. (2 mark)
e) Your parents agree to help you repay the loan by contributing a lump sum of $1,800 when you successfully graduate from university. Calculate the new value of X. (1 mark)
- Option 2: For the first 36 months (while you are still studying), you will be making month-end-instalments of $Y. Then, commencing at the end of the 37th month (when you graduate from university), you will double the amount of monthly repayment for the remaining 30 month-end-instalments. The nominal interest rate is 6% per annum compounded monthly.
f) Calculate the value of Y.
Any help is appreciated, thank you very much in advance!
In: Accounting
Take some time to build your own "Personal Balanced Scorecard." Rather than a Scorecard for a company, this scorecard will be about your own personal goals, and how you can measure your progress towards them. Think of each of the traditional four perspectives in a way that can apply to your own life: Internal (health) perspective: This perspective is about the physical and mental well-being of an individual. Measures from this perspective should emphasize how someone can improve or maintain their physical and mental fitness Customer (external) perspective: This perspective has to do wth relationships with family members, friends, work colleagues, etc., and how you come across to them. Measures from this perspective should focus on improving relationships, such as time spent with family Learning & Growth perspective. This perspective focuses on how you as an individual are improving your knowledge and skill set, whether it is through school, training, or self- taught methods. An example would be hours of reading a week or attaining a certain grade in school. Financial Perspective: This perspective has to do with your own financial goals, whether it is saving a cetain amount of money every month or controlling your spending Remember that when setting your scorecard objectives that they should follow the SMART methad, Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainabie, Realistic, and Timely. Specific: Well defined, clear, and unambiguous Measurable With specific criteria that you can actually measure your progress towards the realizing this objective Attainable Attainable and not impossible to achieve, but also challenging enough Realistic Wihin reach, realistic, and relevant to your fe purpese Timely: With a clearly defined timeline, inluding a starting date and a target date fo completion.or at east an evaluation point.
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Assignment: A complete analysis should include a summary of the case, a SWOT analysis, a financial analysis, identification of strategic issues and challenges, and a strategic plan. You must support your case analysis with at least 3 sources in addition to the textbook.
The case describes the business model of one of the world’s largest e-tailers, Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon). Amazon had been at the forefront of innovation, adding and refining technology and changing the way customers shopped. It had a sustainable and innovative business model that intensely focused on its long-term growth opportunities as opposed to short-term profit margins. The case discusses the business model innovation at Amazon and how it evolved from just an online bookstore into one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world where customers could find and discover anything they wanted to buy online in a more convenient way. The case outlines the four pillars of Amazon’s business model — low prices, wide selection, convenience, and customer service. Amazon attracted customers through low prices, prompt delivery, an ever-expanding array of services and products, and exemplary customer service.In 2015, Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc.(Amazon) surprised investors by posting an unanticipated second quarterly profit in a row after struggling with profitability the previous year. In the third quarter ended September 30, 2015, Amazon’s revenues increased by 20% to US$23.2 billion, while net income was US $79 million, compared with a net loss of US$437 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The revenue growth was attributed to the company’s rapidly growing cloud-computing business, higher sales in North America, and initiatives to attract more customers. On the back of these unexpected quarterly results, Amazon shares surged, making it the most valuable retailer in the world surpassing Wal-Mart Stores Inc as of July 2015. BUILDING AND EVOLVING THE BUSINESS MODEL Over the years, Amazon had disrupted the online retail industry and transformed itself from an e-commerce player to a powerful digital media platform focused on growth and innovation. It constantly reinvented its business model and found new ways to create value for its customers. According to analysts, Amazon’s business model was innovative because it combined the company’s online retail expertise with its ability to understand the needs of its customers. Amazon moved beyond books to foray into completely new product categories such as e-readers and enterprise cloud computing services. AMAZON’S GROWTH WHEEL In 2001, Bezos and his employees outlined a virtuous cycle called the “Amazon Flywheel”, which they believed powered their business. Bezos once invited well-known author and business consultant Jim Collins (Collins) to participate in Amazon’s executive retreat in 2001 to discuss the company’s future. As part of the discussions, Collins told Bezos and his executives that they had to decide what they were best at. Drawing on Collins’s concept of a flywheel, Bezos and his executives drew their own virtuous circle placing customer experience at the core of Amazon’s flywheel. Internally, it was referred to as Bezos’ napkin diagram as he drew it on a napkin... GROWTH NOW, PROFITS LATER Amazon generated revenues by selling millions of products to customers through its retail website and by charging third party sellers who sold products on Amazon’s website. It also served as a platform for independent publishers to publish books on Kindle with a 35% or 70% royalty option. In addition, Amazon generated revenue from its cloud business by providing web technology infrastructure to developers and enterprises. It followed a high fixed costs and low marginal costs business model. According to Eugene Wei, a former Amazon employee... RESOURCES AND PROCESSES THAT SUPPORT THE STRATEGY Amazon was one of the most innovative companies in the US. From the beginning, it had been at the forefront of innovation, adding and refining technology and changing the way customers shopped. On invention being a second nature at Amazon, Bezos said... CHALLENGES According to industry observers, Amazon over the years had disrupted other online retailers and brick-and-mortar stores and leveraged its e-commerce operations to become a retail Goliath. However, some critics felt that Amazon was too ambitious as it had been growing alarmingly and investing heavily. They felt that the strategy could backfire and that Amazon needed to be selective about the opportunities it pursued as it could not take customers and the competition for granted... THE ROAD AHEAD Going forward, the company planned to launch new digital products and service categories, build more fulfillment centers, power AWS, and expand the Kindle Fire Ecosystem. The company also planned to hire 100,000 people in North America for the holiday season.
In: Operations Management
For each event, identify the specific factor and explain the likely effect on the price of the Australian Dollar (AUD) in the foreign exchange market. Use a relevant demand and supply for AUD diagram in each of your answers.
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c) Discuss the likely effects a large appreciation of the AUD would have on: (i) consumers travelling overseas; (ii) wheat exporters; (iii) import-competing Australian firms such as manufactures. [3 marks]
In: Economics