You are a newly appointed employee at Cumiciki Berhad as Senior Manager for Special Function in CEO Office. This company is generally based on healthy drink product. On the first day reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO), you are informed that the company experiencing decline in revenue. This is because of certain factors including domestic market has saturated. As part of your special task force, you are required to come out with analysis to identify what are the issues and to find a new market opportunity on the international market. Give some recommendations on the current problem and what kind of entry strategy to international market.

Your assignment should follow the guideline below:

1. Introduction [10 MARKS]

• - General idea about multinational corporation

• - How business in global market environment?

  2. Body [60 MARKS]

• - What do you understand by “Go global”?

• - Explain how globalisation impact on your company.

• - Elaborate about entry mode of your choice.

• - Describe about the challenges of multinational company in international

  market by using Porter’s Five Forces Model.

• - Recommend several strategies on how to compete at international level.

  3. Closing [10 MARKS]

  - Conclusion
  

You are a Logistics Manager at an e-Commerce retail company. Your company currently uses third-party delivery services to deliver products ordered through your website. While third-party services are reliable, they have limitations that are preventing your company from differentiating from other e-Commerce retailers. Therefore, you are contemplating that your company should start its own delivery service for delivering the most commonly ordered products. You have done all the analyses and are left with calculating the payback period of the investment before you present it to management. Typically, management has funded investments with a payback period between 3 – 4 years.

What is the payback period of this investment based on the information provided below? Will management invest in this project?

Note: Please show all calculations and use only the information provided in this problem. Do not include any external information.

The required investment for the service is $800,000. You are expecting an increase in monthly revenue of $30,000 for the next 5 years that is directly attributable to this service. You are also expecting incremental costs of $175,000 per year for the next five years.

The new revenue recognition standard issue by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) will call for major changes in the way companies in the airline industry recognize revenue. Airlines may have to change how they account for loyalty status benefits, mileage credits, change fees, and breakage for tickets that expire unused. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has formed an airlines task force to address implementation issues of the new standard for the airline industry. Assume that you have been called upon to present an analysis of the impact of the new standard on Southwest Airlines.

Refer to Southwest’s (ticker symbol: LUV) current/most recent financial statements (10-K) and the accompanying notes to answer the following questions. The current/most recent financial statement can be found on https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html. Search for the company in the ‘Fast Search’ box by using the ticker symbol provided above. In the list of results, find the latest filing labeled 10-K and select the ‘Documents’ link. On the next page, select the document of type ’10-K’ to open it.

1. For each of the following revenue categories, describe the current accounting, the likely changes (if any) that the new revenue recognition standard will require, and the potential impact of those changes on patterns of revenue recognition.

a) Flight Transportation (for tickets used and for ticket breakage)

b) Loyalty Program

c) Ancillary Services and Other Revenue

Consider the following data.

Answer the following:

1. Write the SQL DDL statements to create the tables. Include primary and foreign keys.

A 7-year $1000 par value bond with 10% semiannual coupons was sold on April 1, 2000, which yields 8% convertible semiannually. The coupons were payable at the beginning of October and April after the purchase. On June 25, 2005, the owner wished to know the dirty and clean values of this bond. Use both theoretical method and practical method, with the “30/360” method for figuring day counts. (Answers: $1055.44, $1032.35 by theoretical method, $1055.64, $1032.31 by practical method). Please show all work and numerical equation.

One study 145 individuals who received ceramic hips between 2003 and 2005, 20 hips developed squeaking. Using a=.02

1. Calculate the confidence interval for the true proportion of such hips that develop squeaking

2. Assume the population proportion of such hips that develop squeaking is p=0.15, what is the probability that between 8% and 21% of the sampled hips develop squeaking

3. Decide whether the proportion of such hips that develop squeaking is greater than 0.1. What is the rejection region? Calculate p-value. State appropriate conclusion.

The article “Solid-Phase Chemical Fractionation of Selected Trace Metals in Some Northern Kentucky Soils” (A. Karathanasis and J. Pils, Soil and Sediment Contamination, 2005:293-308) reports that in a sample of 26 soil specimens taken in a region of northern Kentucky, the average concentration of chromium (Cr) in mg/kg was 20.75 with a standard deviation of 3.93.

a. Can you conclude that the mean concentration of Cr is greater than 20 mg/kg?

b. Can you conclude that the mean concentration of Cr is less than 25 mg/kg?

These questions refer paper of "Mechanisms of haploinsufficiency revealed by genome-wide profiling in yeast(Deutschbauer et al., 2005)"

The yeast genome contains a single gene for ribosomal protein 24 of the 40S ribosome (gene is designated RPS24); it is located on chromosome IV. How many copies of this gene are present in:

A haploid yeast cell?  

A tetraploid yeast cell?

A diploid strain that is monosomic for chromosome IV?

A homozygous deletion strain that includes the entire RPS24 locus?  

A haploid strain in which the RPS24 gene contains a small deletion?