McDonalds in the early Kroc years. What was the value proposition offered by McDonalds? What brought customers (repeatedly) in the door? What did the SWOT analysis look like at this time? McDonalds in the Skinner years (c, 2003) Had the value proposition changed? How does a SWOT analysis look different? What do those changes suggest about the need to adapt? McDonalds (2017) How does a SWOT analysis look different? What do those changes suggest about the needing to constantly challenge your value propositions for your targeted markets?

Please, i need Unique answer, Use your own words (don't copy and paste). Please, don't use handwriting, Use your keyboard.

Q. 1. Provide an example of any two leading companies from the same industry, which are competing directly for market share. Give a short profile.

Q. 2. Suppose, if you are the manager of one of these companies, what pricing policy will you adopt to be in the first position? Why?

Q. 3. When the whole sector of the market is occupied by the little number of big corporations who share the leadership, what do we call this type of market structure? Explain in details the benefits for the leading company and disadvantage of such situation on final consumers.

Week 4 Question 1: "Classify the following control activities as preventive, detective or corrective and explain your reasoning,

(a) Employees have a password to gain access to the system.

(b) When sales are entered, the system retrieves customer details based on the customer number.

(c) A check is performed to identify if all cheques can be accounted for.

(d) Systems development is subject to sign-off by the CIO before it can take place.

(e) Virus definitions are updated daily.

(f) The sales manager must approve all discounts for items sold below their sticker price."

Question 2: "For each of the following risks suggest a control that could be used to reduce it."

(a) Entering negative values for order quantity in a sales order

(b) Selling to a customer with an overdue account

(c) Ordering from a non-existent supplier

(d) Paying for goods that have not been received

(e) Entering an alphanumeric customer ID when the business policy is for numeric customer IDs

(f) Misappropriation of goods by receiving staff, who also maintain inventory records

(g) Ordering too much of a product"

WEEK 4

Question 1 Could you kindly reconsider your reasoning if you have classified the control activities as either detective or corrective?

Question 2 a) Have you considered range restrictions?

b) Would a credit check help? Can a credit hold help address this risk?

c) Would this risk be minimised if the orders were generated from a supplier master list? Would you consider independent maintenance of a supplier master list to be useful?

d) What needs to be matched prior to payment authorisation? Still unsure? Would the matching of the purchase order, receiving report and invoice be sufficient?

e) Would you specify filed content as 'alphanumeric' or 'numeric'? (Hint: Please refer to the business policy)

f) Have you considered the likelihood of misappropriation of goods when duties are separated between personnel?

g) Have you thought about the reasonableness test? Would the approval of quantities to be ordered help minimize the risk? Can ordering policies be useful in this scenario?

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Write a program using switch-case-break that will take an input number as for example 2 and based on switch it will provide various powers of 2.

*** please don't copy and paste and don't use handwriting

Q1:

Data Modelling is the primary step in the process of database design. Compare and contrast Conceptual data model versus Physical data model. Illustrates with help of example to list down data (entities), relationship among data and constraints on data.

Q2:

What strategic competitive benefits do you see in a company’s use of extranets?

Q3:

Explain how Internet technologies are involved in developing a process in one of the functions of the business? Give an example and evaluate its business value.

Q4:

What are the basic differences between HRM, Intranet and Internet in terms of Domain and Network Communication Scope?

P 14 - 2

On January 1, 2018, Baddour Inc., issued 10% bonds with a face amount of $160 million. The bonds were priced at $140 million to yield 12%. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Baddour's fiscal year ends September 30.

Question #1.) What amount(s) related to the bonds would Baddour report in its balance sheet at September 30, 2018?

On 9/30/18 Interest expense - Interest payable is $4,212,000 - $4,000,000 = $212,000,000. I'm curious then, when subtracting the interest payable from the interest expense what it would be on 6/30/18? This is the 9th edition of Intermediate Accounting by authors Spiceland, Nelson, and Thomas. Published by Mcgraw Hill.

Outline some of the reasons for the difference in life expectancy between men and women

tcja change the depreciation rules for new Farm machinery and equipment the changes includes

With regards to a publicity campaign on plastic drink bottles. Answer question 1

Q1. Elements and structure of the campaign (what communication methods will be implemented and sequence in which communications methods will be delivered)

4. What are the types of time lags that can occur when implementing fiscal policy? When Congress recently kept delaying the passing of the Coronavirus stimulus package, what specific type of time lag was occurring and why?

Photons with a wavelength of 599 nm in air enter a plate of flint glass with index of refraction n = 1.66. Find the speed, wavelength, and energy of a photon in the glass. (a) speed (in m/s) m/s (b) wavelength (in m) m (c) energy (in J)

In what way does a mobile supermarket change the distribution channel?  Justify your answer. I WILL RATE! (marketing question but that is not a subject choice)

Sarasota Company sponsors a defined benefit pension plan for its employees. The following data relate to the operation of the plan for the year 2017 in which no benefits were paid. 1. The actuarial present value of future benefits earned by employees for services rendered in 2017 amounted to $55,700. 2. The company’s funding policy requires a contribution to the pension trustee amounting to $144,323 for 2017. 3. As of January 1, 2017, the company had a projected benefit obligation of $894,700, an accumulated benefit obligation of $792,500, and a debit balance of $402,000 in accumulated OCI (PSC). The fair value of pension plan assets amounted to $601,400 at the beginning of the year. The actual and expected return on plan assets was $54,300. The settlement rate was 9%. No gains or losses occurred in 2017 and no benefits were paid. 4. Amortization of prior service cost was $49,800 in 2017. Amortization of net gain or loss was not required in 2017. Determine the amounts of the components of pension expense that should be recognized by the company in 2017. (Enter amounts that reduce pension expense with either a negative sign preceding the number e.g. -45 or parenthesis e.g. (45).) Prepare the journal entry or entries to record pension expense and the employer’s contribution to the pension trustee in 2017. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) Indicate the pension-related amounts that would be reported on the income statement and the balance sheet for Sarasota Company for the year 2017.

1. What is self-management?

2. What are some of the strategies to improve self-management?