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September 1, 2023

Pricing and Profitability Decisions

Pricing and Profitability Decisions. Your company would like a presentation of your findings on maximizing profit, pricing decisions, and strategic cooperation at the quarterly board of directors meeting. Help with this Unit 2 project is in Chapters 12 and 13 of Managerial Economics: Foundations of Business Analysis and Strategy.

In your presentation, you will outline how managers can determine the conditions for the optimal output level. Address the following in your presentation:

Two slides: Identify and describe a competitor to the company you chose in Unit 1 (Keep in mind that the decision-making process for a monopoly applies to any firm with market power).

One slide: Explain competitive advantage.

Three slides: Compare their strategies to determine their best plan of action, including deciding upon the optimal price and output of their product or service, product differentiation, or some other strategic variable. Pricing and Profitability Decisions.

Three slides: Show how firms should allocate production among multiple production facilities.

Two slides: Analyze how firms in oligopolies position themselves to be successful.

Four slides: Show how firms in oligopolies can cooperate to make themselves better off than they would be in a non-cooperative Nash equilibrium.

Deliverable Requirements: Your maximizing profit, pricing decisions, and strategic cooperation findings is a PowerPoint presentation of at least 15 slides in length (excluding title and reference slides). You must use the Notes sections with academic citations supporting your decisions and analysis. A variety of academic sources is encouraged. Be sure to cite sources using the APA style, including references and in-text citations. Pricing and Profitability Decisions. Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.

Length: 15 slides minimum

Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your presentation for this assignment is 15 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.

Reference slide: Pricing and Profitability Decisions. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the presentation. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

September 1, 2023

BUS 375 WEEK 10

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BUS 375 WEEK 10. For this assignment, complete the following:

Synthesize information from all previous assignments into a PowerPoint presentation that showcases the project successes to the key customer(s) and/or stakeholder(s). Your presentation should have at least 10 slides:

A title slide. At least 8 informational slides. A final slide for sources.

Do not include content from previous assignments word-for-word. Instead, incorporate instructor feedback you received on previous activities and assignments, and then summarize the key information for your presentation. When creating your presentation, emphasis should be placed on addressing your audience with an appropriate tone. Your slides should not be bullet-pointed lists, but a professional summary of the successes of your project for the stakeholders.

Include detailed speaker notes that expand on the information presented in the slides. All slides should include at least 50 words of speaker notes, except for the title and sources slides.

Speaker notes are used to guide what you would say if you were presenting to your customer(s). You can use speaker notes to remind yourself of details to discuss that aren’t listed on the slide. These notes could include details on project budget, troubleshooting and eliminating roadblocks, timeline adjustments, etc.

For this assignment, complete the following:

A title slide. At least 8 informational slides. A final slide for sources.

BUS 375 WEEK 10. Include detailed speaker notes that expand on the information presented in the slides. All slides should include at least 50 words of speaker notes, except for the title and sources slides. Speaker notes are used to guide what you would say if you were presenting to your customer(s). You can use speaker notes to remind yourself of details to discuss that aren’t listed on the slide. These notes could include details on project budget, troubleshooting and eliminating roadblocks, timeline adjustments, etc. Use APA referencing style.

September 1, 2023

Scholarly Activity – Employee Union

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Scholarly Activity – Employee Union. For this assignment you will write a two-part scholarly paper. It requires you to use academic sources, scholarly word choice and tone, and effective use of evidence. Begin with an introduction that establishes an understanding of the purpose of your paper. Clearly present your thesis and a summary of the main points. Next, for the first part, you must compare and contrast the rights—and the regulation of those rights—of unionized employees versus public sector employees.

Address the following, at a minimum: Differentiate the governance of rights for unionized and public sector employees. Examine the rights of unionized employees versus public sector employees. Next, you will compare and contrast the rights and benefits of a non-union member versus a union member in a unionized bargaining unit. Be sure to: Summarize the rights of both members in a bargaining environment. Examine the differences for the two member classes when it comes to strikes, concerted action, and other organization efforts. Explain employer conduct that violates employees’ rights. Your paper must be a minimum of three pages, not including the title or reference pages. Scholarly Activity – Employee Union. You may include up to three graphics (not decorative images or pictures), tables, or charts to augment your paper. You must use a minimum of three academic or peer-reviewed sources to support your paper. One source must come from the CSU Online Library.

Scholarly Activity – Employee Union. Differentiate the governance of rights for unionized and public sector employees. Examine the rights of unionized employees versus public sector employees. Next, you will compare and contrast the rights and benefits of a non-union member versus a union member in a unionized bargaining unit. Be sure to: Summarize the rights of both members in a bargaining environment. Examine the differences for the two member classes when it comes to strikes, concerted action, and other organization efforts. Explain employer conduct that violates employees’ rights. Your paper must be a minimum of three pages, not including the title or reference pages. You may include up to three graphics (not decorative images or pictures), tables, or charts to augment your paper. You must use a minimum of three academic or peer-reviewed sources to support your paper. One source must come from the CSU Online Library. Use APA referencing style.

September 1, 2023

Developing a Flexible Budget

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Developing a Flexible Budget. Review the scenario and watch this week’s videos before you complete the activity below. This scenario can also be found in the “Problems – Series A” section 8-19A of Ch. 8, “Performance Evaluation” of Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting Concepts.

Scenario

The Redmond Management Association held its annual public relations luncheon in April Year 2. Based on the previous year’s results, the organization allocated $25,290 of its operating budget to cover the cost of the luncheon. To ensure that costs would be appropriately controlled, you, the treasurer, prepared the following budget for the Year 2 luncheon.

Use Excel—showing all work and formulas—to complete the following:

Prepare a flexible budget.

Compute the sales volume variance and the variable cost volume variances based on a comparison between the master budget and the flexible budget.

Compute flexible budget variances by comparing the flexible budget with the actual results.

Mr. Snow was extremely upset with the budget deficit. He immediately called you, the treasurer, to complain about the budget variance for the meal cost. He told you that the added dessert caused the meal cost to be $4,810 ($25,110-$20,300) over budget. He added, “I could expect a couple hundred dollars one way or the other, but several thousand is totally unacceptable. At the next budget meeting of the budget committee, I want you to explain what happened.” Developing a Flexible Budget.

Create a 6- to 8-slide presentation for the budget committee meeting. Complete the following in your presentation:

Summarize the results of the sales volume and variable cost volume variances computations based on the comparison between the master budget and the flexible budget.

Summarize the results of the flexible budget variances computations based on the comparison between the flexible budget and the actual results. Justify the favorable or unfavorable budget variances.

Since this is a not-for-profit organization, address why anyone should be concerned with meeting the budget.

Developing a Flexible Budget. Make recommendations for what can be done differently to stay on budget for future luncheons. Provide specific examples to support your recommendations.

Cite references to support your assignment.

Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

September 1, 2023

Business Law & Ethics

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Business Law & Ethics. Refer to section “The WH Framework for Business Ethics” of Ch. 2, “Business Ethics” of Dynamic Business Law for information on the WH Framework. Review the scenario and complete the activity below. This scenario can also be found in the “Questions & Problems” section of Ch. 2, “Business Ethics” in Dynamic Business Law.

Scenario

Steven J. Trzaska was the head of L’Oreal USA’s regional patent team, managing the procedure by which the company patented products. As an attorney barred in Pennsylvania, Trzaska had to adhere to professional rules of conduct established by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in addition to rules promulgated by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In 2014, L’Oreal S.A., the French parent company of L’Oreal USA, enacted a global quota of patent applications each regional office had to file each year. Employees were informed that failure to meet the quota would negatively impact their careers and even their continued employment at L’Oreal. Meanwhile, L’Oreal USA simultaneously enacted a rule to increase the quality of patent applications filed with the USPTO. The second rule led to a decrease in number of patents that could be filed with the USPTO. Trzaska’s team would not be able to fulfill the patent quota.

Faced with the problem, Trzaska informed management that his team would not file patents that they did not believe in good faith were patentable. Several weeks after Trzaska’s meeting with the management, he was offered 2 severance packages that he did not accept. Finally, Trzaska was let go. Trzaska subsequently sued L’Oreal, alleging that he was fired for refusal to violate ethical rules that regulate the legal profession. Business Law & Ethics.

Create a WH Framework chart, similar to Exhibit 2.2. Refer to L’Oreal’s core values and the primary values in Exhibit 2.3 to determine the guidelines to include in the WH Framework.

Write an explanation of how you decided on the list of stakeholders and guidelines to include in your WH Framework. Address the following questions in your explanation:

Which stakeholders did Traszka and the management of L’Oreal cater to? Why?

What values did L’Oreal’s management choose when they made the decision to fire Trzaska? Why?

Self-Reflection

Business Law & Ethics. In addition to your explanation, address the following self-reflection questions:

How did the WH Framework help you analyze the situation?

Now that you’ve put together the framework, how does the WH Framework help managers with making business decisions?

What type of decisions would the WH Framework chart help you make as a manager? Use APA referencing style.

September 1, 2023

Reviewing Affordable Care Act

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Reviewing Affordable Care Act. Since the Affordable Care Act became the law of the land, there has been much written concerning its ongoing economic impact on our nation’s economy. There have also been many sound reports that few of the benchmarks set for it have ever been reached. Both good and bad has been reported concerning this massive legislation. Now that we have had a long history with the “ACA” we have started to see its impact first hand. The heated debate regarding what to do next with it has been ongoing and recently overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Politicians are not economists, and are not always known for making sound financial choices. Some have argued that the government neglected to listen to its own economists, the Congressional Budget Office when it passed this bill into law.

Instructions

Using the economic principles which you have learned throughout the semester, write an amendment to, or a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. The changes you create will need to accomplish the original stated goals of the Affordable Care Act.

For those of you who cannot remember what they were, here is a quick recap:

Reviewing Affordable Care Act. Bring down the overall cost of health care as it related to GDP. Provide health care services for the entire population. Provide a full prescription drug benefit for the elderly. Expand the entire scope of health care services. As an economist it is your choice what to do next. You may replace or repair the system at will, but will need to explain why and how. This is not an attack on the President personally, and as such please keep the political rhetoric out of your paper. Also keep faith out of it. The argument that “this will work” if we get everyone to believe in it, is both foolish and dangerous. Use APA referencing style.

September 1, 2023

National Health Expenditure

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National Health Expenditure. We have discussed the level of NHE in the United States and looked to some degree at how much money is being spent for care by various service categories such as hospitals and physicians. Click here to view and study the NHE data for selected calendar years between 1970 and 2003 and for selected service categories (with the exception of the catch-all category of “other”) (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], n.d.). Answer the following questions:

Examine the trends in expenditures for the service categories presented in the table. What is the magnitude and direction of spending changes within and across each of these categories: the percentage of GDP spent on NHE and the NHE per capita. What can you say about how the price of medical care services changes? As you think about what you might say, realize that the figures have been adjusted for inflation. Also, assume that not all increases in healthcare costs are caused by increases in utilization.

Examine the rates of growth in the service categories (except the category “other”). What trends do you see in the mix of healthcare services used by the US public? What factors might contribute to these trends?

Reference:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2014). National health expenditure data. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/index.html?redirect=/NationalHealthExpendData/.

National Health Expenditure. To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

We have discussed the level of NHE in the United States and looked to some degree at how much money is being spent for care by various service categories such as hospitals and physicians. Click here to view and study the NHE data for selected calendar years between 1970 and 2003 and for selected service categories (with the exception of the catch-all category of “other”) (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], n.d.). Answer the following questions:

National Health Expenditure. Examine the trends in expenditures for the service categories presented in the table. What is the magnitude and direction of spending changes within and across each of these categories: the percentage of GDP spent on NHE and the NHE per capita. What can you say about how the price of medical care services changes? As you think about what you might say, realize that the figures have been adjusted for inflation. Also, assume that not all increases in healthcare costs are caused by increases in utilization.

Reference:

September 1, 2023

Types of Unemployment

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Types of Unemployment. Here are four individuals telling you their stories of how they became unemployed. In a multi-paragraph essay, apply the theories of unemployment to explain the type of unemployment that each of these individuals is facing and explain which of these individuals qualifies for unemployment benefits:

1) Two months ago, Marcelle used to work full time in an automobile manufacturing firm. “The factory where I used to work has closed because our market contracted so much, and so I was laid off. This is happening to people all over the country-all you see in the papers is that economic growth has fallen and incomes across the country have fallen. I have been looking very hard for a new job, but have had no luck yet.”

2) Until last week, Dominic used to work full time as a hair-dresser in downtown Cincinnati. “I decided to quit my job, because I want to move to New York City.”

3) Until last month, Francine worked part time at a ski resort. “Well, it is summer now, and so the resort is closed. I will apply again in the winter when the snow is back. I am not interested in working until then.”

4) Two months ago, Beauvoir had been working full time as a secretary. “I was a good typist, but I don’t know how to use a computer. My boss wanted to upgrade the office to computers, and so I was replaced by someone who is computer-savvy. I have been looking for another job, but it appears that I need to learn some computer skills.”

Types of Unemployment. Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.
Use APA referencing style.

September 1, 2023

Business Environment Challenges

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Business Environment Challenges. Changing, or even stating, a company’s values can be a long and arduous process, but it often pales in comparison to the effort it takes to make sure they are honored, implemented and projected. In this assignment, you evaluate how well your chosen company from the first assignment has done in “walking the talk” and responding to a social issue.

Preparation

Review your chosen company’s mission and values statements as well as other sources that provide insight into the company’s values with regard to social responsibility. Pick two of their primary values and research how the company manifests those values. Simple examples might be the commitment to workplace diversity or ecological sustainability.

Instructions

Create a 3–5-minute (approximately 6–8 slides) PowerPoint presentation that evaluates how well the company embodies its issue-related values. Your presentation should contain detailed speaker’s notes that flesh out and support main points, ideas, or conclusions and have supporting citations. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and social responsibility. Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas: Empowering Workers. Labor and Human Rights. Health and Safety. The Environment. Accountability. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

Business Environment Challenges. In this week’s discussion, you consider assembling a team to write a supplier code of conduct. Recommend the stakeholders roles (4–5) needed on the team and how each supports the project. Integrate at least three supporting resources from the Strayer University Library or other reputable sources. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is. Create a presentation about the key areas, changes, and progress in a company’s supplier responsibilities and code of conduct. Use APA referencing style.

September 1, 2023

Social Responsibility – Company Relocation

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Social Responsibility – Company Relocation. A company is considering the possibility of moving its manufacturing plant and administrative offices from a small city in the American Midwest to another of similar size in the South. Approximately 20 percent of the city’s residents are employed by the company, and many others are employed in businesses such as banks, personal services, restaurants, malls and supermarkets that would see a decline in business if the company decides to relocate. Does the company have the social responsibility to take into account in its decision the impact that its relocation would have on the city? Explain your reasoning. Service companies tend to have more planning difficulties than manufacturers. However, services have certain advantages that the manufacturing industry does not usually have. Explain the difficulty of planning services, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.

A company is considering the possibility of moving its manufacturing plant and administrative offices from a small city in the American Midwest to another of similar size in the South. Approximately 20 percent of the city’s residents are employed by the company, and many others are employed in businesses such as banks, personal services, restaurants, malls and supermarkets that would see a decline in business if the company decides to relocate. Social Responsibility – Company Relocation. Does the company have the social responsibility to take into account in its decision the impact that its relocation would have on the city? Explain your reasoning. Service companies tend to have more planning difficulties than manufacturers. However, services have certain advantages that the manufacturing industry does not usually have. Explain the difficulty of planning services, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.

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