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Juan and Ross have successfully started their server business. They have developed their product and
have shown customers that it works. They have also successfully marketed their business and products
resulting in sales of 29 servers. This means that they have successfully been able to eliminate two of the
three major risks associated with any start-up business: technology risk (Does the product work?), and
marketing risk (Can the product be sold?). The remaining risk is that of scale, can the sales be grown.
Juan and Ross are aware that most Angel and Venture Capital investors are willing to take this risk. They
initially decide to go out and access Angel funding. The problem is that they have no idea as to what
their company is worth, how much money they can raise, and what percentage of the company will the
investor(s) own?
Since Juan and Ross are based in San Diego they agree that they will use the standard value for
companies in San Diego as their base value.
Juan and Ross have no idea as to how to rate their management talents. They are very familiar with the
market, their competition, how to position their product versus their competition, the technology of
their product, etc. The feedback they have received to date regarding their presentations has been very
positive.
The size of the opportunity is very large with the market for servers expected to reach $45 billion in
2028.
The technology that Juan and Ross have developed is unique and solves many of the problems data
center providers encounter including heat, weight, and power.
Juan and Ross do not know of any direct competition for their product although several large companies
sell servers.
The two entrepreneurs believe that they know how to position and sell their products and have had
some success to date. They now believe it is time to ramp up their sales and marketing efforts.
Given the size of the market, they will certainly need additional investment if they are to achieve their
goals.
Assignment
1) Value Ross and Juan’s company.
2) How much money should they look to raise?
3) What percentage of the overall ownership will the investors own?

SARAB_ACCT301

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Assignment Question(s):           (Marks 15)

Q1. Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management. How does accounting information assist in the formulation and implementation of organizational strategies? Support your answer by providing an example of one Saudi Company in this regard.                                                                                                                                     (2 Marks)

Note: Your answer must include a suitable example showing the role of accounting information in strategic management of an organization.                                                            (Chapter 1, Week 1)                                                                      

Answer:

Q2. What do you mean by cost function and for what purpose does it serve for? What are the various methods used to estimate cost functions? Explain each method with suitable numerical examples.                                                                                              (3 Marks) (Chapter 2, Week 2)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Answer:

Q3. TTL Corporation is in the manufacturer of several plastic products. TTL sells its one of the plastic product for SAR 500. The variable costs per unit are SAR 200, and the total fixed costs are SAR 510,000. Based on cost-volume profit analysis, calculate:                                     (4 Marks)                                                

a) Contribution margin per unit and contribution margin ratio.

b) Break-even point in units and sales SAR.

c) Pretax profit if the company sells 2,200 units.

d) Profit/loss if the company sells 1,500 units.

e) Units needed to reach target pretax profit of SAR 180,000.

f) Sales SAR needed to reach the target pretax profit of SAR 180,000.  (Chapter 3, Week 3)                                                                                                                                              

Answer:

Q4. “Job costing is a method of cost accounting used by companies to find out the cost of specific jobs or projects.” Comment on this statement and examine how actual allocation rates and estimated allocation rates are analyzed by the companies? Support your answer with an example of one Saudi company that use job costing.                                 (2 Marks) (Chapter 5, week 4 )

Answer:

Q5. A company uses a process costing system for its sole processing department. There were 4,000 units in beginning WIP inventory for June and 36,000 units were started in June. The beginning WIP units were 60% complete and the 3,250 units in ending WIP were 40% complete. All materials are added at the start of processing.               (4 Marks) (Chapter 6 Part 1, Week 5)

Project Two Milestone Guidelines and Rubric

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MBA 500 Project Two Milestone Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

As you get ready to review and analyze the financial performance of the company you work for in Project Two, it would be helpful to analyze another company and learn from their business model, especially related to corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, and activism.

Therefore, you will review Patagonia’s activism and corporate social responsibility initiatives and identify potential key financial performance indicators (KPIs).

Because Patagonia is a privately held company, its financial records are not available in the public domain. So, you are required to analyze the mission, vision, values, CSR initiatives, and financial records of the health and beauty company as well as the company you chose in Module One. You will then deduce which financial key performance indicators likely align with a company’s mission, vision, values, and CSR initiatives.

Prompt

To complete this assignment:

Review the resources you will be using in Project Two: Assessing Financial Performance.

Marketing and sales executive summary

  1. Vision, mission, and values of your company

Consolidated balance sheet of your company

Consolidated income statement of your company

Balance sheet of your chosen company

  • Cash flow statement of your chosen company

Income statement of your chosen company

Review information related to Patagonia’s corporate social responsibility and activism, as well as their mission, vision, and values. Use the following resources to help guide your research:

  • WileyPlus: Patagonia Case Analysis

Patagonia’s Corporate Social Responsibility and Activism

Patagonia—Our Footprint

Based on your review of the financial records of the health and beauty company as well as the company you chose in Module One, identify common financial KPIs and explain how these could also align with Patagonia’s CSR initiatives and its mission, vision, and values.

Based on your review of Patagonia’s information, describe how CSR activism can lead to a better brand image and financial results.

  • Explain what the health and beauty company could do to incorporate CSR activism strategies to meet its own KPIs.

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Assignment Question(s):(Marks 15)

Q1. What is the process of identifying activities in an organisation and assigning costs under the Activity Based Costing (ABC) system? Elucidate. You will need to include the right numerical examples to support your answer.(2 Marks) (Chapter 7, Week 7)

Answer:

Q2. PPLC Company has two support departments, SD1 and SD2, and two operating departments, OD1 and OD2. The company decided to use the direct method and allocate variable SD1 dept. costs based on the number of transactions and fixed SD1 dept. costs based on the number of employees. SD2 dept. variable costs will be allocated based on the number of service requests, and fixed costs will be allocated based on the number of computers.The following information is provided: (4 Marks) (Chapter 8, Week 10)

    

Support   Departments

Operating   Departments

   

SD1

SD2

OD1

OD2

 

Total Department   variable costs

18,000

19,000

51,000

35,000

 

Total department   fixed costs

20,000

24,000

56,000

30,000

 

Number of transactions

30

40

200

100

 

Number of   employees

14

18

35

30

 

Number of   service requests

28

18

35

25

 

Number of   computers

15

20

24

28

You are required to allocate variable and fixed costs using direct method.

Answer:

Q3. What are an organization’s “outsourcing decisions” and “constrained resource decisions?” Provide a suitable numerical example of these decisions and explain how quantitative and qualitative considerations support a company’s decision-making process.

(2 Marks) (Chapter 4, Week 9)

Note: Your answer must include suitable numerical examples. You are required to assume values of your own, and they should not be copied from any sources.

Answer:

Q4.VBN plastic industry makes three plastic toys: T1, T2, and T3. The joint costs of the three products in 2017 were SAR 120,000. The total number of units for each product and the selling price per unit is given below:(3 Marks) (Chapter 9, Week 11)

  

Product

Units

Selling Price per unit

 

T1

45,000

SAR 15

 

T2

26,000

SAR 14

 

T3

18,000

SAR 10

You are required to allocate the joint costs to each product using the physical volume method and sales value at the split-off method.

Answer:

Q5. MN&M Corporation is preparing a budget for 2018. The company provides you with the following details which will help you to prepare the budget:

(4 Marks) (Chapter 10, Week 12)

Budgeted selling price per unit = SAR 500 per unit

Total fixed costs = SAR 150,000

Variable costs = SAR 100 per unit

MKT500 Strayer University Week 7 discussion – How Businesses Use Podcasts in Marketing missing

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In your assignment this week, you will be asked to create a “mini” podcast to promote your product or service. For this discussion, you will explore how businesses use podcasts as part of their marketing strategy.

You may think of podcasts as being only for entertainment, current events, or news. In fact, businesses often use podcasts to reach their target audience in various ways. For example, the meal delivery company Blue Apron produced an educational podcast titled: “Why We Eat What We EatLinks to an external site.” where they could connect with their target audience through the common topic of food. Zip Recruiter sponsored a podcast titled: “Rise and Grind,Links to an external site.” where host Daymond John would interview high-profile achievers to ask about their approach to work success, which are topics relevant to their ideal customers. In addition to these two strategies, many businesses also reach new customers by making guest appearances on podcasts relevant to their industry or using podcasts to update customers about their product development. The exposure businesses receive from podcasts often drives sales rather than direct advertising or marketing.

  • Find a podcast published in the last two years that fits one of these strategies. (Note: There are many free podcasts on platforms such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and on your smartphone through apps like Stitcher or Podcasts.)
  • Answer the following questions:
    • What is the overall content/message of the podcast?
    • What is the tone of the podcast?
    • Is the podcast engaging? How so? If not, how could it be improved?
    • Based on the podcast title and topics, who would you say is the business’s target audience?
    • What do you consider to be the main advantages of podcast marketing? (Note: Consider where and when most people listen to podcasts.)

Read and respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

Source:

Steve Olsher. 2019. Four Ways Companies Use Podcasts in Their Marketing. https://podcastmagazine.com/four-ways-companies-us…

Applying International Finance Principles

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Throughout the course, you have learned about various concepts in international finance. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to apply those concepts and reflect on important topics in international finance. For your final paper, you will analyze The Philippines and its monetary system. You will also research the Philippines’ monetary system using at least five credible sources, including a minimum of three from the UAGC Library. Your analysis should be an eight to 10 pages and formatted according to APA Style guidelines.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Compare your selected country’s balance of payments against the United States’ balance of payments using the International Monetary Fund (IMF) eLibrary Data’s webpage Balance of Payments and International Investments Position Statistics (BOP/IIP): By Economy: BOP Analytic Pres.Links to an external site.

For help navigating this webpage, review this handout: Navigating the IMF eLibrary Data WebpageLinks to an external site..

Select S. Dollars as the base currency.

Select your country’s currency as the target currency.

Select Last 365 days [1 year] as the time horizon.

Select PNG image or JPEG image as your output format.

Select Make Chart.

Save an image of your chart. To do this,

take a screenshot of your chart, or

  • right-click the chart, select “Save Image As,” and save to your computer.

In your paper,

Discuss the evolution of your selected country’s monetary system, including the impact of any fiscal, monetary, and trade policies.

Describe the major components of your selected country’s monetary system, including organizations and financial institutions in your country.

Compare your selected country’s balance of payments against the United States’ balance of payments.

Report the country’s exchange rate against the U.S. dollar.

Include the image of the chart you created in your analysis.

  • Analyze the issues around economic exposure, transaction exposure, and translation exposure that a multinational company doing business in your country would face.

DETERMINING WHEN A RETURN IS SUFFICIENT TO START THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS

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just has to answer number 6:

Determining the Statute of Limitations: While the statute of limitations for examination is generally three years from the date a return is filed, the statue can be automatically extended, can be voluntarily extended, or tolled under various provisions provided in the code, regulations, rulings and court cases. Your job is to advise your clients as to the applicable statute of limitations based on the fact pattern to be provided to you below. Remember: the date a return is deemed filed is a question of both fact and law.

It is October 1, 2021. The clients have not filed their joint current year’s tax return. No extension has been filed. Your clients have filed timely in the past and there is no reason to suspect that there is unreported income (once the return is filed). They live in Florida and have been unaffected by a hurricane or other severe weather event. Your team must write a memorandum to the client explaining when a tax return filing will be deemed sufficient to start the statute of limitations for both examination and assessment purposes. In addition, the clients have asked if they should file a joint tax return under the facts above. You should cite, as appropriate, the code, regulations, rulings, court cases… etc. Make sure that the memo addresses all the following questions for both types of returns:

  1. What are the elements of a complete return?
  2. What is the general limitation on assessment?
  3. What are the exceptions to the general statute of limitations on Assessment?
  4. When is a return deemed sufficient to start the statute of limitations?
  5. What happens if IRS files a return on behalf of taxpayer?
  6. Under what circumstances will a statute not start? (Maria Alejandra Garcia)
  7. If the statute is not deemed to start, because of not being deemed to be a complete return, what curative actions may be necessary in order to start the statute of limitations?
  8. When is the statutes of limitations tolled from running? For how long?

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Mini-rubric

Points are reduced for typos, grammar errors, not answer each question completely.  Be careful, each discussion question is a multi-part question. Proof read your work before you submit it. Points will be reduced if there are less than three sources. No points will be awarded if your sources are not cited.

Instructions

Please read carefully:

1. You must use at least 3 different sources and cite each of them separately at the end of your writing.

2. AI/Chat GPT cannot be used for this assignment. This needs to be your original work. Do not share or borrow from anyone else. Please see the syllabus and Grossmont Catalog for plagiarism rules.

3. The questions are multi-part and will take some thought and research. The prompts provided below cannot be adequately answered in less than at least one paragraph per prompt. It make take more than a paragraph per prompt to answer completely.

5. You do not need to attach anything

7. Please write at least 1 paragraph per prompt, a minimum of 3 paragraphs in total to answer all prompts. (A paragraph is typically 5-8 sentence minimum.) to answer the following prompts:

Prompt 1:

You are an entrepreneur and have decided to open your own company. Describe the business that you would like to open. What is your product or service? Who is your target customer? Where is your business located?

Prompt 2:

Describe the type of organization you would have and why that form of business would be the best for your new company. Explain the pros and cons of your choice.

Prompt 3:

Describe the financial statements you would use and the key components/information that is on those statements that you would rely on for making your management and planning decisions. What indicators would you use to decide to grow or expand your company? What indicators would you use to decide if you should stay the course, no or few changes?  Which indicators would you use to decide if you need to reduce the size of your company?

Managerial Economics

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Before answering the following questions, review the checklist. Then, in a separate Word document, compose a paper consisting of a 450- to 500-word expository research essay answering the following questions, including computations, based on the rule for minimizing costs of production in regard to a small business plan to minimize costs in order to increase productivity and maximize profits.

The owner of Chloe’s Restaurant incurs various economic costs of production. Explain whether each of the following is an explicit cost or an implicit cost. Which of the two types of costs (explicit or implicit) should Chloe’s Restaurant minimize in order to maximize the account profit? 

Payments for rented manufacturing equipment.

A firm’s use of a warehouse that it owns and could rent to another firm.

  1. Wages paid to the firm’s workers.

The wages the firm’s owner, Chloe, could earn if she worked for another company.

  1. Consider the following information in the table for Chloe’s Restaurant and answer the questions below by using the cost minimization rule that takes into account the marginal product per dollar of inputs of production.
  2. Item
  3. Cost
  4. Marginal Product of Capital

10,000

  1. Marginal Product of Labor

500

Wage Rate

$15

Rental Price of Pizza Ovens

$600

Is the owner of Chloe’s Restaurant minimizing costs? Explain by computing marginal productivity per dollar using the data in the table.

To increase productivity and lower costs of production, should Chloe rent more ovens and hire fewer workers, or rent fewer ovens and hire more workers? Explain.

Your answer must consist expository research essay.

Consider Chloe’s Restaurant’s production decision in both the short run and long run. Chloe wants to improve the productivity of the firm in the long run. Explain the types of input costs that might be fixed in the short run and types of costs that may be variable in the long run. Provide examples for fixed inputs and variable inputs, as well as fixed costs and variable costs for the restaurant in the short run. What long-run economic decisions should Chloe make to increase productivity, minimize costs, and maximize profit?

MBA 530 Module 2

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Scenario

The organization that you are a director of leadership and learning  for has been conducting engagement surveys among its employees every two  years to gain a deeper understanding of employees’ views on areas such  as customer service, the organization’s overall strategy, job  satisfaction, rewards and recognition, and training and development. The  most recent survey was conducted this year, and the organization wants  to carry out another survey in two years.

Prompt

Your task is to evaluate the employee survey results using a GROW Model Template and  identify several survey questions that will target leadership skill and  behavior improvement for the next two years. You will also represent  the trends you’ve identified with bar or line graphs. For this  assignment, you will complete the first five sections of the GROW model  template:

Identified Trends

Employee Survey Results Data

Focus Areas

Reality—Current State

Desired Future State—Where Would You Like to Be?

  • Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

In the Identified Trends section, identify any noticeable trends in the Employee Satisfaction Survey Results data and address the following in your response. 

  • Are there certain focus areas that have seen significant changes compared to others?

How might one focus area impact another?

  • In the Employee Survey Results Data section, create  bar or line graphs from the employee survey results data that best  represent the trends you’ve identified above.

In the Focus Areas section, identify three focus areas to improve the organization based on your evaluation, and provide rationale.

  • In the Reality—Current State section, explain the  current state for each focus area you’ve identified above according to  the employee survey results. Consider the following in your response: 

The potential impact on survey results over time, the “why.”

  • In the Desired Future State—Where Would You Like to Be?  section, create a goal to address each focus area you’ve identified  within the next two years, and describe the impact to the entire  organization. Consider the following in your response: 

The desired result should be 10% improvement for the next survey.