Learning Team Assignment: Strategic Initiative Paper Resource: Ethics and Compliance Paper Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you describe the relationship between strategic and financial planning. Describe: This has to be for Starbucks A strategic planning initiative for your organization and identify an initiative discussed in the organization’s annual report. How the initiative affects the organization’s financial planning. How will the initiative affect costs? How will the initiative affect sales?
They are in the special eateries sector of the service industry with a focus on purchasing and roasting coffee beans. Starbucks is the largest coffee house in the world, with more than 17,000 stores in over 55 countries. (Yahoo Finance) Starbucks also provides decaffeinated beverages, Italian espresso, iced beverages, select premium teas as well as variety of items to order off of their in store made-to-order menu. In addition, they also sell bottled Frappuccino, Double-Shot espresso drinks as well as marketing and distributing their own brand of super-premium ice creams. Starbucks also provides other coffee and tea products while licensing its trademarks
The franchise offers breakfast sandwiches in the morning and also other types of sandwiches including chicken salad, ham and cheese and many other options during the later hours of the day. Markets Served (Geographical Area, Global Footprint) With 27 years of successful business the Dunkin Donuts franchise has become a globally known business which operates in over 30 different countries and has more than 6000 locations. Outside of the Unites States, there are 3,100 stores in 32 different countries. Some counties that the Dunkin Donuts franchise currently operates out of include but are not limited to USA, Bahamas, Canada, Germany, Peru, Honduras, Pakistan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Indonesia. Dunkin donuts is known as the leading retailing of coffee, donuts and bagels.
The Broadway Café 1 The Broadway Café Andrea Williams-Weston CIS500 Strayer University March 13, 2011 1 Contents Competitive Advantage ………………………………………………………… 3 Buyer Power ……………………………………………………………………….4 Supplier Power ………………………………………………………………….....5 Threat of New Entrants………………………………………………………….....6 Rivalry among Existing Competitors……………………………………………....6 Threat of Substitute Products or Services…………………………………………..7 E-Business………………………………………………………………………….7 Networks, Telecommunications and Wireless Computing………………………...8 Customer Relationship Management ……………………………………………..11 Systems Development…………………………………………………………….12 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………...14 References ………………………………………………………………………..15 2 Competitive Advantage The Broadway Café, established in 1952, is conveniently located in downtown Charleston. I have inherited my grandfather’s coffee shop that is a local hotspot for many years. The café offers several kinds of specialized coffees, teas, homemade sandwiches, soups, and salads. Moreover, the café has a full service bakery that bakes fresh breads, muffins, and desserts daily. My grandfather did everything manually and by memory.
Michelle Ohlson INTD670-1403B-06 Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making Dr. Lisa Smart Colorado Technical University 8/31/2014 Abstract The following paper discusses a scenario between Joe with UWear and Bill with Peninsula Hotel. It talks about what is Joe’s ethical responsibility about being invited on a trip with Bill during a contract negotiation between the two companies. Joe needs to decline the invitation politely and just explain to Bill that it might not look right to his management since they are negotiating the contract at the time. If he were to go with Bill on the yacht the management team might take the outing as a bribe from Bill to influence Joe to get a better contract. Joe could lose his job and even worse he could put the company in place for a lawsuit.
Being able to track sales compared to the previous years’ numbers is a valuable tool in being able to track business. They use this information to forecast on where they think the business will be heading in the next week, month, or year. If the debt percent gets to high then they need to adjust the amount of liabilities that they have to bring that number down. Knowing the times interest earned ratio allows the managers to know at what percent the company is earning interest on its net income. Investors find this information lucrative because the more expendable cash a company has the more likely they are to pay out in dividends for the stock holders..
You decide week 6 The stock should not be purchase by Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones acquiring the assets, liabilities and also would inherit the contractual obligations of the selling corporation, would, be the results of the purchase. In lay terms, he has bought the existing Smithon Corporation and he is responsible of ensuring daily operations run efficiently but the tax aspect of acquisition he is responsible for existing and any future tax liabilities that the selling corporation had. It would be my advice for Mr. Jones to not buy the stock because of the liability of current and future tax obligations which Mr. Jones would incur from the purchase of the stock. Since the tax identity of Smithon corporation would have not ceased, it is not
Group 3 – Martha Stewart: Inside Trader There are many critical ethical issues that exist in the case involving Martha Stewart, Sam Waksal and family, and Peter Bacanovic. If these unethical concerns were to be numerically ranked, with number one being the most severe, the list would be the following: 1. Sam Waskal selling his family’s shares and attempting to sell his own shares of ImClone before the news of Erbitux had been publically released, in an attempt to save their money without any concerns for how it will impact the shareholders of the company. 2. Bacanovic tipping Stewart with non-public information received from Waksal knowing fully it is illegal and ethically wrong.
The continued power grab will destroy the capitalist system shackling the limbs of the free market. The regulation imposed creates factions limiting the ease of market entry. The environment that our American business calls home must remain competitive assuring quality goods to consumers while encouraging technological advancements. The path our federal government is currently on is a path of non-democratic regulation that is a threat to the growth and prosperity of our country. It is simply a matter of the true meaning of the Constitution, specifically the commerce clause that must be addressed.
S corporation, companies can elect to pay federal income taxes as partnerships. LLCs, avoiding the double taxation characteristic of corporation Projects and Teamwork Applications: Dunkin' Donuts was founded in 1946 by Bill Rosenberg. Dunkin' Donuts headquarters is currently located in Canton, Massachusetts. Dunkin' Donuts is a chain of 11,460 quick-service over 32 countries that offer 70 varities of doughnuts, along with hot and cold coffee drinks, bagels, breakfast sandwiches and other baked goods. Nearly all of the company's restaurants are operated by franchisees.