Ch. 23: Exercises 23.10 & 23.12 of Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions ACC 400 Week 4 Team Assignment – Interpreting Financial Statements Report The CEO of your organization has asked your Learning Team to analyze the two companies assigned to your particular Learning Team. As an investment, your organization may be interested in purchasing some stock in one of these two companies. Resources: The financial statements for your Learning Team’s assigned two Companies found in the Course Materials Forum. Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making.
Strategies 9 Porter’s Five Competitive Forces Porter's five forces analysis is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. An "unattractive" industry is one in which the combination of these five forces acts to drive down overall profitability. A very unattractive industry would be one approaching "pure competition", in which available profits for all firms are driven to normal profit. Three of Porter's five forces refer to competition from external sources.
| Citigroup use of a single reconciliation system | Managerial Application of Information Technology – MIS535 Devry University, Keller Graduate School of Management Table of Contents Abstract 3 Brief company background 4 Discussion of business Problem 5 Approach 5 High level approach 6 Benefits of solving the problem 6 Accounting systems 7 Reconciliation systems 8 Business and technical approach 9 Technology or business practices used to augment the solution 10 Overall recommendation 11 High level implementation plan 12 Summary of project 13 Reference 14 Abstract This paper will cover the benefits that Citigroup will encounter by updating some of their systems and procedures and using united platform to reconcile cash positions in for hedge funds and mutual funds. We are going to look at the problems that the company faces along with the systems that they currently use. Lastly we are going to recommend a solution to this problem and how the company can fix it. Brief company background The company that my final project will be on is Citigroup. Citigroup was ranked 20th by Fortune 500 ranking of America largest corporations.
China, Jamaica, and America Ethics Case Study Tammy M Langewisch Eth/557 December 3, 2012 Andrew Sargent, MBA, JD China, Jamaica, and America Ethics Case Study In the article, “A Study of Differences in Business Ethical Values in Mainland China, the U. S. and Jamaica,” writes about the results of a second research performed that compares what has been considered third world countries, Mainland China and Jamaica, to the United States (U. S.), and how each countries culture impacts ethical decision making in businesses. The study contained five vignettes and two hypotheses. The vignettes were scenarios in which the subjects responded to, according to what they believed were ethical or those that were not. This paper will cover the culture that impacts China and Jamaica, the results of the research and ethics plays a role in decision making for financial, environmental, and cultural issues; how the concepts of positive and normative economics are reflected; and how market efficiency, economizing, and the market system affects these ethical issues in each country compared to the U. S. Ethics in Financial, Environmental, and Cultural Issues Mainland China was a socialist-based economy that converted to free market over 25 years ago. China’s culture is founded upon Confucian and Maoist, rather than capitalist, which impacts ethical decisions made by Chinese business leaders (Fok, Hartman, & Kwong, 2005).
Student Managerial Economics MBA 540 Chapter 13 Case Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Bagby Copy Company 1. What are the trade-offs that Bagby faces in choosing between specialized and broad task assignments? The Bagby Copy Company is faced with the dilemma of choosing between specialized task and broad task. Each form of task assignment entails advantages and disadvantages. If Bagby decides have each employee specialize in one function, the company would benefit from an increased output of production (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2009).
Buy a Protection Plan or Not University of Phoenix QNT/561 September 23, 2009 Buy A Protection Plan or Not The decision to buy a protection plan or not creates a decision to make with probabilities. The purchase of widget’s and insurance policy helped to gather statistical data in a business context. Through analyzing the prices in the insurance fees and compensation this seems to create a business advantage and limitations reliant on the economy and resource availability. The economic influences potentially project estimated cost of future commitments and investments included in the business obligations, which tends to affect liquidity, capital, and resources. This paper will provide a business analysis using Bayes’ theorem, Business
Running head: Operations Decision Operations Decision ECO 550 – Managerial Economics and Globalization In today’s uncertainty of economic success, one must carefully conduct an economic scan of his or her company. This paper will describe a mock company and assess the current environmental factors that impact the company’s operations and management decisions. This paper will also evaluate the economic performance and recommend how the company might improve profitability. Finally, this paper will discuss any circumstances in which the company should continue or discontinue operations. Briefly describe the details of the fictitious business that you created for this assignment.
Ethics paper Amanda Tatom MGT/498 November 24, 2014 Richard Arriaga Ethics According to Wheelen and Hunger (2010), “Ethics is defined as the consensually accepted standards of behavior for an occupation, a trade, or a profession” (Chapter 3). The discussion of business ethics is always filled with the reminders of the past of large companies that altered numbers for the benefit of the profit margin in order to allow for stocks to go up and bring in more investors. A code of ethics is important to have as a guide of what the company’s direction is. Ethics and social responsibility If the focus of social responsibility is taken from Milton Friedman or Archie Carroll the consensus is that a business does have
Running head: Differentiating between Market Structures Paper Differentiating between Market Structures Paper Melissa Blanco, Mary L. Lockett, Saundra Luke University of Phoenix ECO/212 Principles of Economics February 1, 2010 Instructor Michael Shackelford Four market structures makes today’s economic market, knowing the difference between the four can help a business realize which market would be more suitable for their firm. The term market structure refers to “the set of industry characteristics that affect the extent or rivalry in the market and ultimately affects market performance related to pricing and output.” (Humboldt State University, 2000, para. 2) The economic market consists of competitive market, monopoly,
BU490 - Business Ethics Examines ethics and values in business, beginning with an introduction to ethics in business. The perspective then broadens to include corporate ethics and the role of moral leadership in business, and concludes with an examination of ethical dilemmas created by an expanding global economy. ------------------------------------------------- General Education Electives AN310 - Cultural Anthropology An introduction to the foundations of cultural anthropology and how they apply to interactions between culture, technology and social organizations. AR300 - Art History Entry-level survey of art history that begins with primitive cave paintings from Lascoux, France and progresses to 20th century art from around the world. Covers a variety of artistic movements ranging from Classic Greek, Baroque and Rococo to the Impressionists.