perform some capital analysis of two proposed patient service programs.

You’re a member of the financial services department at Benson Regional Medical Center. The chief financial officer and chair of the capital budgeting committee, Dana Foster, has requested that you perform some capital analysis of two proposed patient service programs.

  1. Start by downloading the Week 8 Discussion Spreadsheet [XLSX].
  2. Use the spreadsheet to find the information needed to complete a net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), and a discounted payback period for proposed programs A and B.
  3. Once you have completed the capital budgeting analyses, prepare a narrated PowerPoint presentation that provides:
    • A brief description of proposed programs A and B.
    • The cash flows projections for each option from Year 0 through Year 5.
    • The results and interpretation of the discounted payback period.
    • Net present value (NPV).
    • Internal rate of return (IRR).
    • Your program recommendation along with supporting rationale to the full capital budgeting committee for their consideration.
  4. The presentation should be limited to 10 minutes.

Debt Financing vs. Equity Financing

Case Analysis #2: Debt Financing vs. Equity Financing

Setup a new MS WORD document to write your analysis, and name your file by “First Name, Last Name, Case 2”, i.e. “Jessie Yang Case 2”, then upload your case analysis file below.

Vancouver Coffee Shop Co. is planning to expand its business in the next year to New Westminster near Yorkville University and needs financing of $200,000 to fulfill its goals. Assume the Company has no excess cash to finance its expansion; the market interest rate is 5%; the Company has 100,000 shares outstanding with a value of $10 per share, and it estimates that it will earn a net income of $100,000 the next year before considering the cost of financings.

What are the two options for the Company to fulfill its financing goals? What are the annual “cost of financing” for each option? Which option is less expensive? Which option is less risky? What are the pros and cons of each option? Which financing option would you recommend Vancouver Coffee Shop to choose? Give your assumptions/conditions and reasons.

Rubrics:

Item

Grade

Identify two financing options clearly

10

Calculate the annual cost of financing for each option

10

Identify and explain the less expensive option

10

Identify and explain the less risky option

10

Summarize the pros and cons of each option

20

Explain in what conditions each option is better

20

Explain the recommendations and reasons

20

Total

100

Nordstrom Case Study Analysis

Nordstrom Case Study Analysis

Nordstrom—“High Touch” with “High Tech”

How does Nordstrom stay profitable despite dips in consumer spending, changing fashion trends, and intense competition among retailers? One answer: Acute attention to detail and well-laid plans.

All in the Family

The fourth generation of family members that runs Nordstrom has brought the store’s time-honored and successful retail practices into a new era. “Nordstrom, it seems, is that rarity in American business: an enterprise run by a founding family that hasn’t wrecked it,” says one business writer. The company provides a quality customer experience via personalized service, a compelling merchandise offering, a pleasant shopping environment, and increasingly better management of its inventory.

Secret of Success

The secret of this company’s success lies in its strategic planning efforts and the ability of its management team to set broad, comprehensive, and longer-term action directions, all of which are focused on the customer experience. The current generation of Nordstrom family members was quick to spearhead an ultramodern multimillion-dollar, Web-based inventory management system. This upgrade helped the company meet two key goals: (1) correlate purchasing with demand to keep inventory as lean as possible, and (2) give customers and sales associates a comprehensive view of Nordstrom’s entire inventory, including every store and warehouse.

Demand Planning

Instead of relying on one-day sales, coupon blitzes, or marking down entire lines of product, Nordstrom discounts only certain items. “Markdown optimization” software assists in planning more profitable sale prices. According to retail analyst, Patricia Edwards, this helps Nordstrom calculate what will sell better at different discounts and forecast which single items should be marked down. If a style is no longer in demand, the company can ship it off to its Nordstrom Rack outlet stores. It’s all part of Nordstrom’s long-term investment in efficiency. “If we can identify what is not performing and move it out to bring in fresh merchandise,” says Pete Nordstrom, “that’s a decision we want to make.”

Inventory Planning

Although inventory naturally fluctuates, Nordstrom associates can easily locate any item in another store or verify when it will return to stock. Customers on their smart phones and associates behind sales counters see the same thing—the entire inventory of Nordstrom’s stores is presented as one selection, which the company refers to as perpetual inventory. “Customer service is not just a friendly, helpful, knowledgeable salesperson helping you buy something,” says Robert Spector, retail expert and author of The Nordstrom Way. “Part of customer service is having the right item at the right size at the right price at the right time. And that’s something perpetual inventory will help with.”

The upgraded inventory management system was an immediate hit. As of launch day, Nordstrom found that the percentage of customers who purchased products after searching the website for an item doubled. It also learned that multi-channel customers—those who shop from Nordstrom in more than one way—spend on average four times more than one-source customers. This profit more than offsets the cost of hiring additional shipping employees to wrap and mail items from each store. Now Nordstrom doesn’t have to turn away the customer who spied a red Marc Jacobs handbag but found it out of stock in her local store. She can buy it online or at the store counter and it will be shipped to her, even from a store located across the country.

Keeping It Lean

By displaying stock both on its website and in its stores, Nordstrom has realized some very meaningful sales and customer service results. Items don’t stay in stock very long. The chain turns inventory about twice as fast as its competitors, thanks to strong help from online sales.

Fast-turning inventories are a sign a retailer is well managed, making it more attractive to investors. “The old, classic Nordstrom way is that if you sell more stuff, that compensates for any deficiency you may have in terms of technology,” says Robert Spector. “They didn’t want to replace the high touch with the high-tech. The challenge, not only for Nordstrom, but for other retailers, is how you strike that balance between having up-to-date systems and giving that personal service.” “Traditional retailers have traditional ways of doing things,” echoes Adrianne Shapira, Goldman Sachs retail analyst, “and sometimes those barriers are hard to break down.” But Nordstrom’s commitments to planning are paying dividends.

Source: Schermerhorn Jr., J.R., Bachrach, D.G. (2016) Nordstrom—“High Touch” with “High Tech”. In Exploring Management (Cases for Critical Thinking).

Case Analysis Questions

Answer the following in up to 350 words each.

1. Determine the specific planning objectives and measures Nordstrom could use to assess the success of its Web-based inventory integration.

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2. Explain how Nordstrom could make use of participatory planning for continuous improvements in areas such as product purchasing, floor displays, and sales associates’ job satisfaction.

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3. Nordstrom wants to grow in a number of different areas. Research one of its strategies and project it into the future.

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4. Refer back to one of Nordstrom’s strategies for growth. What changes, revisions, or updates would you plan for the company? What stretch goals come to mind?

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Ethical Decisions in Accounting

Week 8 Assignment – Ethical Decisions in Accounting

Scenario

Paige Carter is the controller for a public organization in Nashville, TN. She has just completed a meeting with the organization’s CFO, Tommy Rich. Tommy Rich tried to convince Paige to classify some inventory items as fixed assets in an attempt to depreciate more assets for the upcoming accounting reporting period. Tommy Rich’s proposal would depreciate more assets by misclassifying inventory as fixed assets in an attempt to reduce net income. Paige knows it is her responsibility to ensure that all items on the organization financial statements are recorded properly as required by the FASB and the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct. She has a great deal of pressure to reduce net income to reduce corporate income taxes and qualify for a company bonus. She does not want to disappoint the CFO, and her job may be at stake.

  • What would you do in this case? Why?
  • What is Paige’s obligation to the organization, AICPA professional rules of conduct and reporting requirements?
  • Discuss the differences between inventory and fixed assets. Are the characteristics the same? Why or why not?
  • What would motivate you to speak up? What would cause you to stay silent? Would it make a difference if this was only a one-time request from the CFO?

Instructions

Prepare an 8–9 slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Slide 1: Include the title “Paige Carter and the CFO,” the date, course name and number, date of submission, and your professor’s name.

Slide 2: Summarize the scenario for the CFO.

Slide 3: Outline the advantages of accurate reporting and why inventory should or should not be classified as a fixed asset.

Slide 4: Outline the disadvantages of accurate reporting and why inventory should or should not be classified as a fixed asset.

Slide 5: List the major differences between inventory and fixed assets.

Slide 6: Show the primary ways in which both classifications would affect the future of the business (why should we classify inventory and fixed assets in the same account or separate accounts?).

Slide 7: Recommend which option they should pursue. Justify your reporting decision.

Slide 8: Sources – Use two sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

consider a past or current professional experience where a culture change was needed.

consider a past or current professional experience where a culture change was needed.

Assignment Content

Top of Form

To prepare for the Week 2 Assessment, consider a past or current professional experience where a culture change was needed.

Using the Organizational Change Chart, outline information about the experience and organization following Kotter’s 8-Step to Change Model as a guiding line.

Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model

o Step One: Create Urgency.

o Step Two: Form a Powerful Coalition.

o Step Three: Create a Vision for Change.

o Step Four: Communicate the Vision.

o Step Five: Remove Obstacles.

o Step Six: Create Short-Term Wins.

o Step Seven: Build on the Change.

o Step Eight: Anchor the Changes in Corporate Culture.

how an organization’s culture influences its ability to make desirable changes aligned to its mission, values, and strategies.

The following exercise introduces you to how an organization’s culture influences its ability to make desirable changes aligned to its mission, values, and strategies.

Complete the collaboration warm-up exercise, Assessing the Role of Collaboration in Facilitating Organizational Change. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • What do you think the role of collaboration is in assessing organizational culture?
  • How do you think collaboration can assist an organization to align its current organizational culture with one that will facilitate positive change?
  • What do you think the role of collaboration  is in initiating change?
  • What are some of the strategies  you could use to contribute to effective collaboration when initiating      change?
  • Describe a behavior you have expressed in the past that prevents effective collaboration. Explain how you could avoid repeating this behavior and identify a more effective one      to replace it with.

Explain how you find the reciprocal of a fraction.

MUST SHOW WORK

72. Music Measures A choreographed dance is broken into counts. A 1 1 count has one step in a count, a 1 2 count has two steps in a count and a 1 3 count has three steps in a count. How many steps would be in a 1 5 count? What type of count has four steps in it?

73. Music Measures Fractions are used often in music. In 4 4 time, there are four quarter notes in one measure. ⓐ How many measures would eight quarter notes make? ⓑ The song “Happy Birthday to You” has 25 quarter notes. How many measures are there in “Happy Birthday to You?”

74. Baking Nina is making five pans of fudge to serve after a music recital. For each pan, she needs 1 2 cup of walnuts. ⓐ How many cups of walnuts does she need for five pans of fudge? ⓑ Do you think it is easier to measure this amount when you use an improper fraction or a mixed number? Why? Chapter 4 Fractions 295 Writing Exercises

75. Give an example from your life experience (outside of school) where it was important to understand fractions.

76. Explain how you locate the improper fraction 21 4 on a number line on which only the whole numbers from 0 through 10 are marked.

168. Baking A recipe for chocolate chip cookies calls for 3 4 cup brown sugar. Imelda wants to double the recipe. ⓐ How much brown sugar will Imelda need? Show your calculation. Write your result as an improper fraction and as a mixed number. ⓑ Measuring cups usually come in sets of 1 8 , 1 4 , 1 3 , 1 2 , and 1 cup. Draw a diagram to show two different ways that Imelda could measure the brown sugar needed to double the recipe.

169. Baking Nina is making 4 pans of fudge to serve after a music recital. For each pan, she needs 2 3 cup of condensed milk. ⓐ How much condensed milk will Nina need? Show your calculation. Write your result as an improper fraction and as a mixed number. ⓑ Measuring cups usually come in sets of 1 8 , 1 4 , 1 3 , 1 2 , and 1 cup. Draw a diagram to show two different ways that Nina could measure the condensed milk she needs.

170. Portions Don purchased a bulk package of candy that weighs 5 pounds. He wants to sell the candy in little bags that hold 1 4 pound. How many little bags of candy can he fill from the bulk package?

171. Portions Kristen has 3 4 yards of ribbon. She wants to cut it into equal parts to make hair ribbons for her daughter’s 6 dolls. How long will each doll’s hair ribbon be?

172. Explain how you find the reciprocal of a fraction.

173. Explain how you find the reciprocal of a negative fraction.

174. Rafael wanted to order half a medium pizza at a restaurant. The waiter told him that a medium pizza could be cut into 6 or 8 slices. Would he prefer 3 out of 6 slices or 4 out of 8 slices? Rafael replied that since he wasn’t very hungry, he would prefer 3 out of 6 slices. Explain what is wrong with Rafael’s reasoning.

175. Give an example from everyday life that demonstrates how 1 2 · 2 3 is 1 3

apply HR Management concepts to a small business in need of sound HR practices.

The Carter Cleaning Company cases are a written homework assignment where you’ll apply HR Management concepts to a small business in need of sound HR practices.  Your responses should demonstrate that you can correctly identify and apply relevant concepts we study in class.  Think of this assignment as the quality of your advice that you’ll give to Jennifer.

Instructions: 

  1. Carefully read the Carter Cleaning Company Cases for all of the chapters in Unit 2 (2, 13, 14), making note of the pertinent information and issues.  For each question below, identify the relevant HR Management concept from the chapter.
  2. Using this concept, construct a thorough and unique response to the questions.  Be sure to provide support in order to justify your response.   You can use examples from class discussion, your work experience, and the case details.
  3. Submit your assignment on or before the due date.

Your work is evaluated according to the rubric here in this assignment.

Case Questions:

  1. Discuss the problems/issues at hand at Carter Cleaning for this unit.
  2. What’s wrong with Jack’s attitude toward equal employment?  Explain both his attitudes and the problems with them.
  3. What does Jennifer need to do in order to make sure Carter Cleaning is compliant with EEO regulations?
  4. Carter Cleaning is not currently a union environment.  Could that change if the workers wanted to organize?  Why would they?  What would you do to head off any employees who want to unionize?
  5. List 5 unsafe conditions and 5 unsafe acts that you are likely to see in a dry cleaning store. If you were Jennifer, what would you do to reduce/prevent unsafe conditions?  Unsafe acts? How would you motivate employees to wear safety goggles?

Inclusivity and Civility

Unit 8 Journal: Inclusivity and Civility

Please reflect on the following in your journal. Stephen Covey’s habit Win-Win is a frame of mind that seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. It encourages us to have consideration and consider other people’s wins as well as our own. We are conditioned to put people in categories. If we can break ourselves of that habit, we can open ourselves up to the possibilities of mutual benefit through a balance of empathy and courage.

  • How does the habit Win-Win, along with the concepts of inclusivity and diversity, help to grow an organization and help you to increase your growth mindset?

meaning of corporate social responsibility

Reflect on the meaning of corporate social responsibility and how this might impact your role in promoting social change.

 

  • Predict how the implementation of the Triple Bottom Line would affect your current or former organization’s performance. Be sure to include at least two short term consequences and at least two long term consequences of using the TBL measurement system.
  • Provide an explanation of how you view the relationship between corporate profits and social responsibility.
  • Describe how you (as an executive) plan to use some of the skills learned in this course to promote social change in your organization now and in the future.
  • PLease use the sources in the attachment for reference