PowerPoint  presentation

Instructions

For this assignment, you will continue  with the industry you selected in Unit II. You will create a PowerPoint  presentation in which you will be looking at historical, current, and  forecasted measures of the unemployment rate, inflation rate, and labor  force participation rate for the United States as a whole. You must  utilize the Notes or Audio Narration feature of PowerPoint to explain  each slide in detail. (you can omit the title and intro slides)

Please address the following in your presentation.  Provide a minimum of a 3-year history of the following:

  • unemployment rate in the United States,
  • inflation rate in the United States, and
  • labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how these historical measures impacted your selected industry.  Provide a current evaluation of the status of the following:

  • unemployment rate in the United States,
  • inflation rate in the United States, and
  • labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how the current status of these economic indicators are impacting your selected industry.  Provide a forecast (projecting at least 3 years into the future) of the following:

  • unemployment rate in the United States,
  • inflation rate in the United States, and
  • labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how the forecast of these economic indicators will impact your selected industry if the forecast is correct.  Your PowerPoint presentation must be a  minimum of 15 slides in length (including the title slide and reference  slide). Please present your content using the following format.

  • Slide 1: Title slide
  • Slide 2: Introduction
  • Slide 3: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. unemployment rate
  • Slide 4: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. inflation rate
  • Slide 5: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. labor force participation rate
  • Slide 6: How the historical measures impacted your selected industry
  • Slide 7: Current status of the U.S. unemployment rate
  • Slide 8: Current status of the U.S. inflation rate
  • Slide 9: Current status of the U.S. labor force participation rate
  • Slide 10: How the current status of the economic indicators are impacting your selected industry
  • Slide 11: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. unemployment rate
  • Slide 12: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. inflation rate
  • Slide 13: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. labor force participation rate
  • Slide 14: How the forecasts of the economic indicators are going to impact your selected industry.
  • Slide 15: References

Ensure that the presentation you  create is your own authentic work. Adhere to APA Style when creating  citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however,  is not necessary.  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website is helpful for finding data for this assignment.

Please include at least two references.

Calculation of the inventory account

there are three (3) primary methods used by companies to assign costs to inventory and cost of goods sold: LIFO, FIFO, and Weighted Average. Each method assumes a particular pattern for how costs flow through inventory, but this is not a guarantee of how the inventory will actually flow. With each method comes a number of pros and cons that a company must consider when implementing its inventory management strategy. Select a company below to learn more about their chosen method. Then discuss the benefits of the chosen method taking into consideration how that particular method impacts the calculation of the inventory account, the cost of goods sold account, and the financial statements for that company.

Target – Uses LIFO

https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/ACC/100/1188_henryhand/ARTICLES/W6DQ_Target.pdf

Amazon – Uses FIFO

https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/ACC/100/1188_henryhand/ARTICLES/W6DQ_Amazon.pdf

Project Management

Assignment Details

Assignment Description

Assignment Details

Risk is inherent to every project. Some risks are more likely to occur than others, and some will have a greater impact to the project if realized. Although you cannot account for every risk, a thorough risk analysis and assessment can help minimize the liabilities of the project and ensure that your projects are successful.

Refer to Case 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 of your text. Each of these cases presents you with a project scope statement for a fictional project. You are to pick 1 of these cases on which to perform a risk analysis. After picking a case of your choice, you should address the following:

  • Summarize the project.
  • Discuss how the risk management process will be applied.
  • Identify potential risks associated with this project (you must come up with at least 5 different risks).
  • Use a risk assessment form to analyze identified risks.
  • Develop a risk response matrix to outline how you would deal with each of the risks.

Please use the following templates when writing your paper

In conducting the risk assessment and developing the risk response matrix, you can either develop the risk assessment form and the risk response matrix yourself, or you can use the templates provided in your text. Your submission should be 5 pages in length. Be sure to cite your sources using APA; include your references and in-text citations.

Use this template to complete this assignment.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

  • Title page: The title should be in all capitals.
  • Length: 5 pages minimum
  • Body: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page 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 paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
  • Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. 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 page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.MGMT412_Unit_4_Risk_Assessment_form_Template MGMT412_Unit_4Risk_Response_Matrix_Template

Operations Management and Implementation Plan

Assignment Description

Assignment Details

The operations and implementation departments would like you to go over the following sections of the business plan:

  • Operations Management and Implementation Plan
  • Evaluation Plan

Based on your research, write a succinct analysis of each of the following items:

  1. Operations Management and Implementation Plan
    1. Outline Goals and Objectives
    2. Assign Responsibilities
    3. Implementation Schedule
    4. Resource Allocation
  2. Evaluation Plan
    1. Define Metrics
    2. Contingency Plan

The submission details are as follows:

  • Present your analysis as a 5-page report in a Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
  • Cite any sources in APA format

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:

  • Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
  • Length: There should be at least 5 pages.
  • Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person.
  • Body: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-point Times New Roman or 12-point 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 paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. Using variety of academic sources is encouraged.
  • Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. 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 that this page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

ethical conflicts

You will use this first writing assignment to address situations where ethical conflicts may exist in business situations and to consider strategies to address the conflict. Business misconduct, corporate ethics, and cyberbullying are compelling, present issues.

Refer to the attached document for assignment details and grading rubric.  An APA Template is also attached.BUS340Unit1Assignment

personal essay based on your past experiences

Unit 1 Assignment – Personal Essay Submission Link

For your first written assignment, you will write a personal essay based on your past experiences. Within that story, you will need to show what happened as the plot of the story unfolded, include details of the people/locations within the story, and reflect on what you learned from the story.

Details of this assignment are available here. Details of this assignment are available here. – Alternative Formats 

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***Please also make sure to submit a Word document or PDF through the submission link. You can review directions for submitting an assignment in Blackboard through this resource:

Financial Statement research of a company

ACC153Project:

Financial Statement research of a company

Choose your favorite company and research their financial statement.

You must take the last two years of the company’s financial statement:

  1. Income Statement
  2. Retain Earnings
  3. Balance Sheet
  4. Cash Flow Statement

You are going to take each statement and analyze the accounts to your best ability. The questions I am looking for you to answers are:

1-What happened to this account? Did it go up or down?

2-What could have caused it?

3-What do you recommend the company to do?

This project is to bring together all the chapters knowledge that you have gained and appl

Cookie Creations case study

Provide your responses to Natalie and Curtis’s two questions in a Word document, which should be a minimum of one page in length. Complete the accounting for items b–d in one Excel spreadsheet; you may use multiple tabs to organize your response. In summary, you will submit one Word document containing item a and one Excel spreadsheet containing items b–d.

Cookie Creations (Chapter 13)

This assignment is a continuation of the Cookie Creations case study. From the information gathered in the previous chapters, read the continuation of the Cookie Creations case study in Chapter 13 on page 13-32 of the textbook. The case study allows you to apply what you have learned about corporations and stocks from the unit lesson and required unit resources.

Natalie’s friend Curtis Lesperance decides to meet with Natalie after hearing that her discussions about a possible business partnership with her friend Katy Peterson have failed. Natalie had decided that forming a partnership with Katy, a high school friend, would hurt their friendship. Natalie had also concluded that she and Katy were not compatible to operate a business venture together.

Because Natalie has been so successful with Cookie Creations and Curtis has been just as successful with his coffee shop, they both conclude that they could benefit from each other’s business expertise. Curtis and Natalie next evaluate the different types of business organization. Because of the advantage of limited personal liability, they decide to form a corporation.

Curtis has operated his coffee shop for 2 years. He buys coffee, muffins, and cookies from a local supplier. Natalie’s business consists of giving cookie-making classes and selling fine European mixers. The plan is for Natalie to use the premises that Curtis currently rents to give her cooking-making classes and demonstrations of the mixers that she sells. Natalie will also hire, train, and supervise staff to bake the cookies and muffins sold in the coffee shop. By offering her classes on the premises, Natalie will save on travel time going from one place to another. Another advantage is that the coffee shop will have one central location for selling the mixers.

The current market values of the assets of both businesses are listed below.

Curtis’s Coffee        Cookie Creations

Cash                                                  $7,130                    $12,000

Accounts receivable                               100                           800

Inventory                                                450                        1,200

Equipment                                           2,500                        1,000*

*Cookie Creations decided not to buy the delivery van considered in Unit II.

Combining forces will also allow Natalie and Curtis to pool their resources and buy a few more assets to run their new business venture.

Curtis and Natalie then meet with a lawyer and form a corporation on November 1, 2020, called Cookie& Coffee Creations Inc. The articles of incorporation state that there will be two classes of shares that the corporation is authorized to issue: common shares   and preferred shares. They authorize 100,000 no-par shares of common stock and 10,000 no-par shares of preferred stock with a $0.50 noncumulative   dividend.

The assets held by each of their sole proprietorships will be transferred into the corporation at current market value. Curtis will receive 10,180 common shares, and Natalie will receive 15,000 common shares in the corporation. Therefore, the shares have a fair value of $1 per share.

Natalie and Curtis are very excited about this new business venture, so they have come to you with the questions below.

  1. Curtis’s dad and Natalie’s grandmother are interested in investing $5,000 each in the business venture. We are thinking of issuing them preferred shares. What would be the advantage of issuing them preferred shares instead of common shares?
  2. Our lawyer has sent us a bill for $750. When we discussed the bill with her, she indicated that she would be willing to receive common shares in our new corporation instead of cash for her        services. We would be happy to issue her shares, but we are a bit worried about accounting for this transaction. Can we do this? If so, how do we determine how many shares to give her?

Instructions:

  1. In a Word document, answer the questions posed by Natalie and Curtis above.
  2. In an Excel spreadsheet, prepare the journal entries required on November 1, 2020, the date when Natalie and Curtis transfer the assets of their respective businesses into Cookie & Coffee        Creations Inc.
  3. Assume that Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc. issues 1,000 $0.50 noncumulative preferred shares to Curtis’s dad and the same number to Natalie’s grandmother—in both cases for $5,000. Also assume        that Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc. issues 750 common shares to its lawyer.
  4. Prepare the journal entries for each of these transactions. They all occurred on November 1. Prepare the opening balance sheet for Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc. as of November 1, 2020, including the journal entries in (b) and (c) above.

S Corporation Memo

Part II – S Corporation Memo (100 points total).

Jones and Turner are interested in possibly changing the structure of their business to an S Corporation and would like to know more about this entity. They are excited by the fact that the S Corporation is a “flow through entity” and the fact that they don’t pay income tax.
They also heard that if they pay themselves dividends as S Corporation shareholders, they won’t have to pay any Social Security or Medicare tax (payroll taxes).

Prepare a memorandum for the business owners using a minimum of 800 words explaining the following;

  • What are the requirements for structuring a business as an S Corporation?
  • Discuss at least two advantages to structuring a business as an S Corporation
  • Explain how income from the S Corporation taxed; include in your discussion on taxation of S Corporation income, the forms (including their names and numbers) utilized in reporting income and paying tax to the IRS.
  • Finally, explain to the business owners what the requirement is for corporate officers who work in their own S Corporations.
    • How are Corporate Officers required to be compensated and why?
    • Explain both the ethical and legal issue regarding their suggestion that they be paid in dividends thus eliminating the requirement that they pay Social Security tax.

ERP systems

  1. Overview
    In the article for this assignment, Plaskett shows that ERP systems are helpful for companies to establish needed agility. ERP systems are also discussed in length in Chapter 6 of your textbook.  Accurate, up-to-date information on business products can help reduce production times and make businesses more effective.
    Read this article before you begin the assignment:

    1. Summarize the factors that made the ERP system successful in Gearmaker.
    2. Apply the same ERP analysis process to a company of your choice and describe the potential impact on its operations.
    3. Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
      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.
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