Describe the forces of globalization and its implications for the multinational firm

Collaboration in a business environment is a best practice that leverages the collective knowledge of the team assembled. Peer evaluation and support, provided in the spirit of continuous improvement and organizational success, result in higher quality deliverables than generally possible by the efforts of an individual. Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5 and present a preliminary outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.

 

Objectives

Describe the forces of globalization and its implications for the multinational firm.

Interpret the operation of the international financial system, its current state, and challenges for the future.

 

Unite 5

Collaboration in a business environment is a best practice that leverages the collective knowledge of the team assembled. Peer evaluation and support, provided in the spirit of continuous improvement and organizational success, result in higher quality deliverables than generally possible by the efforts of an individual. Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5 and present a preliminary outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.

 

Objectives

Describe the forces of globalization and its implications for the multinational firm.

Interpret the operation of the international financial system, its current state, and challenges for the future.

 

Unite 5

Global Finance Outline

The most popular way for international expansion is for a local firm to acquire foreign companies. One of the most benefits for international expansion is global distribution capability that helps expanding the market share.

There are different implications of running a company that is within or outside of the European Union. If you were the head of a firm based in the United States, please answer the following questions, providing the rationale behind your answers:

  1. Would you seek to acquire a company within the European Union or outside of it? Why?
  2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the choice you made.
  3. Describe the advantages and disadvantages inherent in the option you did not choose.
  4. Explain why an MNC may invest funds in a financial market outside its own country.
  5. Explain why some financial institutions prefer to provide credit in financial markets outside their own country.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

Please submit your assignment.
Grading Rubric:
Grading Criteria Percentage
Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer’s message and intent are clear 35%
Scholarly research which supports writer’s position properly acknowledged and cited direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluded title page, abstract or table of contents if used, tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference page(s). Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences. 20%
Critical thinking: position is well justified; logical flow; examples  20%
Structure: includes introduction and conclusion; proper paragraph format and reads as a polished, academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable 10%
Mechanical – no spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors 10%
APA – deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th Ed.) 5%

 

 

Discuss global positioning system (GPS)

 

Individual Deliverable (2–3 body pages)

Investigate and back up your decision on the question of whether or not it would be more ethical to invest the money in the U.S.

 

 

The firm manufactures a global positioning system (GPS) that sells for $2,000, with cost of goods sold (hardware 30% and software 70%) of 55% of sales. Compared to the United States, China offers a 7% cost reduction in electronics manufacturing hardware and a 45% reduction in software programming. India offers a 32% reduction in software programming costs. So far, you have been unable to determine whether India has the facilities to undertake the hardware manufacturing. The firm has to invest $300 million. As far as China is concerned, you can send hardware and software manufacturing to China or India.

You have been asked to lead a team to study and create a report for the executive team on both countries as business opportunities. As a group, study both China and India to make your calculations and recommendations as follows.

Group Deliverable (8–10 slides with in-depth presenter notes, excluding title and reference slides)

  • Risk is a significant factor. Identify each of the risk factors for each country (political stability, exposures of transaction, interest rate, operating, and translation); currency exchange rates; currency controls; skilled labor; facilities; infrastructure; each country’s track record in using foreign direct investment (FDI); and any history of political corruption and roadblocks to establishing a going concern business.
  • Explore the expected GDP growth of each country and the forecast exchange rates to the U.S. dollar. Based on the forecast exchange rate with the U.S. dollar in 1 and 2 years, should the $300 million investments be paid for immediately, hedged, or paid 50% ($150 million) in 1 year and 50% in 2 years?
  • What is the projected savings for the firm?
  • What is the new cost of goods sold percent of sales for each of the countries?
  • What are your recommendations on choice of country?
  • How can your firm arrange the business to be most profitable?
  • Assume the following:
    • Using the current spot rate for the yuan exchange rate, the 12 -month forward rate is showing a 1.5% weaker U.S. dollar, and the 24-month forward rate of exchange is showing a 2.4% weaker U.S. dollar.
    • Using the current spot rate for the rupee exchange rate, the 12 -month forward rate is showing a 1.0% weaker U.S. dollar and the 24-month forward rate of exchange is showing a 2.0% weaker U.S. dollar.
  • Include in-text citations as well as a list of references using APA style.

Please add your file.

 

Discuss on Demonstrative Communication

BCOM275 Week 1 DQ 5 – Exploring BCOM275 Words, Expressions, and Concepts.doc

BCOM275 Week 1 Individual Assignment Exercise 1.1.doc

BCOM275 Week 2 DQ 1 – A Faulty Premise or Faulty Reasoning.doc

BCOM275 Week 2 DQ 2 – Valid v. Invalid Arguments.doc

BCOM275 Week 2 DQ 3 – How Reliable Is Your Data.doc

BCOM275 Week 2 DQ 4 – Validity, Credibility, Reliability.doc

BCOM275 Week 2 DQ 5 – Exploring BCOM275 Words, Expressions, and Concepts.doc

BCOM275 Week 2 Individual Assignment Demonstrative Communication Paper.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 DQ 1 – Practical Advice to New Employees.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 DQ 2 – How Do You Communicate with Your Boss.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 DQ 3 – How Do You Communicate with Your Peers.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 DQ 4 – The Investor-Owned Workplace.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 DQ 5 – Your Audience The User-Owned Workplace.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 Individual Assignment Article Rebuttal.doc

BCOM275 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Debate Paper Outline.docx

BCOM275 Week 4 DQ 1 – Critical Thinking about Critical Thinking.doc

BCOM275 Week 4 DQ 2 – Persuasion v. Manipulation.doc

BCOM275 Week 4 DQ 3 – When Should You Be Suspicious.doc

BCOM275 Week 4 DQ 4 – Which Persuasive Approach Is Best.doc

BCOM275 Week 4 Individual Assignment Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release.doc

BCOM275 Week 5 DQ 1 – ViewCounterview–Challenging Cultural Diversity.doc

BCOM275 Week 5 DQ 2 – Handling Potentially Sensitive Information.doc

BCOM275 Week 5 DQ 3 – How Well Does Humor Travel.doc

BCOM275 Week 5 DQ 4 – When Ethics and the Law Collide.doc

BCOM275 Week 5 DQ 5 – Ethics and Diversity in Communication Current Events.doc

BCOM275 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Debate Paper.docx

GUIDE.pdf

BCOM275 Week 1 DQ 1 – The Onus Is on the Receivers of Messages.doc

BCOM275 Week 1 DQ 2 – The Onus Is on the Senders of Messages.doc

BCOM275 Week 1 DQ 3 – Studying the Steps of the Communication Process.doc

 

BCOM275 Week 1 DQ 4 – Indulge Your Inner Gadget Geek.doc

Business Occupation Research

DQ 2  (Define Dependent and Independent Variables and Their Significance).docx

DQ 2  (What is the Role of Probability Concepts in Business Decision Making ).docx

DQ 2  (Why Does the Significance Level Differ Among Industries).docx

DQ 2 (Mean and Standard Deviation Can be Used in Decision Making.docx

DQ 3  (Demographic Level of Measurement).docx

DQ 3  (Differences Between a Discrete and a Continuous Distribution).docx

DQ 3  (Five Steps Used in Hypothesis Testing).docx

DQ 3 (What Level of Data is a Telephone Number ).docx

DQ 4  (Characteristics of Standard Normal Distribution).docx

DQ 4  (Difference Between a Dependent and Independent Variable).docx

DQ 4  (Explain Terms Related to Hypothesis Testing).docx

DQ 4 (Does All Data have a Mean, Median, or Mode ).docx

DQ 5  (Importance of Statistics in Business Decision Making).docx

DQ 5 (Why is the Population Shape a Concern When Estimating a Mean).docx

DQ 6  (Four Data Measurement Scales).docx

Indivdiual Assignment MyStatsLab Problems.docx

Individual Assignment (My StatsLab 14-Problems).docx

Individual Assignment (MyStatsLab 14-Problems).docx

Individual Assignment (Real Estate Data).docx

Individual Assignment (Statistics in Business).docx

Individual Assignment My StatsLab 10-Problems.docx

Individual Assignment Real Estate Data.docx

Individual Assignment Real Estate Data.xlsx

Learning Team Assignment (Data Collection).docx

Learning Team Assignment (Summarizing and Presenting Data).docx

Learning Team Assignment Analyzing and Interpreting Data Paper.docx

Learning Team Assignment Analyzing and Interpreting Data Presentation.pptx

Learning Team Assignment Data Collection.pptx

Learning Team Reflection.docx

Summarizing and Presenting Data.xlsx

Analyzing and Interpreting Data.xlsx

DQ 1  (Differences Between Probability and Coincidence).docx

DQ 1  (Some Terms Related to Hypothesis Testing ).docx

DQ 1  (Where Descriptive Statistics Used in Your Work Place).docx

 

DQ 1 (Can Mean, Median, or Mode be Calculated From all Statistical Data).docx

Which of the following is considered a hybrid organizational form?

1.       Which of the following is considered a hybrid organizational form?

 

2.       Which of the following is a principal within the agency relationship?

 

3.       Which of the following presents a summary of the changes in a firm’s balance sheet from the beginning of an accounting period to the end of that accounting period?

 

4.       Teakap, Inc., has current assets of $ 1,456,312 and total assets of $4,812,369 for the year ending September 30, 2006. It also has current liabilities of $1,041,012, common equity of $1,500,000, and retained earnings of $1,468,347. How much long-term debt does the firm have?

 

5.       Gateway Corp. has an inventory turnover ratio of 5.6. What is the firm’s days’s sales in inventory?

 

6.       Your firm has an equity multiplier of 2.47. What is its debt-to-equity ratio?

 

7.       Which of the following is not a method of “benchmarking”?

 

8.       Jack Robbins is saving for a new car. He needs to have $ 21,000 for the car in three years. How much will he have to invest today in an account paying 8 percent annually to achieve his target? (Round to nearest dollar.)

 

9.       Ferris, Inc., has borrowed from their bank at a rate of 8 percent and will repay the loan with interest over the next five years. Their scheduled payments, starting at the end of the year are as follows—$450,000, $560,000, $750,000, $875,000, and $1,000,000. What is the present value of these payments? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

 

10.   Ajax Corp. is expecting the following cash flows—$79,000, $112,000, $164,000, $84,000, and $242,000—over the next five years. If the company’s opportunity cost is 15 percent, what is the present value of these cash flows? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

 

 

11.   Jayadev Athreya has started on his first job. He plans to start saving for retirement early. He will invest $5,000 at the end of each year for the next 45 years in a fund that will earn a return of 10 percent. How much will Jayadev have at the end of 45 years? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

$3,594,524

 

12.   Serox stock was selling for $20 two years ago. The stock sold for $25 one year ago, and it is currently selling for $28. Serox pays a $1.10 dividend per year. What was the rate of return for owning Serox in the most recent year? (Round to the nearest percent.)

 

13.   Regatta, Inc., has six-year bonds outstanding that pay a 8.25 percent coupon rate. Investors buying the bond today can expect to earn a yield to maturity of 6.875 percent. What should the company’s bonds be priced at today? Assume annual coupon payments. (Round to the nearest dollar.)

 

14.   Next year Jenkins Traders will pay a dividend of $3.00. It expects to increase its dividend by $0.25 in each of the following three years. If their required rate of return is 14 percent, what is the present value of their dividends over the next four years?

1.       Which of the following is considered a hybrid organizational form?

 

2.       Which of the following is a principal within the agency relationship?

 

3.       Which of the following presents a summary of the changes in a firm’s balance sheet from the beginning of an accounting period to the end of that accounting period?

 

4.       Teakap, Inc., has current assets of $ 1,456,312 and total assets of $4,812,369 for the year ending September 30, 2006. It also has current liabilities of $1,041,012, common equity of $1,500,000, and retained earnings of $1,468,347. How much long-term debt does the firm have?

 

5.       Gateway Corp. has an inventory turnover ratio of 5.6. What is the firm’s days’s sales in inventory?

 

6.       Your firm has an equity multiplier of 2.47. What is its debt-to-equity ratio?

 

7.       Which of the following is not a method of “benchmarking”?

 

8.       Jack Robbins is saving for a new car. He needs to have $ 21,000 for the car in three years. How much will he have to invest today in an account paying 8 percent annually to achieve his target? (Round to nearest dollar.)

 

9.       Ferris, Inc., has borrowed from their bank at a rate of 8 percent and will repay the loan with interest over the next five years. Their scheduled payments, starting at the end of the year are as follows—$450,000, $560,000, $750,000, $875,000, and $1,000,000. What is the present value of these payments? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

 

10.   Ajax Corp. is expecting the following cash flows—$79,000, $112,000, $164,000, $84,000, and $242,000—over the next five years. If the company’s opportunity cost is 15 percent, what is the present value of these cash flows? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

 

 

11.   Jayadev Athreya has started on his first job. He plans to start saving for retirement early. He will invest $5,000 at the end of each year for the next 45 years in a fund that will earn a return of 10 percent. How much will Jayadev have at the end of 45 years? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

$3,594,524

 

12.   Serox stock was selling for $20 two years ago. The stock sold for $25 one year ago, and it is currently selling for $28. Serox pays a $1.10 dividend per year. What was the rate of return for owning Serox in the most recent year? (Round to the nearest percent.)

 

13.   Regatta, Inc., has six-year bonds outstanding that pay a 8.25 percent coupon rate. Investors buying the bond today can expect to earn a yield to maturity of 6.875 percent. What should the company’s bonds be priced at today? Assume annual coupon payments. (Round to the nearest dollar.)

 

14.   Next year Jenkins Traders will pay a dividend of $3.00. It expects to increase its dividend by $0.25 in each of the following three years. If their required rate of return is 14 percent, what is the present value of their dividends over the next four years?

Discuss on Bankruptcy

Following the given information prepare  350 written report with a transition from the information given to what need to be cover including the following;

 

Describe how the data is coded and evaluate the procedure used. Include 5 questions asking what are the causes of bankruptcy and answer each one of them. Also on each question include the factor that cause the bankruptcy, for example salary income, unemployment and 3 more and include a breve explanation.

 

Include at least two references.  APA Format

 

Apologize for the short notice and the short time to do the assignment but one of your colegue wait until the due date to tell me he cannot do the assignment.

 

Respectfully,

 

mendez0509

Following the given information prepare  350 written report with a transition from the information given to what need to be cover including the following;

 

Describe how the data is coded and evaluate the procedure used. Include 5 questions asking what are the causes of bankruptcy and answer each one of them. Also on each question include the factor that cause the bankruptcy, for example salary income, unemployment and 3 more and include a breve explanation.

 

Include at least two references.  APA Format

 

Apologize for the short notice and the short time to do the assignment but one of your colegue wait until the due date to tell me he cannot do the assignment.

 

Respectfully,

 

mendez0509

 

Corporate Mission Statements And Strategic Plans

Navigate to the website of Johnson & Johnson (www.jnj.com) and locate (1) the most recent annual report and (2) the company’s Mission Statement which they call their Credo. The Credo may be located under Our Company and also be found by using their website’s search feature. Annual reports are usually located in a section titled Investor Relations, Investor Information, etc.

In the beginning of the annual report, locate the Chairman’s Letter to the shareholders. According to the CEO, how did the Credo help guide Johnson & Johnson’s strategic goals and accomplishments for the year (use some specific examples)? What do you think of Johnson & Johnson’s Credo? Write a 1-2 page paper in APA formatting addressing all of the questions.

Navigate to the website of Johnson & Johnson (www.jnj.com) and locate (1) the most recent annual report and (2) the company’s Mission Statement which they call their Credo. The Credo may be located under Our Company and also be found by using their website’s search feature. Annual reports are usually located in a section titled Investor Relations, Investor Information, etc.

In the beginning of the annual report, locate the Chairman’s Letter to the shareholders. According to the CEO, how did the Credo help guide Johnson & Johnson’s strategic goals and accomplishments for the year (use some specific examples)? What do you think of Johnson & Johnson’s Credo? Write a 1-2 page paper in APA formatting addressing all of the questions.

Introduction Literature Review And Methods Section

Assignment 2: Final Project: Introduction, Literature Review, and Methods Section

Turn in the proposed methods section for your research paper as well as your introduction and literature review.

The introduction and literature review should address your research question: why it is important, and how prior research does or does not support your hypothesis, as well as providing a background on what we know about this topic.

Please refer to the material on the components of a research paper provided inModule 1 as you work on this document.

Your methods section, in addition to covering the subheadings of participants, instruments, and procedure, must include a fourth subheading called ethical issues and note any ethical issues that need to be considered, as well as how they would be handled.

Be sure to include a title/cover page and a reference page formatted in APA style.

Submit your response to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Your response should be at least four pages, double spaced, long. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. Confirm the latest edition number with your instructor.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
With clarity and good writing style and grammar, you presented your proposed methods section for your research paper.

  • participants (15 points)
  • instruments (15 points)
  • procedure (15 points)
  • ethical issues and how they would be handled (20 points)
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Pros And Cons Of Unions

Why do workers join unions? What implications would this have for an organization that wishes to remain non-union? In addition, discuss the pros and cons of unions from both employee and management persepctives (at least one of each from both perspectives). Think deeply about this, and try to come up with notions that haven’t been addressed already in the forum.Why do workers join unions? What implications would this have for an organization that wishes to remain non-union? In addition, discuss the pros and cons of unions from both employee and management persepctives (at least one of each from both perspectives). Think deeply about this, and try to come up with notions that haven’t been addressed already in the forum.