Business

Ah…Business PlanningBusiness Planning…either the most LOVED or DESPISED aspects of getting involved in a small business. The authors of “Beer School” provide a thorough explanation and discussion of the business planning process, their experiences (both positive and not so positive) and personal thoughts. For Assignment 10 , prepare a 2-3 page synopsis over the authors experiences and share your perspective on what they went through in preparing their plan.

An understanding of internal and external domains is critical to the role of a health care manager. Things are constantly evolving in the world of health care, impacting the need for health care managers to embrace innovation and lead change. Additional challenges occur due to increasing complexities within the very health care organizations they manage. As a manager, how would you integrate your knowledge of both internal and external domains into an approach to improve the performance of a particular provider’s services? How would you help it sustain its future? Share an example of innovation that would improve this provider’s performance and discuss the purposeful action of change, including the managerial functions that you would employ to support the innovation.

Task: Analysis of Contemporary Media Reporting on the World of WorkStudents will choose four media articles discussed in four different tutorials between week 2-12 and complete a template (see Canvas) for each individual article which asks them to:*Identify the key ideas presented in the media article as they relate to concepts of work and employment raised in course lectures and readings;*Identify the benefits and/or challenges workers confront in the article, and how these connect with the course readings for the topic;*Reflect as a manager or policy maker and explain how appreciating worker interests as identified in the media report might contribute to certain actions by you to address it.Assessment criteria will be:Ability to identify the main issues/arguments presented in the media articlesAbility to identify the different concepts and perspectives on the changing future of work and how they can be applied to understand the issues raised in the media article.Ability to clearly and concisely respond to the questions presented in the assignment template.Ability to reflect as a manager or policy maker and explain how appreciating worker interests as identified in the media report might contribute to certain actions to address it.

· The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.· Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.· Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.· Late submission will NOT be accepted.· Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.· All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).· Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.Critical ThinkingThe global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of excellent, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).Consult chapter 7 of your textbook or secondary available data through internet and answer the following questions.Question:1. Why Companies adopted Lean Thinking and JIT model? (1.5 Mark)2. Discuss major types of Waste, companies has to keep in mind during production. (1.5 Mark)3. Due to pandemic COVID 19 emergency, do you think agile supply chain is the right concept in this kind of situation? Give reason with example. (1.5 Mark)4. Reference (0.5 Mark)The Answer must follow the outline points below:· Each answer should be 300 to 500 range of word counts.· Lean Thinking and JIT Concept· Agile Supply chain· Their Main functions· Reasons with suitable Examples· Reference use APA style of referencing

CompetenciesIn this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:Describe how managerial accounting supports management information systemsUtilize managerial accounting techniques and models to support an organization’s strategic planExplain how managerial accounting is used to make decisions about short-term business opportunities, capital investments, and evaluating operational performanceScenarioYour business has been open for a month, and you have prepared an income statement and completed a variance analysis on the data. Now you will meet with investors and a few other internal stakeholders to share your company’s progress over the past month and how it has performed with respect to your cost and budget projections. The investors would like to see the thought process behind your financial strategy and how your company has performed in its first month. They have therefore asked you to present a report that includes the costing and income data from your Project Workbook.

The Melody Corporation will authorize to issue a maximum of 3,000,000 shares of 1,5 EUR par value common stock. During firs year of operation, Melody issued 1,200,000 shares at 12 EUR per share. It later acquired 65,000 of these shares as treasury stock for 24 EUR per share. Based on the above information, answer the following questions:• How many shares were issued? (5 points) • How many shares are outstanding? (5 points) • What is the balance of the Common Stock account? (5 points) • What is the balance of the Treasury Stock account? (5 points)

1- Think of a job that requires very high levels of certain cognitive abilities. Can you think of a way to redesign that job so that people who lack those abilities could still perform the job effectively? Now respond to the same question with regard to emotional and physical abilities.2- Discuss the type of roles do you normally take on in a team setting? Is there a task or social roles that you simply don’t perform well? If so, why do you think this is?3-If you were running your own company, how would you communicate your CSR strategy with employees, with external stakeholders, and why?

Discuss the utility theory and its assumptions.Assignment: The trade game is a way of examining how economic trading of resources affects individual utility. Imagine the economy consists of the following resources (denoted by colored slips of paper):WhitePurpleBrownOrangeBlueGrayGreenYellowGoldThe objective of the game is to maximize your gains in utility.Define A Utility Function for YourselfU = f (White, Purple, Brown, Orange, Blue, Gray, Green, Yellow, Gold)You are handed an assortment of resourcesMeasure your utilityTrade with others within your friends (15 minutes). Record your trades.At the end of the trading period measure your utility again. Compute your absolute and percentage increase.Record scores on a sheet of paper. Discuss if there is a better way to allocate resources?There is no length required for this paper but it has to include all of the requirements listed above. Please upload a Word document using APA format for this assignment. Where applicable, you must show your derivations, analysis and how you obtained the responses/answers. Use title page, in-text citations, references, appropriate font size, double spaces, etc where appropriate

For this week’s discussion, let’s talk about Green Marketing. Within this thread, pleaseDefine Green MarketingIdentify a company that uses Green Marketing and how do they use it as a marketing approach.Do you think Green Marketing is good for a company? Why or Why not?check the link

1) Chapter 10, g, Case Study #8: Review the ms-excel file enclosed in this email. The file has the answers to the case study for Chapter 10. Answer the following questions that pertain to the case study:a) What data is the critical piece of information for this case study? (Sales forecast, Actual Workers, Hiring, Layoffs) Explain why?b) Describe why having a Sales and Operations Planning process is essential to managing a business.2) Classroom Assignment #8: Write a one-page essay on how the Retail Industry manages its inventory throughout the calendar year