BUSINESS FINANCE
Business metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs)
Business metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) are useful in determining the success of change management efforts by providing a measurable value against which the company can then compare its desired business goal or outcome. Research three business metrics and describe how each is used to measure performance and how a business can use the results from each metric to improve its performance.
Change in demand or supply of a good or service.
Do some research online and find a newspaper article (in the past 6 months) that represents a situation where there is a change in demand or supply of a good or service. Summarize the article in your own word then use the concepts you have learned to explain what will happen to equilibrium in the market.
You MUST ATTACH THE URL. of the article.
Briefly explain the situation (in 1-2 lines).
Then spend most of your time relating the article’s events to at least 1 determinant of demand (OR supply) learned in the chapter and state in what direction demand (OR supply) will shift.
Be very explicit in identifying the determinant responsible for the curve shift and in explaining why the curve will move as you predict.
As an economist, what impact do you predict this change will have on equilibrium price and quantity?
Put this together in a logical progression and be sure to use paragraphs.
Monetary union
Dscuss the costs & benefits of a monetary union. on the basis of empirical evidence to date is the eurozone an optimal currency area?
Working capital management
Working capital management is critical to an organization’s ability to meet its short-term obligations. When proposing new projects or investment ideas for corporations, it is critical to consider working capital red flags such as excess credit use by the business or a low cash balance. Managing such issues early on can help corporations acquire a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Prompt
Using the business you selected for Project Two, complete the calculations for determining working capital, and describe their relevance in assessing financial health.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Financial Statement(s): Explain the various financial statement(s) needed to calculate a business’s working capital and how each financial statement is used. Provide examples to support your claims.
- Working Capital’s Role: Discuss how effective working capital management supports a healthy business.
- Working Capital Interpretation: Use the appropriate formula to calculate working capital, then discuss the business’s current financial liquidity position.
- For example, does the business have sufficient working capital on hand to address bills to suppliers? Will there be potential cash inflow at the end of the year?
- Working Capital Management Direction: Discuss the current direction of the business regarding working capital management.
- Keep in mind that financial statements reflect a specific moment or period of time and the value of the business’s working capital during that period. To get a better understanding of the direction in which a business is going, use the business’s balance sheets from Mergent Online to compare the business’s value today against its value from one year ago.
Decision analysis techniques
As a data analyst, you need to use decision analysis techniques to recommend decision alternatives or optimal decisions based on expected profit payoff for the upcoming holiday season.
Respond to one of your peers’ initial posts, and complete the following:
- Identify the sequence of actions you need to take to start this decision process.
- Explain each sequence and justify why it will help you with your decision.
- Propose a risk profile for each choice.
TQM at the Ritz-Carlton
Please read the case study “TQM at the Ritz-Carlton” in Chapter 13, p.391 available in your textbook “Organization Development & Change” (10th ed.) by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions:
· Q.1 Based on your understanding of the case, discuss and evaluate employee involvement as practiced by the Ritz-Carlton in terms of the following key elements:
-Power (0.5 mark)
-Information (0.5 mark)
-Knowledge and skills (0.5 mark)
-Rewards (0.5 mark)
· Q.2 Do you think the Ritz-Carlton’s experience with TQM could be provided as a benchmark to other organizations? Explain your answer in light of the stages for TQM application. (1.5 marks)
· Q.3 Discuss which features are evident in the practices of the Ritz-Carlton that would enable the Hotel Company to meet the criteria of high involvement organizations. (1.5 marks)
valuation of a company
Several factors, both internal and external, impact a company’s stock price and the subsequent perceived valuation of a company. Sometimes that perceived value matches that of the financial statements, and other times it is vastly different. Therefore, discuss the factors that lead to a valuation of a company’s worth compared to that of the financial statements and how company executives create the most value for all stakeholders.
Strategic Implementation
Create an 8-12-slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the AFI Framework and the results of the internal and external analyses. Your presentation must also include a SWOT matrix for the company and your recommendations for strategies to move the company forward that align with organizational structure and governance, and reflect ethical responsibility.
Introduction
This portfolio work project will help you demonstrate your understanding of strategy and the factors that must be considered when formulating and implementing strategy.
Introduction
This assessment will help you demonstrate your understanding of strategy and the factors that must be considered when formulating and implementing strategy.
Scenario
Organizational leadership of your company has requested that you present your analyses of the company, as well as recommend potential strategic actions that could be taken to address issues raised by your analyses.
Your Role
You are a strategic analyst for the company you have selected to use in this course.
Requirements
The SWOT Framework activity in Assessment 4 will be very useful in completing this assessment.
Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides that synthesize the work you did on Assessments 1 and 2. Use the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points. Be sure your presentation includes:
- A summary of the AFI framework.
- Results from your internal analysis (VRIO or Value Chain)
- Results from your external analysis (PESTLE and Five Forces)
- A SWOT matrix for the company.
- Recommendations:
- Do the current strategies need to be changed?
- What strategies will move the organization forward?
- How do your recommendations align with organizational structure and governance?
- Do your recommendations reflect ethical responsibility?
Managerial Decision Making
When it comes to reducing the tendency to recommit (e.g., escalate) to an unsuccessful prior decision, Bazerman and Moore (2013) state the following:
“as a manager, you should make a decision and implement it, but be open to dropping your commitment and shifting to another course of action if the first plan does not work out. This means constantly reassessing the rationality of future commitments and learning to identify failures early” (p. 131).
In a 3-5-page paper, describe a time that you or one of your organization’s leaders implemented a plan, system, or process that failed. Describe the reluctance to end the failed program. What finally caused the organization to move towards using a new approach? If the organization is still operating the failed program, what effect is this having on internal stakeholders?
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