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case Study: General Machinery, Ltd

Ratio analysis is a method used to analyze the financial reports of a company and interpret trends in the company’s performance. As a nonaccounting manager, you use numerous ratios to analyze your company’s performance year-by-year and benchmark the performance to industry averages, to an individual competitor’s performance, or against a predetermined target.

For this assignment, read “Case study question 7.2: General Machinery Ltd” on page 168 in chapter 7 of our textbook, Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision Making. Using the data from the case study, repond to the tasks below.

Tasks:

Consider the following scenario for this assignment: You are an external investor who is considering General Machinery as one of the potential companies for investment. Respond to the following in your initial discussion post:

  1. Discuss the major issues facing the company.
  2. Recommend what actions the company should take to improve its overall performance, addressing each of profitability, liquidity, gearing, activity, and shareholder return measures.
  3. In what way does the Statement of Cash Flows help you to interpret the ratios and financial performance of the company?
  4. What information does ratio analysis provide for meeting the requirements of the case questions?
  5. Which ratios are the most important, and which ones are of limited value? Justify your choices for the scenario.
  6. Why do you need to compare:
    • The current year ratios with the prior year ratios?
    • The ratios of competitors in the same industry or some other benchmark?
  7. Other than the computations used in ratio analysis, what else is necessary to properly analyze a company for investment?
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approval from executive leadership

Write a 2- to 3-page business proposal using the following scenario:

You are a support technician manager building a help desk team and need to get approval from executive leadership. Your primary operation will be to service customers with both hardware and software issues from a variety of PC platforms.

Explain the benefits of having a help desk in your proposal with the goal of getting approval to build the team.

Include the following in your paper:

  • The different levels of customer service
  • The role of a support technician
  • Required resources to support consumers
  • Servicing internal and external users

  • Write a 2- to 3-page business proposal using the following scenario:

    You are a support technician manager building a help desk team and need to get approval from executive leadership. Your primary operation will be to service customers with both hardware and software issues from a variety of PC platforms.

    Explain the benefits of having a help desk in your proposal with the goal of getting approval to build the team.

    Include the following in your paper:

    • The different levels of customer service
    • The role of a support technician
    • Required resources to support consumers
    • Servicing internal and external users
    • Computer support trends
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Explaining the Importance of Emerging Markets

Emerging markets affect the domestic market in America and its interaction with the global markets. Businesses from emerging markets are traded vigorously on the American stock market; hence it is important to understand emerging markets and their impact from domestic and global perspectives.

In this assignment you will explain the importance of emerging markets to both domestic and global markets. Do the following to complete this assignment:

  • Define what an emerging market is from a domestic perspective.
  • Define what an emerging market is from a global perspective.
  • Explain the importance of an emerging market from a domestic viewpoint.
  • Explain the importance of an emerging market from a global viewpoint.

Utilize at least two scholarly sources.

Write a 3–5-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to the citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Click here to download the APA guidelines document.

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Home Invasion—The Importance of Forensic Evidence

One of the most powerful parts of a case against a criminal can be the forensic evidence that is collected and presented. Dramatic breakthroughs in both the scientific and technological fields have greatly impacted the criminal justice system.
A recent crime wave has swept your city. Imagine you came home last night to find your house had been burglarized. Understandably, the police and crime lab are overworked and in need of help. Physical evidence (meaning any materials at the scene of the crime that could be valuable to a criminal case) was collected by crime scene technicians at the house and from a possible getaway car and is listed below. You will need to:

  1. Choose the three most important types of evidence collected from the link below
  2. Define the physical properties of the evidence collected
  3. Explain what information can be found from this evidence
  4. Hypothesize how the evidence could be used in the investigation.

Review the evidence that was collected from the crime scene.
Note that although this is largely a hypothetical investigation, the description of a material and how it is tested will be factual and you will need to conduct research using the Kaplan Library to identify reliable sources. The final results and importance of the evidence in an investigation will be up to your interpretation and largely hypothetical.
Review the link below for additional information.

Assignment: Choose three pieces of evidence from the list presented above and complete the questions in the Assignment template.

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IT

The CEO asks you to create a presentation for the company about the IT Security Department. She wants you to highlight the core principles of enterprise security, and visually present the positions in the IT Security Department that are responsible for which principles.

Create a 4- to 5-slide narrated presentation in response to the request from the CEO. Include an organizational chart to help the audience visualize how the security team functions. Include detailed speaker notes or transcription of narration.

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Ethics in the Courts Presentation

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you discuss ethics in the court system.

Include answers to the following in your presentation:

  • Who is the governing authority for licensing and monitoring attorneys in your area?
  • What are some of the common ethical issues or pitfalls related to court procedures?
  • What are common sanctions for violating ethical practices for attorneys or judges?
  • Should defense attorneys be given greater latitude than prosecutors in ethical expectations?
  • Examples of ethical violations for which an attorney could be disbarred?
  • Whose role is more critical to the courts?
  • Whose role has a higher level of ethical expectations?
  • What was one of the points made during your collaborative group discussion this week?

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

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Inventory and Purchasing Considerations

 your department’s forecasting recommendation has made vast improvements to the Hangzhou, China on-time deliveries. However, the company president has concerns the resin inventory levels are not ordered in the most optimal quantities. The purchasing department needs your team’s help on when and how much to order.
 
Prepare a 200-word paper defining inventory management and how inventory relates to costs. Conclude with a recommendation to use an inventory ordering strategy keeping in mind the certainty or uncertainty of the customer demand at the Hangzhou, China location.
 
Discuss inventory management and differentiate between carrying, ordering, and stock-out costs.
 
 

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The Sociological Imagination

Question
 
C. Wright Mills’ “The Sociological Imagination” states:
 
“The Sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relationship between the two within society. This is its task and promise. It is by means of the sociological imagination that human beings now hope to grasp what is happening to themselves as minute points of intersection between biography and history within society.”
 
Using Mills’ definition, how would you apply sociological imagination to your own life? what is the point of intersection between your personal biography and a social/historical event?
 
 
 
Notice
 
DO NOT QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM COURSE MATERIALS OR OTHER READINGS IN YOUR ASSIGNMENTS OR DISCUSSION POSTS.  PLEASE USE PARAPHRASES—PUT INTO YOUR OWN WORDS!  If you cite an external source, please use proper citation.
 
Students should keep themselves informed of current events by utilizing conventional and alternative news sources.  Our goals in the course include connecting topics and concepts discussed in class with events in the larger society.
 

Discussion points are based on these criteria (RUBRICS):

 

1.     How well has the student answered the question asked in the discussion thread.

 

2.     Has s/he answered all the questions asked.

 

3.     Has s/he applied sociological theories/concepts to his/her discussion posts?

 

4.     Has the student just copied and pasted something s/he has found on the web

 

5.     Is the student’s answer/discussion post written in his/her own words and are the answers comprehensive?

 

6.     Has the student taken time to respond to others in the thread?

 

7.     Posted on time?

 

8.     Compared to others in the class and to his/her own responses in the past, is the student showing progress?

 

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Warehousing

 
Prepare a 750 word paper defining warehousing and discussing its strategic role within the logistics system.
 
Discuss the role of warehousing in a logistics system
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Differentiate between the different warehouse types and explain the aspects of each one of the warehouse types.
 
Identify why a company or industry would benefit from using one warehouse type in contrast to another warehouse type.
 
Investigate a warehouse management system (WMS) on the Internet. Identify the benefits WMS has on a warehouse operation.
 
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.