The following information relates to Harris Corporation, accounting assignment help

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Assignment 08

BU330 Accounting for Managers

Directions:  Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading.

Financial Statement Analysis

The following information relates to Harris Corporation.

Account

Current year

Prior year

Net sales (all credit)

$520,125

$499,500

Cost of goods sold

$375,960

$353,600

Gross profit

$144,165

$145,900

Income from operations

$ 95,500

$ 79,900

Interest expense

$ 23,500

$ 19,500

Net income

$ 57,600

$ 51,600

Cash

$ 30,600

$ 15,900

Accounts receivable, net

$ 33,800

$ 23,200

Inventory

$ 42,000

$ 30,300

Prepaid expenses

$ 2,000

$ 1,500

Total current assets

$ 108,400

$ 70,900

Total long-term assets

$ 62,000

$ 38,000

Total current liabilities

$ 46,000

$ 41,600

Total long-term liabilities

$ 20,000

$ 22,700

Common stock, no par,

3,000 shares, value $50/share

$ 30,000

$ 30,000

Required:

a.  What is the acid-test ratio for the current year?

b.  What is the inventory turnover for the current year?

c.  What is days’ sales in receivables for the current year?

d.  What is the book value per share of common stock for the current year?

e.  What is the price-earnings ratio for the current year?

f.  What is the rate of return on total assets for the current year?

g.  What is the times-interest-earned ratio for the current year?

h.  What is the current ratio for the current year?

This is the end of Assignment 08.

 
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Market Structure and Firm Strategy, economics assignment help

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You are starting your own Internet business. You decide to form a company that will sell cookbooks online. Justcookbooks.com is scheduled to launch 6 months from today. You estimate that the annual cost of this business will be as follows:

Technology (Web design and maintenance)

$5,000

Postage and handling

$1,000

Miscellaneous

$3,000

Inventory of cookbooks

$2,000

Equipment

$4,000

Overhead

$1,000

Part I

Deliverable Length: 1 graph plus calculations

You must give up your full-time job, which paid $50,000 per year, and you worked part-time for half of the year.

The average retail price of the cookbooks will be $30, and their average cost will be $20.

Assume that the equation for demand is Q = 40,000 – 500P, where

Q = the number of cookbooks sold per month

P = the retail price of books.

Show what the demand curve would look like for price between $25 and $35.

Address the following questions:

Suppose that you expect to sell about 22,000 cookbooks per month online, and assume your overhead, technology, and equipment costs are fixed. What are your total costs?

Is the business worth pursuing so far?

What market structure have you entered, and why?

What can you do to guarantee success in this market?

What pricing strategy might you use?

You may use the following two resources to assist in this assignment as well:

 
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Marketing Discussion, marketing homework help

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Read interview as below, then Combine PPT and answer the two Questions:

1. What business philosophy is being used by Creative Designs? Explain.

2. Given your choice of business philosophy how would you sell the pen given to Kelly? Explain.

Business philosophy: the job interview

Kelly has just graduated with her marketing degree. She has interviewed with two firms so far without very much luck. However, she has great hopes for this interview. The job ad reads, “We are looking for a marketing manager to help create new markets and improve our current products. We are looking for combination of experience and education in a graduate who can help us develop new marketing programs.”

The firm she interviews is called Creative Designs. The firm is an interior design firm for corporate offices and up scale homes. Kelly has worked in interior design with her mother’s business and has graduated with a marketing major and interior design minor.

Kelly is going to be interviewing with the owner of Creative Designs, Ms. Landsdale. Ms. Landsdale starts the interview by giving Kelly an introduction to the company. Ms. Landsdale stated that we have been designing custom interiors for offices and homes. We have used design software to create 10 model interiors and we further refine the interiors to the customers needs. This enables us to keep our costs down compared to our competitors who must do each design as an original. Our design specialists carry laptop computers to each client and potential customer showing our current design specifications.

Ms. L: Kelly this is where we get to you. Would you be interested in becoming a Design Specialist for our company?

Kelly: Yes, I love the idea of combining my education and experience in this field. In addition, I really look forward to working with a marketing organization.

Ms. L: This is why we are interested in marketing graduates. We need people who can communicate well with customers. How good are your communication skills?

Kelly: I am a very good writer and my presentations grades were excellent.

Ms. L: Give me an example of your skills, (she takes out a pen) Kelly sell me this pen.

Kelly takes five minutes to explain all the advantages of the pen and how it will benefit Ms. L.

Ms. L: That was very good. Do you have any questions before we conclude he interview?

Kelly: Yes, I am curious about the research you do in this organization and whether I would have the opportunity to work in that area in the future.

Ms. L: At the moment, we do not have a position in that area, we expect each Design Specialist to do research but in the future we may have a position. Currently, we research the demographics of each firm or client to determine their potential budget.

Kelly: Thank you very much for the interview. I hope you will hire me for this position.

After the interview, Kelly goes to the library to research the company more. She finds that Creative Designs has the second leading market share in the area and their profits are just behind the market leader. The market leader is Interior Solutions is renowned for doing completely original designs.

 
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entrapment defense, law homework help

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Overview

The entrapment defense is another defense, like intoxication, that is often misunderstood and rarely successful in court. The defense must establish that the government, usually through the conduct of law enforcement, planted in the mind of an otherwise innocent person the inducement to commit a criminal offense. It has been called an admission-avoidance defense. In this defense the accused essentially admits that he committed the elements of an offense and argues that, if not for the action of the government, the offense would not have been committed and criminal liability should be avoided.

Instructions

To successfully complete this assignment, include the following:

  • Explain what evidence the defense must present at trial to successfully assert the entrapment defense, using a recent case in your jurisdiction.
  • Explore how the prosecution may rebut the “innocent person” claim with evidence of prior bad acts relevant to crime charged.
  • Differentiate between the subjective test, which examines characteristics of the accused to determine if that person was predisposed to commit the offense, and the objective test, which is usually premised on extreme and outrageous government conduct.
  • Articulate why it is important for law enforcement officers to understand the legal and social parameters in entrapment cases.

Requirements

  • Written communication: Must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Resources and citations: Format according to APA guidelines.
  • Required page count: 3–4, not including the cover page or the references page.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

 
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build a database in bold, business and finance homework help

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Can you believe this is only 1 of my questions? smh This professor is ridiculous… 

  1. 12 points) Achieving Operational Excellence: Building a Relational Database for Operation.

    This exercise requires that you know how to develop a database using Microsoft Access, and know how to create forms, queries and reports.

    KoKo’s Canine Per Club is a dog-walking service, catering to caring, yet busy, pet owners. The service proves very popular with pet lovers who recognize the value of providing their pets with daily exercise. Although the service was only started six months ago, it currently provides pet walking services for 50 pets and is registering, on average, 5 pets per week. Paperwork is increasing, and Caedee Hannah, the owner, needs a better record keeping system.

    During a meeting with Ms. Hannah, she explains to you that a new client must register with the service. During the registration process, the new client provides basic information about his pet(s), chooses a preferred walk time for his pet(s) and specifies a walker preference. During this time, a dog-walking fee is determined and recorded on the pet registration form. The dog-walking fee varies by pet and is based on the pet’s size, temperament, and the number of pets the owner has. The pet owner can request that his pet be walked in the early morning, late morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, or early evening hours. Available walk times are currently kept on a clipboard by the phone. However, Caedee wants the available walk times, as well as walker, client, and pet information, kept in the database that you are building.

    Caedee’s record keeping needs are simple. She requires a database that tracks her clients, their pets, available walk times, and the pet walkers. Caedee gives you a partially completed data (see the following tables) and requests that you build and populate Client, Pet, Walker, and WalkTime tables in a database, create several relationships, design Client and Pet forms, design Walker Schedule and Client List report.

    Table 1: KoKo’s Canine Pet Club Client Data

    CNo CLastName CFirstName CAddress CCity CState CZip CPhone CEmergencyPhone
    0001 Lee Sharry 8385 North First Street Edmond OK 73003 606-8975 606-5039
    0002 Stone David 1408 Peter Pan Drive Yukon OK 73069 899-8182 606-3402
    0003 Yu William 7120 Lakeridge Midwest City OK 73099 899-4979 899-2222
    0004 Monac Levitica 303 Northridge Edmond OK 73099 899-2395 909-8679
    0005 Ruaz Monica 1701 Memorial Road Oklahoma City OK 73001 905-8440 606-4102
    0006 Barker Gayle 1983 Sliding Glass Edmond OK 73034 754-3666 359-1588

    Table 2: Available Walker

    WalkerNo WFirstName WLastName
    W001 Bob Legier
    W002 Kyle Morgan
    W003 Burlon Jordan
    W004 Kelly Lamont

    Table 3: Available Walk Times

    TimeCode WalkTimeDescription
    1 Early Morning
    2 Late Morning
    3 Early Afternoon
    4 Late Afternoon
    5 Early Evening

    Table 4: Pet Data

    PetNo PetName CNo WalkerNo QuotedPrice TimeCode EnrollmentDate Comments
    0001 Mickey 0001 W001 $7.00 1 6/1/03 Is a very friendly, well-behaved poodle
    0002 Fiedo 0001 W001 $10.00 1 6/1/03 Is a friendly miniature schnauzer. Keep on chain. He will run away, if he is off his chain
    0003 Molly 0005 W002 $10.00 2 7/12/03 Is a sensitive Pomeranian. Needs lots of attention
    0004 Sir Lancelot 0005 W002 $7.00 2 7/12/03 Is a playful German Shepard, but is hesitant around strangers
    0005 Bruno 0002 W003 $8.00 3 8/15/03 Is a well-behaved Chow Chow. The owner wants Bruno walked by himself and not with other pets
    0006 Sally 0003 W003 $8.00 3 8/22/03 Is a well-behaved mixed breed. She does frighten easily. Please keep her on a leash
    0007 Peek-A-Poo 0004 W004 $7.00 3 8/22/03 Is a mixed-breed. Very playful
    0008 Bear 0004 W004 $8.00 3 8/22/03 Is a Black Labrador
    0009 Gretchen 0004 W004 $8.00 3 8/22/03 Is a Black Labrador
    0010 Prancy 0006 W004 $8.50 5 8/13/03 Prancy can be aggressive towards other animals
    0011 Lacy 0006 W004 $8.50 5 8/13/03 Is very affectionate. Lacy will run, if she gets off of her leash
    0012 Dazzle 0006 W004 $10.00 5 8/13/03 Dazzle is afraid of strangers

    After reviewing these data, you notice that the Client table stores contact information for each client and that the client identification number serves as the primary key. The Walker table stores basic information about each walker and the Walk Times table stores a set of walk time codes. When a client registers a pet, a walk time code is assigned to each pet. This walk time code indicates the pet owner’s preference for the time of day when the pet should be walked. The Pet table stores information about each pet, including the pet number, pet name, client identification number, walker identification number, quoted price, preferred walk time, enrollment date, and any relevant comments.

    After studying these data, you decide three relationships are necessary. First, a relationship between the Pet and Client tables is needed. Since each table contains a ClientNo field, you use the ClientNo field to create the relationship. Second, a relationship between the Walker and Pet tables is necessary. The Walker and Pet tables have a WalkerNo field, and you use this field to create a relationship between the Walker and Pet tables. Third, both the Walk and Pet tables have a WalkTimeCode field. You use the EalkTimeCode field to create the relationship between the Walk and Pet tables. You decide each relationship should enforce referential integrity.

    After creating data tables, you should create two forms: Client form and Pet form. When a new client enrolls his pet with the walking service, Caedee uses this form to input the contact information about the client. The form header includes the company name and the form’s name. After a client registers, Caedee enrolls his pet using a Pet form. The Pet form captures basic information about the pet, such as the pet’s name, walk time, and walker preference. You can use the Form Wizard to build initial Client form and Pet form. Once the forms are built, you can edit the forms in Design view.

    Caedee also requests Walker Schedule and Client List reports. The Walker Schedule report is generated on a weekly basis and tells Caedee when her walkers are scheduled to walk the pets. Since the Walker Schedule report uses data from four tables, you build a select query, and then base the report on the select query. The Walker Schedule report header contains the company name, a report title, and the current date. The information in the report body lists the walkers in ascending order based on the walker’s last name. The Client List report provides a listing of the current clients. You may use the Report Wizard to speed initial report development, and then edit this report in Design view. The Client List report’s header contains the company name, report name, and current data. While you are free to work with the design of the forms and reports, each form and report should have a consistent, professional appearance.

    Based on the above requirements, you build a database that contains four tables, two forms, and two reports.

 
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The Practice of Management, business and finance homework help

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Part 2

Reading 1: The Practice of Management, Peter F. Drucker, summarized by John D. Stavig and Shaker A. Zahra 27

Reading 2: The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, summarized by Charles C. Manz 31

Reading 3: Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming, summarized by William B. Gartner and M. James Naughton 35

Reading 8: Competitive Advantage, Michael E. Porter, summarized by Sara A. Morris 56

Part 3

Reading 3: How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins, summarized by Tanya Pietz 78

Collins, Jim (May 5, 2008). The secret of enduring greatness. Fortune. New York: 157(9), 72.

and

find articles on the writings of or summaries of the writings of the following management theorists:

Mary Follett

Henry Mintzberg

Max Weber

Federick Taylor

Discussion: How do Drucker’s theories of management relate to current management circumstances? How well do Taylor’s theories hold up in today’s global management environment? Are the theories of Follett and Weber still appropriate in the 21st century? Give specific examples of current management circumstances, and cite your readings to support your answers.

 
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Applied Organizational Theory, business and finance homework help

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Scenario: Choose a company where you have worked in the past, currently work, or would like to work in the future. (I was thinking of choosing Google or Apple) 

Analyze the current structure of the organization in a minimum of 1,050 words in which you include the following:

  • Explain the degree that the bureaucratic approach is utilized.
  • Assess whether the company uses classical organizational theory or modern organizational theory.

 
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Evaluation of Corporate Performance

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This is on the Coke Cola company

The Final Paper will involve applying the concepts learned in class to an analysis of a company using data from its annual report. Using the concepts from this course, you will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the company and write a report either recommending or not recommending purchase of the company stock.

Research Tip: The “Mergent” database in the Ashford University Library contains company profiles and financial information for publicly traded companies and their competitors.  To access this database enter the Ashford Library and select “Find Articles and More” in the top menu panel. Next, select “Databases A-Z” and go to section “M” for “Mergent”. For help with using Mergent, use Mergent Online Quick Tips.

For help with reading an annual report access this handy guide from Money Chimp.

The completed report should include:

    • An introduction to the company, including background information. 
    • A complete and thorough financial statement review.
    • Pro Forma financial statements (Balance Sheet and Income Statement) for the next fiscal year, assuming a 10 percent growth rate in sales and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for the next year.
    • Complete ratio analysis for the last fiscal year using at least two ratios from each of the following categories:
      • Liquidity
      • Financial leverage
      • Asset management
      • Profitability
      • Market value
    • A calculation of Return on Equity (ROE) using the DuPont system.
    • Assessment of management performance by calculating Economic Value Added (EVA).
    • A synopsis of your findings, including your recommendations and rationale for whether or not to purchase stock from this company.

The paper

  • Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
  • Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
  • Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
  • Must use at least five scholarly sources, such as the textbook, industry reports, and articles from the Ashford University library to support your findings and recommendations.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 
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Explain the general function/purpose of A walk in refrigerator in a food service

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Explain the general function/purpose of A walk in refrigerator in a food service setting at a restaurant? and why did you decide to buy it out of the multiple options available?

http://www.webstaurantstore.com/nor-lake-walk-in-cooler-6-x-8-x-7-7-indoor/596KLB7768.html

 
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Connecting Your Learning, law homework help

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Competencies Addressed in This Assignment

  • Competency 1: Articulate how the rules of criminal procedure apply to a criminal justice practitioner.
  • Competency 2: Illustrate ethical compliance with criminal procedure from a criminal justice practitioner perspective.
  • Competency 3: Apply the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments in a criminal justice context.
  • Competency 4: Specify how the procedural rules apply to the admission of evidence in criminal cases.
  • Competency 5: Communicate effectively in writing.

In this assignment, the criteria in your Connect Your Learning Scoring Guide are directly aligned to Competencies 1–5 for the course.

Overview

Throughout the class, you have examined the court system, sources of rights such as the rules and procedures of the criminal justice system pertinent to the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and fundamental principles in criminal law. You have examined, probable cause and reasonable suspicion in action, various stops, use of force, important exceptions to the rules of search and seizure, confessions and admissions, constitutional rights at trial, and the legal liability that can be placed on law enforcement officers.

Instructions

Prepare a 4–6-page paper (1–1.5 pages per competency for Competencies 1 through 4), focused on the course competencies and address two key areas of learning for each competency. Competency 5 will be showcased through your coverage of Competencies 1–4. This paper should showcase your learning proficiency and describe the importance of your learning relative to application in a career context. This assignment should be placed in your ePortfolio for future reference, and to demonstrate your learning connections for future employment purposes.

Be sure to review the Connecting Your Learning Scoring Guide to ensure you understand the criteria for this assignment.

Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Written communication: Must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • References: One reference per competency.
  • APA format: Format resources and citations as per current APA style and formatting guidelines.
  • Length of paper: 4–6 pages, not including the title page and the references page.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
 
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