In this assignment, you will present what you have learned about leadership and management from this course. Combine your research from Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 into a PowerPoint presentation that focuses on best practices in organizational leadership. Your presentation should highlight at least two (2) different business leaders and describe their business and philosophy. Your presentation should also include examples of leadership characteristics, traits, and behaviors of the chosen leaders. Your presentation should be detailed enough that it could provide new leaders with strategies to help them develop their own leadership and management styles.

In addition to your textbook, review the following optional articles and videos that detail creating a PowerPoint presentation for this assignment:

• “Create your first PowerPoint 2013 presentation” by Microsoft, located at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/create-your-first-powerpoint-2013-presentation-RZ102925085.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA102809627
• “Top Ten Slide Tips” by Garr Reynolds, located at http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/ 
• “Top 10 Best Practices When Using PowerPoint for Presentations” (22 min 57 s). Video Source: DNN Corp. (2012, April 9). Top 10 Best Practices When Using PowerPoint for Presentations [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtygW25vj_I

Create a nine to twelve (9-12) slide presentation in which you:

1. Develop a PowerPoint presentation in which you focus on overall best practices in organizational leadership.
2. Choose two (2) different business leaders that you learned about from the previous two assignments, and describe two to three (2-3) fundamental aspects of each of their most important business philosophies. Provide one to two (1-2) examples of the application of such philosophies to support your response.
3. Identify three to four (3-4) characteristics, three to four (3-4) traits, and three to four (3-4) behaviors that have made each of them successful leaders.
4. Provide both a title slide (see the formatting requirements below) and an introductory slide to your presentation.
5. Provide a summary slide that addresses key points of your presentation.
6. Develop narration for each of the slides. Use the speaker’s notes section of the slides to indicate what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.
7. Select three to four (3-4) relevant images, photographs, or graphs to focus your audience’s attention during your presentation.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.
• Describe control systems that can improve a firm’s operations and facilitate change.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.
• Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics. 

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OUTLINE FOR A CASE ANALYSIS

For this project there is a Business case example that needs to be read and analyzed. The outline for the case analysis is printed towards the bottom of the short story. Ones done reading the short story please answers the questions in the Outline for a Case Analysis. Make sure to put just the headliners for each of the questions 1-7. This must be in APA format and be 3 ½ pages long. Please let me know if this project will work for you.

Dave-Anne Stores

Dave-Anne Stores Ltd. (DAS) is a business owned by a husband and wife team and they now operate two retail shops selling a wide range of groceries and associated goods to the local community. The business was started a few years ago with one shop. The couple used the proceeds of a family inheritance and their own savings to purchase a lease on a suitable vacant shop and to refit the premises. DAS is a success, although it is a low-margin operation and requires long hours of work. A second shop located in another part of the same town was added two years after start-up using the same funding method to acquire the lease. Both shops now generate revenue of about $100,000 each a year. Each shop had a surplus over all costs of about $10,000 in the last year after the directors had drawn a salary and these funds are currently being retained in the firm. The business hopes to add further units in future years. Apart from the directors, all the staff are part time. Over 90% of sales receipts are in the form of cash or debit card transactions over the counter (the directors do allow a couple of firms close to the shops to have a monthly account for purchases settled by invoice and internet banking soon after the end of each month). DAS is part of a wholesale buying chain that will supply all deliveries during a month on account. The invoice needs to be paid within the first five days of the next calendar month. However DAS collects revenue on a daily basis to meet this bill (as well as a regular VAT bill). As a result, beyond deposit and current accounts, the only external finance products used by DAS are leasing facilities for the small van acquired to move stock between the two premises and for certain items of equipment in the shops (the tills and display freezers). The use of leasing made sense as profits are modest, regular payments also matched income streams and in both cases the goods came with a maintenance contract from the supplier. Discussion DAS is very typical of many smaller retail firms. The core initial funding came from a family inheritance not debt and the two directors wanted to set up a business that in effect also provides them with a job. The use of a wholesale buying arrangement has effectively provided a solution to any cash-flow management needs of the business, especially as they are mainly paid in cash. DAS is a regular user of the local high street bank as it needs to pay in cash on a daily basis but they have no current debt or any immediate plans to start borrowing. Some of the key shop equipment is leased with a maintenance agreement. Although DAS does not have any immediate plans to expand further, this remains the medium-term aim. A consideration could be the method of funding any further expansion. On the two previous occasions, DAS have used a family inheritance to pay the premium of a new shop lease plus fitting out costs. The property is then rented on a monthly basis. This way the premises could be occupied with minimal capital outlay. However, for a third property they would probably have another option as well. DAS now has a track record is setting up and running profitable retail stores. This will be recognised by a bank if they sought a commercial mortgage to purchase the freehold on a third outlet. The monthly accounting surplus from the initial two outlets held in the accounts would fund a deposit and pay for legal costs, while future revenue surplus would cover mortgage payments (indeed, this may not be needed as DAS would not need to pay rent on the new property anyway). Regardless of the method used to fund the acquisition of a new outlet, most of DASs other finance arrangements will easily extend to a third site, notably the wholesaling account and equipment leasing. It would appear that the main issue about expansion may not be one of raising the finance. Rather, a new outlet would have other implications for DAS. At present, each partner can look after one outlet providing oversight and control. A new outlet would require them to appoint a manager for one of the units as well (they have no suitable extended family members to ask to fill this role).

OUTLINE FOR A CASE ANALYSIS  

1)  EXAMINE AND DESCRIBE THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

a)  Describe the nature of the organization under consideration and its competitors.

b)  Provide general information about the market and customer base.

c)  Indicate any significant changes in the business environment or any new endeavors upon which the business is embarking.

2)  DESCRIBE THE STRUCTURE AND SIZE OF THE BUSINESS

a)  Analyze its management structure, employee base, and financial history.

b)  Describe annual revenues and profit.

c)  Provide figures on employment. Include details about private ownership, public ownership, and investment holdings.

d)   Provide a brief overview of the business’s leaders and command chain

3)  IDENTIFY THE KEY ISSUE OR PROBLEM IN THE CASE STUDY

a)  In all likelihood, there will be several different factors at play.

b)  Decide which is the main concern of the case study by examining what most of the data talks about, the main problems facing the business,

c)  Examples might include expansion into a new market, response to a competitor’s marketing campaign, or a changing customer base

4)  DESCRIBE HOW THE BUSINESS RESPONDS TO THESE ISSUES OR PROBLEMS

a)  Draw on the information you gathered and trace a chronological progression of steps taken (or not taken).

b)  Cite data included in the case study, such as increased marketing spending, purchasing of new property, changed revenue streams, etc

5)  IDENTIFY THE SUCCESSFUL ASPECTS OF THIS RESPONSE AS WELL AS ITS FAILURES

a)  Indicate whether or not each aspect of the response met its goal and whether the response overall was well-crafted.

b)  Use numerical benchmarks, like

i)  a desired customer share

ii)  show whether goals were met

iii)  analyze broader issues

iv)  employee management policies

v)  talk about the response as a whole

6)  POINT TO SUCCESSES, FAILURES, UNFORESEEN RESULTS, AND INADEQUATE MEASURES

a)  Suggest alternative or improved measures that could have been taken by the business

b)   Using specific examples and back up your suggestions with data and calculations

7)  WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

a)  Describe what changes you would make in the business to arrive at the measures you proposed

b)  Include:

c)   changes to organization

d)  strategy

e)  management.

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You own University Heights Apartments, a business that rents primarily to students. One evening, your tenant Sharon is attacked by an intruder who forces the lock on the sliding glass door of her ground-floor apartment. Sharon’s screams attract the attention of Darryl, your resident manager, who comes to Sharon’s aid. Together, Darryl and Sharon drive the intruder off, but not before they both are badly cut by the intruder.

Write a paper of 700- to 1,050-words answering the questions posed by this scenario.

• Is the intruder liable for what he has done? Why or why not?
• Do you have legal responsibilities to Sharon and Darryl? Why or why not?
• Do you have ethical responsibilities to Sharon and Darryl? Explain. If there are ethical responsibilities, what are they?
• What should you do to prevent or mitigate such risks?

Cite and include on the reference page at least 3 scholarly references. Use scholarly resources from this course (text, readings), Library, or appropriate articles from the internet.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

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Prepare written responses to the following assignment from Ch. 1 of Managerial Accounting

BYP1-5

 Steve Morgan, controller for Newton Industries, was reviewing production cost reports for the year. One amount in these reports continued to bother him—advertising. During the year, the company had instituted an expensive advertising campaign to sell some of its slower-moving products. It was still too early to tell whether the advertising campaign was successful. There had been much internal debate as how to report advertising cost. The vice president of finance argued that advertising costs should be reported as a cost of production, just like direct materials and direct labor. He therefore recommended that this cost be identified as manufacturing overhead and reported as part of inventory costs until sold. Others disagreed. Morgan believed that this cost should be reported as an expense of the current period, so as not to overstate net income. Others argued that it should be reported as prepaid advertising and reported as a current asset. The president finally had to decide the issue. He argued that these costs should be reported as inventory. His arguments were practical ones. He noted that the company was experiencing financial difficulty and expensing this amount in the current period might jeopardize a planned bond offering. Also, by reporting the advertising costs as inventory rather than as prepaid advertising, less attention would be directed to it by the financial community.

 Instructions:

Who are the stakeholders in this situation? 

What are the ethical issues involved in this situation?

What would you do if you were Steve Morgan?

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You will be researching a specific area of the Federal Bureaucracy in order to better understand all of the areas that it encompasses. Choose a bureaucracy and write an essay on it. In your essay you will include the following:

• Determine what type of federal organization it is (pg. 314-320) link:  http://www.intervisualtechnology.us/data/1/10873/unit_4_lesson_3_p_312_320.pdf
• Explain an abbreviated history of your organization
• Determine who is in charge of your organization, how they get their job, and if there are any important or notable leaders who headed the organization in the past
• Describe what the organization does
• Create a slogan that exemplifies how your organization helps our country
• Create a powerpoint of this slogan

This report will be at least 400 words. 

Please write your essay in MLA format, and follow the standard five paragraph model. Your essay should have an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph.

You must use at least 2 credible sources 

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