Author: chris

Write a business plan for the two following ventures:
· Option A. Expanding a one-store operation to a two-store operation
Assume you currently run a small retailing business in the lobby of a
large office building. Your store occupies 1000 square feet of space. You
spend fifty hours a week at the store and hire two employees, each of
whom spends thirty hours a week at the store. Your annual revenues are
between $150,000 – $300,000 a year. The products you sell are a mixed
bag of items. Basically, you stock up with items that occupants of the
office building will want, including snacks, pre-wrapped sandwiches,
bottled/canned beverages, greeting cards, newspapers, paperback books,
and small gift items that the building’s tenants might find attractive.
A new office building will open two blocks away from the building you
now occupy. You would like to expand your business to that building. In
fact, you begin to dream that you can establish a chain of such stores in
large buildings downtown. You have even cooked up a name for the
potential chain, “Buster’s” (named after your pet Labrador retriever).
At this point, you are not sure how you want to fund the expansion. You
need to put together a business plan to develop a sense of the financial
requirements of the new operation. You may decide to fund it using your
savings and by taking out a second mortgage on your house. Three other
options are to borrow money from the bank, borrow money from friends
and family, or to have friends/family assume an equity role in your
business as investors. In any event, your business case would be used to
borrow the money or to attract investors.
Write a business plan that describes this proposed venture.

Answer EITHER (A) OR (B):
(A) Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature (academic journal articles) on the financial market impact of credit ratings actions.
Your answer must focus on at least two of the following: (i) equity markets; (ii) bond markets; (iii) credit derivatives; (iv) the foreign exchange market; (v) cross-country spillovers.
(B) Answer BOTH parts (i) and (ii).
(i) Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature on split credit ratings. Your answer should include a focus on how financial markets deal with split ratings. (50% weighting).
(ii) Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature on the relative timing of rating agencies’ actions i.e. the ratings lead-lag literature. (50% weighting).

Evaluation of the effect of Service Quality Strategies adopted by online shopping companies on consumer loyalty

Equiblibrium and competition in the banking sector

1,introduction

2,How to measure banking competition

3,Revise the empirical result in the literature
(Empirical literature on banking competition)

4, Alternative measures to assess banking competition,

5，conclusion

Your report should be between 2700 and 3300 words excluding the executive summary, contents page, appendices and references/bibliography sections. The word count should be stated clearly on the front page, along with your P number, report title, Module code and title and date.
Your report needs to address the following points individually and clearly, making recommendations supported where appropriate, with Marketing of Services academic theories, frameworks and models, correctly cited and referenced using De Montfort University Faculty of Business and Law’s Business Referencing guide. You need to make justified recommendations for each point.
• • Employees who work in La Cyne’s accounting department are cross trained to perform other tasks within their department. Members of the conference staff learn front desk check in procedures so they are aware of what happens to guests when they enter the resort. Would La Cyne improve productivity by cross training its other employees, many of whom are seasonal or part time? Should full time employees be cross trained?
• • If the resort’s concierge is not available, La Cyne guests can talk to front desk staff to obtain information they might need. What other ways could La Cyne increase customer participation during its busy season? Would these strategies lead to customers to perceive they are receiving a lower standard of service? Justify carefully.
• • Analyse the methods La Cyne is currently using to manage supply and demand. Make justified recommendations for ways in which the resort could manage supply more effectively.
• • Discuss your evaluation of La Cyne’s strategy for managing demand. Identify and justify recommendations to allow La Cyne to manage demand more effectively.
• • In predicting and managing supply and demand, identify how the resort could use records of demand patterns and variations; what are the limitations of such records for forecasting?
Near to the French Alps sits La Cyne resort, with some exceptional surroundings. There are over 20 miles of paved bike paths, 2 championship quality golf courses, 20 tennis courts, 2 swimming complexes, horse riding trails, squash and badminton courts, white water rafting plus a nature centre.
“Service is something we pride ourselves on, and we want to be able to help our guests with absolutely everything they need” says Jean Claude, a member of La Cyne’s marketing staff. Accommodation at the resort includes 175 rooms and suites, and over 200 private lodges for guest rental. Around 1000 people live permanently at La Cyne resort in their own lodges, with in the region of 180,000 visiting the resort annually.
Like many resorts, La Cyne has 2 distinct peak seasons in which it has to manage supply and demand carefully. In the summer golfers roam the resorts beautiful golf courses set amidst scenic woodlands. In the winters skiers flock to the resort for the exceptional quality skiing nearby.
One of the typical ways La Cyne matches supply and demand is with differential pricing. Visitors to the resort pay one of 3 rates, depending on the date of their visit. These pricing rates are referred to as “low”; “value” and “peak” season rates. Visitors not staying in La Cyne resort accommodation can use the facilities, but at a higher cost than residents.
Another system used by La Cyne is a stringent reservation system. A deposit of 25% of their total bill is required to reserve accommodation, which is forfeited if the guest needs to cancel less than 21 days before the dates booked.
If the resort is over booked, guests reserving rooms and suites may be given upgrades to rental or private lodges.
La Cyne has developed ways to stimulate demand out of season, when occupancy rates are traditionally low. When bookings are needed the resort offers ski and golf packages on the capital city (Paris) radio and TV stations as well as in local newspapers. Besides offering golf and ski accommodation, the resort rents and sells bycycles, provides pony rides and offers white water canoe and kayak trips down the river from the resort’s marina. Daily activities for children from 3 – 10 years are also available.

Barbara, Helen and Maureen have been working together for 18 months, running a business in England, making and selling celebration cakes and luxury desserts. They call the business ‘Sweet Pleasures’.

Between them they have been sharing the costs of buying materials, equipment, ingredients and paying the general running costs. They have been splitting the net profits equally (after paying running costs for the business) for the past 18 months. They have no written agreement setting out the terms of their business arrangements.

The business is doing well and recently they have been offered a 12 month contract to supply a variety of their luxury desserts to a very popular delicatessen’s shop. With the expansion of their business they have decided that it would be a good idea to investigate the possibility of formalising their business arrangements and are thinking of forming a private limited company as they have been told this would be a suitable business arrangement for them.

Task 1
Describe the type of business organisation Barbara, Helen and Maureen currently operate under. What are the advantages and disadvantages of continuing to trade as they do at present?

Task 2
Advise Barbara, Helen and Maureen as to the advantages and disadvantages of setting up a private limited company.

Task 3
Barbara, Helen and Maureen want to retain their current business name, advise them as to whether they can do this if they form a private limited company.

Task 4
If they form a private limited company Barbara, Helen and Maureen want to raise additional capital to support their business expansion by issuing more shares or by taking out a bank loan. Explain what implications each method of raising further capital might have upon the running of their business?

Task 5
You should set aside 250-400 words (out of the 2000) to write a reflection on how you went about researching and preparing this work. Your research trail should explain what resources you used eg texts/ journals/cases/statutes and online materials, and why you thought they were appropriate resources for answering the questions. You can discuss such matters as to whether you found enough information in those materials and whether you found them easy or difficult to understand. If this is a resit cour

Interview a woman or minority person in a leadership position in nursing. The person must be responsible in some capacity for other employees. The interview may be conducted by phone, email, or in person.

Write a 500-750-word paper in which you reflect upon the interview and concepts discussed throughout the module. Submit both the interview transcript and reflection paper.

In your interview transcript, include the name of the leader and his or her position, organization or field the leader works in, and length of time in position. Include a minimum of 10 questions and responses addressing the following:

1.Describe the organization that you work in, including the culture of the organization and your responsibilities as a leader.

2.Describe your leadership style.

3.Describe the steps taken to get in your current leadership position.

4.What has been your biggest challenge as a leader?

5.What has been your greatest achievement as a leader?

Your reflection should include the following:

1.What did you learn about the connection between women or culture and leadership from conducting this interview? How can this improve your leadership abilities?

2.What surprised you, if anything, about the interview?

3.Were there any nuances to the leader’s responses which may be attributed to gender or cultural differences in leadership behaviors discussed in the module?

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Case Study Analysis Paper:

Prepare a case study analysis of Case 2 “Ann Taylor: Survival in Specialty Retail” found in the Cases section of your digital book.

Closely adhere to the Case Study Analysis Template by clicking on the hyperlink. Please utilize this template format for this Assignment. Use titles and subtitles per the format for readability purposes.

Focus upon the idea of the company’s balanced scorecard and control systems to guide and monitor its strategy implementation in order to help move Ann Taylor competitively forward. Be sure to include the SWOT analysis as shown in the Appendix of your paper (after the References page).

Assignment Checklist:

Conduct a SWOT analysis on the case study company’s current lack of strategic control.

Create a case study analysis focusing on the company’s challenge relative to strategic control through a balanced scorecard and implementation.

For additional Assignment details see Rubric below.

Fraud in the Accounting Information System

1. Give one advantage of shooting with a high ISO such as 800 or

1600.

2. Give one advantage of shooting in RAW + jpeg.

R: 210

G: 212

B: 185

3. The info panel above reveals that the selected portion of your image

is:

a. cool

b. bright

c. blue

d. yellow

e. dark

4. The _________________ setting on your adjustable camera will keep

the shutter open as long as the shutter release button remains depressed.

5. In Camera Raw, the_______________ tool will help you bring back

detail into the darkest portion of the image.

6. ____________ editing with an adjustment layer will affect the entire

image as opposed to local editing in which you are working on only a

selected portion of the image.

7. TRUE or FALSE. Low Key lighting causes the light to be scattered in

all directions and gives us a lack of shadows.

1. List a file format used in photography that is a LOSSLESS file format

.

2. A ____________ lens allows you to work with variable focal lengths

without changing your lens.

a. tilt-shift

b. prime

c. zoom

d. fish eye

3. Which of the following lenses will give you more depth of field:

a. 300mm

b. 28-105mm

c. 85mm

d. 24mm

4. What is one advantage of working with a wide-angle lens.

5. TRUE or FALSE. Shooting in Manual mode (M) allows you to manually

control the aperture while the camera selects the shutter speed.

6. Your meter reading indicates that the correct exposure at ISO 400

is 1/125th of a second at f/8. List one equivalent exposure.

7. Color Temperature is measured in degrees Kelvin. What is the

color temperature around noon on a sunny day. ________________ K.

1. The length of time that light strikes the film when making an

exposure is controlled by the:

a. aperture

b. film

c. lens element

d. shutter

2. TRUE or FALSE. The smaller the size of the lens aperture (the

larger the f-number), the the shallower the depth of field.

3. All of the following are factors which control exposure except:

a. focus

b. aperture

c. shutter speed

d. film speed

4. What is one advantage of shooting at ISO 200.

5. List TWO factors that determine depth of field.

6. In Aperture Priority Mode (Av) the photographer selects the

aperture and the camera automatically sets the:

a. aperture

b. shutter speed

c. ISO

d. both b and c