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Option #1: Exotic Foods, Inc., Capital Budgeting Case

Exotic Food Inc., a food processing company located in Herndon, VA, is considering adding a new division to produce fresh ginger juice. Following the ongoing TV buzz about significant health benefits derived from ginger consumption, the managers believe this drink will be a hit. However, the CEO questions the profitability of the venture given the high costs involved. To address his concerns, you have been asked to evaluate the project using four capital budgeting techniques (i.e., NPV, IRR, MIRR and Payback) and present your findings in a report.

For your Module 3 Portfolio Milestone and using the additional information to be found in Module 8 Portfolio Project, you are asked to complete questions 1. and 2. as follows:

What is the total investment amount at the start of the project (i.e., year zero cash flow)?

What is the depreciation amount for each year?

Create a depreciation schedule

1. You will include these answers in your completed final portfolio project.
2. Option #2: Pilgrim Coffee Inc.

Pilgrim Coffee Inc. is a successful chain of coffee shops that offers handcrafted coffee and espresso drinks using outsourced coffee beans. In their quest to deliver the best cup of coffee around, top management has learned a lot about coffee beans from around the world and are considering the task of roasting their own coffee beans in house at their flagship cafe. They believe they can wholesale their roasted coffee beans to other coffee shops, both local and afar and offer their packaged beans to customers in-house as well use the beans for their own drink creations. The COO is worried about the potentially high costs involved and would like to use your finance knowledge to evaluate the new venture and address their concerns.

For your Module 3 Portfolio Milestone and using the additional information to be found in Module 8 Portfolio Project, you are asked to complete questions 1. and 2. as follows:

• What is the total investment amount at the start of the project (i.e., year zero cash flow)?

Prepare a depreciation schedule to show the amount of depreciation for each year.

Create a depreciation schedule

Please NOTE: my part is to do a market analysis for Marel company( Fishing machinery) that is located in Iceland and we want to expand it to Indonesia. Market Analysis -8 pts Research the possibility of bringing that product/ service to your country (localizing the foreign business). Elaborate a market analysis in which you examine the competitive, economical and political environment that will impact the future success of your product and company there. Focus on the aspects of these environments that are most relevant to your company and product. Useful analytic frameworks include the Five Forces analysis (Links to an external site.) (Porter), Boston Consulting Group Growth Share Matrix (Links to an external site.), or DG-PEST (Links to an external site.) to highlight the attractiveness of the market and industry. Here you should present information gathered from the “assessment of the opportunity” section of your opportunity assessment plan. Make sure your address the following:

1. What market need does it fill?

2. What is the size and past trends of this market?

3. What is the future growth and characteristics of this market?

4. What social condition underlines this market need?

5. What market research data can be marshaled to describe this market need?

6. What does the international market look like?

7. What does international competition look like?

8. What are total industry sales over the past five years?

9. What is anticipated growth in this industry?

10. How many new firms have entered this industry in the past three years?

11. What new products have been recently introduced in this industry?

12. What is the profile of your customers?

13. Where is the money to be made in this activity? (The activity that interests you most may be just off center from where the money to be made from this opportunity will be located.)

please answer all the question that have posted on the right side of the sheet, I will attach the file for you. and add whatever could be powerful and satisfy the answer, and I need you to highlight what you will add please.

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Research Assignment:    

      Find an organization on a job search engine (Indeed, Snag-a-Job, Monster, etc.) that is currently hiring for an Operations Manager position. Look over the job description and see what the organization is seeking within a candidate. Within the description of the position, list five requirements that the organization desires the applicant to successfully manage. Incorporate the topics you have learned in the last few chapters concerning the position and the processes. With those 5 requirements research the importance of successfully managing EACH task and write a paragraph discussing its importance. At the end of EACH PARAGRAPH make suggestions on how YOU would personally add to that skill set, or how you feel you would be successful in that role.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH INCLUDING A BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: INFORMING US ABOUT ITS DEMOGRAPHICS AND WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES IN ITS WORKPLACE!!

Please use APA format, and cite information in-text and with a reference page showing where you acquired your wealth of information. Turnitin is enabled for this assignment. Students will need to check the similarity score.  Your similarity score is to be less than 30% match.

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Your paper is to be written in essay format. The required length of the assignment is at least 250 words (excluding the title page and reference page) and should include terminology from the text to demonstrate your ability to apply the textbook concepts. Include the textbook reference with an in-text citation in the paragraphs and listed on the reference page. Proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are required. Include outside sources, in addition to the course textbook, to support your thoughts and opinions. Be sure to list as references any source of research you have used in your paper. In this course, we use the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition. The abstract is not required. A title page and the reference page are required for this writing assignment. Your submission must be a Doc or Docx file type.  Assignments submitted as a PDF document or as a Google Doc will receive a grade of zero.

Week 5 – Assignment: Conduct a Needs Analysis

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You are the head of training for a global healthcare company headquartered in the U.S. with operations in China, India, and Russia. You support the product management division and there is one product manager for each region: U.S., China, India, and Russia.

You have noticed that division product managers in the U.S. have a hard time working on projects that require them to work with other product managers whom are overseas. Much of the collaboration among product managers occur via web-conferencing tools such as Zoom or Skype, email, and an organization’s private network. Some of the issues you have noted have been communication barriers, technology adaption issues, cultural differences, amongst others. All of this is affecting how products are being designed.

The negative outcomes of this scenario are that products are not being delivered on time for production, poor quality and product design, and overall dissatisfaction by customers of the products being used. The head of product engineering has asked that you conduct a needs analysis to determine learning opportunities for each product manager. The outcomes and objectives of the head of product engineering is to improve timeliness of products being delivered for production, increase quality and product design, and ultimately improve customer satisfaction. Use your creativity to address the following:  

1. Conduct a      needs analysis identifying at least five skill gaps or issues from the      scenario listed above. For example, a skill gap could be the lack of      skill/knowledge of using web conferencing tools to communicate with      international employees. List the skill gap or issue, and then discuss      your rationale as to why you believe this is a skill gap or issue that      contributes to the negative outcomes.
2. Discuss      the learning opportunities that could be used to close the skills gap or      issues identified. For example, design a short webinar session on how to      use Skype when communicating with overseas employees. Discuss how your      learning solution will help close the gaps and the positive outcomes it      could potentially have in this scenario.

Assignment: Use Research to Separate Fact from Fiction

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You now have enhanced understanding of implicit bias within individuals. This can also manifest itself through the written word. This week, you are asked to identify a theme/topic that is of interest to you. Ideas of themes/topics that may be of interest include summer learning opportunities for students, technology integration, professional development for educators, obesity prevention, redistricting attendance boundaries, suspension and expulsion alternatives, educational benefits of the arts in schools, and anti-bias education.

Certainly, there are a multitude of topics, so don’t feel that you need to choose from this list. The most important thing is to select a relevant topic that is of interest to you. Using the NCU Library and educational databases that contain peer-reviewed journals, locate three articles by three different authors that support a specific train of thought, lead to the same conclusion, and contain findings that are considered valid. These authors should have personally conducted research or reviewed scholarly research by others, yet all share the same findings, thereby substantiating the evidence through the process of triangulation. Then, conduct a web search using any search engine and find claims by at least one source that would essentially refute the claims made by the three well-researched authors.

In your submission, you are to address the following points:

Provide an overview of the theme/topic that you selected and why it is of importance to you.

Describe the methodology you employed and the process undertaken when conducting the research and identify the specific sources where the information was garnered.

What information within all of the documents was similar/different?

For any of the sources, could any information be included to further support a given claim and make the point(s) stronger?

What evidence/data was used to substantiate the claims from the resources utilized?

Identify any bias that may exist and postulate the potential causes for it. In other words, why do you think the single source/author point of view counters the scholarly, peer-reviewed work?

Through this activity, what changes (if any) will you now make when conducting evidence-based research?