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Create promotional strategy that includes at least three different mediums (print ads for billboard, magazine or newspaper ad; radio, direct mail, press release, transportation vehicles, etc.). It should include portions of your elevator pitch and a call to action for each of the three mediums.
Note: in the final project, you will include costs of advertising through these mediums, you may want to capture that information now as you’re working through these items.

Develop a 30-60 day calendar of when, where and how you propose the ads be dropped or positioned to reach your intended audience/target market.

• Resource: The 50 Best Marketing Strategies for Small Business

Assignment Question(s):(Marks 10)

Q1. The following financial transactions are related with a General Takaful Product:

i.An amount of SAR 6,200 received as advanced contribution from new participants.

ii.An amount of SAR 4,500 received as a contribution from new participants. 

iii.Contribution renewal received from participants SAR 5,500.

You are required to prepare necessary journalentries.(3 Marks)

Q2. Discuss the three primary methods used by Guaranty Fund to assess property and liability insurance using your own words.(2 Marks)

Q3. XYZ Company has the following financial data:                                                     (5 marks)

Particulars

Amounts (SAR)

Total Profit for the Year

377,500

General Takaful Assets (Year 2014)

1,390,000

General Takaful Assets (Year 2015)

1,517,500

Cash 

11,500

Short-term Investment

23,500

Short term liabilities 

85,000

Underwriting Surplus Distributable to Participants/Participants’ Share of Profit

145,500

Gross Contribution

958,000

Net Contribution

662,500

Wakalah Fee

77,500

Commission Paid

28,300

Management Expense

58,000

Net Claim Incurred

287,500

Earned Contribution

632,500

You are required to calculate:

a) Return on Assets

b) Quick Liquidity

c) Surplus Distribution Ratio

d) Expense Ratio

e) Claims Ratio

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You are Chief of Watchamacallit Fire Protection District. You have an annual operational budget of $27 million, and annual expenditures are 97% of your operational budget. Due to increased fires in the area between Bad-Neighborhood Parkway and Get the Heck Out of Here Street, your expansion committee and local government request you build a new fire station in the area. The estimated cost of the fire station is just over $2 million. At the same time, you are understaffed by 20 fire fighters, resulting in certain companies running with only 2 people on an engine. The estimated cost of hiring, and promoting to balance the staff is $950,000. The public is up in arms over the recent string of house fires and is demanding action.

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:

• Prepare a consolidated financial statement.
• Record the proper accounting treatment for intercompany transactions.
• Analyze the effect of business combinations on the statement of cash flows.
• Record the effects of foreign currency transactions.
• Interpret FASB, AICPA, and SEC pronouncements as they relate to the topics above.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

• For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
• Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to professional application.

Reflect back on your journey through this course and answer the following:

• What aspects of the profession do you find most challenging, and how will you strengthen those areas as a professional?

For the assignment, each student will prepare an visual presentation of a persuasive talk based on a controversial debate
topic.You will defend either the “pro” or “con” view of
the topic, and develop persuasive arguments that support the view they chose.

Here are some ideas for your talk’s content:
a) Provide a factual and informative summary about your side’s main arguments.
b) Develop your arguments based on scholarly sources, facts/figures/evidence, media coverage,
personal experience, and/or conventional wisdom.
c) Apply the course concepts when necessary.

Topic:Top executive compensation in Europe vs. in America. Do They deserve that high pay?