Business

CompetenciesIn this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:Describe how managerial accounting supports management information systemsUtilize managerial accounting techniques and models to support an organization’s strategic planExplain how managerial accounting is used to make decisions about short-term business opportunities, capital investments, and evaluating operational performanceScenarioYour business has been open for a month, and you have prepared an income statement and completed a variance analysis on the data. Now you will meet with investors and a few other internal stakeholders to share your company’s progress over the past month and how it has performed with respect to your cost and budget projections. The investors would like to see the thought process behind your financial strategy and how your company has performed in its first month. They have therefore asked you to present a report that includes the costing and income data from your Project Workbook.

Go tohttps://seekingalpha.com/article/4296238-ipo-lessons-for-public-market-investorsand download the spread sheet for BEYOND MEAT (we won’t use this until the next question)Question:Watch the embedded video by Professor Damodaran (it is at the bottom of the web page). Identify a portion, for example a particular “minute into the 28-minute video” that reminds you of any topic in Ch 7 of our book. Explain what Damodaran said, and what you read. Be complete, NOT BRIEF AND SUPERFICIAL.Now, look at the BEYOND MEAT spreadsheet that you downloaded. Go to the sheet (tab) called STORIES TO NUMBERS. Relate this in some deep and serious way of your choice to Chapter 8-Financial Modeling. Be complete, NOT BRIEF AND SUPERFICIAL.Maximum number of characters (including HTML tags added by text editor): 32,00Think of a product you would be interested in developing, that can serve as the basis for a newventure. What are the critical assumptions on which venture success depends?a. Use the Internet to collect information on public companies that are comparable in some ways,such as from prospectuses and annual reports. Identify the information from these sources thatyou can use to help calibrate the critical assumptions in a financial model of your venture.b. Look up some sources of financial data for industries that are comparable, in some ways, to theone you are considering. Explain how the information from these sources can be used tocalibrate a financial model of the prospective venture.

Choose one particular form of complementary (nontraditional, alternative) medicine and explain why it may not be accepted by insurance providers or reimbursed by insurance companies. Describe its clinical approach and effectiveness, evaluate its economic impact, and review its potential for mainstream use, including future licensing and third-party reimbursement.

data and instructions are attachedYou will continue working with the country or province you have been researching for your micro assignment posts. You will utilize the same data (with any corrections suggested during the course) to create a country portfolio. It will be helpful to view the portfolio from the point of view of a Canadian firm wishing to do business in your selected country. Given the unique circumstances of the time in which we are living (global pandemic,) your primary task will be to assess the data to determine whether the macroeconomic climate in your selected country is favourable for a firm to operate.Go back to collecting information about the country or province you have been investigating for GDP and trade data. You will search online in any public media to share a news article about the government’s (of your selected country or province) economic response to COVID-19. The article does not necessarily have to be from the government, but it does have to be from a reputable source such as a newspaper or professional think tank. Do not share articles or comments originating from Facebook, Wikipedia or personal comments or opinion. Post the link to your article in the section for the appropriate continent below and include a paragraph written by you in the post that 1) states whether the article is describing a monetary or fiscal policy 2) whether the policy is expansionary or contractionary and 3) any relevant observations you wish to include.7. Debt to gdp ratio

This case study introduces two types of vulnerability of firms. Condier a firm or industry of the airline industry, and analyse if you expect would have a high type 1 vulnerability.(i)What does type 1 cost vulnerability indicate about the relationship between production and average cost in the industry?(ii)What would the typical firm’s average cost (AC) curve look like, if it has type 1 vulnerability? Show through a graph. What would be a major cause of this cost structure? Do you think that the airline industry provides a suitable example of type 1 cost vulnerability? Justify your reason.(iii)How did the airline industry (or an airline firm you have selected) perform during the global pandemic of year 2020? Did this match your expectations? Support your answer with evidence.

The impact of weak internal controls can affect an employee’s fraud behavior. The role of information technology (IT) controls facilitate and help detect fraud.Design a method from the accounting information system (AIS) readings to help eliminate such employee fraud activity. Chapter 3 in your textbook discusses the need for a code of ethics and internal controls

Case Study: ALPHA and AIS IntegrationOverviewThe Malaysian agricultural industry is impressive. There are two internal forces of AIS change that occurred in ALPHA, namely, a new business model and corporate structure.Read the following article before you begin the assignment:Forces of Accounting Information System: Organizational Change and Governance of A Malaysian Agricultural Company.InstructionsWrite a 2–3-page paper in which you:Summarize the ALPHA and AIS integration.Explain how the AIS application helped the Malaysian agricultural industry.Describe how the ALPHA method can be applied to small agricultural organizations.Use at least 3 quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.

For this prompt, we’re exploring how the zine and “Depo Diaries” offer forms of storytelling and working with evidence that can be “medicinal” for people and communities that have been disempowered. If you’re a Responder, I’d like you todescribe one example from the zine and one example from “Depo Diaries” anddiscuss how the use of evidence or a story shows the impact of material structures (such as the healthcare system, the media, or the government) on individual experiences / individuals’ lives.Participation Extra Credit – up to 2 pointsLet’s continue thinking about medicinal histories with Aurora Levins Morales! To give us a chance to keep thinking about the characteristics of medicinal histories that Morales discusses, you have two options for extra credit this week. Please select one:You can identify a characteristic from Morales’s essay, explain in your own words what it is and how it works, and then explain how an example from “Depo Diaries” or the zine demonstrates this characteristic.You can also explore the power of imperial histories or “official” records. To do this, describe an example from “Depo Diaries” or the zine and explain how it reflects the impact of the way “truth” is written by those with social power.If you want to complete extra credit, please create a new post and type “Extra Credit” at the top of the text box

Leadership Paradox and Inter-team RelationsA. What is the leadership paradox? Have you ever encountered the leadership paradox? Give two reasons why a leader can encounter difficulty in newly formed teams or groups.B. What are three examples of what might cause inter-team conflict within an organization?C. What serious biases or misassumptions do groups that are involved in inter-team conflict sometimes experience? How do these biases and prejudices affect the ability of teams to accomplish their goals?

This week’s assigned texts explore food justice, an issue that has gained new dimensions of significance during the COVID-19 pandemic. But before this virus brought some disruptions to our grocery supply chains and exacerbated food insecurity throughout the nation, as well as in north Texas (Links to an external site.), food has been a site where we can perceive social dynamics of power and privilege. This week we learn about some of these dynamics— historically and in the present moment— that have shaped the ways certain individuals and communities can access food.Select one prompt option to respond to, and be sure to write the prompt number at the top of your post.Prompt option 1Select a specific idea or example from one of the following two articles that explains a systemic or structural factor in food injustice and briefly describe what this factor is.“We Don’t Farm Because It’s Trendy”“Birmingham’s Hot Restaurant Scene Won’t Fix Its Food Deserts”How does We Over Me Farm at Paul Quinn college or Leah Penniman’s work at Soul Fire Farm offer a way to resist or transform this form of food injustice? Be sure to describe a specific example from one of these two food justice project (you can also discuss both!)Prompt option 2This prompt involves learning more about your own local “foodscape,” or the types of food you have access to and have easy access to. If you respond to this prompt, please address the following questions:What are the 4-5 closest places where you can get food (any place that sells food: grocery store, convenience store, restaurant, farm stand, etc.)?What “grocery store” is closest to where you live, and how far away is it?Based on specific ideas from at least two different required texts for this week, what does this foodscape tell you about your community? Or, what do you learn about your community by thinking about it in relation to food justice?Extra Credit— post by Thursday, April 15 (up to 2 points added to your week 14 participation grade)For this extra credit option, write a response post for the prompt that you didn’t select for your response post. So if you selected option #1 for your response post, you’d select option #2 for your extra credit post. To ensure your posts are graded correctly, write “Extra Credit Post” at the top.