Final Project (Final Exam) – PowerPoint Template “How To Use Spreadsheets In My Major Field of Study

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Using the PowerPoint template provided in Blackboard, complete the research and complete each section of the template. The goal behind the final project is for you to provide examples of how spreadsheets are used in your major(Sport and Entertainment Management) field of study. See the information below prior to completing the Final Project. NOTE: If you complete this assignment using a Mac, you MUST save your file as a PDF before uploading. If this is not done, will not be able to open/grade the assignment and a zero will be recorded. Refer to the Course Outline and Due Dates Checklist later in this document.

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Utilizing the PowerPoint Template Provided in Blackboard

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How Spreadsheets Are Used Within My Major Field of Study(Sport and Entertainment Management)

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It is important to connect what you are learning to your future. Spreadsheets are used in a variety of ways and it is important to know the many roles they play within your major field of study. Using your best research skills, find supportive documentation to complete the PowerPoint template.

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Follow these steps below to summarize your research into the PowerPoint Template.

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• Use the PowerPoint template provided.
• Use at least five (5) different references/resources from books, the Internet, journals, and/or any other viable/reliable resources you may find.
• References must be listed in APA Style. APA Style Reference examples may be found at this link: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
• The PowerPoint template may include research information specific to Excel or proprietary spreadsheets. If describing proprietary software packages, keep in mind that they may incorporate many similar forms and functions of Excel.
• Provide the definitions for spreadsheets in your own words.
• Summarize the researched information by completing each section of the PowerPoint template.
• The PowerPoint template should meet the following guidelines provided in the grading rubric below.

this class is about excel. I uploaded the example about the project and I attached the PowerPoint template.

For a long time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has had its supporters and detractors. In this discussion, you will have the opportunity to consider some of the IMF’s actions and determine whether they were beneficial as well as ethical.

To help frame this discussion, consider the IMF’s actions in Greece. Greece spent a decade in economic turmoil starting in 2009. The IMF provided financial assistance to “bail out” Greece multiple times during the crisis. Their loans came with requirements that Greece needed to meet. Some argue that the IMF made the crisis much worse, whereas others feel the IMF provided timely support to Greece not long after the global financial crisis of 2008.

In your initial post, use the following questions to guide your responses:

• When should a government, economy, or country be bailed out, if ever? Justify your answer with specific examples and how the bailout or lack of bailout would impact the global economy and the future of globalization.
• Ideally, which countries or organizations would provide the economic support for a government that needs a bailout? Is the IMF the ideal organization to bail out a country?
• Is it ethical for the IMF to bail out countries that repeatedly make bad economic and fiscal decisions? Is it ethical for the IMF to have significant requirements attached to its loans?
• What lessons should be learned from the Greek debt crisis for countries with debt obligation issues and for organizations such as the IMF?

Overview

Foreign exchange impacts the profitability of transactions in international markets. It can turn a profitable business into one that loses money and can turn an unprofitable business into one that makes money.

In this assignment, you will analyze the impact of foreign exchange on different business scenarios and present your findings in a short business memo.

Scenario

You manage the international business for a manufacturing company. You are responsible for the overall profitability of your business unit. Your company ships your products to Malaysia. The retail stores that buy your products there pay you in their local currency, the Malaysian ringgit (MYR). All sales for the first quarter are paid on April 1st and use the exchange rate at the close of business on April 1st or the first business day after April 1st if it falls on a Saturday or Sunday. The company has sales contracts with different vendors that determine the number of units sold well in advance. The company is contractually obligated to sell 4,000 units for exactly 1.25 million MYR for the first quarter. The break-even point for each unit is $90 in U.S. dollars. Use the following foreign exchange rates:

• On January 1, the daily spot rate is 3.13 MYR, and the forward rate is 0.317 U.S. dollars/MYR for April 1st of the same year.
• On April 1, the daily spot rate is 3.52 MYR.

Prompt

Using the information above, create a short business memo that explains the profitability, viability, and importance of considering foreign exchange on the basis of the scenarios below.

Scenario 1: The company uses the spot rate on April 1st to convert its sales revenue in MYR to U.S. dollars.

Scenario 2: On January 1st, the company uses that day’s forward rate today to lock in a foreign exchange rate for its expected 1.25 million MYR in sales. This means the company agreed to exchange 1.25 million MYR using the forward rate on January 1st when April 1 arrives.

Scenario 3: Another option for the company is to spend the foreign currency and avoid any currency exchange. Because it is a manufacturing company, raw materials are always needed.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

• Foreign Exchange Calculations: Determine the profitability of the international business by using foreign exchange calculations for the first and second scenarios.

• Spend or Save: Discuss what you would need to consider when determining if the company should buy raw materials with the foreign currency in an effort to avoid foreign exchange risk and whether this is a viable option for the company.

• Conclusion: After determining the result for each scenario, explain the importance to a company’s financial results of considering foreign exchange risk.

Guidelines for Submission

Submit this assignment as a 250- to 300-word Microsoft Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Overview

To make sense of all the data available to them, business leaders work alongside data scientists who generate data visualizations to understand business questions via analytics. This process gives companies insight on what is working and what is not: for example, whether the products or services offered are meeting expectations, or if a shift in strategy is necessary.

Prompt

For this assignment, you will take on the role of a business leader who wishes to analyze if a new product their company has introduced is meeting the expectations. Imagine that you would like to create a post in the company intranet that summarizes your findings in an easy-to-read format for your team. Pay special attention to creating meaningful data visualizations. You should use techniques that make content easy to follow but that also display charts accurately without distorting or skewing data. Your company’s profit goal is 25% of the cost of goods sold (COGS). Remember, COGS is the cost of manufacturing the product, including labor, materials, and overhead. You will need to build trust and an open channel of communication with other leaders on your team. Pay close attention to the story that data visualizations tell you and others reviewing your post.

The purpose of this analysis is to better understand the cost, revenue, and profit associated with the new product launch. Review the Cost, Revenue, and Profit spreadsheet retrieved from the company’s data center and consider the following while developing your ideas in this assignment.

• What is the importance of data analysis?
• What are the results of your analysis?
• Think about your analysis and its findings, including visuals. Use visuals and text to re-state the purpose of your analysis and summarize your most important findings.
  • What are you trying to represent with this data?
  • What kind of graphic have you selected and why?
• How did adding visual representations of the data change your analysis?
  • Does the target audience influence the way you display information?

Guidelines for Submission

Complete the Making Data Driven Decisions worksheet in your Soomo webtext, download your completed work, and submit it in Brightspace for instructor feedback. You should write using a professional voice, and any sources should be cited according to APA style. Your assignment must be between 400 and 800 words in length.

I am working on my project management assignment. The assignment is project management news review.

QUES: Refer to one of the recommended business news sources. Identify a project that has registered some distress failure. Describe a root cause analysis that you would conduct in order to identify early warning signs that might push the project into distress. Describe the discovery plan that you would implement in order to rescue this project.

Choose an Article. The news should be taken from a business news source such as:

The Globe and Mail

Maclean’s

The Vancouver Sun

The Economist

Time

The New York Times

The Independent

The Guardian

Project Management Review, or

other recognized newspapers, journals, or magazines.

Articles should be at least 8-10 paragraphs to provide enough information for you to review.

Articles should discuss current events and should be no more than two months older than the assignment due date.

Avoid using articles published as editorials (opinions, columns), press releases, blogs, or general sources. While often interesting and informative, these tend not to be as thorough or present only one opinion on a topiC

assignment criteria

abstract

introduction

Summarize the Article

Present a summary of the key points along with a limited number of examples.

You can also briefly explain the author’s purpose/intentions throughout the text and describe how the text is organized.

The summary should only make up about a third of the critical review

Critique the article

Most important to least important conclusions you make about the text.

If your critique is more positive than negative, then present the negative points first and positive last.

If your critique is more negative than positive, then present the positive points first and negative last.

If there are both strengths and weaknesses for each criterion you use, you need to decide what your judgement is overall. For example, you may want to comment on a key idea in the text and have both positive and negative comments. You could begin by stating what is good about the idea, and then concede and explain how it is limited in some way. While this example shows a mixed evaluation, overall you are probably being more negative than positive.

In long reviews, you can address each criterion you choose in a paragraph, including both negative and positive points. For very short critical reviews (one page or less) where your comments will be briefer, include a paragraph of positive aspects and another of negative.

You can also include recommendations used in the critique section on how the text can be improved in terms of ideas, research approach, theories, or frameworks.

recommendations

conclusion

4 APA STYLE ACADEMIC REFERENCES

Q1.DCT Corporation are in the manufacturing of soft drinks and produces three products X, Y and Z. During the year 2014, the joint costs of processing the three products were SAR 450,000. The following are the information related with production and sales value: 

 

Product

Units

Sales Value at Split-Off

Separable Costs

Selling Price

 

X

675,000

SAR 25 per unit

SAR 11.00 per unit

SAR 75 per unit

 

Y

525,000

SAR 21 per unit

SAR 7.00 per unit

SAR 68 per unit

 

Z

300,000

SAR 17 per unit

SAR 7.00 per unit

SAR 52 per unit

Allocate the joint costs to each product using the physical output method.  

Answer:

Q2. What are “Non-routine Operating Decisions?” Examine any one non-routine operating decision with suitable example and discuss what quantitative and qualitative factors should be considered in making such decision? 

Answer:

Q3. ABC Ltd. is preparing a budget for 2015. Following are the information related with budget preparation: 

Budgeted selling price per unit = $150 per unit

Total fixed costs = $80,000

Variable costs = $50 per unit

Required:

Prepare flexible budget for 1,200, 1,400, 1,600 and 1,800 units. 

Answer:

Q4. Explain with suitable examples why the support department costs are allocated to operating department? Briefly explain any one method of such allocation with numerical examples. 

Answer:

From real national/international market, select any type of strategic alliance between two firms and answer the following questions:

• 1- Briefly introduce your chosen firms, partners of the strategic alliance (industry, nationality, size, market position…). – Max 150 words
• 2- What is the type of strategic alliance used by your chosen firms? Explain its different reasons. 
• 3- What is the method used by the firms to manage their cultures after alliance? underline the pros and cons of this method. 
• 4- Is this strategic alliance successful? Justify. 
• 5- What recommendations can you give for the managers of these firms to improve their competitiveness? 

Activity 2

Strategy Spotlight 2.2 discusses the growing importance of environmental concerns and illustrates how companies in different industries deal with plastic waste issues. Many other environmental problems such as greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change issues are major concerns for today’s businesses and governments. Pick an industry with high greenhouse gas emissions such as electric utilities, air transportation, or livestock agriculture and identify the threats and opportunities facing the industries. Do you think companies with substantial greenhouse gas emissions should proactively address their environmental impact?

Requirement

The assignment is to answer the question provided above in essay form. This is to be in narrative form and should be as thorough as possible. Bullet points should not to be used. The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to competitive strategy. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.

I’m working on a management question and need an explanation to help me learn.

What is the purpose of diagnosis in organizational development (OD) and identify and explain one (1) model/type of diagnostic process?