Saving for a car or home in installments: Suppose you have $10,000 to put in a savings account now and in addition you hope to put in more money each month for the next 5 years. Investigate bank interest rates to find the best possible savings interest rate near you compounded at a monthly rate. Look up information on annuity and sinking funds. Figure out how much you […]

Both the Genesis Energy and Sensible Essentials teams believe that the client engagement was very successful. All the critical learning tools were fully explored. However, the operations management team believes there were several topics that were not covered but are important to their respective disciplines. These topics centered primarily on selecting/developing meaningful and rational measurements of performance as they relate to measuring the success of […]

Use the following information for Questions 1 and 2: Boehm Corporation has had stable earnings growth of 8% a year for the past 10 years and in 2013 Boehm paid dividends of $2.6 million on net income of $9.8 million. However, in 2014 earnings are expected to jump to $12.6 million, and Boehm plans to invest $7.3 million in a plant expansion. This onetime unusual […]

This assignment will require you to use the skills gained in Module/Week 8 to create an auditing plan for a sport or entertainment organization. Please select a professional sports team, college athletic department, church, summer camp, or a Christian-based sport or recreation-related organization to serve as the basis for your auditing plan. You have been informed by the highest ranking administrator in your organization that […]

(1) First, provide a definition for a nonprofit organization,  (2) Next, list one national nonprofit organization that is not already listed by someone else on the discussion board – c’mon, there are hundreds of thousands of such organizations nationwide. Please find a non-profit by going to the following web source:  http://www.nonprofitlist.org/ (3) Answer which of these you consider to be a private nonprofit organization and why […]

Critical Thinking:  Positive Communication and You Attitude. As manager of a customer service center, you want to help improve communications between employees and customer. In this assignment, compose an email to be sent to all CSR (customer service representatives) explaining the concept of You Attitude and Reader benefits. In a Formal Email explain the concepts and encourage the employees to plan, write and revise their email […]

It is your first day on the job and your boss is keen to see how much you really know. She provides you with a list of five asset classes and tasks you and your team to investigate the efficient asset allocation between these asset classes. Moreover, you are asked to satisfy a 17% expected return target on the portfolio you construct. To get started […]

 For your assignment, you are to create a  performance appraisal process and an instrument to measure and evaluate  employee performance. You may use a template from an online source, but  you must customize it to evaluate the performance for a specific  position. For example if you want to evaluate a marketing director  position, you will need to make sure you are measuring relevant criteria  with […]

Jaime Thompson is thinking about investing in some residential income-producing property that she can purchase for $200,000. Jaime can either pay cash for the full amount of the property or put up $50,000 of her own money and borrow the remaining $150,000 at 8% interest.  The property is expecting to generate $30,000 per year after all expenses but before interest and income taxes. Assume that […]

The service unit or output for this department is the number of procedures performed. A static budget was prepared at the beginning of the year. You are now tasked with examining that budget in relation to actual experience. The relevant data are included in Table 17-18. The department manager is pleased because they have a favorable $120,000 cost variance. Evaluate the effectiveness claims of the […]