According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics are identified for enhancing your career: 1. develop career goals, 2. capitalize on your strengths and build your personal brand, 3. be passionate about and proud of your work, 4. develop a code of professional ethics and prosocial motivation, 5. develop a proactive personality, 6. keep growing through continuous learning and self-development, 7. document your accomplishments, […]

You may consider using the same company and annual report that you chose for your Week 1 – Discussion Forum, Reading and Using the Annual Report Case Study. This choice will work only if the company is using the straight-line depreciation method. The company’s choice of depreciation method can be located in the notes to the financial statement in the annual report. If the company […]

Genesis Energy’s newly established operations management team decided to seek outside assistance in developing a long-term operating plan that also addresses the financial issues identified. A major consideration for Genesis Energy is assessing those short-term and long-term economic factors, which will greatly enhance the company’s ability to successfully transition to a viable international business. Grasping and correctly prioritizing these economic factors, supply and demand, interest […]

Select a general industry that interests you and choose a particular market domain within that industry to expand your research and use as a model throughout the course. A market domain may be defined as a segment of a broader industry with a strategic focus or target of meeting a particular business or customer need in the marketplace. In this course, we use the example […]

Watch the “mockumentary’ film “Confederate States of America” which can be found on Netflix or YouTube.  I also provided the link.  This film is a fake documentary that mixes fact with fiction to creatively suggest what U.S. history and the current U.S. political economy might look like if the confederacy won the Civil War and slavery was still legal. Let me reiterate that this is […]

In Chapter 9 of our course text, you studied the phases of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Use the steps of the SDLC to describe the process of accomplishing a task that is of interest to you. Your task can be any task and does not have to be related to an IT system. Examples might be to take a trip; buy a house, […]

 Watch the video “Forecasting a Stock Price” below. Then, using your browser, download the most recent 52-week closing stock price data from Yahoo! Finance (Links to an external site.) (in CSV/Excel format) from a company using your name to generate the list of alternatives. Using only the DATE and CLOSE columns of data, construct a 3-week moving average column and a weighted 3-week moving average column. […]

1. International Joint Venture Anheuser-Busch (which is now part of AB InBev due to a merger), the producer of Budweiser and other beers, has engaged in a joint venture with Kirin Brewery, the largest brewery in Japan. The joint venture enabled Anheuser-Busch to have its beer distributed through Kirin’s distribution channels in Japan. In addition, it could utilize Kirin’s facilities to produce beer that would be […]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Amazon’s.com most recent Annual Report 20XX (Links to an external site.) from the Securities & Exchange Commission. Wall Street employs an army of stock analysts who analyze companies, issue earnings guidance and provide “Buy” and “Sell” recommendations on those companies. Go to nasdaq.com (Links to an external site.), and locate the latest Analyst’s Research for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). In a minimum post […]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please download and read the report Implementing Activity-Based Costing (Links to an external site.) published by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). IMA argues that although activity-based costing (ABC) is not a panacea, it is essential for a company to implement a management accounting system such as ABC for all its stakeholders—its employees, its community, its loyal customers, and its shareholders—to understand […]