BSHS 342 Week 1 DQ 2 Considering the three phases of prenatal development, describe the major milestones of each phase. Discuss one example of an environmental agent that can affect prenatal development in each phase.

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BUS 475 Week 3 Individual Strategic Plan Part II SWOTT Analysis Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis for your proposed business. Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should take into account, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table. · External forces and trends considerations: o Legal and regulatory o

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Assignment 5: Business Plan – Final Due Week 10 and worth 150 points This assignment consists of two (2) sections: your final business plan and your business plan financials. Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. You have completed all of the necessary sections of your business plan and will now create a final draft. Use any / all feedback you have received to polish your plan to the point that you could confidently show it to investors and potential partners or customers. Refer to the Outline of a Business Plan, beginning on p. 399 of the course text. (Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.) Not all businesses will include all of these components in this order, but use the outline as a guide. Specifically your plan will not require the Development, Milestones, and Exit Plan section of the business plan. Section 1: Business Plan (MS Word or equivalent) Construct a ten to thirty (10-30) page business plan. Note: Twenty (20) pages are sufficient for most businesses. 1. Write a one to three (1–3) page executive summary for your business plan, in which you justify: • A clear and concise business concept. • A thoroughly planned business concept. • A capable management structure. • A clear-cut market need. • Significant competitive advantages for your business. • Realistic financial projections. • That investors have an excellent chance to make money. • A realistic and developed exit plan. Note: Read Chapters 4 and 18 of the course text: Successful Business Plan . Use the plan preparation worksheets on pp. 58–61 and the sample executive summaries on pp. 62–66 to help guide you, choose to write either a synopsis summary or a narrative summary, and include highlights from the each section of your business plan. 2. Combine all of the sections stated below and revise your initial business plan draft, which you submitted in Week 8, based on feedback you have received. • Executive Summary • Company Description (Assignment 1) • Industry Analysis and Trends ( Assignment 1 ) • Target Market ( Assignment 2 ) • Competition ( Assignment 2 ) • Strategic Position & Risk Assessment ( Assignment 1 ) • Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy ( Assignment 2 ) • Operations Plan ( Assignment 3 Part 1 ) • Technology Plan ( Assignment 3 Part 1 ) • Management & Organization ( Assignment 3 Part 1 ) • Ethics & Social Responsibility ( Assignment 3 Part 2) • The Financials ( Week 7 Discussion ) 3. The Financials and the Management description—must spark enough interest to convince a reader to continue. Enhance the two (2) mentioned sections to appropriately engage the reader. • Hints: The financial section of your business plan will be derived from the previously completed financial worksheets. 4. Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: • Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise. • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. Section 2: Business Plan Financials (MS Excel worksheets bundled with course textbook) For year one, submit a revised Income Statement, Cash Flow Projection, and Balance Sheet from the “Business Plan Financials” Excel template based on your feedback from Project Deliverable 4: Business Plan – Draft . The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: • Describe strategic planning techniques used to formulate alternative strategies designed to achieve stated business goals. • Create a plan to implement a firm’s strategy and manage the change from current operations. • Analyze strategies for exerting the internal leadership needed to drive the implementation of strategic initiatives and improve operating excellence. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic management. • Write clearly and concisely about strategic management using proper writing mechanics.

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Select an organizational change in your company or one you know. Develop a 1,100-word analysis designing the action plan for you, as a leader, to address the organizational change. Include the following, in any sequence you choose: Identify the organizational change process steps you would take and prioritize the order in which you would take them.  Include both individual and organizational leadership actions. Scholarly citations must be given to support your rationale and proposed actions.

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BUS 599 Week 10 Assignment and Discussion

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Please select a publicly traded company, and e-mail it to your professor for prior approval. Then, complete the following: 1.Obtain the 10K report of the company for the immediate past year. 2.Describe the different sections of the report. 3.Explain the key items covered in the financial section of the report. 4.What are the total assets of the company? 5.What are the current assets of the company? 6.Provide a segmental breakdown of the markets. 7.What is the sales volume from each market? 8.What is the sales trend for each market for the last 2 years? 9.What is the net operating profit for the past year? 10.What is the cost of goods sold in the past year? What is the earnings per share for the past year?

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Think about products you were enticed to purchase using social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Vine, YouTube, etc.)

• Tell us your favorite product that you purchased using social media and what positioning statement the company used.
• Make sure you include the information from the fill-in-the-blank positioning statement.
• Also, state your opinion on how well social media clearly portrayed the positioning statement.

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Week 7 Discussion: The Financials  Attachment

Due Week 7 and worth 80 points

Important Notes

• This exercise is considered an academic writing exercise. Quality of response, grammar, and punctuation are considered in your overall grade.
• This exercise does not require the use of APA format or a cover page.
• This exercise uses the “Business Plan Financials” MS Excel template. Use the “Business Plan Financials Guide” to assist you in completing the required worksheets. (Both documents are also available in the Course Required Files in Week 1.)
• It is recommended that students construct their deliverable(s) using MS Word / MS Excel and then attach the document(s) to the discussion thread submission area in Blackboard.

Use the “NAB Company Portfolio” (see: Course Required Files in Week 1) for reference. Provide the following information below.

1. For year one of your NAB company’s Business Plan, complete the Income Statement, Cash Flow Projections, and Balance Sheet sections from the “Business Plan Financials” MS Excel template (see: Course Required Files in Week 1). Note: Attach the MS Excel worksheet to the discussion thread.

• Hints: Your marketing costs should already be included as you created your Marketing Budget in Week 4 and those will be filled in automatically.
• Hints: Use the figures you arrived at in the operations and technology sections of your plan to help fill out your financial forms.
• Hints: Work through the worksheets in order. The excel worksheets will automatically enter the numbers into your Income Statement.

2. Develop the following financial sections of your NAB company’s Business Plan. Note: Attach the MS Word document to the discussion thread.

• Sources and use of funds
• Plan assumptions
• Break-even analysis

3. Provide constructive feedback to at least one (1) classmate’s post.

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• This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a draft of your business plan and an income statement containing your business plan financials (i.e. Week 7 Discussion “The Financials”). Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment.
• You must intend to raise money for your startup company. You can start with money from friends and family but at some point you will need funds from outside investors, either angels or venture capitalists, depending on how much money you project you will need to raise. Another possible angle is to develop money through crowdfunding, assuming your product meets the demand of such audiences.
• Before you can raise money, you must develop a business plan that convinces an investor that your company will succeed.

Section 1: Business Plan (MS Word or equivalent)

• Read Chapters 18 and 19 of the course text: Successful Business Plan. Use the Plan Preparation Forms at the end of each chapter of Successful Business Plan as a rough guide.
• Write an approximately fifteen to twenty (15-20) page draft of your business plan in which you:

1. Revise the components of the following previously submitted sections based on the feedback you have received.

• Company Description (Assignment 1)
• Industry Analysis and Trends (Assignment 1)
• Strategic Position & Risk Assessment (Assignment 1)
• Target Market (Assignment 2)
• Competition (Assignment 2)
• Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy (Assignment 2)

2. Create an Ethics & Social Responsibility Plan.

Note: The Ethics & Social Responsibility plan should account for approximately three to five (3-5) pages of the Business Plan Draft.

• Describe the ways in which your company is committed to being a good corporate citizen.
• Hints: Consider the following areas:

• Creating jobs
• Following the laws of every jurisdiction in which your company operates
• Fair and honest treatment of employees
• Non-discrimination of employees and increasing diversity of your work force
• Hints: If your company is designed as a social venture—in which you have a primary purpose of achieving a social or environmental goal—describe what that goal is and what aspects of your company are designed to reach that goal. Provide a rationale for why you have or why you have not chosen this to be a social venture.
• Discuss how your company’s activities will affect the environment and identify the steps you will take to mitigate any negative impacts.
• Hints: As a beverage company, consider such issues as your choice of packaging, disposal of bottles / packages by consumers, and your use of resources, such as water in areas where water may be scarce.
• Determine any health issues / claims related to the product you are making, whether negative or positive. Suggest the strategy your company will use to mitigate any negative issues, and to ensure any positive claims are true.
• Many beverage products have negative health impacts on certain segments of a population (e.g., children, pregnant mothers, etc.). Suggest your company’s plan, through advertising, distribution, and / or other methods, to target and reach only appropriate market segments.

3. Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

• Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

Section 2: Business Plan Financials (MS Excel worksheets template)

4. For year one, revise and submit the Income Statement, Cash Flow Projections, and Balance Sheet sections from the “Business Plan Financials” MS Excel template (see: Course Required Files in Week 1).

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe strategic planning techniques used to formulate alternative strategies designed to achieve stated business goals.
• Create a plan to implement a firm’s strategy and manage the change from current operations.
• Analyze strategies for exerting the internal leadership needed to drive the implementation of strategic initiatives and improve operating excellence.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic management.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic management using proper writing mechanics.

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Question 1

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) A(n) _____ is a framework of how a business intends to generate revenue.

business model

strategic management tool

profitability analysis

competitive advantage

entrepreneurial mindset

Question 2

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) Which of the following statements is true regarding business mindset?

It involves seeing the business from the outside in.

It is incompatible with corporate responsibility.

It involves appreciating the challenges a company faces in satisfying customer needs.

It involves acknowledging that businesses always benefit society.

It involves ignoring one’s customer experiences.

Question 3

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) _____ audit the financial reports of public companies as required by law.

Internal accountants

External auditors

Credit managers

Management accountants

Forensic accountants

Question 4

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) When the number of competitors in a market is quite small, a situation known as _____ is created.

monopoly

monopsony

oligopoly

monopolistic competition

pure competition

Question 5

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) _____ unemployment is the natural movement of workers into and out of jobs, such as when a person quits one job without first lining up a new job.

Structural

Intrinsic

Frictional

Cyclical

Seasonal

Question 6

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) ________ taxes, levied on the earnings of individuals and businesses, are the government’s largest single source of revenue.

Income

Property

Sales

Excise

Payroll

Question 7

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) _____ is the process of influencing and motivating people to work willingly and effectively toward common goals.

Organizing

Leading

Planning

Directing

Controlling

Question 8

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) The overall plan might be supported at the next level down by such plans as a research and development plan, a manufacturing plan, and a marketing plan. Such functional plans are called _____ plans.

appraisal

strategic

contingency

tactical

corporate

Question 9

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 1) _____ leaders act as advisors and supporters and generally let subordinates chart and adjust their own course toward meeting agreed-upon goals and objectives.

Participative

Consultative

Autocratic

Transactional

Laissez-faire

Question 10

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 2) An embargo is a _____.

quantity restriction on the import of particular goods or services

surcharge imposed on the import of certain products

subsidy offered to products exported from a country

complete ban on the import or export of certain products

form of financial assistance extended to domestic producers

Question 11

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 2) The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was formed by the United States, Canada, and _____.

Costa Rica

Jamaica

Cuba

Mexico

Honduras

Question 12

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 2) _____ refers to buying goods or services from a supplier in another country.

Franchising

Importing

Licensing

Partnering

Intermediating

Question 13

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 2) The use of unpublicized information that an individual gains from the course of his or her job to benefit from fluctuations in the stock market is called _____.

a code of ethics

whistle-blowing

insider trading

utilitarianism

strategic CSR

Question 14

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 2) Which of the following statements is true regarding whistle-blowing?

Whistle-blowing is the normal channel through which employees can address issues involving unethical or illegal behavior within their companies.

Whistle-blowing refers to the use of unpublicized information that an individual gains from the course of his or her job to benefit from fluctuations in the stock market.

Whistle-blowing occurs when employees share confidential company information with external agents for personal gain.

The federal and state laws governing whistle-blowing are simple and clear, so that they can be easily used by employees and employers to navigate through.

Although whistle-blowing is sometimes characterized as “ratting on” colleagues or managers, it has an essential function.

Question 15

5 / 5 pts

(TCO 2) The manager of a golf course awards a landscaping contract to his brother-in-law’s company, even though another company was willing to do the same work for less money. This is an example of a(n) _____.

defensive CSR

code of ethics

conflict of interest

strategic CSR

ethical dilemma

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