Business Studies

Business Studies may be defined as a combination of inter-related business subjects which lead to learning of basic knowledge and skills. It is a course in education that is designed to cover the basic elementary knowledge and skills in organizing business enterprises as well as general office administration.

Describe a real-world government policy that creates a market surplus.

Describe a real-world government policy that creates a market surplus.

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1. Describe a real-world government policy that creates a market surplus. Be sure to carefully define the relevant market and the stakeholders that are involved in the market. Explain the efficiency implications of the policy you have picked. Make sure to relate your answer to the producer, consumer, and total surplus in the market. In the instance you have described, what is the government’s motivation for intervening in the market in this way? Will a deadweight loss exist in your example, please explain your analysis?

2. One of the major problems in applying the Coarse Theorem in practice is the existence of high transaction costs. Propose an approach that a third party could use that would reduce these costs sufficiently so that bargaining could proceed. How likely is the solution to be efficient, and why? Do you think government intervention in the market will allow for markets to allocate resources, efficiently or not?

3. Suppose you are using a risk-benefit analysis to evaluate a policy aimed at limiting the use of a pesticide applied to a specific crop of your choice. Describe the risks and benefits that would have to be estimated to conduct this analysis properly. Please make sure to research your specific crop, in your risk-benefit analysis. In your answer, make sure to fully describe each of the stakeholders that are involved in this market and the implications of the pesticide.

4. For this week, we are going to focus on the application of what you have learned and apply it to the news around us. Find a relevant article that has to deal with the first four weeks of the course. Present your article to your peers, then summarize the article in one paragraph, the next paragraph, present two economic terms that you have referenced from the article, then apply the terms to whether you agree or disagree with the recommendations of the author’s position.

5. Review the air quality topics and identify the following in your work: a.) What is the pollutant that is being identified? b.) What type of program would you recommend to address the area? c.) How can we measure the effectiveness of this program? d.) What happens if the market was left alone to bring about market solutions?

https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/popular…

6. You have been recently hired as a consultant, working as part of an EPA team, you now have an assignment. As an alternative to standards, one policy proposal is the use of permit trading among point sources of water pollution. Give the major reason why this is advantageous (a) from an economic perspective and (b) from an environmental perspective. In your research, make sure to select a specific industry and provide why permit trading would be good for society.

7. Visit the Website of Environmental Defense Fund, and review the list of their recent corporate partnerships. Select one, and summarize the cooperative efforts between Environmental Defense and a private firm. Identify some of the potential environmental and economic benefits associated with that partnership.

https://www.edf.org/partnerships

8. In no more than 250 words, please (1) describe how you feel this course has helped you to improve your economic knowledge and analytical skills, and (2) assess the course objectives you still do not understand and suggest how to improve the course to meet those objectives, and 3) did the course content and instructor’s facilitation of this course meet your expectations.

Requirements: 250 words

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BUS 499: Week 10 Discussion

BUS 499: Week 10 Discussion

Please respond to the following:

  • Discuss whether the term “corporate entrepreneurship” an oxymoron? Can corporations—especially large ones—be innovative? Support your answer with examples.
  • Use the Internet to find an example of two corporate innovations—one brought about through autonomous strategic behavior and one developed through induced strategic behavior. Which innovation seems to hold the most promise for commercial success and why?

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ post.

The classmates post is attached

initial  post 200words

response 100 words

send in different word documents

Requirements: 300 words

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BUSS 499: CAPSTONE PowerPoint Presentation

BUSS 499: CAPSTONE PowerPoint Presentation

Capstone

Overview

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for assignments in Weeks 3, 6, and 8.

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

You will do a 15-minute presentation to the Board of Directors of the corporation. Use the Capstone Template [PPTX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Develop an 8–12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes based upon assignments in Weeks 3, 6, and 8, and the following:

  • Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 8–12 slides with speaker notes and appropriate graphics.
  • Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
  • Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
  • Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
  • Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
  • Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.
  • Go to the Strayer University Online Library and locate at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
  • References must be submitted on a Works Cited page using SWS format.

Requirements: 10 to 12 Slides

Which company had you used in “assignments in Weeks 3, 6, and 8.”

This is the culmination of the previous 3 Business Writing assignment you helped me with. Attached are the 3 assignment for your reference.

For this assignment please use more than 4 refences. If you use the minimum 3 points are taken away.

The template is attached with the original question

 

The professor has provided a powerpoint on how to earn full credit. If you need the login credentials for the course textbook let me know. Here is the power point on how to earn full credit.

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Business Question

Business Question

Assignment Content

  1. Using your analysis of the strategic plan from the Wk 2- Strategic Plan Research assignment, complete the following:
    Analyze in 350 to 525 words the:

    • Purpose of the strategic plan
    • Key objectives:
    • Market development and how your ideas fit
    • Process improvement
    • Development of people
    • Product/service – How do you deliver? Is there a way to improve quality over time to differentiate?
    • Key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure performance over time

    Recommend initiatives to support your objectives to improve the strategic plan.
    Identify ways to adapt to the changing business environment.
    Submit your assignment.RubricWeek#4 – Rubric1. Purpose of the strategic plan (13%) 2. Key objectives – Explanation of core values, ethics, and social responsibility principles (12%)3. Market development and how your ideas fit – Marketing Plan & target? Market strategy, implementation, and monitoring –(what part of your SWOT analysis (from week#2, will your market plan target?) (20%)1. Process improvement-Work Flow / Training/Production/Scale-up (20%) Process improvement-Work Flow / Training/Production/Scale-up Product/service – How do you deliver? Is there a way to improve quality over time to differentiate? (10%) 7. Development of people-HR/Labor Needs/Skills/Policies (10%)5. Strategic objective AND Metrics for measuring the success of strategic plan(10%)8. Mechanics & grammar(3%)9. Information literacy(2%)-referencesTOTAL 25 points

Requirements: meet requirements

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Tax Shelters

Tax Shelters

In two to three pages, supported by evidence from your text and from other research (at least one resource is required), answer the following questions:

The paper

  • Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Requirements: Two to Three pages

Here is the case

You are a tax manager and work for CPA firm that that performs audits, advisory services, and tax planning for wealthy clients in a large Midwestern city. You just joined the tax department after five years as a tax auditor for the county government. During the first six months in tax, you found out that the firm is aggressively promoting tax shelter products to top management officials of audit clients. Basically the company developed a product and then looked for someone in management to sell it to, rather than the more conventional method whereby an officer might approach the firm asking it to identify ways to shelter income.

The way these products work is the firm would offer an opinion letter to the taxpayer to provide cover in case the IRS questioned the reasonableness of the transaction. The opinion would say that the firm “reasonably relied on a Page 263person who is qualified to know,” and that would support the contention that the opinion was not motivated out of any intention to play the audit lottery. It also would protect the taxpayer against penalties in the event the firm is not correct and does not prevail in a tax case.

As time goes on, it becomes clear that the culture of the tax department is shifting from client service to maximization of tax revenues. It is the most lucrative type of service for all big firms and the competition in the industry is fierce in this area of practice. You become concerned, however, when you discover the firm did not register the tax shelter products, as required under the law.

One day you are approached by the tax partner you report to and asked to participate in one of the tax shelter transactions, with the end result being you would recommend to the tax partner whether he should sign off before presenting the product to the client. You feel uncomfortable with the request based on what you have learned about these products. You make an excuse about needing to complete three engagements that are winding down, and buy some time.

The first thing you do is look for completed tax shelter arrangements with clients that had been reviewed and approved by the tax quality control engagement partner. What you find makes you more suspicious about the products. Several are marked “restricted” on the cover page without any further details. You then call a friend who is a manager in the audit department and set up a time to meet and discuss your concerns.

What you learn only heightens your concerns. Your friend confided there is a culture in the tax department where business rationality sometimes displaces professional norms, a process accelerated by a conformist culture. Your friend also confided that the audit managers and partners are jealous of their tax peers because the tax managers and partners earn almost twice what the auditors earn because of the higher level of client revenues. It was clear your friend harbors ill feelings about the whole situation.

The following week the tax partner comes back and presents you with another tax shelter opportunity for the firm and all but demands that you oversee it. He implies in a roundabout way that your participation is a rite of passage to partnership in the firm. You manage to stall and put off the final decision a few days.

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