Management

Annual Report

Annual Report

You are the CFO of an up-and-coming athletic company, which desires to someday become the #1 athletic company in the world. Strategically, the company uses Nike and Under Armour as their key competitor benchmarks. Your CEO is a big believer in learning from the competition and is requesting two things from you regarding Nike and Under Armour’s most recent annual reports: An Executive Summary Presentation of your findings.

NOTE: In order to complete this assignment, you will need to obtain each company’s MOST RECENT annual report.

Submission Requirements:

Executive Summary

Create an executive summary you would feel comfortable turning in to your CEO that is no more than 2 pages, single-spaced using 12-point Times New Roman font. You may also include an appendix with additional references, graphs, charts, and tables for additional support if needed.

1. Competitor Strategies
• Identify and explain one key strategy from each company that the company explicitly discussed in the annual report.

2. Net Income Margins

  • What are the after-tax net income margins (aka, net profit margin) for both companies?
  • How do they compare?
  • Who achieves the higher net income margin? Why? Tip: Analyze the major cost structure line item in the income statement (COGS, SG&A, interest, other, and taxes) as a percentage of net sales to identify reasons for better net income margins. Identify and comment on the differences. You may not know why a particular cost item like COGS is higher or lower, but your CEO only wants to know which cost structure items are higher or lower for each company.

3. Inventory Management

Who has more inventory in terms of days of inventory last year? (Inventory Days on Hand ratio)

What are their respective 3-year trends for days of inventory?

What accounting approach does each of the companies use to value their inventory? (The accounting approach can be found in the Notes section)Instructions

4. Cash is King
How much net cash from operations did each company generate last year?

Which company has done a better job generating cash from operations?
In laymen’s terms, how is each company spending their cash with respect to reinvestments in the business, changes in debt, and returning money to shareholders?

5. Liquidity

How do the companies compare in terms of the current ratio, and what are their respective 3-year trends?

Does their current ratio indicate that either of these companies could go bankrupt soon? Explain.

Use each company’s MOST RECENT annual report as a reference.

Note: You will need to retrieve, use and cite the most recent annual reports for Nike and Under Armour, per the instructions. But nothing additional to what is noted in the instructions above.

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Innovation and Change

Innovation and Change

Assignment 6

Innovation and Change

1) Why is it innovation important?

Do organizations merely look to “change for the sake of change,” or is innovation more of a strategic decision?

(In reflecting on the above question, you might want to consider the

concepts (from chapter 6) of “competitive advantage” (pg.114) and

“competitive inertia” (pg.116) and how they relate to the

discussion of innovation and change).

2) Different methods of managing innovation (experiential and incremental).

Can someone who describes him/herself as “not being very creative” be a successful contributor to the organizational innovation process? One possible way of looking at this question might be to consider:

a) The discussion of multi functional teams: one of the five dominant

aspects of the experiential approach to innovation, (p.147), and

b) The compression approach: innovation during incremental

change. (pp.147-149).

3) What is the role of Leadership/Management in this process?

Williams, C. (2014). MGMT 11 (11th ed.). Cengage Publishing.

ISBN: 978-1-337-40747-2.Accompanying Website: www.cengage.co.

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Powerpoint- Branding Analysis – 10 slides and 150 words of notes on each slide.

Powerpoint- Branding Analysis – 10 slides and 150 words of notes on each slide.

no plagiarize, spell check, and check your grammar. Please use the references below

A nonprofit organization may use a variety of methods to differentiate its products and services. This is commonly referred to as branding and the process is essential to the successful marketing of a nonprofit organization. Without a positive image, the organization will face difficulties in selling their story to potential donors.

You will present this analysis as if you were a consultant hired by the board of directors of the nonprofit organization. Your presentation will be a 10 slide PowerPoint. Keep in mind your PowerPoint should be presented in presentation format, so you will need to include presentation notes and you have to add speaker notes, each slide should have 150 words of notes that are written in academic language and formatted in APA style.

For this assignment, you will analyze the branding strategies a nonprofit uses. I picked an organization call Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation

You will analyze the following:

References

https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/about

https://www.facebook.com/ccfafb/

https://rarediseases.org/organizations/crohns-and-colitis-foundation-of-america/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx6FU405bG0_5MOEEZTjKbQ

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CCMH/581: Supervision/management In Clinical Mental Health Counseling Wk 4 – Personalizing a Supervision Model

CCMH/581: Supervision/management In Clinical Mental Health Counseling Wk 4 – Personalizing a Supervision Model

Assignment Content

  1. It is important for counselors and clinical supervisors to develop their own model for counseling and supervision. This assignment will help you develop or become aware of your own personal philosophy/theoretical orientation of supervision.
    Choose a supervision model you feel you would utilize as a supervisor.
    Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing how you would tailor this model to meet the supervisory needs of the supervisor and supervisee.
    Include the following:

    • Discuss your beliefs and values that influenced your choice of this model.
    • Describe the underlying tenets of the theory.
    • Explain the major strengths of the model.
    • Explain the major limitations of the model.
    • Describe why this model is a good fit for you.
    • Describe how you would personalize this model to meet the needs of the supervisor and supervisee.

    Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

My model of choice is the Discrimination Model which falls under the Integrated Model.

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“Starbucks Employee Benefits”

“Starbucks Employee Benefits”

Discussion Questions and Assignment 3

assignment is based on assignment 1  attached

Discussion 1 (300 words)

“Starbucks Employee Benefits”

Watch the following video Starbucks to give workers full ride to college

If you had been advising Starbucks, would you have recommended that it introduce the tuition reimbursement plan or instead use the same budget to raise hourly workers’ wages? Why

Discussion 2 (300 words)

 

“Pay Scales”

Imagine that you manage human resources for a small business. You have recently prepared a report on the market rate of pay for salespeople, and the company’s owner says the market rate is too high. The company cannot afford this level of pay, and furthermore, paying that much would cause salespeople to earn more than most of the company’s managers. Why is this a problem? Should managers automatically be at the top of the pay scale? Suggest three possible measures the company might take to help resolve this conflict.

 

Assignment 3: Benefits Brochure (600 words)

To prepare for the employee who will be occupying the role, create an employee benefits brochure/booklet that you would present to new employees during their initial orientation.

Include in this brochure/booklet mandatory and discretionary benefits that are used in your industry.

The brochure should be 6-8 pages with a professional appearance and should be modeled after a professional booklet from your company, a former company, or a company you would like to work for.

Hint: Research various Microsoft brochure templates to create a professional booklet.

NOTE: One of the positions the benefits brochure should be the most applicative to is the job in your description from Week 3. Find creative ways to incorporate your work from that assignment into this one.

Assignment 3 Tips:

Evaluation: Assignment 3: Performance Management

Scenario: To prepare for the employee who will be occupying the role, create an employee benefits brochure that you would present to new employees during their initial orientation. Include in this brochure mandatory and discretionary benefits that are used in your industry.

The brochure should be 6–8 pages (sides /panels) with a professional appearance and should be modeled after a professional booklet from your company, a former company, or a company you would like to work for.

Hint: Research various Microsoft brochure templates to create a professional booklet.

NOTE: One of the positions the benefits brochure should be the most applicative to is the job in your description from Week 3. Find creative ways to incorporate your work from that assignment into this one.

Tips: A few things to note here, please use a Microsoft brochure template – you need to do this. Explore MS templates from the main MS Word screen and do a search for ‘brochures’, most of the templates shown will be 6 page/panel (this will be one double sided fold-out page with three panels of information per side, basically, a tri-fold benefits brochure) – just like any brochure you might pick up somewhere. It will be one standard sheet of paper, but folded into three panels per side (a total of six panels, front and back) . Also, you need to do this assignment with a company you are familiar with, and you need to incorporate information from Ch. 14, and base the job you will offer benefits for – with this brochure, on the job you described in Assignment #1.

Also, below is suggested outline for the brochure, you do not need to follow this outline but you certainly can if you wish.

Side / Panel 1: Cover page: use a graphic for the company and also add the words, “Benefits Brochure”;

Side / Panel 2: Brief description of the company, and description of the job opportunity and how benefits is an extension of overall compensation, (Hint: p.p. 409-411);

Side / Panel 3: Statement on how the company complies with all federal and state mandated benefits including (HINT: Table 4.1, p. 411 – give examples of some of these benefits);

Side / Panel 4: Optional Benefits – list and also describe the type, how much and for how long these benefits can be used. For example, Retirement Plan as a 401K Plan with employer match as 3% of paid salary – or something like that. List and describe at least three optional benefits, as per our textbook discussion on p.p. 417-427;

Side / Panel 5: Family Friendly benefits, please list and describe at least two family friendly benefits as discussed on p.p. 427-428; and list any other benefits offered;

Side / Panel 6: (back page): Contact information for employees with questions.

Remember this is supposed to be a tri-fold brochure detailing benefits – per the assignment instructions, one sheet of paper, three panel son each side for a total of six panels, tri-fold.

PLEASE NOTE: after you have finished your brochure using and MS Word template, please save your brochure – you will need to upload it as a n MS word or .pdf document.

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