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Starbucks company analyzing: Part A Board of Directors Profile and Analysis: This section includes a wealth of information regarding the role that the Board of Directors plays in your organization. (40 points) 1 You should discuss the manner in which the Board of Directors is nominated and selected, the way in which the Board is organized and why, and the way in which the Board utilizes or matches the trends in corporate governance that are listed in the text. 2 You should evaluate and identify the strengths and weakness of the Board of Director’s composition with respect to their affiliation (who they really work for and that company’s relationship to your corporation), diversity, experience in the industry and the company, insiders/outsiders, etc. 3. Also, evaluate the changes in members to the Board in the last five years. If there have been changes, do those changes (new board members with different attributes and affiliations) suggest a change in your corporation’s strategy, target markets, etc.? Are these changes in any way indicative of a new strategic move? Part B 1. Overall Competitive Position: Briefly evaluate the state of your corporation’s competitive position within its industry. (40 points) Part C Recommendations (40 points) 1. Make two (2) recommendations for increasing your corporation’s shareholder wealth in the future. This includes ensuring long term survival as well as meeting and exceeding your shareholders expectations for the generation of their wealth in the short term and the long term. 2. Your two (2) recommendations should be well supported by information contained in your written analysis and your supporting information should be specifically identified in this section to justify your recommendations. 3. Your two (2) recommendations should be accompanied by your expectations for your corporation and its industry if your recommendations were adopted. Your expectations should include the impact to the industry structure, the likely response of competitors, and both positive and negative consequence should be identified.

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The Everglades Marine Company has the followng inventory balances at the beginning of January: Raw Materials Inventory $71,568 Work-in-Process Inventory $109,788 Finished Goods Inventory $92,757 During January Everglades incurred $106,806 in overhead costs and direct labor cost of $193,200. Materials costing $51,891 were entered into production, and materials costing $65,541 were purchased. At the end of the month, the following inventory balances remained: Raw Materials Inventory $85,218 Work-in-Process Inventory $17,640 Finished Goods Inventory $10,017 What was Everglade Marine’s Cost of Goods Sold for January?

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Assignment 1: Vice President of Operations, Part 1 Due Week 3 and worth 200 points Scenario: Imagine that you are the vice president of operations at a production or service organization. You have noticed that your organization’s current operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the organization is presently facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you must address these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer immediately. Select an existing production organization. Analyze the organization’s current vision, mission, business strategy, operation strategy, supply chain, total quality management, just-in-time philosophy, forecasting method, statistical technique, facility location, work design, project life cycle, and project management. Note: You will need this information in order to complete this and subsequent assignments. As you collect the information for Assignment 1 and Assignment 2, remember that in Assignment 3 you must prepare a presentation for your Chief Executive Officer. Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you: Evaluate key elements of the selected production or service organization’s operational efficiency with its operational strategy. Determine three (3) tasks that do not align with the operational strategy. Determine the weaknesses that are evident in each task. Formulate a new operations strategy for the selected organization based on the four (4) competitive priorities (i.e., cost, quality, time, and flexibility). Analyze both the structure of the competitive priorities and infrastructure of the production process. Develop three (3) new enablers that are aligned with the long-term plan of the selected organization. Evaluate three (3) pros and three (3) cons of the new enablers. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and 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 assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Analyze the differences between service and manufacturing operations management to identify planning considerations. Formulate an operations strategy to conduct production or service operations. Explain how an operations strategy impacts product design and process selection. Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management. Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.

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Assess the financial position of the Netflix 2011 financial statement in comparison to Redbox their competitor. The emphasis is on cash flow for this analysis. 1. Compute the return on assets, profit margin and asset utilization rate of both companies. 2. Assess Netflix’s competitive financial position. 3. Compute the free cash flow of both companies. 4. Assess Netflix’s relative cash position and comment on its receipt and use of cash during the year. Please also provide links to all sources of financial information.

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In 2006, a small business was created in the financial sector. The main purpose of the business was to provide customers with a close to real-time analysis of their stock portfolios. After months of doing business, several IT Administrators began to notice subtle changes in the corporate network. Shortly after that, the CEO began calling high-level meetings, especially with marketing and finance, to determine why the company’s profits for the last five months (July to December) began to take a downward spiral. This was occurring when industry-wide profit margins were easily expected to be higher and on the rise. The CEO could not understand why his company’s profits were instead decreasing, and hoped to get some insight from the meeting he had called. At this point, the CEO focused on finding the part of his business process that was failing and correcting any issues. During his meeting with Finance and Marketing, the only information presented to the CEO was that all operations and processes remained unchanged for the past year and (from charts shown below) that the number of new customers registering through their customer portal had dropped drastically for the last five months. Around the same time these meetings were occurring, one network administrator at the company noticed anomalous traffic on port 80 of the Web Server on the DMZ. The edge router’s logs showed that the traffic started six months ago and ended five months later. Additionally, he noticed five months ago that traffic from the Web servers to the internal application servers decreased each day, although the inbound requests on port 80 remained about the same. Finally, he noticed, that for the last four months, his Web server logs contained many httpss “Post” statements. followed by the Website address of one the company’s main competitors. All of the post statements seemed to appear in the logs after new users would click “submit” to register. As a result, the network administrator escalated the issue. Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you: Determine your next steps chronologically in investigating this issue. Describe the parties you would involve and the extent of their involvement. Explain your hypothesis of what has occurred. Analyze the software tools you would use for your investigation. Explain and justify the timelines and sequences of your actions. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

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Earnings announcements by companies are closely followed by, and frequently result in, share price revisions. Two issues should come to mind. First, earnings announcements concern past periods, If the market values stocks based on expectations of the future, why are numbers summarizing past performance relevant? Second, these announcements concern accounting earnings. Going to chapter 2 in the Ross text, such earnings may have little to do with cash flow – so, again, why are they relevant?

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Classify the following events as mostly systematic or mostly unsystematic and tell us why. Is the distinction clear in each case? a) Short term interest rates increase unexpectedly b) The interest rate a company pays on its short term debt borrowing is increased by its bank. c) Oil prices unexpectedly decline d) An oil tanker ruptures, creating a large oil spill e) A manufacturer loses a multimillion dollar product liability suit f) A Supreme Court decision substantially broadens producer liability for injuries suffered by product users.

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Pearce Manufacturing Inc. incurred the following costs in February: Direct Labor $40,000 Indirect Labor $15,000 Administrative Salaries $8,000 Raw materials purchased $10,000 Indirect materials used $4,000 Advertising Costs $1,000 Factory Rent $4,000 Factory Depreciation $2,000 Administrative Rent $3,000 Administrative Depreciation $1,000 In addtion,the following information is also available Beginning / Ending Raw Materials $2,000 / $4,000 Work-in-process $25,000 / $18,000 Finished Goods $4,000 / $12,000 Number of units produced 10,000 units Number of units sold (sales price of $25 per unit) 9,000 units A) Calculate total period costs. B) Calculate raw material used. C) Calculate cost of goods manufactured.