Analysis of Direct Costs

In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario from Assignment 1, as well as to the scenarios and readings from previous weeks. Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: Predict the main costs (e.g. labor cost, material cost) associated with the production of VectorCal’s drone navigation system. Provide a rationale for your response. Compare and contrast the direct and indirect costs associated with the drone navigation system that both your company and VectorCal would assume. Predict whether or not your company could easily control these costs and thus reduce production expenses. Justify your response.

Briefly describe the company and its major products or services

Select a company in an industry that interests you. Using online resources, gather both quantitative and qualitative information concerning the company, the industry, the industry structure, the government regulatory environment, and risks. Write a 6-8 page paper in which you do the following: 1. Briefly describe the company and its major products or services. 2. Analyze the principal forces acting upon the supply and demand the company is experiencing, using any financial information you feel is relevant. 3. Discuss the market structure of the company as well as the company’s application of marketing tools such as pricing practices, non-price competition, market structure, barriers to entry, etc. within the firm’s structure. 4. Discuss risks that the company faces, including whether each risk is internal, such as supply constraints or design delays, or external, such as economic, environmental, or

BUS 315WEEK 2

Week 2 Discussion 1 "Initial Bid" Please respond to the following: Suggest the most significant manner in which the cost of the solicitation process adds to the bottom-line in the initial bid for a government contract. Justify your response. Determine the steps in the sealed bidding process. Next, create an argument for or against the sealed bidding process as a method of lowering the government’s potential expense for a good or service. Justify your response with one example.

Buy American Requirements

In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario from Assignment 1, as well as to the scenarios and readings from previous weeks. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: Specify the main points of the Buy American Requirements in one page or less. Determine the substantive means by which the Buy American Requirements would benefit both VectorCal and your new company. Provide a rationale for your response.

Compensation and Benefits

What impact do benefit offerings have on marketplace competitiveness and the ability to attract and keep quality employees? Do you think pay is the primary motivating factor for most job applicants and existing employees?

Executive Bonuses and Incentives and Compensation Administration

"Executive Bonuses and Incentives and Compensation Administration" Please respond to the following: From Exercise 3, take into consideration all the facts presented to make a recommendation about short-term (bonuses) and long-term (stock incentive plans) executive incentives. Assess how this ties to business strategy. From Exercise 4, recommend an approach to responding to the email requests received as the new wage and salary administrator.

Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types

The Department of Defense plans to issue a $400,000 government contract to a company that specializes in drone navigation technologies. As a result, a government auditor has been contacted to examine the operational data VectorCal and one competitor (previously identified as “your company”) in order to decide which company should win the government contract. Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: Create a one-page overview of the history and background of each company vying for the government contract.

Foundations of Marketing Ethics and Pricing

People feel better when they think they are getting a great bargain when they shop. Knowing this, some retailer’s markup items above the traditional retail price and then offer a 60 percent discount. If they had simply discounted the normal retail price by 20 percent, the resulting “sale price” would have been the same. One retailer says that he is just making shoppers happy that they got a great deal when he inflates the retail price before discounting. Significantly marking up prices in order to offer “deep discounts” is not an unethical pricing practice per se, but it may be considered misleading advertising. The retailer is not really reducing its profits as a result of offering the sale price, even though a 60 percent discount implies a financial sacrifice on the part of the retailer for the benefit of the customer.

HIS 206

If you choose to write a paper, it must be four to five pages in length, plus a title page and reference list, formatted according to APA style. •If you choose to create a PowerPoint project, it must be 12 to 15 slides, plus a title slide and a reference slide, formatted according to APA style. ?Please note that whether you choose to write a paper or create a PowerPoint presentation, you must properly cite your sources according to APA style. To complete this project •Choose from one of the topics below and analyze its history from 1877 to the present. •Select four specific events or developments that span the years covered by this course, based on their impact on the topic. Two of the events must be from before 1945 and two events must be from after 1945. You must assess how the events in relationship to the topic changed over time and explain how the changes occurred. Please refer back to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor’s comments and make any necessary revisions.

PSY 300 Abnormal Psychology and Therapy Paper

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you discuss abnormal psychology and therapy. Address each one of the following items: • Compare and contrast normal and abnormal psychology. • Examine at least two mental disorders and two mental illnesses from the perspective of psychology. • Identify therapies used for each school of thought in psychology for treating mental disorders. Use a minimum of three sources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.