International Marketing (Project plan-Entry plan for an SME)

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External Audit - Verification of Inventories

Many companies employ outside service companies that specialize in counting, pricing, extending, and footing inventories. These service companies usually furnish a certificate attesting to the value of the physical inventory. Required: Assuming that the service company took the client company’s inventory on the balance sheet date: a. How much reliance, if any, can the auditors place on the inventory certificate of outside specialists? b. What effect, if any, would the inventory certificate of outside specialists have upon the type of report the auditors would render? Discuss. c. What reference...

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project manager for a large hospitality firm

You are a project manager for a large hospitality firm (e.g., Marriott International) who will be in charge of the firm’s HQ office relocation. You have been asked to speak to the HR staff about the move and many of them have very little understanding of project management. Also, they are fearful that this project will end up being a failure since other projects have failed at the firm. Explain to them the key elements of project management and its relationship to human resources management (HRM). Be sure that your explanation curtails their fears of project management.

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Week 4 Disscusion 1

A successful trainer needs to effectively engage various types of trainees and adapt quickly in the learning environment to meet their needs. Chapter 8 of the Blanchard and Thacker (2013) text lists and offers tips on dealing with different participant personalities. Review the three scenarios below. Discuss how you would effectively engage and manage each group of participants in a 2-day training seminar. Apply two to three specific adult learning principles and/or techniques to each of the scenarios listed below.

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cla2

In a 4 – 6 page paper based on your internship course experience and the learning objectives achieved during the course, review your internship experience successes and challenges leading to growth. You should demonstrate in your paper a description of your professional portfolio and include any evidence of accomplishment and skill development or recognition that you have acquired this session and how it will contribute to your portfolio. Provide at least two (2) peer-reviewed sources. If you have completed this CLA2 assignment in an internship course prior to this class, select new examples a...

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7 journal

Read the following articles about building and leading effective teams: Building and Leading High Performance Teams Building Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, but It's Just as Hard (Note: This article can only be accessed a limited number of times.) Managing groups and teams is an essential element of the leading facet of the P-O-L-C framework. As you read these articles, reflect on your experience working in groups and teams, and then address the following prompts: Think about a positive experience when you worked in a group or team and identify the principles that were presented in th...

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Discussion Questions/Problem Set 2

Are there any reasons for using present value analysis rather than future value analysis? If yes, provide those reasons (10 points)  Why might a decision maker like to see the payback analysis as well as the ROR and the NPV? (5 points)  [The assignment should be at least 400 words minimum and in APA format (including Times New Roman with font size 12 and double spaced), and attached as a WORD file.]

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75-100 discussion question

This week you have learned about the planning and organizing management functions and the importance they have in decision making. To demonstrate how planning, organizing, and decision making are applied in the workplace, this week’s discussion will involve researching an article using one of the following sources:

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Setting Goals

As you prepare for the meeting, you consider all of the possible environmental issues. You recognize that Elena brings an interesting perspective to the process because she has experience designing mobile phones for the Eastern European market, and she is pushing for a new product that can be marketed worldwide. On the other hand, Michelle is more concerned with the domestic marketplace and is worried that trying to market a new product anywhere outside the United States—much less worldwide—could be very risky.

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PowerPoint Presentation

This course has a Final Project which is in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.You can choose a topic from this semester or something you come up with yourself, but your presentation must be about economics and be original (ie not just material verbatim that you have pulled from your text/readings or off the internet). Of course, you can still insert charts, graphs, videos, graphics, and excerpts from outside sources (as long as you cite those sources!) I want to see your commentary and analysis, in your own words.IMPORTANT: Copying the work of others and representing it as your own (ex. co...