customer satisfaction
As Starbucks’ business expands, it continually faces issues on how to keep customer satisfaction high and maintain and attract business. How has innovation and change specifically contributed to the success of the company? As the company grows larger, what types of changes are being made to the structure, technology, and people in the organization?
human relations
Explain why the study of human relations is important to motivating employees.
Core Inc.
Core Inc. borrowed a loan of $4,500,000 at 10% for 25 years term with 3% prepayment penalty five years ago. Recently, a new loan is available at contract rate of 8.5% for 20 years with 4% origination fees. Should Core Inc. refinance now if the discount rate is 6.5%?
Future of Life Institute.
Elon-Musk donated $10 million to a foundation called the Future of Life Institute. The institute published an open letter from an impressive array of AI experts who call for careful research into how humanity can reap the benefits of AI “while avoiding its pitfalls.” Go online and find out about the institute’s initiatives.
1. What are its primary goals?
2. How can humans establish and maintain careful oversight of the work carried out by robots?
3. How valid are Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking’s concerns?
4. What ETHICAL concerns should the public bear in mind as the technological revolution advances?
Sources: Future of Life Institute. http://futureoflife.org
Flotation Costs
Discussion: Flotation Costs thinking about the definition of the term “flotation costs,” should we expect the flotation costs for debt to be significantly lower than those for equity? Why or why not? Please support your answer using supporting information from the chapters in this unit and the course. In response to your peers, do you agree with the positions taken by your classmates? Can you provide counterpoints or insight as to why they may want to reconsider their view of expected flotation costs?
Carion Corporation
The capital structure for the Carion Corporation is provided here. The company plans to maintain its debt structure in the future. If the firm has a 5.5 percent after-tax cost of debt, a 13.5 percent cost of preferred stock, and an 18 percent cost of common stock, what is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital?
Beta
Think back to our discussion of a firm’s Beta:
a. Give an example of an industry which would have a high beta? Intuitively, why would that be the case?
b. If a firm has a levered beta which is twice that of its unlevered beta, what would this imply? Would it be cause for concern?
income statements
PLEASE write the highlighted sections clearly in your work
● Provide income statements in both variable costing and absorption costing formats for
an initial period and its successive period in a case where all manufactured products
within the two periods are sold by the end of the second period, but the number of units
sold in the first period is less than the number of units manufactured in this period.
● What is the interesting observation in comparing the two types of income statements?
● Explain your example in detail and provide in-text citations.
● Please explain your work in detail and provide in-text citations.
● Include the initial situation and the initial assumptions in your answer.
business plan
Describe one type of systematic risk and one type of unsystematic risk and then explain how a business would create a plan to address the risk.
