Signature Assignment: Short-Term Funding

About Your Signature Assignment

This signature assignment is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their degree. The signature assignments may be graded with an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and used for program improvements.  

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to allow the student an opportunity to apply their understanding of cash flow management, break-even analysis, and short-term and long-term financing in starting and growing a business. 

Assignment Steps 

Resources: OECD Database, Corporate Finance

Prepare a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes requesting initial funding of $500,000 to start and run a start-up company. The proposed start-up company could be an existing business model (coffee shop, pet store, etc.) or could be something entirely new and exciting. 

Create the presentation in the following format, with at least one slide to cover each of the following areas: 

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Information about the Industry
• Marketing Plan
• Competitor Analysis
• 3 Year Income Statement (Profit & Loss) Projections
• Include your assumptions for why and how you will achieve your sales growth and what significant expenses and investments you expect to incur to achieve your revenue goals.
• 3 Year Proposed Funding Schedule (Sources and uses of the funds received.)
• Break-Even Analysis
• Academic and Business References 

Review the following scenarios and assumption, and explain how it impacts your decision to expand:

• After Year 3, the investors are interested in your company expanding internationally to possibly outsource labor or to reduce manufacturing costs. What countries would you expand to first, and why? What factors would you need to consider in making this decision?
• What is the corporate tax rate in the countries you are considering expanding your business to, and how will that affect your decision to expand globally? (Use OECD Database or another resource to determine the corporate tax rate).
• The investors want to see a decision tree detailing the decisions you would make if you received $300K now and $200K at the end of three years instead of $500K up front.
• The investors would like your team to provide advantages and disadvantages of using debt financing versus selling company stock to raise capital for growth.
• Briefly explain the venture capital process. Does it make sense for your company to raise funds through venture capital? 

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Introduction And Broad Strokes Of The Expansion Plan

For this first milestone, you will provide an overview of the company you have selected and a brief analysis of both the domestic and the prospective foreign market you are proposing the company expand to, and you will analyze the microeconomic and macroeconomic factors and exchange rate factors that must be considered as the company seeks its expansion. 

The company is walmart. foreign market: south africa. 

BUS 475 Week 4 Individual Assignment Strategic Plan, Part III Balanced Scorecard

Students will have the opportunity to develop a Balanced Scorecard. This, in turn, will allow them to create effective strategic objectives to be included as part of their overall strategic plan. They will also be presented with the task of creating a brief communication plan that will be used by their proposed division to efficiently distribute information with regard to their strategic initiatives. 

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Strategic Planning Outline and Week 4 textbook readings 

Create a minimum 1,050-word strategic objectives summary. 

Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOTT analysis. 

Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:

• Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Market share
  • Revenues and costs
  • Profitability
  • Competitive position
• Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Customer retention or turnover
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Customer value
• Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Measure of process performance
  • Productivity or productivity improvement
  • Operations metrics
  • Impact of change on the organization
• Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Employee satisfaction
  • Employee turnover or retention
  • Level of organizational capability
  • Nature of organizational culture or climate
  • Technological innovation

Evaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOTT Analysis assignment and table you completed in Week 3.

Create at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas. Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions including the following:

• Identify potential risks and mitigation plans.
• Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Incorporate ethical implications.

Develop a specific metric and target for each strategic objective using a balanced scorecard format. 

Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, "The percentage of increase in market share." The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of "Increase market share" could be "Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years" of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.

Outline a brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company's strategic objectives including the following:

• Define the purpose.
• Define the audience.
• Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

Constitutional And Admin Law

Research, review, and analyze Anti-Miscegenation Statutes in the United States and chose two (2) relevant cases. Then, write a 4-5 page paper in which you:

1. Analyze and evaluate each case independently by providing the following (about two paragraphs per case):

• Facts of the case
• Issues
• Rule

1. Compare and contrast both cases in regards to the Anti-Miscegenation Statutes.
2. Analyze how this statute could have influenced Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and the Fourteenth Amendment.
3. Explain the significance of this statute to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM).

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; 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 page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Apply and rule on moral and ethical analysis to issues relevant to the public administration decision-making process.
• Interpret the language of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. legal system in order to explain the principles and process of constitutional, regulatory, and administrative laws at the federal and state levels.
• Use the “case” approach to the U.S. legal system for researching cases, laws, and other legal communications using technology and information resources.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in constitution and administrative law.
• Write clearly and concisely about issues in constitution and administrative law using proper writing mechanics.

Emergency Management Powerpoint

Complete the following assignment in APA format using the below listed instructions.

You are an emergency manager of a village and a new mayor was elected who does not want to spend time on interagency emergency planning. Create a PowerPoint Presentation convincing the new mayor of the benefits of interagency emergency planning, why it is important, and how the community will benefit from interagency emergency planning. You are expected to make a convincing argument to persuade the mayor of the need for interagency emergency management. Additionally, you are expected to not only utilize the material presented in Unit VIII, but also information from throughout the course. Your PowerPoint Presentation should be at least 12 slides in length (not including a title and reference slide) and each slide should use the notes section. APA citations and references are a requirement for this assignment. You must utilize at least two reliable sources (one can be your textbook).

Growing Cities

Based on the lecture and Webtext materials, address the following:

• Examine the main reasons why people are attracted to urban areas in the developing world, and select the key issues that make this rural to urban migration such a difficult problem for governments to deal with.

 Available from: http://www.webtexts.com. 

PAD 525: Admin and Constitutional Law

"Freedom of Speech." Please respond to the following: 

• Review Texas v. Johnson. Assuming you want to sustain the conviction, make the best argument you can for how that can be reconciled with the First Amendment. Of the opinions that would have sustained the conviction, which do you find most persuasive and why?
• Evaluating Van Orden v. Perry, as a public administrator, in the rule of law, explain to what extent your beliefs should affect your reactions to the various justices’ opinions.

PAD 525: Admin and Constitutional Law

"Freedom of Information." Please respond to the following:

• As a public administrator over a particular entity, describe when public officials should be allowed to conduct their activities in secret. Provide an example.
• Evaluating New York Times v. United States, provide an example in which it may be warranted to violate the morality of the freedom of information by publicizing a secret identity to prove a point. Explain how this example warrants the morality violation.

Unit 6 Essay EMS Legal

Unit VI Essay

Prevention of accidents and illnesses are just one aspect of quality review. There is also a need to identify systems or processes that need to be adjusted to improve task performance or outcomes. Quality review is critical for identifying areas that need to be improved. In order for the benefits of quality review to be realized, some information must be collected for this purpose. Personnel are often fearful of retribution if they report near misses or incidents that they believe others will not notice. It is important to demonstrate how the organization should approach quality review to account for these areas. For this assignment, you will write an essay that outlines the process of using case review as a teaching opportunity or as the stimulus for risk assessment. Your paper should include a clear introduction of your topic. Case review may be related to clinical care or the review of an operational issue that can help identify problem processes or system improvement needs. Your paper should be a minimum of three pages, not including the title and reference pages. You must use a minimum of three sources, one of which may be your textbook. These may include peer-reviewed articles, professional organization websites, and government websites/documents. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style. 

Government Security

Original response with to each question answer with at least 200 words for each question and two scholars references for each questions. MUST answer completely. 

1.) What is your assessment of the "truth" about the definition of homeland security? In other words, what do you believe homeland security really is? Do you believe homeland security does, or should, focus exclusively on the threat of terrorism, or should it be genuinely "all-hazards," including other man-made or natural disasters? What sense do you have thus far regarding how Pres. Trump would approach the issue of defining homeland security?

2.) On September 11, 2017, we observed the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. If you were old enough to be aware and have some understanding, please share and describe your own personal experience and reflections of the 9/11 attacks: For example, you might describe your age at the time, where you were or what you were doing when you first heard of the attacks, your reaction or understanding of it then, and how that event has—or hasn’t—personally affected you since then. Or, perhaps your parents, older siblings, or other people close to you were affected in some profound way. Some of you may already have been adults, working in law enforcement, the military or some other career.

Unit 6 Project EMS Risk Reduction.

Unit VI Project 

Complete a cost vs. benefit analysis report for your risk reduction program. The report should justify why the additional expenses (time, money, and other resources) are reasonable in regards to the public's willingness to incur the expenses in order to avoid the costs of the current risk. Draft at least three paragraphs. 

 The first paragraph describes the costs.  The second paragraph describes the benefits.  The third paragraph includes your concluding statements based on the costs and benefits.