Reference no: EM131175561
Assignment 1, Activity-based Costing (ABC) in Service Industries
Research a U.S. company in the service industry with e-commerce activities.
Write a five to six page paper in which you:
1. Describe the company you researched in one to two paragraphs.
2. Discuss how a time driven ABC cost system can be implemented in the company you researched and the benefits that the use will yield to the business performance.
3. Assess how using an ABC system can provide a competitive advantage to the company in the market space it operates and the resulting impact to the business performance.
4. Examine the potential impact of time-driven ABC costing on services provided online with those provided through traditional channels, considering how this knowledge will impact decisions made by management about these services.
Assignment 2, Johnson Controls Capital Investments
Visit the Website of Johnson Controls Inc., located at https://www.johnsoncontrols.com, and review its 2012 financial forecasts. According to the forecasts, Johnson Controls will increase Capital Investment to approximately $1.7 billion. More than 70% of the company's capital expenditures in 2012 are associated with growth and margin expansion opportunities.
Write a five to six page paper in which you:
1. Suggest a methodology to supplement the traditional methods for evaluating the Capital Investment of Johnson Controls in the emerging markets reduce risk providing a rationale of how risk will be reduced.
2. Assess the potential impact of inflation on planned capital investments in China and examine approaches for an accurate evaluation of the investments. Suggest how this knowledge may impact management's decisions.
3. Contrast the modifications you would make in evaluating the projects to increase internal capacity in North America to evaluating expansion projects in the global market and how this information will impact the decisions made related to expansion.
4. Examine the benefits of using sensitivity analysis in evaluating the projects for Johnson Controls and how this approach can provide a competitive advantage for the company.
|
Determine the equation of the tangent line to the curve
: Determine the equation of the tangent line to the curve at the x-intercept found in (b) and determine the x-intercept of this tangent line.
|
|
Identify profitability ratio that creditor may be interested
: Identify three profitability ratios that creditors may be interested in. Calculate the ratio for each company, and prepare a report to summarize your findings on the financial health of each company.
|
|
Find the rate at which the pressure is changing
: For a particular gas it is known that when the pressure is 10,000 psi, its volume is 4 cubic inches. If the volume is increasing at 8 cubic inches per second, find the rate at which the pressure is changing when the pressure is 20,000 psi.
|
|
Find the approximate cost of producing the 30th toaster-oven
: If the total cost of producing x toaster-ovens is given by the formula C1x2 = 40 + 12x + 0.2x2 find the approximate cost of producing the 30th toaster-oven.
|
|
Explore how a time driven abc cost system can be implemented
: Discuss how a time driven ABC cost system can be implemented in the company you researched and the benefits that the use will yield to the business performance.
|
|
Develop the project schedule
: Use Microsoft Project 2013 to develop the project schedule. Note that Ms Ellin Jannali has also asked you to include the following in your schedule: The project title as the overall project summary (as task 0 and WBS number 0). All other tasks sho..
|
|
Prepare a flexible budget for april
: determined the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for April: -Prepare a report showing the spending variances for April.- Prepare a flexible budget for April.
|
|
What monthly interest rate r is the bank charging
: An $8,000 car loan is paid off with $250 monthly payments over three years, what monthly interest rate r is the bank charging? It can be shown that this problem translates into the equation
|
|
Differences between wired and wireless communications
: Describe your perspective on communication technology such as wireless communication, the Internet, and smart phone technology. Provide at least three examples of communication technology you use in your daily life. Examine the underlying scientifi..
|