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Write a paper to the below standards – which is also attached in rubric form – on T-Mobile US (TMUS). This milestone establishes your chosen organization’s direction within the marketplace. This is important because it drives the subsequent activities, milestones, and the final project. Without a strong sense of the organization’s purpose within the marketplace, knowledge of consumer trends, and how to meet target market needs at the appropriate price, management is less likely to maximize the efficiency of business activities and more likely to miss fully meeting the needs of its chosen target market. This milestone establishes how the organization will differentiate itself from its competition through branding with a unique product or service offering designed to meet specific consumer needs or desires that are shaped by their demographics, personality, or buying style. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Section Two: Branding and Idea Context Write a short paper that addresses the following: Corporate mission and how the new product or service aligns with it Defining features of the product(s)/service(s) o How the product will be marketed internally and externally o How the company is differentiating from competition o Alignment of pricing with market position and corporate mission Your substantiated opinion of brand effectiveness Section Three: Defining Product or Service Need For your idea, continue your paper by addressing the following: Behavioral and/or lifestyle demographics of the targeted consumer or buying style of organizational buyer and why they are a good choice What unsatisfied need the product/service fulfills How the customer/buyer seeks information to fill the need How the product is purchased (characterize the buying situation) Why your chosen target market is the best choice Section Six: Pricing Using the idea that you have chosen, finish your paper by covering the following: Explain the fixed and variable costs and how these fit with the company’s short- and long-term goals. Use a narrative with a table to show calculations for cost categories. Provide reasonable estimates for each of the categories. Specific or in-depth financial analysis is not n 8/24/2019 Writers Hub – Freelance Writing https://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/461629#instructions 4/5 Examine competitors’ pricing and explain reasoning for differences. Estimate how much you think the target market is willing to pay for your product/service. Is this due to preferences for social responsibility, ethical behavior, or other intangibles? What pricing strategy (skimming, penetration, economy, or premium) is most appropriate and w

Role of Automatic Stabilizers

Which of the following would be automatic stabilizers? Employment-insurance payments. Cost-of-living escalators in government contracts and pensions. Free university tuition for unemployed workers after six months of unemployment, provided that they are under 30 years old and have had five or more years of full-time work experience since high school. Is there a stigma attached to automatic stabilizers and are they what are sometimes referred to, often derogatorily, as “entitlements”? As a student of macroeconomics do you see anything good in the automatic stabilizers? Why or why not?

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Question 1 “Corporate Governance”

Please respond to the following: From the e-Activity, analyze the role that corporate governance played in enabling, preventing, or detecting the fraud. Make a recommendation as to how the role of corporate governance could have been improved to prevent or detect the fraud sooner. Support your recommendation with examples and provide a rationale. You are an external auditor reviewing the corporate governance at XYZ Company. Analyze the corporate governance functions and propose a plan of what function(s) you would target for your audit. Support your plan with examples.

Question 2 “Board of Directors and Audit Committees” Please respond to the following: XYZ Company’s CEO has asked you to serve on its board of directors. XYZ has had some past problems with fraud issues and the CEO is looking to you to help restore credibility.

Analyze the functions of the board of directors and propose a plan to the CEO as to how you would operate as a board member. Support your plan with examples. You have been appointed to the audit committee at XYZ Company. In this role, you are considered the financial expert. The external auditors have approached you regarding the potential of a negative audit report for the financial statements. Develop a plan and process for how you would work with management and the external auditors to resolve the issues the auditors may have regarding the financial statements in order that the company could achieve an unqualified opinion. Support your plan with examples and provide a rationale for your plan.

1. Aggregate Supply curve shows the relationship between the price level and the real GDP supplied in an economy. A: Under what circumstances will the AS curve have a flat segment? B: When an economy has a vertical AS curve? C: The AS curve is upward sloping in the intermediate region between the horizontal and the vertical segments. What kind of macroeconomic conditions give rise to the upward sloping range? 2. Write a one-page essay on the role of automatic stabilizers. In your essay include comments on the following points: A: What are automatic fiscal stabilizers? How do these stabilizers stabilize real GDP in the face of AD and AS shocks? B: What is the role of the simple multiplier [ 1/{1 – MPC(1 – t) – m}] in stabilization of the swings in real GDP? C: How the slope of the AD curve affects the stability of real GDP in the presence of AS shocks? D: How the automatic stabilizers depend on the sizes of MPC, t, and m.