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Example 16-1 Pricing to Multiple Segments Right click and download the Pricing to Multiple Segments dataPreview the document to your hard drive. A contract manufacturer has identified two customer segments for its production capacity—one willing to place an order more than one week in advance and the other willing to pay a higher price as long as it can provide less than one week’s notice for production. The customers that are unwilling to commit in advance are less price sensitive and have a demand curve d1 = 5,000 – 20*p1. Customers willing to commit in advance are more price sensitive and have a demand curve of d2 = 5,000 – 40*p2. Production cost is c = $10 per unit. If total production capacity is limited to 4,000 units, what should the contract manufacturer charge each segment? What happens to prices and profitability when the sensitivity for customers that are willing to wait (i.e., segment 2) increases from 40p1 to 80p1? What did you see/learn from this exercise? Note: Use the “Solver” capability under the ”Tools” menu (but you must set sensitivity in cell C6 to desired level before you run “Solver”). Right click and download the Dynamic Pricing Data to your hard drive. What happens to the quantity purchased and profitability if the price sensitivity increases to from 1.8 p3 to 1.9 p3 in the third period? What did you learn from this exercise? *Note on using the “Solver” Add-In:The Solver Add-in is an Excel add-in program that is available when you install Microsoft Office or Excel. To use it in Excel, however, you need to load it first. Instructions for doing so were included within the module. This is something that you will have to find from your own computer. Since most students own and operate a variety of different computers with different software versions, it’s literally impossible for me to write cogent instructions for everyone. Instead, I have the generic outline for MS Office 2018 PC version. Mac maybe different and you can look at YouTube videos to get going.

Answer following question(3-5 sentences each ) 1.How can Costco form a sustainable competitive advantage for the future of the retail industry? 2.How does Costco increase value to consumers by seeking opportunities in the external environment? 3.Would you recommend Costco add gas stations to the warehouses that do not currently have them? If so why? 4.What would you consider to be one of Costco’s biggest opportunities in the E-Commerce realm? : 5.Does Costco’s average store size (145,000) square feet have a negative or positive affect on whether or not they are able to expand internationally? How so? 6.What are some ways Costco could increase their online sales (3% in the last year)? 7.Is Costco targeting the right consumers by focusing only on affluent neighborhoods or should they remarket themselves to the lower class consumers as well? Why? 8.Seeing that Costco is competing in the same market with Sam’s Club and BJ’s, what is their dynamic capability or unique factor that separates them from those other companies?

In the global environment, it is important to be able to research and apply understanding of various cultures and diversity considerations to be able to make viable business decisions. In this Assignment you will address the following General Education Literacies and Professional Competency: GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English. GEL-6.06: Apply research to create original insights and/or solve real-world problems. PC-4.3: Apply concepts of multiculturalism and diversity to become an agent for change. Assignment: The Foreign Business Environment You are the owner of a small business that imports clothing from Brazil to the U.S. Ashley, one of your partners in your business, has approached you with an interesting possibility. A fellow venture capitalist friend revealed to her that he and his partners were acquiring a large family-owned group of businesses in the South American country of Colombia. Most of these family-owned businesses are diversified manufacturing businesses in the capital of Bogota, but there is one clothing manufacturer in the acquisition that does not fit within their venture business plan and thus they would like to divest (sell) this particular operation. Ashley’s friend knows that you have a presence in neighboring Brazil and thought that this business in Colombia might offer you an additional expansion opportunity in the region. However, you have no knowledge of doing business in this nation. Your job in this Assignment is to conduct some basic research into the country of Colombia (a neighboring country to Brazil) and examine the most important historical events (political, economic, and technological) that might impact the country of Colombia’s business climate for the future of this investment by your company. After researching the historical events in Colombia, write your analysis in an informative essay addressing all the checklist items and decide on a recommended course of action and your justification for such an approach. Be sure to reference any sources used in your work using APA formatting (see “Academic Writer” located in the Academic Tools area of the course). Research: 1. Begin by doing some research in the Library located in the Academic Tools area of the course using the EBSCO database. www.ebsco.com 2. Next, search the C.I.A.’s World Factbook resource and search for information on Colombia South America :: Colombia — The World Factbook – Central … – Cia https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html 3. Then go to the Michigan State University: globalEDGE© website: http://globaledge.msu.edu/Countries/Colombia 4. Review the Corruptions Perception Index for Colombia on the site above. You may also use information from other sources that are from governmental or educational sites as well. Do not use Wikipedia! Checklist: A. What events (political, economic, and technological) are the most important in recent years that might have impacted the business culture in Colombia? B. Do you feel that the Colombian economy today is sufficiently robust to support the growth of the clothing manufacturing industry and your company’s entry into the country? Why? C. Demonstrate that you have used at least one Library source to inform your responses by including 1–2 short direct quotes in APA format. Industry: Mainly small-time operations, Colombia’s manufacturers generally produce goods for domestic consumption. Cotton spinning mills are the largest-scale manufacturers. Other manufactured items include food and beverages, apparel, chemicals, and cement. Petroleum and coal are the main mineral products of Colombia. The country produces enough petroleum to provide for all of its own energy needs, while still having significant amounts to export. Other minerals mined for export include gold, emeralds, nickel, and natural gas. However, due to the country’s heavy dependence on energy and mining exports, the Colombian economy is vulnerable to fluctuations in commodity prices. https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.libauth.purdueglobal.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=92664943-18ef-4494-96b8-1a30239681cd%40pdc-v-sessmgr03&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=88391057&db=ers D. Write your original informative essay in Standard English. Please be sure to include an introduction, body (addressing all the checklist items), and conclusion. • Pay special attention to correct grammar, style, and mechanics. • Respond to the checklist items in a complete manner. • Ensure that your viewpoint and purpose are clearly stated. • Demonstrate logical and appropriate transitions from one idea to another. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused. Include a title and reference page in APA format (see “Academic Writer” in Academic Tools) citing any sources you either directly quoted or paraphrased. Draft your response addressing these checklist items in a minimum of 500 words or more in APA format and citation style in an informative essay. Reference Michigan State University (1994-2017). GlobalEDGE: Your source for global business knowledge. Retrieved from http://globaledge.msu.edu/

After reading the 11th chapter of the text and doing some research on the internet regarding how a company makes capital decisions, you should be able to relate the process of raising capital and financing a corporation to project evaluation and decisions.

Every manager wants tools which can be employed to maximize the chances of efficiently spending your capital are critical to all organizations. Sensitivity analysis and what-if scenarios help us understand the different outcomes of our decisions and be prepared for many eventualities. We need to quantify risk so we can understand what returns are required from our investors. Let’s Discuss: Cost of capital and Risk Evaluation You should be able to explain and support your reactions to the following questions:

•How do we define and measure risks in financial projects? •What are examples of uses for sensitivity analysis and what-if scenarios? Any examples from your work experience or research? •How do we define fixed and variable costs? •Give examples of the different types of costs in various applications from your experience or research.

Description Prepare a document that summarizes your preliminary evaluation of the how and why Wearable Wishes can compete with the threat Zara poses to its U.S. market base. In doing so, list and explain how three other topics we have discussed in this course (i.e., ethics, risk management, revenue recognition, transfer pricing, segment reporting, differential analysis, the balanced scorecard, product costing, activity-based costing, customer profitability analysis, target costing, value chain analysis, cash flow analysis and/or budgeting) apply to the case firm. Use specific details from the case to support your answer.