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Would you seek to acquire a company within the European Union or outside of it? Why? Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the choice you made. Describe the advantages and disadvantages inherent in the option you did not choose.

Would you seek to acquire a company within the European Union or outside of it? Why?

The most popular way for international expansion is for a local firm to acquire foreign companies. One of the most benefits for international expansion is global distribution capability that helps expanding the market share.

There are different implications of running a company that is within or outside of the European Union. If you were the head of a firm based in the United States, please answer the following questions, providing the rationale behind your answers:

FIRSTLY, Would you seek to acquire a company within the European Union or outside of it? Why?

SECONDLY, Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the choice you made.

THIRDLY, Describe the advantages and disadvantages inherent in the option you did not choose.

FOURTHLY, Explain why an MNC may invest funds in a financial market outside its own country.

FURTHER, Explain why some financial institutions prefer to provide credit in financial markets outside their own country.

LASTLY, Please submit your assignment.

Grading Rubric:

Percentage
Firstly, Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer’s message and intent are clear
35%
Scholarly research which supports writer’s position properly acknowledged and cited direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluded title page, abstract or table of contents if used, tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference page(s). Finally, Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences.
20%
Critical thinking: position is well justified; logical flow; examples
20%
Structure: includes introduction and conclusion; proper paragraph format and reads as a polished, also academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable
10%
Mechanical – no spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors
10%
APA – Finally, deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th Ed.)
5%

What role does business-level strategy play in relation to business growth market capitalization? Also, What roles do a firm’s core competencies play in a decision to diversify into new businesses?

What role does business-level strategy play in relation to business

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Respond to all of the following questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the readings:

What role does business-level strategy play in relation to business growth market capitalization?
What roles do a firm’s core competencies play in a decision to diversify into new businesses?
Finally, Why does unrelated diversification have a worse performance record than related diversification?
The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

Your posting should be the equivalent of 1 to 2 single-spaced pages (500–1000 words) in length.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Lastly, Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of the week.

More details;

This is a paper that is focusing on the Issues in operating a security defense system of an organization . The paper also discusses the production of a brief operations review in the assignment paper.

Issues in operating a security defense system of an organization

Complete all parts in one document, providing each part with a heading indicating the part number and content area.
Part 1: Produce a Brief Operations Review (3 points)
Provide a review of the most-crucial issues in operating a security defense system of an organization with at least 300 employees by drawing on all of your reading plus at least two other quality sources on the Internet or the NCU Library. Length 2 to 3.5 pages.

Part 2: Report on Your Organization’s Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan (7 points)

Your CEO has asked for a brief report of your organization’s plans for disaster recovery and your readiness to deal with outages and other issues. (If you are not employed or your organization’s recovery plans are classified, you may create a fictitious scenario for this assignment.) Interview the appropriate people in your organization and compose a brief email for your CEO including the following information:

Summarize your organization’s disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans (if they exist).
Assess your organization’s ability to respond in case of an emergency, data loss, data theft, natural disaster, or other event.
Recommend improvements to your organization’s potential to response to such threats. Provide examples where appropriate to illustrate your ideas.
Structure your response as an email and not an essay. Keep your audience and purpose in mind. Do not mention any irrelevant conceptual information that a
C-level person would not care about. Keep it brief and to the point, but still informative and in keeping with best practices of information security safeguarding.
Be sure to still include an APA-formatted coversheet and reference page.

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal works, may be included. Length, 3 to 4 pages.

This paper focuses on Advanced Cost Accounting as it Relates to Social Services. Create a PowerPoint presentation (approximately 12 minutes, 10–12 slides) showing how a topic covered in the course (below) is connected to a Department of Social Services Finance/HR Department workplace.

Advanced Cost Accounting as it Relates to Social Services

Create a PowerPoint presentation (approximately 12 minutes, 10–12 slides) showing how a topic covered in the course (below) is connected to a Department of Social Services Finance/HR Department workplace. You should incorporate actual samples from the job site and a narrative explanation of each slide using the presentation notes feature. All materials must be properly cited and quoted in current APA style. All sources must be less than 3 years old.

Topics for consideration include:
1. Process Costing
a. Equivalent Units of Production
2. Job-Order Costing
3. Activity-Based Costing
4. Balanced Scorecard
5. Cost Volume Profit Analysis
a. Break even analysis
6. A comparison of process costing and job-order costing and how costs flow through the system
7. Predetermined Overhead Rate used in the various costing systems
a. Over allocation and Under allocation
8. Planning and Budgeting
9. Pricing

Journals that contain scholarly research articles:
1. Accounting: Organizations and Society
2. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory
3. Contemporary Accounting Research
4. Journal of Accounting and Economics
5. Journal of accounting research
6. Review of Accounting Studies
7. The Accounting Review

You will participate in a business simulation exercise (“Business Game”) based on the European Car Industry.  The purpose of the exercise is to give you the opportunity to use the learning from the four functional areas (marketing, finance, human resources and operations management) to simulate the setting up and running of a business which is competing for market share.

Participate in a business simulation exercise (“Business Game”)

You will participate in a business simulation exercise (“Business Game”) based on the European Car Industry.  The purpose of the exercise is to give you the opportunity to use the learning from the four functional areas (marketing, finance, human resources and operations management) to simulate the setting up and running of a business which is competing for market share.

In Week 5, you will attend an introductory lecture which will explain the objectives of the simulation and the process for making decisions.  In the seminars, which begin in Week 6, you will be divided into teams of 5-6 students.  Each team has to set up a car manufacturing company, design two cars and sell these to the market.  The teams within each seminar group will compete with one another for market share.  The objective for each team is to maximise the shareholder value of their company at the end of four decision rounds – Week 11.

Information on the market together with cost data will be posted on Bb in Week 5.  Each team should read this information carefully and use it to establish a business strategy.  In Weeks 7 to11 the teams will make a set of decisions each week to be submitted online.  The results, in the form of computer-generated reports, will be available online later in the week.

The Business Game seminars in Weeks 7-10 will take the form of shareholder meetings.  Each team will make a short presentation reviewing the performance of their company in the previous round and identifying key areas where the performance and management of the business can be improved.

In order to complete the assessment detailed below, it is essential that each student keeps a detailed record of the team meetings, the decisions made, the rationale for these decisions and their own role as a member of the team.  Non-attendance at seminars will be penalise.

Each team will submit a group report on the Round 1 decisions with the following sections:

Firstly, Peer assessment form with the names and signatures of all team members (see final page of this brief).  [10%]

Secondly, The team’s business plan for Round 1 (word limit 1,500 words) as follows: [60%]

Mission statement – what is the purpose of your company?
Business Objectives – measurable targets for the end of Round 4 (e.g. market share)
Chosen market segments with brief descriptions of target customers and your marketing strategy
Your competitive strategy – why will people buy your cars rather than those from other companies?
The rationale underlying the choices of designs, options and R&D
Additionally, The rationale for the prices charged for each car
Finally, The rationale for production/HRM decisions such as investment in automation

3.     An appendix containing minutes of the team meetings that took place up to the submission of the Round 1 Decision.  These should show attendance, topics discussed, an outline of the team discussion of each topic, the decisions made (and how they were made) and actions agreed.  As a guide, each meeting is likely to require at least one full A4 page. [30%]