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Provide a general project plan to a client.J. Smith & Associates have requested your firm to submit a project summary regarding opening a new division office in Scottsdale, Arizona. This new office will serve as a regional headquarters for Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and California. The office will connect with remote satellite offices throughout the region. This division office will connect with the other division offices as well as the headquarters in Springfield, Missouri.The division office will house over 500 employees that address the various needs of customers and employees throughout the region. The physical office building is three stories tall and the entire enterprise is housed on all three stories occupying the entire building. The building is three years old. The building infrastructure is current and modern including the telecommunications, electrical needs and code. Your firm\’s task will be to move in the necessary furniture and equipment, networking the technology, setting up and equipping the communication services.As part of the overhaul regarding the organizational structure, the executive suite is established in the central portion of the building on the third floor of the divisional office. The third floor will serve as support services for those in the executive suite as well as maintaining communication and connectivity with the other division offices and headquarters. Legal affairs and compliance is also on the third floor. The second floor is dedicated to the regional offices and employee support. The first floor is committed to customer service support.For this assignment choose one of the three following areas: Telecommunications, Technology, Furniture and equipment. You will present this portion of the project to the client. You will need to discuss what tasks are required to meet the needs of the client and the organization.

In this report, you will discuss factors that may affect current and future performance of the chosen company. Based on what you know about the organization’s financial health and performance, you will then forecast future performance of the company for each of the next three years. Prompt: After having evaluated the company’s financial health, you should research and assess the company’s strategic priorities and behavior. You should investigate internal risks and non-monetary factors that may affect current and future performance and decisions. To justify your findings and projections, you will need to produce accurate and relevant data tables, explaining how the numbers were informed by existing information and modeling different scenarios. IV. Success Factors and Risks. Use this section to discuss the factors that may affect current and future performance. Specifically: A. How do the organization’s financial and strategic priorities affect accounting procedures and business decisions? How might that affect business success? For example, is management growth-oriented or efficiency-oriented? What is the organization’s approach to risk and short- versus long-term planning horizons? B. How might the organization better capitalize on non-financial factors such as market share, reputation, human resources, physical facilities, or patents? Support your response with relevant research and analysis. C. What are the most significant internal risks to the company’s financial performance? Give evidence to support your response. For example, is the company vulnerable to technological changes or cyber-attacks? Loss of high-talent personnel? Production disruptions? V. Projections. Based on what you know about the organization’s financial health and performance, forecast its future performance. In particular, you should: A. Project the organization’s likely consolidated financial performance for each of the next three years. Support your analysis with an appendix spreadsheet showing actual results for the most recent year, along with your projections and assumptions. Remember, your supervisor is interested in fresh perspectives, so you should not just replicate existing financial statements, but should add other relevant calculations or disaggregations to help inform decisions. B. Modify your projections for the coming year to show a best- and worst-case scenario, based on the potential success factors and risks you identified. As with your initial projections, support your analysis with an appendix spreadsheet, specifying your assumptions and including relevant calculations and disaggregations beyond those in existing financial reports. C. Discuss how your assumptions, forecasting methodology, and information gaps affect your projections. Why are your projections appropriate? For example, are they consistent with the organization’s mission and priorities? Aggressive but achievable? How would changing your assumptions change your projections? Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your Success Factors, Risk, and Projections report should be approximately 2–4 pages long (excluding title page, spreadsheets and graphs, and references list). It should be double spaced, with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins, and should use the latest guidelines for APA formatting for references and citations. Please also include your name, course name, and submission date on the title page. 

Review this case study –  (attached)Find five examples of the company\’s goals. List them.Determine what internal resources they already have and what resources they will need to have in order to achieve those goals *

Examine your own company (or a previous company you have worked for, or select a company and conduct your own research if you did not work for any companies in the past).  Use the first five chapters of the book to structure your discussion. Based on the questions posed, your paper should be 5-10 pages: 1 1/2 spacing, 11 point, times new roman font, 1 inch margins all all sides.  Please include appropriate references and otherwise use APA format. I also have a sample paper provided 

You have been selected as the consultant to develop a business plan for Durango Manufacturing Company, which is a start-up, medium-sized public manufacturing company. The CEO has a background in manufacturing and is well versed in supply chain management. However, the CEO has limited experience in financial management and creating value for the various stakeholder groups. Your business plan must include a five (5) year strategy to increase revenues by 10% and a recommendation for creating an organizational structure to comply with SOX mandates for strong corporate governance over the internal controls. Your business plan must also include prescriptions for creating an ethical environment. Your recommendation must be approved by the Board of Directors before the company can begin its operations.Based on your knowledge of accounting and financial, prepare a ten to twelve (10-12) page report in which you:

As part of the Strategic Business Plan, you have been asked to:This section should be titled \”The Analysis of H-D\’s External Environment.\”Gather the financial information necessary to do a complete ratio analysis and the Balance Score Card (BSC) key metrics information.If you were going to create a BSC, what would be the key metrics you would measure in each of the four BSC areas:Perform a ratio analysis using H-D\’s five-year financial performance. Interpret the meaning of the ratios and financial performance.This section should be titled \”The Analysis of H-D\’s Current Strategy: Two Views.\” Be sure to include the ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.Based on your analysis, you must decide which two competitors present the biggest competitive threat to H-D.Perform a financial ratio analysis for the competitors after looking at trends in financial performance over five years, and compare the trends to industry averages.Be sure you have a clear ranking of the industries\’ competitors.This section should be titled \”Competitor Analysis.\” Be sure to include the financial ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative. This assignment should be 4 to 8 pages in length.

Breaking either positive or negative news to investors should be professionally handled. There is a need to ensure that good investor relationship is upheld for the sake of facilitating increased trust and increased investment opportunities (Lepta, 2003). Increased annual profit is one major event which is extraordinary. Investors are pleased when the organization makes profits, considering their increased wealth and profit maximization goals are achieved. In order to disclose such relevant and positive information, there is a need to have a proof of what is being highlighted, which could be presented in terms of financial statements. Another event that’s extra ordinary is the acquisition of another company. Investors are keen to support expansion strategies. Acquisition of another organization is an extra ordinary event. The capital base is increased, and the profitability of the organization will increase too. This event is presented through financial records as well, and a presentation of the plans set to achieve massive success and organization prosperity in the industry over the years.    The most important financial ratios that indicate the financial health of a company include the; current ratio and the gross profit. The gross profit shows the extent of profitability of the organization over the annual cost of sales, while the current ratio shows the relationship between current assets and the current liabilities in the organization (, 2004). Should the gross profit and the current ratio change from one year to another, there are two positive outcomes which might be realized in the organization; first, the asset worth might have increased which is a good indication, and the profit levels could have dramatically increased which is also a good indication for the organization. , B. (2003). Statistics for Evidence Based Practice and Evaluation. New York: John  and  , J. (2004). Understanding Financial Statements. London:  learning. 

 Imagine you are in charge of development for a developing country and were approached by a multinational corporation interested in locating in your country.Identify some of the benefits and some of the costs to the host country from allowing a multinational corporation to locate in a country with a developing economy. Discuss with your classmates if developmental assistance from world developmental agencies, such as the World Bank or the United Nations, would be preferable to private investment. Reference: Chapter 17, section 17.5:.Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of them. In your reply, discuss how the concerns listed in their posts regarding private foreign investment could be alleviated through aide from world development agencies.    Carefully review the  for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.The movement in the direction of a market-based system with freely determined prices, competition, profits, private ownership, and other features of capitalism is not simple. Discuss some of the challenges associated with an economy transitioning from socialism to capitalism.Reference: Chapter 20, section 20.1: , and section 20.2: .Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Respond to at least two of your peers by discussing the benefits and the costs of privatization of an economy.  Pose questions that may assist your peers in extending their thinking