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Financial Ratios

This Competency Assessment assesses the following outcome(s):

MT217M2: Analyze financial statements ratios used to measure the financial performance of a business entity.

GEL-1.03: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.

GEL-6.05: Adapt research skills to discover and sort relevant sources to complete tasks

Financial statement analysis is the process of analyzing a company's financial statements to make better economic decisions. The process for financial statement analysis includes specific techniques for evaluating risks, performance, and future prospects of an organization.

Directions

This Assessment is separated into four parts. In Part 1 of this Assessment, you will begin by researching and summarizing four of the benefits of financial analysis and indicating which is the most significant to you. In Part 2  of this Assessment, you will define and properly classify th

Management – Negotiating in Business

Virtual Victoria is a real estate negotiation among four parties: buyer, buyer agent, seller, and seller agent. Through this exercise, we will also explore how the new world of information technology affects negotiations. You will be assigned to play the role of buyer.

To prepare for your "role" (buyer), you will need to read the confidential information about your role attached.

This is an individual assignment. Please read your role confidential information and prepare for a planning document. The planning document must be completed before you conduct the mock negotiation with your partner.

Your Planning Document should cover the following:

(1) Issues to be negotiated;

(2) Your position and interests on each of the negotiation issues;

(3) The priority of each of negotiation issues;

(4) Your BATNA and Reservation  Point;

(5) Your Target Point;

(6) Your sources of power and negotiation strategies;

(7) Your best

choose one

All students are to write an essay as part of the module assessment. The essay topics and
evaluation criteria are listed below.
The essay should be no longer than 3,000 words (+/- 10%) and submitted with a header sheet.
Your identity will not be revealed to the marker. The work should demonstrate understanding of a
relevant theory or conceptual framework, with application to case study examples. Choose ONE
of the following four topics for your essay.
I. High street bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly conducting their
business online. For a while their branding can rely on their high street heritage
but how do you think the brand should be managed as the online presence comes
to dominate?
II. Mass customisation appears to offer the ideal combination of efficient mass
production with customisation to the individual customer. For a specific company
of your choice, critically analyse the challenges and limits of such a strategy.
III. Laws and

Casino, discotheque and club activities

The article will have to take in consideration and also develop within their chosen
topic article, how the New normal is impacting the management, human resources
and marketing activities (you also need to think to the potential answer solutions).
Each student is expected to write an individually a Reflective Essay Article on How
the New Normal (post Covid) is reshaping the Hospitality Industry.
Each student should critically and carefully elaborate his/her reflective article
dissertation on the selected topic. First, he/she will have to support his/her
argumentations based on the research of relevant reading and video materials.
Secondly, he/she will have to analyze the situation and identify the pros and con of
the post-Covid impacts on the selected hospitality topic. Thirdly, he/she will have
to come with his/her own understanding and conclusion of what will be the New
Normal trends within the selected topic.
Students are encouraged to use info

Any topic (writer’s choice)

Catherine suffered serious physical injuries in an automobile accident and became acutely depressed as a result. One morning, she received a check for $17,400 in settlement of her claims arising out of the accident. She endorsed the check and placed it on the kitchen table. She then called Robert, her longtime roommate, to tell him the check had arrived. That afternoon, she was found dead in the apartment. The police found the check and a note from her, stating that she was giving it to Robert. Had Catherine negotiated the check to Robert?

Hierarchical clustering

Assignment attached.Note: Submit the screenshots of the models (the output results) and answer the questions.

10 points
1.    Produce a hierarchical clustering (COBWEB) model for iris data. How many clusters did it produce? Why? Does it make sense? What did you expect?
Change the acuity and cutoff parameters in order to produce a model similar to the one obtained in the book. Use the classes to cluster evaluation what does that tell you?


10 points
2.    Use the EM clustering method on either the basketball or the cloud data set. How many clusters did the algorithm decide to make? If you change from Use Training set to Percentage evaluation split 66% train and 33% test - how does the evaluation change?


10 points
3.    Use a k-means clustering technique to analyze the iris data set. What did you set the k value to be? Try several different values. What was the random seed value? Experiment with diffe

Theory X and theory Y

You will be assigned a night to lead the class in a 30-
minute discussion related to our course readings. You will develop a plan for stimulating debate,
whether it is a class activity, small group discussions, bringing in outside materials like video
clips or a short in-class reading, discussion questions posed to the class or anything else you can
dream up. The texts and theories are by no means perfect, so this is a chance to engage in
thoughtful, scholarly critique about the readings for the week.  The reading comes from Organization Communication Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings (Chapter 3) also i need a outline and assignment for the class to do.

choose one

All students are to write an essay as part of the module assessment. The essay topics and
evaluation criteria are listed below.
The essay should be no longer than 3,000 words (+/- 10%) and submitted with a header sheet.
Your identity will not be revealed to the marker. The work should demonstrate understanding of a
relevant theory or conceptual framework, with application to case study examples. Choose ONE
of the following four topics for your essay.
I. High street bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly conducting their
business online. For a while their branding can rely on their high street heritage
but how do you think the brand should be managed as the online presence comes
to dominate?
II. Mass customisation appears to offer the ideal combination of efficient mass
production with customisation to the individual customer. For a specific company
of your choice, critically analyse the challenges and limits of such a strategy.
III. Laws and

High street bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly conducting their business online. For a while their branding can rely on their high street heritage but how do you think the brand should be managed as the online presence comes to dominate?

The basic format of the essay should be a theory, concept or approach which is critically analysed. Then a case study or practical example should be presented that not only illustrates how the theory can be applied but also reveals further critical insights into the theory itself. The
Originality
Has the student identified and analysed the unique competitive advantage of the business?
Has the student identified and analysed what the customers value and are willing to pay for?
Has the student identified and analysed the attempts by the company to minimise its costs?
conclusion should demonstrate how the case study can lead to an improvement in the theory.
Students should make all efforts to avoid plagiarism by reading and reflecting on the information sources before committing their own thoughts to paper. There is never a reason to copy, although quotations may be occasionally appropriate. It is recommended that students should take note of the Turnitin similarity scor

Low-Stakes Writing 2: Using SPACE to Provide Directions

Low-Stakes Writing 2: Using SPACE to Provide Directions

Professional Engagement Assignment 4: Providing Directions
For this assignment, you are going to experiment with providing and improving directions to a classmate. First, you need to select a location within a 10-minute walking distance from your Jabs Hall classroom. Please make sure your destination is one your classmate can reach while adhering to social distancing guidelines. Then, you will write directions for a classmate to follow for Professional Engagement Assignment 4. You will be assigned a partner who will follow your directions and then provide feedback on a D2L discussion board.

Using the feedback you get on those directions from your classmate, you will revise your directions. Then, you will explain how your understanding of SPACE considerations informed those changes. Though this activity might seem removed from the kind of instructions you will typically give at work, the nature of providing instru