...Seminar/Constructive Action: Intra & Entrepreneurship/Business Planning Course Code: FLD 521 PCA Course Description Students create an intra or entrepreneurial plan for the development and growth of a beneficial and profitable venture incorporating the necessary marketing, financial, legal, organizational and administrative components. Course Objectives After completing the course, the student will be able to: 1. Apply acquired business skills (finance, accounting, marketing, management, negotiation, human relations, legal, and administrative) to create an intra or entrepreneurial business plan for the development and growth of a beneficial and profitable venture. 2. Improve on key business skills including writing, oral communications, goal-setting, and organizational leadership and planning. 3. Produce a business planning document that will enable you to successfully implement your Purpose III Constructive Action project. Course Relevance to CA The course introduces the students to business management: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling that are applicable to managing entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial ventures. This course prepares the students for real life business operations and teaches them practical application of theoretical learning. Course Prerequisite Purpose I Constructive Action Required Textbook: Stutely, R. (2007). The definitive business plan: the fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs...
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...Course Project: Creating the Marketing Plan Objectives | Introduction | Guidelines | Milestones | Grading Rubrics Objectives The Course Project gives students the opportunity to synthesize all of the concepts in the BUSN319 Marketing course by applying them to develop a comprehensive marketing plan for a new business, product, or service. Introduction Product innovation and marketing are the only enduring competitive advantages that companies can use to survive and thrive in the marketplace. In the next 7 weeks, you are going to participate in designing and writing a marketing plan for a business, product, or service of your choosing. Your active participation in this project, first, is essential to building your understanding of marketing; secondly, you can use a well-written marketing plan to show prospective employers a sample of your work. A marketing plan is a guide for the marketing activities of an organization for a specified period of time, typically about 5 years (note: usually 6 mo, one year). The plan can be used internally to guide the marketing activities or it can be used to communicate with external audiences to raise capital. There are important questions to keep in mind as you design the plan. 1. Is the marketing idea valid? 2. What is unique or distinctive about the product or service that separates it from substitutes and competitors? 3. Does a viable market exist for the product or service? 4. Are the financial projections...
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...600-word paper due in Week Five. At minimum, the paper must include the following: • Business objectives with supporting measures of project success • Description of current business process or systems with identification of project scope and boundaries • Any project constraints: financial, time, resources, organizational policies, or culture • Business functional requirements • A description of new business process or systems; utilize process objectives model and system objectives model • Design requirements: input/output design, interface design, data model, network model • A cost/benefit analysis This cumulative project is due in Week Five. Each week, your team works on a different section of the plan. The team will submit a draft of your work for the week and a team progress report to your facilitator each week. The weekly progress report will reflect the team’s progress as listed in the following weekly breakdown. Week One Review the SDLC Final Project requirements. Week Two Resource: Service Request pf-001 for Patton-Fuller Community Hospital located on the student website. Review the Service Request pf-001 for Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. Define the scope of the project. Identify the associated stakeholders and the preliminary assignments and tasks for each member. Create a detailed outline for each section. Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word draft of the first...
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...TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES System Development Life Cycle Guide Version 1.1 ● 30 MAY 2008 Texas Project Delivery Framework SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE GUIDE Version History This and other Framework Extension tools are available on Framework Web site. Release Date Description 30-May-2008 Version 1.1 released. Modified all references to “Project Plan and related plans” to “Project Plan” in order to align with Framework 2.0 and Change Request 38. 25-Sep-2007 Version 1.0 – System Development Life Cycle Guide released. DIR Document 25GU-1-1 ii Texas Project Delivery Framework SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE GUIDE Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................1 Use of the System Development Life Cycle Guide ....................................................................2 Section 1. System Life Cycle Processes...................................................................................3 1.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................3 1.2 System Life Cycle Processes and the Organization ........................................4 Section 2. Development Process ..............................................................................................5 2.1 Introduction ..........................................................................
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...Factors Affecting Purchase Decision of Online Shopping Mall in Hong Kong Background and Overall Research Aim According to the global transaction service provider, PayPal (2015), predicted that the online expenditure of Hong Kong will reach 25 Billion US Dollars by 2015. The main cause of this significant growth is drive by the rise of online shopping malls. However, a report which conducted by Hong Kong Trade Development Council (Hong-kong-economy-research.hktdc.com, 2015) states that the proportion of sales through online shopping platforms are only share 7.7% of the whole e-Commerce industry, which means the online shopping phenomenon is just at the early stage, with the growing of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and Weibo (Castronovo and Lei, 2012), there is a plenty of room to grow. In order to understanding the e-commerce industry in Hong Kong, Go-Globe Hong Kong conduct a research about the e-commerce environment in Hong Kong. The main group of online shoppers are 25 to 34 years old (76.4%), while 40.5% aged between 50 to 64 years old. In 2013, there are 8.5% increase of Hong Kong residents shopping online in compare with 2011. Four out of five Hong Kong consumers use the internet to research what they want before purchasing or even purchase it online. And 49% of them are willing to spend more money on online shopping mall in the near future. With the smartphone are become more and more popular, 89% of smartphone users search a product which they desired in smartphone...
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...Given a description of a new business, new product, service or project develop, present and defend the budget. C. Project Activity Overview – Scenario / Summary: You have been asked to create a budget proposal for one of these businesses: Papa Geo’s Restaurant, The Cutting Edge Landscaping, or Wireless World Electronics Retail Store. This week you will begin working on the proposal by drafting the Executive Summary. Use the Budget Proposal Template.docx. D. Deliverables: Save the first paragraph of Section 1.0 Executive Summary Draft as YourName_Project_WK1.docx and upload to the Week 1 Project Dropbox. E. Project Tasks: Task 1: | Download the Budget Proposal Template.docx from DocSharing. | Task 2: | Download the Course Project Description.docx. from DocSharing. | Task 3: | Review the three different business scenarios. | Task 4: | Select the business for which you will create a budget proposal. | Task 5: | Draft the first paragraph of the Section 1.0 Executive Summary. | Task 6: | Save the Draft and submit to the dropbox. | F. Grading Criteria | Description | Suggested Points | The business is briefly described in one paragraph. | 3 | The business description is in your own words. | 3 | The business description appears in the Executive Summary section of the Budget Proposal Template. | 2 | The business description is one of the three businesses described in the business profiles...
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...Project Sponsor commensurate with the anticipated size, risk and cost of the project? • Is there sufficient detail to allow the appointment of an appropriate Project Manager? • Have the project budgets received preliminary review and approval from the executive management team? • Are all the known stakeholders identified? • Does the Project Charter describe the “project success criteria”? NOTE: Remember to delete this page of instructions from your final document. PROJECT CHARTER Date: October 27, 2008 Version: Project Charter Date: October 27, 2008 Project Charter Document History Document Revisions Author Release Date Reason for Changes initial draft Version # Draft 0.1* Approval NOTES: • Signed...
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...financial services that are specifically tailored to the needs of personal customers and micro, small and medium scale enterprises. The company currently has nine(9) department which comprises of the Human Resource, Business Development, Internal control, Risk and Compliance, Marketing and Service quality, Credit department, Information Technology, Finance and Administration, Operations, Legal, Small and Medium Enterprises(credit) department performance There had been mixed up in the jobs descriptions of four departments that is Marketing and Service quality, Business Development, SME’s and the credit departments. Mostly both managers at Marketing and Business development ends up taken each other’s role. There has also not been clearly defined role or job description for both Head of SME’s and Credit manager. Again Relationship officers at various branches currently reports to these four departments. They are seen as credit officers who does clients loans appraisal and recoveries and reports to both the head of SME’s and the credit manager, as marketing officers thus sell products of the uniCredit to prospective clients and reports to the marketing manager, as business development officers, who does the account management of clients and reports to the business development manager. This...
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...Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting: The Reporting Entity This Exposure Draft of a proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts is issued by the Board for public comment. Written comments should be addressed to: Technical Director File Reference No. 1770-100 Responses from interested parties wishing to comment on the Exposure Draft must be received in writing by July 16, 2010. Interested parties should submit their comments by email to director@fasb.org, File Reference No. 1770-100. Those without email may send their comments to the “Technical Director, File Reference No. 1770-100, FASB, 401 Merritt 7, PO Box 5116, Norwalk, CT 06856-5116.” Do not send responses by fax. Please send only one comment letter to either the FASB or the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which is also requesting comments on this jointly issued Exposure Draft. The FASB and the IASB will share and consider jointly all comment letters received. Comments are most helpful if they: a. b. c. Indicate the specific paragraph or paragraphs to which the comments relate Contain a clear rationale Include any alternative the Boards should consider. All comments received constitute part of the FASB’s public file. The FASB will make all comments publicly available by posting them to its website and by making them available in its public reference room in Norwalk, Connecticut. An electronic copy of this Exposure Draft is available on the FASB’s website until the FASB issues a final document...
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...GCE in Applied ICT Unit G040: Using ICT to Communicate Assignment 1: Mags Estate Agents This assignment will allow you to meet all of the assessment requirements for Unit G040; Using ICT to Communicate. You should look at the Assessment Evidence Grid to check what you need to demonstrate in each task to achieve each mark band. Mags Estate Agents is a new company that is planning to open an office in a town or village near you. Like all estate agents, the company will sell and rent homes for their clients, arrange mortgages for buyers and provide other services. In this assignment you will: • compare business documents used by three different companies • look at different methods of communicating information and the technologies that support them • create documents/communications for Mags Estate Agents. Task 1 – to be handed in on or before……………………………….. Estate agents use many different types of documents to communicate with buyers and sellers. You should collect (or your teacher will give you) two different documents from each of three different estate agents. For example you may collect an information sheet from each estate agent and then visit their website. Study the documents carefully and then write a report that describes and compares the documents. You will need to consider these points when describing and comparing the documents: • What is the purpose of each document? • How is each document laid out? • What is good and...
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...Management 401 Project Contract Company Description: Five Star Banquet Hall is a full-service banquet hall that prides itself on taking care of all of the customers needs for almost any type of event. Some of the services coordinated or provided by the banquet hall include: all the wait staff, decoration of the church and hall; limousine service; floral arrangements and centerpieces; full catering of the event, including professionally decorated cake and hosted bar. The business is currently experiencing a significant decline in hall bookings. During my internship, my goal will be to increase the visibility of this business in the market, thereby increasing future hall bookings. I also plan to begin the process of incorporating the business into a C-corporation. Project Description and Deliverables: I plan to increase Five Star Banquet Hall’s visibility within the English-speaking market via the internet. This will be done in an effort to boost future hall bookings and therefore, revenue. It will be accomplished by creating a company website and increasing the company’s presence on internet directories. Currently, the company has no internet presence whatsoever. Repeat customers and word-of-mouth generate most of the revenue for this business. In addition, I begin the process of incorporating the small business into a C-corporation. Project Activities and Actions: Target Timeline: 1. Research and compare banquet hall websites. February 19, 2007 ...
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...Assessment in Business Plans Report of: City Treasurer Summary The Subgroup requested a review of the risk management components of service business plans. This report provides a review of the current completeness and content of risk assessments, synthesizing emerging themes and providing a comparison with the quality of content in previous years. Recommendations Members are requested to comment on the report. Wards Affected: All Contact Officers: Richard Paver City Treasurer 0161 234 3564 E-mail richard.paver@manchester.gov.uk Tom Powell Head of Audit and Risk Management 0161 234 5273 E-mail t.powell@manchester.gov.uk John Gill Risk Manager (Strategy) 0161 234 5272 E-mail J.Gill1@manchester.gov.uk Background documents (available for public inspection): None 1. Introduction 1.1. Thirty Heads of Service are required to produce and update service business plans on an annual basis. The deadline for the receipt of the latest draft plans was 14 October 2010. In order to provide effective support and challenge to Heads of Service in further developing their plans, a team of specialist officers was established to critique the main sections of the delivery plan which were: • Performance. • Transformation. • Finance. • Workforce. • Equalities. • Risk Management. • Business Continuity....
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...Graphic Organizer / Flow Chart Glenn Hong Essentials of Managerial Communication 1/15/2012 Traci Reese Axia College of University of Phoenix Topic: The Three Key Steps in Business Writing Every business needs to represent itself as formal and living up to that expectation also takes place in the form of writing. Business writing at all times needs to be kept professional and clean cut since the majority of communication within a business is done by emails, memos, and letters. The following steps can help ensure that all business related writing is kept up to the highest standards while representing you and the company with the utmost respect. Topic: The Three Key Steps in Business Writing Every business needs to represent itself as formal and living up to that expectation also takes place in the form of writing. Business writing at all times needs to be kept professional and clean cut since the majority of communication within a business is done by emails, memos, and letters. The following steps can help ensure that all business related writing is kept up to the highest standards while representing you and the company with the utmost respect. The First Step: Planning Planning is important in identifying the key points of what you need to say in business writing. Finding the different ways of organizing how you are going to write out those key points is a part of the whole planning process. Creating new ideas to blend in with the key points...
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...Applied Business Challenge BPD3100 Year:2015 Semester/ Dates: 1 2015 Location: Melbourne, Sunway KL&JB-CUFE-VU Sydney-Liaoning, Vietnam Prepared by: Andrew Stein / Maria De Sensi Welcome Welcome to this unit of study. This Unit Guide provides important information and should be kept as a reference to assist with your studies. This Guide includes information about your reading and resources, independent learning, class activities and assessment tasks. It is recommended that you read this Guide carefully: you will be expected to manage your learning as you work towards successful study. Detailed in formation and learning resources for this unit have also been provided on the Unit website on VU Collaborate which can be reached via the Student Portal at vu.edu.au/student-tools/myvu-student-por tal. It is important that you access your Unit website regularly. Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge and recognise the traditional owners, their Elders past and present, their descendants and kin as the custodians of this land. Introduction to the unit Unit Title: Applied Business Challenge Unit Code: BPD3100 Other details: Key staff Unit co-ordinator Name: Andrew Stein Location: CF1024 Contact number: 061-99194332 Contact email: Andrew.stein@vu.edu.au Name: Maria De Sensi Location: G425 Contact number: 061-99195484 Contact email: Maria.De Sensi@vu.edu.au Teaching team Campus: Days and times: Year: 2015 Semester/Dates: 1 Credit Points: 12 alagarania@sunway...
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...310 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course) BSA 310 Week 5 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course) BSA 310 Week 5 Team Assignment Service Request SR-rm-012 Paper and Presentation (UOP Course) ____________________________________________________ BSA 310 Week 2 Individual Assignments Critical Information Systems Paper (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Assignment: Critical Information Systems Paper • Write a 3-5 page paper based on one of the following Virtual Organizations: o Smith Systems Consulting. Huffman Trucking. Kudler Fine Foods. • For the selected Virtual Organization, describe an information system critical to the business processes of the organization. Include in your description how this information system has an effect on the organizational structure. ____________________________________________________ BSA 310 Week 3 Individual Assignment Service Request SR-kf-013 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Assignment: Service Request SR-kf-013 Paper • Write a 3-5 page paper...
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