...Over the past several weeks I have had the opportunity to study Kudler Fine Foods operations. This has included their financials, inventory, payroll, and human resources. The attached brief explores audit productivity software used by Kudler’s audit firm and how it can help Kudler improve its operation and plans for expansion. Computer Assisted Auditing Techniques Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) are computer base tools that an auditor uses to carry out various automated tests to evaluate the IT system or data. CATTs are very useful when the company has a significant volume of audit data in an electronic format (IT Audit Manual, 2011). Kudler Fine Foods has an independent auditor review their books every year. Among the computer assisted auditing techniques the auditors could use to validate data and system integrity in Kudler’s system are: • Electronic working papers – are used to support the audit opinion by demonstrating that the auditor has complied with set standards across all jobs, and the documents contain relevant information material to the audit (Quizlet, 2011). An advantage to using electronic work papers is that they automatically adjust other working papers when a related working paper is changed. They automate the audit process increasing the auditor’s efficiency. When the audit is complete, the auditor can automatically produce Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) financial statements (Core Concepts of Information Technology Auditing...
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...Learning Team C Week Five Assignment Score Sheet TEAM This is a very good attempt at putting together a system concept for the Kudler Fine Food project. You presented a clear definition of what the Kudler Fine Food Frequent Shopper project was to look like. However, there are some areas that you need to reconsider. I enjoyed reading your paper. General comments: See my comments in your paper. You need to do a thorough review of grammar and spelling. - Grammar, spelling, and/or sentence structure errors detracted from this write up. See my comments in the paper. You need to do a better job at proofing your work for grammar and spelling errors. Take advantage of the Center for Writing Excellence tools. This paper had several APA Style errors. I have indicated in red on this score sheet those sections that did not earn maximum points. I have included my comments in your paper. A commented copy of your paper follows these comments and the scoring matrix. Comments in red text or highlighted in green are deficient. Disregard comments highlighted in yellow – my marking used for grading or gray – information I copied from a different area of your paper. Let me know if you have any questions. Disregard highlights in yellow. I use these to track through your papers. |Subject |Points |Points Earned | | ...
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...| Course Design Guide School of Business ACC/542 Version 3 Accounting Information Systems | Copyright © 2012, 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description In this course, students examine the fundamentals of accounting systems design. Topics include business information systems, business processes and data flows, database concepts and tools, internal control and risks, auditing the information system, and using the information system to perform audit functions. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Bagranoff, N. A., Simkin, M. G., & Strand Norman, C. (2008). Core concepts of accounting information systems (10th ed.). New York, NY: Wiley. Hunton, J. E., Bryant, S. M., & Bagranoff, N. A. (2004). Core concepts of information technology auditing. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. O’Brien, J. A. & Marakas, G. M. (2008). Management information...
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...Support an Argument Complete the Jungian Personality self-assessment located on the rEsource page. You can access this self-assessment, by selecting the Assessment tab, then scrolling to the What About Me section and then to Personality Insights. Select What’s My Jungian 16-Type Personality? Write an APA formatted paper of no more than 1,050 words in which you construct and support an argument on your decision to pursue an MBA degree to further your career, start a new career, or achieve a personal goal. Your paper should include consideration of the Jungian Personality self-assessment on how others perceive you. Use and evaluate published information in support of your argument. Post your assignment as a Microsoft® Word document. MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment – Analysis of Team Charter Individual Assignment: Analysis of Team Charter After collaborating with your team, individually (not with your team) consider the personality types, listening skills, and trust levels of your team members and yourself. Then, in no more than 700 words, write a paper in which you explain how, considering those individual differences, you will use your team charter to improve performance....
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |School of Business | | |ACC/542 Version 2 | | |Accounting Information Systems | Copyright © 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description In this course, students examine the fundamentals of accounting systems design. Topics include business information systems, business processes and data flows, database concepts and tools, internal control and risks, auditing the information system, and using the information system to perform audit functions. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Marketing Research University of Phoenix Christy Holley Kudler Fine Foods Marketing Research Kudler Fine Foods, a gourmet grocery store, needs to expand its services, improve operations efficiency and increase its consumer purchase cycle due to its recent significant growth. Marketing research in developing Kudler’s marketing strategy and tactics is important. Areas where marketing research is needed and other issues affecting such research at Kudler’s include advertising methods, consumer buying behaviors and demographics, funding, branding strategies and competition aspects. Knowing Kudler’s competition and the competitive environment is essential to their marketing strategy and methods of how Kudler should gather and analyze information about their competition will be reviewed. Importance of marketing research Marketing research is important for Kudler Fine Foods to have a successful marketing strategy and for the company to remain strategically successful in the grocery store market. Research helps determine what demographical audience is appropriate for its products. Finding the right target market is essential in developing a company’s strategic and marketing plans, especially for a gourmet grocery store like Kudler’s. Research will be the backbone that makes those plans grow. Market research will also let Kudler know who its direct competitors are and what advantages the company may have over them. Whole Foods, Trader Joes, small...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Introduction Kudler Fine Foods has reviewed a significant growth in business. Expansion has been discussed on implementing services, increasing consumer purchase cycle and furthering efficiency of Kudler Fine Foods operations. Kudler Fine Foods strategic objective is to increase loyalty and profitability from customers. Customer’s purchases will be tracked through a Frequent Shopper Program using a point-of-sale (POS). The program will keep track of an individual customer’s purchase or purchases and provide high end incentives through a partnership with a loyalty points program (Kudler Fine Foods, 2009). Kudler’s partnership with a loyalty points program will provide customers with a points program where the customer can redeem points for high-end gift items, specialty foods and first-class airline upgrades (Kudler Fine Foods, 2009). Team A has been invited to create a business/systems requirement document to initiate the development of the Frequent Shopper Program. Team A will outline in the following document Team A’s proposed plan in meeting the objective of the aforementioned request. Executive Summary ------------------------------------------------- Kathy Kudler’s vision became a reality in 1998 when she opened her first store in La Jolla, California. Gourmet cooking coupled with efficient food preparation was the cornerstone of the La Jolla store (Apollo, 2008). Kudler’s has expanded with the opening of the Del Mar location and with Kudler’s latest...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Marketing Research University of Phoenix Christy Holley Kudler Fine Foods Marketing Research Kudler Fine Foods, a gourmet grocery store, needs to expand its services, improve operations efficiency and increase its consumer purchase cycle due to its recent significant growth. Marketing research in developing Kudler’s marketing strategy and tactics is important. Areas where marketing research is needed and other issues affecting such research at Kudler’s include advertising methods, consumer buying behaviors and demographics, funding, branding strategies and competition aspects. Knowing Kudler’s competition and the competitive environment is essential to their marketing strategy and methods of how Kudler should gather and analyze information about their competition will be reviewed. Importance of marketing research Marketing research is important for Kudler Fine Foods to have a successful marketing strategy and for the company to remain strategically successful in the grocery store market. Research helps determine what demographical audience is appropriate for its products. Finding the right target market is essential in developing a company’s strategic and marketing plans, especially for a gourmet grocery store like Kudler’s. Research will be the backbone that makes those plans grow. Market research will also let Kudler know who its direct competitors are and what advantages the company may have over them. Whole Foods, Trader Joes, small...
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...The mission and vision statements of Kudler Fine Foods describe a business that aspires to be a premier gourmet foods store that provides only the very best foods and wines to its customers (University of Phoenix, 2003). However, it will be an impossible task for this business to continue to provide fine foods to its customers if the franchise does not make enough annual profits to support the basic infrastructure of the business. This is exactly the kind of scenario described in the Kudler Fine Foods 2003 Strategic Plan. Only one of the three stores in the Kudler Fine Foods franchise is performing well financially (University of Phoenix, 2003). Additionally, approximately 12% of the perishable merchandise is either thrown away or donated to homeless shelters two to three times per week (University of Phoenix, 2003). While donating food to homeless shelters supports the community and provides a good basis for social responsibility, Kudler Fine Foods cannot continue to maintain a rate of donations that is detrimental to the bottom line of the business profits. Continual hits to the bottom line will ultimately lead to closing the business. Kudler Fine Foods needs to determine a method that reduces product waste and maximizes profits. The Kudler Fine Foods 2003 Strategic Plan (University of Phoenix, 2003) reveals many issues that contribute to product waste and profit losses however this paper will only discuss two issues. The first issue is there are too many product...
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...The marketing research allows the organization to build a profitable satisfaction business. Kudler Fine Food was found in 1988. The gourmet store was a vision of Kathy. Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. Through a variety of sales and marketing strategies, Kudler Fine Foods plans to increase customer loyalty and profitability Marketing affects Kudler Fine Food. Marketing research is imperative to develop an effective marketing plan. This paper will explain the marketing strategy and tactics. In addition the writer will discuss identify the area reach is needed, and analyze the importance of competitive intelligence. Marketing Strategy and Tactics Marketing research is an important part of understanding the market. The product and service will have to be targeted to the right people who are in need of the service. The market research allows Kudler to determine the current market. Kathy set goals to expand her business. First Kathy identifies problems and opportunities. Marketing strategy plans is importance. It includes promoting, protection, and enhancing the product. The information will provide Kudler team knowledge which allows Kudler team to understand action to take for their product. The key elements in collect data are concept...
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...Marketing Research Paper Denise Guerrero MKT/421 Monday, October 5, 2012 Sheryl Joyner Marketing Research Paper To establish a successful business in a competitive market, a company must have an effective marketing team. The marketing segment of an organization is responsible for development and execution of a strategic business plan for future business opportunities. A constant essential in the appropriate development of a marketing strategy is marketing research. Kudler Fine Foods is an organization successful in the gourmet grocery industry in California however there are some marketing research needs that can enhance the success of the business. To fully understand the needs of Kudler Fine Foods marketing needs, it is essential to understand the importance of marketing research and competitive intelligence analysis in developing Kudler Fine Foods marketing strategy and tactics as well as identifying areas where additional market research is needed that may aid in the development of strategic planning for the organization. Understanding each element is crucial to provide a concise evaluation of the marketing needs for Kudler Fine Foods. Marketing research is the ability to identify customer needs and evaluate a company's success in satisfying those needs (Perreault, Cannon, & McCarthy, 2011). The business study incorporated in marketing research allows companies to build a strategic business plan, implement a new product or service as well as improve...
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...Strategy Paper MMPBL/502 March 21, 2011 School of Business Kudler Strategy Paper Kudler Fine Foods a very dynamic, and innovative gourmet food store, is on a journey to be the best gourmet store there is. Apart of Kudler’s mission is “to provide our customers with the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparallel consumer environment” (Kudler Fine Foods, 2009, pg. 1). With this in mind, Kudler will need continuous development, and strategy building techniques as a part of their operation. In this paper the subjects to discuss are, the impact that technology has brought upon the company, and how much these impacts have become opportunities. As the company strives for the best, the intended strategy, and tactics used will be discussed. In order to maintain these strategies and tactics, managers will need to find the means, by which they will maintain, develop, and execute these strategies. Technology and business opportunities Technology has advanced our way of life in such a way that one cannot do without it, as it has changed the way we execute situations and problems alike. All over the world, people use technology to enhance their surroundings. It was also seen where “Japanese who carry phones serviced by NTT Docomo, Japan's dominant cell phone carrier, can opt to have alerts about earthquakes pushed directly to their phones “(Mims, 2011). Japan and many countries use technology as a means to solve numerous problems, and Kudler is no...
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...Benefit and Drivers Paper- Kudler Fine Foods Marlene Banton Harriett Clay Demetrias Odom OI/361 June 23, 2014 Ruth Todd Benefit and Drivers Paper- Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods known as the best for servicing their customers is an upscale epicurean shop located in La Jolla, California founded by Kathy Kudler on June 18, 1998 was the opening of the first store. With such great innovation Kathy decided to open more stores and provide a service where they would be second to none. The service of providing freshly baked pastries, cheese, wines, fresh produce, specialty dairy products, packaged condiments and food, along with meat and seafood ("Kudler Fine Foods," 2013). Kathy’s innovative skills would be put to work in her expanding the service to own more stores and spread her wings to This paper will be identifying the organization’s innovation internal and external drivers along with the description of how innovation, design, and creative thinking might benefit Kudler Fine Foods organizational intentions. Kathy and her team’s collaboration proved that innovative and creative minds owned three more stores. Consistently seeking ways to enhance service and products, innovation, design, and creativity plays a vital role. Internal and External Drivers Internal driving takes place in an organization to assist in the development and adaption of changes that will take place in Kudler Fine Foods will be more innovative when changes do take place. Drivers internally demonstrate...
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...competition. With such strong competition in virtually every industry of business, a company must have a strategic plan that is carried out by organization leaders that demonstrate strong management. A manager that can incorporate Porter’s Five-Force Model is one that recognizes the threats to the company’s profitability and ultimate position in the industry. This paper will explore the management functions of Kudler Fine foods using the Porter’s Five-Forces Model. This paper will also exam the use of technology and the internet and how it affects management. Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet foods shop founded by Kathy Kudler, a woman who was tired of having to travel all over town to get fresh ingredients for simple meals. She decided to open a one-stop shop where people could buy a wide variety of the freshest foods as well as the necessary tools to prepare the meals. Kudler Fine Foods is divided into the following departments: fresh bakery and pastries, fresh produce, fresh meat and seafood, condiments and packaged foods and cheeses and specialty dairy products. There are three locations in San Diego metropolitan area (Kudler Fine Foods, 2007). There are four management functions: planning and strategizing, organizing, leading and controlling, and decision-making (Gomez-Mejia & Balkin, 2002) . Planning and strategizing work synonymously to help the different areas of an organization identify and set goals for the future of the organization with its strengths and weaknesses in mind...
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...viewpoint that is meaningful to the individual (Posner, 2010). We all have a set of values that determines our decisions, and guides our lives. Just as individuals subscribe to values, so do organizations. These organizational values make-up the organization and becomes a part of their culture. Whether these values are good or bad, the organization will take on these behaviors and actions. This paper will identify my personal values as they compare or contrast to that of Kudler Fine Foods and how it will affect my performance, if I was a manager working for them. Individual Personal Values Each individual's values are developed through their life experiences. This is especially true for me. My personal values were taught to me by my family and I still hold them true to this day. I have incorporated these values in the way I deal with business. My values are simple, right is right and wrong is wrong. I take pride in helping each customer and driving high customer satisfaction through hard work. I treat all of my assigned personnel fair and with respect. I believe in working within a team environment and strive to develop strong interpersonal relationships. These values have made me a successful manager, in all places which I have worked. According to the Williams Institute, Ethics Awareness Inventory (EAI), my ethical awareness score places me in the category of obligation (University of Phoenix, 2010). Obligation ethics concentrates on a person's duty or obligation to do what...
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