HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & ACCOUNTING UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS COURSE INFORMATION: INSTRUCTOR: Prof. George Cheng COURSE NAME: Business Applications Using Excel COURSE NUMBER BUS 215 COURSE SECTION 112A CREDITS 3.0 crs. – 3.0 hours lecture OFFICE PHONE #: (718) 518 6521 E-MAIL: GCHENG@HOSTOS.CUNY.EDU OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday & Thursday 7AM-8 AM & 12:30 PM-1:30 PM‚ Friday 7AM-8 AM & 10:45 AM-11:45AM‚
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ASSIGNMENT # 3 Teamwork and Motivation Bus 520 February 21‚ 2014 Organizational Motivation Plan Motivation is defined as forces within the individual that account for the direction‚ level‚ and persistence of a person’s effort expended at work. Direction refers to an individuals’ choice when presented with a number of possible alternatives. Level refers to the amount of effort a person puts forth. Persistence refers to the length of time a person sticks with a
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Jorge Escobar ASHFORD UNIVERSITY BUS 640: Managerial Economics February 25‚ 2013 John Sellers 1. PV = FV x [ 1 ÷ (1 + i)n ] PV = $11mil x [ 1 ÷ (1 + 0.06)2 ] PV = $11mil x [ 1 ÷ (1.06)2 ] PV = $11mil x [ 1 ÷ 1.1236 ] PV = $11mil x [ 0.88999644] ← PV factor PV = $9‚789‚960.80 If I were chose between alternative 2 and the first $10min alternative I would go with alternative 1. It reflects a bigger present value than alternative with an opportunity
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vThe country manager simulation let us learn how to be a manager for a company expanding internationally. These are five things that I learnt during the simulation: • Benchmarking is not always true When we enter a new market‚ benchmarking will be useful for us to give the idea how to make a decision by learning the competitors design their marketing plan. However‚ in this simulation‚ I realize that not all of the competitors did is the right thing. For example‚ we always looked at the promotion
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The purpose of this paper is to summarize the International Trade Simulation‚ explain the basic concept of International Trade‚ emphasize the four key points from the reading assignments in the simulation‚ and apply these concepts to my workplace. Simulation Summary In the International Trade simulation‚ you are the Trade Representative of a small country called Rodamia. You are introduced to international trade--the theory of comparative advantage and the impact of tariffs‚ quotas‚ and dumping
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A corporation is an artificial being created by law. Often called a “legal entity‚” a corporation has the powers of an individual in that it can sue and be sued‚ make and be party to contracts‚ and acquire property in its own name. Only 15% of bus.’s are incorp.’ed. The owners of a corporation are its stockholders‚ whose ownership‚ or equity‚ is evidenced by either common stock or preferred stock. common stock The purest and most basic form of corporate ownership. Dividends Periodic
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Conceptual Business Paper Student Name BUS/475 Date Teacher Name University of Phoenix Introduction This paper will give the mission and vision statements of the Dog and Man. This is a part of strategic planning. Strategic management is defined as the set of decisions and actions that result in the formulation and implementation of plans designed to achieve a company’s objectives (Pearce & Robinson‚ 2009). Whether a firm is developing a new business or reformulating direction
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As mentioned above‚ during the last negotiation simulation there were three groups or teams. Each team represented a South American country. For this exercise the country of Brazil‚ wanting more action and less declaration of political will‚ convened a working group consisting of three countries: Venezuela‚ Peru and Colombia. The sole purpose of generating these countries together was to generate a solution to water quality concerns. Cooperation was a key element within this negotiation‚ as working
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The Airplane game‚ an exercise in lean thinking. After reviewing the article The Lean Service Machine (Swank‚ 2003) and watching a video series on making toast using the concepts of Kaizen‚ the class settled into the simulation. This simulation utilized the uniquely simple task of making a paper airplane and transformed it into an overly complicated multi-step batch process simulating the complex production processes that control the manufacturing of military aircraft. There was a job initiator that
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Introduction: The simulation developed a knowledge of pricing by managing a rental car operation in Florida and developing a pricing strategy keeping the competitor in mind. The simulation involved three regions Oriando‚ Tampa and Miami‚ which vary in market dynamics‚ size and customers. The focus is competition between two car rental companies and the simulation last up to 12 months. I had to set weekday and weekend price for the entire three regions for each month and make a fleet decision. Description:
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