BUS 640 ASH Course Tutorial / tutorialoutlet

1. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com

2. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Entire Course (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm ObjectivesBUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under UncertaintyBUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied ProblemsBUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of SubstitutionBUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand ElasticityBUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied ProblemsBUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant CostsBUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution AnalysisBUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems

3. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 1 Firm Objectives (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Firm Objectives. Why do some business firms pursue a triple-bottom-line outcome while others focus only on profit maximization? Please, use a real company example to illustrate your points 

4. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 1 DQ 2 Decision Making Under Uncertainty (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Decision Making Under Uncertainty. To save on gasoline expenses, Edith and Mathew agreed to carpool together for traveling to and from work. Edith preferred to travel on I-20 highway as it was usually the fastest, taking 25 minutes in the absence of traffic delays. Mathew pointed out that traffic jams on the highway can lead to long delays making the trip 45 minutes. He preferred to travel along Shea Boulevard, which was longer (35 minutes), but rarely had traffic jams. Edith agreed that in case of traffic jams, Shea Boulevard was a reasonable alternative. Neither of them knows the state of the highway ahead of time. After driving to work

5. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 1 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied Problems (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Economics of Risk and Uncertainty Applied Problems. Please, complete the following 3 applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button. 1. A generous university benefactor has agreed to donate a large amount of money for student scholarships. The money can be provided in one lump-sum of $10mln, or in parts, where $5.5mln can be provided in year 1, and another $5.5mln can be provided in year 2. Assuming the opportunity interest rate is 6%, what is the present value of the second alternative? Which of the two alternatives should be chosen and why?

6. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 2 Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Consumer Demand Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems. Please, complete the following 3 applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button. 1. Roshima is researching universities where she could study for her MBA degree. She is considering 3 major attributes that she considers important in her choice: ranking, price, and location. The value she places on each attribute, however, differs according to whether she remains full-time employed during her studies or quits her job and focuses on her degree.

7. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 1 Marginal Rate of Substitution For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Marginal Rate of Substitution. What is the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) and why does it diminish as the consumer substitutes one product for another? Use examples to illustrate 

8. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 2 DQ 2 Demand Elasticity (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Demand Elasticity. Please, read the article Hainer, R. (2010), provided in the required readings section for this week. The tobacco industry is a prime example to consider when talking about price elasticity of demand. While nicotine use can be addictive for many users, it is not addictive for the so-called "social smokers". What can we say about the price elasticity of demand for nicotine products (such as cigarettes, pipes, tobacco) in the group of nicotine addicted users, versus the group of "social smokers"? Can we say whose demand is likely to be more elastic? Why?

9. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 1 Relevant Costs (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Relevant Costs. Two partners own together a small landscaping business in North Carolina, called Summer Lawn Care. They have been specializing in summer grass seeding, installation, and maintenance. Recently, the partners acquired special technology and know-how for winter grass installations and maintenance. They also added a tree cutting service as recent storms in the area had caused demand for this service to soar. One of the partners insists that the name of the business should change to Lawn and Tree Care,

10. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 3 DQ 2 Contribution Analysis (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Contribution Analysis. Explain what is meant by “contribution analysis”. Carefully define the term and provide examples to illustrate it. 

11. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 3 Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Production Cost Analysis and Estimation Applied Problems. Please, complete the following 3 applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button. 1.  Jennifer Trucking Company operates a large rig transportation business in Texas that transports locally grown vegetables to San Diego, California. The company owns 5 large rigs and hires local drivers paid fixed salaries monthly, regardless of the number of trips or tons of cargo that each driver transports each month. The below table presents details about the number of drivers and the total cargo transported by the company at different staff levels.

12. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategic Behavior Oligopolies (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Strategic Behavior Oligopolies. An interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft’s investment in Apple (New Straits Times, 1997). The article is included in the Required Readings list. Facing tough anti-trust scrutiny from government agencies, Microsoft provided financial support to Apple in order to ensure Apple’s survival and, therefore, to ensure that competitiveness in the industry remains. Moreover, the partnership with Apple provided an additional market for Microsoft’s products – the MS Office and the IE products were to be bundled with the MAC OS as one of the conditions for this financing.

13. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 4 DQ 2 Local Market Power (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Local Market Power. Bulls Eye department store specializes in the sales of discounted clothing, shoes, household items, etc. similar to the offerings at a regular Walmart or Target. Bulls Eye is the only department store in Show Low and the nearest other discount retailer is Target, located 49 miles away in Eagar. Bulls Eye, therefore, has some market power in its local area. Despite having some market power, Bulls Eye is currently suffering losses. An analyst at Bulls Eye is recommending to the manager to raise prices, so that profitability can be improved

14. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 4 Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Market Structures and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems. Please, complete the following 2 applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button. A small business which produces plastic vacuum-suction covers for round household dishes has a monopoly that is protected by a utility patent. The market demand curve for this product is estimated to be: – 25P where Q is the number of plate covers per year and P is in dollars. Cost estimation processes have determined that the firm’s cost function is represented by + 2500Q -0.25*Q2.

15. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 1 Good Will in Price Bidding (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Good Will in Price Bidding. Sometimes, a bidder on a work contract may bid lower than what would maximize his/her profit from the contract and the reason for that is to create goodwill (to increase expected future business from the buyer). How would you value the goodwill that is obtained in this way? 

16. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 5 DQ 2 New Product Introduction (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com New Product Introduction. Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany owns the Alka-Seltzer, which was launched in 1931 and was meant for relief of minor aches, pains, inflammation, fever, headache, heartburn, sour stomach, indigestion, and hangovers. The Alka-Seltzer Plus was a spin-off of the original medicine, meant to relieve colds and flu. The company has recently introduced a new and improved Alka-Seltzer Plus, as described in the TV ad: “The Cold Truth”, (please, watch the ad listed in the Required Readings)

17. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 5 Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Price Quotes and Pricing Decisions Applied Problems. Please, complete the following 3 applied problems in a Word or Excel document. Show all your calculations and explain your results. Submit your assignment in the drop box by using the Assignment Submission button. Maxim Motronics A.G. have been marketing a new product in Europe that has achieved notable market success and it now plans to introduce this product into the United States market. The product is an electronic device that is mounted in the rear window of passenger cars and allows the driver of one vehicle to have a spoken message converted to text and scrolled across the display panel to be read by occupants of a following vehicle.

18. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 1 Game Theory and Strategic Behavior (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Game Theory and Strategic Behavior. Suppose that GE is trying to prevent Maytag from entering the market for high efficiency clothes dryers. Even though high efficiency dryers are more costly to produce, they are also more profitable as they command sufficiently higher prices from consumers. The following payoffs table shows the annual profits for GE and Maytag for the advertising spending and entry decisions that they are facing. Based on this information, can GE successfully prevent Maytag from entering this market by increasing its advertising levels? What is the equilibrium outcome in this game?

19. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 6 DQ 2 Sustainable Competitive Advantage (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Sustainable Competitive Advantage. Describe the circumstances under which a firm chooses a low-cost strategy to attain sustainable competitive advantage. What about the situations when a differentiation strategy is chosen? Provide specific real world examples. 

20. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial BUS 640 Week 6 Final Paper (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialoutlet.com Research a specific company of your choice and identify some of the managerial decisions that were made over time and in response to changes in its market or competitive environment. Use the University Online Library and web-based sources for your research. At least three external scholarly sources must be used. Address all of the following areas: Describe the company and provide a brief history of its operations. Find or use graphs to illustrate its financial performance over the years. Identify any sources of risk or uncertainty in its operations. Do the financial reports indicate risky or uncertain activities or changes to the economic environment that ultimately appear to have

21. BUS 640 Ash CourseTutorial