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by admin | Feb 21, 2023 | Management
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
According to Wisconsin School of Business, “A benefit of working with diverse teams is that each member has different experiences and viewpoints. Unfortunately, that strength can be an early roadblock. Even in face-to-face meetings there is often uncertainty about what it is that the group is supposed to analyze and improve. With remote gatherings it can be even more confusing.”
Here are few examples on what teams can face during their work:
Lack of clarity
Trust issues
Personality conflicts
Withholding information
Lack of communication
Reduced engagement
Excessive staff numbers
Interior competition
Can you think of any other examples? Post them to the board. ( short answer)
by admin | Feb 21, 2023 | Management
Global Case: How to create a high-performing virtual finance team
“With the extended lockdown causing businesses a series of fresh and unprecedented challenges, how should finance leaders react to ensure their finance team and their business survive and thrive?” Read this article to know more.
After reading, try to answer those questions to test your understanding and post your answers to the board:
How Corona Virus pandemic affected the business financially?
According to Oliver Deacon (former finance director at Microsoft’s Windows Commercial division), how can virtual team managers overcome those challenges?
Discuss how finance leaders be supporting their business partners or customers
short answer
by admin | Feb 21, 2023 | Management
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FORUM DESCRIPTION
12.1 Learning Outcomes:
Describe the different organizational choices that can be made in an international business.
Explain how organization can be matched to strategy to improve the performance of an international business.
12.2 Action Required:
The purpose of this interactive activity is to demonstrate your understanding of the concepts learned lessons by responding to discussion questions.
12.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
Discuss the causes of Organizational Inertia.
12.4 Instructions
Students are to answer the given question in Discussion Board.
Maximum word limit: 250 words.
by admin | Feb 21, 2023 | Management
Create a data and analytics plan for the business problem below by answering the following questions under the case.
Final Project Case Study #2
Client’s challenge: Global consumer packaged goods company
A global consumer packaged goods (CPG) company has set an ambitious goal for itself: double revenues while keeping the costs minimal within eight years. Of course, the leadership knows that such rapid growth won’t happen with guesswork, tribal knowledge and rough estimates. In order to maximize the performance of thousands of salespeople at thousands of worldwide distribution points, they will need to employ advanced business analytics techniques to analyze massive quantities of data being generated at ever-increasing speed.
Like all CPG firms, the company faces the challenge of making sure that day in and day out, the right products, in the right amounts, were on the right shelves at the right time. Complicating the issue is the daunting fact that the company is working in every corner of the globe. The company deals with a diverse set of global contacts and regional business units who share no common skill set, data platform, or analytics strategies. Creating one common platform that can collect incoming data, analyze it, and send insights about inventory and sales issues back into the field to any smartphone-equipped sales rep will be a significant undertaking. Powering the sales force to make smart micro decisions that would roll up into better macro performance was absolutely necessary if the company was to stay competitive in its many markets and meet its goals for growth.
Answer all the questions below:
1. What is the business problem you are trying to solve?
2. What’s the first step you’ll take?
3. What is your approach to developing a Hypothesis? (Include your Hypothesis)
4. What data would you collect?
5. How would you analyze the data?
6. How would you present the information to the client?
7. What insights did you develop?
8. What recommendations would you make?
by admin | Feb 21, 2023 | Management
KAZWEAR GLOBAL 2023
Maya Markam had the talent and marketing savvy to succeed in the global fashion market. In 2022, her casual-wear company, KAZWEAR GLOBAL, had record sales of $80 million after only 5 years in business. Her fashion line covered the young woman from head to toe with hats, sweaters, dresses, blouses, skirts, pants, sweatshirts, socks, and shoes. In Manhattan, there was a KAZWEAR shop every five or six blocks, each featuring a different colour. Some shops showed the entire line in pink, another featured it in green, etc. KAZWEAR had made it to the top.
The company’s historical growth was so spectacular that no one could have predicted it. However, securities analysts speculated that KAZWEAR could not keep up the pace. They warned that competition is fierce in the fashion industry and that the firm might encounter little or no growth in the future. They were of the view that stockholders should not expect any growth in future dividends.
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Contrary to the conservative securities analysts, Maya felt that the company could maintain a constant annual growth rate in dividends per share of 7% in the future, or possibly 10% for the next 3 years and 6% thereafter. Maya based her estimates on the planned expansion into European and Latin American markets. Venturing into these markets was expected to increase the β on KAZWEAR’s stock from the current level of 2 to 4. The risk-free rate is 6% and the market return is 12%.
In preparing the long-term financial plan, KAZWEARE’s Chief Financial Officer has assigned a junior financial analyst, Jenny Joseph, to evaluate the firm’s current stock price. He asked Jenny to consider the conservative predictions of the securities analysts and the bold predictions of the company founder, Maya Markam.
KAZWEAR’s Earnings per Share, Dividends per Share, and Price per Share at the end of 2022 were $24, $15, and $98 respectively. The Balance Sheet is given in Table 1.
Required:
1. What is the company’s current book value per share?
2. What is the company’s current P/E ratio?
3 (a) What is the current Required Rate of Return for KAZWEAR’s shares?
(b) What will be the new required return for KAZWEAR shares assuming that they expand
into European and Latin American markets as planned?
4. If the securities analysts are correct and there is no growth in future dividends,
what will be the value per share of KAZWEAR? (Note: Use the new
required return on the company’s shares here.)
5. (a) If Maya’s predictions are correct, what will be the value per share of KAZWEAR’s shares
if the firm maintains a constant annual 7% growth rate in future dividends? (Note:
Continue to use the new required return here.)
(b) If Mary’s predictions are correct, what will be the value per share of KAZWEAR’s shares
if the firm maintains an annual growth rate of 10% in dividends per share over the next 3
years and 6% thereafter?
6. Compare the current (2022) price of the shares and the share values found in parts 1, 4,
and 5.
a. Discuss why these values differ.
b. Which valuation method do you believe most closely represents the true
value of the KAZWEAR’s shares? Explain.
Table 1
KAZWEAR GLOBAL
Balance Sheet
As at December 31, 2022
($000)
Assets
Cash
$ 1,600
Marketable Securities
4,000
Accounts Receivables
8,000
Inventories
15,000
Total Current Assets
$ 28,000
Gross Fixed Assets
20,000
Less Accumulated Depreciation
10,000
Net Fixed Assets
10,000
Total Assets
$ 38,000
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Accounts Payable
$ 2,400
Notes Payable
3,000
Accruals
600
Total current liabilities
6.000
Long Term Debt
10,000
Total Liabilities
16,000
Common Stock (Par Value $10)
10,000
Paid in Capital in excess of par
6,000
Retained Earnings
6,000
Total Stockholders’ Equity
22,000
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
$ 38,000
