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Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement.

Finally, he remembers an encounter with a college physics teacher Jonah, who had managed to identify the issues facing the company with minimal information. After contacting Jonah, he is told to first figure out the meaning of productivity and the plant’s goal (Goldratt & Cox, 2013).

After Rogo contacts Jonah back with these answers, Jonah presents him with three measurements. throughput, inventory, and operational expenses, which Jonah tells him to figure out in the context of the plant (Goldratt & Cox, 2013). After pondering these measurements with others at the plant, he returns to Jonah with the answers, to which Jonah presents three quick rules that are different to what he has been taught in business, while also introducing the concepts of statistical fluctuations and dependent events. After Alex gains a clearer understanding of dependent events and statistical fluctuations, he goes back to Jonah, who then tasks him with understanding about plant bottlenecks and non-bottlenecks. Rogo and his workmates experiment with different supply routes to bottlenecks, achieving increased productivity until problems arise on another section of their plant (Goldratt & Cox, 2013).

At this point, Jonah decides to visit the plant to see what Rogo is doing, during which he walks around the plant, asking them questions that they should figure out and show them a number of things (Goldratt & Cox, 2013). Eventually, they are able to improve the running of the plant to the point where it is the best performing plant in their division. The plant remains open, while Rogo and other group members involved in improving the plant’s profitability are promoted. After being promoted to become the division’s leader, Rogo sets out to represent the improvements they have carried out on paper. The previous system they used shows that their plant is not productive, whereas it is actually performing well (Goldratt & Cox, 2013).

 

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22730 Spring 2017 – Module 1 Part A Presentation Question 1 Scenario 1: Anthony is the eldest son of Greg, the CEO of Papa’s Italian Limited (PIL) (a chain franchise of Italian restaurants operating throughout Sydney), which is one of your firm’s major audit clients. Anthony has recently started a graduate audit role with your firm and has been assigned to the audit of PIL. Anthony’s work will comprise testing the internal controls within the cash payments system. Scenario 2: Mrs Cruise is the audit partner representing ATS Partners, an audit firm based in Melbourne. As part of carrying out consulting services, several of Mrs Cruise’s staff recently completed a review and maintenance of the internal controls at Expo Pty Ltd, a large proprietary company which is also an audit client. The work was charged at 130% of the usual consulting fees to make up for the lower audit fees brought about by a competitive tender. The audit staff implemented changes in the company’s internal control procedures and ran a full day training session for the accounting staff. As the audit staff have already performed significant work on Expo’s internal controls, the audit manager has decided that no further testing is required of those controls. Required: (a) For each of the above scenarios list and explain any breaches of professional standards and/or regulatory requirements (if any). (b) For each scenario, discuss possible safeguards and/or alternative courses of action the auditor or firm should have taken in order to properly discharge their professional responsibilities. Presentation Question 2 Scenario 1: Claire Underwood has been the engagement partner on the Duke Limited audit for a number of years. Some time ago, Duke’s long-standing company secretary retired and Duke took six months to find a replacement. At Duke’s request, Claire performed company secretarial duties for this period of time. Scenario 2: As part of HTA’s financing arrangements with its bank, Fastmoney Ltd, it has a loan covenant that stipulates that the quick asset ratio cannot be less than 1 or Fastmoney Ltd has the right to withdraw all funding. The board has advised you that HTA’s quick asset ratio is currently at 0.9 due to industrial action holding up the sale of goods imported from Europe. The board has asked you to ignore this temporary breach of the loan covenant, explaining that HTA is a stable and financially sound company, and that the ratio will return to a level above 1 on resolution of the industrial dispute. The board has indicated that unnecessarily disclosing this within the audit report would force it to reconsider its plans to use your audit firm for other engagements. Required: (a) For each of the above scenarios list any breaches of professional standards and/or regulatory requirements (if any). (b) For each scenario, discuss possible safeguards and/or alternative courses of action the auditor or firm should have taken in order to properly discharge their professional responsibilities. Presentation Question 3 Scenario: Lee & Associates are auditors of Royale Furniture Pty Limited, a large furniture wholesaler currently experiencing financial difficulties. Royale Furniture is a significant client of Lee & Associates and has not paid their audit fee for the past three years. The audit partner recently threatened to resign from the audit if the outstanding fees were not paid. To prevent this occurring, Royale Furniture offered to supply Lee & Associates with new office furniture. The partner accepted this offer in full consideration of the outstanding fees, even though the furniture was only worth 50% of the balance. As a thankyou present, Royale Furniture gave the partner a 25% shareholding in an unrelated listed company. At present these shares are worth $1,000. Lee & Associates do not act as auditors of this company. Required: (a) For this scenario, list any breaches of professional standards and/or regulatory requirements (if any). (b) Discuss possible safeguards and/or alternative courses of action the auditor or firm should have taken in order to properly discharge their professional responsibilities.

 

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I am looking for a better explanation and solution to the following:

Scenario: You are the project manager responsible for a new building construction in northern Virginia. The building is worth $500,000 and will have five bedrooms, a kitchen, landscaping, and a two-car garage to be completed in two years. This was agreed upon in a firm fixed contract. During the execution (construction) of the building, you realize that the cost of materials have gone up by 10%, and your schedule is behind by 90 days due to delays from county inspections and permit processes. You also notice that if you continue with the current cost rate and schedule rate that the total cost to complete this house would be $600,000 and delivered three months late. 

Submit a three-page report explaining the reasons for these variances from your original project management plan and the proposed steps on how you are going to control the cost and schedule to achieve the contract threshold of $500,000 to be delivered in two years. Your plan must include the following: 

 Address identifications of impacted activities with their cost and schedule attributes, remembering to account for contingencies. 

 Address explanations of the roles your project management team will play during the execution of your project management plan and how they will help you to control the issues that are arising during the project. 

 At the end of your essay, add a separate section entitled, “Reflections on My Learning.” In this stand-alone section, summarize what you have learned in doing the research, reading the textbook, and reading the written lessons in regard to project management and how it impacted your decisions in this essay. 

Refer to the execution and control process examples in the Handbook of project-based management: Leading Strategic change in organizations textbook, Chapter 17. Include at least one additional source to support your ideas, thoughts, and theories. Use APA format to document your sources in-text and in your “References” list at the end of the essay. 

 

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Which of the following statements would be consistent with Dividend Irrelevance Theory?

  • There is no relationship between a firm’s dividend policy and the value of its common stock.
  • Investors prefer high payout ratio companies.
  • Investors prefer low payout ratio companies.
  • None of the above

The required rate of return of project is the prime rate.

 True

 False

Which of the following is true about the trade-off theory of capital structure (Moderate View or Static View)?

  • Value of the firm increases with debt financing.
  • Value of the firm decreases with debt financing..
  • Value of the firm will be unaffected by the manner in which a firm finances its assets.
  • Value of the firm first rises, riches a maximum and then falls as the firm uses more debt

Which of the following statements concerning the asymmetric information theory of capital structure is FALSE?

If outside funds are required, managers would issue new common stock if they believe their stock is overvalued.

If outside funds are required, managers would issue debt when they believe their stock is undervalued.

Investors recognize managers’ incentives and hence tend to mark down a firm’s stock price when new common stock is issued.

Firms should maintain a reserve debt capacity, so that they can always issue debt under relatively favorable terms.

Firms should over leverage, so that they can always issue new common stock under relatively favorable terms.

 

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