Discussion 1)
Speakers and Presentations
Please respond to ONE of the following:
Question A
Is it easier to criticize a speaker’s delivery than his or her message content? Please explain your response. What are some ways a speaker might minimize audience criticism?
Question B
Conduct an Internet search to locate a PowerPoint presentation. Please offer an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses. Please provide the link to your chosen PowerPoint so that your peers are able to view it.
Assignment 1)
Persuasive Presentation – Solution to a Problem (Visual Communication)
Think of a problem in your company, neighborhood, schools, or community, to which you would like to offer a solution.
Develop a presentation in PowerPoint that you might use to present your argument to the governing board of your chosen organization. Use what you know about persuasion, effective communication, and message organization to sell your idea.
In your PowerPoint, you will:
- Create 5-7 slides that present an introduction, body, and conclusion.
- Focus your message on audience needs and motivations. Use reasoning, appeals to emotion, and audience interests.
- Cite at least three outside sources.
- Include a coversheet slide, slide titles, bullets, charts (pie, bar, or line), clip art, and creativity in terms of animation effects and word choice.
- Use the NOTES feature to add the general text of what you will say in your presentation. Each slide will have two to three substantive paragraphs in its NOTES section. In most settings, you would do fine with using NOTES simply to place your keyword outline. However, since you will not be delivering this orally, more content is needed for your instructor to understand what you intend to communicate fully.
- Concentrate on formatting and the overall flow of your presentation. Be mindful of the rules of good visual design.
- Please submit your PowerPoint presentation along with a paragraph that provides background information, outlines your goal, and offers a brief description of your target audience.
Discussion 2)
Cash Flow Bankruptcy
This week, we covered Balanced Scorecard and Statement of Cash Flows. This is the financial statement used to analyze the cash flow of a company. Why is cash flow important to a company? Research a case where a company went out of business or declared bankruptcy due to poor cash flow and not a lack of sales, then summarize it for your initial post. It is not allowed to use the same company as a student from a previous post in Week 7.
The initial post must be at least 75-150 words with one external reference in APA format.
Assignment 2) ACC226 Week 7 Assignment 1
Balanced Scorecard
For this week’s assignment, address the following problems. Be sure to complete all steps and sections of the problem and show all your work.
1. During the current year, Plainfield Manufacturing earned income of $845,000 from total sales of $9,350,000 and average capital assets of $13,500,000. What is the sales margin?
2. Classify each of the following performance measures into the balanced scorecard perspective to which it relates: financial perspective, internal operations perspective, learning and growth perspective, or customer perspective.
a. Employee satisfaction surveys
b. Units of waste per production process, uniformity of products and inventory control
c. Number of energy-efficient bulbs replaced D. Management training course certificates awarded
d. Divisional profit
e. Number of customer referrals
3. Oleg Markov is the production manager of NASA Solvents. Due to limited capacity, the company can only produce one of two possible products:
a. an industrial concentrated solvent with a 15% probability of making a profit of $1 million and an 85% probability of making a profit of $200,000
b. a household diluted solvent with a 100% chance of making a profit of $310,000
4. Oleg will get a 20% bonus from his department. Oleg has the responsibility to choose between the two products and is more risk averse than most of the top management at NASA Solvents.
a. Which option is Oleg more likely to choose and why?
b. Which option would the company be more likely to choose and why?
c. What changes should the company make to Oleg’s compensation to encourage managers to take appropriate risks
Assignment 3) ACC226 Week 7 Assignment 2
Ford-Firestone Ethics Case Study
Please read the article The Ford-Firestone Case (also found in the Week 7 required reading).
Provide a review of this article using APA formatting guidelines. The paper should be a minimum of four pages, not including the cover page and reference page. At least four references (including the article used for the summary) are required for this paper.
Content Requirements
• Provide a summary of the case within the article
• Who do you think was at fault for the tire exploding? Please support your claim with evidence from the article and other references.
• Were there any ethical violations committed by either Ford or Firestone? Please support your claim with evidence from the article and other references.
• Please apply the lessons learned from this case and apply it to a particular situation from either your past, current, or future career.
Provide a review of this article using APA formatting guidelines. The paper should be a minimum of four pages, not including the cover page and reference page. At least four references (including the article used for the summary) are required for this paper.