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Q.No:4:  Aslam needs to purchase a car to travel to Arid University campus every day. He likes to buy an affordable and economical car for everyday transport. Briefly describe the consumer decision process that he may undergo in order to buy a suitable car?

Question 1:- explain the five objectives of purchasing policy for automobile industry?- explain the roles of purchasing department?also provide the references of your answer Please answer in detail i will rate

QUESTION 2 Using the Areeda-Turner test, a competition authority risks making a type II error, that is, not prosecuting predatory pricing when the dominant firm prices above costs. O True O False

Q-5. What is the role of IT in today’s business era?

QUESTION 10 An Italian leather goods company that makes high-end shoes and belts is expanding its product line to include leather handbags. The firm hired consultants to conduct market research and determine the VTC for a popular handbag. The consultants established that this handbag's VTC was $1,200. The handbag has variable costs of $350. If the firm uses a skimming strategy, which of the following would be most likely to be the handbag's selling price? O $1,350 O $700 $675 O $1,100 O $450

Question 3  “The pandemic has moved forward retailers’ plans for online shopping, with Pick n Pay’s push set to take on Checkers’ Sixty60 service and Woolworths Dash. Launched in December 2020, Woolworths Dash is a same-day delivery service which is currently available in parts of Gauteng, the Western Cape and KZN. Checkers launched its Sixty60 app in 2019.The service allows customers to accept delivery within 60 minutes, or alternatively at a time that best suits them.”Identify the most appropriate model that the marketing manager at PnP would have explored to ascertain the competitive landscape and potential profitability of going live.

Q2: Kanke Pharma, a large well-established pharmaceutical company, made its name by pioneering innovative new drugs. Intense competition from other companies in the pharmaceutical industry, plus increasing government pressure to reduce the price of drugs, has put pressure on the company to reduce costs and speed up product development. In addition, the emergence of large health maintenance organizations (HMOS) and other large buyers of drugs has made marketing drugs much more difficult. To respond to these pressures, the organization has decided to create cross-functional teams composed of people from R&D, marketing, finance, and top management to respond to the new situation. a. How will the change in structure affect the relative power of the different functions? Give reasons b. How does the establishment of HMOS affect the resource dependence and power of Kanke Pharma? What can be done to manage this dependence?

QUESTION 2 Mogomotsi, a 27 year old graduate from Kopong, runs a small stock farm from a family ownedfarm at Metsimotlhabe. He obtains supplies (supplementary feed, medicines, tools) from localagrishops, hardwares. The government has recently secured markets in the Middle East for smallstock and rolled out programs to encourage more citizens to enter small stock farming business.Demand for weaners (sheep and goats), feed, medicines and all other implements has increased.Stud breeders and large-scale farmers have ramped up production to explore this opportunity.Traditionally, livestock was sold to Botswana Meat Commission, the government has liberalizedthis market with all chain stores setting up to take advantage to set butchery section to sell meat. a. In light of the above, conduct an industry analysis using Porter’s Five Forces Model.

5. With reference to the risk you mentioned in Q.4, what is your suggested action(s) for Sushiro? Explain. Reference is attached

Question 35 For every consumer who purchases a pair of TOMS shoes, the company promises that a needy child will receive a pair of shoes. TOMS shoes is actively fulfilling its O legal responsibility. O philanthropic responsibility. O ethical responsibility O economic responsibility.

Which of the following is not a benefit of risk mapping and prioritisation?   Question 5 options:   Risk maps are key graphical representations of the variance in risk appetites across different divisions within an organisation.   Ranking risks by their level of severity helps an organisation determine the optimal allocation of resources devoted to risk response or treatment.    Helps the organisation identify how certain risks can offset other risks to ensure that the enterprise maintains an overall risk profile that remains within risk capacity.   The results help an enterprise to communicate better its risk aggregated risk profile to key external stakeholders.

Q 6. In depth differentiate E-Business, E-Commerce and E-Government?

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Q6. Discuss the use of social media in the marketing of the product/service in Amazon retail company?

HI6026 AUDIT, ASSURANCE AND COMPLIANCE Question 1  You are currently involved in planning for the audit of Spot Light Ltd (SLL), a national company producing curtains and blinds. The curtain and the blind market is highly competitive, and SLL has been experiencing declining sales over the past three years. Cost-cutting has proven very difficult, as the cost of materials used in the company’s production lines has increased each year. SLL’s bank has continued to provide SLL with loan facilities; however, it has indicated that it expects to see improved results in the next financial report and has placed a number of quite restrictive covenants in SLL’s lending agreements. Recent articles appearing in the financial press concerning SLL’s expected financial results have been very pessimistic about its likely performance. Required: Based on the information provided: Discuss the overall impact on audit risk. Which specific component(s) of audit risk would be affected?  In refer to Question…

QUESTION 1. The CEO of Talk Ltd, Ms Andi, has made an observation about the pricing of products and seeks youradvice as the organisations Management Accountant. Ms Andi has noticed that despite three steepprice increases to products over the last 12 months, customers have not been deterred and sales arestronger than ever before. Explain to the CEO Ms Andi why this could be the case.

Q 6. Explain the e-commerce environment.

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Q6 define acceptance and explain all of its essentials

S1 Q2 What are the differences between traditional risk management and enterprise risk management?

The investigative and enforcement authority to deal with fraud and abuse violations was granted to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) through?   Question 32 options:   The False Claims Act   Stark Laws   Operation Restore Trust   Anti-Kickback Act

Q 6. In depth differentiate E-Business, E-Commerce and E-Government? With reference

QUESTION 1 Which of the following statements regarding foreast sharing game is INCORRECT?     Retailer only faces underage risk.     Supplier faces both underage and overage risks.     Suppliers tend to produce less than the supply chain optimal quantity.     The retailer has to purchase at least the quantity it reports to the supplier.   QUESTION 2 Assume that the firm can source from 2 faraway suppliers (each has Lead time = 4 months, capacity=60 k) and 2 Closeby suppliers (each Lead time =0 month, capacity=40k). The sales season starts in May. Which of the following statements regarding sourcing is INCORRECT?     The production change should be only applied to the Closeby supplier so that the firm can benefit from the change in time.     The production at the Faraway supplier should start in January and the production at Close-by supplier should start in May.     The firm should source from a combination of one faraway supplier and one close-by…

Op1. Read the following statement:   Built-in obsolescence means designing products that will degrade over time or otherwise need to be replaced. Many products depend on built-in obsolescence to ensure sales, such as light bulbs, batteries, and electronic devices.     4.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):   Do you think selling products with built-in obsolescence is an ethical way to do business?

Q1. What is warehousing? Explain in brief, some important issues in warehousing.

Which is an example of Assessing Risk?   Question 24 options:   Supply chain risk is the likelihood of a disruption that would impact the ability of a company to continuously supply products or services.   Disruption risks are caused by natural or manmade disasters.   Supply chain coordination risks are associated with the day-to-day management of the supply chain   All of the above

Q: 03. [10]Which is more effective technique; Push-based Supply Chain management or Pull-based Supply chain management? Provide a scenario where Push-based is effective and another scenario where pull-based could be effective. To the point answer is required.

Problem 20-14 (Algo) Charlie's Pizza orders all of its pepperoni, olives, anchovies, and mozzarella cheese to be shipped directly from Italy. An American distributor stops by every six weeks to take orders. Because the orders are shipped directly from Italy, they take five weeks to arrive. Charlie's Pizza uses an average of 160 pounds of pepperoni each week, with a standard deviation of 26 pounds. Charlie's prides itself on offering only the best-quality ingredients and a high level of service, so it wants to ensure a 99 percent probability of not stocking out on pepperoni. Assume that the sales representative just walked in the door and there are currently 500 pounds of pepperoni in the walk-in cooler. How many pounds of pepperoni would you order? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not round Intermediate calculations. Round "z" value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) Amount of pepperoni's…

Question 5 Your company has developed a new energy drink and you are trying to decide whether to sell the recipe, or make and distribute it yourself. A company will pay you $8 million for the recipe. If your company makes the drink itself, it will cost $7 million to build a factory and distribution network. Your analytics and marketing teams tell you there is a 10% chance the market response will be great, a 60% chance the market response will be decent with gross earnings of $15 million, and a 30% chance the market response will be poor with gross earnings of $5 million. If the market response is great, there is a 60% chance the drink will be the new fad and you will make gross earnings of $70 million, a 30% chance the gross earnings will be $40 million, and a 10% chance the gross earnings will be $20 million What is the expected value from the Perfect Information Tree Gust the perfect information tree. not EVP) Please write your answer in units of Smillions, and round to 2 decimal…

QUESTION 4 The Nitro Fertilizer Company is developing a new fertilizer. If Nitro markets the product and it is successful, the company will earn a $50,000 profit; if it is unsuccessful, the company will lose$35,000. In the past, similar products have been successful 60% of the time. At a cost of $5,000,3 the effectiveness of the new fertilizer can be tested. If the test result is favorable and Nitro markets the product, there is an 80% chance that the fertilizer will be successful. If the test result is unfavorable and Nitro markets the product, there is only a 30% chance that the fertilizer will be   successful. There   is   a   60%   chance   of   a   favorable   test result   and   a   40%   chance   of   an unfavorable test result. Use a decision tree to determine how to maximize this company’s expected profit. (Draw the decision tree for this problem; determine Nitro’s optimal strategy, and the expected profit.)

4.    Analyse and explain ONE key risk the company faced when it operates overseas. 5.    With reference to the risk you mentioned in Q.4, what is your suggested action(s) for Sushiro? Explain.