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2. BUS 630 Entire Course (Old) BUS 630 Week 1 Assignment Dell Inc. Paper BUS 630 Week 1 DQ 1 Theory of Constraints BUS 630 Week 1 DQ 2 Kranbrack Corporation BUS 630 Week 2 Assignment Basic CVP Analysis (Fashion Shoe Company) BUS 630 Week 2 DQ 1 Downsizing and fixed cost BUS 630 Week 2 DQ 2 Direct Labor Variable or Fixed Cost BUS 630 Week 1 Assignment Dell Inc. Paper BUS 630 Managerial Accounting Submit a paper on one of the major topics listed below using one of the recommended journal articles found in the syllabus as the basis for the paper and incorporating at least two other related articles of the student’s choice: Outsourcing Supply Chain Management Cost Cutting Budgeting Options

3. BUS 630 week 1 DQ 1 Theory of Constraints DQ1. Apply the Theory of Constraints to your own working environment (past or present). Explain why your organization doesn’t have unlimited resources (space, inventory, product line, etc). Explain why there are always limits to what your organization can do. BUS 630 week 1 DQ 2 Kranbrack Corporation DQ2. M.K. Gallant is president of Kranbrack Corporation, a company whose stock is traded on a national exchange. In a meeting with investment analysts at the beginning of the year, Gallant had predicted that the company’s earnings would grow by 20% this year. Unfortunately, sales have been less than expected for the year, and Gallant concluded with two weeks of the end of the fiscal year that it would impossible to ultimately report an

4. BUS 630 week 2 Assignment Basic CVP Analysis (Fashion Basic CVP Analysis Complete the following exercise (Problem 4-21) and submit to your instructor. The Fashion Shoe Company operates a chain of women’s shoe shops around the country. The shops carry many styles of shoes that are all sold at the same price. Sales personnel in the shops are paid a substantial commission on each BUS 630 week 2 DQ 1 Downsizing and fixed cost Downsizing and Fixed Costs Industry downsizing has been a major part of the corporate world, even government agencies are downsizing. GovernmentExecutive.com "covers the business of the federal government and its huge departments and agencies - dozens of which dwarf the largest institutions in the private sector" on its website. Read the assigned Government Executive article and answer the following questions:

5. BUS 630 week 2 DQ 2 Direct Labor Variable or Fixed Cost Direct Labor: Variable or Fixed Cost? Throughout the corporate world, businesses are transforming labor into a more flexible (and variable) cost. Among such companies are Hewlett- Packard, General Electric, DuPont, Sun Microsystems, and British Airways. Discuss whether direct labor is a fixed or a variable cost. BUS 630 week 3 Assignment JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways Complete the following exercise (Research and Application 7-20) and submit to your instructor. The questions in this exercise are based on JetBlue Airways Corporation. To answer the questions, you will need to download JetBlue’s 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2004 (10K/A with a filing date of March 8, 2005). You do not need to print the 10-K/A to answer the questions.JetBlue’s 10-K/A

6. BUS 630 week 3 DQ 1 Fixed Labor  FixedLabor Far North Telecom, Ltd., of Ontario, has organized a new division to manufacture and sell specialty cellular telephones. The division’s monthly costs are shown in the table below. Far North Telecom regards all of its workers as full-time employees and the company has a long- standing no layoff policy. Furthermore, production is highly automated. BUS 630 week 3 DQ 2 Profitability  Profitability Complete the following exercise and respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings. Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family- owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $28 per hundred square feet.

7. BUS 630 week 4 Assignment Master budget exercise Master Budget Exercises Complete the following three exercises and submit to your instructor. Be sure to show your work for calculations to earn full credit. Sales and Production Budgets (8- 12): The marketing department of Jessi Corporation has submitted the following sales forecast for the upcoming fiscal year (all sales are on account): BUS 630 week 4 DQ 1 Behavioral aspects Behavioral Aspects of Budgeting Norton Company, a manufacturer of infant furniture and carriages, is in the initial stages of preparing the annual budget for next year. Scott Ford has recently joined Norton’s accounting staff and is interested to learn as much as possible about the company’s budgeting process. During a recent lunch with Marge Atkins, sales manager, and Pete

8. BUS 630 week 4 DQ 2 Critiquing a cost report Critiquing a Cost Report Complete the following exercise: Frank Weston, supervisor of the Freemont Corporation's Machining Department, was visibly upset after being reprimanded for his department's poor performance over the prior month. The department's cost control report is given below: "I just can't understand all the red ink," Weston complained to the supervisor of another department. "When the boss called me in, I thought he was going to give BUS 630 week 5 Assignment FedEx Corporation What is FedEx’sstrategy for success in the marketplace? Does the company rely primarily on acustomer intimacy, operations excellence, or product leadership customer valueproposition? What evidence supports your conclusion? What are FedEx’sfour main business segments? Provide two examples of traceable fixed costs foreach of FedEx’s four business segments. Provide two examples of common costs that are not traceable to the four business segments.

9. BUS 630 week 5 DQ 1 Variance Analysis Variance Analysis in a Hospital Complete problem 10-15 in the text and answer the three required questions. John Fleming, chief administrator for Valley View Hospital, is concerned about the costs for tests in the hospital's lab. Charges for lab tests are consistently higher at Valley View than at other hospitals and have resulted in many complaints. Also, because of strict regulations on amounts reimbursed for lab tests, payments received from insurance companies BUS 630 week 5 DQ 2 Perverse Affects of Some Perverse Affects of Some Performance Measures Complete the following exercise and provide a recommendation for each of the four scenarios presented. There is often more than one way to improve a performance measure. Unfortunately, some of the actions taken by managers to make their performance look better may actually harm the organization. For example, suppose the marketing department is held responsible

10. BUS 630 week 6 Assignment Final Project Submit a paper on one of the major topics listed below using one of the recommended journal articles found in the syllabus as the basis for the paper and incorporating at least two other related articles of the student’s choice: Cost Management Outsourcing Supply Chain Management Cost Cutting Budgeting Options BUS 630 week 6 DQ 1 Make Or Buy Make or Buy Han Products manufactures 30,000 units of part S-6 each year for use on its production line. At this level of activity, the cost per unit for part S-6 is as follows: Direct materials $ 3. 60 Direct labor 10.00 Variable manufacturing overhead 2.40 Fixed manufacturing overhead 9.00

11. BUS 630 week 6 DQ 2 Net Present Value Analysis  Net Present Value Analysis Complete the following exercise, using this Excel template, and respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.. In eight years, Kent Duncan will retire. He is exploring the possibility of opening a self-service car wash. The car wash could be managed in the free time he has available from his regular occupation, and it could be closed easily when he retires. After careful study, Mr. Duncan has determined the following:

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