Suppose that the Fabulous Hotel hires you as head chef under a two-year employment contract. After two years, another hotel wants to hire you. However, in the original employment contract you signed with the Fabulous Hotel, the following paragraph appears:

“The below-signed agrees not to work as a chef for another hotel in the same metropolitan area for a period of two years after leaving our employ.”

• Describe and analyze the five elements of a contract that must exist for this agreement to be enforceable.
• Explain why this contract is governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
• Examine at least two circumstances in which this non-compete agreement would be unenforceable.

Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook Seaquist, G. (2012). Business law for managers. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc, must be free of plagerism and be authentic

 

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After reading all chapters that have been assigned through this week, after watching the movie “Gung Ho” (available through Youtube.com for rent), and after reading the Background section on p. 575 of your text, complete the discussion questions on pp. 575-576 in your text. NOTE*  The minimum length for this response has been increased significantly.

To complete a discussion appropriately, you will meet the following criteria:

1. Think of discussion boards as mini-essay papers. We want to keep them focused and integrated.
2. Choose points that you find interesting/important and elaborate on those points in your discussion.Do NOT describe or restate the content of the discussion reading or video.
3. A minimum response is 500 words. Discussion boards are an all or nothing assignment. If you get everything correct, you get full credit. If you do not fulfill each and all of the requirements, you will receive zero (0) credit for your work. 
4. Every initial response is required to include, minimum, two scholarly or peer-reviewed resources to support your response. Our library allows you to choose these settings to help you find appropriate research to support your work.
5. Do NOT use Wikipedia.com, wiki-anything, about.com, how.com, answers.com, blogs, or any other generic answer base, because you cannot verify the accuracy of the information on the website. Instead, search our extensive library databases to find articles that contain verified information to support your discussion. If you find a blog from a notable source, you can include that information, but the blog will not count as one of your scholarly references.
6. There are several articles and videos in Course Documents and Web Links that you can, and should, use as references to support your discussions.
7. Every response must be completed in APA style. That includes all citations, both in text and reference. This includes indented paragraphs, font size, and other particulars that you will find specified in the APA manual. You will find an example of a paper written in APA style in Course Materials. Also, the APA style manual is a supplemental text for this course. Discussion boards do not require cover pages, tables of content, and other front matter, and can be copied and pasted from a draft document, such that attachments are not necessary.
8. You must respond to, at least, two (2) other students in class in their discussion boards/threads as well as any questions and comments from the professor and other students. Your responses to others in their threads are due by end of day, Saturday, of the due week. Your responses to everyone in your discussion board is due by end of day, Sunday, of due week. You are required to actively communicate with other students in this class as well as the instructor.
9. The initial post for each week’s discussion board is due by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m., of every week that a discussion board is due.
10. Each discussion board is worth 40 points toward your final total points. 
11. Technique counts, so be sure to proof read your posts for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other technical issues that can impact communication quality. If you are not a strong writer, you can contact the Writing Center for help toward improving your work.
12. I always suggest that students write their discussion board posts in Word or other word processing software rather than directly into Blackboard. This allows you to save your work and to make corrections before you post your work publicly. Blackboard has, regrettably, been known to eat some thoughtful and insightful responses simply because the response did not load correctly.
13. Below, you will see a checklist that will help you insure that your work meets graduate standards and decreases the likelihood that you will suffer oversights.

DB Checklist	Yes
Did I discuss rather than describe the original content?
Is my post 250 words or more?
Did I cite the original content as well as two scholarly sources to support my work?
Did I support my discussion with reliable/scholarly sources only?
Did I integrate course and text materials?
Did I adhere to APA style? (Did I look it up?)
Did I respond to two other students in their discussion boards by Saturday?
Did I respond to all questions and comments in my discussion board by Sunday?
Was my initial response posted by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m.?
Did I proofread and make corrections prior to posting?
Was my work reviewed by Turnitin.com for plagiarized material and corrected prior to being posted?

This is the third DB, And the country i should do is Estonia

I will apply the text book later, thank you!

 

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Preparation:

1. Read Article on regulating CEO pay (see attachment).
2. View Videos on Decision-making and Fundamentals of Economics (Videos are here
   https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fbfkug9ognbjx5i/AAD5aEx… )

Topic:

Executive compensationor executive pay is composed of the financial compensation and other non-financial awards received by an executive from their firm for their service to the organization. It is typically a mixture of salary, bonuses, stock, benefits, and perquisites.

The three decades starting with the 1980s, saw a dramatic rise in executive pay relative to that of an average worker’s wage in the United States, and to a lesser extent in a number of other countries. Observers differ as to whether this rise is a natural and beneficial result of competition for scarce business talent that can add greatly to stockholder value in large companies, or a socially harmful phenomenon brought about by social and political changes that have given executives greater control over their own pay. Executive pay is an important part of corporate governance, and is often determined by a company’s board of directors.

Questions:

1. What criteria do you think should be used to determine a CEO’s pay and raises?
   1. Would the criteria change based upon the industry; or profit versus non-profit company; why?
   2. Should the criteria be objective, subjective, or both; why?
2. Is legislation needed to regulate CEO salary; why?

 

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The research paper assignment is worth 220 points or 22% of the course grade.  A grade of C or better is required as per MBA policy as this is the Final Assessment for the course.

The objectives/purpose of the research paper project are to enable you to do a comprehensive financial analysis of a publicly traded corporation; and provide you with substantial information for you to make recommendations regarding investing in this corporation.

Your financial analysis report will be driven by a rigorous ratio analysis, and aggressively supplemented with your written analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the data.

Your research should be strategically driven by two probing questions:

-Would you invest your financial capital in the selected firm as a shareholder?

-Would you invest your human and intellectual capital in the firm as an employee?

Steps in preparation of financial analysis report:

1.) Select a publicly held company

2.) Select a benchmark firm to compare your company against. The benchmark firm is typically the largest competitor.

3.) Obtain the firm’s balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows for 

the past 5 years. Download or read the firm’s annual report.

4.)  Go to: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm

Research EDGAR’s database for additional SEC report filings: 8-k, 10-Q.

4.) The following table is the type of Excel or Word table that should be used to gather  and report your ratio and financial performance data. Note the 5 financial diagnostic categories that should be used in your analysis.

Financial diagnostic categories	Chosen company   vs.	Benchmark competitor
1.)  Liquidity of short-term assets	-Current ratio -Cash ratio -Quick ratio	-Current ratio -Cash ratio -Quick ratio
2.)  Long-term debt-paying ability	-Debt ratio -Debt-equity ratio -Times interest earned	-Debt ratio -Debt-equity ratio -Times interest earned
3.)  Profitability
-Net income/sales (profit margin) -Net income/assets (ROA) -Net income/shareholder equity  (ROE)	-Net income/sales (profit margin) -Net income/assets (ROA) -Net income/shareholder equity  (ROE)
4.)  Asset utilization/ management efficiency	-Total asset turnover -Inventory turnover  measures -Accounts receivable turnover	-Total asset turnover -Inventory turnover  measures -Accounts receivable turnover
5.)  Market measures	-Price/earnings ratio -Earnings per common share -Dividend payout	-Price/earnings ratio -Earnings per common share -Dividend payout

Use 2-3 ratios per diagnostic category. Place your ratio calculations in the table for your selected companies—primary company and benchmark competitor. Using 5 diagnostic categories, and 3 ratios to assess each category, results in 15 ratio measures per company that will be compared side by side.

6.)  To validate your research, 5 years of data should be analyzed.

7.) The financial analysis report must be written properly. They must include a title page, a table of contents, and a reference page. For both midterm and final report, information sources from the web, etc. must be cited properly, using APA style. 

This means that every table that you cut and pasted or typed from the web must have a source at the bottom of the table AND that citing must also be included in a reference page at the end of the report. 

The parts of the research paper are discussed below. The completed report (parts a through h) is due day 7 of week 6. Your project should include:

a. An overview of the corporation.

  i. Provide general information regarding the type of business, products and/or services, location of headquarters, name of CEO, number of employees, and countries of operation, etc.

b. The latest financial statements

  i. Get the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and the statement of owners’ equity for the past fiscal year. Create Turnitin-friendly versions of the financial statements; do not just ‘cut and paste’ them in your report. Do not forget to cite the source under each statement.

  ii. If you cannot cut and paste them, you may have to type in the information in a table in your report.

c. A summary of each financial statement

  i. Take each statement and state the key parts in words.  Tell a story from each of the financial statements.  For example, for the income statement, the story starts like, “Total Revenues in 2010 were $10 billion, while Cost of Goods Sold were $8 billion, leaving a gross profit margin of $2 billion, or 20 percent of total revenues….After taking out interest and taxes from EBIT, the net income was $0.5 billion, or 5 percent of total revenues.”

d. Ratio calculation (include 5 major types of ratios. Refer to chapter 3, Analysis of Financial Statements)

  i. Organization of this section is based on the FIVE types of ratios listed in the text book.  Calculate the ratios from the financial statements in part c above using Excel or your calculator and present them in a table.

  ii. Find industry financial ratios online (eg. Yahoo.com) and compare your corporation’s ratios to these industry ratios.

  iii. Present your results following the five types of ratios discussed in part d.

  iv. A table with both corporation and industry ratios is required;

  v. 

e. Discussion of key statistics provided by sources like Yahoo finance.

  i. There are many different other statistics available for your corporation. These include market value, beta, and diluted EPS, etc. Discuss some of the key statistics that you think can assist you to determine if this corporation is a good buy or sell.

f. For you to decide if a corporation’s stock is a good buy or sell, you must forecast several key variables, including the stock price. 

  i. Use historical prices (5 years of monthly data recommended) and forecast the stock price for the next year. Use regression analysis, and/or moving average, etc. to create your forecast. 

  ii. Create a graph from the historical data and show your forecast on the same graph. You can add a trend line to the graph to help you with a forecast.  Include the graph in your report.

  iii. You need to say specifically what the forecasted value of the stock price is. 

  iv. You must address the question, “Is this forecast reasonable?”  Must you amend your analysis to get a more reasonable forecast? 

g. Other information pertinent to the corporation that could affect its future performance and stock price. 

  i. This could include dividend policy, capital structure, bond ratings, expert opinions on TV, new projects, litigation, regulation, etc. Search for information on the web regarding this corporation. Look at company complaint blogs, etc.

h. Recommendation regarding the future of this corporation. 

  i. Is the stock a good buy, average buy, or a poor buy (implying a good sell)? 

  ii. Include a justification of your recommendation based on your analysis and research. 

 

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Make sure this is your “made up” organization and not one that already exists. Please include:

For this assignment, you will be sharing your interest in helping some group that is facing a crisis. For this assignment you will put together a powerpoint presentation and choose what area of concern you will be advocating for. This powerpoint should include the following:

Name of your organization

The mission and purpose or goals of your organization

How your organization will accomplish these goals

 

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