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BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 1 Discussion 1 Three Major Concerns • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Three Major Concerns" Please respond to the following: • Analyze at least two major concerns for the federal government concerning the pricing of goods and services. Determine which major concern you believe is the most important to address, and provide a rationale for your response.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 1 Discussion 2 Fair Pricing FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com "Fair Pricing" Please respond to the following: Categorize at least two factors that VectorCal uses to determine a fair and reasonable price for the navigation system it is marketing to the government. Suggest key reasons why these two factors are important in determining the fair and reasonable prices for VectorCal's
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 2 Discussion 2 Fixed Price -vs- Cost-Reimbursement • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Fixed Price -vs- Cost-Reimbursement" Please respond to the following: • • Compare and contrast the fixed-price and cost-reimbursement for the VectorCal navigation system. Determine which type of costing mechanism best serves VectorCal's needs. Provide a rationale for your response.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 3 Assignment 1 Proposal (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Papers Assignment 1: Proposal Due Week 3 and worth 150 points Note: Refer to scenarios and readings from previous weeks in order to complete this assignment. Imagine that you just created a new start-up company. You want to compete
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 3 Discussion 1 Price Analysis • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Price Analysis" Please respond to the following: • Examine at least two purposes that price analysis serves to a company like VectorCal and to its product line. Support your answer with two (2) examples of companies that used price analysis to better serve their organizations.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 3 Discussion 2 Best Use of Price Analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com "Best Use of Price Analysis.' Please respond to the following: • Examine all of the methods for performing a price analysis that VectorCal can use when creating its own price analysis, and then
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 4 Assignment 2 Price Analysis for the Navigation Systems (2 Papers) • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario from Assignment 1, as well as to the scenarios and readings from previous weeks.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 4 Discussion 1 Classifications of Costs • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Classifications of Costs" Please respond to the following: • Diagram two to three (2-3) of the classifications for costs, and propose the value of each of these classifications in the production of the navigation system at VectorCal. Explain your decision for each classification chosen.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 4 Discussion 2 Other Costs • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Other Costs" Please respond to the following: • Determine the differences between overhead costs and G & A costs in the production of VectorCal’s navigation systems overall. Analyze the role that each of these types of costs plays in the long-term production of VectorCal’s navigation systems. Justify your analysis.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 5 Discussion 1 How to Forecast Costs • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "How to Forecast Costs" Please respond to the following: • Infer the main reasons for the high number of government contracting invitations extended for the purpose of obtaining certified cost or pricing data. Speculate on why the invitation is the last item in the gathering of cost and pricing process. Justify your response.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 5 Discussion 2 Certified Costs • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Certified Costs" Please respond to the following: • Imagine that a contracting office requests certified cost or pricing data related to your company, VectorCal. Speculate on what would happen to VectorCal in the long term if the cost or pricing data was defective or inaccurate. Provide a rationale for your response.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 6 Assignment 3 Buy American Requirements (2 Papers) • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • Assignment 3: Buy American Requirements • Due Week 6 and worth 240 points • In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario from Assignment 1, as well as to the scenarios and readings from previous weeks.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 6 Discussion 1 Labor Costs FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com "Labor Costs" Please respond to the following: Identify at least two factors that VectorCal uses to determine its labor costs for the creation of the navigation system that it is marketing
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 6 Discussion 2 Work Breakdown Structure • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Work Breakdown Structure" Please respond to the following: • Compare and contrast work breakdown schedule (WBS) and Phase Diagram in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness for the VectorCal navigation system. Determine which method best serves VectorCal’s needs. Provide a rationale for your response.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 7 Discussion 1 Indirect Costs FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com "Indirect Costs" Please respond to the following: Predict VectorCal’s indirect costs based on the direct costs (e.g. direct labor, direct materials or both). Next, from the e-Activity provide two examples of companies with the same indirect costs that you predicted for VectorCal. Speculate on what the indirect costs
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 7 Discussion 2 Direct Costs • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Direct Costs" Please respond to the following: • Examine the methods that VectorCal could use for estimating the direct costs. Next, specify two to three (2-3) ways in which VectorCal could control these costs. Explain your rationale.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 8 Assignment 4 Analysis of Direct Costs (2 Papers) • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario from Assignment 1, as well as to the scenarios and readings from previous weeks. • Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 8 Discussion 1 Overhead Expenses • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Overhead Expenses" Please respond to the following: • From the-Activity, compare and contrast the manner in which VectorCal and other businesses that you researched analyze overhead costs.Selecttwo to three (2-3) methods that the businesses in question used for allocating costs for theanalysisof their overhead expenses. Explain your rationale.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 8 Discussion 2 G & A Expense • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "G & A Expense" Please respond to the following: • Specify several advantages of operating a small business when it comes to General and Administrative (G&A) expenses. Determine the single most important advantage that you believe would benefit the small-business owner the most. Explain your answer.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 9 Discussion 1 Facility Costs • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Facility Costs" Please respond to the following: • Suppose you have been working with the federal government for a period of time, and you decide to form a small company. Explain the difference between depreciation and the facilities capital cost of money. Specify the key advantages of having facilities capital cost of money as an allowable cost. Justify your response.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 9 Discussion 2 Procedures of FCCOM FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com "Procedures of FCCOM" Please respond to the following: • Describe two to three (2-3) circumstances in which facilities capital costs of money is an allowable cost. Determine the single most significant advantage of having facilities capital costs as an allowable cost under
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 10 Assignment 5 Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types (2 Papers) • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • Assignment 5: Federal Contracting Activities and Contract Types • Due Week 10 and worth 240 points • Note: Refer to scenarios and readings from previous weeks in order to complete this assignment.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com BUS 315 Week 10 Discussion 1 Profit FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus315rank.com "Profit" Please respond to the following: Determine two to three (2-3) reasons why VectorCal may not always receive the exact amount of profit that it negotiated into its contract with the federal government. Predict two to three (2-3) outcomes VectorCal may experience as a result of not meeting
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 10 Discussion 2 NASA • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "NASA" Please respond to the following: • Analyze the methods used by NASA in its structured profit approach, and speculate on how VectorCal could possibly use the same structured profit approach with their manufacturing operations. Support your analysis with examples of such an approach.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 11 Discussion 1 Course Wrap-Up • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Course Wrap-Up" Please respond to the following: • Sum up two of the most important concepts you learned from this course and state how you might use these. • Identify someone in your life who would benefit from taking this course, and explain the reasons why.
BUS 315 RANK Inspiring Innovation--bus315rank.com • BUS 315 Week 11 Discussion 2 Looking Forward • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bus315rank.com • "Looking Forward" Please respond to the following: • • Speculate on what technology might be able to do in 15 years to improve the contracting process. • Hypothesize whether contracting with the government will be easier or more difficult in the future. Provide a rationale for your answer