Select a publicly traded corporation for which you would like to work or are currently working.

Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange 

Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, 

and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address 

some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1.  Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall 

success.

2.  Analyze the five (5) forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.

3.  Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, 

opportunities, and threats.

4.  Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths 

and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.

5.  Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its 

competitiveness and profitability.

6.  Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend 

above known to all stakeholders.

7.  Select two (2) corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how 

effective they are at controlling managerial actions.

8.  Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1) 

recommendation for improvement.

9.  Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine 

the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific 

examples to support your response.

10.  Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as 

academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

ï‚·  Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all 

sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any

additional instructions.

ï‚·  Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s 

name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in 

the required page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

ï‚·  Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall 

success.

ï‚·  Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and it s firms.

ï‚·  Identify the five forces of competition.

ï‚·  Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm. 

Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the 

firm’s competitiveness.

ï‚·  Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm .

ï‚·  Assess the ethical implications related to strategic decisions.

ï‚·  Predict ways in which corporate governance will affect strategic decisions.

ï‚·  Assess the relationship between strategy and organizational structure.

ï‚·  Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.

ï‚·  Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

 

Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2013). Strategic management: Concepts and cases: 

Competiveness and globalization (10th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.

Bluesky Systems is a software development company that builds software components for a variety of private and government clients. Their current infrastructure is outdated and has been prone to being attacked by hackers that have exploited vulnerabilities in their current DNS causing serious down time. In the last 4 years Bluesky has had to recover from numerous disasters due to a lack of any good business continuity planning. Remote access to the two existing sites is allowed using Cisco VPN technology. This has caused numerous security issues because of missing security patches, outdated AV signatures and missing OS patches and updates. Bluesky currently has 45 employees in their Tucson location and 15 in their Phoenix location. Bluesky is preparing to add another remote site in Sierra Vista to support their military contracts scheduled to be awarded in 2012. The Sierra Vista location will add another 12 employees to the network. Bluesky needs to bring their current infrastructure into strict compliance with government security as a trusted network with access to government data. Bluesky Systems needs to upgrade their current infrastructure of Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008. The move is designed to improve over all server performance, security, application and data provisioning, monitoring, and business continuity. This is will also begin the process of bringing Bluesky into compliance as a trusted government network. Current Infrastructure: Bluesky has a main site located in Tucson Arizona with one remote site located Phoenix, Arizona. Another remote site is proposed for 2012 for Sierra Vista, Arizona which add an additional 12 employees. The three sites will be connected via a VPN connection built between their three ASA firewalls. The existing two sites are configured as follows. The Blue Sky internal domain located in Tucson, called bluesky.local has two domain controllers. All servers run Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition. All client computers run either Windows XP, or Windows 7. Rosa Ruiz, director of technology at Blue Sky has asked you to design a new networking infrastructure for the company. 1. A parallel network installation deploying new hardware and/or virtualization is used to replace the existing infrastructure. The existing network is left in place until a time that the network is no longer needed. 2. All proposals should have the following services and server roles present. a. DNS b. DHCP c. WSUS d. AD e. Security policy f. Auditing g. Backup and recovery h. Remote access i. Continuity planning 3. Your proposal should begin with an executive summary of the proposed Server 2008 deployment for Bluesky Systems. 4. Your responsibilities for the server deployment begins at the clients demark for all three sites. No changes to any router, ASA firewall or VPN is needed. 5. Your proposal will be written using either MLA or APA formatting. Use one or the other but remain consistent throughout your proposal. Your proposal will have a cover sheet, be double spaced, include an executive summary, network diagram and have a minimum of 1000 words. There is no word limit so if you need to add more than the 1000 words, feel free to do so. Be sure to cite your sources using the proper MLA or APA formatting.

 

 

 

On November 1, Carter Company signed a 120-day, 9% note payable, with a face value of $16,200. What is the adjusting entry for the accrued interest at December 31 on the note? (Use 360 days a year.) No journal entry required. Debit interest expense, $162; credit interest payable, $162. Debit interest expense, $243; credit interest payable, $243. Debit interest expense, $324; credit interest payable, $324. Debit interest expense, $486; credit interest payable, $486.

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