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. On Monday you take your weekly ending inventory and find thefollowing:

• Steak                                       $3000
• Shrimp                                   $500
• Groceries                                $800
• Produce                                  $200
• Chicken                                  $500
• Spices &Herbs                      $500
• GroundChuck                        $500

The beginning inventory total was $10,000 and purchases were$2000. Your sales for the week are $18,000

1. What is your gross foodcost percent?

2. If your labor and benefitspercent is 40%, using your knowledge of prime costs should thebusiness be making money?

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Case: Mini Case - Temp Force, Respond to Questions a, b, d, ande (1, 2, 3, 4).

Your employer, a midsized human resources management company, isconsidering expansion into related fields, including theacquisition of Temp Force Company, an employment agency thatsupplies word processor operators and computer programmers tobusinesses with temporarily heavy workloads. Your employer is alsoconsidering the purchase of Biggerstaff & McDonald (B&M), aprivately held company owned by two friends, each with 5 millionshares of stock. B&M currently has free cash flow of $24million, which is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5%.B&M’s financial state-ments report short-term investments of$100 million, debt of $200 million, and preferred stock of $50million. B&M’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is 11%.Answer the following questions:

a. Describe briefly the legal rights and privileges of commonstockholders.

b. What is free cash flow (FCF)? What is the weighted averagecost of capital? What is the free cash flow valuation model?

c. Use a pie chart to illustrate the sources that comprise ahypothetical company’s total value. Using another pie chart, showthe claims on a company’s value. How is equity a residualclaim?

d. Suppose the free cash flow at Time 1 is expected to grow at aconstant rate of gL forever. If gL cash flows when discounted atthe WACC? If the most recent free cash flow is expected to grow ata constant rate of gL , WACC), what is a formula for the presentvalue of expected free cash flows when discounted at the WACC?

e. Use B&M’s data and the free cash flow valuation model toanswer the following questions:

(1) What is its estimated value of operations?

(2) What is its estimated total corporate value? (This is theentity value.)

(3) What is its estimated intrinsic value of equity?

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Management has often been described as a universal process,meaning the basics of management are transferable and applicable inalmost any environment. Do you believe a good manager in a bankcould be equally effective in a college or university? Explain yourreasoning.

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Your employer, a midsized human resources management company, isconsidering expansion into related fields, including theacquisition of Temp Force Company, an employment agency thatsupplies word processor operators and computer programmers tobusinesses with temporarily heavy workloads. Your employer is alsoconsidering the purchase of Biggerstaff & McDonald (B&M), aprivately held company owned by two friends, each with 5 millionshares of stock. B&M currently has free cash flow of $24million, which is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5%.B&M’s financial state-ments report short-term investments of$100 million, debt of $200 million, and preferred stock of $50million. B&M’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is11%.

Answer the following questions:

a. Describe briefly the legal rights and privileges of commonstockholders.

b. What is free cash flow (FCF)? What is the weighted averagecost of capital? What is the free cash flow valuation model?

c. Use a pie chart to illustrate the sources that comprise ahypothetical company’s total value. Using another pie chart, showthe claims on a company’s value. How is equity a residualclaim?

d. Suppose the free cash flow at Time 1 is expected to grow at aconstant rate of gL forever. If gL cash flows when discounted atthe WACC? If the most recent free cash flow is expected to grow ata constant rate of gL , WACC), what is a formula for the presentvalue of expected free cash flows when discounted at the WACC?

e. Use B&M’s data and the free cash flow valuation model toanswer the following questions:

(1) What is its estimated value of operations?

(2) What is its estimated total corporate value? (This is theentity value.)

(3) What is its estimated intrinsic value of equity?

(4) What is its estimated intrinsic stock price per share?

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. Outline one current issue from the uber organization is facingfrom its environment. Use the decision making approach to recommendhow the management could develop an appropriate response for thisissue.(20 marks)

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Offer evidence/arguments that major changes in IT at WestJetwere essential and that Smith's governance model would enableWestJet to achieve its strategic goal.

Summarize the lessons you learned based on the experiences atWestJet. How might these lessons help your organization evaluateits information technology capabilities and best serve its businessstrategies and needs?

A. What is the overall reliability of the 18-wheeler’s GPSSystem? (2 points)