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Change Through the Ages

Part 1

Table 1.2 (pp.14–15) in your text summarizes the ways in which society’s goals for education have changed from the Agrarian Age through the Industrial Age and finally, to today’s Knowledge Age. Recognizing that one of the primary goals of education is to prepare individuals to enter and remain productive in the workforce, consider how occupations have changed in concert with educational goals. Choose one profession or occupation in particular and trace the changes it has endured through the ages as the economy, technology, and society change. For this assignment you may choose to examine your current profession or one you are interested in pursuing in the future. You are encouraged to speak to individuals in this profession to gain insights about the causes and effects of these changes.

Use the following questions to guide your thinking and writing:

• What sort of educational background is required for this profession?
• What value does society place on this profession?
• What technological advancements have played a role in this profession?
• What other forces have caused a need for change in this profession?

As you consider these questions, remember that you should keep a focus on how the profession has changed through time and not just what is required for the profession in our current age.

Use attached APA format template

The budgeting process may be approached differently in various firms. Top-down budgeting has its inception with directives from senior management who prepare the budget for staff and assess performance based on objectives established at higher levels. Any additional compensation received occurs as a result of achieving budgetary targets imposed by others. In contrast, bottom-up budgeting reflects the predictions of cost, revenue, profit, and investment center managers—proposed and approved by senior managers. Incentives are negotiated by managers proposing the budget rather than imposed by higher level executives.

In a well-written paper demonstrating CSU-Global standards, answer the following questions:

1. Define a flexible budget and describe its use. Under which budgeting approach would flexible budgets more likely be used, and why?
2. What might be the most important consideration in investigating budget variances?
3. What are the potential benefits of monitoring direct cost variances?
4. What are the potential benefits of monitoring overhead variances?
5. Should managers be commended for achieving favorable overhead spending, efficiency, and production volume variances? Rationalize your response.

In addition, include two or three outside references to support your research and conclusions.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• 2-3 pages in length
• Formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
• Include two or three outside references to support your research and conclusions

Attachments:

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Unit 1 Essay

Using the Columbia Southern University online library, research your favorite brand with respect to its effectiveness in new product marketing. Use the most current Interbrand  rating of brands as a reference (see Figure 1-5 of your course textbook).

1. Describe the target market that your brand is hoping to reach. What is the positioning strategy of this particular brand?

2. Examine the brand’s overall effectiveness in reaching its target market with both new products and existing products.

3. Identify the challenges and opportunities associated with this brand.

4. Recommend strategies that this particular brand should take in the next 10 years in order to maintain and/or increase their effectiveness.

Your APA-formatted response should be a minimum of two doubled spaced pages (not including the title and reference pages). You are required to use your course textbook, the Interbrand website, and at minimum one other credible reference. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Course Textbook

Keller, K.L. (2014). Strategic brand management: Building, measuring, and managing brand equity, (4^th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper summarizing the content of the simulation and address the following: 

• Identify two microeconomics and two macroeconomics principles or concepts from the simulation/video.
• Explain why you have categorized these selected principles or concepts as microeconomics or macroeconomics.
• Identify at least one shift of the supply curve and one shift of the demand curve in the simulation/video.
• Explain what causes the shifts, and how each shift affects the price, quantity, and decision making.

Include responses to the following:

• How might you apply what you learned about supply and demand from the simulation/video to your workplace or your understanding of a real-world product with which you are familiar?
• How do the concepts of microeconomics help you understand the factors that affect shifts in supply and demand on equilibrium price and quantity?
• How do the concepts of macroeconomics help you understand the factors that affect shifts in supply and demand on the equilibrium price and quantity?
• How does the price elasticity of demand affect a consumer’s purchasing and the firm’s pricing strategy as it relates to the simulation/video?

Cite a minimum of 3 peer reviewed sources.

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