strayer bus315 all weeks discussions [ week 1 to week 10 all 20 discussions ]

"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.
• Imagine you are a CEO of a large company. Provide two examples of the manner in which you would incorporate a price analysis in your company. Predict the important ways in which your use of price analysis would lead to financial success for the whole company.

"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 specify two to three (2-3) price analysis methods that would best serve VectorCal’s needs. Explain your rationale.
• From the e-Activity, speculate on key areas where most companies fall short when conducting price analyses. Suggest two (2) methods that a company CEO should use in order to reduce price analysis inconsistencies. Support your suggestion with real-world examples.

"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.
• From first the e-Activity, compare and contrast the manner in which VectorCal and the other businesses that you researched utilize cost principles. Specify which cost principles you believe to be the most and least important for any business, and justify your rationale for each.

"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.
• Predict VectorCal’s direct labor cost, direct material cost, overhead costs, and G&A costs related to production. Next, from the second e-Activity, provide two to three(2-3) examples of companies with the same cost structure that you predicted for VectorCal. Speculate on what the cost structure of the existing companies bodes for the future of VectorCal.

"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 to the government. Specify key reasons why these two factors are important in determining the labor costs for VectorCal’s navigation systems. Support your response with one example of such importance.
• From the e-Activity, speculate on key areas where most companies fall short when determining their labor costs. Suggest two (2) methods that a company CEO should use in order to reduce price labor cost inconsistencies. Support your suggestion with two (2) real-world examples.

"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.
• Suggest two to three (2-3) other methods that VectorCal could use to obtain labor cost data in anaccurate fashion in addition to WBS and Phase Diagram. Predict the manner in which VectorCal could use these methods to decrease the amount of government funds needed.

"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 of the existing companies bodes for the future of VectorCal.
• Suggest one way in which how VectorCal could estimate the future indirect costs for at least ten potential line items related to the production of its navigation systems. Determine two to three (2-3) line items that could affect the indirect costs the most. Justify your response.

"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.
• Determine the manner in which VectorCal could estimate the future direct costs for at least ten potential line items related to the production of its navigation systems. Determine two to three (2-3) line items that could affect the direct costs the most. Justify your response.

"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.
• Compare and contrast the facility costs of VectorCal and the US Government. Determine at least two advantages for using facility costs for both VectorCal and the US Government. Explain your rationale.

"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 the circumstances you described. Support your response.
• Determine two to three (2-3) possible factors that could make facilities capital costs of money unallowable based on the information presented in Chapter 9. Present two to three (2-3) examples of instances where companies have made facility capital costs of money available.

week 10

"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 the profit requirements specified in their government contract. Justify your response.
• Hypothesize two examples of circumstances where a company has not met the profit requirements of a government contract. Next, speculate on why these circumstances resulted in a failure to meet the profit requirements of its contract with the federal government. Next, from the e-Activity, provide one example of a company that has not met the profit requirements of a government contract, and specify the company’s end result.

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"NASA" Please respond to the following:

• Analyze the methods used by NASA in itsstructured 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.
• Take a position on whether or not companies benefit from using a structured profit approach to calculate their profits. Provide an explanation of your position with at least two examples or scenarios of the use of such an approach.

"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 theanalysis of their overhead expenses. Explain your rationale.
• Analyze key ways in whichyou would make the most use of the cost analysis in supporting VectorCal’s contract with the federal government.Speculate on what you believe would happen if the cost analysis related to the VectorCal’s current federal government contract changed. Justify your response.

"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.
• Compare and contrast the G&A expense from a large company and a smaller company. Determine which characteristics you believe are the most important for both large and small companies. Justify your response for each.