Assignment 3: Defining Social Justice

Social justice has been defined in different ways, but the definitions usually include similar ideologies. As you study the concept of social justice, you will come across some of the following ideas:

• Historical inequities that affect current injustices should be corrected until the actual inequities no longer exist or have been perceptively “negated.”
• Wealth, power, and status should be redistributed for the good of the individual, the community, and the society.
• It is the responsibility of the government (or those who hold significant power) to ensure a basic quality of life for all its citizens.

Research definitions of social justice using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

Examine the definitions, analyzing them for similarities and differences. Identify the differences among the three. Identify the similarities. Using your reasoning skills, give supporting statements or arguments that support your position/s.

Your comparing and contrasting must consider the following:

• Historical values and ideologies of the country
• Economic structure of the country
• Discrimination against women and/or certain racial and ethnic groups, if any

Develop a 2–3-page analysis of the definitions that explain how these factors impact their similarities and/or differences. Provide detailed explanations and support your explanations with scholarly sources. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. 

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

By Wednesday, January 16, 2013, deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Selected three suitable definitions for study demonstrating in-depth research.	24
Compared and contrasted similarities and differences of selected definitions.	44
Gave valid reasons in support of assertions.	12
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	20
Total:	100

 

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As the representative from your accounting firm or practice, you are in charge of stock market analysis that will be presented to clients as part of professional consultation process. One of your high-profile clients is trying to determine the possible investment potential between two companies. However, before you can recommend investments to clients, you need to familiarize yourself with the background of the companies, analyze stock trends, research current events, and analyze financial statements. Select one (1) pair of these companies and conduct your analysis.

·       Pepsi versus Coca Cola, or

·       Amazon versus eBay

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

1.     Analyze each company’s history, product / services, major customers, major suppliers, and leadership and provide a synopsis of each company.

2.     Based on the stock price for the timeline listed below, present a graph that illustrates the stock price of each company. Indicate conclusions that can be drawn based on the trend:  
a. The day of its initial public offering
b. January 1, 2013
c. January 1, 2012
d. January 1, 2011

3.     Research and summarize at least two (2) news events (this may include mergers, acquisitions, or political issues) that occurred from 2012 to the present day and the potential impact on the stock price of each company. Indicate how this influences your investment decision related to the company. 

4.     Provide an overall financial analysis for each company that highlights the key characteristics for investment and how this may impact an investor’s decision. 

5.     Based on your review of the financial data for each company, indicate the accuracy and reliability of the data for making investment decision. Provide support for your conclusion. 

6.     Recommend which company you consider as the better investment for your client and how you will present your recommendation. Support your recommendation with data from your analysis.

7.     Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: 

·       Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 

·       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 assignment page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: 

·       Analyze the accounting for corporation requirements related to stock valuation, dividends, and retained earnings.

·       Determine how to value investments and how to report them based on that valuation.

·       Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting.

·       Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.

 

 

A. 1) Big Fizz Co., a manufacturer of cola-flavored drinks, wants to add packaged fruit juices to its existing product line. Big Fizz must ma Product

B.  Place

C.  Promotion

D.  Price

 

2) Hewlett-Packard sells personal computers through specialty computer stores, electronics superstores, and its own Internet site. What is the marketing mix variable that is being considered here?

 

A.  Price

B.  Promotion

C.  Product

D.  Place

 

3) Marketing strategy planners should recognize that:

 

A.  target markets should not be large and spread out

B.  mass marketing is often very effective and desirable

C.  large firms like General Electric, Target, and Procter & Gamble are too large to aim at clearly defined markets

D.  target marketing is not limited to small market segments

 

4) Target marketing, in contrast to mass marketing,

 

A.  is limited to small market segments

B.  assumes that all customers are basically the same

C.  ignores markets that are large and spread out

D.  focuses on fairly homogeneous market segments

 

5) The process of naming broad product-markets and then dividing them in order to select target markets and develop suitable marketing mixes is called:

 

A.  market penetration

B.  market segmentation

C.  market development

D.  market research

 

6) ______________ is the process of naming broad product-markets and then segmenting these broad product-markets in order to select target markets and develop suitable marketing mixes.

 

A.  Market positioning

B.  Market segmentation

C.  Mass marketing

D.  Diversification

 

7) Marketing research which seeks structured responses that can be summarized is called

 

A.  focus group research

B.  quantitative research

C.  qualitative research

D.  situation analysis research

 

8) One of the major disadvantages of the focus group interview approach is that

 

A.  ideas generated by the group cannot be tested later with other research

B.  it is difficult to measure the results objectively

C.  it is difficult to get in-depth information about the research topic

D.  there is no interviewer, so the research questions may not be answered

 

9) When focus group interviews are used in marketing,

 

A.  each person in the group answers the same questionnaire, to focus the discussion

B.  the typical group size is 15 to 20 typical consumers whether online or off-line

C.  it is primarily as a follow-up to more quantitative research

D.  the research conclusions will vary depending on who watches the interview whether online or off-line

 

10) Focus groups

 

A.  are usually composed of 10 to 15 people as participants

B.  yield results that are largely dependent on the viewpoint of the researcher

C.  always do a good job of representing the broader target market

D.  have a low cost per participant

 

 

11) A small manufacturing firm has just experienced a rapid drop in sales. The marketing manager thinks that he knows what the problem is and has been carefully analyzing secondary data to check his thinking. His next step should be to

 

A.  conduct an experiment

B.  develop a formal research project to gather primary data

C.  conduct informal discussion with outsiders, including intermediaries, to see if he has correctly defined the problem

D.  develop a hypothesis and predict the future behavior of sales

 

12) The marketing manager at Massimino & McCarthy, a chain of retail stores that sells men’s clothing, is reviewing marketing research data to try to determine if changes in marketing strategy are needed. Which of the following sources of data would be a secondary data source?

 

A.  Looking through the company’s marketing information system to see past sales trends

B.  Reviewing videotapes of a recent focus group

C.  Making phone calls to some of the best customers to learn their interest in a new line of clothing

D.  Spending time in stores observing customers’ behavior

 

13) Which of the following statements about consumer products is true?

 

A.  Convenience products are those that customers want to buy at the lowest possible price.

B.  Shopping products are those products for which customers usually want to use routinized buying behavior.

C.  Specialty products are those that customers usually are least willing to search for.

D.  Unsought products are not shopped for at all.

 

14) The attitudes and behavior patterns of consumers making a purchasing decision are part of the

 

A.  political environment

B.  social and cultural environment

C.  competitive environment

D.  firm’s resources and objectives

 

15) The observing method in marketing research

 

A.  uses personal interviews

B.  may require customers to change their normal shopping behavior

C.  is used to gather data without consumers being influenced by the process

D.  is not suitable for obtaining primary data

 

16) The first step in market segmentation should be

 

A.  deciding what new product you could develop

B.  evaluating what segments you currently serve

C.  finding a demographic group likely to use your products

D.  defining some broad product-markets where you may be able to operate profitably

 

17) The product life cycle

 

A.  describes the stages a new product idea goes through from beginning to end

B.  has three major stages

C.  applies to categories or types of products as opposed to brands

D.  shows that sales and profits tend to move together over time

 

18) Which of the following is one of the product life cycle stages?

 

A.  Market analysis

B.  Market growth

C.  Market feedback

D.  Market research

 

19) While watching a television program, Liza gets a phone call just as a commercial is starting. She presses the mute button on the television’s remote control and takes the call, so she pays no attention to the commercial. In terms of the communication process, the telephone call is an example of what?

 

A.  Encoding

B.  Noise

C.  Decoding

D.  Feedback

 

20) Which of the following functions are performed by wholesalers in the channel of distribution?

 

A.  Providing information to retailers

B.  Placing radio advertisements for retailers

C.  Placing newspaper advertisements for retailers

D.  Providing goals for retailers

 

 

21) Typically the ______________ and the marketing manager are responsible for building good distribution channels and implementing place policies.

 

A.  public relations manager

B.  sales manager

C.  advertising manager

D.  human resources manager

 

22) SGCA is having a sales contest to encourage retailers to quickly reduce the inventory of SuperGamer computers. Retailers with the highest sales during the next month win an expense paid trip to a special dealer meeting at a resort in Hawaii. This is

 

A.  probably illegal because it might encourage price competition among retailers

B.  an example of cooperative advertising

C.  the type of promotion that continues to impact sales even after the promotion is over

D.  an example of a manufacturer using trade sales promotion in the channel

 

23) Advertising allowances

 

A.  are incentive monies given to firms further along in the channel to encourage them to advertise or otherwise promote the firm’s products

B.  involve intermediaries and producers sharing in the cost of ads

C.  allow for coordination and integration of ad messages in the channel

D.  set the allowance amount as a percent of the retailer’s actual purchases

 

24) Price reductions given to channel members to encourage them to promote or otherwise promote a firm’s products locally are

 

A.  quantity discounts

B.  brokerage allowances

C.  push money allowances

D.  advertising allowances

 

25) A producer using very aggressive promotion to get final consumers to ask intermediaries for a new product has

 

A.  a pulling policy

B.  a target marketing policy

C.  a selective distribution policy

D.  a pushing policy

 

26) Nantucket Hammocks, Inc., uses dealer incentives, discounts, and sales contests in order to encourage retailers to give special attention to selling its products. Nantucket Hammocks is using

 

A.  exclusive distribution

B.  a corporate channel system

C.  dual distribution

D.  pushing

 

27) Quality Ceramic, Inc., (QCI) defined five submarkets within its broad product-market. To obtain some economies of scale, QCI decided NOT to offer each of the submarkets a different marketing mix. Instead, it selected two submarkets whose needs are fairly similar, and is counting on promotion and minor product differences to make its one basic marketing mix appeal to both submarkets. QCI is using the

 

A.  combined target market approach

B.  single target market approach

C.  multiple target market approach

D.  mass marketing approach

 

28) When segmenting broad product-markets, cost considerations tend

 

A.  to encourage managers to disregard the criterion that a product-market segment should be substantial

B.  to lead to more aggregating

C.  to be unimportant as long as the segmenting dimensions are operational

D.  to lead to a large number of small, but very homogeneous, product-market segments

 

29) ______________ focuses on introducing new products to existing markets.

 

A.  Market development

B.  Product development

C.  Diversification

D.  Market penetration

 

30) When a company grows globally by introducing existing product lines to new markets, this is an example of what?

 

 

A.  Market development

B.  Product development

C.  Diversification

D.  Market penetration

Paper 2 will be not less than 8 pages PLUS a cover sheet and a bibliography. The topic for this paper is the three branches of government and how they work together on a state and local level. You MUST use a specific state and a specific local government in this paper. Your sources should be the websites of those two entities as well as journal articles on some pertinent aspect of this topic.

 

 

Each paper MUST HAVE ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE A MINIMUM OF 4 PEER REVIEWED SOURCES AS WELL AS OTHER SOURCES. PEER REVIEWED SOURCES ARE JOURNAL ARTICLES—TALK WITH THE LIBRARIAN IF YOU NEED HELP. Must BE IN 3RD PERSON