Essay Question #1 Reasons Small Firms Have Prospered rather than large firms over the last 50 years in Western Countries Considering Mason (2021) report, it had found that prosperity of organisation is dependent on age and size. The study found that in the last 50 years, 85% of the small firms have prospered as opposed to the large firms. Basically, from a personal experience, for the small organisations, they leverage on a higher competitive advantage over big companies. In specific, t...

Essay Questions #1 Importance of Innovation for Firms to Compete in Multiple Industries As evidenced in in Distanont and Khongmalai (2020), innovation is identified as the most critical driver of competitive success in multiple industries. Majority of the organisations end up earning more than third of sales for the products developed in a timeline of 5 years. Through the product innovations, this assists organisations protecting margins through provision of new, differentiated characte...

Ethical leadership in Practice In the modern society, becoming a good leader is instrumental as opposed to just being a leader. It is in this regard that the two authors of the videos introduced the concepts of ethical leadership, features of a good leader and best practice. In both videos, a leader being accountable to their subordinates and followers must offer the essential guidance amidst of the change demands to leverage on significant growth. As explained in the video, the leaders are ...

Ethics of Writing Papers Ethics of Writing Papers Summary of the Case Study As evidenced in the case study, plagiarism represent a core issue leading to ethical dilemmas to both learners and assessors. To affirm this, the case quotes of a 2010 findings which had noted that 1 out of every 3 high school learners had noted use of different online platforms for plagiarising their assessments. As evidenced in the American Psychological Association, plagiarism is ranked as the worst form of ...

FIN516- Assignment 2- Individual Report Word count: 1512 Executive Summary In this course notes a risk has been defined as a probability and consequence of uncertain future events. This is a chance of an undesirable outcome. In this regard, for success of the contemporary entities, having a strategic risk analysis to harness the decision making is important.  The approach adopted in risk analysis as identified in AON (2022) should not be operational but inclusive of an in-depth ap...

Chapter 4: The Value of Common Stocks Number 1 Earnings per ratio (EPS) entails the firm’s profit divided by the outstanding shares of the common stock in a specific duration. The figure or the answer indicates the organisation’s profitability. EPS also entails the amount of money that the company makes for every share of its stock. Besides profitability, it is applied to assess the firm’s value. A high EPS indicates the more profitable a company is, which is essential for the investors w...

Financial Analysis or Financial planning 1.0 Background In financial analysis and planning, the ratios are critical in identifying the various strengths and weaknesses of an organisation. According to WFL (2018), in line with the different ratios, it is possible for an organisation/business to measure efficiencies and profitability while offering a manner of establishing the relationship of one accounting variable to another on their financial statements. In this report, different ratios ...

Title: Stock Market and Berkshire Hathaway Names of group members: Course Title: Date of Submission: Instructor Name: 1.0 Introduction This case focuses on an investor known as Warren Buffet who had witnessed an organisation known as Berkshire Hathaway which he had invested in. For the company, under Berkshire Hathaway leadership, the organisation had witnessed their share price increase in 33 years from $7.60 to approximately $30,000. The organisation was a textile fabricatin...

Questions 1) What are the challenges and opportunities facing Harley Davidson? In order to identify the challenges and opportunities currently being faced by Harley Davidson, SWOT analysis tool can be used. According to Aich and Ghosh (2016), this is used in assisting an individual to gain an improved understanding of their strengths and weaknesses while identifying the challenges and opportunities which can be leveraged on. Hence, the challenges and opportunities are both primarily exter...

Employee’s productivity in the age of smartphones: The Role of Leadership Project requirement in  “Leadership and change” Sulaiman AlRajhi School of Business 2021 Dr.Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail, PhD Professor Contents Introduction. 2 Leadership role in ACHIEVING Positive aspects of smartphones on employee's productivity. 3 Negative aspects of smartphones on employee's productivity. 5 The impact of smartphones on employees’ work-life balance. 7 Leaders Co...