Essays on ACME

Introduction

There are several options open to Acme Fireworks. As a sole proprietorship, the owner is able to hire employees. The biggest benefit of a sole proprietorship is the easiness of dealing with taxes and the easiness of running the business. There are some drawbacks to being a sole proprietorship, such as the fact that the owner is personally liable for any legal situation that arises through various contracts or business deals (Dishman, 2010). The owner of Acme Fireworks should strongly consider upgrading his sole proprietorship because the business contracts appear like they may be permanent; regardless, as Acme is ...

Introduction

The performance and behavior of an employee are expected to contribute to the overall achievement of an organization’s goals and objectives. However, unsatisfactory behavior or performance from an employee must be corrected through appropriate actions (Hvidman & Andersen, 2013). Corrective action follows a progressive discipline process when the situation is as a consequence of inappropriate behavior or unsatisfactory performance yet the employee has the capacity to perform and conduct himself or herself at an acceptable level but chooses otherwise (Van den Brink, Fruytier & Thunnissen, 2013). The essence of this paper is to address employees’ conduct at the Acme Company ...

Acme Fireworks

A number of factors are to be considered when it comes to taking the decision of the most favorable business structure for a specific commercial venture. Given the situation of Acme Fireworks, the pros and cons that need to be weighed before deciding on the business structure include the offering of highest protection, the highest investment return, and the most favorable rates of taxes. When there is a need for liability consideration, along with needs of employment and huge contracts, the recommendation to Acme Corporation owner would be to amend his status from the present sole proprietorship to a ...

US 311: Business Law I

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and ...

Introduction

Acme Fireworks is a retailer that sells fireworks, large aerial display fireworks, and ground display fireworks. The owner of the business started the producing fireworks in his garage and in two years the business has fifteen employees managed by a manager. The business is operational as a sole proprietorship from the inception. Acme Fireworks expects the business to expand due to the recent offers and inquires by large organizations to provide firework displays regularly. The owner of the business has replied to the inquirers, and the parties have agreed to a price per display. The major costs of the ...

Information Technology Auditing

Information Technology Auditing

Question 1

Final Audit Report My final audit report would be written in a manner to ensure that it encompasses the critical aspect of Information Technology aspects of Westchester Hospital. The report will give a succinct insight into the IT infrastructure of the hospital by highlighting and categorizing the machines which have root accounts alongside the specific administrative privileges which are shared with other several system administrators. The report would further incorporate a comprehensive analysis of the general operations of the Westchester Hospital’s IT system by identifying the security concerns of the systems and the best measures ...

The employer and employee relationship between Don and Rebecca is governed by various statutes but most importantly the Employment Standards Act (Filsinger 2005). Under the Act, an employee can be terminated from their employment under conditions such as: upon dismissal of the employee or when the employer stops employment of the employee included instances of insolvency and bankruptcy of the employer if the employer ‘constructively” dismisses an employee and they (the employee) resigns, as a response to the constructive dismissal, within a reasonable time (Motherselev v. Gulf Canada Resources Ltd).

Facts

Rebecca’s job was, however, terminated without issuance of ...

ACME CORP and University of the New Brunswick (UNB) have entered into a confidentiality and property agreement that will serve to protect their interests as they engage in a collaborative project entitled “Liquefying Ken’s Awesomeness.” The interest of a person to take part in the ACME-UNB collaboration will see that he/she enjoys the following Responsibilities and limitations.

Part A: Question 1

Responsibilities: The first responsibility that the colleague will have is to deal with all the information pertaining to both ACME and UNB, whether confidential or not in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement. Additionally, the colleague will have ...

Personnel Selection Process

Background In human resource management, recruitment is one of the most critical activities for an organization. Especially, proper selection of candidates in managerial roles often determines the success and failure of a company as managers are the main decision makers (Visa, Einolander and Vanharanta, 2015). Acme Manufacturing is not different. Recruitment of managers in a manufacturing company requires special screening as the environment in manufacturing locations is susceptible to hostility than other parts of the organization. A robust selection and recruitment process should have multiple well defined stages.

Internal Environment

Promotion has a significant impact on the recruitment process. When any ...

Change of Business Entity

Introduction Starting a business as a sole proprietor has its advantages and disadvantages and with development, it is normal for entrepreneurs to consider converting to other business types that have better terms. Some of the primary benefits of this sort of business include; the owner has full control of the company operations, can sell or transfer ownership, and does not incur tax whatsoever. Furthermore, the entrepreneurs spend less on acquiring the legal documents as compared to the other types of business. However, entrepreneurs operating in sole proprietorship are held responsible for any business debt or liability unlike the other ...

ACME Car Rental

Facts ACME Car Rental purchased a total of 1,000 Volkswagen model cars at a total purchase price of $17,000,000 from the Volkswagen Company. It then sold some of the cars to individual consumers and other smaller rental fleet companies. However, unknown to the purchaser, Volkswagen Company, the vendor, had fitted the cars with an ‘emissions defeat device’ which is software that was meant to cheat on the rate of emissions of the cars. This was in a bid to conform to the relevant laws and regulations in place. Though these vehicles were able to pass the ...

English

Zip/Postal Code Dear Mary Smith, With great regret, we, the Human Resource team of ACME Widgets, hereby notify your job termination with effect from 1st Mar’16, as we no longer require your service. As the company undertakes corporate restructuring and therefore turns to outsourcing, we are downsizing about 5% of the employees from all departments. About 50% of the employees from production department are being terminated. We are deeply saddened to inform you that your position is one that will be eliminated. We have always appreciated and continue to highly appreciate your valuable contributions to our organization and ...

Introduction

There have been incidents of employee fights and incidents at Acme Manufacturing which is a Fortune 1,000 company. The General Manager (GM) informed the Human Resource manager about an occurrence that occurred in the last week that requires immediate attention. The company's manufacturing operations are carried out in three shifts thus the plant operates for 24 hours every week. In the last six months, there have been hostilities between the employees that work the third shift and those that work on the first shift. The hostilities started with criticism and jeering by the workers on the first shift ...

The purpose of this letter is to suggest business opportunities between Jim Smith, a Senior Contracting Specialist at ACME Widgets, Inc., and Terry Williams of ABC Enterprise. Smith is telling Williams that his company has a large production of widgets, and the letter is simply asking Williams for the opportunity to meet and discuss possible business ventures. Unfortunately, there are several problems with the letter, including incorrect assumptions about the company, grammar issues and a lack of information needed in order to provide a comprehensive and convincing letter. If the whole purpose of the letter is to ask a ...

A Comparison between UK and India

Abstract

Stress has been part of human life ever since the beginning of mankind. Initially, people stressed themselves out hunting for food, finding places to rest, and inexplicability of natural phenomena. With the globalisation of industries and the presence of multinational companies all over the world, organizations may need to consider adopting certain policies to match up to other similar organizations. Stress in organisations has become a major issue in the UK and most organisations now have policies and procedures to help employees avoid this and interventions are often in place to support them. It is not known whether ...

Introduction

Business ownership and management play a vital role in the progress and development of a company. Certainly, there are different types of entities that follow particular policies of formulation and establishment. The Acme Fireworks is a special type of company considering changing its entity from the sole proprietorship. There are special laws that govern business contracts. Primarily, Acme will have to choose whether to go for those contracts governed by the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) or the Common Law. The new business relationship that the company will enter requires a change in its entity formation, particularly because of the consideration of the laws. ...

Introduction

In the United States, employers have only limited rights insofar as conducting searches of their employees are concerned (Definitions.uslegal.com, 2015). There are very specific rules that govern the rights of the employer as well as the rights of the employee; as with criminal searches and seizures, employers have only very specific rights where their employees are concerned. Although not all work environments are governed by the same rules, this particular case study focuses on the ACME Corporation, which is not a government-affiliated corporation—this means that there are no issues with security clearances or other special cases in which employees ...

Business and the Legal Environment

Acme markets, Inc employed 36,000 people and operated with about 16 warehouses but in 1970 they got a letter containing details of the problems with rodent infestation. Thus, after Mr. Park got the letter, he was able to meet with the vice president and was assured that he was being investigated for the problems affecting the firm, and later correct measures would be taken. Thus after investigation was complete, it was found that the firm had some improvement in the facility but there was still infestation of rodent (Jennings, 2012). As a result of this, the firm was charged with ...

Office floor cleaning is held as a service offered by the UCC. Since the UCC article 2 & article 9 covers only sales and/or cleaning as a franchise service or as an added complementary action to a sale, Serviceco’s contract will not be enforceable under the Uniform Commercial Code. Therefore, we need to subject it to the common law.

For our analysis, let us first do the following

Step I: The conditions of a contract which make it legally enforceable. A contract is an agreement between two parties under which there is a - An expression of interest from one party - An offer from the second party. - ...

Business Considerations for Acme Fireworks

[Institution Title] The risk of going into business is always great especially for sole-proprietors. A sole proprietor is one who single-handedly operates and handles the business. From a legal standpoint, a sole proprietor is identified as a single entity who acts as both the owner and the business itself . Given this distinct feature, a single proprietor therefore, maintains all legal accountability for the business particularly in terms of finances. In the case of Acme Fireworks, it is a small-scale business which rightfully started out using the sole proprietorship business type because it was able to take advantage some of the salient features of ...

Abstract

This paper discusses the network communication and intellectual property right. Intellectual property right is granted to the owner of the product for the exclusive creation of the product. There are two main reasons; intellectual property rights are implanted. First to provide with legal expression of economic and moral right of the owner of the creation and the right of the public to access the product of creators. Second, to promote the premeditated act of government to demonstrate their propagation and application of the result to contribute to social development and the economic system of the society. A new ...

The paper examines the Aboriginal culture and gives anoverview of this unique culture through focusing on the plain Indians. There are many sub-cultures that exist among the plain Indians, but this paper will specifically examine the Cree Culture. There will be an overview of the cultural beliefs and social settings that exist among members of this culture. The differences that exist among the Cree culture in comparison to other plain Indians will be examined, and a summary provided giving the relevant details. Conducting a critical review of the Cree Culture which is one of the sub-cultures that constitute the Aboriginal culture ...

Re: Benefits of using new Design.

Message: Being an engineer for ACME Heating and Cooling Limited, I found a necessary matter to be brought under your concern, and I am writing this memo to serve my purpose. ACME is producing fuel-efficient oil and gas furnaces for home heating since many years, and this is one of the best selling products of our company but recently, there is a problem in a new heat exchangers. The exchangers are unable to perform properly and due to our warranty with every exchanger; many products are presented to the company for replacement. If we estimate the cost of replacement; ...

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Vendors Offering IaaS Public Cloud Services

The description of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is straightforward. Cloud infrastructure such as storage, servers and networks are available on rent in a pay-as-you-use model. There are many players in this field of public cloud services and below is a classification and comparison of the three most dominant leaders of the industry in IaaS.

IBM SmartCloud

IBM provides cloud computing services called Blue Cloud that presents tools over IBM Cloud to manage large scale applications and database. IBM also offers consulting services to assimilate infrastructure into the cloud. IBM offers ...

Problem statement

Excellent Beer & Beverage Distributors (EBBD) has over the years been experiencing delays when it comes to loading and unloading of its products. This is reflected by the number of deliveries that are made in a given working day. Due to this, the management of Excellent Beer & Beverage Distributors (EBBD) tasked me to evaluate on the two options in order to come up with the best solution to solve this menace. The options at hand were the use of an automated conveyor system and the expansion of the existing dock.

Assumptions

In this case study, we assume that the number of our ...

Introduction

The desire for shopping organic fruits and vegetables verses those that were produced traditionally was among other propelling factors that gave birth to ACME Marketing and Consulting by MR. Frederick Nelson a retired government employee. The firm growth and establishment was based on the shopping interests where Frederick and his wife growing pricing and marketing analysis based on the two options led to the need to explore the preceding objectives in reference to the local farmers and distributors; develop a common ground where farmers and the distributors share information, to achieve this he enacted strategies where organic farmers and producers operate ...

Winfry Paul

ACME Consulting Company. Normalization is the practice of sorting out data in a database by building tables and establishing relationships between them in order to safeguard existing data from unintentional modification and attain flexibility. Redundant data wastes disk space and create maintenance problems while inconsistent dependencies make data access difficulties due to missing or broken parts. Normalized database will performs more efficiently in applications with more writer-intensive operations than the read load. Because of the smaller tables associated with normalized tables, the footprint is small and data are vertically divided. This enhances performance since they can easily fit ...

Introduction

Discrimination takes many forms in the society today. It involves a group’s interaction or reaction, restricting an individual or group from opportunities that are accessible to them, resulting in the exclusion of the entities or individual based on irrational or logical or decision making as for the individual persons profile is discriminated based on a logical or a bias reason. There have been many efforts around the world by organizations and governments to eliminate all forms of discrimination.

This essay focuses on sex discrimination at the work place, its challenges and possible solutions. Time has significantly changed towards gender equality in ...

The advent of the digital age has brought along new business processes and technology that run organizations. Globalization has since taken root in concepts of products development and service delivery and thus companies are able to have operations in almost every corner of the world. Nations are now able to take advantage of such worldwide business opportunities in order to increase profits and revenue. However, this global nature of business has brought along its fair share of problems. There is new wave of competition in the market by companies consistently innovating new products to meet consumer needs. This cut-throat ...

Executive summary

Security has become a big problem in today’s organizations setting. Intruders of al kinds have managed to successfully break into many companies’ web services as well as their networks. Several trials have been developed to curb the same from and secure companies’ infrastructural networks and exchange of information through secure channels, among these are firewall setups, encryption technology, and VPNs. Intrusion Detection is a new mechanism of instilling security in organizations’ networks. Application of this technique assists IT security manager to gather and utilize information resulting from recognized attacks and check if someone is attempting to break into your network ...

Introduction

Business connectivity is very essential in the globalised world. Productivity is increased in any business where computers and hence users are connected through a network that is much easier and secure. Some of the benefits realized through connectivity are the ability to share information with different users who are geographically dispersed amongst different locations. File sharing as well as instant messaging is made possible through connectivity. These desires are what drive Acme manufacturing to venture into the networked environment. Acme manufacturing has branches in most parts of the united stated as well as new branch I china. It is essential ...

ACME manufacturing company is a prime manufacturer of a variety of metal products. There are several departments under this company. The company requires a network to facilitate communication in the company. The company also expects a network design document that includes different recommendations for different network services in the company. ACME manufacturing company is growing steadily and recently acquired a manufacturing plant in China. The company believes that such acquisitions will help it continue to grow. This company has several other offices in the United States of America. The company wants to be able to connect all their operational facilities and offices together. This ...

Network Recommendations for ACME

A network is a connection of various computer machines together for the main aim of sharing information between the computer users. A network connection also encompasses of various different peripherals such as the printers and copying machines. Network connections are usually installed into organizations for the main reasons of reducing commotion and movement. In a network information is usually transmitted in bandwidth to enable data transfer from one computer to the other. For the network communication to be faster, the speed of the baseband should be faster to reduce the frequency interference (Bidgoli, 2004).

In most of the organizations Ethernet cabling ...