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understanding business ethics
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Understanding Business Ethics
What does it mean if a firm issues a 9 percent debenture bond due in 2028?
Why are bonds considered a form of debt financing?
What are the major differences between common stock and preferred stock?
Name at least two advantages and two disadvantages of a company’s issuing stock as a form of equity financing.
What government agency oversees the securities industry? What is a prospectus?
What does NASDAQ stand for? How does this exchange work?
What are the two primary purposes of a securities exchange?
Describe how indicators like the Dow Jones Industrial Average affect the market.
Explain the investment opportunities in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Analyze the opportunities bonds offer as investments.
Analyze the opportunities stocks offer as investments.
Explain how to invest in securities markets and set investment objectives such as long-term growth, income, cash, and protection from inflation.
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of obtaining debt financing by issuing bonds, and identify the classes and features of bonds.
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of equity financing by issuing stock, and detail the differences between common and preferred stock.
Identify the stock exchanges where securities are traded.
Describe the role of securities markets and of investment bankers.
1. 3. What major forces impact Electra (or any global producer) in trading in global markets?
1. 2. When Electra produced its bikes in Taiwan, did the company have to follow the laws of Taiwan or the laws of the United States?
1. 1. What major advantages did Electra gain by using a contract manufacturer in Taiwan to produce its bikes?
1. 4. How would you justify the use of revenue or protective tariffs in today’s global market?
1. 3. What can businesses do to prevent unexpected problems in dealing with sociocultural, economic and financial, legal and regulatory, and physical and environmental forces in global markets?
1. 2. Countries like the United States that have a high standard of living are referred to as industrialized nations. Countries with a lower standard of living and quality of life are called
1. 1. About 95 percent of the world’s population lives outside the United States, but many U.S. companies, especially small businesses, still do not engage in global trade. Why not? Do you think
1. What are the two primary concerns associated with offshore outsourcing?
1. What key challenges must China face before becoming the major global economic leader?
1. What are the major threats to doing business in global markets?
1. What three nations comprise make up NAFTA?
1. What is the key objective of a common market like the European Union?
1. What is the primary purpose of the WTO?
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of trade protectionism and of tariffs?
1. What does the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibit?
1. How would a low value of the dollar affect U.S. exports?
1. What does ethnocentricity mean, and how can it affect global success?
1. What are four major hurdles to successful global trade?
1. What makes a company a multinational corporation?
1. What is the key difference between a joint venture and a strategic alliance?
1. What services are usually provided by an export-trading company?
1. What are the advantages to a firm of using licensing as a method of entry in global markets? What are the disadvantages?
1. What is meant by the term dumping in global trade?
1. How are a nation’s balance of trade and balance of payments determined?
1. What is comparative advantage, and what are some examples of this concept at work in the United States?
1. What are two of the main arguments favoring the expansion of U.S.businesses into global markets?
Why hasn’t the company ever needed to seek bank financing?
Why is cash flow so important to a firm like Threadless?
What were the major financial challenges faced by Jason Macatangay when he became vice president of finance at Threadless?
Factoring accounts receivable is a form of financing used since the days of Babylonian King Hammurabi 4,000 years ago. Today it’s still a source of short-term funds used by small businesses. Visit
Contact a lending officer at a local bank in your community, or visit the bank’s website, to check the bank’s policies on providing a business a line of credit. Evaluate the chances that this
Glory Days is a day care center for older adults operated by a local church. It needs funding to remodel the center’s kitchen and install an elevator to make the building accessible to those in
Glamour Galore is a cosmetic company that pays sales commissions based on a system that depends on salespeople recruiting additional salespeople. It needs funding to build a marketing campaign. Does
Why do firms generally prefer to borrow funds to obtain long-term financing rather than issue shares of stock?
What are the primary sources of short-term funds for new business owners? What are their major sources of long-term funds?
What’s leverage, and how do firms use it?
What are the two major forms of debt financing?
What are the major sources of long-term financing?
What’s commercial paper?
Is factoring a form of secured loan?
What’s the difference between a secured loan and an unsecured loan?
What is meant by a line of credit?
Why should businesses use trade credit?
What’s the difference between short-term and long-term financing?
What’s the difference between debt financing and equity financing?
What are firms’ major financial needs?
What are the three budgets in a financial plan?
What do financial managers do?
What are the most common ways firms fail financially?
What sources of long-term funding (capital) are available, and which will best fit our needs?
What funds do we need to achieve the firm’s long-term goals and objectives?
What are our organization’s long-term goals and objectives?
What is factoring?
What’s the primary reason an organization spends a good deal of its available funds on inventory and capital expenditures?
Why is accounts receivable a major financial concern to the firm?
Money has time value. What does this mean?
What is the purpose of preparing budgets in an organization? Can you identify three different types of budgets?
How do short-term and long-term financial forecasts differ?
What three primary financial problems cause firms to fail?
Identify and describe different sources of longterm financing.
Identify and describe different sources of shortterm financing.
Explain why firms need operating funds.
Outline the financial planning process, and explain the three key budgets in the financial plan.
Explain the role and responsibilities of financial managers.
Explain the concept of marketing channels and their value.
Demonstrate how intermediaries perform the six marketing utilities.
Identify the types of wholesale intermediaries in the distribution system.
Compare the distribution strategies retailers use.
Explain the various kinds of nonstore retailing.
Explain the various ways to build cooperation in channel systems.
Describe logistics, and outline how intermediaries manage the transportation and storage of goods.
What is a channel of distribution, and what intermediaries participate in it?
Why do we need intermediaries? Illustrate how intermediaries create exchange efficiency.
How would you defend intermediaries to someone who said getting rid of them would save consumers millions of dollars?
Can you give examples of the utilities intermediaries create and how they provide them?
Describe the activities of rack jobbers and drop shippers.
What four systems have evolved to tie together members of the channel of distribution?
How does logistics differ from distribution?
What are inbound logistics, outbound logistics, and reverse logistics?
What are some wholesale organizations that assist in the movement of goods from manufacturers to consumers?
What is a retailer?
What are three distribution strategies marketers use?
What are some of the forms of nonstore retailing?
What are the four types of distribution systems?
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