The Yaa Hamoah at one time worked for the National Investment Corporation as head of its Legal Department. Whilst still in its employment, she received the following letter from the Corporation. The Board of Directors at the emergency Board meeting 31 December 2004 proposed to sell the Company’s houses being occupied by the Management Staff. In this regard, occupants are being given the first offer to purchase the above-mentioned house at the cost price of US $70,307 or its Cedi equivalent. Payment shall be within 6 months.

The communique further If you are interested, you are to indicate, in writing, to the undersigned by Monday, 31 January 2005. Yaa Hamoahin reply to this letter stated that ‘‘I accept the offer to purchase House No. 4 Plateau Close at the cost price of US $ 70,307 or its cedis equivalent and to make payment within the stipulated 6 months’. And It would be greatly appreciated if details of bank accounts into which payment may be made are provided for the benefit of the house loan company.” There was no further correspondence between the parties until the dispatch of the following letter from the Corporation stating that ‘’I am directed by the Board Chairman to inform you that, as was previously communicated to you following extensive deliberations on the above matter, the Board of Directors have decided to withdraw the offer for sale of the said property to enable the Company house its new management staff’’.

On the facts, the Yaa Hamoah brought action against the Corporation, claiming that the exchange of letters in January 2005 resulted in an agreement that the Corporation would sell to the Yaa Hamoah, House No. 4 Plateau Close, East Legon Extension for the sum of US $ 70,307 or its equivalent in cedis and that the Yaa Hamoah would pay the purchase price within 6 months of the offer. She stated that though she had requested the Corporation the particulars of the bank account into which to pay the purchase price of the property, the Corporation had neglected/refused to furnish such particulars.

Use the case scenario to answer the following questions:

1. Critically analyse the above scenario and advise Yaa Hamoah on whether there was legally binding agreement between her and the Corporation.
2. Evaluate if any there are any remedies for breach of agreement.

You are an employee of University Consultants, Limited, and have been given the following assignment. You are to present an investment analysis of a small retail income-producing property for sale to a potential investor. The asking price for the property is $1,420,000; rents are estimated at $181,760 during the first year and are expected to grow at 2.5 percent per year thereafter. Vacancies and collection losses are expected to be 10 percent of rents. Operating expenses will be 35 percent of effective gross income. A fully amortizing 70 percent loan can be obtained at 6 percent interest for 30 years (total annual payments will be monthly payments × 12). The property is expected to appreciate in value at 2 percent per year and is expected to be owned for five years and then sold.

Required:

a. What is the first-year debt coverage ratio?

b. What is the terminal capitalization rate?

c. What is the investor’s expected before-tax internal rate of return on equity invested (BTIRR)?

d. What is the NPV using a 14 percent discount rate?

e. What is the profitability index using a 14 percent discount rate?

Create a Plan of Care OBJECTIVE:

Using your knowledge from this class, examples from the text, create a Plan of Care document for the client in this assignment.

Client

• Stanley is a 64-year-old male.
• Lived with his mother until five years ago.
• Lived with is brother and wife until 6 months ago.
• Currently lives in a group home.
• Rarely talks but can.
• Appears to understand English, but family is Francophone, and he clearly understands French.
• History of being physically and verbally abused by mother and brother.
• Maintains a strong bond with mother who visits once a month.
• Known to strike out at support workers and randomly has violent moments.
• Currently medicated with mood stabilizers, and anti-psychotics.
• Stanley is only partially mobile and requires a walker to move around.
• Stanley also exhibits behaviours indicative of an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• House manager has contacted your agency and requested a Case File Worker to work with Stanley.
• Any further information about this client you will need to detail. Minimum Requirements
• This Plan of Care must contain the following information:
• Types of assessment and assessment schedule to be used to determine services and needs of client.
• Client’s goals and timeline to reach goals. · Services provided to client to meet goals.
• Types of monitoring that will be used and monitoring schedule. Who will monitor and who will be monitored?
• Any supporting office documentation such as letters of request, proposal letters, memos, or flyers related to this client and services within the care plan. Hand In Requirements
• This document must be hand in electronically in either pdf or doc format.

GLOBAL ENGINEERING STRATEGY

CASE STUDY (Write 3,000 words)

Strategic management has been widely used by all enterprises to survive aggressive market competition. The strategic planning process is considered objective, logical, systematic approach for making major decisions in an organization (Breene et al. 2007, Brews et al., 2007). It allows effective decisions to be made under conditions of uncertainty. The strategic management process has three stages: strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy evaluation (David, 1998). Strategy plan development is the first step and a vital element that companies should have to withstand fierce market competition and to improve its business performance.

A chemical household cleaning company located in Ghana has tried many different management methods during the last 4 years to improve its business performance.

Most manufacturing companies in the sub-saharan Africa are facing aggressive local, regional and international competition. Strategic management process equips the companies with set of capabilities that allow the companies to survive in such environment. Because of this, Ghanaian companies are forced to adopt strategic planning concepts. This will help set its vision, mission, and build strength. In addition, adopting strategic planning will help in resolving their weaknesses, exploiting opportunities, and avoiding threats. The chemical cleaning household industry is experiencing a very competitive era like many others, thus it is curial to find methods to reduce manufacturing costs, improve quality etc. Alaska Company for Chemical Industries started its operations in January 2018. It is located in the Industrial hub of the capital city of Accra. It specializes in the production of household cleaning chemicals such as dishwashing detergents, bleaching liquid, liquid laundry detergent, floor detergents, shampoo, body wash, and hairstyle gel. Currently, they supply their products to the local market.

The main objective of this strategic planning process is to develop a strategic plan for

the Alaska chemical cleaning household company. An effective strategic planning process

is achieved by developing an External Factor Evaluation Matrix (EFEM) and Internal Factor

Evaluation Matrix (IFEM) followed by a Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) and then finally a Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) (Meredith et al., 2009). For

achieving the project’s objectives, the following methodologies were utilized and can be

summarized as follows; setting the mission and vision of the company, perform external

assessment, conduct Porter competitiveness Model, conduct Political-Economical-Social-

Technological (PESTLE) analysis, develop External Factor Evaluation Matrix (EFE), perform. Internal assessment and develop Threats-Opportunities-Weaknesses-Strengths Matrix (TOWS Matrix) and combine it with GSP. Finally, construct Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) to evaluate possible strategies. Riston (2008) pointed out the benefits of external and internal analyses which can be summarized as follows;

• Increase managerial awareness of environmental change
• Improve resources allocation decision
• Facilitating risk management
• Acting as an early warning system
• Focusing attention on primary influences on strategic change

Company Information: The status of the company can be summarized as follows; The company has 24 employees, its market share is around 15% with average profit around 15.5%, it ranks 7 out of 20 among local competitors, it does not have strategic plan vision, mission statement, organization structure, or marketing techniques. It relies on labor –intensive manual processes, it does not have R&D activities, a moderate productivity is estimated with traditional inventory control, it has skilled labors with low turnover. The total sales of the company for the four years are presented in Table 1.

Table 1: Total sales and profit during the period 2010-2012

                                        2018 (GHC)  2019 (GHC)  2020(GHC)  2021 (GHC)
Sales                                1,891,840     1,920,785      2,040,896    1,906,725
Cost+ Expenses               1,601,443     1,603,856      1,722,517    1,611,183
Net Profit                         290,397        316,929        318,379       295,542
Net profit as % of sales   15.35%         16.5%           15.6%          15.5%