Purpose of Assignment The Case Study focuses on CVP (Cost-Volume-Profit), break-even, and margin of safety analyses which allows students to experience working through a business scenario and applying these tools in managerial decision making. Assignment Steps Resources: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft® Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web offering support for Office products. Scenario: Mary Willis is the advertising manager for Bargain Shoe Store. She is currently working on a major promotional campaign. Her ideas include the installation of a new lighting system and increased display space that will add $24,000 in fixed costs to the $270,000 in fixed costs currently spent. In addition, Mary is proposing a 5% price decrease ($40 to $38) will produce a 20% increase in sales volume (20,000 to 24,000). Variable costs will remain at $24 per pair of shoes. Management is impressed with Mary's ideas but concerned about the effects these changes will have on the break-even point and the margin of safety.Complete the following: Compute the current break-even point in units, and compare it to the break-even point in units if Mary's ideas are used.Compute the margin of safety ratio for current operations and after Mary's changes are introduced (Round to nearest full percent).Prepare a CVP (Cost-Volume-Profit) income statement for current operations and after Mary's changes are introduced.Prepare a maximum 700-word informal memo to management addressing Mary's suggested changes. Explain whether Mary's changes should be adopted. Why or why not? Analyze the above information (three bullet points above) and use this information to support your suggestion.Show your work in Microsoft® Word or Excel®. Complete calculations/computations using Microsoft® Word or Excel®. Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Congratulations. You are the customer service manager for Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Cubs’ executive administrators have requested for you to make certain Cubs’ patrons (i.e., attendees) are pleased with their experience when attending Wrigley Field for a Cubs’ home baseball game. Please create a five (5) item customer satisfaction survey your staff can administer to spectators during a Cubs’ home baseball game. Please conduct some online research to review information concerning Wrigley Field and other sport venues to determine the type of items which should be included within the survey.Examples of additional resources concerning Wrigley Field include:https://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballparkhttps://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark/information/historyhttps://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark/information/guidehttps://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark/information/gateshttps://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark/transportation/https://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark/ground-ruleshttps://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark/information/securityhttps://www.mlb.com/cubs/community/wrigley-field-neighborsPlease review "Supporting Materials" (i.e., MS Word document file titled "Example Items-Wrigley Field Customer Satisfaction Survey) included with this assignment's instructions in order to review examples of survey items. Your survey may not contain items about professionalism of security personnel, concession area cleanliness, and seat comfort. These survey items are presented as examples within MS Word document file titled "Example Items-Wrigley Field Customer Satisfaction Survey."Once you have developed a five (5) item customer satisfaction survey, compose a one (1) page summary (i.e., analysis of your survey. Describe why you selected each of the items presented within the survey. Also, explain how collecting customers’ satisfaction information can be beneficial for an athletic organization’s business operations (e.g., ticket sales, concessions, security). Cite at least two (2) literary publications to support information discussed within your summary. Do not count the aforementioned resources (e.g., https://www.mlb.com/cubs/ballpark) toward the minimum two (2) literary publications required.At the conclusion of this summary, provide your five (5) item survey.Submission Directions: Please submit your assignment as an APA, current edition formatted, Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx), not an Adobe .pdf, titled "Your Last Name Week 4 Assignment." For example, the document should be titled: Smith Week 4 Assignment. Please do not paste your assignment into the text box provided within each assignment. If you do not have access to Microsoft Office software, please see the first course announcement titled "Free Microsoft Office 365 Software for APUS Students," since all students have the ability to download free Microsoft 365 software, which includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, among others. Note: Also, your assignment must be original; that is you must be the author, it must not have been used for any other course, and no part may have come from an external site such as Course Hero. All of these are examples are forms of plagiarism, will not be tolerated, and will result, at a minimum, of receiving a zero on the assignment. Please see the "Plagiarism and Honor Code Resources" button on the course home page for more information.

2 essays( like last time,don't need quotation) 300-350 words each one 1. Describe the Cold War period from the era of containment through the age of détente. What were the reasons for the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, how was the era of containment one of conflicts and “hot wars”, and how did the end of containment usher in the differing age of détente?     2. Compare and contrast decolonization in India and China during the 20th century. Be sure to explain the means and contexts in which both nations emerged as independent, the role large global affairs played in the processes, and how these histories of decolonization are both similar and different in methods and results.