You are the plant accountant for a company that makes a popular brand of basketball shoes. Currently, your company sells 1,000 pairs of shoes each month for $100 apiece. The variable costs are 40% of sales, and the fixed costs are $35,000/month. The company's advertising director is asking for an increase in her marketing budget of $1,500 per month. She plans to enhance her marketing campaign in a targeted area of the West Coast. She estimates that the additional advertising will result in a 50% increase in demand. For this situation, the additional advertising costs are considered a fixed cost. What is the impact of this request on the company's operating income? On the other hand, the production manager believes that this increase in sales could put pressure on the production line. He estimates that there will need to be a $2.00 increase in labor costs per unit.Consider the following:Using the projected monthly income figure calculated above, how many units would the company need to sell to meet the initial monthly income figure?What is the break-even sales volume needed?Summarize the results of your analysis.Respond to the following for this assignment:How did you calculate the original operating income and break-even point before changes?What is the new break-even point after including the effects of the increased advertising and higher variable costs?Compare the two break-even results, and make a recommendation on whether the company should change or not.Please click on the following link to access a template to use for this assignment:Unit 2 IP TemplateBe sure to show your breakeven analysis in a table in a word document. Answer the questions above as part of your analysis. The assignment is 5 pages minimum. The breakeven analysis can be one page of the analysis. Assignments should follow APA formatting requirements.Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.Length: 5 pages minimumAbstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person.Body: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Develop a 7-page process improvement plan for a provided scenario or a business and process of your choice, using data to support your recommendations. Introduction This portfolio work project, a process improvement plan, will help you demonstrate competencies in process documentation, process analysis, and process improvement.  Scenario For this assessment, choose either Option 1 or Option 2. You do not need to do both. You will apply one of these scenarios in the Requirements below. Both options will be graded using the same scoring guide. Option 1 Wild Dog Coffee Company, a locally owned company with a single coffee shop location, serves a wide selection of espresso products, small breakfast and lunch menu items, and a limited evening menu. The company is planning to expand the business by adding an additional location. While different menu items may be tested at the new location, the espresso beverage preparation process will remain exactly the same. The company wants to ensure that the espresso beverage preparation process is documented and refined before the move.  Option 2 Select a business and process of your choosing. Note: It is recommended that you use the same business for each assessment in this course. Before choosing a company, read all three of the assessments thoroughly to ensure the following: The company fits the assessment requirements and you have access to the information needed to complete the assessment. The business information is disclosed in the assessment for faculty's reference. You can distribute the business data without disclosing confidential information. Contact faculty with questions.  Your Role Option 1  You are one of three owners of Wild Dog Coffee Company. Your background is primarily in operations. Your business partners' backgrounds are in marketing and sales. While they are working on the external aspects of the business that will bring customers in, you are focused on making the internal customer-facing processes as efficient as possible. You are preparing an analysis and recommendations that will help manage a core process improvement for the successful opening of a second location.  Option 2 Your boss, a director, has tasked you with a process improvement project. She is relying on you to prepare an analysis and recommendations that can be presented to the executive team of the company.  Requirements Include the following in your process improvement plan: Assess the steps for a selected process.  Develop a flowchart showing the process' steps. You may include as many steps as are relevant for your selected scenario. If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, show the steps for preparing an espresso beverage (for example, latté, cappuccino); there are two steps that must be included: (1) order is submitted and (2) beverage is handed to the customer. Hint:You may want to visit a local coffee shop to observe the beverage preparation process. Prepare a procedure documenting the selected process. At a minimum, the procedure must document the following for your selected process:  Metrics. Identify at least two metrics that will be useful in determining how well the new process is performing. Be sure to identify the target value of the metric and how you will measure it.   For Wild Dog Coffee Company, it could be how well the beverage preparation process is performing. A third metric is already identified for you: order delivery time. (This is the time between when the order is submitted and the time the beverage is handed to the customer.) Procedure. This section describes each step of the process.  For Wild Dog Coffee Company, your procedure should be titled, “Espresso Beverage Preparation Process.” Be sure to include order submittal and handing the beverage to the customer as part of the procedure. Purpose (of the procedure).This section describes what the procedure is intended to do. Analyze data for process changes for a selected process. Respond to the following questions:  Is the process centered? Provide the results of your calculations and the rationale for your decision by thinking about the process capability. Is the process capable at 3-sigma? Provide the results of your calculations and the rationale for your decision by thinking about the process capability index. Is the process in statistical control? Provide the appropriate numbers and the rationale for your decision using a control chart for individuals. For Wild Dog Coffee Company, analyze the Beverage Service Times [XLSX] data. This data is for 50 beverage preparation events and was collected using their order processing system. Each individual order gets a time-stamp when it is placed and again when the beverage is handed to the customer. The senior barista thinks the beverage delivery times should range between 2 and 3 minutes. The known process standard deviation, which has been calculated on an on-going basis, is 0.5903 minutes. Analyze the cause and effect of process variances.  Brainstorm possible sources of variation to create a cause-and-effect diagram to help analyze potential sources of variation in the espresso beverage preparation process at Wild Dog Coffee Company or for your selected business' process. Your diagram must include at least four of the “6 Ms” (that is, management, manpower, method, measurement, machine, materials). Recommend quality and customer service improvements for a selected process.  Detail the results of your analysis for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business' process to substantiate your recommendations. Deliverable Format Requirements: The process improvement plan is to be a minimum of 7 pages, not including the title, reference, and appendix pages. Use a process improvement plan template of your choice. Related company standards: The process improvement plan is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs. In addition to the title and reference pages, include the following in the appendix:  Flowchart. Procedure. Detailed results of order delivery time analysis. Cause-and-effect diagram.  Use American Society for Quality (ASQ) data analysis tools and 2–3 additional scholarly or academic sources where applicable.

Survey Instrument            One  of the ways in which usability professionals collect data, and for that  matter academic professionals, is the use of a survey instrument. In  this assignment, you’ll create a paper-based survey instrument  evaluating a mobile application or Website. In the assignment, you are  expected to include:          Participant Demographic Data (Name, Age, Gender, Location, Education etc.)  Participation Consent 8 – 10 Measurable Quantitative Questions (Using a scale to support measurement, i.e., Likert) 2 – 4 Qualitative Questions      Leverage  the literature and textbook examples in your instrument creation. This  survey is a PAPER PROTOTYPE not to be completed using a survey  instrument such as Survey Monkey.        Read mat: Chapters 11 and 12, Interaction Design 5th Edition Requirements specification. Usability First - About Usability - Requirements Specification | Usability First. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.usabilityfirst.com/about-usability/requirements-specification/index.html Your guide to writing and managing requirements. Perforce Software. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.perforce.com/resources/alm/your-guide-successful-requirements-management What is prototyping? The Interaction Design Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/prototyping