Carrefour is a French-owned hypermarket operating in many places, including Saudi Arabia. Consider Carrefour in Saudi Arabia when you, as a customer, judge the quality of the hypermarket. Explain how quality is evaluated, and the role of technology in the customer perception of quality. Compare Carrefour’s quality and technology to another hypermarket in the area. Order the following criteria as most to least important for the successful operation of a hypermarket, and for a different industry (not a hyper market) and explain why there are any differences and the implications for operations: Customer satisfaction Forecasting Capacity planning Location Inventory management Store layout Scheduling

Answer Problem 4-1; problem 4-2; problem 4-6; problem 4-8; and redo problem 4-6 by changing the word FVA to PVA; problem 5-1; problem 5-7 and Additional problems.Additional Problems:Problem 1:A. Calculate the PV of $100 due in 5 years compounded monthly at 12%.B. Calculate the FV of $1000 due in 3 years at 6%.C. Calculate the FVA of $30 due at the end of each of the next 5 years at 4%.D. Calculate the PVA of $30 due at the end of each of the next 5 years at 4%.Problem 2:Compute the EAR of 12% compounded monthly.Problem 3:You take out an amortized loan for $10,000. The loan is to be paid in equal installments at the end of each of the next 5 years. The interest rate is 8%. Construct an amortization schedule.Problem 4:A. Calculate the PV of $100 due in 5 years compounded daily at 12%.B. Calculate the FV of $1000 due in 3 years at 6% compounded quarterly.C. Calculate the FVA of $300 due at the end of each of the next 5 years at 4%.D. Calculate the PVA of $300 due at the end of each of the next 5 years at 4%.Problem 5:Compute the EAR of 10% compounded daily.Problem 6:A bond was issued 3 years ago at a coupon rate of 6%. Since then, interest rates have declined to 4%. The bond matures 20 years from today. Compute the current market value of this bond.Problem 7:A bond was issued 2 years ago. It's original maturity was 20 years. The coupon rate is 4% and the current YTM is 6%. Compute its intrinsic value.

Simplified Marketing Yourself Plan for Personal/Professional Branding“Brand image exists in the minds of the audience members. It's the marketer’s job to shape that image accordingly.”Typical marketing plans require marketers to assess their own sets of resources, evaluate the marketplace, determine their target market(s), and then create a set of reasonable objectives (goals) with an accompanying set of appropriate strategies and tactics to reach those objectives.For this assignment, you will create a simplified marketing plan for your own personal and/or professional brand, i.e., “Brand You.” This could in itself be a daunting task, but fortunately, most of this has already been completed by you for you in previous class assignments.Simplified Personal/Professional Marketing Plan Elements1.Plan introduction and duration. This is a brief introduction to the purpose of the plan, including the duration of its scope (1 year, 2 years, 3 years, etc.). The duration must be for at least one year. 2.Summary/synthesis of your personal raw materials. (This was accomplished as part of your Raw Materials Assessment.) Summarize and synthesize your personal raw materials in a manner that allows a reader to understand the opportunities and challenges that may face you. as you construct and develop “BrandYou.”3.Market segment(s) that are to be targeted. (This was accomplished if you completed the Product/Audience Match assigned earlier in the semester.) This section should include any relevant portions from your Product/Audience Match Strategy assignment that would apply to this marketing plan: a)The potential target markets for your personal/professional brand (from “Part 1: List Current Audiences” and “Part 4: List Prospective Audiences”).b)Why these audiences are being targeted (from “Part 2: Importance of Current Audiences” and “Part 5: Importance of ProspectiveAudiences”).c)What the people in those segments desire in a person, employee, boss, etc.; that is, the attributes of the ideal candidate to be courted by that market segment (from “Part 3: What Current Audiences Want from You” and “Part 6: What Prospective Audiences Want fromYou”).Note: Even though you will only mention in this document the target segments that are applicable to this marketing plan, you must still include the completeProduct/AudienceMatch Strategy assignment as an Appendix to this assignment.4.Objectives/Goals for your brand. (Much of this was accomplished if you completed the Personal Marketing Strategy assigned earlier in the semester.) List at least five clearly identified goals that have a measurable component and a time (deadline) component. Delineate how each goal will be measured to ensure, eventually, that it has (or has not) been accomplished. You can have multiple-level objectives and combine this section with multiple-level strategies from the next section if desired. The key is that all objectives must lead you to your overall goal of winning the hearts of your target audience(s).NOTE: Even though you will only mention in this document any objectives/strategies that you feel are relevant to this marketing plan, you must still include the completePersonalMarketing Strategy assignment as an Appendix to this assignment.5.Strategies and tactics designed to reach the objectives. (Much of this was accomplished if you completed the Personal Marketing Strategy assigned earlier in the semester.) Your strategies should have direct-line connections to the objectives they are designed to reach. As mentioned above (in Part 4), you can combine this section with the Objectives or leave it as a separate section. In either case, you must include a one-page figure/chart/image that depicts how the strategies and objectives are connected. 6.Marketing Plan Timeline. Create a timeline for your plan where you detail the start and end dates for each strategy and tactic. You must include a one-page figure/chart/image of the timeline.You can be as creative as you like to create the timeline.Submission includes all sections and is a cohesive marketing plan.Includes 1-page figure/chart/image for marketing plan timeline and 1-page figure/chart/image for how strategies are connected to your objectives.Appendix includes the complete Product/Audience Match Strategy assignment and the complete Personal Marketing Strategy assignment, both of which follow their respective instructions.Submission is one PDF (preferred) or Word document;Document is free of spelling errors, typos, grammatical errors. Document uses appropriate punctuation, capitalization, headings/subheadings, page numbering, and selected font family/size.Charts, graphs, figures and bullet points are used appropriately.Submission is easily read, uses full sentences when appropriate.