Executive Summary  (One page – should be written last to focus on key points) Overview of all areas to be addressed in the paper. Purpose of the assignment Specifics as discussed in each section of the paper.

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Instructions Directions: Answer the following questions by the due date. Use numerical calculations (if needed) to support your argument. Submit your answers through uploading a Microsoft Word file, Excel file or PDF.   Tread-Force Fitness, Inc. assembles and sells elliptical machines. All activity costs are related to labor. Management must remove $2.00 of activity cost from the product in order for it to remain competitive. Activity-based product information for each elliptical machine is as follows:                                                                                    (Hrs per unit) Activity                      Activity Based Usage       x          Activity rate / hr         =           Activity Cost Moving                                 0.20                                         $15                                        $3.00 Motor Assembly                  1.50                                          $20                                      $30.00 Final…

You are working on a project at a business communications company, which includes employees who work at the central office and at a satellite office in a different state. The team is working with clients from a health services company on a public relations (PR) campaign. Throughout the campaign, the team will produce text-based documents and visual media for the PR campaign, and then the clients will review, make suggestions for revisions, and add content as needed. Quick turnaround is needed for tasks to be completed by the entire team (employees and clients). For the past six weeks since the project started, the employees and clients have been communicating largely through email with attachments, sending documents and media back and forth for review. However, the clients have been giving mostly short replies to emails, in which requested details are missing from the replies, the communication has been misunderstood by the clients, and/or individual questions are not fully responded…