hroughout North America. Because of pressure for lower selling prices, New City Muffler has had disappointing financial performance in recent years. Indeed, Conroy is aware of rumblings from corporate headquarters threatening to close the plant. One of Conroy's responsibilities is to present the plant's financial plans for the coming year to the corporate officers and board of directors. In preparing for the presentation, Conroy was in- rigued to note that the focal point of the budget presentation was a profit-volume graph projecting an increase in profits and a reduction in the break-even point. Curious as to how the improvement would be accomplished, Conroy ultimately spoke with Paula Mitchell, the plant manager. Mitchell indicated that a planned increase in productivity would educe variable costs and increase the contribution margin ratio. When asked how the productivity increase would be accomplished, Mitchell made a vague ference to increasing the speed of the assembly line. Conroy commented that speeding up the Esembly line could lead to labor problems because the speed of the line was set by union contract itchell responded that she was afraid that if the speedup were opened to negotiation, the unio puld make a big "stink" that could result in the plant being closed. She indicated that the speedu as the "only way to save the plant, our jobs, and the jobs of all plant employees." Besides, she d t believe employees would notice a 2% or 3% increase in speed. Mitchell concluded the meetin serving, "You need to emphasize the results we will accomplish next year, not the details of hc will accomplish those results. Top management does not want to be bored with details. If complish what we propose in the budget, we will be in for a big bonus."

1. What are the meaning of these business reports; incident report, trip report and progress report? 2. What are the difference between Business Proposal and Executive Summary?

WEEK 9 DISS 1″Communicating Policy Analysis” Please respond to the following: Assume you are a candidate for a director of communications for a major metropolitan county. The job will require you to communicate to the public about public policy regarding transportation, environmental issues, education, taxes, as well as economic development. Explain at least three reasons and ways written and oral communication are important, and should be used to ensure public policy analyses are promoted and accepted by the general public.Use the same scenario to explain at least two ways you would ensure public policy analyses are read and accepted by key stakeholders. Provide two reasons and an example to support your response.WEEK 9 DISS 2 “Translating Policy Arguments” Please respond to the following: Explain at least two key factors policy makers use when evaluating and using information provided to them in policy reports. Explain why it is important for an analyst…

1. How is a technical report different from a news report? Mention their differences. · of 2. Download a research paper of your choice; read its Executive Summary/Abstract thoroughly and attempt the questions given below. Please note that each one of you should find a research paper on your own. If two students work on the same research paper, that shall be considered plagiarism. Also, if the summary/abstract is already composed with headings, don't use it. a. Identify different parts of the Executive summary as discussed in Lecture 03. b. Make a Title Page of the research paper that you downloaded including all these components: Title of the report, Date of submission, Addresser's name, Addressee's name c. Share the link (URL) of the research paper that you used for this assignment.