Write a Personal Response Paper  (750 words) on the movie Rashomon（1950）.

 

Your thesis statement should center on your opinion of the movie (did you like or dislike the movie?)

Support your thesis by giving examples from the movie to explain your assessment of the movie.

Things you might consider in formulating your opinions are:

What are the reoccurring themes?

How do you feel about how women are portrayed in this movie?

How was “Man” (humanity) portrayed in this movie?

Aside from the obvious age of the movie, are there aspects of the movie you liked?  i.e. Narrative style of the story?; Cinematography?; Special Effects? etc…

Remember that you may still like a movie while disliking certain themes or content of the movie.  Was it well directed?  Was the story line compelling?  Does its message transcend time?

100 points          25pts.=Content, 25pts.=Organization, 25pts.=Style, 25pts.=Correctness

Overview:

Your case study looks Halston and Stokes, a venture capital firm. Answer all questions posed completely.

Case Study:

Granger Stokes, the managing partner of the venture capital firm of Halston and Stokes, was dissatisfied with the top management of PrimeDrive, a manufacturer of computer disk drives. Halston and Stokes had invested $20 million in PrimeDrive, and the return on their investment had been below expectations for several years. In a tense meeting of the board of directors of PrimeDrive, Stokes exercised his firm’s rights as the major equity investor in PrimeDrive and fired PrimeDrive’s chief executive officer (CEO). He then quickly moved to have the board of directors of PrimeDrive appoints himself as the new CEO.

Stokes prided himself on his hard-driving management style. At the first management meeting, he asked two of the managers to stand and fired them on the spot, just to show everyone who was in control of the company. At the budget review meeting that followed, he ripped up the departmental budgets that had been submitted for his review and yelled at the managers for their “wimpy, do nothing targets.” He then ordered everyone to submit new budgets calling for at least a 40% increase in sales volume and announced that he would not accept excuses for results that fell below budget.

Keri Kalani, an accountant working for the production manager at PrimeDrive, discovered toward the end of the year that her boss had not been scrapping defective disk drives that had been returned by customers. Instead, he had been shipping them in new cartons to other customers to avoid booking losses. Quality control had deteriorated during the year as a result of the push for increased volume, and returns of defective disk drives were running as high as 15% of the new drives shipped. When she confronted her boss with her discovery, he told her to mind her own business. And then, to justify his actions, he said, “All of us managers are finding ways to hit Stokes’s targets.

Instructions:

Based on the scenario above, answer the following questions completely:

Is Granger Stokes using budgets as a planning and control tool?

 What are the behavioral consequences of the way budgets are being used at PrimeDrive?

 What, if anything, do you think Keri Kalani should do?

Instructions:

 Answer each question completely. Requirements:

 While there is no required page length, each question must be addressed completely.

 Your assignment will be double-spaced, APA formatted pages, including a reference page.

Unit 5 Discussion

Unit 5 DiscussionIs it important for a company to follow a strict budget even though they may be experiencing phenomenal profits?  Do you think that there will be a bias towards greed when creating the budget for this company?  Explain.How does management greed influence budget decisions?Please consider each of the questions separately in this post.  It is important for you to understand the value of the budget as a blueprint for the business – even in times of exceptional “good news”.It is also important to consider the role of greed within the budgeting process of the firm.  Perhaps you might want to think about the budget as a communication to employees about what ownership and management believes is its focus.You might even want to see if any other of the exceptional “bad boys” in the business world were reflecting their greed even within their budgeting documents.