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BUS 315 Week 1 Discussion 1 Three Major
Concerns NEW
BUS 315 Week 1 Discussion 2 Fair Pricing NEW
BUS 315 Week 2 Discussion 2 Fixed Price -vs- Cost-
Reimbursement NEW
BUS 315 Week 3 Assignment 1 Proposal (2 Papers)
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BUS 315 Week 3 Discussion 1 Price Analysis NEW
BUS 315 Week 3 Discussion 2 Best Use of Price
Analysis NEW
BUS 315 Week 4 Assignment 2 Price Analysis for
the Navigation Systems (2 Papers) NEW
BUS 315 Week 4 Discussion 1 Classifications of
Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 4 Discussion 2 Other Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 5 Discussion 1 How to Forecast
Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 5 Discussion 2 Certified Costs NEW

BUS 315 Week 6 Assignment 3 Buy American
Requirements 2 papers NEW
BUS 315 Week 6 Discussion 1 Labor Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 6 Discussion 2 Work Breakdown
Structure NEW
BUS 315 Week 7 Discussion 1 Indirect Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 7 Discussion 2 Direct Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 8 Assignment 4 Analysis of Direct
Costs 2 papers NEW
BUS 315 Week 8 Discussion 1 Overhead Expenses
NEW

BUS 315 Week 8 Discussion 2 G & A Expense NEW
BUS 315 Week 9 Discussion 1 Facility Costs NEW
BUS 315 Week 9 Discussion 2 Procedures of
FCCOM NEW
BUS 315 Week 10 Assignment 5 Federal
Contracting Activities and Contract Types 2 papers
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BUS 315 Week 10 Discussion 1 Profit NEW
BUS 315 Week 10 Discussion 2 NASA NEW
BUS 315 Week 11 Discussion 1 Course Wrap-Up
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BUS 315 Week 11 Discussion 2 Looking Forward
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STRAYER BUS 315 Week 1 Discussion 1 Three
Major Concerns NEW
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"Three Major Concerns" Please respond to the
following:
Analyze at least two major concerns for the federal
government concerning the pricing of goods and
services. Determine which major concern you
believe is the most important to address, and
provide a rationale for your response.
Distinguish between at least two of the major
factors that are important when a company
decides upon a price at which to sell its goods and
services to the government. Provide a rationale for
your response.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 1 Discussion 2 Fair
Pricing NEW
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"Fair Pricing" Please respond to the following:
Categorize at least two factors that VectorCal uses
to determine a fair and reasonable price for the
navigation system it is marketing to the
government. Suggest key reasons why these two
factors are important in determining the fair and
reasonable prices for VectorCal's navigation
systems. Support your response with one example
of the importance of such factors.
Using the two important factors that you identified
in Part 1 of this discussion, suggest the manner in
which the proposed price is fair and reasonable

for the government to pay. Provide a rationale for
your response.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 2 Discussion 2 Fixed Price
-vs- Cost-Reimbursement NEW
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"Fixed Price -vs- Cost-Reimbursement" Please
respond to the following:
• Compare and contrast the fixed-price and cost-
reimbursement for the VectorCal navigation
system. Determine which type of costing
mechanism best serves VectorCal's needs. Provide
a rationale for your response.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 3 Assignment 1 Proposal
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Assignment 1: Proposal
Due Week 3 and worth 150 points
Note: Refer to scenarios and readings from
previous weeks in order to complete this
assignment.
Imagine that you just created a new start-up
company. You want to compete in the growing
industry of drone navigation systems. VectorCal is
the only major company in the field. You also want
to be a leaner, faster version of a company that you
view as being too slow and costly. Note: You may
create and / or make all necessary assumptions
needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which
you:
Describe the new start-up company that you have
created. Include in your description the nature of
your company, its mission and vision, your
company’s product, an analysis of your staff, and
your target clientele.
Criticize VectorCal’s forecasting method.
Determine the appropriate forecasting approach
for your company. Provide a rationale to support
the determination.
Suggest the semi-variable, allocated, and indirect
costs that you should address in the start-up phase
of your company. Provide a rationale to support
the response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this
assignment.Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites
do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman
font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;
citations and references must follow APA or
school-specific format. Check with your professor
for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the

assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s
name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated
with this assignment are:
Determine the characteristics of government
contracting that affect pricing and what is
considered fair and reasonable pricing.
Outline the process to forecast the likely price of
an acquisition, calculate semi-variable costs, and
allocate direct and indirect costs.
Use technology and information resources to
research issues in cost and price analysis.
Write clearly and concisely about cost and price
analysis using proper writing mechanics.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 3 Discussion 1 Price
Analysis NEW
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"Price Analysis" Please respond to the following:
Examine at least two purposes that price analysis
serves to a company like VectorCal and to its
product line. Support your answer with two (2)
examples of companies that used price analysis to
better serve their organizations.
Imagine you are a CEO of a large company. Provide
two examples of the manner in which you would
incorporate a price analysis in your company.
Predict the important ways in which your use of
price analysis would lead to financial success for
the whole company.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 3 Discussion 2 Best Use of
Price Analysis NEW
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"Best Use of Price Analysis.' Please respond to the
following:
• Examine all of the methods for performing a
price analysis that VectorCal can use when
creating its own price analysis, and then specify
two to three (2-3) price analysis methods that
would best serve VectorCal's needs. Explain your
rationale. • From the e-Activity, speculate on key
areas where most companies fall short when

conducting price analyses. Suggest two (2)
methods that a company CEO should use in order
to reduce price analysis inconsistencies. Support
your suggestion with real-world examples.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 4 Assignment 2 Price
Analysis for the Navigation Systems (2 Papers)
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In order to complete this assignment, refer to the
scenario from Assignment 1, as well as to the
scenarios and readings from previous weeks.
Write a four (4) page paper in which you:
Analyze your company’s cost classification for
pricing of the navigation system. Defend your cost
classification to the U.S. government.
Determine reasonable, allowable, allocable,
variable, fixed, and semi-variable costs for your
company after the initial start-up phase is
complete.

Predict the method for performing price analysis
that the U.S. government will want from your new
company and VectorCal. Justify the response.
4. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites
requirements:
Examine the various cost classifications, the
different allocation bases, and the application of
cost-accounting standards.

• Write clearly and concisely about cost and price
analysis using proper writing mechanics.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 4 Discussion 1
Classifications of Costs NEW
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"Classifications of Costs" Please respond to the
following:
Diagram two to three (2-3) of the classifications
for costs, and propose the value of each of these
classifications in the production of the navigation
system at VectorCal. Explain your decision for each
classification chosen.
From first the e-Activity, compare and contrast the
manner in which VectorCal and the other
businesses that you researched utilize cost
principles. Specify which cost principles you
believe to be the most and least important for any
business, and justify your rationale for each.

BUS 315 Week 4 Discussion 2 Other Costs NEW
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"Other Costs" Please respond to the following:
Determine the differences between overhead
costs and G & A costs in the production of
VectorCal’s navigation systems overall. Analyze
the role that each of these types of costs plays in
the long-term production of VectorCal’s navigation
systems. Justify your analysis.
Predict VectorCal’s direct labor cost, direct
material cost, overhead costs, and G&A costs

related to production. Next, from the second e-
Activity, provide two to three(2-3) examples of
companies

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 5 Discussion 1 How to
Forecast Costs NEW
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"How to Forecast Costs" Please respond to the
following:
Infer the main reasons for the high number of
government contracting invitations extended for
the purpose of obtaining certified cost or pricing
data. Speculate on why the invitation is the last
item in the gathering of cost and pricing process.
Justify your response.
Provide two to three (2-3) examples of other
strategies to use to obtain cost or pricing data in a
more accurate fashion. Predict the manner in
which these examples could be utilized to also

save the government funds. Provide a rationale for
your response.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 5 Discussion 2 Certified
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"Certified Costs" Please respond to the following:
Imagine that a contracting office requests certified
cost or pricing data related to your company,
VectorCal. Speculate on what would happen to
VectorCal in the long term if the cost or pricing
data was defective or inaccurate. Provide a
rationale for your response.
Predict the manner in which VectorCal would
absorb the certified cost or pricing data expense
based on the information presented in Chapter 5.
From the e-Activity, present two to three (2-3)
examples of instances where companies have
absorbed the certified cost or pricing data

expenses similarly to your prediction of VectorCal.
Speculate on what the manner in which the
existing companies absorbed the certified cost or
pricing data expenses bodes for the future of
VectorCal.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 6 Assignment 3 Buy
American Requirements 2 papers NEW
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Assignment 3: Buy American Requirements
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Specify the main points of the Buy American
Requirements in one (1) page or less.
2. Determine the substantive means by which the
Buy American Requirements would benefit both
VectorCal and your new company. Provide a
rationale for the response.
3. Analyze the fundamental ways in which the Buy

American Requirements are contradictory to a
capitalistic ethos, given that the U.S. government
claims to promote competition and the U.S.
espouses a free market ideology (e., capitalism).
Support your answer with two (2) examples of
such a contradiction.
4. Debate whether or not you believe that the
exceptions to the Buy American Requirements set
forth by the government are fair and advantageous
to the U.S. economy. Provide a rationale for the
response.
5. Determine the key advantages and
disadvantages of using the Buy American
Requirements with the navigation system that
both VectorCal and your company produce. Justify
the response.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this
requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New
Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; citations and references must follow APA or

• Include a cover page containing the title of the
• Determine how to validate costs and certify cost
and pricing data.
• Specify the government policies regarding profit
and pricing adjustments for contracts.
• Use technology and information resources to
analysis using proper writing mechanics

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 6 Discussion 1 Labor
Costs NEW
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"Labor Costs" Please respond to the following:
Identify at least two factors that VectorCal uses to
determine its labor costs for the creation of the
navigation system that it is marketing to the
government. Specify key reasons why these two
factors are important in determining the labor
costs for VectorCal’s navigation systems. Support
your response with one example of such
importance.
From the e-Activity, speculate on key areas where
most companies fall short when determining their

labor costs. Suggest two (2) methods that a
company CEO should use in order to reduce price
labor cost inconsistencies. Support your
suggestion with two (2) real-world examples.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 6 Discussion 2 Work
Breakdown Structure NEW
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"Work Breakdown Structure" Please respond to
the following:
Compare and contrast work breakdown schedule
(WBS) and Phase Diagram in terms of
appropriateness and effectiveness for the
VectorCal navigation system. Determine which
method best serves VectorCal’s needs. Provide a
rationale for your response.
Suggest two to three (2-3) other methods that
VectorCal could use to obtain labor cost data in
anaccurate fashion in addition to WBS and Phase
Diagram. Predict the manner in which VectorCal

could use these methods to decrease the amount of
government funds needed.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 7 Discussion 1 Indirect
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"Indirect Costs" Please respond to the following:
Predict VectorCal’s indirect costs based on the
direct costs (e.g. direct labor, direct materials or
both). Next, from the e-Activity provide two
examples of companies with the same indirect
costs that you predicted for VectorCal. Speculate
on what the indirect costs of the existing
companies bodes for the future of VectorCal.
Suggest one way in which how VectorCal could
estimate the future indirect costs for at least ten
potential line items related to the production of its
navigation systems. Determine three (3) line items

that could affect the indirect costs the most. Justify
your response.
Use the Internet to research articles discussing
predictions on the indirect costs for different
companies. Be prepared to discuss.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 7 Discussion 2 Direct
Costs NEW
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"Direct Costs" Please respond to the following:
Examine the methods that VectorCal could use for
estimating the direct costs. Next, specify two to
three (2-3) ways in which VectorCal could control
these costs. Explain your rationale.
Determine the manner in which VectorCal could
estimate the future direct costs for at least ten
potential line items related to the production of its
navigation systems. Determine two to three (2-3)
line items that could affect the direct costs the
most. Justify your response.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 8 Assignment 4 Analysis
of Direct Costs 2 papers NEW
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Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which
you:
1. Predict the main costs (e.g., labor cost, material
cost) associated with the production of VectorCal’s
drone navigation system. Provide a rationale for

the response.
2. Compare and contrast the direct and indirect
costs associated with the drone navigation system
that both your company and VectorCal would
assume. Predict whether or not your company
could easily control these costs and thus reduce
production expenses. Justify the response.
3. Compare your company with VectorCal relative
to the price of acquisition, semi-variable costs, and
allocated direct and indirect costs of the drone
navigation system. Justify the response.
4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this
assignment. Note:Wikipedia and similar Websites

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 8 Discussion 1 Overhead
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"Overhead Expenses" Please respond to the
following:
From the-Activity, compare and contrast the
manner in which VectorCal and other businesses
that you researched analyze overhead
costs.Selecttwo to three (2-3) methods that the
businesses in question used for allocating costs for
theanalysis of their overhead expenses. Explain
your rationale.

"Overhead Expenses" Please respond to the
following:
From the-Activity, compare and contrast the
manner in which VectorCal and other businesses
that you researched analyze overhead
costs.Selecttwo to three (2-3) methods that the
businesses in question used for allocating costs for
theanalysis of their overhead expenses. Explain
your rationale.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 8 Discussion 2 G & A
Expense NEW
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"G & A Expense" Please respond to the following:
Specify several advantages of operating a small
business when it comes to General and
Administrative (G&A) expenses. Determine the
single most important advantage that you believe
would benefit the small-business owner the most.
Explain your answer.
Compare and contrast the G&A expense from a
large company and a smaller company. Determine
which characteristics you believe are the most
important for both large and small companies.
Justify your response for each.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 9 Discussion 1 Facility
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bus 315 week 9 discussion 1 facility costs
new"Facility Costs" Please respond to the
following:
Suppose you have been working with the federal
government for a period of time, and you decide to
form a small company. Explain the difference
between depreciation and the facilities capital cost
of money. Specify the key advantages of having
facilities capital cost of money as an allowable
cost. Justify your response.
Compare and contrast the facility costs of
VectorCal and the US Government. Determine at
least two advantages for using facility costs for
both VectorCal and the US Government. Explain
your rationale.

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"Procedures of FCCOM" Please respond to the
following: • Describe two to three (2-3)
circumstances in which facilities capital costs of
money is an allowable cost. Determine the single
most significant advantage of having facilities
capital costs as an allowable cost under the
circumstances you described. Support your
response. • Determine two to three (2-3) possible
factors that could make facilities capital costs of
money unallowable based on the information
presented in Chapter 9. Present two to three (2-3)

examples of instances where companies have
made facility capital costs of money available

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 10 Assignment 5 Federal
Contracting Activities and Contract Types 2 papers
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Assignment 5: Federal Contracting Activities and
Contract Types
Note: Refer to scenarios and readings from
previous weeks in order to complete this
assignment.
The Department of Defense plans to issue a
$400,000 government contract to a company that
specializes in drone navigation technologies. As a
result, a government auditor has been contacted to
examine the operational data VectorCal and one
(1) competitor (previously identified as “your

company”) in order to decide which company
should win the government contract.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary
assumptions needed for the completion of this
assignment.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Create a one (1) page overview of the history and
background of each company vying for the
government contract.
Determine the type(s) of contract for which both
companies might be eligible (e.g., fixed-price, cost
reimbursement, etc.). Justify the response.
Discuss at least three (3) direct costs and three (3)
indirect costs that each company incurred during
the production of its navigation system. Explain
the manner in which this data would factor into
your decision as to which company would be more
eligible to receive the contract.
Suggest which company should be awarded this
government contract based on the data that was
presented for each company. Next, provide three
to five (3-5) reasons to support your stance.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this

requirements:
Specify the government policies regarding profit
and pricing adjustments for contracts.
Evaluate the role played by contract auditors.
analysis using proper writing mechanics

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 10 Discussion 1 Profit
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"Profit" Please respond to the following:
Determine two to three (2-3) reasons why
VectorCal may not always receive the exact
amount of profit that it negotiated into its contract
with the federal government. Predict two to three
(2-3) outcomes VectorCal may experience as a
result of not meeting the profit requirements
specified in their government contract. Justify
your response.
Hypothesize two examples of circumstances where
a company has not met the profit requirements of
a government contract. Next, speculate on why

these circumstances resulted in a failure to meet
the profit requirements of its contract with the
federal government. Next, from the e-Activity,
provide one example of a company that has not
met the profit requirements of a government
contract, and specify the company’s end result.

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"NASA" Please respond to the following:
Analyze the methods used by NASA in its
structured profit approach, and speculate on how
VectorCal could possibly use the same structured
profit approach with their manufacturing
operations. Support your analysis with examples
of such an approach.
Take a position on whether or not companies
benefit from using a structured profit approach to
calculate their profits. Provide an explanation of

your position with at least two examples or
scenarios of the use of such an approach.

STRAYER BUS 315 Week 11 Discussion 1 Course
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"Course Wrap-Up" Please respond to the following:
Sum up two of the most important concepts you
learned from this course and state how you might
use these.
Identify someone in your life who would benefit
from taking this course, and explain the reasons
why.

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"Looking Forward" Please respond to the
following:
• Speculate on what technology might be able to do
in 15 years to improve the contracting process. •
Hypothesize whether contracting with the
government will be easier or more difficult in the
future. Provide a rationale for your answer

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