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Three weeks have passed since your email correspondence with the Finance Director regarding the evaluation of the all-day opening proposal. You have received the following email:

From: Matt Spot, Finance Director

To: Financial Manager

Subject: board report

Hello

The Board has decided to proceed with a pilot venture by introducing all-day opening at the ten restaurants in the I-Town region.

We have already drafted an advertisement (attached) to help recruit more staff. We have been coming under pressure to ensure that we are not guilty of discrimination in our recruitment, so we need to ensure a good spread of ethnic groups and employees with disabilities when we appoint new staff. This raises a number of ethical and safety issues. We also need to spend some time looking at how best to set budgets and targets for all-day opening.

Please give me your thoughts on the following:

How can we implement equality and diversity practices when recruiting staff to cover new all-day opening times and have assurance that they have been correctly followed? Please comment on whether the statement on disability groups in the advertisement is sensible.

What are the challenges in setting targets for individual restaurants with respect to all-day opening, and how may they be overcome?

Matt

Forecast financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016

You have received the following email:

From: Monica Lall, Chief Executive

To: Financial Manager

Subject: projected profits

Hi,

The controversy over Town Logistics continues. The Board is feeling a little sensitive to criticism over their management of Pizzatime ' s relationship with the company. With that in mind, I have had the Finance Director prepare a set of forecast financial statements, which I have attached to this email.

The new home delivery service will have been fully operational for almost six months by the year end. The service has already been hugely successful and has significantly increased both revenue and profit.

The directors ' bonuses are linked to reported revenue according to the financial statements. As a retail organisation, our survival depends on sales revenue. Also, our restaurant managers ' revenue targets are based on total revenue, including home delivery sales, although many of them have refused to accept responsibility for these sales.

I need your advice on two matters:

The first is that we are planning to argue that the shareholders should take comfort from these figures and should relax and allow the Board to manage Pizzatime without undue interference. Do you agree that these figures show that the Board is excelling?

Can we argue that the present directors ' bonus scheme continues to align our interests with those of the shareholders? On a related matter, is the refusal of the restaurant managers to accept responsibility for home delivery sales justified?

Regards

Monica Lall

Chief Executive

Pizzatime

The Finance Director stops you in the corridor and says the following:

" I have been asked to convene a working party that will report to the Board. The working party ' s remit is to make a recommendation concerning the proposal that Pizzatime should enter the home delivery market. This will be a major expansion of our business. The idea has come from Marketing and Bilal seems very keen on getting the Board to proceed. In fact he ' s even had one of his staff produce these flyers. Have a look at this!

I would like you to draft a paper for me that covers the following:

Is this proposal consistent with Pizzatime ' s current strategy?

What will be the difficulties associated with predicting the profitability of this new sales channel? What decisions will we have to make about the delivery method and location of preparation facilities before we start to analyse potential profitability? "