Assignment 1: Business Memo FIRST DRAFT
Rule:
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FCC published a proposed rule that would amend its existing rules implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to allow providers to block calls in certain circumstances to prevent subscribers from receiving illegal robocalls. Providers would be allowed to block numbers at the request of a subscriber, calls from invalid numbers, and calls fr
You are an assistant in an investment firm who needs to relay important information about the rule and those industries that are covered by the rule.
For this assignment, you will need to summarize the proposed rule for your immediate supervisor. Additionally, you will send this memo as an attached document in a professional email written to that same supervisor. The memo will cover three important components:
♦ Rule Summary
♦ Description of the industries impacted
♦ Description of the actions that the rule will impose upon those impacted
The format of the memo may vary dependent on the parameters of your proposed rule. Usually agencies will have a one-paragraph summary of the rule. You will need to go beyond one paragraph for the executives of your investment firm, and produce a 1-1.5 page summary that leaves your supervisor with good understanding of all the main points of the structure and coverage of the regulation.
Audience: Upper Management, specifically your direct superior
Format: Business Memo
Purpose:
a.) Summary of the rule
b.) Summarize which industries are affected by the rule and what specific action they will need to take in order to comply with the rule. In other words, how will the industries have to change should the rule be implemented? Summarize the significance and/or magnitude of these impacts.
Length: 1-1.5pgs, single-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman, bullet points when necessary