Analyze the effectiveness of the working capital management.

The unit lesson and the textbook readings for this unit list several project valuation methods. Choose three project valuation methods, and write an essay that explains each of the methods. Specifically, your essay should cover the following topics:

  • Include an introduction that explains the overall function of valuation methods in capital budgeting and why capital budgeting is so important.
  • Explain the benefits and drawbacks of each valuation method, and describe whether the method is more beneficial in analyzing for-profit or nonprofit organizations.
  • For each valuation method, give a scenario where the method chosen would be beneficial in making a decision between different projects. If additional valuation methods would be beneficial in making a decision between the projects, explain why.
  • Conclude with an analysis of the effects of inflation and healthcare trends and how these should be factored into capital budgeting decisions.

Your essay must be at least two pages in length, double-spaced. You are required to use at least three outside sources

Project Valuation

Payback method: This is a project valuation method that encourages front-loaded cash flows by favoring projects on the basis of investment recovery time. It uses discounted cash flows (DCF). This project valuation method does not consider what happens once the payback is achieved or the TVM.  Accounting rate of return (ARR) method: ARR is a project valuation method that compares the cash returns to an ARR using cost of capital, past company data, and/or the uncertainty of the project (Wilkinson, 2018). The calculation is average annual income / average investment (or initial investment if the whole investment was at the beginning of the period).  Net present value (NPV) method: NPV is a project valuation method using the present value of net cash outflows and net cash inflows. The NPV method discounts future cash inflows and future cash outflows based on the minimally accepted cost of capital, also known as the hurdle rate, which is generally the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) that is risk adjusted. Any answer that is $0 or greater than $0 is considered a profitable project where the organization recovered its costs.  Internal rate of return (IRR) method: Based on TVM, IRR calculates the interest rate where the PV cash outflows are equal to the PV of cash inflows. The IRR is compared to the hurdle rate in determining viability for the project (Wilkinson, 2018).

Discuss Causes of conflict

 

Each student will select one of the key terms listed below and conduct a search of the University’s online library resources to find 1 recent peer-reviewed article (within the past 3 years) that closely relates to the concept. Your submission must include the following information in the following format:

Key Terms:

  • Causes of conflict
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Cognitive Biases in Negotiation
  • Negotiation Strategies

DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.

SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words- this should be in the 150-200 word range. Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials, and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research, or findings regarding the key term.

ANALYSIS: Using 300-350 words, write a brief analysis, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. An analysis is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts, and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.

REFERENCES: All references must be listed at the bottom of the submission–in APA format.

 

Each student will select one of the key terms listed below and conduct a search of the University’s online library resources to find 1 recent peer-reviewed article (within the past 3 years) that closely relates to the concept. Your submission must include the following information in the following format:

Key Terms:

  • Causes of conflict
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Cognitive Biases in Negotiation
  • Negotiation Strategies

DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.

SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words- this should be in the 150-200 word range. Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials, and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research, or findings regarding the key term.

ANALYSIS: Using 300-350 words, write a brief analysis, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. An analysis is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts, and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.

REFERENCES: All references must be listed at the bottom of the submission–in APA format.

Evaluate two leadership theories

Write a 4–5 page paper in which you:
Determine two leadership theories and two leadership styles that support the definition of a public leader. Provide a rationale for your response.
Discuss the differences, if any, between successful leaders in public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Cite experiences and research to support your assertions.
Some think leadership is a born ability. Some think leadership can be learned. Some think leadership is a product of a need or challenge. What do you think? Cite experiences and research to support your assertions.
Include at least four peer-reviewed references (at least one must be no more than 3 months old) from material outside
Follow all directions given above and stay on the topic
Follow the APA format in reference to title page, page numbers, citations, ect
The references should be 4 and no older than 3 months; scholarly journal sources
The assignment should be 5 full pages not to include title page.
Looking for thorough and quality information, A++ work

Write a 4–5 page paper in which you:
Determine two leadership theories and two leadership styles that support the definition of a public leader. Provide a rationale for your response.
Discuss the differences, if any, between successful leaders in public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Cite experiences and research to support your assertions.
Some think leadership is a born ability. Some think leadership can be learned. Some think leadership is a product of a need or challenge. What do you think? Cite experiences and research to support your assertions.
Include at least four peer-reviewed references (at least one must be no more than 3 months old) from material outside
Follow all directions given above and stay on the topic
Follow the APA format in reference to title page, page numbers, citations, ect
The references should be 4 and no older than 3 months; scholarly journal sources
The assignment should be 5 full pages not to include title page.
Looking for thorough and quality information, A++ work

Discuss Simple Linear Regression And Graphs

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Getting Started

After the prior activities the analysis section can be written for your research report. Since there are three analyses to perform, this is a partial assignment for the analysis section.

In order to successfully complete this assignment, you should be able to:

  • Write part of the analysis section for a data set.

Resources

  • File: Research Report Patients
  • Your most recent research report

Background Information

This is one of the more detailed assignments in this course. You will write your first analysis for the report.

Instructions

  1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
  2. Study the Research Report Patients file.
  3. In your report, fill out the first analysis section, including any statistics and graphs and interpretation on the analysis.
  4. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy of the research report to your instructor by the end of the workshop. ListenListen with webReaderFocus

    Getting Started

    After the prior activities the analysis section can be written for your research report. Since there are three analyses to perform, this is a partial assignment for the analysis section.

    In order to successfully complete this assignment, you should be able to:

    • Write part of the analysis section for a data set.

    Resources

    • File: Research Report Patients
    • Your most recent research report

    Background Information

    This is one of the more detailed assignments in this course. You will write your first analysis for the report.

    Instructions

    1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
    2. Study the Research Report Patients file.
    3. In your report, fill out the first analysis section, including any statistics and graphs and interpretation on the analysis.
    4. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy of the research report to your instructor by the end of the workshop.

Evaluate the management of global products that are similar to those offered by Samsung in China.

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    Please prepare one page written proposal outlining your topic (WeWork Analysis) and discussion of the intended research topic and content. One page is about 300-450 words. Your document should like the topic, the reason why you chose the subject area of the intended research. The topic must be related to the field of international business or a closely related business area. The topic must be approved by me before you can continue with the intended write-up of the capstone project.

    Please note the following:

    1. It must be submitted in APA 7 along with references and citations.

    2. The topic is “WeWork Analysis”.

    3. Please do include where (sources) to find FACTUAL DATA

    4. Please do show how WeWork is operating INTERNATIONALLY.

    Please ask any questions if you have doubts.

    Please prepare one page written proposal outlining your topic (WeWork Analysis) and discussion of the intended research topic and content. One page is about 300-450 words. Your document should like the topic, the reason why you chose the subject area of the intended research. The topic must be related to the field of international business or a closely related business area. The topic must be approved by me before you can continue with the intended write-up of the capstone project.

    Please note the following:

    1. It must be submitted in APA 7 along with references and citations.

    2. The topic is “WeWork Analysis”.

    3. Please do include where (sources) to find FACTUAL DATA

    4. Please do show how WeWork is operating INTERNATIONALLY.

    Please ask any questions if you have doubts.

Discuss why risk management is so important in banking industry.

Please see the below instruction and the Fin 320 PDF and the example excel sheet

Find a Publicly Traded Company

Go to Mergent Online, click on GO, and then click on Mergent Online in the results.  This is the direct link: http://www.mergentonline.com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/basicsearch.php  Enter a company name in the Company Search – Enter symbol or Company Name field in the first section (top, left) and wait one moment for a drop-down menu to appear.  If it is a publicly traded company (meaning its stock trades on an exchange where you can buy and sell shares), it will appear in the list below and you will see the company stock ticker symbol and name.  Click on the company name in the list for details, and confirm that this is the company you intended to search for by reading the Business Summary.  Review the information in the blue box at the top of the page and make note of the company’s assigned Sector and Industry

Find Historical Stock Prices

 Click on the Equity Pricing tab.  The Time Period defaults to 3 years.  Click on Report above the Controls box.  Once you see the Historical Pricing, choose Download near the top right of the screen.  Save the Excel file to your computer.  Use the Close price to calculate the percent increase or decrease in the stock price over the seven weekday or three-year period (“rate of return” in rubric).  For example, Apple’s stock price on 8/19/16 closed at $109.36. Seven weekdays earlier, on 8/11/16, it closed at $107.93. If you had bought 100 shares of Apple stock on 8/11/16 at $107.93 and sold them on 8/19/16 at $109.36, you would have earned $143 before taxes, which is a 1.32% rate of return. The calculation is (109.36-107.93)/107.93 x 100 which equals 1.32%.  Apple’s stock price closed on 8/19/2013 at $72.53. The three-year rate of return is 50.77%.

Download Financial Statement Data

 Select the Company Financials tab to retrieve financial statement data.  Balance Sheet data will appear, and it defaults to Annual.  Five years’ worth of data will appear, and you can change to 3 years by selecting that option to the right of the Annuals/Balance Sheet above the Balance Sheet data.  Choose Refresh at the end of the next row.  Choose Download near the top right of the screen.  Save the Excel file to your computer.   Change Balance Sheet to Income Statement and then Cash Flow to get your other financial statements.

Find a Competitor

 Click on the Competitors tab.  Select Public Global to the right of Competitor at the top of the list of companies.  Click on company name to review the Business Summary to confirm that this is the company you are interested in.  Review Sector and Industry listed at the top and determine if you want to use this competitor for your competitive analysis.

Find Industry Data

 Click on the Competitors tab.  Select Public Global to the right of Competitor at the top of the list of companies.  Choose at least five competitors.  Click on each company name to review the Business Summary to confirm that this is the company you are interested in.  Review Sector and Industry listed at the top and determine if you want to use this competitor for your industry analysis.  Determine what financial indicators you would like to compare and collect the needed data from the company financial statements for your ratio or Free Cash Flow (FCF) calculations.  Average your calculated results to get an industry average (for example, add the five company FCF’s together and then divide by five).

Discuss on Marketing Plan

I would like to go with a T-Shirt company that incorporates family photos on their shirts. Allowing the customers to custom build would great for competition. this would be for a new start-up, or can be molded after a T-shirt niche.

Assignment.

You will be required to write a marketing plan for a product, company, or a service. There is an excellent template on page A-7 to A-13 of your textbook.(Book:Contemporary Marketing, 18th Edition Louise E. Boone; David L. Kurtz ISBN-10: 1-337-38689-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-337-38689-0) The marketing plan is only as good as the information it contains and the effort, creativity, and thought that went into its creation. Keep your marketing plan on a local scale. It might be fun to write a marketing plan for a company such as Disney but to complete the plan would be unmanageable compared to a more local product, company or service. You may team up with up to three members of the class to write your plan. This does not have to be a team project. You will need to write your plan and submit it using Blackboard in module 8. You will also be required to submit a PowerPoint or Prezi of your plan and submit it in module 8.

To begin, you must decide whether you would like to work in a team or complete the project individually.

Please post to the discussion forum and write either “individual” or  “team” to indicate your preference. If you do not post your preference in this forum by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. EST. you will complete your marketing plan individually.

A  rubric rubric – Alternative Formats  for the marketing plan has been provided.

Rubric uploaded below.

Evaluate Articulate models for product differentiation and positioning within the market.

Getting Started

Executive presentations are a critical management skill. Being able to take large amounts of data and information and present it in a concise and succinct manner is the mark of a high performance professional. The last step in this course is preparing a focused video report that would be provided to the client highlighting the research, analysis, and recommendations from the sections of the consultant’s report.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

  • Articulate models for product differentiation and positioning within the market.
  • Determine pricing strategies, price setting methods, distribution channels, and key channel members.
  • Analyze the effectiveness of emerging promotional strategies.
  • Assess the market structure and internal and external marketing environments to determine the crucial factors influencing the marketing strategy.
  • Create product development strategies and market demand estimates.

Resources

  • Web or computer cam
  • Video software
  • YouTube or another video sharing platform

Instructions

  1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
  2. You will submit a 10- to 12-minute video and a 300-word executive summary, encapsulating all 4 sections of the client report (your consultant’s report).
    1. Create a professionally appearing and sounding video suitable for presentation to a client. You need an opening image with your name, your client name, and the industry. You need a closing image thanking the client and providing your contact information (real or fabricated).
    2. Include highlights from all four sections of your paper. Focus is critical so be sure to discuss only the most important elements of each section so that you are within the 10- to 12-minute time limit.
    3. Include a minimum of six graphs or charts that are shown while you are describing and discussing them.
  3. Upload the video to a video sharing site such as YouTube that does not require a login to access. If using YouTube, you may set the video to unlisted but do not set it to private. You will post a link to the video in the submission text box.
  4. Write a 300-word executive summary of your consultant’s report and submit it as a Word document.

Discuss on Derivative Valuation

Homework around 30 questions related to Derivative Valuation

This is a limited-time quiz

Should be very familiar with futures markets and central counterparties; hedging strategies using futures; interest rates; determination of forward and futures prices; interest rate futures; swaps; properties of stock options; mechanics of options markets; binominal trees; wiener processes and Ito’s lemma; the black-scholes-merton model;

will send the file later

Homework around 30 questions related to Derivative Valuation

This is a limited-time quiz

Should be very familiar with futures markets and central counterparties; hedging strategies using futures; interest rates; determination of forward and futures prices; interest rate futures; swaps; properties of stock options; mechanics of options markets; binominal trees; wiener processes and Ito’s lemma; the black-scholes-merton model;

will send the file later

Description of Investment objectives

This research and project consist of building an investment portfolio.

Follow this structure to help build your project:

1. Executive Summary

2. Investment Prerequisites

a. Description of Investor Profile

b. Description of Investment objectives

i. Income: For investors seeking regular income with low to

moderate risk to principal.

ii. Aggressive Income: For investors seeking higher returns either

as growth or as income with greater risk to principal.

iii. Capital Appreciation: investors seeking capital appreciation with

moderate to high risk to principal.

iv. Speculation: investors seeking high profits or quick returns with

considerable possibilityof losing most or all of their investment.

c. Desciption of Risk Tolerance:

i. Conservative.

ii. Moderate.

iii. Aggressive:

d. Description of Financial Need:

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3. Proposed Portfolio

4. Description of the investment portfolio

5. Summary

6. References