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Executive Summary (Benchmark Assessment)
$15.00Executive Summary (Benchmark Assessment)
In this assignment, you will select a program, quality improvement initiative, or other project from your place of employment. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (850-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which they will make their decision to fund your program or project. The summary should include:
1) The purpose of the program or project.
2) The target population or audience.
3) The benefits of the program or project
4) The cost or budget justification.
5) The basis upon which the program or project will be evaluated.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
International Business 305: FDI Strategy
$25.00Research a U.S.-based MNE for whom you would like to work (or for whom you currently work). Research a foreign country (excluding Canada) where the MNE does not currently have a presence, but is suitable for FDI. Write a six page paper in which you:
- Briefly describe the MNE you selected (who they are and what they do.)
- Analyze the challenges and advantages of FDI for the MNE in the country you selected.
- Determine the best way for your MNE to minimize foreign exchange risks.
- Determine how your MNE could leverage government policies to maximize the profitability of FDI.
- Analyze the financial management, operations, marketing, and human resources needs resulting from the proposed FDI and outline a strategy for one area.
- Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic 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.
Presentation for business communication
$5.00Strategic Managerial Communications Presentation
The presentation will be in 10-15 minutes, so personally I guess you may make 10 slides at least to present in oral. you can use graphics or charts where appropriate. Remember: the content should be concise and easy to understand, you design and elaborate the PowerPoint well conform to the paper topics.
The European Union: A Story of Development and Prosperity
$7.50Write an essay about 750 words to answer the following question:
Why and how did the European Union come into being and develop so greatly?
It must be double space, new times, and APA format withat least4 references.MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS PAPER
$25.00Access articles about the history, business approaches, management, and marketing of Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm. Eastman Kodak has been a developer and pioneer of photographic films for over 130 years. Although it invented the digital camera, the company was unprepared for the rapid changes in new technologies and filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2012. Fujifilm, a Japanese competitor, on the other hand, has been successful in the U.S. and global markets.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:- Describe the history and core business of each company.
- Compare and contrast the approach to management that each company has pursued in order to embrace innovation.
- Determine what other management differences have impacted the relative success of Kodak and Fujifilm. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Evaluate each company’s approach to ethics and social responsibility and the impact those approaches have had on each company’s profitability.
- Discuss the extent to which management of both companies adapted to changing market conditions.
- Recommend three (3) ways any company should build in flexibility to back up its decision-making process in order to adapt to changing market conditions.
- Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic 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.
An Economy in Question: The U.S. Scenario
$20.00Assignment 3: Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists
Due Week 5 and worth 100 points
Using your thesis statement and research, present the problem that needs to be addressed with your
proposed solution. Note: Your solution, advantages, and challenges, will be in Parts 2 and 3.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Provide an appropriate title and an interesting opening paragraph to appeal to your stated audience (appeal with logic, ethics, or emotion).
- Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph. (Revised from Assignment 2)
- Describe the history and status of the issue and provide an overview of the problem(s) that need to be addressed. This should be one or two (1or 2) paragraphs.
- Explain the first problem (economic, social, political, environmental, complexity, inequity, ethical/moral, etc.) and provide support for your claims. This should be one or two (1 or 2) paragraphs.
- Explain the second problem (economic, social, political, environmental, complexity, inequity, ethical/moral, etc.). and provide support for your claims. This should be one or two (1 or 2) paragraphs.
- Explain the third problem (economic, social, political, environmental, complexity, inequity, ethical/moral, etc.) and provide support for your claims. This should be one or two (1 or 2) paragraphs.
- Provide a concluding paragraph that summarizes the stated problems and promises a solution.
- Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
- Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences throughout the paper.
- Support claims with at least three (3) quality, relevant references. Use credible, academic
sources available through Strayer University’s Resource Center.
Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:
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.
Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions before submitting your paper to your professor.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
Recognize the use of summary, paraphrasing, and quotation to communicate the main points of a text.
Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.
Prepare a research project that supports an argument with structure and format appropriate to the genre.
Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
Incorporate relevant, properly documented sources to substantiate ideas.
Solutions for BioCom, Inc. Minicase
$20.00BioCom was founded in 1993, when several scientists and engineers at a large fiber-optic-cable company began to see that optical fiber for the telecommunications industry was becoming a cheap commodity. They decided to start their own firm, which would specialize in cutting-edge applications for research in the life sciences and medical instruments. BioCom is now one of the leading firms in its niche field. BioCom’s management attributes the firm’s success to its ability to stay one step ahead of the market’s fast-changing technological needs. Almost as important is BioCom’s ability to select high-value-added projects and avoid commercial disasters.
Over lunch, BioCom’s director of research and development (R&D) mentioned to the CFO that one of his best young scientists had recently left the company because his line manager had rejected his project. Although not a pattern, R&D had experienced similar losses in the past. The two executives discussed the problem and agreed that if the R&D people understood the selection process better, they might come up with more commercially viable projects and understand the project’s financial implications. The CFO has asked his assistant, Jane Donato, to prepare a retreat for the R&D department to explain the company’s project selection procedures. Jane is encouraged by the thought that this group will have no trouble in following the math.
BioCom’s standard capital request form includes a narrative description of the project and the customer need that the company must fulfill. If the request originates with R&D, it then goes to the marketing department for a preliminary sales forecast and then to the production manager and cost analysts for cost estimates. If a proposal shows promise after these steps, it goes to the CFO, who has a staff member enter the data into a spreadsheet template. The template computes payback, discounted payback, net present value, internal rate of return, and modified internal rate of return. BioCom uses net present value as its primary decision criterion, but company executives believe that the other statistics provide some useful additional perspectives.
To explain BioCom’s capital budgeting techniques, Jane has decided to present the cash flows from two recent proposals: the nano test tube project and the microsurgery kit project. All figures are in thousands of dollars:
Time of Cash Flow
Nano Test Tubes
Microsurgery Kit
Investment
-$11,000
-$11,000
Year 1
2,000
4,000
Year 2
3,000
4,000
Year 3
4,000
4,000
Year 4
5,000
4,000
Year 5
7,000
4,000
Help Jane answer the following questions.
Questions:
Compute the payback period for each project.
- Explain the rationale behind the payback method.
- State and explain the decision rule for the payback method.
- Explain how the payback method would be used to rank mutually exclusive projects.
- Comment on the advantages and shortcomings of this method.
Compute the discounted payback period for each project using a discount rate of 10%.
- Explain the rationale behind the discounted payback method.
- Comment on the advantages and shortcomings of this method.
Compute the net present value (NPV) for each project. BioCom uses a discount rate of 9% for projects of average risk.
- Explain the rationale behind the NPV method.
- State and explain the decision rule behind the NPV method.
- Explain how the NPV method would be used to rank mutually exclusive projects.
- Comment on the advantages and shortcomings of this method.
- Without performing any calculations, explain what happens to NPV if the discount rate is adjusted upward for projects of higher risk or downward for projects of lower risk.
Compute the internal rate of return (IRR) for each project.
- Explain the rationale behind the IRR method.
- State and explain the decision rule behind the IRR method. Assume a hurdle rate of 9%.
- Explain how the IRR method would be used to rank mutually exclusive projects.
- Comment on the advantages and shortcomings of this method.
Compute the modified internal rate of return (MIRR) for each project.
- Explain the rationale behind the MIRR method.
- State and explain the decision rule behind the MIRR method. Assume a hurdle rate of 9%.
- Explain how the MIRR method would be used to choose between mutually exclusive projects.
- Explain how this method corrects for some of the problems inherent in the IRR method.
Explain to the R & D staff why BioCom uses the NPV method as its primary project selection criterion.
Challenge question. Construct NPV profiles for both projects using discount rates of 1% through 15% at one percentage point intervals. At approximately what discount rate does the Nano test tube project become superior to the micro surgery kits? This problem is best solved using an electronic spreadsheet.
Solutions to Chapter 9 Problems
$30.00- Payback period. Given the cash flow of four projects, A, B, C, and D, and using the payback period decision model, which projects do you accept and which projects do you reject with a four-year cutoff period for recapturing the initial cash outflow? For payback period calculations, assume that the cash flow is equally distributed over the year.
Cash flow A B C D Cost $40,000 $25,000 $45,000 $120,000 Cash flow Year 1 $ 4,000 $ 5,000 $20,000 $ 75,000 Cash flow Year 2 $ 6,000 $ 5,000 $12,000 $ 25,000 Cash flow Year 3 $ 9,000 $ 5,000 $26,000 $ 20,000 Cash flow Year 4 $ 14,000 $ 5,000 $9,000 $ 15,000 Cash flow Year 5 $ 16,000 $ 5,000 $13,000 $ 0 Cash flow Year 6 $ 20,000 $ 5,000 $18,000 $ 0 - Payback period. What are the payback periods of Projects E, F, G and H? Assume all the cash flows are evenly spread throughout the year. If the cutoff period is three years, which projects do you accept?
- Discounted payback period. Given the following four projects and their cash flows, calculate the discounted payback period with a 5% discount rate, 10% discount rate, and 20% discount rate. What do you notice about the payback period as the discount rate rises? Explain this relationship.
- Discounted payback period. Becker Inc. uses discounted payback period for projects under $25,000 and has a cut off period of 4 years for these small value projects. Two projects, R and S, are under consideration. The anticipated cash flows for these two projects are listed below. If Becker Incorporated uses an 8% discount rate on these projects, are they accepted or rejected? If it uses 12% discount rate? A 16% discount rate? Why is it necessary to only look at the first four years of the projects’ cash flows?
- Comparing payback period and discounted payback period. Hydes Inc. is debating using payback period versus discounted payback period for small-dollar projects. The company’s information officer has submitted a new computer project with a $16,000 cost. The cash flow will be $4,000 each year for the next five years. The cutoff period used by the company is four years. The information officer states that it doesn’t matter which model the company uses for the decision; the project is clearly acceptable. Demonstrate for the information officer that the selection of the model does matter.
- Comparing payback period and discounted payback period. Nielsen Inc. is switching from the payback period to the discounted payback period for small-dollar projects. The cutoff period will remain at three years. Given the following four projects’ cash flows and using a 10% discount rate, determine which projects it would have accepted under the payback period and which it will now reject under the discounted payback period.
- Net present value. Garth Industries has a project with the following projected cash flows:
Initial Cost, Year 0: $320,000
Cash flow year one: $ 55,000
Cash flow year two: $ 75,000
Cash flow year three: $120,000
Cash flow year four: $180,000
- Using a 10% discount rate for this project and the NPV model, determine whether this
project should be accepted or rejected.
- Should it be accepted or rejected using a 12% discount rate?
- Net present value. Lepton Industries has a project with the following projected cash flows:
Initial Cost: $510,000
Cash flow year one: $135,000
Cash flow year two: $240,000
Cash flow year three: $185,000
Cash flow year four: $135,000
- Using an 8% discount rate for this project and the NPV model, determine whether this
project should be accepted or rejected.
- Should it be accepted or rejected using a 14% discount rate?
- Should it be accepted or rejected using a 20% discount rate?
- Net present value. Quark Industries has four potential projects, all with an initial cost of $2,000,000. The capital budget for the year will allow Quark Industries to accept only one of the four projects. Given the discount rates and the future cash flows of each project, determine which project Quark should accept.
- Net present value. Lepton Industries has four potential projects, all with an initial cost of $1,500,000. The capital budget for the year will allow Lepton to accept only one of the four projects. Given the discount rates and the future cash flows of each project, determine which project Lepton should accept.
- NPV unequal lives. Grady Enterprises is looking at two project opportunities for a parcel of land that the company currently owns. The first project is a restaurant, and the second project is a sports facility. The projected cash flow of the restaurant is an initial cost of $1,500,000 with cash flows over the next six years of $200,000 (Year one), $250,000 (Year two), $300,000 (Years three through five), and $1,750,000 in Year six, when Grady plans on selling the restaurant. The sports facility has the following cash outflow: initial cost of $2,400,000 with cash flows over the next three years of $400,000 (Years one to three) and $3,000,000 in Year four, when Grady plans on selling the facility. If the appropriate discount rate for the restaurant is 11% and the appropriate discount rate for the sports facility is 13%, using NPV, determine which project Grady should choose for the parcel of land. Adjust the NPV for unequal lives with the equivalent annual annuity. Does the decision change?
- NPV unequal lives. Singing Fish Fine Foods has $2,000,000 for capital investments this year and is considering two potential projects for the funds. Project one is updating the deli section of the store for additional food service. The estimated annual after-tax cash flow of this project is $600,000 per year for the next five years. Project two is updating the wine section of the store. Estimated annual after-tax cash flow for this project is $530,000 for the next six years. If the appropriate discount rate for the deli expansion is 9.5% and the appropriate discount rate for the wine section is 9.0%, using NPV, determine which project Singing Fish should choose for the parcel of land. Adjust the NPV for unequal lives with the equivalent annual annuity. Does the decision change?
- Internal rate of return and modified internal rate of return. What are the IRRs and MIRRs of the four projects for Quark Industries in Problem 9?
- Internal rate of return and modified internal rate of return. What are the IRRs and MIRRs of the four projects for Lepton Industries in Problem 10?
- MIRR unequal lives. What is the MIRR for Grady Enterprises in Problem 11? What is the MIRR when you adjust for the unequal lives? Does the adjusted MIRR for unequal lives change the decision based on MIRR? Hint: Take all cash flows to the same ending period as the longest project.
Year Restaurant Sports Facility 0 -1500000 -2400000 1 200000 400000 2 250000 400000 3 300000 400000 4 300000 3000000 5 300000 6 1750000 Disc. Rate 11% 13% - MIRR unequal lives. What is the MIRR for Singing Fish Fine Foods in Problem 12? What is the MIRR when you adjust for the unequal lives? Does the adjusted MIRR for unequal lives change the decision based on MIRR? Hint: Take all cash flows to the same ending period as the longest project.
Year Deli Section Wine Section 0 -2000000 -2000000 1 600000 530000 2 600000 530000 3 600000 530000 4 600000 530000 5 600000 530000 6 530000 Disc. Rate 9.5% 9% - Comparing NPV and IRR. Chandler and Joey were having a discussion about which financial model to use for their new business. Chandler supports NPV and Joey supports IRR. The discussion starts to get heated when Ross steps in and states, “Gentlemen, it doesn’t matter which method we choose, they give the same answer on all projects.” Is Ross correct? Under what conditions will IRR and NPV be consistent when accepting or rejecting projects?
- Comparing NPR and IRR. Monica and Rachel are having a discussion about IRR and NPV as a decision model for Monica’s new restaurant. Monica wants to use IRR because it gives a very simple and intuitive answer. Rachel states that IRR can cause errors, unlike NPV. Is Rachel correct? Show one type of error can be made with IRR and not with NPV.
- Profitability index. Given the discount rates and the future cash flows of each project, which projects should they accept using profitability index?
- Profitability index. Given the discount rates and the future cash flow of each project listed, use the PI to determine which projects the company should accept.
- Comparing all methods. Given the following after-tax cash flows on a new toy for Tyler’s Toys, find the project’s payback period, NPV, and IRR. The appropriate discount rate for the project is 12%. If the cutoff period is six years for major projects, determine whether management will accept or reject the project under the three different decision models.
Year 0 cash outflow: $10,400,000
Years 1 to 4 cash inflow: $2,600,000 each year
Year 5 cash outflow: $1,200,000
Years 6 to 8 cash inflow: $750,000 each year
- Comparing all methods. Risky Business is looking at a project with the estimated cash flows as follows:
Initial Investment at start of project: $3,600,000
Cash Flow at end of Year 1: $500,000
Cash Flow at end of Years 2 through 6: $625,000 each year
Cash Flow at end of Year 7 through 9: $530,000 each year
Cash Flow at end of Year 10: $385,000
Risky Business wants to know payback period, NPV, IRR, MIRR, and PI of this project. The appropriate discount rate for the project is 14%. If the cutoff period is six years for major projects, determine whether management at Risky Business will accept or reject the project under the five different decision models.
- NPV profile of a project. Given the following cash flows of Project L-2, draw the NPV profile. Hint: use a discount rate of zero for one intercept (y-axis) and solve for the IRR for the other intercept (x-axis).
Cash flows: Year 0 = -$250,000
Year 1 = $45,000
Year 2 = $75,000
Year 3 = $115,000
Year 4 = $135,000
- NPVprofile of two mutually exclusive projects. Moulton Industries has two potential projects for the coming year, Project B-12 and Project F-4. The two projects are mutually exclusive. The cash flows are listed below. Draw the NPV profile of each project and determine the cross-over rate of the two projects. If the appropriate hurdle rate is 10% for both projects which project, does Moulton Industries choose?
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Credit scoring as a risk assessment tool in the insurance industry
$30.00is someone’s credit rating indicative of their insurance risk.? I9s it good public policy to allow insurers to use it?
Needs to be 10 pages single spaced!
