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Capital Budgeting, Project Cash Flows, and Firm Leverage

 

Please answer questions from each chapter (professor will assign the # of which one you will do) each question must be 50+ words.

 

Ch. 9: Questions 7 & 8 (Questions and Problems section)

 

1(7) – Calculating IRR [LO5] A firm evaluates all of its projects by applying the IRR rule. If the required return is 14 percent, should the firm accept the following project?

 

2(8) – Calculating NPV [LO1] For the cash flows in the previous problem, suppose the firm uses the NPV decision rule. At a required return of 11 percent, should the firm accept this project? What if the required return is 24 percent?

 

 

Ch. 10: Questions 3 & 13 (Questions and Problems section)

 

3(3) – Calculating Projected Net Income [LO1] A proposed new investment has projected sales of $635,000. Variable costs are 44 percent of sales, and fixed costs are $193,000; depreciation is $54,000. Prepare a pro forma income statement assuming a tax rate of 35 percent. What is the projected net income?

4(13) – Calculating OCF [LO1] Consider the following income statement: Fill in the missing numbers and then calculate the OCF. What is the depreciation tax shield?

 

 

Ch. 11: Questions 1 & 7 (Questions and Problems section)

 

5(1) – Calculating Costs and Break-Even [LO3] Night Shades, Inc. (NSI), manufactures biotech sunglasses. The variable material cost is $9.64 per unit, and the variable labor cost is $8.63 per unit.

 

1. What is the variable cost per unit?

 

1. Suppose NSI incurs fixed costs of $915,000 during a year in which total production is 215,000 units. What are the total costs for the year?

 

39. If the selling price is $39.99 per unit, does NSI break even on a cash basis? If depreciation is $465,000 per year, what is the accounting break-even point?

6(7) – Calculating Break-Even [LO3] In each of the following cases, calculate the accounting break-even and the cash break-even points. Ignore any tax effects in calculating the cash break-even.

Please answer each question with 100+ words and if source used must cite. Please remember to fully answer the question with 100+ or it will not be graded.

 

7(1) – Analyzing Short Term Credit – Provide some examples of sources of short-term credit? How can use these examples to evaluate the cost of financing as a key determinant of a company’s use of current liabilities? Why is it so important for companies to analyze which type of short-term credit they should use?

8(2) – What are the differences in the calculation of net present value and internal rate of return?

9(3) – How are investments in net working capital used in the preparation of a firm’s net cash flow?

10(4) – For a company that has been in business for many years they have had the benefit of learning over time on how to be more efficient. But, for a new company starting out is there one thing you would suggest that they can do to be more effective at generating cash flow?

11(5) – There are a lot of things that a company has to account for when considering a new project, and generating incremental cash flow can be important to the success of that project. Of course, when a project is just getting started it will be a drain on cash flow so the company has to make sure the rest of the business is strong enough to support it. How do you think a company can support a new project when the rest of the business is slowing down?

12(6) – Importance of Risk Analysis – Risk analysis in the capital budgeting decision making process is so important. There are many possible cash flow outcomes for any risky project, describe one that can be used to better understand the uncertainty of future cash flow.

13(7) – What is the acceptance or rejection criterion when using the net present value of cash flow analysis?

Please answer each question with 200+ words and if source used must cite

 

14 (8) What is Inventory turnover? Calculate and analyze the Inventory turnover ratio for Apple Inc., From the last years (2015 and 2016) using their Sec form 10-K (annual financial report found on their website).  Compare and contrast your company’s ratios to industry and competitor standard ratios obtained from Yahoo Finance, Morningstar, MotleyFool, Macroaxis or other Internet sources, and provide a detailed answer and analysis as to why your company’s ratios are different than the industry/competitor standard.

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Instructions: The discussion topics below are based on course material information you have read; which includes the course text chapters, and the Module Week-1 Learning page information and handouts for Chapter 1 The Spirit of American Politics/ and Chapter 2 The Ideas That Shape America to response to discussion topic questions. Reading the relevant material will benefit students to answer relevant chapter questions on study guide number 1, and to Know terms associated with each chapter. [There  are also added areas or topics students should “know:” for exam number one.]

 

Democracy

Philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke’s and Jean-Jacques Rosseau’s theory on Social Contract implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. In laymen’s terms this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order. Social contract theory provides the rationale behind the historically important notion that legitimate state authority must be derived from the consent of the governed.

 

Topic: Social Contract

1. Discuss: How does the theory of Social Contract mean to your participation

in a government of democracy?

 

Topic: Representative Democracy

2. Discuss: If you think that all election voting should be available to everyone on

home computers provided by government? Will it cure the low voting turnout problem

for elections? Will it increase the voice of the majority in reference to getting closer to

obtaining a true representative democracy?

 

Topic: Political Culture

3. Discuss: Which source(s) do you learn your American Political Culture from [which is

defined in the chapter 1 extra terms handout] the most out of the five main areas?

Explain how.

 

Topic: Political Ideology (handout)

4. Discuss: Which Political Ideology you like the most and why? Discuss which Political

Ideology you dislike the most and why?

Nevada Early History and Constitution

 

Topic: Nevada Early History and Constitution

[Read: resource notes on this topic located on Module-Week 1 course information module

page.]

 

Know: What are the three events that was the result of settlement in Nevada by the

1840s?

 

Know: some of the explicit reasons why Nevada Settlers wanted their own territory.

Settlers felt that they were receiving unfair treatments and it led to a chain of events in

which the settlers petitioned Congress and the President for their own territory, and to be

separated from the Western Utah Territory (currently Nevada), which was overseen by

Brigham Young. Settlers, who were predominately Non-Mormon, complained that some

laws made by the Utah territorial officials had “no separation of church and state.”

Settlers believed they had no true representation in their own interest, and felt their

interests were ignored within the jurisdiction they lived in. The capital was far away (first

it resided in Fillmore City and then in Salt Lake City which was 500 miles distance); and

the Western Utah Territory lacked law and order. The settlers eventually created a

squatter government; and hired an attorney to travel several times to Congress to

petition for their own territory, and statehood.

 

Know: how the leadership of the Utah territory affected the settlers’ liberty and equality?

 

Topic: Nevada Early History

1. Discuss: How would that type leadership affect our liberty and equality today?

 

Topic: Statehood and Territory

[Read: notes on this topic located on Module-Week 1 course information module page.]

 

Know: What were the two main barriers that stop the ratification of the first Nevada 1863

constitution?

 

Know: What are the four significant reasons Lincoln wanted Nevada to become a state?

 

St. Michael’s Hospital Strategic Plan

Review the Howard’s St. Michael’s Hospital Strategic Plan 2015-2018 transcript attached. For this discussion, address the following:
•How well does the strategic plan align to the mission, vision, and values of St. Michael’s?
•What are the strengths and weaknesses of the plan?
•What recommendations would you make to improve the plan?

 

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, be certain to have read all the required resources for this week.

In your initial post, briefly, describe the components of a good evaluation question. Explain the impact of political and ethical issues associated with program evaluation. Explain the process involved in formulating and developing a quality evaluation question. Identify pertinent components that good evaluation questions should contain. In addition, identify an appropriate topic for the Final Paper, and formulate a preliminary research evaluation question relevant to that assignment.

Choose one of the seven disorders you read about in this unit: Fragile X syndrome, ADHD, Turner syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, autism, and FAS. Respond to the following questions using the disorder you chose.

Your friend Alice tells you that her daughter Lauren has been recently diagnosed with this disorder. Alice would like more details and comes to you for information.

Provide a brief description of the disorder.

Ask three friends or family members who are not in the field of medicine or psychology what they know about the cause and symptoms of the disorder. Analyze their replies and discuss what this might imply about how this disorder is known and perceived by the general public.

Alice expresses guilt that she may have caused Lauren’s disorder and is also concerned that it might occur again in future offspring. What would you advise her in terms of preventive actions, available testing, and reproduction options?

Do you think that behavior is due to environmental factors (nurture) or innate tendencies (nature)? Provide an example of a behavioral characteristic and explain how it may have developed through the influence of experience, heredity, or both.

Next, considering Darwin’s principle of natural selection, give two examples of structural or behavioral characteristics that might confer selective advantages to human beings over other animals.

Why did England turn to joint-stock companies to finance colonies?

 

After reading a brief history on Luddism and Its Discontents and performing a brief internet search, answer the following:
•Briefly discuss the origin and motivations of the Luddites of the early 19th century..
•Do you think the Luddites were successful in their endeavors? What could they have done to better influence the role this technology would have in

their lives?.
•Are there economic, social and cultural motivator present today that are similar to those that gave birth to Luddism? Give an example..
•How is society shaping and be shaped by these changes today?.
•Learning from history, what can we do to ease the transition of technological progress?.

Support your position using appropriate sources that are properly cited. Your paper should be 1-2 pages in length (not including title and reference

pages). It must be formatted according to APA standards [PDF, File Size 131 KB], 6th edition, including title and reference pages.

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Assignment Description
Write up each solution in a five to ten page paper that complies with APA standards. Make sure you have at least three references for each solution.
Use the five competitive forces model as described in this chapter to describe how information technology might be used to develop a strategy for a

winning position for each
of these businesses:
A global airline
A local dry cleaner
A mobile phone company
A bank
A web-based wine retailer
Assignment Objectives
Perform systems analysis in a variety of industries and competitive situations.
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Type: Individual Project
Unit: Default
Due Date: Mon, 7/24/17
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Points Possible: 150
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