Business 599 wk 5 discussions 1 and 2

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Discussion 1

To prevent gasoline prices from having devastating effects on the economy it has been proposed that all gasoline prices in the United States be fixed at the average price for the last two years. For simplicity it will be assumed that this price is $2.50 per gallon. When equilibrium prices are under $2.50 per gallon the excess payments will be kept in a government fund. When retail prices exceed $2.50 per gallon money from this fund will be distributed to pay the difference. Do you think that this plan would help the economy? What affect would the plan have on the supply and demand curves? Would gas stations and oil companies be able to stay in business?

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

Discussion 2

Review the economic statements for this lemonade stand (see page 1 of the Season Three Sample PDF). What do these statements tell you about the operation? Focus on Economic Profits, including Implicit Revenue and Expenses. Explain and support your answer.

Sample Reports for Season Three

Balance Sheet Season 1 Season 2 Season 3

Assets

Cash $ 185.90 $ 425.65 $ 679.40

Inventories $ 10.05 $ 14.85 $ 1.59

Equipment $ 9.00 $ 14.75 $ 14.75

Total Assets $ 204.95 $ 455.25 $ 695.74

Liabilities

Account Payables $ 39.00 $ 58.00 $ 21.25

Total Liabilities $ 39.00 $ 58.00 $ 21.25

Equity

Owner Capital $ 40.00 $ 40.00 $ 40.00

Retain Earnings $ 125.95 $ 357.25 $ 634.49

Total Equity $ 165.95 $ 397.25 $ 674.49

Total Equity & Liabilities $ 204.95 $ 455.25 $ 695.74

Accounting Income Statement

Revenue $ 185.90 $ 328.00 $ 404.00

Expenses $ 59.95 $ 96.70 $ 126.76

Earnings $ 125.95 $ 231.30 $ 277.24

Financial Report

ROE 75.9% 58.2% 41.1%

ROA 61.5% 50.8% 39.8%

Profit Margin 67.8% 70.5% 68.6%

Inventory Turnover 5.97 6.51 79.72

Asset Turnover 0.907 0.720 0.581

Current Ratio 5.02 7.59 32.05

Cash Ratio 4.77 7.34 31.97

Debt-Equity Ratio 0.235 0.146 0.032

Economic Profit Report

Explicit Revenue $ 185.90 $ 328.00 $ 404.00

Implicit Revenue $ 75.00 $ 50.00 $ 50.00

Total Revenues $ 260.90 $ 378.00 $ 454.00

Explicit Expenses $ 59.95 $ 96.70 $ 126.76

Implicit Expenses $ 156.00 $ 177.13 $ 210.25

Total Costs $ 215.95 $ 273.83 $ 337.01

Economic Profits $ 44.95 $ 104.18 $ 116.99

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Notes for Economic Profit Report

Implicit Revenue includes $50 for the value of being one own boss for each season plus

$25 for season one for learning about running a business. (In your report these need to

be justified.)

Implicit epenses are the number of hours worked times $6 for season one, $6.50 for

season two, and $7.25 for season three. (In your report these need to be justified.)

Explicit Revenue is the same as Revenues from the “Accounting” Income Statement.

Explicit Expenses is the same as Expenses from the “Accounting” Income Statement.

 

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Assignment 4 (Earned Value Management)

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Assignment 4: Earned Value Management (EVM)

Due Week 8 and worth 130 points

Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research articles on EVM. 

Project managers often use Earned Value Management (EVM) if they want to compare the status of their projects to their project plans. Using the same project from Assignment 3, develop a project scenario to explain the amount of work that you have completed with the funds allotted.

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: 

  • MS Project Exercise 
  • EVM paper

You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment for which it is written. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Section 1: MS Project Exercise

Assume that your project is using more resources (e.g., time, money, and / or other non-labor resources, etc.) than anticipated through 50% of the project duration. 

1. Update the project schedule to reflect related resource changes. 

2. Produce a series of EVM reports from MS project that illustrates your project’s performance. Note: Your reports should focus on the cost and schedule performance of the project.

Section 2: EVM Paper

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

3. Summarize the resource changes of your project, and discuss the performance results of your project.

4. Determine one (1) performance measurement baseline for your MS Project. Justify your response.

5. Apply earned value analysis (EVA) in order to forecast future cost issues. Justify your response. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • 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.
 

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Learning Team: Team Retrospective

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Resources: Lynda.com® video:  Agile at Work: Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives with Doug Rose.

Will provide username and password to access site.

Using the ideas and practices from the Agile at Work: Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives video, hold a team retrospective. 

Reflect and discuss how your team worked together through the assignments and activities during this class.

Prepare a 5- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that identifies at least two areas in which your team worked well with one another, identifies challenges your team faced, and proposes specific actions that can be taken for improvement. Provide detail speaker notes

Submityour team retrospective as a Microsoft® PowerPoint® file to the Assignment Files tab

 

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financial distress

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Read the following and comment in 100 words provide a real life example within comment

Companies usually can predict when financial distress may occur, but most companies will derive a strategy (i.e. sensitivity analysis – best, normal, worst case scenarios) in hopes to not incur such losses. Delta went through a similar situation prior to Hurricane Katrina. Delta was in a financial ruin and diligently strategized to stay afloat. Delta was making positive changes, but failed to take into consideration the worse case scenario – Hurricane Katrina. 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/08/29/katrina-hits-embattled-airlines.html

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/31/news/fortune500/airlines/

 

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Suppose on the first trading day of the year, you purchased one share of your stock, with an initial margin requirement of 50% (so you borrow the maximum). Suppose the MMR is 35%.

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Suppose on the first trading day of the year, you purchased one share of your stock, with an initial margin requirement of 50% (so you borrow the maximum). Suppose the MMR is 35%. You can use Factset’s historical prices, or any other data provider. However, be sure to clearly show your work for the calculations.

a. Consider the closing price of your stock on April 17. What is your total return? (Ignore dividends in answering this question).

b. Suppose that your stock price fell to its 52-week low. Will you experience a margin call?

 

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Data Analy BIS 155

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Convert Text to Columns (Chapter 10): Using the Broker Info spreadsheet, let’s learn how to convert text to columns. From the Data tab, use Text to Columns to separate the First and Last names. Format headings to say First Name, Last Name. Repeat the process to separate state and zip code and add the heading Zip Code.

Can you walk the class through the steps in order to complete this task?

Chapter_10.xlsx

 

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Finance,EXCEL PROBLEMS

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Assignment#1 Loan Amortization

Bill has $25,000 in an investment account earning 6 percent per year.  Bill decides to purchase a new car with a sticker price of $25,000.  The car dealer offers Bill either $2,000 cash back or 2% financing for 5 years.  If Bill takes the financing, he will make 60 equal monthly payments.  Otherwise, he will pay $23,000 today for the car. 

(a)            Calculate the monthly payment required if Bill agrees to the sticker price of $25,000 and finances the car at 2% per year.

(b)           Prepare the amortization schedule for the loan using an Excel spreadsheet.

(c)            Prepare a graph in Excel that shows the portion of each payment that goes to interest and the portion that goes to principal.

(d)           Based on the time value of money, should Bill take the $2,000 cash back or the 2% financing?  Clearly explain and defend your choice.

Apply appropriate analytical techniques to a given business problem, generate and compare alternatives, and develop a solution. you must use Excel to solve this problem. you have 15 hours from now

 

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quot;Liabilitiesquot; Please respond to the following: For this week’s eActivity, research one (1) publicly traded company in which you are…

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“Liabilities”  Please respond to the following:For this week’s eActivity, research one (1) publicly traded company in which you are interested using the Internet and/or Strayer databases. Locate the company Website and focus on the types of bonds the company issues. Be prepared to discuss.Hypothesize a scenario in which one could intentionally misstate liabilities for his or her personal financial gain. Recommend two (2) actions that companies can take to prevent or detect intentional misstatements of liabilities for personal financial gain. Justify your response.Imagine that you are advising an investor who is considering purchasing bonds from the selected company. Analyze the types of bonds the chosen company issues, and make a recommendation to the investor as to which type of bond would provide the most value. Justify your response.

 

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The best way to start defining the term “equity” is to identify what it is not. Equity is not equality. Equality has a very precise meaning—if something is equal to something else, it is equivalent in some concrete, measurable way. For example, an apple can be equal in size to another apple. It cannot be “kind of” equal. Equitable, on the other hand, means fair. You should be able to identify, right away, the first problem with equity as a policy goal! That problem is how we define what is “fair.”

Fair is relative rather than precise. Consider the following example to understand this concept further.

For purposes of definition, let us first look at what efficiency is not. It is not simply the least expensive or the fastest, though these might be components in determining what is the most efficient. However, as discussed earlier for equity, efficiency is also relative.

For example, it might be very efficient for the highway department to have many people arrive to get their drivers’ licenses renewed at 8 a.m. when the doors open. This will ensure that the workers are busy and rarely idle. On the other hand, the person who arrived last will have to wait the longest. Therefore, though the process followed by the highway department might be efficient for the workers, it is not very efficient for the person last in a long line. In addition, this process is not efficient for the people who had to drive the farthest to get to the necessarily large central location or the workers driving the longest to arrive at work on time. The key question here, as was the case with equity, is, “efficient for whom and based on what criteria?”

Using the example of a carpool, let us explore this policy goal further. Efficiency for carpooling is determined by the criteria we apply. In other words, carpooling maybe efficient for different target audiences depending on how we define efficiency.

Just as with equity and efficiency, security and liberty are also relative goals. While we often tend to think of security only in terms of physical safety, such as being secure in our borders or secure in our homes, it is a broader concept than that. It might also mean financial security or job security. Or it might mean secure in our sense of self. What other types of security can you think of? In other words, whether or not a particular policy provides security depends on how we define security.

Liberty is an even more ethereal concept. The phrase “individual liberty” is often tossed around as if it were clearly defined in everyone’s mind in exactly the same way. What do we mean when we think about liberty? Do we mean the freedom to do whatever we want, whenever we want? Alternatively, do we mean liberty in the sense of being free from government involvement in the personal decisions we make in our bedrooms? What about religious liberty? Does that mean we can do anything we want as long as it falls under the umbrella of faith?

In some cases, though not all, the goals of security and liberty can be competing or conflicting. For example, according to many civil libertarians and civil liberty organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the USA Patriot Act, in its effort to protect the country from future terrorist attacks, treads on some individual liberties.

Again, as with equity and efficiency, the key questions in defining security and liberty are, “Whose security?” “Whose liberty?” and “Based on what criteria and using what definitions?”

 

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