Author: chris

“How has the WTO rules-based system restricted new protectionist measures during the global financial crisis and afterwards?

One specialized type of security is called an equity futures.

This is a contract that guarantees you a share of a particular company to be delivered to you not today, but sometime in the future, at a price that is determined by the market right now. This price is usually called the futures price of the stock (note – the term is plural – “futures”). If you ‘buy’ this futures, you don’t pay for the shares now. You are actually signing a contract whereby you are committed to pay that price in a particular date in the future, and you are guaranteed to receive one share of the company at that time, irrespective of its actual market price at that future date. Suppose for example that the futures price of the XYZ company is $40. Suppose you ‘buy’ a 6-months futures contract. If six months later the share price is $45, you gain $5 per share. If the market price in 6 months is only $35, then you lose $5.

Using the Yahoo Finance take a look at the five year chart Yahoo Company Inc. Using this chart and other information you can find on this company, write a paper answering the following question:

What do you think would the futures price of 100 shares of your reference company to be delivered to you in one year be right now?

Assignment Expectations:

The paper is to be two pages long. You DO NOT need to use complex mathematical formulas for this assignments. Instead, think about how much do you think the market value of 100 shares of your company will be in one year? In considering the possible answer please reflect also on the following:

Do you expect the price of the shares in one year to be much higher? Or lower? Or only a little bit higher?

How risky the stock is. Is its price prone to wild swings up and down? Or has the price been relatively stable the last few years?

What alternative investments you have access to. What rate does your bank give you on a savings account or certificate of deposit? The greater return you can get on other investments, the less you would be willing to pay for an equity future.

This assignment is in two parts, one is quantitative problem, the other a short paper. You need to turn in both Part I and Part II to receive full credit for this assignment.

Part I: This part of the assignments tests your ability to calculate present value.

A. Suppose your bank account will be worth $15,000.00 in one year. The interest rate (discount rate) that the bank pays is 7%. What is the present value of your bank account today? What would the present value of the account be if the discount rate is only 4%?

B. Suppose you have two bank accounts, one called Account A and another Account B. Account A will be worth $6,500.00 in one year. Account B will be worth $12,600.00 in two years. Both accounts earn 6% interest. What is the present value of each of these accounts?

C. Suppose you just inherited an gold mine. This gold mine is believed to have three years worth of gold deposit. Here is how much income this gold mine is projected to bring you each year for the next three years:

Year 1: $49,000,000

Year 2: $61,000,000

Year 3: $85,000,000

Compute the present value of this stream of income at a discount rate of 7%. Remember, you are calculating the present value for a whole stream of income, i.e. the total value of receiving all three payments (how much you would pay right now to receive these three payments in the future). Your answer should be one number – the present value for this gold mine at a 7% discount rate but you have to show how you got to this number.

Now compute the present value of the income stream from the gold mine at a discount rate of 5%, and at a discount rate of 3%. Compare the present values of the income stream under the three discount rates and write a short paragraph with conclusions from the computations.
Part II: Read the following three sample business plans:

Ice Dreams
http://www.bplans.com/shaved_ice_beverage_business_plan/executive_summary_fc.php#.UxJXc_ldXYY
R J Wagner & Associates Realty
http://www.bplans.com/real_estate_brokerage_business_plan/executive_summary_fc.php#.UxJXiPldXYY

Interstate Travel Center
http://www.bplans.com/truck_stop_business_plan/executive_summary_fc.php#.UxJXo_ldXYY

Which of these three projects do you think should have the highest risk from the point of view of investors (potential providers of funds) and would therefore be evaluated using the highest discount rate? Which one do you think should have the lowest? Write a paper explaining your reasoning.

In your assessment of the business plans consider the possible risk of each plan. Risk is one of the main considerations when deciding whether a plan should be evaluated and discounted to present value using a high or a low discount rate.

Note: you are not expected to fully analyze the numbers and financial statements in these business plans. There are only forecasts and projections. Nobody really believes them anyway. Use your intuition rather than calculations to assess risk and potential of each of these plans.

Choose one of your five senses (touch, taste, smell, vision, hearing), describe how your biology, mood, prior learning, recent/past experiences, or upbringing might influence your perceptions of the world around you. What are some potential applications of these findings to your chosen field of study? To how you interact and communicate with others around you?

To help get you started, here is a sample of what you need to do for this Discussion:

For the sense of sight, your biology can definitely impact on how you see the world around you. For example, if you inherit poor vision and it develops at a young age, or you are color blind due to a genetic anomaly, this will impact on what you see and how you pay attention to the multitude of stimuli in the world around you. You might not see things as clearly as others, and this may allow you to see the bigger picture and not get bogged down in details. Sometimes, your mood can also impact what you see and focus on. For example, if you are in a bad mood or you do not feel well, you might not notice things that you normally would like the sunshine, a smiling child’s face, or a beautiful flower. Instead, you focus on the litter which is scattered about in the street or the dog poop your neighbor failed to pick up.

Prior learning will influence how you respond to certain stimuli in the world around you as well – for example, slowing down when the traffic light turns yellow. Your recent experience can also impact on how to see the world around you by encouraging you to focus more on some things and not others. For example, if you watch the evening news, you will begin to believe that the world around you is a very unsafe and frightening place to live. As a result, this recent experience or “priming” may encourage you to focus more on the negative side of life, and this can influence how you “see” the world around you. Your childhood or upbringing may also influence how you see things by encouraging you to focus on some things and not others. In other words, you learn to “see” by observing your parents and what they pay attention to.

Historical social impact on the context of marriage as a faith based practice/institution.

The 2006 Business Turnaround

Based on the case study information, discuss the organization’s situation and its competitive strategy. Then, using current information retrieved from the Six Flags website and scholarly articles accessed from the library, in 1200-1400 words, discuss the current state of Six Flags and the effectiveness of the competitive strategy you outlined. Also, please discuss what changes you would have made in that strategy knowing what you know about its current state now.

* Six Flags Case Study is attached

Work Instructions: (Please read them clearly)

1. The work must be 100% free of PLAGIARISM. The instructor is so tough in this issue!!
2. The work should be in 1200-400 words.
3. The work must focus on answering the question.
4. The answer must be supported by at least six (6) credible sources, e.g. journals and advanced scholarly articles from an academic databases like EBSCOHOST and PROQUEST.
5. Select current research articles published within the last five (5) years on the topic, if possible
6. Use APA style for the whole work, including the in-text citation and references. (For every reference, there must be a corresponding citation in the text, and vice versa. Cited page numbers must be correct)
7. No direct internet websites are allowed to be used as a reference (e.g. Wikipedia, ehow, … etc.)
8. Used references are to be provided to me either as PDF files or direct web links.
9. A paragraph must at least contain three sentences.
10. The course is Managerial Accounting and the work is for MBA level; hence it must demonstrate high quality of writing.
11. The first (1) draft of the work is to be submitted by NO LATER THAN Wednesday 05-Mar-2014 (3:00PM GMT )
12. The second (2) draft (could be the final) of the work is to be submitted by NO LATER THAN Friday 07-Mar-2014 (9:00AM GMT)

The writer must be in US in order to understand the background clearly.

You can add figures or tables for explanations (not count in pages)

The topic is in quality engineering field (Industrial Engineering major).

The writing will be sound and terminology like engineer.

Focus Only in Higher Education service quality.

You have to update me every 2-3 days, so I can correct you for anything.

Very important that the level of writing is a PhD level (high academic level) otherwise the whole work will be rejected and full refund will be issue.

The references must be from the original recourses if you used definitions. Please choose the best sources.

You must point every source you used in the body of the paragraph by number.

I have the chapter outline and some examples of literature review that you may follow, will send them later.

Autobiography Julius Caesar

Worth 150 points of your total grade
Use Chicago style guidelines for style and formatting
Spelling and Grammar WILL count completely
3 – 5 Pages, double spaced (Title page & Bibliography DOES NOT count towards total page count)
12-Point Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri font- double spaced
Footnotes or Endnotes as required (student choice between which to use)
Standard cover page and Bibliography required
You will need to provide sources and biblography

CENSORSHIP, THE INTERNET, AND SCHOOLS

Summarize the topic and the articles as they relate to the topic.
Explain what the dilemma is and who will be harmed.
Categorize the risks if the leaders in charge remain silent.
Analyze what a best response and explain why that would be best.

Describe two implications for schools from the CIPA policy rulings, and two reasons for opposition to the policy

1) Describe two implications for schools from the CIPA policy rulings, and two reasons for opposition to the policy.
2) Provide an overview description of four different censorship solutions that schools have exercised or adopted.
3) Discuss the use of AUPs in K-12 in the US.
4) Select one of the seven case studies. Discuss which censorship response or responses apply to that case study.
5) Explain why this is so in context of the readings.
6) Use one your own article(s) to support the discussion.