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Ethics In Global Finance

For this discussion, you will research and share financial ethical considerations for your final project parent company and its foreign subsidiary. You will also reflect on the course and discuss how you will apply what you have learned going forward.
Review the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in this module’s resources, and in your initial post to the discussion, address the following:

In responding to your peers, offer your own perspective on the points regarding ethics practices in different global markets that they have brought up. Expand upon their responses by offering your own insight based on your work in the course or on your own professional experience.
The company is Walmart and expansion to South Africa.
One to one half page.

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analysiing and articulating company financial statements

 
Being able to analyse and articulate company financial statements is an invaluable skill that ensures managers have a strong grasp on all facets of the business. Specifically, financial literacy ensures managers, particularly the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer are equipped with relevant up-to-date knowledge to make crucial decisions in order to maximise the wealth of the organisation-a fundamental principle of financial management. Furthermore, financial managers must have a deep understanding of domestic and international capital markets for issuing capital instruments such as bonds (debt) and/or shares (stocks). This ensures a corporation can effectively raise long-term capital to acquire profitable assets to maximise wealth for its shareholders.
Ratio analysis and securities valuation
1. Choose two publicly listed non-financial companies from the same industry and obtain their latest financial statements from the IBISWorld or Marketline database (available via the library link in the student portal). Perform a complete ratio analysis on each company. Break your analysis into an evaluation of the firm’s liquidity, profitability, capital structure and market ratios.
Select the following ratio from each category for your analysis.
· Liquidity – Current ratio
· Profitability – Return on Equity ratio
· Capital Structure Ratio – Debt (Gearing) ratio
· Market Ratio – Price-Earnings ratio
In addition to this, you are required to analyse and interpret the ratios along with any other relevant data with reference to the theoretical concepts introduced in this subject to evaluate the company’s operations and performance. How well does your selected company compare with the industry peer? Which component of your company’s ROE is superior, and which are inferior?
2. Suppose your selected company (choose one of the two) just paid a dividend of $2.20 per share. The dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 4% per year, indefinitely. You employ the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate the share’s expected return. You observe that the risk-free rate of return on US treasuries is 2% p.a; the market risk premium is 7% and the company’s equity has a current beta of 1.285.What is the market value of the company’s shares? Compare the actual closing price of your selected company’s share on the balance sheet date. Why might the actual share price differ from the calculated price? Explain.
3. Assume a mining company PHP LTD. is assigned a AA credit rating by Standard and Poors. The company is looking to expand its operations into an already discovered iron ore deposit 600 km’s north of Adelaide in outback South Australia. PHP is looking to finance the $20 billion expansion with multiple sources of capital including raising $5 billion in $AUD senior debt into the US private placement bond market (reg 144a). PHP’s lead capital funding managers (underwriters) will offer a 10-year; fixed semi-annual coupon of 5.75% p.a. with a face value of AUD $1,000. The all-up market yield will be benchmarked at 230 basis points above the current Australian Government Bond 10-year of 2.35% p.a.. Calculate the price at which the bonds will trade at in the market?
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factors that lead to an organization's success or failure: risk assessment

Risk Management Applications
While there are many factors that lead to an organization’s success or failure, it is important to identify the risk associated with the endeavor—financial or non-financial. Once the risks have been identified, management has a responsibility to develop measures to mitigate those risks.
Tasks:
Use the publicly-traded company you chose in Module 1 and imagine it has made a strategic decision to start doing business in China. Using the discussion, Currency Exchange Rates: A Case in China with Country Risk, (Chapter 7, Global Finance, page 192 of your textbook) as a model for the report you will write, prepare a report in which you:
—–>*Please the publicly-traded company that I chose in M1 Assignment is “Wells Fargo & Company”

  1. Develop a brief country risk assessment.
  2. Determine the political, economic, social, and capital risks associated with doing business in China. What are the most important factors to consider? Why?
  3. After years of keeping the Yuan pegged to the US dollar, in 2015 the Chinese  allowed it to float freely in international currency exchange rate markets. You may read more about the Yuan reforms here. Many economists believe that keeping the Yuan pegged to the US dollar has caused it to be undervalued by 30 to 50 percent. Discuss what impact a revaluation of the Yuan might have on US multinationals doing business there, on China’s exports, and on Chinese citizens’ standard of living. What impact would a revaluation have on Chinese inflation and on purchasing power parity? Explain.
    Your paper should be about 2,000 words.
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Language of business statistics/analytics

Dsc 211

Below are examples of Supporting a conclusion/recommendation using the Language of business statistics/analytics for your consideration as you are answering the essay question relative to a lab question.

The printing company has an agreement with his supplier that he is to return a shipment that is 10 percent or more defective. Should this morning’s shipment be returned? Explain your assertion using the language of statistics and analytics

Example Answer 1: No the company shouldn’t return the cups. It says to return the cups if they are 10% or more defective, but from the sample the defective rate is only .05. The confidence interval is from .025 to .075 which means that the probability the cup will be functioning is very high. There is no need for the company to return the shipment.

Example Answer 2: There is a possibility that the shipment should be returned because the margin of error allows the number of defects to reach over .1 while the estimated number of defects is about 7% of the shipment with a 95% confidence level. Since the z score is rather high at 95% there is no guarantee that the shipment will have the right number of defects

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Business Law Assignment 8 Questions

MAKE SURE TO ADD ALL CITING AT THE END OF YOUR ASSIGNMENTS AS WELL.
Please post your answers  in detail to:
Chapter 2 assignment : Essay questions with citing.
#1,2,3,4- page 47
Chapter 5 assignment: Essay questions  1,2,3,4 page 132-133
1. The Senate recently released a report on wrongdoing at JP Morgan Chase. It found that bank executives lied to investors and the public. Also, traders, with the knowledge of top management, changed risk limits to facilitate more trading and then violated even these higher limits. Executives revalued the bank’s investment portfolio to reduce apparent losses. JP Morgan’s internal investigation failed to find this wrongdoing. Into what ethics traps did these JP Morgan employees fall? What options did the executives and traders have for dealing with this wrongdoing? 
2. Located in Bath, Maine, Bath Iron Works builds high tech warships for the Navy. Winning Navy contracts is crucial to the company’s success—it means jobs for the community and profits for the shareholders. Navy officials held a meeting at Bath’s offices with its executives and those of a competitor to review the specs for an upcoming bid. Both companies desperately wanted to win the contract. After the meeting, a Bath worker realized that one of the Navy officials had left a folder on a chair labeled: “Business Sensitive.” It contained information about the competitors’ bid that would be a huge advantage to Bath. William Haggett, the Bath CEO, was notified about the file just as he was walking out the door to give a luncheon speech. What should he do? What pitfalls did he face? What result if he considered Mill, Kant, or the Front Page test?
3. A group of medical schools conducted a study on very premature babies—those born between 24 and 27 weeks of gestation (instead of the normal 40 weeks). These children face a high risk of blindness and death. The goal of the study was to determine which level of oxygen in a baby’s incubator produced the best results. Before enrolling families in the study, the investigators did not tell them that being in the study could increase their child’s risk of blindness or death. The study made some important discoveries: the level at which too much oxygen increased the risk of blindness and level at which too little increased the risk of death. What would Mill and Kant say about this decision not to tell the families?
4. Because Raina processes payroll at her company, she knows how much everyone earns, including the top executives. This information could make for some good gossip, but she has kept it all completely secret. She just found out, however, that her boss knew that it is against company policy for her to do payroll for C-level employees. Yesterday, the CEO went to her boss to confirm that he, the boss, was personally doing the processing for top management. Her boss lied to the CEO and said that he was. Then he begged Raina not to tell the truth if the CEO checked with her. Raina just got a message that the CEO wants to see her. What does she say if he asks about the payroll?
1. YOU BE THE JUDGE WRITING PROBLEM Scott Fane was a CPA licensed to practice in New Jersey and Florida. He built his New Jersey practice by making unsolicited phone calls to executives. When he moved to Florida, the Board of Accountancy there prohibited him (and all CPAs) from personally soliciting new business. Fane sued. Does the First Amendment force Florida to forgo foreclosing Fane’s phoning? Argument for Fane: The Florida regulation violates the First Amendment, which protects commercial speech. Fane was not saying anything false or misleading, but was just trying to secure business. This is an unreasonable regulation, designed to keep newcomers out of the marketplace and maintain steady business and high prices for established CPAs. Argument for the Florida Board of Accountancy: Commercial speech deserves—and gets—a lower level of protection than other speech. This regulation is a reasonable method of ensuring that the level of CPA work in our state remains high. CPAs who personally solicit clients are obviously in need of business. They are more likely to bend legal and ethical rules to obtain clients and keep them happy, and will lower the standards throughout the state.
2. President George H. W. Bush insisted that he had the power to send American troops into combat in the Middle East, without congressional assent. Yet before authorizing force in Operation Desert Storm, he secured congressional authorization. President Bill Clinton stated that he was prepared to invade Haiti without a congressional vote. Yet he bargained hard to avoid an invasion, and ultimately American troops entered without the use of force. Why the seeming doubletalk by both Presidents?
3. In the landmark 1965 case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court examined a Connecticut statute that made it a crime for any person to use contraception. The majority declared the law an unconstitutional violation of the right of privacy. Justice Black dissented, saying, “I do not to any extent whatever base my view that this Connecticut law is constitutional on a belief that the law is wise or that its policy is a good one. [It] is every bit as offensive to me as it is to the majority. [There is no criticism by the majority of this law] to which I cannot subscribe—except their conclusion that the evil qualities they see in the law make it unconstitutional.” What legal doctrines are involved here? Why did Justice Black distinguish between his personal views on the statute and the power of the Court to overturn it?
4. Gilleo opposed American participation in the war in the Persian Gulf. She displayed a large sign on her front lawn that read, “Say No to War in the Persian Gulf, Call Congress Now.” The city of Ladue prohibited signs on front lawns and Gilleo sued. The city claimed that it was regulating “time, place, and manner.” Explain that statement, and decide who should win.

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To analysis a capital investment project based on three widely used techniques of Net Present Value method, IRR and Payback period

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Subject: Capital Budgeting analysis
To analysis a capital investment project based on three widely used techniques of Net Present Value method, IRR and Payback period
Net present value method considers time value of money while analyzing profitability of a project. All cash inflows that are likely to occur during the lifetime of the project is discounted with the company’s cost of capital to determine their present value and from this discounted present value of future inflows current cash outflow is deducted to find the net present value of the investment. If the discounted present value of inflow is higher than the present value of outflow, NPV is positive and the project is acceptable and if NPV is negative, project is not acceptable. This method has advantage of applicability in case of mutually exclusive projects and it provides present value in absolute terms. But determination of appropriate discount rate is main problem associate with this method.
The other method of analyzing investment projects is Internal Rate of Return (IRR) method. This method also considers time value of money and attempt to find the rate of return the project is generating during its lifetime. Here we find a discounting rate which equates present value of inflow with outflow or in other words which make present value of inflow equal to present outflow. The rate so determined is the rate of return which the project is expected to generate during its lifetime. Now this rate of return is compared with the company’s cost of capital to analysis the profitability of the project. If the rate of return is higher than cost of capital then the project is acceptable otherwise not.
Payback period method determines the time which is required by a project to recover its initial investment. If the period is less than the standard period then the project is acceptable otherwise not. This method has advantage of easy to use and simple to understand. Another benefit is it does not require cost of capital to make decision because it is often difficult to estimate exact cost of capital. Major drawback of payback period method is it does not consider time value of money, which is an important factor when deciding about a capital expenditure. Another problem is cash flow occurs after payback periods are not taken into account in this method.
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global marketing

You are the global marketing vice president at Dyson. You have been asked to attend a meeting with James Dyson, the company’s founder. Dyson’s CEO and the head of Dyson’s New Product Innovation department will also be in attendance.
“Thanks for meeting with me today,” James says. “Market intelligence has shown that our major competitors—Hoover, Shark, and Bissell—are all developing new cordless vacuum cleaners with a longer battery life than what’s currently available.”
James Dyson looks to you: “I need you to participate in a new cross-functional product development team that will research the feasibility of creating a cordless vacuum cleaner that works for one hour on a single charge. We also need to know if there’s even a market for this type of vacuum,” he says.
“We envision that this new vacuum will be used primarily in the home, but keep in mind, we want to be able to adapt it easily and cheaply for light commercial use. One way of doing this is by using swappable battery packs.”
Dyson’s new product innovation process involves both incremental and radical innovation. Radicalness is the combination of the degree of differentness and newness. This includes innovations that are new to the world, the industry, or to Dyson. Most radical innovations are new to the world (e.g., digital photography), and are very different from existing processes and products. On the other hand, incremental innovations lie at the other end of the spectrum; they are not exceptional or particularly new, they may currently exist in the industry, and may involve minor tweaks, adjustments, or changes from existing products. A radical innovation may become an incremental innovation over time as its underlying technology becomes more common (Schilling, 2013).
Once your idea is developed, write a value proposition for your new product.
Present the results of your activities in a two-page report identifying your new product idea, explaining the procedure you used to develop the process, and state your value proposition. Be sure to support your work with the required readings, scholarly sources, and reliable nonscholarly sources (such as Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, Money, Forbes, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review)

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Determining   the Development needs

Scenario:
Your business owners are keen to make your organisation a learning organisation and have identified a range of priorities where they think improvements can be made. As a manager it is now your responsibility to take those organisational priorities and translate them into productivity improvements. You will need to find out the learning needs of your workplace, create a training plan for your team/individual and ways you are going to evaluate the plan. All this need to be submitted in a report to the owners for approval covering the following points: 
 
SECTION A – Determining   the Development needs

  1. Observe the individual team members demonstrating the selected workplace        activity
  2. Complete  an assessment of the individual’s performance
  3. Get the team member to complete an assessment of their own performance
  4. Identify the areas where improvement is needed
  5. Identify ways to develop the individuals skills/knowledge in these areas
  6. Discuss  these with the member

 
SECTION B – Creating a   Development Programme

  1. Write  up a plan of the activities that will develop the skills/knowledge that        the individual needs
  2. Include  an appropriate workplace coaching opportunity
  3. Identify  the support materials and resources needed for the programme
  4. Identify  a timeline

 
SECTION C – Evaluating   the Development Programme

  1. Create        an evaluation form for the team member to complete that shows how  effective they thought the development programme was.
  2. Create a record of the outcome and performance of the team member so you can see how effective the development programme was.
  3. Write up a short report on how effective you thought the programme was and   what changes you would make to make it more efficient and effective.
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Explain How You See Yourself Fitting Into The Following IOM Future Of Nursing Recommendations

In A Reflection Of 450-600 Words, Explain How You See Yourself Fitting Into The Following IOM Future Of Nursing Recommendations:

 

In a reflection of 450-600 words, explain how you see yourself fitting into the following IOM Future of Nursing recommendations:
1. Recommendation 4: Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020.
2. Recommendation 5: Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020.
3. Recommendation 6: Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.
Identify your options in the job market based on your educational level. (I have Associate degree in nursing (ADN) and this a Bachelor science in nursing program, (BSN) so you can have based it on BSN, because I will be done soon)
1. How will increasing your level of education affect how you compete in the current job market?
2. How will increasing your level of education affect your role in the future of nursing?
A minimum of Four scholarly references are required for this assignment. solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, an abstract is not required, CITE WEBSITE SOURCE.