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Week 6 Capital Budgeting: What types of projects require the least detailed and the most detailed analyses in the capital budgeting process?

 

For this week's assignment, you will research and answer the following questions.

  • What types of projects require the least detailed and the most detailed analyses in the capital budgeting process?
  • When two mutually exclusive projects are being compared, explain why the short-term project might be ranked higher under the NPV criterion if the cost of capital is high, whereas the long-term project might be deemed better if the cost of capital is low. Would changes in the cost of capital ever cause a change in IRR ranking of two such projects? Why or why not?

Assignment Details:

  • The paper should be one to two pages.
  • Use APA format (title page, double-space, references).
  • Don't forget to submit your document.

    Environmental Health and You Discussion Board

    • Introduce yourself to your peers by sharing something unique about your background. Explain how you expect this course will help you move forward in your current or future career.
    • Describe any environmental health problems that have been important in your own life or within communities where you have lived. Use the internet or the Strayer Library to search for information about the environmental health problem(s) you described, and provide evidence from a published source. Provide SWS references to the resources you find.

    Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

    Week 6 Case Study Macroeconomic Analysis : Unemployment

     

    Writing Style (APA) and Page Number Requirements

    • Document Type: Word
    • Font Type (Choose one of the following, and use the same font consistently throughout the paper.):
      1. Sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode
      2. Serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or normal (10-point) Computer Modern (the default font for LaTeX)
    • Spacing: Double
    • Number of Pages: Four to seven pages, not counting the separate Title page and the separate References page

    Week 6 Case Study: Macroeconomic Analysis: Unemployment

    Overview

    A high unemployment rate in any economy is a symptom of dysfunctionality in the economy. People need income to be able to consume, and consumption leads to production and production leads to a higher demand for labor (employment), so unemployment is a crucial macroeconomic issue that confronts all modern economies. A lower unemployment rate, however, is not the end of the problem. The type of employment and the price of labor (wages) must be sufficient for consumption (which is the major component of GDP) in the economy to be healthy. If wages are low or if the prices in the economy are high, consumption would be low and thus, production and demand for labor would be low, too. High unemployment rate, high part-time employment rate for economic reasons, low wages, and high inflation could have negative effects on economic growth.

    Assignment Description

    In this assignment, you need to identify two specific issues related to unemployment. You will study their past trends, provide an overview of their current status, and provide solutions to overcome them. You will use data from the past 10 years, articles, experts' opinions, and government reports to draw a clear picture of unemployment issues.

    · Some areas you might consider are the following (based on gender, education, race, age). Only pick 2 variables from the same category (ex. U rates for college graduates vs U rates for high school graduates).

    · Unemployment rates for women

    · Unemployment rates for men

    · Unemployment rates among African Americans

    · Unemployment rates among Hispanics

    · Unemployment rates among Whites

    · Unemployment rates among Asians

    · Unemployment rates among young college graduates

    · Unemployment rate among workers with high school diploma

    · Unemployment rate among workers with less than a high school diploma

    Your research needs to be structured with consistent and clear thoughts. It also needs to be supported by actual data. Your results need to be based on solid facts. Your conclusion and recommended solution need to be thorough and based on your findings and understanding of macroeconomic challenges and macroeconomic policies.

    Writing Style (APA) and Page Number Requirements

    · Document Type: MS Word (No PDF)

    · Font Type (Choose one below; use the same font consistently throughout the paper): 1. Sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode

    2. Serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or normal (10-point) Computer Modern (the default font for LaTeX)

    · Spacing: Double

    · Number of Pages: Four to seven pages, not counting the separate Title page and the separate References page

    Structure and Requirements

    Title Page (Required)

    · Title of the paper

    · Name of the author

    · E-mail address of the author

    · Class name

    · Professor's name

    · Date

    Body of the Case Study paper (Five Sections, Required):

    There are 5 sections to this Case Study (Introduction, Data, Analysis, Reflection, Solution). You must have 5 section headings in your paper since each section has its own marks/points (see Case Study Rubric document).

    Section 1. Introduction

    Your introduction needs to include the following.

    · Include a clear definition of unemployment and who is counted as “unemployed” by economists and government agencies. Define inflation and what causes unemployment and inflation in the economy to increase.

    · Briefly provide your understanding of the relationship between GDP growth and/or decline, high/low unemployment, and high/low inflation rates.

    · Include a brief description of the two unemployment-related issues that you are going to address in this paper and their importance. Basically, why do you think they are important to research and resolve?

    Section 2. Data

    Sources must be cited. You can find the latest unemployment data at www.bls.gov (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

    It is important to obtain your unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website. Follow the “ Week 6 Guide to Obtaining Graphs for Data Section” provided on this assignment page and in Files.

    The Data section requires a total of 4 data pieces (all pieces of data need to be for the past 10 years; a data piece could be a graph or table):

    · Two (2) General data pieces: GDP Growth Rate and Unemployment Rate.

    · Two (2) Variable data pieces: Two (2) specific unemployment rates based on your variable(s) (gender, race, education, etc.) 

    Data (graphs or tables) that must be provided in this section:

    · GDP: Graph that represents the ten (10) year period of GDP growth rate (percentage). This information is already available on the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) website. Review the Week 6 Guide to Obtaining Graphs for Data Section document for instructions.

    · Unemployment: Data that represents the ten (10) year period of unemployment rate (percentage), which could be obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website. Review the Week 6 Guide to Obtaining Graphs for Data Section document for instructions.

    · Two Unemployment-related Issues: Data that represents the ten (10) year period about the two issues you are going to address. Provide one separate data set (graph or table) for each of the two issues, which could be obtained from the BLS website. Review the Week 6 Guide to Obtaining Graphs for Data Section document for instructions.

    Section 3. Analysis

    This section needs to contain the following discussions based on the data that was gathered and your understanding of unemployment and GDP.

    · General Data Analysis: Unemployment: Discuss the trends of unemployment rates over the past 10 years and provide your objective analysis of the changes in unemployment rates and the current rates. Place extra emphasis on the periods where unemployment was either too high or too low. Also state the effect of the high and low rates on GDP.

    · Variable Data Analysis: Two Unemployment-related Issues: Discuss the two unemployment-related issues you selected. Provide an overview of their trends and use facts to highlight the major changes in their trends and their current statuses. State the reason(s) why you believe these two issues represent a challenge for the economy.

    Section 4. Reflection and Critical Thinking

    Connect all the dots together by relating your above analysis to other areas in the macroeconomy. Basically, you will link changes in overall unemployment, the two unemployment-related issues you selected, and GDP to one another. Explain how periods of economic decline (recessions) and periods of economic growth (expansion) affected unemployment rates.

    Section 5. Solution

    · State which macroeconomic policy (monetary policy or fiscal policy) might resolve the issues you highlighted above, and state how this policy could be implemented and why it would solve these problems.

    · Finally, provide your own solution. Basically, answer the following question:

    What would you do to solve the macroeconomic issues you addressed if you were in charge of the U.S. economy? State why.

    References List (Required)

    Use at least three professional sources to support your argument. The references need to be in APA format for the in-text citations and the references list.

    To learn more about APA format, click (and hold your CTRL key) on the link below or copy/paste the link into your browser address bar.

    APA Resources: http://libguides.devry.edu/c.php?g=181472&p=1194156

    Revised 10/20/2024

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    Week 6 Guide to Obtaining Graphs for Data section

    You need 5 data pieces in the data section:

    1- GDP: a graph or a table that represents your 10-year period of GDP growth rate (percentage). To obtain GDP information, go to www.bea.gov then follow the steps below:

    · Click on “ Tools” , found on the top left side, and select “Interactive Data”

    · Click on “ Gross Domestic Product Personal Income ” found on the left side

    · Click on “ Interactive Data Tables ” bottom found in the top middle

    · Click on “ SECTION 1 – DOMESTIC PRODUCT AND INCOME ” and select the first option “ Table 1.1.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product ”

    · Click on “ Modify ” button found on the top left side, change the First Year field to your desired start year, and change the Series to “ Annual” and click on “ Refresh Table”

    You only need the information in the first line for each year (Line 1), which is the Gross Domestic Product as shown below. Copy and paste the data from Line 1 or screenshot the page (just like the image below) and paste it in your paper.

    2- Unemployment: a graph or a table that represents your 10-year period of the overall unemployment rate (percentage) in the country.

    See the “ Guide to using the BLS website Data ” below to obtain this data.

    3- Two Unemployment Issues : data/graphs that represents your 10-year period about the two unemployment related issues that you have selected and will discuss in this paper. Provide one separate data set (graph or table) for each of the two issues.

    See the “ Guide to using the BLS website Data ” below to obtain this data.

    Guide to using the BLS website Data: for Unemployment Variables

    1. Go to this link: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln

    2. Pick the variables you want. You can select more than one variable. For example, see screen shot below:

    3. Click on “Retrieve Data” on the bottom left hand side as shown below:

    4. You can then manipulate the data by changing output options, enter your ten-year period, such as “2006 to 2015” and then check the boxes “ include graphs” and “ include annual average”. Then, click on “ GO”

    Your data will default to show the annual change based on a month, for example, series Id shown here is Unemployment Rate 16 years and over. The data is yearly from January 2006 up to January 2015, which will suffice for the case study.

    Lastly, you may see that an accompanying table is provided for each graph of each variable, i.e., the table of the above graph is shown below the graph.

    5. To copy and paste the graph in your paper, right click on the graph, then select “copy”, then past it in your paper.

    IMPORTANT: make sure you cite the source of the graph (and any other graph and/or table you use) below the graph/table using APA citation style.

    6. Now, you can use the data for the variables. Happy Hunting!

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    In 1974, at the age of 19, Doris Drugdealer was arrested for selling $200 worth of heroin

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      Imagine that you are hired as a data analyst for a bank

       

      Imagine that you are hired as a data analyst for a bank. The bank would like to learn more about its customers’ spending and banking habits to identify areas of improvement. You have been asked to review the bank’s income statements over the last five years and identify trends that will allow them to understand their customers better.

      Download your chosen bank’s annual income statements from the last five years from the Mergent Market AtlasLinks to an external site. database in the University of Arizona Global Campus University Library. Review the Mergent Market Atlas Tip SheetLinks to an external site. resource for tips on accessing and searching the database. Use the “Company Financials” tab in Mergent Market Atlas to access the income statements.

      In your paper,

      • Identify an area of the bank’s income statement related to customer spending.
      • Describe the data points or variables that give a complete picture of the customers’ spending pattern for the last six months.
        • In addition to the income statement, explain which other data sources you might use to understand the customers’ spending patterns.
        • List the steps you will take to prepare all these data sources such that they afford clear and accurate information.
      • Build a frequency table, a bar chart, and a pie chart using Excel for the identified variables that explain the customers’ spending patterns. Review the Microsoft Excel Help: HomeLinks to an external site. webpage, available for resources to help utilize Microsoft Excel. Use the same three variables in each table and chart to display the same data in three different formats. 
      • After presenting your data in three formats, evaluate which tables and charts you find most helpful for communicating the desired message about the bank’s customers. 

      2 -3 pages apa use book as reference  Jaggia, S. (2023). Business analytics: Communicating with numbers (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education 

        Week 2 COM: Why I live in Mortal Dread of Public Speaking

         

        View the TEDTalk “Why I live in Mortal Dread of Public Speaking”Links to an external site. by Megan Washington (TEDx, 2014). Then, view the Sources of Communication Apprehension presentation (adapted from Engleberg & Wynn, 2015). In light of the TEDTalk, the presentation, and your own experiences respond to the following questions:

        • What strikes you as most interesting about Ms. Washington’s talk?
        • Do you relate in any way to her talk or to the Sources of Communication Apprehension presentation?
        • If you had to pick one or two sources of communication apprehension that you feel relate to you, which ones would they be and how do you manage them?

        Be sure to respond to at least 2 others as well. 

        As a reminder, always connect to a scholarly source. 

        As a note, integrating a scholarly source for this post should go beyond mentioning the TED Talk. Aim for full credit and connect to a scholarly source beyond the TED Talk to show how the discussion ties to your studies in the course.  

        Incorporate material found in the unit presentations, the textbook, or other professional academic resources. Remember to cite sources appropriately. 

        References 

        Engleberg, I. N. & Wynn, D. R. (2015). Think communication. Boston, MA: Pearson 

        TEDx. (2014). Megan Washington: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking. http://www.ted.com/talks/megan_washington_why_i_live_in_mortal_dread_of_public_speaking 

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