Category: Essays

Final Project Scenario

You are an economist for the Vanda-Laye Corporation, which produces and distributes outdoor cooking supplies. The company has come under new ownership and management and will be undergoing changes in its product lines and operating structure. As an economist, your responsibilities include examining the market factors that affect success or failure of a product, including the supply and demand for the product, market conditions, and the behavior of competitors with similar products.

The new management has identified several possible investments for the coming year. It has asked you and your team to evaluate the possibilities and make a recommendation to the board of directors. Jorge has identified two mutually exclusive opportunities (Investment A) and two independent opportunities (Investment B) and assigned you the task of making a recommendation on the investments.

Investment A

Your company would like to increase its product lines. Two alternatives are available, a new line of outdoor smokers and a new line of outdoor grills. The two lines are mutually exclusive, meaning that only one of these investment alternatives can be selected. The projected cash flows and their respective probabilities for each alternative are given in the table. There are three possible levels of demand and their corresponding probabilities, which depend on the state of the economy.

Click here to download the table for Investment A.

The two alternatives carry equal risk and should be evaluated at the company’s cost of capital. The cost for the new smoker line will be $7,000,000. Also, the company has been guaranteed a buyer for the new line at the end of the fifth year. The buyer has agreed to purchase the new line for $7,900,000. The outdoor grill alternative will cost $3,987,000 and also has a guaranteed buyer, who has agreed to pay $4,000,000 at the end of the fifth year.

Investment B

Investment B involves two independent investment opportunities. The decisions on these two investment alternatives are also independent of Investment A. Investment B-1 involves a new packaging machine, which will eliminate the need for a local firm for packaging Vanda-Laye’s products. The cost of this machine will be $24,000, and the expected revenues from this opportunity are given in the table and are considered to be of average risk. Investment B-2 is the purchase of a new computer system that will allow the company to sell its products on the Internet worldwide. The cost of this new system will be $29,000, with the expected cash flows after taxes given in the table.

Click here to download the table for Investment B.

Jorge has asked you to provide detailed responses to the following:

Management of Vanda-Laye has determined that the capital structure of the company will involve 30% debt and 70% common equity. This structure will be used to finance all investments by the company. Currently, the company can sell new bonds at par, with a coupon rate of 7%. Any new common stock can be sold for $45, with a required return (or cost) of 15.57%. Using Microsoft Excel, calculate the company’s cost of capital to be used in the evaluation of possible investment projects.
For Investment A:
Using Microsoft Excel, create a decision tree. Indicate the various levels of demand and their respective probabilities. Also, include the calculations for the expected cash flows.
Calculate the expected NPV for each alternative. Explain the decision rules for making a selection between the two alternatives on the basis of the expected NPV.
Assuming the two alternatives are mutually exclusive, specify which alternative you would recommend to the company. Explain why.
If the two alternatives were independent of each other, specify which project you would select. Would you accept both projects if funding were available for both? Explain your answer.
For Investment B:
Using Microsoft Excel, calculate the NPV for each alternative.
Using the decision-making criteria for the NPV, specify which alternative you would select if the two alternatives were mutually exclusive. Explain your answer.
Given that the two alternatives are independent of each other, specify which investment you would select, if not both. Explain your answer.
Using Microsoft Excel, calculate the IRR for each investment.
Using the decision-making criteria for the IRR, specify which alternative you would prefer. Explain your answer.
If funding were available, specify whether you would select both investments. Why or why not?
Calculate the profitability index (PI) for the two investments. Which project is preferred?
Determine whether there is a ranking conflict present in terms of the IRR and the NPV. Explain your answer. If a conflict does exist, explain how you would resolve the situation.

Submission Details:

Compile a report including all your responses from Weeks 1, 3, and 5. Make sure your report reads as one report rather than three reports pasted together. Complete all revisions suggested by your instructor in previous weeks. Make sure all responses are complete and accurate, supported by references and documented examples. The report should be 10–15 pages in length and include an executive summary.
Name the spreadsheet as SU_MBA5004_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.xls and your Microsoft Word document as SU_MBA5004_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
By Tuesday, September 8, 2015, submit these documents to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Constructed a decision tree for Investment A on the basis of the company’s calculated cost of capital.
40
Justified the results thoroughly using the calculations for the expected cash flows and the expected NPV for Investment A.
40
Justified your recommendation for the two mutually exclusive projects for Investment A, with an explanation of the decision rules for the NPV.
40
Calculated the NPV, IRR, and PI for the two projects under Investment B.
30
Under Investment B, evaluated which project would be preferred under each method, with thorough explanations for the decisions, indicating whether a ranking conflict existed.
30
Justified which project would be selected if the projects were mutually exclusive for Investment B.
30
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner. Utilized the appropriate type and number of scholarly sources for graduate-level work. Demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources. Displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Scenario: A 40-year-old woman was recently diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer and had a right side mastectomy this morning and is grieving the loss of her femininity. She has a 13-year-old daughter who becomes over involved in her school activities and wants to get all A’s on her next report card, a 12-year-old son who refuses to talk about his mother’s condition and a husband who starts attending daily religious offerings.

Create a discussion post using the information in the scenario and the information that was read in the assignments, apply it to the scenario, and identify:

Name and explain which defense mechanism each of the four (4) family members using to deal with the stress the family is facing?
Include information about each family member’s stage of growth and development when formulating your responses: How does the RN determine if the defense mechanisms are helpful or harmful.
Using nursing judgment develop a 3 part nursing diagnosis statement for each family member which includes one NANDA-I diagnosis, an etiology and the defining characteristics (nursing diagnosis + related to + as evidence by).
Identify the data cluster (grouping of significant data that points to the existence of a patient health problem) used to select the nursing diagnosis.
One (1) assessment to validate each the nursing diagnosis
One (1) outcome statement for each (realistic, measureable and contains a time frame).
Suggest four (4) active, single and discreet interventions, one (1) for each family member, to aid in their adaptation to the situation. Provide an evidence based rationale to support each intervention.
Identify how you would communicate this information to the health care team to coordinate care.
APA style , no more than a page just the basic information, and 2 reffrences within 5 yrs old …

Why Write a Literary Analysis?

Literature teaches us about the value of conflict. We experience conflict in our personal relationships and in our interactions with society. Literary analysis helps us recognize the conflict at work in literature, which gives us greater insight into the personal conflicts that we face. In addition, learning how to closely read, analyze, and critique a text is beneficial beyond a literature course in that it improves our writing, reading, and critiquing abilities overall.

How to Write a Literary Analysis

It is important to understand that some conflicts in literature might not always be obvious. Considering how an author addresses conflict via literary techniques can reveal other more complex conflicts or different kinds of conflicts that interact in multiple ways. Analyzing those more complicated elements can help you discover what literature represents about the human experience and condition. With this in mind, consider that your thesis might be a claim about how two pieces make similar representations, or it can show two different points of view on a similar issue.

The literary analysis should be organized around your thesis (argument), which is the controlling idea of the entire essay. In the Week Three assignment, you identified two conflicts and created an initial thesis statement in relation to two of the literary works from the List of Literary Works. In this assignment, you will refine that thesis even further and build on your overall argument utilizing the literary techniques below. Reflect on feedback from your Instructor and peers in previous weeks to help you revise your rough draft into a final paper.

For this literary analysis, write a 1250- to 1600-word essay in which you do the following:

Revise/develop the thesis from Week Three based on the feedback you have received. Again, the thesis should focus on the conflict(s) you chose to write about. This thesis should provide deeper insight into the possible meanings surrounding the chosen conflict(s) that you see in the chosen literary texts. Throughout your analysis, you must use at least two primary sources and two sources from the Ashford University Library to support your thesis. Watch the ENG125 Literature Research video (Transcript) for help with finding sources from the library for your paper.

Review and incorporate instructor and classroom feedback on at least one conflict listed in Types of Conflict Found in Literature from two literary works in this course. One of the literary works must be a short story. See the List of Literary Works and Types of Conflict Found in Literature.
Analyze three literary techniques to help define and draw out the conflict(s) chosen.
Explain how the texts utilize the literary techniques below to describe the conflict(s).
Compare and contrast the two texts you chose

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Assignment 2: Study Strategies and Learning Style

Before You Begin…

To successfully complete your assignment, you should have completed the following tasks:

From the textbook, Keys to effective learning: Study skills and habits for success, read:
Critical and creative thinking: Solving problems and making decisions
Memory: Maximizing recall for test success
Reading and studying: Focusing on print and online materials
Review materials under the topic “Critical Thinking”
Review materials under the topic “Effective Reading”
SmeartMeasure Assessment results from Module 1

Understanding your learning style is an important part of understanding who you are as a student. It is very useful to determine which study strategies best suit your learning style. For this assignment do the following:

Review your results from your SmartMeasure Assessment that you took in Module 1.
Then, identify at least three study strategies that were presented in your readings and online lectures in Module 3.
Explain how each study strategy would work for you (or not) based on your learning style. Do you need to modify your approach to studying? Explain.
Write a summary of how you could use each strategy in your current learning environment.

Summarize your review in a two- to three-page paper in Microsoft Word and name your file Lastname_FirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Tuesday, September 15, 2015, submit your study strategies and learning styles review to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

This assignment will be included in the Personal Plan for Success you will compile in Module 5.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified at least three study strategies.
30
Explained how each study strategy would work (or not) for you based on your learning style.
85
Included a summary of how you could use each strategy in your current learning environment.
70
Used correct spelling and grammar

Active Filter Design Techniques

Active Filter Design Techniques

Refer to Chapter 6 in the text as needed.
Using the Fast, Practical Filter Design technique presented in section 6.3 design the following. Be sure to show all work for full credit.

Low-Pass Filter with critical frequency = 10kHz.
High-Pass Filter with critical frequency = 10kHz.
Narrow-Bandpass Filter with critical a band of 100kHz

Create a MultiSIM schematic of each of your designs. Provide a screenshot.
Perform a simulation of each design to demonstrate the filter behavior. Take a screenshot.
From your simulation and screenshot in the above step, what is the gain in dB at the critical frequency for the low-pass filter and the high-pass filter? What is the bandpass of the bandpass filter, and how did you determine it?
If you were to implement your high-pass filter in hardware, what considerations would you need to take into consideration? How would these considerations impact the performance and the extent to which you would meet specifications? Be specific! Provide specific examples of the issues you would encounter based on your specific initial design and actions you would need to take to finalize your design. Is there anything you would have done differently to create your initial design in step 2 above if you had thought about an implementation in hardware from the beginning?
Include all your calculations and screenshots in a Word Document with the title: “HW2_StudentID”, with your student id substituted in the file name. Show all work for full credit.
Upload file “HW2_StudentID”

Active Filter Design Techniques

Active Filter Design Techniques

Refer to Chapter 6 in the text as needed.
Using the Fast, Practical Filter Design technique presented in section 6.3 design the following. Be sure to show all work for full credit.

Low-Pass Filter with critical frequency = 10kHz.
High-Pass Filter with critical frequency = 10kHz.
Narrow-Bandpass Filter with critical a band of 100kHz

Create a MultiSIM schematic of each of your designs. Provide a screenshot.
Perform a simulation of each design to demonstrate the filter behavior. Take a screenshot.
From your simulation and screenshot in the above step, what is the gain in dB at the critical frequency for the low-pass filter and the high-pass filter? What is the bandpass of the bandpass filter, and how did you determine it?
If you were to implement your high-pass filter in hardware, what considerations would you need to take into consideration? How would these considerations impact the performance and the extent to which you would meet specifications? Be specific! Provide specific examples of the issues you would encounter based on your specific initial design and actions you would need to take to finalize your design. Is there anything you would have done differently to create your initial design in step 2 above if you had thought about an implementation in hardware from the beginning?
Include all your calculations and screenshots in a Word Document with the title: “HW2_StudentID”, with your student id substituted in the file name. Show all work for full credit.
Upload file “HW2_StudentID”

How does it compare to other students’ thought processes?

How successful a company is at exploiting emerging opportunities and dealing with associated threats depends on leadership’s ability to cultivate a broad mindset among managers and their followers. From a competency point of view, failures are attributed to the fact that leaders who lack experience or training in a job may also rely too much on intuition to the exclusion of rational analysis. Strategic decision-making skills are crucial. Effective strategic decision-making requires a balancing of intuition, rationality, and strategic vision. While ambitious, the goal or outcome is a view of the future that everyone in the organization believes in though is not readily attainable.

Think of your university experience. Prepare a SWOT analysis that identifies at least two opportunities (external forces that can assist you) and two threats regarding the completion of your degree.

Then, write an inspiring vision statement for yourself. Be sure to include your core values and your core purpose for attending college.

Next, respond to the following:

• Describe your thought process while performing your SWOT analysis.
• What can you imply about yourself from this comparison?
• How does it compare to other students’ thought processes?

Prezi or Screen Cast assignment (Homework Pro)

 

Part 2: UPLOAD A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF YOUR CHOSEN SPECIES

Familiarize yourself with the Course Project Guide and multimedia program options by reading the. Using the program you decide to use for your Week 7 multimedia Presentation (Prezi or Screencast), create a brief presentation (1-2 slides/elements) about the organism you chose for your course project. The organism should come from one of the four major kingdoms (Protist, Fungus, Plant, or Animal) and be indigenous to the area in which you reside. The organism should not be a domesticated pet but rather a species that is native to the local area where you live. Please include the following information about your species in your introductory presentation via an attached link along with your virtual introduction and be sure to choose an organism not already selected by one of your classmates:

1. Common and scientific names of the organism
2. Area of residence (city, state, country, etc.)
3. Why you chose this organism

For instructions on how to create and upload your presentation see the following links: Prezi Presentation Creation and Uploading Instructions and Screencast Creation and Uploading Instructions.
One of the drawbacks to online learning is that you miss out on the interactions from your classmates. Therefore, please take this opportunity to interact with at least two of your classmates by responding to their entries. Feel free to ask questions about each other and your course projects as you will be spending the next eight weeks together sharing in the experiences of this course. On that note, classroom community is a huge part of the learning experience so in addition to your initial posts and reply posts, be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification. The forums are a great way to build a classroom community, learn from one another, and connect with your peers so be sure to check the forums regularly in order to keep the dialogue moving!
NOTE: If you are submitting a Prezi presentation, please copy and paste the URL address circled in red in the screenshot below:

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Note: Should you choose to write your posts in MS Word first, opting to cut and paste into the Rich Text Editor (RTE) Box from Word, please click HERE to review the document on RTE otherwise your post may end up containing an overwhelming and unnecessary amount of “html” coding. If you type directly into the RTE box you will not run the chance of having this coding/clutter in your posts. Please retain this information for future forums. Thank you

Unit 9 Final Project Instructions Locate and review the document called Concierge Care Backgrounder found in Doc Sharing. To prepare for this Assignment, you might also want to view the PBS NewsHour video, Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee, found here:

Source: Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee: PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec12/medicine_07-09.html Prepare a 3–4 page (1000-1200 words) analysis for Dr. Green that demonstrates your consideration of your practice’s current capabilities with regard to 1) adopting a concierge care business model or 2) expanding the existing practice. (Feel free to look at sample SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces Framework templates for ideas, but do not use a template because some applications may not be able to “read” the template you select.) It is important to note that there are no completely right or wrong answers for this Assignment. In the end, the physicians will make the final decision, but they are looking to you to evaluate the situation from a business perspective, to have asked the right questions and to do the legwork. Your submission will be graded based on your clear demonstration that the following have been considered: • Competition • Customers (mix, customer demand) • Continuity of care • Value • Sources of revenue • Costs (including marketing, technology, payroll, office fit-out) • Staffing needs (propose specific roles and responsibilities) • Ethical concerns Finally, in a concise summary paragraph or two, present your recommendation to your employers. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the status quo versus moving to a concierge care model? Does a hybrid model make sense? If so, how would you structure it, and why do you think it is the desired option?

Remember to be clear and detailed in your responses. Your writing should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.), and it should be logical, original and insightful. Finally, ensure that your paper fully conforms to APA Style and include a cover page and a reference page. Requirements

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Kaplan University School of Health Sciences HS450 Strategic Planning and Organizational Development for Healthcare

COURSE #

• The body of the paper should be 3–4 pages (1000-1200 words) in length. A title page and a reference page should also be included but do not apply to the length requirement. • The paper should be written in an essay format, with transitions between paragraphs that discuss specific topic areas or thoughts. Include an introduction and conclusion. • Double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font • Follow the conventions and mechanics of Standard American English (correct grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc.). • The submission should be presented in an organized, logical and unified manner and consist of superior content that is original and insightful. • Include at least one reference. Neither the course textbook nor the PBS video may count toward the reference requirement for this Assignment, but you should still cite these sources if you utilize them. All references should follow APA style format. • Meet APA style requirements throughout the submission, including title page, formatting, citations in the body of the text as well as related references. Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you in conforming to APA style