Answer the following questions: Using two companies you chose for your 1st assignment, you should answer the following questions. Please make sure that you should your work to earn credit.  My company is Southwest Airlines Competitor is United Airlines Using annual stock price between 2011 and 2016, compute the following returns. For stock price      data, use the closing price of last trading day of […]

ORIGINAL QUESTION: Assignment 1: Discussion—Case Study: General Machinery, Ltd Ratio analysis is a method used to analyze the financial reports of a company and interpret trends in the company’s performance. As a nonaccounting manager, you use numerous ratios to analyze your company’s performance year-by-year and benchmark the performance to industry averages, to an individual competitor’s performance, or against a predetermined target. For this assignment, read […]

  Purpose of Assignment  For this assignment, the student will identify and interview someone they know who is in a management role.  This allows the student to integrate the experience of real world managers with their own insights into planning and strategy. The assignment also reinforces the importance of contingency planning.  Assignment Steps  Interview someone you know who is in a management role. This can […]

***Explain how outsourcing, offshoring, and foreign entities affect the operation of businesses in the United States. Under which management function (planning, organizing, leading, or controlling) would outsourcing and offshoring take place?   Your response must be at least 300 words in length. ***Explain the management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in your own words. Also, explain how the functions work together in business.   Your […]

Write a 2-3 page paper on “Attractive Nuisance” as it pertains to Risk Management and Insurance with the following as the topic: Your neighbor’s small children run wild all day, every day, totally ignored by their parents. You have forcibly ejected them from your swimming pool several times but they return the next day. Your complaints to their parents have had no effect. Do you […]

Fin 534 quiz 5 week 6  Rating A   30 Multiple choices Question 1   Which of the following statements is CORRECT? Answer If the underlying stock does not pay a dividend, it does not make good economic sense to exercise a call option prior to its expiration date, even if this would yield an immediate profit. Call options generally sell at a price greater […]

FIN  534 – Homework Chapter 6 Rating A   1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT? a. If you add enough randomly selected stocks to a portfolio, you can completely eliminate all of the market risk from the portfolio. b. If you were restricted to investing in publicly traded common stocks, yet you wanted to minimize the riskiness of your portfolio as measured by […]

ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT:   Assignment 1: Discussion—ABC or Activity-Based Costing In your readings this module, you were introduced to Activity-Based Costing or ABC. It is a method used to determine a reliable predetermined benchmark for the allocation of overhead costs to the products produced based on their activity levels. In this discussion, we will work a case study on ABC together. For your initial response, attempt […]

FIN  534 – Homework Chapter 17 Rating A     1. In Japan, 90-day securities have a 4% annualized return and 180-day securities have a 5% annualized return. In the United States, 90-day securities have a 4% annualized return and 180-day securities have an annualized return of 4.5%. All securities are of equal risk, and Japanese securities are denominated in terms of the Japanese yen. […]

Assignment 2: Reflection 2 Interpersonal effectiveness is a broad topic that entails many aspects of how we view and interact with the world. In each module, you will take in a great amount of information from a variety of sources—your reading, media presentations, case studies, etc. Throughout the course, you also have the opportunity to journal, which allows you to reflect on how the course […]