Overview This lab assignment gives you a chance to practice creating a WBS within MS Project. It is due at the end of Week Four. Requirements Create a WBS in MS Project Instructions This lab assignment follows the MS Project Tutorial in your textbook, appendix B. Your WBS should be created in MS Project for the tasks listed below Submit your document to the instructor via […]

Resources: Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft®Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web that offer support for office products.  Scenario: Wilson Corporation (not real) has a targeted capital structure of 40% long term debt and 60% common stock. The debt is yielding 6% and the corporate tax rate is 35%. The common stock is trading at […]

(IRR, payback, and calculating a missing cash flow) Mode Publishing is considering a new printing facility that will involve a large initial outlay and then result in a series of positive cash flows for four years. The estimated cash flows associated with this project are:  If you know that the project has a regular payback of 2.5 years, what is the project’s internal rate of […]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the Research Guides and Tutorials under the Getting Research help tabs in the Ashford University Library. Prepare: Knowing how to thoroughly research a topic is extremely important while achieving your education. You may be asked to support your information with peer-reviewed scholarly resources, but how can you find this type of resource? The Ashford University Library allows you […]

 In this discussion question you have the opportunity to be creative and to relate what you have learned to your professional lives. Please explore and critically think about some of the learning objectives and concepts presented in this course. Please effectively communicate how you would lead an organization (or a group of people within the organization) by applying the knowledge you have learned ethically and […]

Instructions: As the office manager for Dr. Smith and Brown’s two offices, you are responsible for the developing the yearly budget. To identify the cost related to staffing, you are tasked with annualizing the staff for both offices. In addition, you must convert the employee’s net paid days worked to a factor. Section one consists of calculating the staffing for Dr. Smith and Browns’ two […]

   Case 5: Viagra in China Despite a huge potential market and strong  consumer demand for erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs in China, why has  Pfizer failed to generate blockbuster sales for Viagra? 2.  What are the major factors that have contributed to Pfizer’s ultimate success in securing its patent right for Viagra in China? 3.  What are the major factors that have  contributed Pfizer’s failure […]

You are editor-in-chief of the Times Leader, and in this role it is your responsibility to write the paper’s editorials. A strange thing has recently come to pass in Wilkes-Barre. The owners of Liberty Tax Service apparently concluded that advertising the firm through dancing men, preferably bearded dancing men, cross-dressed as the Statue of Liberty, just does not suffice. So, the owners supplemented this campaign […]

Carefully select two mixed funds of your own choice. The first should have a very high, positive performance record, the second a loss- making performance record. Then answer the following questions: Formalities: • Why have the funds performed so well/badly? Consider the following perspectives: o Political o Macro-Economic o Sector o Internal Factors and policies • Provide financial analysis, together with ratios, and risk and […]

 Activity 1 – CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3 In the book Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis, Robert T. Clemen presents an example in which he discusses the 1982 John Hinckley trial. In describing the case, Clemen says: In 1982 John Hinckley was on trial, accused of having attempted to kill President Reagan. During Hinckley’s trial, Dr. Daniel R. Weinberger told the […]