You are presenting to a CEO who is interested in encouraging a more innovative culture by improving the physical layout of where the employees work.  Provide your best recommendations for what the physical layout should be and be sure to back up your recommendations with research. Should include at least 4 scholarly articles.  Assignment should be 4-6 pages long.

GAINESBORO MACHINE TOOLS CORPORATION Synopsis and ObjectivesIn mid September 2005, Ashley Swenson, the chief financial officer (CFO) of a large computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) equipment manufacturer needed to decide whether to pay out dividends to the firm’s shareholders, or to repurchase stock. If Swenson chose to pay out dividends, she would have to also decide upon the magnitude of the payout. A subsidiary […]

 Watch this video and discuss what you think about what you post on social media. What impact both pro and con can social media have on your professional life? What are the dangers of posting too much information? What are the dangers of posting nothing?   Please respond to the questions in a discussion post of approximately 300 words. The discussion board is a three-step […]

Precision Manufacturing had the following operating results for 2010: sales = $38,900; cost of goods sold = $24,600; depreciation expense = $1,700; interest expense = $1,400; dividends paid = $1,000. At the beginning of the year, net fixed assets were $14,300, current assets were $8,700, and current liabilities were $6,600. At the end of the year, net fixed assets were $13,900, current assets were $9,200, […]

 Intro: “In Africa, malaria is the leading cause of death in young children. For the past decade, the Zambian National Ministry of Health and the National Malaria Control Centre have used data to fight malaria-saving thousands of lives. In 2014, PATH teamed up with the Tableau Foundation to launch Visualize No Malaria; a campaign focused on integrating new tools and systems for data use to […]

1.    Which of the following is NOT normally an objective of financial reporting?a.    To provide information about an entity’s assets and claims against those assetsb.    To provide information that is useful in assessing an entity’s sources and uses of cashc.    To provide information that is useful in lending and investing decisionsd.    To provide information about an entity’s liquidation value2.    As independent (or external) auditors, CPAs […]

** Please see attached file ** (excel spreadsheet and problem 9-33)  Complete the following problem sets from Chapter 7 in Microsoft® Excel®:   7-21 Compute Bond Price Compute the price of a 3.8 percent coupon bond with 15 years left to maturity and a market interest rate of 6.8 percent. (Assume interest payments are semiannual.) Is this a discount or premium bond? (LG7-4) 7-27 Yield to Maturity A 5.65 percent […]

 -1 Final Project Milestone Two: Stock Analysis and Portfolio Development52.63 / 100FOverall Feedback Donna,  Overall this was not well done and is missing all major calculations – presenting a table of information is not supporting work.  Readability is very challenging due to sentence structure at times, word choice, misuse of terms, etc. which all contribute to readability.  Also, references are from 2019?   Without showing the […]

Question Question 1 The variance of Stock A is .004, the variance of the market is .007 and the covariance between the two is .0026. What is the correlation coefficient? A. .9285 B. .8542 C. .5010 D. .4913 E. .3510 2 points Save Answer Question 2 Which one of the following is an example of systematic risk? A. the price of lumber declines sharply B. […]

Assignment 1: Spreading CAT Financials.  As the first step in truly understand the structure of a firm’s financial statements, you are asked to go to finance.yahoo.com and retrieve the 2014 annual report (10K) for Caterpillar Inc, ticker symbol “CAT”. Print out its income statement and balance and “spread” the information into an Excel template I provide. Some accounts are labeled differently from the original 10K, […]