Author: chris

• W4A1 Global Skills: Foreign Currency
Use the text book and any other source, as long as you cite it. You must use live relevant data from this past week for the answers to 1, 2, 4 and 8 and include the website used for the live financial exchange data in references
Part A)
1. What is the spot rate for the British pound (GBP) on Wednesday in terms of the U.S. dollar (USD)? Or, from the U.S. perspective, what is the direct quote on pounds?)
2. What is the spot price for the USD on Wednesday in terms of the Swiss franc (CHF)? (Or, from the U.S. perspective, what is the indirect rate on Swiss francs?)
3. Using your answers from #1 and #2 above, calculate the cross rate of exchange between the British pound (GBP) and the Swiss franc (CHF) (need to see your math).
4. Calculate the annualized forward premium or discount on six-month forward yen (need to see your math).
5. Based on your answer to #4 above, if you are planning to go to Japan in 6 months, should you buy your yen today? Why or why not?
6. According to the international Fisher Effect, if the real interest rate is 4%, if the US inflation rate is 5% and the Japanese inflation rate is 7%, then what is the nominal interest rate in the US? What is the nominal interest rate in Japan? Need to see math.
7. What is the expected difference between interest rates in the United States and Japan (do not need to see math, this can be answered in words and not numbers)?
8. Did the value of the Canadian dollar (CAD) rise or fall between Tuesday and Wednesday (hint – do not always view currency from a US perspective)?
Part B) Suppose the spot pound and the 90-day forward pound are both selling for $1.65, while the U.S. interest rates are 10 percent and British interest rates are 6 percent. Using the covered interest arbitrage theory, describe what will happen to the spot price of the pound, the 90-day forward price of the pound, interest rates in the United States, and interest rates in the U.K. when arbitrageurs enter this market.

Prepare a 10-minute presentation (10-15 slides, not including title or reference slide) on organizational culture and values.

1. Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.
2. Discuss how an individual can use effective communication techniques to overcome workplace challenges, encourage collaboration across groups, and promote effective problem solving.
3. Identify a specific instance from your own professional experience in which the values of the organization and the values of the individual nurses did or did not align. Describe the impact this had on nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

Solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines

Assignment 1: Financial Research Report

Due Week 9 and worth 300 points

Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Use the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)

The assignment covers the following topics:

• Rationale for choosing the company for which to invest
• Ratio analysis
• Stock price analysis
• Recommendations

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

1. Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating the significant economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this stock.
2. Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.
3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the selected financial ratios for the company; you may obtain this information from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
4. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the stock from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
5. Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles, material from the Strayer Learning Resource Center, and reviews by market analysts.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
• Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
• Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
• Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
• Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
• Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
• Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
• Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
• Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
• Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics

Assignment 1: Financial Research Report

Due Week 9 and worth 300 points

Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Use the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)

The assignment covers the following topics:

• Rationale for choosing the company for which to invest
• Ratio analysis
• Stock price analysis
• Recommendations

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

1. Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating the significant economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this stock.
2. Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.
3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the selected financial ratios for the company; you may obtain this information from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
4. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the stock from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
5. Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles, material from the Strayer Learning Resource Center, and reviews by market analysts.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
• Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
• Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
• Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
• Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
• Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
• Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
• Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
• Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
• Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics

Read the Forbes article, “Managing Capital Projects in a High-Risk World.” Based on the content presented in the article, describe some of the risk management techniques and tools available to a PM. Explain how you would apply them to assessing the risk involved with implementing a service or product improvement, or to the design of a new service or product.

Unit 1 Assignment Template:
Name: Heather Taylor
Course Number: BU224
Section Number: Microeconomics
Unit Number: 1
Date: February 2, 2016

———————————- General Instructions for all Assignments———————————–
1. Unless specified differently by your course instructor, save this assignment template to your computer with the following file naming format:
Course number_section number_LAST_FIRST_ unit number

2. At the top of the template, insert the appropriate information: Your Name, Course Number, Section Number and Date

3. Insert your answers below, or in the appropriate space provided for in the question. Your answers should follow the APA format with citations to your sources and, at the bottom of your last page, a list of references. Your answers should also be in Standard English with correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style (double spaced, in Times New Roman, 12-point, black font). Respond to questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions.

4. Provide a list of references at the end of the last page of your assignment.

5. Upload the completed assignment to the appropriate dropbox.

6. Any questions about the assignment, or format questions, should be directed to your course instructor.

——————————————- Career Competencies —————————————–

In this assignment, you will engage in developing the following career competencies:

Analyzing Quantitative Data
Analyzing Qualitative Data
Improving Global Awareness

——————————————- Assignment ——————————————-

1. Liza needs to buy a textbook for the next economics class. The price at the college bookstore is $65. One online site offers it for $55 and another site, for $57. All prices include sales tax. The accompanying table indicates the typical shipping and handling charges for the textbook ordered online.

Shipping method Delivery time Charge
Standard shipping 3–7 days $3.99
Second-day air 2 business days $8.98
Next-day air 1 business day $13.98

a. What is the opportunity cost of buying online instead of at the bookstore? Note that if you buy the book online, you must wait to get it.
b. Show all of the relevant choices for this student. What determines which of these options the student will choose?

2. In August 2007, a sharp downturn in the U.S. housing market reduced the income of many who worked in the home construction industry. A Wall Street Journal news article reported that Wal-Mart’s wire-transfer business was likely to suffer because many construction workers are Hispanics who regularly send part of their wages back to relatives in their home countries via Wal-Mart.

a. Which of the principles of economy-wide interaction best describes this situation?
b. Using this principle, describe the chain of links that best explains how reduced spending for U.S. home purchases is likely to affect the performance of the Mexican economy.
3. During the Great Depression, food was left to rot in the fields or fields that had once been actively cultivated were left fallow.
a. Which of the principles of economy-wide interaction best describes this situation?
b. Using this principle, describe the chain of links that best explains how the Great Depression caused food to rot in fields and other fields to lay fallow.

——————————————–
References:
Unit _1_ Practice Assignment Grading Rubric/ Instructor Worksheet

Content Percent Possible Points Possible
Full assignment 100% 40.00

Overall Writing: 20% 8.00
correct coversheet information at the top of 1st page 5% 2.00
APA format for answers 3% 1.20
correct citations 3% 1.20
standard English no errors 4% 1.60
At least ONE, or more, references 5% 2.00

Answers: provides complete information demonstrating analysis and critical thinking: 80% 32.00
Individual Questions:
1.a. – Identify the opportunity costs 20% 8.00
1. b. – Identify relevant choices and explain the decision process 20% 8.00
2.a. – Which principle describes US housing downturn affecting Mexican economy? 10% 4.00
2.b. – Describes steps between US housing downturn and changes in Mexican economy 10% 4.00
3.a. – Which principle describes Great Depression affecting farming? 10% 4.00
3. – Describe steps between the Great Depression and food rotting in fields. 10% 4.00

Substance Abuse Prevention Program

The Public Health Department is planning to develop an adolescent substance abuse prevention program.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the stages of research synthesis. Based on your research, respond to the following:

• Using meta-analysis, apply and explain the stages of research synthesis that you would propose to address adolescent substance abuse.
• Identify the best practices that will form the basis of service delivery.
• Analyze and explain whether evidence-based practice would prove to be the best choice for this program.
• Explain which steps should be followed when using evidence-based practice for this program. Provide at least two examples of evidence-based practice that can be referred to for the program.
• Analyze and explain which of the summative evaluation methods is the most effective in accessing a research program’s outcomes or effects. Describe the pros and cons of using each method.

Work should be supported with examples as well as  citing sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Prompt: You will expand the management plan to include an approach to quality assurance, marketing and promotion, search engine optimization, and analytics. For each of these items you should document the specific choices that will be made, what other options were considered, and how you will measure success.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: New sections should be added to the existing Website Management Plan that address the following issues:

• Quality Assurance: What approaches will be used to ensure that the site functions as expected at launch and in the future? How will the website be tested? What systems will be put in place to facilitate testing? What aspects of the site will be tested?
• Marketing and Promotion: What efforts will be taken to promote the website?
• SEO: What efforts will be made to optimize the site for search engines?
• Analytics: How will data be collected to gain insight into visitor interaction with website? Exactly what data points will be used?

Guidelines for Submission: The Milestone Four Testing and Deploying document should follow these formatting guidelines: five pages, double spaced, 12- point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins. APA citations should be used for all sources.