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Consultant for Pristine Urban-Tech Zither, Inc.

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Part 1

Calculate the payback period, IRR, MIRR, NPV, and PI for the following two mutually exclusive projects. The required rate of return is 15% and the target payback is 4 years. Explain which project is preferable under each of the four capital budgeting methods mentioned above:

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Part 2

Study the following capital budgeting project and then provide explanations for the questions outlined below:

You have been hired as a consultant for Pristine Urban-Tech Zither, Inc. (PUTZ), manufacturers of fine zithers (stringed instruments). The market for zithers is growing quickly. The company bought some land three years ago for $2.1 million in anticipation of using it as a toxic waste dump site but has recently hired another company to handle all toxic materials. Based on a recent appraisal, the company believes it could sell the land for $2.3 million on an after-tax basis. In four years, the land could be sold for $2.4 million after taxes. The company also hired a marketing firm to analyze the zither market, at a cost of $125,000. An excerpt of the marketing report is as follows:

The zither industry will have a rapid expansion in the next four years. With the brand name recognition that PUTZ brings to bear, we feel that the company will be able to sell 3,600, 4,300, 5,200, and 3,900 units each year for the next four years, respectively. Again, capitalizing on the name recognition of PUTZ, we feel that a premium price of $750 can be charged for each zither. Because zithers appear to be a fad, we feel at the end of the four-year period, sales should be discontinued. PUTZ believes that fixed costs for the project will be $415,000 per year, and variable costs are 15% of sales. The equipment necessary for production will cost $3.5 million and will be depreciated according to a three-year MACRS schedule. At the end of the project, the equipment can be scrapped for $350,000. Networking capital of $125,000 will be required immediately. PUTZ has a 38% tax rate, and the required rate of return on the project is 13%.

Now provide detailed explanations for the following:

Explain how you determine the initial cash flows.
Discuss the notion of sunk costs and identify the sunk cost in this project.
Verify how you determine the annual operating cash flows.
Explain how you determine the terminal cash flows at the end of the project’s life.
Calculate the NPV and IRR of the project and decide if the project is acceptable.
If the company that is implementing this project is a publicly traded company, explain and justify how this project will impact the market price of the company’s stock.
Provide detailed and precise explanations and definitions. Comment on your findings and provide references for content when necessary. Explain everything in your own words.

Training Specialist hired by Universal Medical Supplies, Inc.

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You are a Training Specialist hired by Universal Medical Supplies, Inc. This organization has been experiencing low productivity and errors in communication in the workplace. As part of an ongoing professional development series, the Vice President of the Human Resources department has tasked you with creating Critical Thinking training materials. The materials will be presented in many forms and by various means to help improve productivity and communication in the organization.

For a short training presentation during a regional meeting, you have been asked to create a 3- to 5-minute video presentation illustrating the differences between deductive and inductive argument.

Instructions
Use PowerPoint and a video recording program such as Screencast-O-Matic to create a training video that is 3-5 minutes in length and includes the following elements:

Bullet points with brief text that outlines deductive reasoning.
Bullet points with brief text that outlines inductive reasoning.
Clip art or images to accompany your text. You may use characters, cartoons, drawing tools, or other technologies to be creative.
Narration related to the bullet points to explain:
The principles underlying both deductive and inductive reasoning.
Clear examples of both deductive and inductive reasoning in a workplace setting.
References to your sources at the end of the video.
To create a video, you may use a video recording program on your personal device or a free web-based video recording and editing application.

Training Specialist hired by Universal Medical Supplies, Inc.

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You are a Training Specialist hired by Universal Medical Supplies, Inc. This organization has been experiencing low productivity and errors in communication in the workplace. As part of an ongoing professional development series, the Vice President of the Human Resources department has tasked you with creating Critical Thinking training materials. The materials will be presented in many forms and by various means to help improve productivity and communication in the organization.

As part of the company’s training plan, they want to provide articles for the staff on the company’s intranet as required reading prior to other training activities. You will create one of those articles in the form of a blog post. It should provide an overview and give concrete examples of logical fallacies being used in the news and social media.

Instructions
Use online resources to create a blog post that illustrates how logical fallacies and audience manipulation appear in the news and social media. Social media may include sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others.

Your blog post should be a minimum of 5 paragraphs that includes the following elements:

An introduction to the topic of logical fallacies.
2 examples of audience manipulation in the news with a clickable link to the articles inserted in the blog post. Explain each fallacy example and how it is being used to manipulate the audience.
2 examples of audience manipulation in social media. Explain each fallacy example and how it is being used to manipulate the audience. The two examples can be from the same or different social media sites. Example: One from Facebook and one from Twitter. Insert a screenshot image of each social media post.
A summarizing paragraph.
References with links to your sources.

The Corporate Director for Universal Medical Supplies, Inc.

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You are the Corporate Director for Universal Medical Supplies, Inc. You have been asked to present at an upcoming business leadership conference. The presentation will cover Critical Thinking for Challenges in Communication in the Workplace, related to specific topics. The intended audience is business leaders in many different industries.

Instructions
Choose an element of or an issue related to one of the following specific workplace challenges: Conflict Resolution, Diversity Awareness, or Gender Issues. Create a slideshow presentation that includes concepts of critical thinking related to your chosen topic and include industry examples. Audio narration/voiceover must be incorporated that fully explains your ideas.

 

 

Tires for You, Inc.

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Tires for You. Inc. (TFY). founded in 1987. is an automotive repair shop specializing in replacement tires. Located in Altoona, Pennsylvania. TEY has grown successfully over the past few years because of the addition of a new general manager, Ian Overbaugh. Since tire replacement is a major portion of TFY’s business (it also performs oil changes, small mechanical repairs. etc.). Ian was surprised at the lack of forecasts for tire consumption for the company. His senior mechanic. Skip Grenoble. told him that they usually stocked for this year what they sold last year. He readily admitted that several times throughout the season stockouts occurred and customers had to go elsewhere for tires. Although many tire replacements were for defective or destroyed tires, most tires were installed on cars whose original tires had worn out. Most oftcn, four tires were installed at the same time. Ian was determined to get a better idea of how many tires to hold in stock during the various months of the year. Listed below is a summary of individual tire sales by month:
PERIOD TIRES USED
2018
October 9.797
November 11.134
December 10.687
2019
January 9.724
February 8.786
March 9254
April 10.691
May 9256
June 8.700
July 10.192
August 10.751
September 9.724
October 10.193
November 11.599
December 11.130
Ian has hired you to determine the best technique for forecasting TFY demand based on the given data.
CASE QUESTIONS
1. Calculate a forecast using a simple three-month moving average.
2. Calculate a forecast using a three-period weighted moving average. Use weights of 0.60, 0.30, and 0.10 for the most recent period, the second most recent period, and the third most recent period, respectively.
3. Calculate a forecast using the exponential smoothing method. Assume the forecast for period 1 is 9,500. Use alpha = 0.40.
4. Once you have calculated the forecasts based on the above data, determine the error terms by comparing them to the actual sales for 2020 given below:
PERIOD TIRES USED
2020
January 10,696
February 9.665
March 10,179
April 11,760
May 9,150
June 9,571
July 8.375
August 11,826
September 10,696
October 11,212
November 9,750
December 9,380
5. Based on the three methods used to calculate a forecast for TFY, which method produced the best forecast? Why? What measures of forecast error did you use? How could you improve upon this forecast?

 

 

Metropolitan Research, Inc.

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There are five (5) parts to completing your managerial report worth ten (10) points each. You will be using Excel’s functions to summarize and compute your sample statistics. Your written report must be done in Word about 2-3 pages in length. This assignment tests your knowledge on how Ito compute and interpret the sample mean, variance, standard deviation, interval estimate of a population mean and other methods you’ve learned on how to organize and interpret your data. You must submit both your results in Excel and written report in Word

 

Metropolitan Research, Inc. a consumer research organization, conducts surveys designed to evaluate a wide variety of products and services available to consumers. In one particular study, Metropolitan looked at consumer satisfaction with the performance of automobiles produced by a major Detroit manufacturer. A questionnaire sent to owners of one of the manufacturer’s full-sized cars revealed several complaints about early transmission problems. To learn more about the transmission failures. Metropolitan used a sample of actual transmission repairs provided by a transmission repair firm in the Detroit area. The following data show the actual number of miles driven for 50 vehicles at the time of transmission failure.

85.092 32.609 59.465 77.437 32.534 64,090 32.464 59.902

39.323 89.641 94.219 116,803 92,857 63.436 65.605 85,861

64,342 61.978 67 998 59.817 101,769 95,774 121.352 69,568

74,276 66.998 40,001 72.069 25.066 77.098 69,922 35.662

74.425 67.202 118.444 53,500 79,294 64,544 86,813 116,269

37.831 89.341 73.341 85.288 138,114 53,402 85.586 82.256

77.539 88.798

 

 

1. Use appropriate descriptive statistics to summarize the transmission failure data.

2. Develop a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of miles driven until transmission failure for the population of automobiles with transmission failure. Provide a managerial interpretation of the interval estimate.

3. Discuss the implication of vour statistical findings in terms of the belief that some owners of the automobiles experienced early transmission failures

4. How many repair records should be sampled if the research firm wants the population mean number of miles driven until transmission failure to be estimated with a margin of error of 5000 miles? Use 95% confidence.

5. What other information would you like to gather to evaluate the transmission failure problem more fully?

 

Walmart Stores, Inc.

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Walmart Stores, Inc., with its first discount department store in 1962, currently operates retail stores in various formats around the world and is committed to saving people money so they can live better. Currently, the company’s operations comprise three reportable business segments: the Walmart U.S. segment, the Walmart International segment, and the Sam’s Club segment. Target Corporation was incorporated in Minnesota in 1902. The company operates as three reportable segments: U.S. Retail, U.S. Credit Card, and Canadian.

Write a minimum 2-page report answering the following:

Discuss why Walmart has been growing more rapidly than Target over the last decade. Do you see this trend continuing? Explain your rationale.

 

 

Walmart Stores, Inc.

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Walmart Stores, Inc., with its first discount department store in 1962, currently operates retail stores in various formats around the world and is committed to saving people money so they can live better. Currently, the company’s operations comprise three reportable business segments: the Walmart U.S. segment, the Walmart International segment, and the Sam’s Club segment. Target Corporation was incorporated in Minnesota in 1902. The company operates as three reportable segments: U.S. Retail, U.S. Credit Card, and Canadian.

Write a minimum 2-page report answering the following:

Discuss why Walmart has been growing more rapidly than Target over the last decade. Do you see this trend continuing? Explain your rationale.

 

 

Plague, Inc

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Download the game Plague, Inc. from the Apple App Store (iPhone, iPod, iPad), the Google Play Store (Android), or the Amazon App Store (Android).
Alternatively, you can choose to download and play Infection Bio War, which is similar to Plague, Inc. and which is also available for iOS and Android devices.
If you do not have a compatible mobile device, you can go to Pandemic 2 – Plague Inc Hacked (http://www.hackedonlinegames.com/game/428/pandemic-2-plague-inc) and play a computer version that is very similar to the mobile game.
Play the game! Your goal is to infect the world and destroy humanity. The game offers three levels, but you should play Normal (or Realistic in Pandemic 2) to have the best experience. Play the game once or twice to get a sense of strategy and gauge how well you can spread your pathogen.
Next, play the game again and keep specific notes about your experience including the strategies that you use to successfully spread the pathogen in terms of infectivity, severity, and lethality.
Based on your experience with the game, and your learning to this point in the course, consider the following (given that your typical role in healthcare would be to combat the spread of a pathogen). Write a two- to three-page paper:
What insights did you glean from playing the role of the pathogen in the game?
Characterize the strategies that you used to spread the pathogen. Which were most successful?
Discuss the extent to which the events in the game mimic a real-world epidemic.
Provide two examples of actual diseases that spread beyond the borders of a single country. Describe the success of efforts to contain the diseases.