MARKOV’S ANALYSIS

1.      1.  Discuss each of the five items separately.

2.       2. Give each item a paragraph sub-title. For example, item #1 title will be as follows:

Provide a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager. All the five items should be titled the same way and discussed independently.

3.    3.    Read each item very carefully and watch out for the key words in the statements. For example, in item #2 it says “profile of the investor” which means your client’s investment strategy and risk tolerance.

4.      4.  Make sure you provide adequate in text source documentation following APA guidelines.

5.       5. Items #3 and #5 carry the highest points, 20% each so make sure you work on those thoroughly. Please refer to the grading rubric for detail grade distributions. Below you find the outline of the items. Please read the assignment sheet for more information.

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

1. Provide a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.
2. Determine the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Provide support for your rationale.
3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain 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 company 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 or material from the Strayer Library.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

1. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other 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.

Toss five coins and let x equal de number of tails.
What is p (x=1 or x=5)

QUESTION 1

         A company needs to truck a load of goods to another warehouse.  With standard shipping, it takes two days to deliver the goods.  If the company opts for express delivery by hiring an extra driver for $175, then the load can be driven around the clock so the delivery time is reduced to one day.  The shipment is valued at $1M, the company' s annual holding cost is 25%, and it is open for business every day of the year.   Determine the cost difference between the two options.  Express your answer rounded to the nearest dollar without the $ or commas.







Answer:

QUESTION 2

         A factory needs to produce 80 units per day.  It is open for business 8 hours per day.  Determine the required Takt time in minutes rounded to the nearest minute.







Answer:

4 points  

QUESTION 3

         Prior to a set of on-site vendor evaluations, your purchasing team determined what it wanted to see in an appropriate vendor and assigned weights to each factor as follows:

   After the evaluation visits, the team ranked the 4 vendor candidates as follows:

         Determine the numeric score for GoGo Incorporated to the nearest tenth (0.1 accuracy) and enter it in the box below.

   Answer:

5 points  

QUESTION 4

         The IT department at a local business determined that the computer server was not capable of handling the additional e-commerce traffic with the introduction of 2 new product lines. An eager junior IT staff (new graduate of a JC) suggested that the company acquire the top BL server product from IBM based on the following numbers:

         Initial installed cost: $35,000

         Annual operating cost: $2,500 per year

         Salvage value: $3,000

         Asset life (life of computer): 5 years

         Firm' s weighted average cost of capital (WACC): 10%

         The expected net cash inflow from this asset investment is expected to be $10,500 per year during the asset' s useful life of 5 years. Using the convention of “Cash In” as positive cash flow and “Cash Out” as negative cash flow, determine the net present value of this proposed asset investment to the nearest dollar. The CIO (Chief Information Officer) is very sensitive to the company' s P&L (profit and loss) position.

Consider a branching process as defined in Example 1.8, in which each family has exactly three children, but invert Galton and Watson’s original motivation and ignore male children. In this model a mother will have an average of 1.5 daughters. Compute the probability that a given woman’s descendents will die out.

You arrive at a movie theater only to notice that there’s only one person selling tickets. You watch for some time and realize that on average about 80% of the time there is no one in the line or being served. People are clearly arriving randomly but on average every 30 seconds.

The average service time in seconds is:

You arrive at a movie theater only to notice that there’s only one person selling tickets. You watch for some time and realize that on average about 80% of the time there is no one in the line or being served. People are clearly arriving randomly, but on average every 30 seconds. What is the utilization of the server?

The number of phases in a queuing process refers to:

GE 3202 –CRITICAL THINKING- SUMMER 2, 2018 Assignment 1 Name: Instructor: Dr. Hima Parameswaran Student ID: Total marks: 20 For each numbered passage, identify which lettered item best states the primary issue discussed in the passage. Also, point out why you think your choice is the correct one. 1. Let me tell you why Hank ought not to take that math course. First, it’s too hard, and he’ll probably flunk it. Second, he’s going to spend the whole term in a state of frustration. Third, he’ll probably get depressed and do poorly in all the rest of his courses. a. whether Hank ought to take the math course b. whether Hank would flunk the math course c. whether Hank will spend the whole term in a state of frustration d. whether Hank will get depressed and do poorly in all the rest of his courses. 2. It is clear that the mainstream media have lost interest in classical music. For example, the NBC network used to have its own classical orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini, but no such orchestra exists now. One newspaper, the no longer-existent Washington Star, used to have thirteen classical music reviewers; that’s more than twice as many as The New York Times has now. H.L. Mencken and other columnists used to devote considerable space to classical music; nowadays, you almost never see it mentioned in a major column. a. whether popular taste has turned away from classical music b. whether newspapers are employing fewer writers on classical music c. whether the mainstream media have lost interest in classical music 3. The defeat of the school voucher initiative was a bad thing for the country because now public schools won’t have any incentive to clean up their act. Furthermore, the defeat perpetuates the private-school-for-the-rich, public-school-for-the-poor syndrome. a. whether public schools now have any incentive to clean up their act b. whether the defeat of the school won’t have voucher initiative was bad for the country c. whether public schools now have any incentive to clean up their act and whether the private-school-for-the-rich, public-school-for-the-poor-syndrome will be perpetuated (issues are equally stressed) 4. Most people you find on university faculties are people who are interested in ideas. And the most interesting ideas are usually new ideas. Therefore, you are not going to find many conservatives on university faculties, because conservatives are not usually interested in new ideas. a. whether conservatives are interested in new ideas b. whether you’ll find many conservatives on university faculties c. whether people on university faculties are interested more in new ideas than in older ideas d. whether most people are correct.