Critically discuss how the use of creative accounting practices can affect asset-based, multiple earnings and discounted cash flow valuation techniques?

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International Financial Analysis Coursework

Coursework requirement
Read the following statement and answer the question:
“Valuing a potential target company is a key stage in the takeover process.” (Watson and Head, 2016*)
Critically discuss how the use of creative accounting practices can affect asset-based, multiple earnings and discounted cash flow valuation techniques?
* Watson, D. and Head, A. (2016), Corporate Finance Principles and Practice, Pearson, 7th edition.

General instructions to students

Present your coursework in an essay format.

Statements, assertions and ideas made in coursework should be supported by citing relevant sources. Sources cited in the text should be listed at the end of the assignment in a reference list. Any material that you read but do not cite in the report should go into a separate bibliography. All referencing should be in Westminster Harvard format.

Word limit is 2,000, excluding appendices and tables (if any).

Minimum number of References: 5

Submit your work electronicall

Why are there so few African Americans in executive business positions in America? and why should there be more African Americans in positions of power in businesses?

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African Americans in positions of power

Why are there so few African Americans in executive business positions in America? and why should there be more African Americans in positions of power in businesses?

Collect, analyze and synthesize commercial and economic data relevant to the evaluation of ideas for entrepreneurship and innovation in in the tourism, hospitality and events industries.

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Analysis of entrepreneur’s challenges in the future of hotel industry

Knowledge
1. Critically interpret theories of entrepreneurship and innovation and their relationship to the experience economy. (COI)

2. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation across a range of economic and business contexts in the tourism, hospitality and events industries. (COI) (IC)

3. Collect, analyze and synthesize commercial and economic data relevant to the evaluation of ideas for entrepreneurship and innovation in in the tourism, hospitality and events industries. (COI) (IC)

Subject-based practical skills

4. Analyze and evaluate strategies for entrepreneurship and innovation in the experience economy and/or destinations that contribute to inclusive and ethical business models (COI) (CI)

Skills for life and work (general skills)
5. To present a coherent analysis and critique of different theoretical viewpoints in a written format (COI) (DP)

Is the median occupancy rate approximately the same throughout the week? If not, which days have lower median occupancy rates? Which days have higher median occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?

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Week 6

Instructions: Work with the provided Excel database. This database has the following columns:

Lot Code: A unique code that identifies the parking lot
Lot Capacity: A number with the respective parking lot capacity
Lot Occupancy: A number with the current number of cars in the parking lot
Time Stamp: A day/time combination indicating the moment when occupancy was measured
Day: The day of the week corresponding to the Time Stamp
Insert a new column, Occupancy Rate, recording occupancy rate as a percentage with one decimal. For instance, if the current Lot Occupancy is 61 and Lot Capacity is 577, then the Occupancy Rate would be reported as 10.6 (or 10.6%).
Using the Occupancy Rate and Day columns, construct box plots for each day of the week. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Is the median occupancy rate approximately the same throughout the week? If not, which days have lower median occupancy rates? Which days have higher median occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?
Using the Occupancy Rate and Lot Code columns, construct box plots for each parking lot. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Do all parking lots experience approximately equal occupancy rates? Are some parking lots more frequented than others? Is this what you expected?
Select any 2 parking lots. For each one, prepare a scatter plot showing the occupancy rate against Time Stamp for the week 11/20/2016 –11/26/2016. Are occupancy rates time-dependent? If so, which times seem to experience the highest occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?

What is the overall fit r^2? What is the adjusted r^2? Which predictors are considered significant if we work with α=0.05? Which predictors can be eliminated? What is the final model if we only use FloorArea and Offices as predictors?

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Regression Modeling

Instructions:

The Excel file for this assignment contains a database with information about the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings in a city. The following is a list of the variables in the database:

Floor Area: square feet of floor space
Offices: number of offices in the building
Entrances: number of customer entrances
Age: age of the building (years)
Assessed Value: tax assessment value (thousands of dollars)

Use the data to construct a model that predicts the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings with specific characteristics.

Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Floor Area as the independent variable and Assessment Value as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?
Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Floor Area and Assessment Value. Is Floor Area a significant predictor of Assessment Value?
Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Age as the independent variable and Assessment Value as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?
Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Age and Assessment Value. Is Age a significant predictor of Assessment Value?

Construct a multiple regression model.

Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis with Assessment Value as the dependent variable and Floor Area, Offices, Entrances, and Age as independent variables. What is the overall fit r^2? What is the adjusted r^2?
Which predictors are considered significant if we work with α=0.05? Which predictors can be eliminated?
What is the final model if we only use Floor Area and Offices as predictors?
Suppose our final model is:
Assessed Value = 115.9 + 0.26 x Floor Area + 78.34 x Offices
What would be the assessed value of a medical office building with a floor area of 3500 sq. ft., 2 offices, that was built 15 years ago? Is this assessed value consistent with what appears in the database?

According to the article listed above, what were the most important strategic moves that propelled Netflix’s successful international expansion?

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Netflix’s successful international expansion

-“How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years” from Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2018/10/how-netflix-expanded-to-190-countries-in-7-years

Write a 525-word summary covering the following items:

According to the article listed above, what were the most important strategic moves that propelled Netflix’s successful international expansion?
The article mentions investments in big data and analytics as one of the elements accompanying the second phase of overseas expansion. Why was this investment important? What type of information did Netflix derive from the data collected?
According to the article, what is exponential globalization?
Not all international expansion strategies are a resounding success, however. Research an article or video that discusses an instance in which an American company’s expansion efforts in another country failed. According to the article/video you selected, what were the main reasons for this failure? Do you agree with this assessment?
Explain some of the reasons why certain companies’ expansion plans have failed in the past.

Explain what you will do at (initiation stage, team building options, and defend your choices, project administration, team location, the optimum Site organization and the communications method with all concerned stakeholders).

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Assignment

Question
You have been assigned by the Director of Project Management Dept. to run this project (B) from start to completion.
Explain what you will do at (initiation stage, team building options, and defend your choices, project administration, team location, the optimum Site organization and the communications method with all concerned stakeholders). (6.0 pts)
Explain your role at the course of the project and at the close out stage. (4.0 pts)

Evaluate your current skills and skills gap, setting appropriate short, interim and long term goals for their achievement. Research a role in relation to the current labour market analysis for those who have graduated with your degree.

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Research a role in relation to the current labour market analysis for those who have graduated with your degree

Assignment 1
1. Evaluate your current skills and skills gap, setting appropriate short, interim and long term goals for their achievement.
2. Research a role in relation to the current labour market analysis for those who have graduated with your degree.
3. Assess how your awareness of work has changed your knowledge of  HR practices.

Find the right data, visualize that data, explain it and analyze it. Focus on the opportunities and challenges. Write it as though one does not know much about Indigenous people or business in Canada.

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Opportunities and Challenges of Doing Business with First Nations People in Canada

Professor expects to write a 10-page research paper on this topic. He would like us to find the right data, visualize that data, explain it and analyze it. We must focus on the opportunities and challenges. Write it as though one does not know much about Indigenous people or business in Canada. Make sure the paper follows proper APA and research paper guidelines.

How can the multimedia course discussion questions be used to demonstrate your understanding of the interactional framework for analyzing leadership addressed in this course?

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OLead100 – Columbia Final Mission Paper

Add 5 more pages to the previous essay but add the following subjects to it to summarize the entire essay with it.
With this paper, you get the chance to review the multimedia case again from the perspective of the entire course and all the material read in the course. Use evidence from the material that you have read in Lessons 1-11 to address the above questions. So, the task here is to use the paper to relate the questions from the multimedia case to the topics that were covered in the course, such as leadership traits, leadership styles, strength-based leadership, leadership skills, power and influence, followership, teams and leadership, listening to out-group members, organizational culture and more. When you examine the multimedia case, can you see how some of these topics relate? What have you learned from these topics that are relevant to the multimedia case? Additional questions to address in the paper are:

⦁ How can the multimedia course discussion questions be used to demonstrate your understanding of the interactional framework for analyzing leadership addressed in this course?

⦁ Since in the case of large-scale failures in complex organizations multiple factors can contribute to the causes of failure, can you provide a comprehensive view of possible factors and solutions to the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster from what you have learned in Lesson 1-11?

You will need to provide strong logic and facts to support your ideas. The paper should be complete, reasonably free from errors, clearly organized, and well thought out. These questions should be addressed in a double-spaced paper of 5-8 pages in length.