Write an essay about a topic related to PC Security.

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PC Security Essay

1. Write an essay about a topic related to PC Security. Read this all through to the end once before you try it.

2. Do some research on the Internet (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) and find out some information about ONE security issue, security problem or crime relating to use of a computer on the Internet. There are literally hundreds of issues that can include hacking, theft of information, theft of money, personal attacks, or vulnerabilities overall. If it can get you “hurt” in some way, it counts. Get information about the problem so you can describe it in detail and offer strategies for what a user could do to protect themselves. Be sure you have at least 2 URLs with good web sources, and also get 2 images. You will discuss 1 image now, and later at the end of the course you will turn this essay into a presentation where you will use both images.

3. Write 400-500 words about your topic. It must be all original writing, no copying at all, and will provide the following:
* An introductory paragraph
* A middle, several paragraphs with explanation, description and detail so the reader has the basic idea of what the essay is all about.
* A concluding paragraph

4. Use the following formatting requirements and create a Microsoft Word document with the filename PC Security Essay
* Margins 1″
* Any font you like as long as it’s clear and readable, 10 point
* Title at the top, centered
* Your name under the title, centered
* Paragraphs single spaced, 1 blank line between paragraphs, no indent, left justified
* 1 image, relevant to the topic and explained in the text
* Footer with page number
* References cited at the end on a separate Works Cited page
* Spelling and grammar checked

Briefly identify the purpose of your report. Concisely summarize the results of your financial analysis of the company’s short- and long-term capital budget needs.

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PART 3: LONG-TERM WORKING CAPITAL CONSIDERATIONS

CAPM, STOCK VALUATION, AND PROJECT EVALUATION TOOLS (1–2 PAGES, PLUS CALCULATIONS IN EXCEL)

CAPM and Required Return: The company has a beta of 1.1, and the closest competitor has a beta of 0.30. The required return on an index fund that holds the entire stock market is 11%. The risk-free rate of interest is 4.5%. By how much does your company’s required return exceed your competitor’s required return?

Constant Growth Valuation: The company is expected to pay a $1.80 per share dividend at the end of the year (i.e., D1 = $1.80). The dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4% a year. The required rate of return on the stock, rs, is 10%. What is the stock’s current value per share?

Nonconstant Growth Valuation: The company recently paid a dividend, D0, of $2.75. It expects to have nonconstant growth of 18% for 2 years followed by a constant rate of 6% thereafter. The firm’s required return is 12%.

    • How far away is the horizon date?
    • What is the firm’s horizon, or continuing, value?
    • What is the firm’s intrinsic value today, P0?

Weighted Average Cost of Capital: The company has a target capital structure of 35% debt and 65% common equity, with no preferred stock. Its before-tax cost of debt is 8%, and its marginal tax rate is 40%. The current stock price is P0 = $22.00. The last dividend was D0 = $2.25, and it is expected to grow at a 5% constant rate. What is its cost of common equity and its WACC?

Capital Budgeting Criteria: The company has an 11% WACC and is considering two mutually exclusive investments (that cannot be repeated) with the following cash flows:

  • What is each project’s NPV?
  • What is each project’s IRR?
  • What is each project’s MIRR? (Hint: Consider Period 7 as the end of Project B’s life.)
  • From your answers to parts a, b, and c, which project would be selected? If the WACC was 18%, which project would be selected?
  • Construct NPV profiles for Projects A and B.
  • Calculate the crossover rate where the two projects’ NPVs are equal.
  • What is each project’s MIRR at a WACC of 18%?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (PAGE 1 OF YOUR REPORT)

Provide the company owner with a 1-page executive summary of your findings and recommendations. Address the following in your executive summary:

  • Briefly identify the purpose of your report.
  • Concisely summarize the results of your financial analysis of the company’s short- and long-term capital budget needs.
  • Synthesize your recommendations for how the company can raise money in the short-term and long-term to continue to add value to the organization.

Define organizational behavior (OB). How can learning OB help you in your daily life? What behavioral sciences contribute to our understanding of OB? Select one of these behavioral sciences and describe how it helps managers.

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Organizational Behavior

Answer the following questions in detail and provide examples whenever possible (delete the blank lines and replace with your answer):

1. Define organizational behavior (OB). How can learning OB help you in your daily life?

2. What behavioral sciences contribute to our understanding of OB? Select one of these behavioral sciences and describe how it helps managers.

3. Describe the two main levels of diversity. Give an example for each.

4. How can organizations effectively manage diversity?

5. Discuss whether diversity helps or hinders a group.

One day horizon is too restrictive. What is the 5-day 99% VaR? How about the 30-day (one month) 99% VaR? Compute these numbers using both methodologies enumerated in the previous question.

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Business Question

1. The file 433.Assignment 01.csv (available at Canvas) contains daily data on S&P500 index and the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund from 1987 to 2014. The Vanguard Bond fund is designed to provide broad exposure to U.S. investment-grade bonds. To be more specific, the fund invests about 30% in corporate bonds and 70% in U.S. government bonds of all maturities (short-, intermediate-, and long-term issues).

  • a. Compute daily volatilities of the S&P500 return and bond returns, using a “3-year rolling window’. (that is, for every t, compute those quantities from t — 3 years to t. Clearly, you need to begin in 1990.)
  • b. For the same time span, compute daily volatility of the S&P500 returns and bond returns using the RiskMetrics methodology.
  • c. Plot your results from La) and 1.b). Comment on your findings. How do estimates from RiskMetrics compare with those from using a rolling window?

2. Consider PM Jorgan’s Global Access portfolio with $3.5 billion AUM at the end of 2007. Say that today is December 31, 2007. Assume for simplicity for now that it is all invested in the S&P 500 index.
a. What was the 1 day 99% Value at Risk (VaR) on this portfolio? Compute VaR using both these methodologies:

  • i. Volatilities estimated using a 3-year rolling window (with equal weights for all obser-vations)
  • ii. Volatilities estimated using the RiskMetrics methodology

3. One day horizon is too restrictive. What is the 5-day 99% VaR? How about the 30-day (one month) 99% VaR? Compute these numbers using both methodologies enumerated in the previous question.

4. Repeat questions (2) and (3) assuming that $3.5 billion AUM of Global Access portfolio is 100% invested in bonds (Balanced Fund).

5. Let today be December 29, 2014. Assume now that $3.5 billion AUM of Global Access portfolio is 50% invested in stocks and 50% invested in bonds (the Vanguard Total Bond Fund). Will the 1-day 99%ile VaR of this portfolio be higher than a portfolio that is 100% invested in stocks? Will the VaR of the 50:50 portfolio be higher than a portfolio that is 100% invested in bonds? It is not necessary that you provide a quantitative answer; a qualitative answer would suffice. However, you should clearly articulate your rationale.

Which project do you think is riskier? How do you think you should incorporate differences in risk into the analysis? Based on the calculated payback period, net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR) for each project, which project looks better for New Balance shareholders? Why?

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CASE WRITE–UP 2

Instructions: Answer all questions below. Make sure to show your work. Your answers must be typed. (TOTAL = 100 POINTS)

Sneaker 2013 Questions

1. Should the following be included in Sneaker 2013’s capital budgeting cash flow projection? Why or why not?

  • a. Building a factory and purchase/installation of the equipment
  • b. Research and development costs
  • c. Cannibalization of other sneaker sales
  • d. Interest costs
  • e. Changes in current asset/current liabilities accounts
  • f. Taxes
  • g. Cost of goods sold
  • h. Advertising and promotion expenses
  • i. Depreciation charges

2. Produce a projected capital budgeting cash flow statement for the Sneaker 2013 project by answering the following questions:

  • a. What is the project’s initial (year 0) investment outlay?
  • b. What are the project’s annual (years 2013–2018) net operating cash flows?
  • c. What is the project’s terminal (2018) non–operating net cash flow?

3. Does Sneaker 2013 appear viable from a quantitative standpoint? To answer this question, estimate the project’s payback, net present value, and internal rate of return.

Persistence Questions

4. Which cash flows should be incorporated into the project’s forecast? Why or why not?

5. Produce a projected capital budgeting cash flow statement for the Persistence project by answering the following questions:

  • a. What is the project’s initial (year 0) investment outlay?
  • b. What are the project’s annual net operating cash flows?
  • c. What is the project’s terminal (2018) net cash flow?

6. Does Persistence appear attractive from a quantitative standpoint? To answer this question, estimate the project’s payback, net present value, and internal rate of return.

Additional Questions

7. Which project do you think is riskier? How do you think you should incorporate differences in risk into the analysis?

8. Based on the calculated payback period, net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR) for each project, which project looks better for New Balance shareholders? Why?

9. Should Rodriguez be more or less critical of cash flow forecasts for Persistence than of of cash flow forecasts for Sneaker 2013? Why?

10. What is your final recommendation to Rodriguez?

Define organizational behavior (OB). How can learning OB help you in your daily life? Provide specific examples and scenarios that highlight the importance of organizational behavior and its impact on your career.

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Organizational Behavior & Diversity in Organizations

Define organizational behavior (OB). How can learning OB help you in your daily life? Provide specific examples and scenarios that highlight the importance of organizational behavior and its impact on your career.

End your post with a question to your classmates.

Explain concept of SMART goals in the development of indicators for evaluating healthcare performance and guiding healthcare decision-making. How would you use them for healthcare improvement activities as a healthcare manager?

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Developing and Using Effective Indicators

Explain concept of SMART goals in the development of indicators for evaluating healthcare performance and guiding healthcare decision-making. How would you use them for healthcare improvement activities as a healthcare manager?

Your APA formatted assignment comprising 2-4 double-spaced pages, typed in 12 points Times New Roman (or 11 points Calibri) citing 2-3 credible sources excluding the Cover and Reference pages.

Some resources:

Although Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are invariably used in gauging healthcare performance, the concept is considered “dead” by some in the modern day of information technology usage that makes the desired information “click” away. Why is so? Are KPI still useful for guiding healthcare performance? And if so, how?

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Key Performance Indicators

Give your point of view of:

Although Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are invariably used in gauging healthcare performance, the concept is considered “dead” by some in the modern day of information technology usage that makes the desired information “click” away. Why is so? Are KPI still useful for guiding healthcare performance? And if so, how?

Your initial post should comprise a minimum of 250 words supported by at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed references.

Some resources:

Using the concepts and framework of strategic planning and management, perform an environmental analysis, assess strategic priorities, and develop appropriate strategies and an action plan for a healthcare organization.

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BUS540WK4 PART1

The Signature Assignment is designed as a final project capping off your learning and comprehension of the course.

Using the concepts and framework of strategic planning and management, you will perform an environmental analysis, assess strategic priorities, and develop appropriate strategies and an action plan for a healthcare organization.

Strategy is about making choices and evaluating trade-offs. Healthcare organizations operate in a very diverse environment, serving culturally diverse customers/patients and employing just as culturally diverse a workforce. What is “right” for one organization may not be right for another. Making the right choices and trade-offs is a challenge that healthcare administrators routinely have to undertake.

Based on the anticipated demand and revenue for years 6, 7, and 8, do you expect the Indy-Motors product family to exceed an annual revenue of $500M within the next three years? If yes, in which year? If not, why not?

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Operations Management Exam

SPM, Inc.
Background
Swiss Precision Motors, Inc. (SPM) is a globally recognized producer of miniaturized ultra–precision electric motors used in medical equipment, industrial machines, and other applications. A family–owned business, SPM was established in 1947 by Heinrich Rohrer in Basel, Switzerland. In 2018, Steffi Rohrer – Heinrich’s granddaughter – became the CEO of SPM. SPM’s product portfolio is composed of two major product families. While they offer multiple product models in each product family, these various models are all minor variations of a core model in each product family.
One product family is Indy–Motors, developed primarily for industrial applications that require high–precision movement and positioning, precise cutting, etc. The core model for the Indy–Motors product family is the Indy–1 platform.

Last year, SPM’s R&D group developed a new ultra–precision miniature motor for medical applications, primarily to serve the precision tools/robots used in robotic–surgery and other applications in medical equipment. This effort led to introduction of a new product family, named Med–Motors. The core model for Med–Motors product family is the Med–1 platform. SPM’s sales and marketing department has prepared a forecast of monthly demand for Med–Motors models for this year based on projected demand provided by their medical equipment manufacturing customers that had extremely favorable evaluation of the Med–Motors prototypes. All Med–Motors orders and deliveries will be handled by a SPM distribution center located in Germany. Every year, SPM holds a strategic business review and planning at the very end of December.

The focus of this review/planning process is to examine the business performance and trends for the current year (that has practically ended) and the prior four years. They also make plans for the year ahead based on the discussions on this review. The data that was reviewed in SPM’s most recently (end of last Dec.) is noted in the tables provided in the attached exhibits.

Questions
Prepare a forecast for the Indy–Motors demand and revenue, as outlined in questions A through C below. You forecast needs to address all three questions (A through C). Please refer to the attached Exhibits 1 and 2 for more data and information.

A. Select very suitable forecasting models for forecasting demand and revenue for the Indy– Motors product family. Specifically and thoroughly articulate the forecasting models you have selected AND articulate in detail the justification for selection/suitability of the model, i.e. what makes the models you have selected very suitable for use in this case.

B. Using the model you have selected in Part–A, provide clearly shown demand and revenue forecasts for Indy–Motors product family each of the four calendar quarters of year–6, as well whole year.

C. Based on the anticipated demand and revenue for years 6, 7, and 8, do you expect the Indy–Motors product family to exceed an annual revenue of $500M within the next three years? If yes, in which year? If not, why not?

SPM needs to choose a specific inventory model for the Med–Motors product family. Below are some specific data and information for Med–Motors. Please address all three questions (D through F) as a recommended inventory management plan for Med–Motors inventories for year 6.

• Monthly demand forecast for Med–Motors is provided in the attached Ehibit–3
• Med–Motors average selling price is $1700 per unit
• Assume backordering is not an option for Med–Motors
• SPM’s cost of build for Med–Motors is $700 per unit
• Delivery lead time for Med–Motors orders is 1 month (just assume 1 month, do not worry about whether a month is 28, 30, or 31 days)
• SPM incurs ordering costs of $150 each time an order is placed for Med–Motors
• Monthly inventory carrying costs for med–Motors are $15 per unit
• SPM wants to maintain a 96% service level with its Med–Motors customers

D. Choose an appropriate inventory model to recommend for managing Med–Motor inventories for year 6. Specifically, articulate what inventory model you have chosen AND why it is an appropriate model to use in this case. Show details of your work, i.e. describe the model/approach and show the equations, if any, that you use.

E. Determine the reorder point (ROP).

F. Determine the Total Annual Inventory costs for Med–Motors. Show details of your work, i.e. describe the approach and show the equations, if any, that you use.