What tools are used by the Federal Reserve to implement monetary policy?

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The United States Congress established three key objectives for monetary policy in the Federal Reserve Act: Maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates. The Federal Reserve is responsible for developing the appropriate strategy and implementing specific actions to meet these goals. In this assignment, write a paper in response to the following questions:

What tools are used by the Federal Reserve to implement monetary policy?
Why does the Federal Reserve rarely use the discount rate to implement its monetary policy?
Which tool is most often used by the Federal Reserve? Why?

Name 3 processes that could be used by a manager to monitor actual expenditure and control costs

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Answer the questions in the spaces provided.

  1. Name 3 processes that could be used by a manager to monitor actual expenditure and control costs
  2. To ensure the budget objectives are met, when should monitoring and control activities occur?
  3. What is a fixed cost, and how does it differentiate from a variable cost? Provide an example to illustrate your response. State why this is useful for a manager to understand in controlling costs.
  4. Confirm the role that electronic spreadsheets play in managing an organisation’s budgets and financial plans. Your response should be 50-100 words.
  5. Explain how the data for the actual results would have been collected and collated. As an example, choose one expense in particular and provide details. Your response should be 50-150 words.

 

 

 

 

Conduct a cash flow analysis for each alternative and provide recommendations to Cape Chemical.

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Case Summary:

This case is primarily a capital budgeting expansion project for the company, Cape Chemical, which has done very well in the past in terms of sales and profits growth, and now needs to expand. Furthermore, the sudden withdrawal of one key competitor from the region has opened the opportunity for Cape Chemical to increase its market share. Unfortunately, the company was already operating at its maximum. So, the company needs to expand its work force and storage capacity and acquire more equipment. However, the company has no set process for capital expenditure evaluation in place. The company is unsure whether it should buy used or new equipment. Although the used equipment costs significantly less, it has an economic life of just three years, while the new equipment will last seven years.

Your task is to conduct a cash flow analysis for each alternative and provide recommendations to Cape Chemical. This case study has two sections; the first part looks at the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), and the second extends to capital budgeting. For this week, you are required to answer only questions 1-3.

Your well-written draft should answer questions 1-3 and meet the following requirements:

-Be provided in one document in Word or a similar word processing program
-Provide at least one paragraph of supporting explanation in response to each
question
-Provide an Excel spreadsheet with solutions to each question on a separate
worksheet; formulas in the spreadsheet must be linked; each worksheet
should be clearly labeled (e.g. “Question #1,” “Question #2,” etc.); and each
spreadsheet should be embedded in the Word document

Given their historical nature, financial accounts are less important than management accounts in supporting financial decision making. Do you agree?

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Given their historical nature, financial accounts are less important than management accounts in supporting financial decision making. Do you agree?

Maximising profit is the only performance criteria needed by a profit-seeking organisation. Do you agree?

As a manager propose an approach to help your organisation bounce back from crisis (covid19)

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As a manager propose an approach to help your organisation bounce back from crisis (covid19)

Write a financial Benchmark Report for McDonald(MCD) company itself , and benchmarking report against its competitor Wendy’s(WEN).

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Write a financial Benchmark Report for McDonald(MCD) company itself , and benchmarking report against its competitor Wendy’s(WEN).
Horizontal Financial analysis based on the report

How is the assigned work related to concepts, ideas and concerns discussed in the module?

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Coursework 1 (40%) – Reaction paper (1500 words):

A reaction paper (also referred to as a response or reflection paper) aims to encourage your engagement with a reading material (journal article or book chapter), a relevant documentary film, or any other relevant learning material (to be discussed and agreed with the module leader). In such a paper you are expected to briefly summarise the material and detail your reaction to it. The following pages explain both parts of a report.

The reaction paper should contain two sections:

Part 1: Summary of the material (article, chapter, report, documentary film)

Give full details of the chosen material, and why it is chosen by the author
Write an informative summary of the material.
Condense the content of the work by highlighting its main points and key supporting points.
Use direct quotations from the work to illustrate important ideas.
Do not discuss in great detail any single aspect of the work, and do not neglect to mention other equally important points.
Also, keep the summary objective and factual. Do not include in the first part of the paper your personal reaction to the work; your subjective impression will form the basis of the second part of your paper.
Part 2: Your reaction to the work

In this section you need to critically reflect on various aspects of the chosen material:
How is the assigned work related to concepts, ideas and concerns discussed in the module?
How is the work related to problems in our present-day world?
How is the material related to your life, experiences, feelings and ideas?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the work? (here you can refer to other academic pieces you may have read on the topic, in order to show that you can position the work within the broader discourse on the topic)
Evaluate the merit of the work: the importance of its points, its accuracy, completeness, organization, and so on.
Did the work increase your understanding of a particular issue? Did it change your perspective in any way?

Describe how Walmart needs to manage foreign exchange risk.

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The Walmart International Expansion Recommendation

• Review the Walmart Case Study interactive below.
• Review the current financial statements of Walmart.
o Option 1: Yahoo! Finance (Links to an external site.) web page
 Enter the stock symbol of Walmart, Inc. (WMT) in the search bar
 Click on the “Financials” tab
o Option 2: EDGAR | Company Filings (Links to an external site.) database
 Enter “Walmart Inc.” in the search bar
In prior weeks, you learned about finance and financial analysis. This week you will put it all together. Using the Walmart Case Study expansion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), you will complete a comprehensive recommendation to Walmart executives either recommending or forgoing expansion into your selected country.
In your paper,
• Summarize the culture and financial climate of the country and why it would be favorable or unfavorable for Walmart to expand in that region.
• Describe your country’s foreign exchange rates and how those rates could impact Walmart’s future financial performance. Be sure to address:
o interest rates,
o balance of payments,
o government policies, and
o other factors such as taxes and tariffs.
• Describe how Walmart needs to manage foreign exchange risk.
• Analyze any potential political risk and its impact on the financials.
• Propose how Walmart should fund this new expansion.

What are some challenges you anticipate in computing the WACC?

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As a manager, what are some challenges you anticipate in computing the WACC? Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Using an inaccurate WACC could totally offset the capital budgeting decision. Fully explain and support your discussion.

Have you had any personal experience with exchange rates when you travel? What were they? What did you learn?

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One page on each

1) Research the Big Mac Index (see link: Which countries have undervalued and overvalued currencies? Where will the U.S. dollar get you the most value?

2) Have you had any personal experience with exchange rates when you travel? What were they? What did you learn?

3) Oil prices are mentioned a few times in the article. Research the economic impact of falling oil prices (see link: . What might that mean for the world economy?