Discuss Data Mining Methods that are appropriate for your project problem.

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Review the German Credit DataSet (Links to an external site.) (https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Statlog+(German+Credit+Data)) in the attachment. It has 1,000 observations. Train, test and validate a neural network with the first 980 observations and however many neurons in the hidden layer as you like.

Take a look at the data and remove a few attributes that you think do not help to determine the creditworthiness of a customer.

The last column is whether a customer is actually “good” or “bad” (i.e., their credit rating). See if you can improve the accuracy by changing various parameters, such as the number of neurons, and the number of layers. After you train, test your holdout 20 samples and report the results using the method below.

If your predictions are correct (good or bad) for each example, that counts as 0. If your prediction for a good customer is “bad” add 1 to your total. If your prediction for a bad customer is “good”, add 5 to your total. The lower the total the better your neural network.

What you need to do.
1) Partition the data into training (980 data points) and holdout (last 20 data points) datasets.

2) Get the evaluation score of the 20 holdout data.

Submission:

a) Detailed Project Report that follows the example of the academic paper “Combining Feature Selection and Neural Network for Solving Classification Problem”.

1) Summary of your project

2) Introduction of applying data mining on the business problem (in this case, consumer credit card)

3) Discuss Data Mining Methods that are appropriate for your project problem.

4) TechnICAL Description of the German Credit Data Mining Process.

You can choose any one of three data mining processes to describe your approaches. The following is based on the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM).

a) Business Understanding

b) Data Understanding

c) Data Preparation

d) Model Building Based on Neural Networks

e) Testing and Evaluations (show all your screen plots and performance results).

f) Deployment (potential concerns and issues when you apply your NN system to a real-life credit card company)

5) Description of Results and Analyze your experiment results and provide wisdom that you obtained from the project.

Briefly describe heavyweight product managers and lightweight product managers.

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Briefly describe heavyweight product managers and lightweight product managers. Address the following:
Compare and contrast these two types of managers, including their roles and authority.
What types of new product development lend themselves well to heavyweight product teams? List two products currently on the market that would benefit from heavyweight teams. Defend your choice for these products being developed by heavyweight product teams.
What types of new product development lend themselves well to lightweight product teams? List two products currently on the market that would benefit from lightweight teams. Defend your choice for these products being developed by lightweight product teams.
Requirements:
Write a four- to six-page paper.
Include a title and a reference page.
At least four to six scholarly, peer-reviewed references that provide information and guidance for your assignment.
Outside sources include academic and research other than the textbook, course materials, or other information provided as part of the course materials.

What are some risks that could create budget variances over the five-year period of your analysis?

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For Part 2 of this Assignment, you will describe your budget and analysis (This is the excel sheet attached by the writer that needs to be analyzed). To do this:
1) Create a brief (1- to 2-page) description of your budget and analysis. Your description should clearly describe the budget and address the following:
a. During the course of five years, is there an estimated surplus or deficit?
b. What percentages of the budget are dedicated to various categories you have defined, such as startup costs, etc.?
c. What are some risks that could create budget variances over the five-year period of your analysis? Are there any strategies that can help mitigate the risk of unfavorable variances?
d. What does this budget mean for your organization?

Create a low risk 10 share portfolio and a high risk 10 share portfolio based on Dataset 1

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XYZ an investment management company has given you the following share price data in the file “Datasets RP&IA 19-20.xlsx” (located under resource Datasets for midterm in Unit 3):
Dataset 1 consists of 5 years of daily share price data for all firms in the FTSE100
Dataset 2 consists of the next 5 years of daily share price data for all firms in the FTSE100
They have asked you to construct portfolios (detailed below) as part of an investment model building development programme:
From the data supplied, write a report on the exercise you have been asked to undertake. Your report must consist of two clearly marked sections that address the following tasks:
1. Create a low risk 10 share portfolio and a high risk 10 share portfolio based on Dataset 1
(50 marks)
• Assess the performance of your portfolios based on Dataset 2
(50 marks)
• Take the portfolio as an equal weighted combination of the shares in your portfolio
• It is the performance of your portfolio not the individual shares that matters.
• Relate your findings to the graphs, tables and theory as delivered in the lectures (use the slides). Do not try to find an “answer” on the internet, the exercise is designed to prevent that.
• You must fully explain your choice of shares, applying concepts and theories delivered in the module.
• You are not being assessed on whether or not your portfolios performed well but rather:
• the method by which you constructed the portfolios
• the presentation, clarity and understanding of the relationship to the module content that matters.
• Portfolios that have no clear rationale will receive a fail mark irrespective of their performance.

Why does the yield change through time but the coupon rate does not? (4 marks)

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3 | P a g eClients Financial Questions: (25 marks

•Your client considered investing in either debt securities or equity securities and would like to know what are the main characteristics that distinguish the return on debt securities from the return and on equity securities? (12 marks)

•Why does the yield change through time but the coupon rate does not? (4 marks)

•The total risk of an individual share comprises both systematic and unsystematic risk. Explain both of these risk components and describe how each is affected by increasing the number of shares in a portfolio. (5 marks) •Your client is unsure why are investors focused on market risk only when applying the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to price risky securities?

What are the techniques which can support or complement VCA?

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1.What are the techniques which can support or complement VCA?
2. please add a question to continue a discussion

Evaluate the companies’ financial performance over the past three years (2017 – 2019).

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Choose any 2 (TWO) companies listed in the construction sector of the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia. Evaluate the companies’ financial performance over the past three years (2017 – 2019).

The assignment should highlight the following aspects of the selected companies:

  • Introduction of the selected companies;
  • Calculation of relevant profitability ratios of the companies (2017-2019);
  • Calculation of relevant leverage ratios of the companies (2017-2019);
  • Comparison of the profitability and leverage ratios of the companies (2017-2019);
  • Evaluation of the companies’ financial performance from equity investors’ point of view (2017-2019);
  • Consideration of qualitative factors in evaluating the companies; and

[Total: 60 marks]

 

Notes:

  1. Provide reference using the American Psychological Association (APA) format, if any.
  2. Journal articles should be latest (year 2015 onwards), if any.
  3. You are required to attach the relevant financial statements of the companies in this assignment (in softcopy / website link).

 

 

Please select 2 (two) of the following listed company for this assignment:-

 

HOHUP (5169)

Public Limited Company listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia

Share market:

https://www.klsescreener.com/v2/stocks/view/5169/ho-hup-construction-company-bhd

 

Website: 

http://www.hohupgroup.com.my/

 

TRC (5054)

Public Limited Company listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia

Share market:

https://www.klsescreener.com/v2/stocks/view/5054/trc-synergy-berhad

 

Website: 

http://www.trc.com.my

 

GADANG (9261)

Public Limited Company listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia

Share market:

https://www.klsescreener.com/v2/stocks/view/9261/gadang-holdings-bhd

 

Website: 

http://www.gadang.com.my/

 

BREM (8761)

Public Limited Company listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia

Share market:

https://www.klsescreener.com/v2/stocks/view/8761/brem-holding-berhad

 

Website: 

http://www.bremholding.com/372_215_0/Web/WebPage/ABOUT-US/ABOUT-US.html

 

 

What changes in the investor’s circumstances cause the rebalancing of the investment portfolio? Explain why.

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What changes in the investor’s circumstances cause the rebalancing of the investment portfolio? Explain why.

Describe the profile of your company. In your discussion, you should include: nature of the business, industry and age of your company.

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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

You are required to use Microsoft Excel for all computations and Microsoft Word for the written submission. It is important that you start working on your assignment early and do not leave commencing this assignment until near the due date of assignment.

Important: Before conducting the assignment, you will need to select one company from the list of ASX companies.

The Assignment task involves three parts.

PART ONE: COMPANY BACKGROUND (4 MARKS)

You are required to discuss the background and setting for your selected company to be valued in the subsequent parts.

You should address the following issues using publicly available information:

1.1. Describe the profile of your company. In your discussion, you should include: nature of the business, industry and age of your company. (1 mark)

1.2. Provide an evaluation of the current state of the economy, business confidence levels and future outlook of the economy moving forward. (1 mark)

1.3. Identify the key business segments and how they contribute to profitability. (1 mark)

1.4. How is the company positioned in its industry? (1 mark)

PART TWO: CAPITAL STRUCTURE (8 MARKS)

2.1. Graph the company’s total liabilities to total assets ratio over the last 3-5 years, and provide trend and peer analyses. (3 marks

2.2. What do you think about the target capital structure of the company? Do you think it would be beneficial for the company if it raised more or less debts than its current debt level? (1 mark)

2.3. Estimate the company’s cost of capital. (4 marks)

In performing your estimation, you will need to clearly state and justify all assumptions made.

PART THREE: VALUATION (8 MARKS)

You are required to estimate the intrinsic value of a common stock of your selected company on the end date of the last available fiscal year using the Free Cash Flow to the Firm method.

You have access to large amounts of publicly available information about the company which you have selected. This publicly available information includes, but is not limited to, annual reports, information releases to the ASX, and publicly available analyst reports.

In performing your analysis, you will need to clearly state and justify all assumptions made. They might include the assumptions behind the financial forecasts, the length of the forecast period, the estimation of terminal value, etc. Failure to do this will result in a poor overall grade for this component of the assignment.

Within your analysis, you need to document and explain what you are doing at each step. Next, carry out some form of sensitivity analysis. As we know from our previous studies, there is no “correct” or “model” answer when it comes to valuing a company. It is imperative to perform sensitivity analysis to examine how sensitive your valuation is to key drivers of the company value.