Describe your Industry: Is it a growth industry? What long-term or short-term changes do you foresee in the industry? How will your company take advantage of it?

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An entrepreneur Start-up

Business Plan

A business plan is any simple plan, not only limited to the business start-up plan that helps the management to understand the current situation of the enterprises (strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats) and look forward into the future. A start-up plan is a business plan which consists of the mission, vision, objectives and action plans for the future of the new enterprises while the business plan drawn during the operation of the firm is vital for running the firm effectively, acquire new customers, partners, loans and so on. According to Fiore (2005), a business plan involves two dimensions; an organizing tool to simplify and clarify your business goals and strategy, the second one is a selling document that sells the business idea and shows that a product or a service can make a profit and attract funding and company resources.

Imagine you started a new business as an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia. Briefly mention the specific steps which you consider necessary to a successful business plan.

Please, think and share information on the following items:

  1. Owners, capital structure and company profile (3 Marks)
  2. Your Business Name, Address, E‐Mail
  3.  Form of ownership: What is the legal structure? Sole proprietor, Partnership, Corporation….
  4. Investment capital
  5. Company Business Description (300 – 400 words)
  6. Scope and type of business (5 Marks)

What business will you be in? What will you do? What market segment will you choose?

  • Business idea: what is your big idea? Is it a product or a service? What makes your idea different?
  • Mission Statement
  • Company’s short-term and long-term goals and objectives.
  • Target market and demographics: Who will your customers be? Where do they live? What is your target market passionate about?

 

  1. Business Philosophy (4 Marks)

What is important to you in your business?

  • Describe your Industry: Is it a growth industry? What long-term or short-term changes do you foresee in the industry? How will your company take advantage of it?
  • Describe your most important company strengths and core competencies: What factors will make the company succeed? What do you think your major competitive strengths will be? What background experience, skills, and strengths do you personally bring to this new venture?
  • Risk Assessment: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your business using SWOT.
  • Who is your competition and how do you beat them?
  1. Products and Services (3 Marks)
  2. Briefly discuss your products or services (Technical specification).
  3. Size of business: how many employees? How many offices and retail facilities?
  4. What factors will give you competitive advantages or disadvantages? Examples, include level of quality or unique or proprietary features.

Describe the three authentication types and provide an example of each. How might each method be defeated when used alone? How can the various types be used together to improve the protection of the system?

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CYS566 securing interprise infrastructure

Describe the three authentication types and provide an example of each. How might each method be defeated when used alone? How can the various types be used together to improve the protection of the system?

Provide an overview of UST’s business operations. In your presentation, feel free to provide visual detail of the type of products UST sells to its customers.

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Answer Questions

The CEO of UST would like you to prepare a three to four page case report discussing UST’s current financial situation and the implications of increasing leverage in UST’s capital structure. The firm is considering a $1 billion increase in long-term debt. Assume that the debt would be taken on immediately and held in perpetuity. The $1 billion would be used immediately to repurchase shares. Also assume that the top marginal tax rate is 38 percent. The following questions should be addressed when preparing the report for the CEO:

  1. 1) Provide an overview of UST’s business operations. In your presentation, feel free to provide visual detail of the type of products UST sells to its customers.
  2. 2) Compile a list of factors that a credit analyst or potential bondholder would take into account when evaluating UST’s proposed recapitalization. Discuss the important factors.
  3. 3) Why is UST considering a leveraged recapitalization after such a long history of conservative debt policy?
  4. 4) Comment on the past and future financial performance of UST. What is the stock market’s assessment of UST’s long-term growth rate?

a. Hint: use the growing perpetuity formula, 𝑃0 = 𝐷1⁄(𝐸𝑟𝐸 − 𝑔), and solve for 𝑔 to infer UST’s long-term growth rate. You will need to use the CAPM to find 𝐸𝑟𝐸. (You may want to do some online research of comparable tobacco companies to figure out the approximate beta you should use for the CAPM.) Assume that 𝐷1 = 𝐷0 × (1 + 𝑔).

  1. 5) Comment on the financial performance of UST relative to other tobacco companies.
  2. 6) Create three pro-forma income statements for fiscal year 1999 under each of the following assumptions: (1) the $1B in debt was not issued; (2) the $1B in debt was issued and is investment grade; (3) the $1B in debt was issued and is below investment grade. For the latter two cases, can UST afford to make the interest payments based on the respective pro-forma income statement?In answering this question, the CEO only wants a simplified pro-forma income statement that takes the following form:SALES
    EBIT
    INTEREST EXPENSE PRE-TAX NET INCOME TAX
    NET INCOME
  1. 7) Calculate the change in UST’s value due to the tax shield benefits of the additional debt. For this question, it would be useful to create a table containing the following information: value of the tax shield, value of the firm, value of the debt, value of the equity, number of shares repurchased, number of shares outstanding, and stock price. The table should cover the same three cases as Question 6. Assume that the $1B in debt is used to repurchase $1B in shares.
  2. 8) Comment on possible changes in value from the recapitalization due to other market frictions such as bankruptcy costs, information signaling, or other market frictions that you feel are applicable.
  3. 9) UST has paid uninterrupted dividends since 1912. Will the recapitalization hamper future dividend payments? Consider, in particular, the dividend paid per share in 1999, with the assumption that UST will try to maintain a constant dividend payout ratio.

The case report should be three to four pages in length (use the default spacing in Microsoft Word) with any useful tables or graphs attached. A one-paragraph executive summary should be included at the beginning of the report. The report should be presented in a professional manner and read as a cohesive document so that the CEO can easily understand your main points. If you need to make any assumptions, make them clear. Calculations should be relegated to an appendix. A report that consists of a mess of calculations and numbers or a series of random paragraphs pasted together would not be acceptable.

The case presentation should be about 20-30 minutes in length. Similar to the report, it should also be presented cohesively and in a professional manner so that the CEO can easily understand your main points. The presentation should be informative, concise, and should keep the listener engaged. The presenter should also be prepared to answer questions from the audience. A maximum of two people from your group should present your findings.

How does the environment (physical environment but also social environment suchas policies, societal norms, and thoughts) affect obtaining education? Provide at least three examples from the article.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Students will read the following article correlating to the week’s topic and write areaction paper following the prompts given by the Instructor.
Reaction paper should be 1-2 pages and follow American Psychological Association (APA) formatting with proper grammar and syntax.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192321

1. The article discusses that even in countries where there is a high number of academia achievement, the number of women matched to a job and economic returns is low. Why?
2. How do cultural norms (think globally) affect women in higher education and the workforce? Compare that to the United States.
3. How does the environment (physical environment but also social environment sucha s policies, societal norms, and thoughts) affect obtaining education? Provide at least three examples from the article.
4. Give at least three examples from the article of how family affects education.Final Exam- Due

Prepare a half to three-quarter page (single-spaced, typed) summary of pages 229-237 of Chapter 11 (Public Pensions) of the 5th Edition Rosen textbook. List important features of the Canadian public pension system. State some overall cost and performance statistics for it.

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Social Science Question

1. Prepare a half to three-quarter page (single-spaced, typed) summary of pages 229-237 of Chapter 11 (Public Pensions) of the 5th Edition Rosen textbook. List important features of the Canadian public pension system. State some overall cost and performance statistics for it.

2. Add a few (typed) personal questions / comments / opinions of your own related to the readings in a separate section.
The discussions will be centred on reform, dealing with existing problems in the public pension expenditure system by changing / adding / subtracting features. You might focus on issues you might bring up in the class discussion

State the main points of the article. Discuss how they are related to the local Saudi virtual management styles and procedures.

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Article summary ecom201

In this assignment you need to do the following: (Due by Week 3)

  1. Read the article and understand the key points
  1. Write a summary of the article (250-300 words)
    1. Use your own words. Do not copy and paste from the article.
    2. Your summary must be a stand-alone piece of work
    3. Be clear and up to the point.
    4. State the main points of the article.
    5. Discuss how they are related to the local Saudi virtual management styles and procedures.

Does the use of language games in vocabulary acquisition have positive impacts on teaching English as a foreign language?

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Using Games to Develop English Vocabulary: A Case Study of the Intermediate School Students in Najran

Introduction
Over the past centuries, there have been criticisms on the use of games to teach, and this was greatly based on the proposition that the nature of learning was very consequential. However, the importance of adopting the use of games in teaching was recognized in the seventeenth century. Agreeably, as an appropriate tool in the teaching and learning process, the use of games in learning languages has aroused interest among learners. Adopting the rhythm and sounds of foreign languages requires teachers to deploy effective use of games as they teach, specifically to beginners.
This quantitative study examines the differences between using games and traditional activities in English language vocabulary acquisition in the third grade of intermediate school students.

Literature Review
Various scholars have defined the word “game” in different ways depending on the context of the discussion. According to Ibrahim (2017), a game refers to any competitive activity played with the objective of winning by observing the principles that govern it. From this definition, competition and rules are some of the main factors that form the composition of language games. Notably, for the rules to be appropriate with regard to learners’ backgrounds, they must be precise, well defined, and modeled in a manner that will motivate the learners to achieve positive results. It is important to note that the confidence of learning any foreign language is more developed when games are adopted to teach and learn the language. Moreover, in the process of learning a foreign language, the learners always embrace the spirit of completion as a key element of a game.
The learning environment, language classroom, and related contexts beyond provide a range of incentives for effective knowledge acquisition to occur. Games and traditional teaching activities are the two major approaches to teaching a second language to learners (Eskildsen and Theodórsdóttir,(2017)). Games are interactive activities, based on social learning theories to improve the quality of learning and teaching outcomes. Through games, learners engage in activities that allow them to use the second language practically. Conversely, traditional teaching activities are passive and involve the novel setting of the classroom with teachers as the source of information and learners as the receipts (Eskildsen and Theodórsdóttir,(2017)).
The main purpose of competition among the learners is to make the learning process more interesting and entertaining. Arguably, keeping learners’ attention to be active for a longer time when learning a foreign language has always been a challenge (Hashemi(2021)). This is because they need to recall the new expressions and words they are interacting with for the first time. Furthermore, to create a better relationship with the foreign language to be learned, the teacher needs to incorporate the language game in the teaching process. This will enable the learners to repeatedly practice the part of the game desirable for them, thus, reinforcing the new vocabularies that are already learned. Similarly, teachers normally use games to teach a new language for various reasons.
According to Yaccob, Nur and Melor (2019), teachers incorporate the use of games in teaching other languages for two main reasons: the creation of a supportive learning environment and interaction among the learners. Also, the use of games in learning languages has helped develop linguistic and communication skills and improve learning motivation as learning anxiety decreases (Shukurova (2021)). However, little research is available to verify the effectiveness of the two methods of activities in vocabulary skills. The current study will help English language teachers to find out a better method in teaching English vocabulary and seeks to bridge the knowledge gap by examining and comparing the outcome of the two approaches on learners.

Research Questions
1. Does the use of language games in vocabulary acquisition have positive impacts on teaching English as a foreign language?
2. Do L2 learners show more interest in the use of games as learning activities than traditional activities?

Create a PowerPoint slide presentation that others could review to understand the key concepts of your topic. Provide in-depth commentary in the notes section of each PowerPoint slide that elaborates on the key concepts on the slide.

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 The Persuasion Tool Kit Assignment

This assignment requires you to prepare a resource that others could use to learn more about one strategy of persuasion that we have discussed in this class.

PowerPoint and Commentary

Create a PowerPoint slide presentation that others could review to understand the key concepts of your topic. Provide in-depth commentary in the notes section of each PowerPoint slide that elaborates on the key concepts on the slide. The research should expand beyond the material that has been reviewed in class and should be referenced.

 

Format:

Slide  
1. Cover slide: Topic and Name
2. Define the concept / Persuasive Strategy goal
3. Explain and Discuss relevant points the concept
4. Demonstrate how you have used the concept
5. Demonstrate situations where entrepreneurs could use this concept
6. Conclusion

The notes page on power point should elaborate on the slide content. See examples in the folder on how to reference your work.

 

Write a 2-page, double-spaced paper (500 to 575 words) in APA format focused on designing a network showing defense-in-depth concepts.

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Network Design

Write a 2-page, double-spaced paper (500 to 575 words) in APA format focused on designing a network showing defense-in-depth concepts. [MO2.2]

Instructions

  • Design a network showing defense-in-depth concepts using any tool you have to create a network diagram (Viseo, Paint, etc.). Consider visiting Network Diagram Examples for ideas.

The network should be a professional/work-place environment, not a home office.

  • Your design must include at least three devices.
  • Use commonly accepted images for network devices and ensure your network has servers, workstations, printers, routers/switches, Internet cloud and three security-specific devices (i.e., firewall, IDS, IPS, SIEM).
  • Optional components include WiFi components.

Note: Your submission must include the image you create of the network diagram embedded into a Word document. The Word document must also contain a written explanation of the network layout.

Examine the trend of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea in the last 20 years (2002 – 2022). Identify the immediate and remote causes of the proliferation of pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Trend of piracy along in the Gulf of Guinea between 2002 to 2022

1. Examine the trend of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea in the last 20 years (2002 – 2022).
2. Identify the immediate and remote causes of the proliferation of pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea.
3. The paper should also seek to establish the socio-economic effect of pirate activities on coastal communities of the study area.