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What is your opinion of the manner in which Anna Håkansson prepared for her business trip? Could she have done a better job here? If so, how?

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Assignment instructions (Part 1 & 2)

Part 1: Create an assignment outline/plan

  1. Study the assignment very well. Go through the tutor instructions within the below URL. It is about 19 minutes only but are important to guide you through how you need to write the assignment. Kindly, takes notes and assure you cover the whole aspect of the video below.

https://kaplanopenlearning.zoom.us/rec/play/vZcoJO-tqDo3S4KT5QSDAqJ4W47rfPms23QY__YOnkq8UyIKMQKnNboUarZXXybsrNc9E6GmPqOP5VmL?autoplay=true&continueMode=true&startTime=1581451393000

  1. Write an outline / plan NOT a draft. Basically, all I need is head-titles and “maybe” 1 sentence below describing what you’re plan to cover in each head titles. Some head titles will need no further explanations. Please make it short, as a “plan” of how you are outlining/organizing your assignment. Do not write a lot or create draft as the tutor will refuse to give suggestions.
  2. After I receive the outline, I’ll share it with my tutor whom will provide notes, suggestions, comments etc.. Wait until I share with you the tutor comments on your outline, you can then continue and start the actual assignment. (Usually it takes tutor 48 to reply).

Part 2: Writing the Assignment.

  1. Review the outline comment shared from tutor and edit accordingly.
  2. Review the above detailed instruction within the URL.
  3. 2900 words. Stick with word count.
  4. Plarigism free. Out university provide us with Turtirn detector to submit assignment before submission. Order must be zero palarigized.
  5. 28 References (only reliable sources)
  6. Only Harvard formatting for referencing (Guide attached).
    • URL and access dates are required within Harvard referencing.
  1. Unit readings are attached FYI. You might use it as references as well.
Assignment

Anna Håkansson, a Swedish investment banker from Stockholm, was introduced in Chapter 3 (see pages 72-74) as she was preparing for a business trip to Bahrain. In preparation for this trip, Anna was trying to learn as much as possible about her prospective partner prior to departure. To accomplish this, she first talked to colleagues who had some experience there.

Next, she ran a Google search and uncovered a number of recent articles in various respected sources that helped her to understand what to expect. Based on what she learned, she next attempted to find a way to organise everything into a user-friendly format. She looked for a cultural model she could use to make some comparisons between Swedish and Arab societies to solidify what she had learned. She chose a model developed by Dutch management researcher Geert Hofstede. He views culture as the “software of the mind” that differentiates one group or society from another. In other words, while people all have the same hardware, their brains and patterns of thinking and behaving can be very different (see text and Appendix).

Finally, Anna Håkansson believed she had a concrete comparative framework on which to compare some of the basic differences between the two countries.

Based on what she had learned, Anna Håkansson believed she was now prepared for her upcoming meeting in Bahrain.

Assignment

  1. What is your opinion of the manner in which Anna Håkansson prepared for her business trip? Could she have done a better job here? If so, how?
  2. Using the materials from Chapter 3 and the text Appendix concerning Hofstede’s cultural model, how would you describe the cultural environments in both Sweden and Bahrain?
  3. Would Anna’s conclusions concerning mainstream Swedish and Bahraini cultures differ if you used the core cultural dimensions (see pages 80-85) instead of Hofstede’s framework?
  4. What can Håkansson do to minimise the creation of stereotypes about the people she will meet at Gulf One?
  5. Based on what you have learned, identify some of the cultural complexities and contradictions facing Håkansson as she tries to understand the culture of her counterparts in Bahrain.
  6. Based on what Anna Håkansson has already done to prepare for her upcoming visit, what are the next steps, if any, that you would recommend she take to continue developing her knowledge of business culture in the Middle East?

 

 

Discuss how companies have responded to these challenges/concerns and summarize their performances in China.

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Then conduct some research on Phase One deal and write a 3-5 page paper (double space, 12 font) to answer the following questions:

1. Summarize the main challenges and concerns US companies encountered in China during 2018.

2. Discuss how companies have responded to these challenges/concerns and summarize their performances in China.

3. Analyze whether Phase One deal will address these challenges and concerns.

4. Summarize American companies’ outlooks of doing business in China in these surveys.

5. Will US firms have more or less business opportunities in China after the Phase one deal? Please elaborate

Collect and evaluate the data about stock prices of the assigned company for the last one year for the company and its major competitor.

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FINC 330 Project Description

Research Project Part 2

Due at the end of week 7

This project is closely aligned with the Course Outcomes and Finance Program Objectives.  Completion of this project can be used as part of a portfolio to show potential employers the student is skilled at performing company valuations and financial statement analysis and can be included on the student’s resume.

Bond and Stock Performance Analysis

OBJECTIVE

In this part of the project you are to assume to have been hired to join a team serving as an internal financial analyst to THE COMPANY. Your client plans to invest in bonds and (or) stocks issued by THE COMPANY (NIKE). In part 6 of the assignment you are asked to provide some recommendations to THE COMPANY’S management.

THE COMPANY (NIKE)for part 2 of the project can be the company that you were using for the Research Project Part 1, NIKE. THE COMPANY for this part of the project must have bonds listed on the website http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp. To find the information on bonds, click on Search in the middle of the screen (under Market Center Bond Guide), under Quick Search type the Issuer Name and the Symbol, and click SHOW RESULTS.

SUGGESTED WEBSITES

www.morningstar.com – To find the information for your company you need to type the stock symbol in the Quotes window to get into the company’s page.

http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp – To find the information on bonds, click on Search in the middle of the screen (under Market Center Bond Guide), under Quick Search type the Issuer Name and the Symbol, and click SHOW RESULTS.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds. To find the information on bonds, scroll down the page, type the name of the company in the window under Bond Finder, and click SEARCH.

www.marketwatch.com  -To find the information for your company you need to type the stock symbol in the Search window to get into the company’s page.

www.money.cnn.com  -To find the information for your company you need to type the stock symbol in the Search window to get into the company’s page.

www.finance.yahoo.com – To find the information for your company you need to type the stock symbol in the Search window to get into the company’s page.

www.nyse.com – Click on Data, then click on Stocks (under Quotes), and type the name of the company or the stock symbol in the window “Keyword or symbol” to get into the company’s page.

www.nasdaq.com – To find the information for your company you need to type the stock symbol in the Search window to get into the company’s page.

Company’s websites (NIKE)

 

YOUR SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT

Using the information from the websites the student will develop evaluation of bond and stock performance for THE COMPANY (NIKE). (The evaluation portion will total 85% of the assignment grade)

-1—Background and Industry (one short paragraph).

-2- The financial leverage ratios (10% of the project grade)

  1. a) Find the financial leverage ratios for NIKE for the last 3-5 years in the Internet. Present these ratios as the table(s) in your project.

You can find these ratios in the Internet or calculate them. If you use published ratios you must indicate that and cite their source.

  • Debt-to-assets ratio (Debt ratio)
  • Debt-to Equity ratio
  • Interest Coverage ratio (the Times Interest Earned)
  1. b) Write (about) 1 page of the analysis of the ratio results. In your analysis you should answer the following questions. Please explain your answer to each question.

How is NIKE’s financing its assets?
Discuss how much risk is associated with the bonds issued by the company?
How can this risk be measured? Please explain.

-3- Collect and evaluate the data about bond performance of NIKE.
(15% of the project grade).

The information on bonds can be found on the website http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp. To find the information on bonds, click on Search in the middle of the screen (under Market Center Bond Guide), under Quick Search type the Issuer Name and the Symbol, and click SHOW RESULTS.

Another useful website on bond information is https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds. To find the information on bonds, scroll down the page, type the name of the company in the window under Bond Finder, and click SEARCH.

 Copy the quotations of two bonds issued by NIKE that contain the Price. Present these quotations in your project.

  1. Assume that par value of the bond is $1,000. What were the last prices of the bonds in $$$ (listed in the Price column)? Show your work in your project.
  2. Assume that par value of the bond is $1,000. Calculate the annual coupon interest payments. Show your work in your project.
  3. Assume that par value of the bond is $1,000. Calculate the current yield of the bonds. Show your work in your project.
  1. Write a 1 page of the analysis of the In your analysis you should answer the following questions. Please explain your answer to each question.
    1. How much is the YTM listed in quotations is for the bonds? Explain the meaning of YTM.
    2. If you are going to buy a bond issued by NIKE, which bond would you choose? Why?
    3. Are these bonds callable? If the bonds that you chose are callable (non-callable), will it change your decision to buy them?
    4. If you are an investor who is looking for a bond to invest in, are you going to buy a bond that you chose? Take a look at the balance sheet and income statement of the company. What data or ratios support your decision to buy this bond or not? You may want to incorporate the results of the Research Project Part 1, as well as the results of the financial leverage ratios to answer this question. You should develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale to explain your answer.

 

-4- Collect and evaluate the data about stock performance of the assigned company for the last one year. (totally 35% of the project grade).

1) Find the market ratios for the company for the last 1-3 years and its major competitor for the last year in the Internet. (10% of the project grade)

  • Price/Earnings ratio
  • Market/Book ratio (also called (Price/Book ratio)
  • Earnings per share
  • Dividends per share
  • Other market ratios on your choice

These ratios are available on www.morningstar.com > Company’s page – under Valuation, Financials, and under Dividends.

You can find these ratios in the Internet or calculate them. If you use published ratios you must indicate that and cite their source.

  1. Present the market ratios as the table(s) in your project.
  2. Write about 1 page of analysis of the market ratio results that you found. Compare the market ratio results against the industry or main competitor. In your report please answer the question: Are the common stockholders receiving an adequate return on their investment?
  1. Compare the P/E ratio of your company with the industry average or 5-year average. Is the stock overvalued, undervalued, or properly valued? Why?  In accordance with your findings, is it reasonable to buy the stock? Please explain your answers.

-2) Analysis of the historical stock prices trend for the last year. (10% of the project grade)

  1. Collect and evaluate the data about stock prices of the assigned company for the last one year for the company and its major competitor.
  2. Create the chart(s) using the stock price chart tools on the websites or Excel. Present the chart(s) in your project.
  3. Write about 0.5 page of analysis the historic stock prices trend for the last year.

3) Apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Security Market Line to estimate the required return on NIKE stock. Note that you will need the risk-free rate and the market return. Show this information in your project. (15% of the project grade)

  1. Apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Security Market Line to estimate the required return on stock. Note that you will need the risk-free rate, beta, and the market return.
  2. a) To get the current yield on 10-year Treasury securities go to www.finance.yahoo.com -click on Markets – U.S. Treasury Bonds Rates.  You will use the current yield on 10-year Treasury securities as the risk-free rate to estimate the required rate of return on stocks. Discuss how appropriate this rate is as a measure of risk.
  3. b) Between 1926 and 2017, the compound annual rate of return of S&P 500 is estimated a 6.5%. We will use this number as the market return. Discuss how appropriate this rate is as a measure of return.
  4. c) Beta is listed in finance.yahoo.com and in www.morningstar.com on the company’s front page. What is the beta listed for the company? What does it mean?
  5. d)  Calculate the required return on the stock using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Security Market Line. Please show your work.
  6. There are several methods how to calculate the growth rate. One of the possible ways is to calculate the sustainable growth rate as g = ROE *(1- Dividend payout ratio). You can find ROE and the Dividend Payout Ratio on www.morningstar.com > Company’s page – under Financials and under Dividends

Calculate the company’s sustainable growth rate. Please show your work.

  1. Apply the Gordon model (constant growth rate model) to calculate the intrinsic (economic) value of the stock. Please show your work.

Please note that for some companies it is not possible to use the Gordon model. If that is the case, please explain why it is not possible to use this model for your company. What other models is it possible to use?

  1. Compare the result of your calculations with the current stock price. Is the stock overvalued, undervalued, or properly valued? Why?  In accordance with your findings, is it reasonable to buy the stock? Why? Please explain your answer.

–5- Develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale for your client, as to whether the assigned company’s recent trend in financial and stock performance is of sufficient financial strength to warrant entering in a long-term investment in bonds and/or stocks of the company. Explain your answer (about 1 page) (10% of the project grade).

-6- Develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale for the NIKE management – Think about the financial strategy of the company, how to best balance THE COMPANY’S financial leverage to optimize shareholder wealth going forward taking into consideration the company’s current market position, credit rating, dividend policy, etc.  (10% of the project grade).

-7- Reflection – the students should write a paragraph in their own words reflecting on what they learned from the assignment and how they think they could apply what they learned in the workplace. (5% of the project grade).

PRESENTATION OF PAPER AND WRITING (15%) of the project grade):

-Organization, Format and Presentation of Paper including the Introduction, Body, and Summary. Each section of the paper must begin with a sub-heading.  Please use the sub-headings included in the assignment (4% of the project grade)

Use of Tables, Figures and Other Graphics to Summarize and Support Analysis Presented in the Paper (3% of the project grade)

Logical and Smooth Flowing Transitions and Relationships among Sections of the Written Report (3% of the project grade)

Research Sources and Significance of Research Information and Data, Use of APA Citation Methodology (5% of the project grade)

Explain the authors’ explicit and implicit rhetorical use of value in their argument for cheap nature.

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Argumentative Essay about Chapter 1 in “A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things”

Follow the outline attached.

  • The Introduction MUST include a brief summary of the chapter, and a clear thesis.
  • 3 body paragraphs each must have 2 points at least to support your idea with quotations or examples from the book. The last body paragraph MUST be counter argument.
  • The paper should be written in third person and DO NOT add personal opinion.
  • DO NOT use outside sources (USE THE BOOK ONLY)

Read Below Carefully:

Compose a Rhetorical Analysis of Cheap Nature, Chapter One of Patel and Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. This should be an argumentative essay with a thesis. Within the paper you will need to complete two different tasks: (1) briefly summarize the chosen text and (2) explain the authors’ explicit and implicit rhetorical use of value in their argument for cheap nature. Therefore, it is essential that you first identify and reproduce the authors’ purpose and argument for cheap nature, and then you analyze how the author uses various categories of value to support and make sense of their argument for cheap nature. For example, how does Patel and Moore use moral/ecological/political value or devaluation to argue for the development of cheap nature?…or how do they use economic value to argue for the value of cheap nature over the value of colonial subjects? The analysis section of the paper should take up the vast majority of the paper and should analyze and argue for how the authors use value rhetorically in arguing for cheap nature.

Guidelines: Your essay should be a minimum of 850 words, double spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, and brought to class for peer review and submitted on Blackboard. Remember to review and consider The Norton field Guide to Writing: Analyzing a Text and Arguing a Position in your writing process.

Assessment: You will be assessed on your rhetorical analysis of the text, which includes your interpretation and application of the rhetorical situation, the clarity and organization of your argument and thesis, your supporting details and evidence, and your summary of the text. You will also be assessed on your effective application of the genre (including all of its strategies, features, conventions, and forms). Finally, you will be assessed on your general organization, grammar, and sentence structure. (Please keep in mind, this is a first draft meant to showcase your skill in analysis and application of genre, so do not get bogged down on perfection, but you should also be showing marked improvement in basic structure and organization).

What fallacies are utilized? Carefully consider the author’s deliberate manipulation of language.

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For this essay, you will write a paper in which you will analyze a public advocacy speech on an issue of importance to you. Using the concepts learned in class, the papers will be evaluated based on the ability to use the terms correctly (providing both an accurate definition of each term and a correct application) as well as based on professional and correct writing style.
Select a speech to analyze. Locate a speech regarding a civic issue of importance to you. Be certain that the source of the text is credible, consider using websites such as American Rhetoric.com. It is important that you pick a speech in which there is a clear message, audience, and call to action.
Analyze your chosen speech as an advocacy argument and write an essay about the writer’s effectiveness considering the context in which and audience to which they were delivered. Identify and explore the following aspects:

Advocate:
Who is the speaker and what group is the speaker advocating on behalf of?
What is the collective identity of the group and what is the position of the speaker in regards to this?
What is the historical context of the issue?

Message:
What is the message? Is it actionable?
What is the claim, evidence, warrant?
What persuasive techniques are used? Ethos, Pathos, Logos?
How was language used or misused?
What fallacies are utilized? Carefully consider the author’s deliberate manipulation of language.

Audience:
Who is the audience and what is their collective identity? Consider concepts such as privilege, stereotypes, etc.
What is the audience’s position in regards to the issue and the advocacy group.

What is the difference between customer relationship management, supplier relationship management, and employee relationship management?

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What is the difference between customer relationship management, supplier relationship management, and employee relationship management? Give a specific example of each one.

Analyse the legal and organisational requirements for financial reporting in different business organisations.

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Sample Assignments

Scenario

For the purpose of this assignment you are to assume the role of a junior accountant for a retail group and your line manager is the Regional Director of Finance. The Director of Finance needs to produce a leaflet for some new members of the Board as part of the induction pack. They are experts in a range of business fields but have limited financial knowledge. You have been asked to prepare a first draft of the leaflet.

Activity 1

The leaflet must provide an overview of accounting policies and procedures and:

  1. explain the purpose and requirements of a business organisation maintaining financial records.
  2. analyse the techniques of using manual and computerized accounting systems.
  3. analyse the legal and organisational requirements for financial reporting in different business organisations.

LO1 Assessment Criteria 1.1 1.2 1.3

Activity 2

At the next meeting of the Board there is an agenda item titled ‘Discussion of financial statements and their usefulness for stakeholder groups’. This will be led by the Regional Director of Finance. You have received an email asking you to produce a draft paper which evaluates the usefulness of financial statements to a range of stakeholder groups.

LO1 Assessment Criteria 1.4

Activity 3

Due to a reduction in sales revenue and a fall in group profits the Board of Directors is investigating inventory management, credit control and current liquidity In order to make meaningful comparisons. Your line manager has asked a few staff in the department to analyse the final accounts of competitors and you have been selected to joint this group.

  1. Analyse, using ratio analysis, the components of working capital for your chosen competitor.
  2. Using your analysis, explain how working capital can be managed effectively in business organisations.

LO2 Assessment Criteria 2.1 2.2

Activity 4

A number of new managers have been recruited to the retail group who will have responsibility for managing their own budgets. Your line manager has asked you to prepare a presentation on financial procedures for the induction programme. In the presentation and accompanying hand out you must:

  1. explain the difference between financial and management accounting.
  2. explain the budgetary control process.

LO3 Assessment Criteria 3.1 3.2 

Activity 5

The retail group has introduced a new product, and uses a standard cost system. Standard costs for 1,000 kilograms of the new product are:

Requirements Quantity Price per kilogram Total Cost
  Kilograms £ £
a 800 0.25 200
b 200 0.40  80
c 200 0.10 20
Input 1,200    300
Output 1,000   200

The production of 1,000 kilograms of the new product requires 1200 kilograms of raw materials. Hence the yield is 1,000 / 1,200 or 5/6 of input. Materials records indicate.

Materials Opening Inventory Purchases (units) in January Closing Inventory
 A 10,000 kilograms 162,000 @ £0.24 15,000 kilograms
 B 12,000 kilograms 30,000  @ £0.42 4,000 kilograms
C 15,000 kilograms 32,000  @ £0.11 11,000 kilograms

To convert 1,200 kilograms of raw materials into 1,000 kilograms of finished product required 25 hours of labour at £7.25 per hour.

Actual direct labour hours and costs are 3,800 hours at £27,550. Factory overhead is applied on a direct labour hour basis at a rate of £5 per hour (£3 fixed, £2 variable).

Factory overhead is £20,000 with 4,000 direct labour hours. Actual overhead are £22,000, Actual finished production is 200,000 new products.

The standard cost per kilogram of the finished product:

Materials £0.30 per kilogram
Labour £0.12 per kilogram
Factory overheads £0.10 per kilogram

The standard selling price per unit 50% mark up on total cost. The actual selling prices 30% mark up on total cost.

  1. Calculate the total and unit costs of the finished product.
  2. Produce an absorption costing statement showing the marginal cost.
  3. Calculate the materials, labour and overhead variances.
  4. Interpret the variance results considering both financial and non-financial factors.
  5. Produce a statement reconciling budgeted to actual profit.
  6. Evaluate a range of costing techniques that could be used for pricing purposes.

LO3 Assessment Criteria 3.3 3.4.

Activity 6

Your line manager has been pleased with your work to date and has invited you to a meeting with the Marketing Director.  She has been researching a number of projects to encourage customers to return to the store.  You have been asked to report on the financial viability of the projects.

The costs associated with each project are as follows:

Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Project 4
  £ £ £ £
Initial Cost 550,000 550,000 290,000 460,000
Expected Cash Flow
Year 1 20,000 50,000 15,000 30,000
Year 2 75,000 175,000 80,000 95,000
Year 3 125,000 200,000 120,000 150,000
Year 4 250,000 175,000 100,000 210,000
Year 5 200,000 70,000 60,000 300,000

 

Table of Discount Factors

Rate percent
Year 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0
1 0.9569378 0.9523810 0.9478673 0.9433962
2 0.9157300 0.9070295 0.8984524 0.8899964
3 0.8762966 0.8638376 0.8516137 0.8396193
4 0.8385613 0.8227025 0.8072167 0.7920937
5 0.8024510 0.7835262 0.7651344 0.7472582

 

  1. Using appropriate project appraisal techniques assess and demonstrate the financial viability of each project.
  2. Evaluate the methods of investment appraisal completed in part (a). Recommend to the Marketing Director the most appropriate project for the business.
  3. Explain appropriate internal and external sources of finance that could be used to finance this project.

 

LO4 Assessment Criteria 4.1 4.2 4.3

Guidelines for assessors

The assignment submitted by learners must achieve the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by the assessment criteria for the unit. The suggested evidence below is how learners can demonstrate they have met the required standard.

Task Number Assessment criteria Suggested evidence
1 LO1

AC 1.1 1.2 1.3

 The leaflet should be appropriately presented for the intended audience. The learner is expected to use an appropriate presentation format and produce a clear explanation of the purpose of financial records and provide an overview of financial record keeping. The learner is not expected to produce a full set of accounts but may use extracts from accounts to illustrate debit and credit entries or an audit trail from a computerized system. The information must include an overview of Income Statements (profit and loss accounts) and Statement of Financial Position (balance sheets) for different types of ownership. The learner should ensure all technical terms are clearly explained. The learner could consider including a hand out or glossary of terms in the overview.
2 LO1

AC 1.4

 The learner needs to evaluate the key information that financial statements provide for different stakeholders and make a judgement on their use and relevance.
3 LO2

AC 2.1 2.2

 The learner is expected to use an appropriate report format and draw information from the published accounts of the chosen retail group. (Income Statements (profit and loss accounts) and Statement of Financial Position (balance sheets)) As a minimum the learner should calculate liquidity ratios for the last two years. The learner may also consider the debtor and creditor collection periods and stock turnover to support the discussion on improvements to working capital. The learner should clearly state any assumptions made in relation to the data used from company reports.
4 LO3

AC 3.1 3.2

 The learner is expected to use an appropriate presentation format and produce a hand out taking into account the end users. There should be a detailed explanation of the budgetary control process and the difference between management and financial accounting must be clearly explained. The explanations should be supported by illustrations. The learner is not expected to produce a detailed budget statement.
5 LO3

AC 3.3 3.4

 The learner must show full workings of all calculations. All financial statements should be presented in a format that complies with current accounting conventions. The learner should state clearly any assumptions made and clearly distinguish adverse and favourable variances justifying any recommendations. The learner is expected to manipulate the break- even formula and giver a detailed explanation of the results.
6 LO4

AC 4.1 4.2 4.3

 The learner must complete the tasks in order to demonstrate achievement of the LO at the appropriate standards.  The learner should use appropriate terminology to meet the needs of a readership who have a non-financial background.

The learner is expected to use a range of investment appraisal techniques and show all stages of any calculations. The learner should be able to use discount factor tables; and calculate exact discount factors using extrapolation. Any decisions made should be supported by clear justification explaining why a particular project has been accepted or rejected. The learner is not expected to discuss all sources of finance but focus on those sources that are relevant and realistic for the project selected.

 

 

Was Servant Leadership demonstrated on the part of those in the case study? Why or why not?

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Assume a “Light-caster” Role

Now, it’s time to apply what you have learned! Begin to view the world through an ethical lens by identifying and describing a challenge that faces an organization through these perspectives. In particular, use the material from Johnson’s chapters 5 and 6 (Johnson, Craig E. Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership (pp. 166-167). SAGE Publications). Also, present the challenge from a “business case” perspective to understand the costs of doing good and doing evil.

Purpose

To help you to apply the ethical concepts that you’ve learned to a real context.

Expectations

  • Complete all steps listed out below.

Steps for Case Study Review

Step 1: Select a case study from Johnson (**Case Study Provided Below**)

Choose one of the case studies from Johnson from any of the readings that we’ve had up to this point.

Step 2: Write and submit a case study review.

Write a 3 – 4 page case study review that addresses the following:

  • Identify the case study that you reviewed.
  • Describe the ethical challenge.
  • Explore the case study further by introducing external research on the topic.
  • Attend to the questions posed in the exercise.
  • Explain how your actions might differ from those which actually occurred.
  • Was Servant Leadership demonstrated on the part of those in the case study? Why or why not?

Expectations

  • Support your comments by referencing course readings and external sources.
  • Expected length: 3 – 4 pages (single-spaced)
  • 12 point Times New Roman Font
  • 1-inch margins on all sides.
  • Use APA formatting (except please use single-spacing).

Based on what you’ve discovered about the relationship between nature and learning, how will your behaviour/approach to both learning and nature change in the future?

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Psych essay 2 Draft:

Based on what you’ve discovered about the relationship between nature and learning, how will your behaviour/approach to both learning and nature change in the future?

To address this question you will need to consider and reflect on:

What you have discovered about the link between nature and learning – we will look at this in spring term.

How you will change your behaviour / approach towards both nature and learning as a result of what you’ve discovered, and why you will make these specific changes relationship between nature and learning.

Nature Relieves Stress

Contact With Nature Boosts Self-Discipline

Student Motivation, Enjoyment, and Engagement Are Better in Natural Settings

Theories relating to nature :

‘Restorative’ potential of nature > aids learning

Attention Restoration Theory – key framework for framing and explaining nature-learning links

Mentally fatigued – learning impaired

Exposure to nature – mental resources recover – better able to learn

Examined relationships between cognitive function and multiple forms of nature exposure e.g.:

‘Greenness’ of environment

Green views

Images of nature

Learning and physical activities completed outdoors

Experiments and observational studies

Green views :

Related to cognitive function and academic performance

Views of a natural scene > better attention (Li and Sullivan, 2016; Tennessen and Cimprich, 1995)

More green views > higher test scores, graduation rates, college attendance (Matsuoka, 2010)

Green views > better performance, greater satisfaction with course (Benfield et al., 2015)

Green micro breaks – computer images – improves cognitive function (Lee et al., 2015)

Cognitive function improved after viewing images of nature, not after viewing images of urban environments (Berman et al., 2008)

Schools in greener neighbourhoods > higher test scores (Wu et al., 2014)

Schools in greener neighbourhoods > no relationship to maths scores, better English scores (Hodson & Sander, 2017)

More trees around home and school > better reading scores,  to a lesser extent maths scores (Donovan et al., 2018)

Are you using a specific case/event as a way of testing a more general hypothesis/theory?

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Research paper proposal and annotated bibliography

Research Topic: Are deliberative democracy better than representative democracy?

  1. a one-page single spaced paper proposal (Remember – It is a proposal: it indicates what you will be doing. The proposal is not intended to be a mini-version of your research paper)
  • In the Introduction to your proposal
  • A). Outline your research question
    • What will you be exploring in your actual research paper?
  • B). Clearly establish why your question is significant
    • Why should we care about this topic?
    • Provide a little background on the issue/controversy that you are weighing in on
  • C). Outline your hypothesis
    • What do you think you will find?
    • What is the argument that you think you will be making in your actual research paper?
  • The Body of the Proposal:
  • Discuss how you will answer your question. Note: since this is political theory course. Please try to focus more on theories.
  • Are you attempting to explain a single case/event?
    • What actors, structures, institutions, evidence, will you focus on and why?
  • Are you using a specific case/event as a way of testing a more general hypothesis/theory?
    • What is it about the case/event that makes it a good test (is it a crucial case for example)?
  1. an annotated bibliography with a minimum of 8 peer reviewed academic sources.

For each source include 1 paragraph summary of the main argument and how it relates to your specific research question.