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Write up a BRIEF (1 paragraph) discussion about your VALS types. Do you think the primary and secondary VALS types are accurate descriptors of you at this point in your life?

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IA3 consumer behavior

Go to the link below to complete the VALS survey:

http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/vals/presurvey.shtml

Links to an external site.

Click on the link at the bottom of the page that says “Take the Survey” to start the survey. The site will provide you with a primary and secondary VALS type.

Your assignment is to discuss your results. You must do the following for full credit:

  • Include the results screen showing your primary and secondary VALS type. It will say, “Your primary VALS type is [one of the VALS types], and your secondary type is [one of the VALS types].”
  • Click on the name of both your primary and secondary VALS types. This will take you to a description of both types, which you will also need to include.

You can take a screen shot and paste your VALS types and descriptions into a word document or type them up yourselves.

Write up a BRIEF (1 paragraph) discussion about your VALS types. Do you think the primary and secondary VALS types are accurate descriptors of you at this point in your life? Are there other VALS types that you feel better represent you (you may want to read the descriptions of some of the other types to answer this)? Do you think your VALS types are stable or will they change as you get older?

Why is social media an important advertising strategy? How do advertisers target young people with ads for dangerous things and show perfect people with unrealistic lifestyles?

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Communications Question

You have used at least SIX sources in the essay.

Your essay is 8-10 pages long (you should have about 15 body paragraphs plus an intro and conclusion).

Use these links, https://business.adobe.com/blog/basics/smm-benefits https://digital.gov/2022/10/18/6-important-factors-to-consider-for-digital-advertising-in-government/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/393820 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02650487.2017.1411056 https://edubirdie.com/examples/does-advertising-and-media-impact-self-image-self-worth-or-self-esteem-of-the-women/ https://sundial.csun.edu/11348/archive/effectsofadvertisingonselfesteem/ https://cosmeticsbusiness.com/news/article_page/Metas_new_rules_restrict_advertisers_access_to_teenagers_data_on_social/206059Links to an external site https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-tighten-restrictions-around-teenagers-data https://blog.gitnux.com/social-media-self-esteem-statistics/

Answer those questions with the links provided. and use the paragraph as the thesis

Provide works cited page in MLA format

Can use more links if needed but try and use what I provided.

Although advertising on social media is an important strategy for today’s companies, by targeting young people with ads for dangerous things and showing perfect people with unrealistic lifestyles, advertisements on social media are causing teenagers to suffer from low self-esteem and unhappiness. Therefore, social media should play a role in addressing this problem, with platforms restricting ads based on the user’s age and popular content creators partnering up with companies to promote self-care to their followers.

    1. Why is social media an important advertising strategy?
    2. How do advertisers target young people with ads for dangerous things and show perfect people with unrealistic lifestyles?
    3. How are these ads causing teenagers to suffer from low self-esteem and unhappiness?
    4. How should social media platforms restrict ads based on the user’s age?
    5. How should popular content creators partner with companies to promote self-care to their follower?

Write a disagreement with online learning because face to face learning is better. Use all the disadvantages of online learning to justify or persuade the reader that face to face learning is better.

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Business Question

Write a disagreement with online learning because face to face learning is better. Use all the disadvantages of online learning to justify or persuade the reader that face to face learning is better.

Essay requirements:

  • Your essay must be at least 1200 words and no more than 1,500 words. MLA FORMAT
  • The commentary essay must have a thesis statement.COVER PAGE AND REFERENCE PAGE DO NOT COUNT AS PAGE REQUIREMENT BUT MUST BE INCLUDED.

Research Requirements:

  • In-text citations and a Works Cited page are required for this assignment.
  • Synthesis and integration of direct quotes, paraphrases, and summarized material are required. Instead of a Frankenpaper of stitched together articles, your voice will remain front and center and in control of the research you use to develop the essay. Use the research to support your writing, not to replace your voice. Carefully thinking through the work you do on the annotated bibliography and research proposal will be invaluable for this.
  • You must integrate at least four outside sources into the essay. You cannot use more than 5 outside resources. (If you have questions about needing more than 5 resources, please reach out to me and we can discuss.)
  • Sources can include books, professional journal articles, pamphlets from organizations, internet sites, interviews.
  • Do NOT use general encyclopedias or dictionaries. Do NOT use Wikipedia.

Using the template provided determine how much does this lower the risk of the portfolio when Lu increase the number of assets in UMB total portfolio?

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Financial Modeling (Option Trading and Strategies)

Assignment 5-3

Betty Lu, an option analyst at UMB Student Managed Fund analyzing European call and put options on the S&P 500.

The S&P 500 index closes at 2000. European call and put options on the S&P 500 index with the exercise prices shown below trade for the following prices:

Exercise price 1,950 1,975 2,000 2,025 2,050
Call price $ 88 $ 66 $ 47 $ 33 $ 21
Put price $ 25 $ 26 $ 32 $ 44 $ 58

All options mature in 88 days. The S&P 500 portfolio pays a continuous dividend yield of 1.56% per year and the annual yield on a Treasury Bill which matures on the same day as the options is 4.63% per year.

For Standard Dev – Annual: B7 to K7 use the below value:

12.88% 11.25% 10.09% 9.66% 9.07% 13.22% 11.09% 10.01% 9.91% 9.69%

Instructions:

Using the template provided:

  • Using the Black Scholes Option Pricing model, determine what is the implied volatility of each of these calls and puts for column A19 and A 25, respectively.
  • What pattern do these implied volatilities follow across exercise prices and between calls vs. puts?

 

Assignment 5-4

Betty Lu, an option analyst at UMB Student Managed Fund working on portfolio Diversification

There are two countries and all risky assets in both countries have a standard deviation of 45%. All pairs of risky assets within the same country have a local correlation coefficient of 30%, but all pairs of risky assets between countries have an international correlation coefficient of 10%. Consider an international diversification strategy of investing half of your money in an equally-weighted portfolio in country 1 and the other half in an equally weighted portfolio in country 2. As you increase the number of assets in your total portfolio, how much does this lower the risk of your portfolio?

Instructions:

Using the template provided determine how much does this lower the risk of the portfolio when Lu increase the number of assets in UMB total portfolio?

Conduct a comparative matrix for the sectors. Explain how your findings impact the operations of the police department. Describe the precautions or behaviors that should be exercised when working with and communicating about the sensitive data in this scenario.

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CASE STUDY

SCENARIO

You have recently been hired as an Emergency Services Analyst for the city of Lincolnton, NC. In this role, you are to analyze all emergency services incident patterns, collect statistics, prepare and disseminate information, and assist with special projects. Recently, you have been tasked with conducting analysis on the emergency services data from 911 related calls from around the city.

Part 1: You receive the email from your Director of Emergency Services, including an Excel file of source data, and are asked to analyze the calls from around the community. You will perform your analysis (in the same Excel spreadsheet) and provide an explanation in an email response (Word document). **REVIEW THE ATTACHMENT BELOW**

Within the spreadsheet attached below, perform the following:

A. Prepare a dataset from the “Source Data” spreadsheet. Remove any potential errors or outliers, duplicate records, or data that are not necessary. Provide a clean copy of the data in your email response.

B. Explain why you removed each column and row from the “Source Data” spreadsheet or why you imputed data in empty fields as you prepared the data for analysis.

C. Create data sheets using your cleaned dataset and provide each of the following to represent the requested aggregated data.

  • a. Table: date and number of events OR
  • b. Bar graph: date and number of events
  • c. Table: number of incident occurrences by event type OR
  • d. Bar graph: number of incident occurrences by event type
  • e. Table: sectors and number of events OR
  • f. Bar graph: sectors and number of events

D. Summarize your observations from reviewing the datasheets you have created and include it as part of your introduction to your analysis report analysis in Part 2.

Part 2: Further, the state has offered an additional funding incentive for police departments that are able to meet the standard of having a minimum of 2.5 officers onsite per incident. The Director has delegated the task to you to analyze the police department’s data to determine if the department will be eligible for additional funding. You will use the same source data provided in the Excel spreadsheet. In a Word document, complete the following questions and include the summary from Part 1 in an analysis report.

E. Describe the fit of the linear regression line to the data, providing graphical representations or tables as evidence to support your description.

F. Describe the impact of the outliers on the regression model, providing graphical representations or tables as evidence to support your description.

G. Create a residual plot and explain how to improve the linear regression model based on your interpretation of the plot.

H. Using the linear regression analysis, explain if the department qualifies for additional state funding, including any limitations posed by the available data to the assessment of the department’s current funding eligibility.

I. Conduct a comparative matrix for the sectors. Explain how your findings impact the operations of the police department.

J. Describe the precautions or behaviors that should be exercised when working with and communicating about the sensitive data in this scenario.

K. Discuss any additional tools or technologies that could impact the data collection, storage, or analysis for future projects.

L. Provide attribution for credible sources needed in completing your report.

What does it mean to be polite?” Choose one of the questions below for your paragraph.

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Level 2 – Writing Assignment, we ONLY use Reading and Writing Book

Unit 3
In this assignment, you are going to write an example paragraph that responds to a question posted on an online forum about politeness. As you prepare your paragraph, think about the Unit

Question, “What does it mean to be polite?” Choose one of the questions below for your paragraph:

  1. I’m traveling to the United States for the first time. What do you know about manners in the U.S.? Give sentences What tips do you have about being polite? Give sentences
  2. I think that people today arc very rude. I’m the father of two young boys, ages five and ten. How can I teach my sons to be polite? Give sentences
  3. Sometimes I do not answer my phone when people call me, but then I think, is that impolite? What advice can you give me? Give sentences

Develop more targeted policies and practices to mitigate adverse impacts on the environment while promoting sustainable economic growth.

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Exploring the Association Between Economic Growth and Environmental Quality: A Country Level Study

Research Question and Rationale
Is there a relationship between economic growth and environmental quality?

Rationale –
This study was conducted with the aim to help policymakers and stakeholders better understand the trade–offs between economic growth and environmental sustainability.
• Develop more targeted policies and practices to mitigate adverse impacts on the environment while promoting sustainable economic growth.
• Help anticipate and plan for future challenges related to climate change and environmental degradation.

Write a paper summarizing your perspective on how health care administrators should decide on spending their limited resources.

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Demonstrate critical thinking

Instructions Learning Objective:
Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis

Week #5 PBL Assignment
Write a paper summarizing your perspective on how health care administrators should decide on spending their limited resources.

When determining how to allocate resources in a hospital how can administrators decide how to prioritize funding between employees’ wages and taking care of the poor. Given that increasing salaries would decrease resources for charity how should hospitals make these decisions? Isn’t providing a living wage or more for employees an acceptable social good as well? What guidelines would you create for Catholic hospitals to follow?

Requirements:
Answer all of the questions and submit your answers to the dropbox by Sunday at midnight. Your submission must be double spaced with 12-point font. The submission must be 2 – 3 pages and in APA format.

Construct your own children’s story as a final project for this course. Create a story about a kid having two mothers as parents.

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Children story

READ CAREFULLY! You are going to construct your own children’s story as a final project for this course. Create a story about a kid having two mothers as parents. Your book must try to educate students on a particular topic and should follow the basic elements found in children’s books. There is not major restrictions to this project, you can write a book around a topic that would be banned in certain states, or it can just be a book about a topic you think children need to learn about in a fun and engaging manner.

You are responsible for the content, visuals, and overall look of the children’s book. You can create all visuals with construction paper or crayons, you do not have to pay for an expensive illustration to get credit for this project.

You can work in pairs, or on your own. At the end of the semester there will be 4 days to read the book to the class, present the illustrations, and then have a short conversation with us about what lead you to create this story in the first place. In this conversation you should answer the following questions:

  • Who is the intended target audience for this book?
  • Why did you focus on this topic?
  • Do you think this story would be banned, why or why not?
  • How did this project teach you about the freedom of speech (expression) as protected under the first amendment?
  • Would you be interested in publishing a future version of this story?

6-8 min presentation.

Visual aids should be submitted before class on the day of your presentation.

2 parts:

  • Reading the book/story
  • Reflecting on the process of creating this story.

Prepare the statement of cash flows of Company A for the year ended December 31, 2021, using the direct method. Use the additional information from the accounting records below.

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Cash Flow Statement

Background and Directions

The comparative balance sheets (2021, 2020) and the income statement (2021) for Company A are shown in the spreadsheet.

Use this assignment’s Excel template for completing these tasks. Information for each task is given on the template in the Instructions tab. Use the correct Excel formulas in the cells when calculations are needed as well as formatting.

 

ACG3256fw Module 05 Written Assignment

 

Prepare the statement of cash flows of Company A for the year ended December 31, 2021, using the direct method. Use the additional information from the accounting records below. You may omit the schedule to reconcile net income to cash flows from operating activities. Use the Cash Flow Statement tab for your work and only fill out the yellow cells. Enter the values in thousands. For example, enter 7 for $7000.

  1. A building was sold for $7000. It originally cost $40,000 and was three-fourths depreciated.
  2. The common stock of Company B was purchased for $5,000 as a long-term investment.
  3. Company A acquired property by leasing a note payable to the seller. The terms were $30,000 with a 13% rate for seven years.
  4. New equipment purchased for $15,000 cash.
  5. January 1, 2021: bonds were sold at their $25,000 face value.
  6. January 19: a 5% stock dividend (1,000 shares) issued. The market price was $14 per share for the $10 par value common stock on this day.
  7. Shareholders received cash dividends of $13,000.
  8. November 12: Company A repurchased 500 shares of common stock as treasury stock at the cost of $8,000.