Business Finance – Management

In a 3 page essay:Visit the websites of both General Electric (GE) and Sunbelt Rentals. Using the informationfound in those sites as well as your own outside reasearch, create a 2-3 page essay in which youanswer the following questions:Identify the problems faced by each of the businesses and how they weresolved or could be solved by using mobile digital devices.What kinds of applications have been or couldhavebeen used? What types of business functions do these applications support? How do theseapplications improve operational efficiency and decision making?Your essay should be 2-3 pages in lengthand fully explore all of the following items described above. Include at least 2 outside citations (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting. Points Possible: 50

BMW Group assembles cars in China, Jaguar Land Rover Group (Tata’s Motors subsidiary) established manufacturing facilities in India, etc. Explain how cost-minimizing input rule affects “outsourcing” decisions of auto companies. Please provide all references and inside citation

Assignment Content    This week, you will continue building the components of your business requirements document for Hollywood Organic Co-op. Last week you outlined how to electronically move data around in an EDMS. This week, you will further analyze Hollywood Organic Co-op’s workflow process as the e-documents move through the life cycle, with a focus on the disposition of the documents.Create a 2- to 4-page list in which you:Define the policies to apply to documents so that document-related controls are audited, documents are retained or disposed of properly, and content important to the organization is protected.Describe how documents are converted as they transition from one stage to another during their life cycles.Explain how e-documents are treated as corporate records that must be retained according to legal requirements and corporate guidelines.Recommend tools that are required to support disposing of information assets.Note: You may format this assignment in a bulleted list, document table, or other methods of your choice in a Microsoft® Word document. A narrative or formal paper is not required.Submit your assignment.

RETURN AND RISK RELATIONSHIP: CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODELThe CFO of Baldwin Corporation, Gregg Williams has decided to invest some money in the financial market to diversify the risks of business operations and increase the rate of return. He has been reading corporate finance books and journal articles to enhance his knowledge of risk/return relationships, capital asset pricing model (CAPM), cost of capital, and valuation.On the risk/return relationship, Gregg has learned that there is a positive relationship between risk and return. This implies that the higher the risk, the greater the expected return on investment. This relationship is clearly explained by the capital asset pricing model in this equation:RE = RF + ? x (RM – RF)where RE = expected return of the security, RF = the risk-free rate, ? = Beta of the security, RM = the expected return on the market, and (RM – RF) represents the difference between the expected return on the market and the risk-free rate.According to the CAPM, the expected return of any security depends on its risk measured by its beta. Gregg found out that the beta is a measure of the risk of security arising from exposure to general economic and market movements i.e. systematic risk as opposed to business-specific risks or factors (i.e. unsystematic risk). The higher the beta, the greater the systematic risk and vice versa. The market portfolio of all investable assets has a beta of 1. Gregg learned that If ? = 0, then the asset has no risk of financial loss. Therefore, the expected return of the security should be equal to the risk-free rate. If ? = 1, that asset has the same risk as the market and the expected return should equal the expected return on the market such as the S&P 500 market index. To Gregg, this makes sense because the beta of the market portfolio is exactly 1. However, if a security’s ? = 2, then that security is twice riskier than the market and the expected return should be higher than the return of the market portfolio.Gregg understands that the risk-free rate used in the CAPM is the government-issued treasury bill rate. Since the treasury bill has no risk, any other investment having some risk will have to have a higher rate of return than the risk-free rate in order to induce an investor to invest in that security. Gregg is considering the stock of Adobe Inc. and Exxon Mobil. Adobe Inc. has a beta of 1.5 and Exxon Mobil has a beta of 0.8. The risk-free rate is 3%, and the difference between the expected return on the market and the risk-free is 8.0%.Baldwin Inc. is retaining you as the financial consultant to work with Gregg to analyze these investment options.1. Using the capital asset pricing model, calculate the expected return for Adobe Inc. and Exxon Mobil stocks.2. You want to calculate the average return of Adobe Inc. to see how the stock has performed over the past five years:Exhibit 1: Historical Returns of Adobe Inc.(((Please Check Attachment))a. Using the historical returns above, what is the average return for Adobe Inc. stock?3. You notice that stock returns fluctuate daily in the financial market making it risky to invest in. You want to use standard deviation, ? to assess the volatility of Adobe Inc. stock if mean return is 15.20% and standard deviation is 12%. What is the possible return of this stock one standard deviation from the mean if the return is normally distributed? (Note: expected return = mean return ± 1?).4. You want to use the total market return approach to estimate the rate of return on another stock which Gregg wants to consider for the investment portfolio. The stock is selling for $25 and pays a dividend of $2 per share during the year. You think that because of the profitable capital investment that the company is undertaken, its stock price will appreciate to $28 by the end of next year.a. Calculate the dividend yield and the percentage capital gain of this stock.b. What is the expected total return of this stock?5. You are looking at sources of risk for the investment portfolio and came across systematic risk and unsystematic risk in a financial journal. The systematic risk is defined as any risk that affects the whole economy or a large number of assets to a greater or lesser degree. And the unsystematic risk is a risk that affects specific assets or small groups of assets.a. List two examples each of systematic risk and unsystematic risk.6. Gregg wants you to estimate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for Verizon LLC. The IRR computed on a capital project for Verizon is 12%. Gregg wants to see if it will be a good investment. He thinks that if IRR > WACC then it will be a good investment to consider. The market values for Verizon’s debt and equity are $40 million and $60 million respectively. The total value of the firm is $100 million, implying that the weight of debt is 40% ($40 million /$100 million) whereas the weight of equity is 60% ($60 million /$100 million). Assume a tax rate of 35% for Verizon.a. Estimate WACC for Verizon if the cost of equity is 13.32% and cost of debt is 5%. (note: WACC = cost of debt (1 – tax rate) (weight Debt) + cost of equity (weight Equity).

David Wallace was the president, chairman of the board of directors, and majority shareholder of Paper Imports, Inc. Acting as president, David Wallace negotiated a series of contracts that caused the corporation serious economic losses. As president, David Wallace failed to exercise the care of a reasonably prudent person acting in similar circumstances.When substantial economic losses began to pile up, David Wallace insisted that the corporation breach a contract with Dunder Company in favor of a larger contract with Mifflin Enterprises. David Wallace hoped to reverse Paper Imports, Inc. economic decline through this contract with Mifflin, but the attempt failed. Paper Imports, Inc. insolvent and failed.There were two lawsuits against David Wallace, (1) a creditor of Paper Imports, Inc. sued David Wallace alleging that the negligence of David Wallace had caused Paper Imports Inc. to fail to pay the creditor, and (2)  Dunder Company sued David Wallace claiming that David Wallace caused Paper Imports, Inc. to breach its contract with Dunder.Who would win in each of these lawsuits?

Discuss the unique marketing characteristics a product or service requires based on the specific phase of the product life cycle. 400 Words. No Plagiarism please

Vadar owned Tatooine Farm.  He sold the farm to Luke.  Luke never recorded the deed.  Vadar stayed on the property as a tenant for two years. Near the end of the two years, Vadar learned that Luke had never recorded the deed.Vadar advertised Tatooine Farm for sale.  Leia negotiated with Vadar for the purchase of the property thinking that Vadar was the owner. Leia also checked the records at the recording office and, finding no reason to question Vadar’s ownership of the property, purchased Tatooine Farm from Vadar. Leia recorded the deed. Vadar fled to a place far, far away with the purchase money.Meanwhile, Luke had failed to pay the real estate taxes on Tatooine Farm for the two years in question thinking it was the responsibility of Vadar, the tenant.Ultimately, Leia and Luke disputed over the ownership of the property.Who gets the property, Leia or Luke? And, is Luke responsible for the two years of real estate taxes assessed while Vadar occupied the property as a tenant?

 The instructions and the reading are attached below. Please follow all the instructions carefully. This must be 500 words in the form of a memo. The role that I selected is Patient Experience Management, and the title is Patient advocate.  

Thoughtfully answer one of the following questions, then meaningfully respond to two other students’ answers.How did China and Japan respond to the coming of the Europeans, and what explains the differences? What impact did European contacts have on these two East Asian civilizations through the end of the 18th century?

Assignment ContentWithin your company, pick a department and conduct a job analysis for a managerial job position that you would like to redesign.Write a comprehensive paper that includes the following:Provide a brief discussion of the current job.Explain how you would redesign it.Discuss the various styles of management appropriate to this new position and how they would relate to the overallculture of the organization.Examine the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a person qualified to hold this position.Consider how these are determined in relation to other organizational positions, industry standards, etc.Make sure you include a thorough examination of communication models as they relate to the organization and how technology will (or will not) play a role in the communication channels that are used.Next discuss how this new job position would align with your company’s mission, vision, objectives, corporate culture, etc., along with the leadership style that would be a good fit for the person employed in this job.Consider how this position will be able to adapt to changes as the organization becomes more global in its interaction with vendors, customers, etc. While specific financials are not necessary, the degree of financial decision-making should be discussed, along with how decisions made from this position may affect the other departments within the organization.Lastly, address diversity. Do not limit your thinking of diversity to race, gender, and age, but instead, consider how this position will need to bring a diversity of knowledge, skills, abilities, etc., to the organization and the global work environment.Note: This assignment should incorporate most of the concepts covered during the past few weeks and should contain sufficient supporting references to demonstrate you have a good grasp of the theories and concepts covered in this course. Consider using both recently published scholarly sources and older references showing historical trends, etc.Your paper should be 3,500 to 4,000 words (not including a cover page or reference section) and be in APA format.