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Coursework Brief:You must be aware that only you share responsibility for any academic integrity breaches or other issues that may arise from your coursework submission. Rubric I do expect tables / graphs / diagrams in this assignment (embedded in the main text).Each table, graph or diagram will count as 25 words. Any table/graph must be explained contextualizing the results to the context of the question. Remember that the graphs and tables you present are properly contextualized and form an important aspect of our explanations. Additional graphs and tables can be put in the appendix as well as the output from any statistical software you have used for the analysis.There are TWO compulsory questions for this Assignment.Question OneBackground information for Question OneIn Question One, we have provided cross-market time series data for Bitcoin (one of the popular cryptocurrencies floating in the market). The Bitcoin is traded in various currencies, such as in Euros, USD, Korea, etc. The data have been collected from Coincheck (one of the platforms that provides aggregate price data for Bitcoin). In the Blackboard site of the course (see Assignment folder), we have included Bitcoin price data for six exchange markets (Europe, USA, Australia, Korea, Japan, Indonesia).You can choose ANY file(s) depending on your interest. Eviews, Stata, R, Python or other any econometric software may be used for empirical estimation purpose.Tasks for Question One(1)By plotting the selected Bitcoin price series explain if you find any ‘trend’ in the price behavior. Use Hodrick-Prescott (H-P) Filtering Technique and Hamilton Filtering Techniques respectively to extract the ‘cycles’ from the ‘trends’. Plot the Autocorrelation Function and comment on the persistence behavior of the series.(2)Test for (non-)stationarity in the selected series by using Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron, and KPSS tests. Use options of intercept with and without trend term to compare your results. What implications do the ‘presence or absence of a unit root’ imply for the selected Bitcoin price regarding ‘weak, strong, semi-strong efficiency’  of the Bitcoin market?(3)Assume that the Bitcoin series you selected is neither I(1) nor I(0). Then what would an I(d)with 0

How has Bahrain benefitted from signing free trade agreements and how has it affected investment activity?The project will test ability to select a topic of interest, learn widely of related facts and previous research, and think deeply and critically about existing literature. The  project  contains  two  parts:  background  facts  and  literature  review.The sources that have to be used are:Weiss, M. (2005). Proposed U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement. Retrieved 8 April 2021, fromhttps://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20050404_RS21846_1fcb28e5d4cd3ee48576d939350b379edd0f05de.pdfBH-US Free Trade Agreement. (2021). Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.moic.gov.bh/en/Tiles/ForeignInvestment/free-trade-area-agreement#:~:text=By%20removing%20or%20reducing%20tariffs,and%20services%20more%20cost%20competitiveThe Bahrain-United States Free Trade Agreement. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/USA_BHR/Studies/Overview_e.pdfWaheed, A., & Abbas, S. (2015). Potential Export Markets for Bahrain: A Panel Data Analysis. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shujaat Abbas/publication/280568080_Potential_Export_Markets_for_Bahrain_A_Panel_Data_Analysis/links/55ba4cea08ae9289a092704d/Potential-Export-Markets-for-Bahrain-A-Panel-Data-Analysis.pdfBahrain Free Trade Agreement | United States Trade Representative. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/bahrain-ftaSuri, D. (2017). Implications of U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement on Textile and Apparel Industry in Bahrain. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.ijac.org.uk/images/frontImages/gallery/Vol._6_No._6/4._36-45.pdfThe Bahrain-United States Free Trade Agreement. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/USA_BHR/Studies/Overview_e.pdfBackground facts: These are the facts that are relevant for your topic. Please  do  not  simply  restate  another  researcher’s  observation  or  copy  a  graph  or  a  table from an earlier paper. Instead, I expect you to obtain, play with, and present the data, even if in some case this is an exact replication of an earlier work. This is important because in existing papers, an author presents facts in a way that is most supportive of his or her own points. You will likely import another person’s opinion if you take his graph as the “fact”. Also having the data at hand makes it easy for you to explore patterns or check a simple idea.Literature review: Read the sources very  carefully. Gain knowledge  on  the  topic and come  up  with  a coherent  map  of  the current  state  of  knowledge on  the  topic. While literatures on some issues have a long history, your literature review should weigh toward the newer papers. It is essential that the final literature review is well synthesized, instead of being a list of summaries.  The  set  of  papers  you  select  should  be  published  or  publishable  in  a  peer-reviewed academic journal. You should conclude the literature review section with a summary of the literature review findings. Think about the limitation of the current research and how additional steps can be taken to improve it.

Please read the scenario below, and then answer the questions that follow in a 3-page analysis. The questions will guide your analysis of the situation, but they will need to be presented as part of your assessment of risk as a healthcare manager.Scenario:In 2001, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly the Institute of Medicine (IoM), reported serious quality gaps in the U.S. health system, identified the six dimensions of quality in healthcare, and identified the need to apply new technology safely to improve the quality of health services. Since this report—and in the face of high healthcare costs, an aging population, and the need to apply scientific and systematic approaches to improve the quality and safety of healthcare—the U.S. healthcare system is experiencing tremendous changes. Safety, quality of care, and healthcare consumer satisfaction are at the forefront of healthcare organizations’ goals.The triple objectives of healthcare improvement in the country are as follows:To improve experience of careTo reduce per capita costTo improve population health outcomesHealthcare organizations are implementing quality improvement programs to achieve these objectives. Funding and regulatory agencies are initiating standards and providing financial incentivesto facilitate the achievement of these objectives, too. For instance, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports health services research to promote quality of care and evidence-based decision making. The National Quality Forum (NQF) improves the quality of care by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, supports education, and creates outreach programs.As part of a broader quality strategy to the delivery of health services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the pay-for-performance program, or value-based healthcare. Many see this approach as transformational. The program reimburses health organizations based on the quality (value) of care, cost, and outcomes of service rather than the volume or the number of patients. The following are included in CMS’s approach:Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) ProgramHospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction ProgramFor each program, CMS compares performance data annually from individual hospitals with national data, and payment rates are adjusted as incentive for better performance.As a healthcare manager, you will lead your team to establish standards and use technologies to provide safe, effective, and high-quality patient care. However, it is necessary to identify the key stakeholders in the healthcare organization—patients, care providers, and payers—and to understand their interests and perception of quality. In addition to performance and professional standards, stakeholder expectations are important.Please address the following questions in your response:What is quality improvement synonymous with?What is one of the steps in process improvement?What does technology support to enhance quality improvement?What function do the CMS value-based programs and quality metrics perform?What factors are part of the CMS value-based programs?What do the CMS quality metrics include?What are the eight measurements for the patient- and caregiver-centered experience?How is the value-based approach affecting health organizations?What legislation supports the value-based program?Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.Length: 3 pages minimumBody: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

You are a new economist for a major financial institution, and you’ve been invited to speak as a guest lecturer for a Freshman Finance course at the local university.Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:Share how you would describe the overall purpose and mechanics of both primary and secondary markets.How would you explain the way the performance of your company is influenced by the activity of the markets you described?After your initial post, choose a classmate’s approach that is different from the approach you’d take on the guest lecture. What additional information might you include in your lecture based on your classmate’s approach?

Interview questions1.    Why did you consider the career path to become a financial controller? And how has been your experience so far?2.    Having worked for over eight years in the same industry, how have your views and skilled changes over the years? Are your skills the same as when you first joined the financial sector?3.    What are the main advantages and disadvantages of being a financial controller, especially during this era when unexpected recessions are emerging, such as the Covid-19 pandemic?4.    Before the pandemic prevailed, did you, as financial control, anticipate the financial industry’s outcomes?5.    Which actions or strategies are you willing to enact to ensure your current organization recovers from all the damages caused by the outbreak?6.    What if the government rules out that every organization increases its working personnel’s minimum wage from a certain percentage to a special rate? How would you work as a financial controller to ensure your organization is able to run its operations accordingly and, at the same time, increase the wages?7.    What potential challenges or effects has the outbreak enacted that, if not handles effectively, can lead to the failure of your organization?8.    Since you have been in the industry for quite some time now, which aspects of the profession would you use to motivate newbies who would like to join the future domain?9.    What are the fundamental challenges you have faced in your profession, and what reforms would you suggest to ensure the upcoming financial controller will not meet the case challenges?10.    Where do you see the financial controller profession in 10 years?

Determining Whether IFE Holds Use an online data source to record the interest rate differential between the interest rate of the foreign country( Japan)  in which you plan to do business and the U.S. interest rate over the last five or so quarters. Then, review the exchange rate percentage change in the foreign currency of concern over each of those corresponding quarters to determine whether the international Fisher effect (IFE) appears to hold over those quarters for that currency. IT MUST INCLUDE A GRAPH

Review the information of the company Plug Power through Yahoo! Finance and the SEC EDGAR database in the Filings & Forms (Links to an external site.) page. From each section of previous chapters you have read in this class, you will be provided with a foundation to use in completing an assessment of the financial performance of a corporation.In prior weeks, you learned about portions of the financial statements and how each is analyzed. This week, you will put it all together. Choose a publicly traded organization that is not used in the textbook and complete your own financial statement analysis.In your paper,Evaluate the past financial performance of the organization.Determine the organization’s future financial performance.Assess the organization’s financial statements to determine credit risk.Conduct a screen for the potential investment in the organization’s equity.Choose an analyst adjustment to report the organization’s financials.Explain how the chosen analyst adjustment may help in determining the value of the business.The Corporate Performance ReportMust be 10 to 12 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) guide.

A common size balance sheet or common size income statement expresses everything in percentages rather than in numbers. Your manager has just asked you why you need to spend the time and money to have your analyst create both a common size and a regular balance sheet and income statement.  How would you respond to her?

review the financials of plug power inc. in Yahoo! Finance and the SEC EDGAR database in the Filings & Forms (Links to an external site.) page. You can access the financials by going to the Yahoo! Finance website, typing in the stock symbol of your organization, and then clicking on the Financials tab. After you have read, you will continue analyzing the financial health of the company. In other words, using the ratios provided by Robinson, Henry, Pirie, and Broihahn (2015), you will continue building a comprehensive financial statement analysis of your company.In your paper,Calculate the following ratios:Debt-to-assets ratioDebt-to-capital ratioDebt-to-equity ratioFinancial leverage ratioInterest coverage ratioFixed charge coverage ratioEvaluate the company’s solvency, based on the ratios calculated above.Recommend three areas that the company could improve in order to strengthen its financial position, based on the ratios calculated above.Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references page) and formatted according to APA.

Write ONE paragraph ANSWERING THIS QUESTION and no plagiarism and no title page 1.Financial Statement Analysis, specifically Ratio Analysis is often performed by managers, investors, and creditors. What is the primary goal of each of these groups when evaluating ratios? FOR THIS ONE JUST WRITE A PARAGRAPH ANSWERING TO THIS DISCUSSION POST BY ANOTHER STUDENT.  2. Financial Statement Analysis (FSA is the process of analyzing the financial statements of a company to evaluate its profitability and financial performance is referred as financial system analysis. The purpose of financial analysis is to ascertain business assets and stock. Financial statements such as income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement are used to calculate financial ratios that are used to ascertain profitability, liquidity, efficiency as well as solvency. There are several ways to analyze financial statements. such as Horizontal analysis, Vertical analysis, and a Ration analysis. Horizontal analysis is the process of analyzing the financial performance of a company by comparing its performance in various periods is known as horizontal analysis. Trend analysis is type of horizontal analysis used to calculate the changes in economic cycle of a business for several years in terms of changes in percentage using one of the years as base year. Vertical analysis is the process of evaluating the financial performance of a company by comparing with various companies is known as vertical analysis. Common-size analysis is a form of vertical analysis which shows the percentages of each item in relation to its base item. Ratio analysis is the analysis of a company using the financial ratios and comparing its trends and measure its performance within the company and the companies of the industry is known as ratio analysis. The main categories of ratio analyses are liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, activity ratios, and leverage ratios. Financial Statement Analysis Definition (investopedia.com)  (Links to an external site.) Methods of Analyzing a Financial Statement (chron.com)