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Financial Problem
We, Executives of the F & H company, are reviewing complaints from the investors about the company’s slow growth of profits and dividends.
Unlike those doubters, we have confidence in the long-run demand for mechanical encabulators, despite competing digital products. We are, therefore, determined to invest to maintain our share of the overall encabulator market.
F&H has a rigorous CAPEX approval process, and we are confident of returns around 8% on investment. That’s a far better return than F&H earns on its cash holdings. The CFO went on to explain that F&H invested excess cash in short-term U.S. government securities, which are almost entirely risk-free but offered only a 4% rate of return.
Please answer the following questions in detail, provide examples whenever applicable, support your argument with citing peer-reviewed sources.
a. Is a forecasted 8% return in the encabulator business necessarily better than a 4% safe return on short-term U.S. government securities? Justify why or why not?
b. Is F&H’s opportunity cost of capital 4%?
c. How in principle should the CFO determine the cost of capital?
Cloud Backups And Archiving Deployment Runbook
You have completed your backup deployment to AWS and are monitoring the resource consumption using CloudWatch, so now you must put everything together for BallotOnline’s leadership to review.
In this step, you will create and submit your consolidated Cloud Backups and Archive Deployment Runbook. The runbook will be eight to 10 pages.
The Cloud Backups and Archiving Deployment Runbook will enable you to consolidate all the work that you have completed in the previous steps along with some additional elements you will create (scope, executive summary) to build a comprehensive runbook. Sophia will present your work for approval at the executive meeting.
Use the Cloud Backups and Archiving Deployment Runbook Template to write your backups and archiving runbook and submit it via the dropbox below.
Check Your Evaluation Criteria
Before you submit your assignment, review the competencies below, which your instructor will use to evaluate your work. A good practice would be to use each competency as a self-check to confirm you have incorporated all of them. To view the complete grading rubric, click My Tools, select Assignments from the drop-down menu, and then click the project title.
- 6.2: Demonstrate the role of networking in cloud.
- 6.7: Assess cloud storage providers.
- 9.1: Develop a plan for cloud implementation / migration.
- 9.2: Develop a user training plan.
- 9.3: Develop documentation (plans, policies, and procedures) to support cloud operation.
- 9.5: Design virtualized network infrastructure to meet business needs.
- 9.6: Design cloud storage infrastructure to meet business needs.
- 10.1: Develop and implement cloud metering system.
- 10.7: Configure a public cloud infrastructure using industry leading provider(s).
- 11.2: Monitor cloud services charges from vendors and make adjustments to stay within budget.
African American consciousness
Use this space to submit your thoughts on your reading of Exodus, in connection with either David Walker or Richard Wright. How do you think the story of Exodus has shaped African American consciousness? What issues do you see in the text that had relevance to either Walker or Wright? Are those themes still relevant today? At the end of your response, include one or two questions you’d like to raise during our discussion of the text on Wednesday. One page, double spaced, response (about 250 words)
Blockchain, Big Data And Global Economy
The final portfolio project is a three- part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare your paper as one research paper. Be sure to include at least two to three (2 – 3) Scholarly source per prompt, (which means you’ll have at least 7 sources cited). Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.
- Prompt 1 Blockchain (3 pages): Explain the major components of blockchain. Be sure to include how blockchain is affecting a global economy and how you see it growing in the future.
- Prompt 2 Big Data (3 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how you’ve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology? How does big data affect a global economy.
- Prompt 3 Government and Policies (3 pages): Discuss the role government plays in a global economy. Also, look at what policies are currently in place and then discussion what policies should be put in place.
Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section (2 pages long).Your paper should meet the following requirements:
- Be approximately 10 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
- Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, In-cite text and a conclusion.
- Support your answers with the readings from the course, the course textbook, and at least ten scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The google scholar is a great place to find supplemental resources.
- Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.
Behavioural Economics
Question 1. (25%)
Albert and Beth are looking at a new camera at a store that oers a no-questions-asked
return policy. They are not sure the new features are worth it. Albert decides to take one
home, thinking that he can always return it tomorrow. Beth decides against taking one home,
thinking that she can always come back and pick one up tomorrow. They are both loss averse
over cameras, with the same value function over cameras:
v(x) = x for gains
v(x) = 2x for losses
They both use their endowments as their reference points. Ignore any transaction costs.
1. After Albert has taken his camera home, he incorporates it into his endowment. How
much of a loss in utility would he incur by returning it tomorrow?
2. Beth, who does not take her camera home, does not incorporate it into her endowment.
How much of a foregone gain in utility does the camera she does not own represent to
her?
3. Who is more likely to end up the owner of the camera, Albert or Beth?
4. Does this help to explain why stores are willing to oer the no-questions-asked return
policy despite the potential costs on repackaging and refurbishment?
Question 2. (25%)
Sam’s preferences over cake, c, and money, m, can be represented by the utility function
u (c;m) = c + 4m + (c ???? rc) + 4 (m ???? rm)
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where rc is his cake reference point, rm is his money reference point, and the function () is
dened as
(z) =
8<
:
z z 0
3z z < 0
:
1. If his reference point is the status quo (that is, his initial endowment), what is the
maximum price Sam would be willing to pay to buy a cake?
(Hint: use the indierence condition that Sam’s utility does not change after gaining a
cake and losing his willingness-to-pay.)
2. If his reference point is the status quo, what is the minimum price Sam would be willing
to accept to sell a cake he already owned?
3. If his reference point is the status quo, what is the minimum amount of money Sam
would be willing to accept instead of receiving a cake (that he did not already own)? In
other words, if Sam were a \chooser,” how much money would he demand to compensate
for not accepting a cake?
4. Use the concepts we discussed in class to explain your answers to Questions 2.1, 2.2,
and 2.3.
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