Purpose of Assignment

To locate, retrieve, and evaluate the effects of macroeconomic indicators on your own decision making.

Assignment Steps

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Scenario: Consider your last big purchase such as a car, appliances, home repairs, home purchase, computer equipment, college tuition, or another “big-ticket” item, which are often purchased using loans/financing (by borrowing money). Also consider your decision-making process that led you to choose a particular make, model, or brand of the product (or service) you purchased and whether it was the right time to make the purchase given economic conditions at the time of your purchase. While analyzing your decision, keep in mind everything from interest rates to the prices of complementary and substitute goods are driven by human economic behavior.

Develop a minimum 1,050-word analysis of your decision-making process in which you include the following:

• Retrieve statistics on Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and on Real Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) by year for the last ten years. You can retrieve those statistics from internet sources including, but not limited to, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis’s FRED web site, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) web site, or another credible source of your choice. Post these statistics in a single worksheet of an Excel^® workbook and submit your Excel^® file with your report. In your report, discuss the latest 10-year trends in both GDP and PCE. Also discuss how the trends in GDP compare with trends in PCE. You are encouraged to include graphs of these statistics in your report; you could create the graphs in Excel^®and copy them into your report.
• Retrieve statistics on the Effective Federal Funds Rate and on the Consumer Price Index: All Items Less Food and Energy by year for the last 30 years. You can retrieve those statistics from internet sources including, but not limited to, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis’s FRED web site, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site, or other credible sources of your choice. Post these statistics in a single worksheet of an Excel^® workbook and submit your Excel^® file with your report. In your report, discuss how the trends in the Effective Federal Funds Rate compare with trends in inflation. If you took out a loan to pay for your “big-ticket” purchase, what was the interest rate on your loan? Were interest rates rising or falling at that time? Were interest rates relatively high or low at that time? You are also encouraged to include graphs of these statistics in your report.
• Discuss the influence of any Federal government or state government programs, such as tax credits or tax deductions for energy-saving/efficiency purchases, on your decision to make your last big purchase; or if government incentives did not factor into your decision, explain why not.
• Develop conclusions about the economy’s influence on personal and business decision-making relative to purchases of big-ticket items, investments, or other major purchases.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources. Note: The Federal Reserve of St. Louis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics can be cited to fulfill this requirement.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Use headlines such as introduction and conclosion

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. Be sure you submit your paper as well as the two required Excel^® files.

 

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This is not fiction, it is a real example.

I teach in another online university that pays me the same compensation per course since year 2010. I have politely asked one month ago if the amount was going to be the same in year 2017. One hundred dollars in year 2010 are $ 114 today. The answer was that they are not thinking in “increasing” the salaries this year.

As the purchasing power of this compensation has declined, I have four alternatives:

1. Work more, for example increasing the numbers of hours dedicated to tutoring,

2. Buy less expensive goods (drink water instead of Tropicana Orange Juice).

3. Reduce the time I spent with the class (it means reduce the quality of teaching).

4. Quit in that university and look for another job.(in another university or in a private company).

Read about the income and substitution effects and give me your advice. Explain your answer.

Suggested Videos:

The labor-Leisure Problem.

Office Hours: Substitution and Income Effect.

Minimum 150 words. This is a discussion question, not a paper. Cite all work.

 

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anybody can help me write this assignment? It is about the Renaissance Time Frame for HUMA 1301. The requirements is attached below. there are 2 files attached, one is some requirements from teacher and another is the example.

i want your guys follow requirements and the sample exactly, because she requires a high level in this assignment.

 

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Video:

Christiana Figueres: The Inside Story of the Paris Climate Agreement

Readings:

• Frito-Lay North America: The Making of a Net Zero Snack Chip,” Darden Business Publishing UVA-ENT-0112
• Corporate Greenhouse Gas Accounting: Carbon Footprint Analysis

Podcast:

• Podcast
  Transcript

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Week 4 Assignment 1: Frito-Lay Case

GHG Accounting Problem

Frito-Lay is considering an ambitious plan to take its Casa Grande, Arizona manufacturing plant “off the grid” through the installation of the latest energy saving and water saving technologies. The plant makes Lay’s potato chips, Doritos tortilla chips, Fritos corn chips, and Cheetos cheese flavored snacks. The plant uses energy in the two principal forms: natural gas from their local pipeline supplier and electricity from the grid. The energy is used to power production equipment, heat ovens, and to heat cooking oil. The company also uses water from the local water utility.

After the energy upgrades are installed, the company expects a 75% reduction in water use, an 80% reduction in natural gas consumption, and a 90% reduction in purchased electricity. Frito-Lay calls this plan the Net Zero Plan. The company’s historical and projected consumption of electricity and natural gas are shown in the attached spreadsheet.

For this assignment, you should carefully apply the methodology for calculated greenhouse gases described in the “Corporate Greenhouse Gas Accounting: Carbon Footprint Analysis” case, and understand the difference between Scope 1 emissions and Scope 2 emissions. Then you should complete the following two tasks:

Frito-Lay Student Template Excel Document

Task 1: Refer to the case exhibits and then fill in the data in the Excel spreadsheet to compute the GHG emissions for the Net Zero Plan assuming that the plan is implemented fully on January 1, 2008. In the final step (Step 6), you will compute the estimated total dollar savings for Frito-Lay for the period 2008-2010.

Task 2: Write a one-paragraph capital spending justification for the project.

Submit your two completed documents (Excel and Word)

GHG Accounting Problem

Task 1: Refer to the case exhibits and then fill in the data in the Excel spreadsheet to compute the GHG emissions for the Net Zero Plan assuming that the plan is implemented fully on January 1, 2008. In the final step (Step 6), you will compute the estimated total dollar savings for Frito Lay for the period 2008-2010.

Frito Lay SOLUTION Excel Document

 

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Write an essay that compares and contrasts the different positions offered by Piehowski, Epp, Flory, and Laski, as well as your own, in regard to Lee’s Bamboozled.

Deliverables

• a 750-1000-word essay

Activity Details

Perform the following steps:

Step 1: Reflect.

Reflect on the reading you’ve done for this topic and your reflections to each of the readings.

Step 2: Compare and Contrast.

Take note of your impression of the film Bamboozled

and those of the scholars in this topic. How does your impression

resonate and differ? Organize your essay in a logical format using both

your ideas and theirs.

Step 3: Write an Essay.

Write a

750-1000-word essay that compares and contrasts the different positions

offered by Piehowski, Epp, Flory, and Laski in regard to Lee’s Bamboozled.

Your essay should also address your position in relation to the film?

Do you think Lee achieves the aims for the film he discusses in the

assigned interview from Cineaste, or does he fail? Make sure to

offer support for your argument by using examples from the film. Please

use in-text citations as well as a References page per APA formatting

guidelines.

 

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