Finance is exciting! In this course, we learned how money can grow through the use of compounding and interest rates and your growth strategies may now be different. What are your new financial goals? Would you like to become more liquid, to save more for your retirement, or to start a new business? Whatever your goals, finance is right at the core. Think about what you learned in this course regarding investing to complete this assignment.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Describe (3) ways you will invest in your future based on the principles of finance discussed in this course. Include terminology from the course and use citations as necessary to support your explanation of the terminology.
2. Discuss one of the (3) ways you feel most confident as a way to invest in your future. Explain your level of confidence.
3. Of the (3) ways you will invest in your future, discuss the one you perceive might be the most challenging. Then, discuss how you might overcome some of those challenges.
4. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
   2. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   3. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.The cover page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the forms of business organizations and the role of financial managers within an organization.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in finance.
• Write clearly and concisely about finance using proper writing mechanics.

 

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Activity Instructions

For this component of the project, you will write an analysis of the following details associated with your chosen company and its industry:

• The microeconomic environment of corporate operations (that is, does the firm operate in an environment that is an oligopoly, or under monopolistic competition?).
• Regulatory issues that impact the company’s decisions (for example, environmental regulations and accounting regulations such as the Dodd-Frank Act or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act).
• Ethical issues that impact the company’s decisions.

Use your chosen company’s (APPLE CORPORATION) 10-K report to locate detailed information for your project. Support your analyses with examples from your chosen company as well as your course readings and resources, using proper APA format for all in-text citations and references at the end of each individual paper.

Review the Company Analysis course project description and requirements to ensure that all necessary work is completed. Use the grading criteria provided in the scoring rubric, along with the guidance for structuring your paper.

Submission Requirements

Before you submit your assignment to your instructor for grading, you should submit a final version of your paper to Turnitin. More information on the Turnitin Source Matching tool is available on iGuide.

• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th ed.) style and formatting.
• Resources: Minimum of 2 resources required.
• Length: 4 double-spaced, typed pages.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.

 

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Part 1: 

Calculate the NPV for the following capital budgeting proposal: $100,000 initial cost for equipment, straight-line depreciation over 5 years to a zero book value, $5,000 pre-tax salvage value of equipment, 35% tax rate, $45,000 additional annual revenues, $15,000 additional annual cash expenses, $8,000 initial investment in working capital to be recouped at project end, and a cost of capital of 11%. Should the project be accepted or rejected? (Show your work computing the NPV.)
 

Part 2: Essay  

Explain why bond prices fluctuate in response to changing interest rates. What adverse effect might occur if bond prices remain fixed prior to their maturity? 
 

Part 3:  

 A stock offers an expected dividend of $3.50, has a required return of 14%, and has historically exhibited a growth rate of 6%. Its current price is $35.00 and shows no tendency to change. How can you explain this price based on the constant-growth dividend discount model?
 
 

Part 4:  

Calculate the expected rate of return for the following portfolio, based on a Treasury bill yield of 4% and an expected market return of 13%: (Show your work)
 

Part 5: Essay 

Discuss the capital asset pricing model in general, the CAPM method of determining expected returns, and how the SML can be used to help predict the movement of a stock’s price.
 
 

Part 6: Essay 

Contrast the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor’s Composite Index.

 

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Discussion Question

•  Activity Instructions The U.S. Congress debates the new budget every fiscal year. Most Republicans want to reduce federal spending; most Democrats do not want to reduce spending and may, in some cases, seek to increase it. Choose a perspective, and in your post identify three reasons that the United States should, at present, seek to decrease or increase federal spending. In your rationale, be sure to reflect on the impact of government spending on GDP and national income. Draw on the readings from this unit (and other scholarly or journalistic sources, as appropriate) and units prior to support your assertions. Be sure to use APA format to cite sources

 

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PROBLEM 1

 You are a newspaper publisher. You are in the middle of a one-year rental contract for your factory that requires you to pay $500,000 per month, and you have contractual labor obligations of $1 million per month that you can’t get out of. You also have a marginal printing cost of $0.25 per paper as well as a marginal delivery cost of $0.10 per paper. If sales fall by 20 percent from 1 million papers per month to 800,000 papers per month, what happens to the AFC per paper, the MC per paper, and the minimum amount that you must charge to break even on these costs?

PROBLEM 2

    Assume that the cost data in the following table are for a purely competitive producer:

 Total                          Average       Average          Average          Marginal

 Product                 Fixed  Cost       Variable       Cost Total             Cost

              1                        $60.00           $45.00          $105.00            $45

              2                          30.00              42.50              72.50              40

              3                          20.00              40.00              60.00              35

              4                          15.00              37.50              52.50              30

              5                          12.00              37.00              49.00              35

              6                          10.00              37.50              47.50              40

              7                            8.57              38.57              47.14              45

              8                           7.50              40.63              48.13              55

              9                           6.67              43.33              50.00              65

           10                           6.00              46.50              52.50              75

a. At a product price of $56, what quantity of production will maximize profit?  Explain. What is the profit (or loss) per unit at that level of output?

  b. Answer the questions of part a assuming product price is $41.

  c. Answer the questions of part a assuming product price is $32.

PROBLEM 3

   A firm in a purely competitive industry is currently producing 1,000 units per day at a total cost of $450. If the firm produced 800 units per day, its total cost would be $300, and if it produced 500 units per day, its total cost would be $275. 

1. What are the firm’s ATC per unit at each of these three levels of production?
2. If every firm in this industry has the same cost structure, is the industry in long-run competitive equilibrium?
3. From what you know about these firms cost structures, what is the highest possible price per unit that could exist as the market price in long-run equilibrium?
4. If that price ends up being the market price and if the normal rate of profit is 10 percent, then what will each firm’s accounting profit per unit be?

 

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