0.15 | 2 with 3: +0.05 | A portfolio is formed as follows: sell short $1‚000 of Stock 1; buy $1‚500 of Stock 2; buy $1‚500 of Stock 3. The investor uses $1‚000 of his own equity‚ with the remaining amount borrowed at a risk-free interest rate of 4% (with continuous compounding). (a) Assuming that there are no restrictions on the use of short-sale proceeds‚ what is this investors expected rate of return? (b) What are some of the issues associated with short-selling‚ and what impact
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Chapter 9: Organizational Structure and Design 9.1 Designing Organizational Structure Discuss the traditional and contemporary views of work specialization‚ chain of command‚ and span of control. Describe each of the five forms of departmentalization. Differentiate authority‚ responsibility and unity of command. Explain how centralization/decentralization and formalization are used in organizational design. Work specialization: dividing work activities into separate job task whereby individual
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her product in and around Luzon‚ or it will be profitable to market in a large segregate with high market potential? OBJECTIVES Achieve your sales budget of 1‚000‚000 numbers in the first year and a growth of 25 percent per year for subsequent 4 years. Make your product (Swish flow fan) more affordable but still can meet your target sales. Monitor salesperson’s performance by means of activity evaluation
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definitions and interpretations. Leadership in the 21st century is changing and causing old measures of performance to become outdated (Clawson‚ 2006). However‚ Leadership Theories and Practice (LDR) enlighten students to understand the theories‚ applications‚ and importance of leadership. Throughout the LDR course and assessments‚ I will further discuss my learning in a reflective leadership plan. The reflective leadership plan will include the following factors about the author: leadership style
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Week 4 Understanding Strategic Forces Paper LDR/300 Leading schools forward in times of financial uncertainty Today many school teachers as result of the political interventions prefer not to be at helm of the process of developing a school. This has been the case in the recent past since the general election. This has really caught up my attention so much that I have now given up listing to music on my way to school and have sought to listen to the daily news on the radio instead to find out on
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As you know‚ eight months ago we entered into a contract with Citizen-Schwarz AG to create custom e-banking software. The agreed contract outlined the details of the arrangement‚ including on-schedule delivery and quality of the deliverables‚ strong communication between both parties‚ procedures for any changes in the system requirements‚ intellectual property rights‚ and dispute management procedures. Depending on our performance‚ we were projecting to gain an additional contract with C-S’s larger
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1. Betty is married to Abel‚ a successful engineer. They have a joint account which gives them both an American Impress credit card‚ which they have had for years. They have always made the payments on time and over the years the credit limit has gone up and up. Abel has a skiing accident and dies. A month later‚ Betty gets a notice that her American Impress card has been cancelled. To make matters worse‚ the fact that her card has been cancelled is reported to a credit reporting company‚ which hurts
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Consider the situation where you are working under contract for another organization. If you are given a set of project specifications (detailed requirements)‚ to what degree should you attempt to understand the needs behind these requirements before or after starting the project? Ultimately I want my project to be a success. I want to run the project the client wants and drive to the business solution the client needs. In order to do that well‚ I think it’s very important to understand the needs
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Waits and Sons is a landscaping business operating as a family business since 2007 (Waits‚ 2012). Matt Waits has been the contracted landscaper for the residence at 411 N Wayman Street for the past three years. In a recent interview‚ Waits answered the following questions: • How and when would you determine the need to create a job position within your business? As contracts are signed and the demands for more maintenance visits grow‚ we will be looking to fill new positions. In fact‚ we are
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Abstract As a health care organization‚ it is important that the Saint John’s Hospital takes the security and privacy of its patients’ information very seriously. Patient information in the Saint John’s Hospital is electronic and managed by the information systems department. In the organization‚ the security and privacy of all information is the responsibility of the Information Systems (IS) Manager. As the IS Manager‚ based on the following information on security and privacy‚ a Management Plan
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