Discussion Questions- Week 4 * What is the economy’s current stage in the business cycle? Support your answer with an article written within the last week from the popular press or blog. In light of the text readings‚ evaluate the article and the source of the article. Based on the information‚ determine where the economy fits in the business cycle. [Objective 4.1] * * There are differing views as to where the economy’s current stage in the business cycle is and as is common in politics
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Optimal Size Of A Firm The optimum size of a firm is a very subjective idea. The ways in which size can help or hinder a firm vary from which angle you a looking at the situation from. Size can have its benefits and its drawbacks‚ and each firm will have its own benefits and drawbacks that come from either increasing in size‚ or remaining small‚ and these will depend on the market in which the firm is in‚ the current economy‚ and in some cases the preferences of the manager(s). For example a
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From a financial perspective‚ what metric(s) should be calculated and why? The main purpose of taking on a project is to generate profit for the firm. Therefore the core concern should be if this project will return a profit and when. The clearest way to identify the profit potential is to calculate the breakeven point; this is the point when the firm can expect to start earning a profit. Also in deciding to do this project calculating the various types of cash flow will be helpful in understanding
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Creating efficient frontiers using excel. Suppose we have 3 risky assets whose net return has the mean vector and variancecovariance matrix given below: Asset Mean VarianceCovariance Matrix 1 2 3 0.06 0.12 0.03 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 1 Weights Ones Mean Portfolio Return 1 1 1 0.176666122 Portfolio Portfolio Portfolio Variance STD Constraint 2.42961 1.558721 1 0.079372 1.603166 -0.68254 To model the portfolio choice problem‚ I begin by highlighting the mean vector and giving
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OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE The optimal capital structure for a company should be the mix of equity‚ debt and hybrid instruments that minimizes the overall cost of funding‚ i.e. it should minimize the company’s weighted average cost of capital. In practice‚ however‚ it is not possible to specify this optimal capital structure exactly‚ for any individual company. It clearly makes sense to obtain funds at the lowest possible cost. In the long run‚ debt is cheaper than equity. However‚ when a company’s
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is the decision making process for Metabical? 1. Who is involved in the decision making process? What is the decision making process for Metabical? 2. How should Printup think about the segmentation of potential Metabical consumers?Who is the optimal target consumer? 3. How should CSP identify and employ the differential advantages that Metabical offers to position itself in the marketplace? 4. Given the position strategy you chose‚ what would be your communications strategy to eachof your target
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11 - 1 11 - 2 Choosing the Optimal Capital Budget Finance theory says to accept all positive NPV projects. Two problems can occur when there is not enough internally generated cash to fund all positive NPV projects: Increasing Marginal Cost of Capital Externally raised capital can have large flotation costs‚ which increase the cost of capital. Investors often perceive large capital budgets as being risky‚ which drives up the cost of capital. (More...) An increasing marginal
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ECON2272 Long Paper 1 Division of Labour—are there “optimal” levels? In his book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations‚ Smith (1887) has put forward the argument that division of labour helps improve average labour productivity. It was suggested that a lack of specialization hinders labour productivities. However‚ over the years‚ scholars have also found out the limitations of practising division of labour‚ examples include the decrease of incentives for workers due to
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TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES ON-THE-JOB TRAINING / PRACTICUM WEEKLY REPORT Name of Student Trainee: John Patrick R. De Mesa Name of Company: Department of Environment and Natural Resources - FMB DAILY WORK ACTIVITIES Week 1 |DAY |DATE |DAILY ACCOMPLISHMENTS |NO. OF WORKING | | | |
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| Lecture on First Nations Education. |Feb 25: | |Readings: Levine-Rasky‚ pp. 142-182 |Feb 11‚ |1-Group Project on Sexism at school by: | |Weekly response 1 due: Feb 11 |2- Group Project on schooling and First |Erica‚ Amie‚ Monique‚ Rozina & Kailie | | |Nations by: |3- Group Project on Schools‚
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