The following statement is an example of circular reasoning: The need for an emergency shelter is critical in the metropolitan area. Without such a facility, the community is unable to provide shelter that is urgently needed.
Rewrite the above to correct the circular reasoning, or give an example of a well written needs/problem statement. What elements should be present in a quality needs/problem statement?
*Only needs to be a paragraph or two no format needed*
Airvalue Airways is a regional carrier whose strategy is to expand gradually as they can identify routes that offer an attractive return on the investment necessary to support successful coverage of the route. As part of this expansion, the company is planning to buy a new plane in the upcoming fiscal year. The purchasing department has narrowed the choice down to two models. One is the A220 which is manufactured in Europe. The other plane is the G435 which is built in the United States. The two aircraft have similar profiles. However, the locally-built G435 is significantly more expensive to purchase.
The A220 has an expected life of 5 years, will cost $90 million and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $30 million per year. The G435 has a life of 10 years, will cost $128 million, and its use will produce net operating cash inflows of $25 million per year. Airvalue plans to serve the route for 10 years. When they need to purchase a new A220 at the end of five years, the cost will be $115 million net after allowing for salvage value of the used plane. Net operating cash inflows will remain at $30 million throughout the second five years. At the end of 10 years, salvage value of the G435 and of the second A220 are expected to be about the same at approximately $500,000 each.
As the company’s CFO you are to provide the financial analysis that will be considered by the strategic planning executive committee during evaluation of this expansion alternative. Your plan is to use a capital budgeting approach to the analysis in order to best assure that the decision will result in maximization of wealth for the company’s stockholders. You also want to convert the entire committee to the concept that capital budgeting should be used as the main tool for the financial analysis of capital expenditure alternatives.
The company uses the historical difference in returns between the S&P 500 and the Treasury bond rates of 7% as their estimated market risk premium. The current yield to maturity on a 10-year Treasury bond is 6.2%. Airvalue Airways’ common-stock equity beta is estimated as 1.40.
Airvalue’s capital structure is 58% common stock, 32% preferred stock and 10% long-term debt. An 8.8% after tax cost of debt has been determined and the cost of preferred stock is 12%.
Your task is to:
To complete this assignment, you must submit a 6-8 page paper that addresses the seven elements of the task as listed above and exhibits your calculations of the cost of common stock, the weighted average cost of capital, and the NPV for each plane along with an explanation of the calculations.
The paper must be submitted as a Word document and it must follow APA style guidelines.
rite a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Comparing Tactical and Strategic Decisions
During this simulation, you have been making tactical and strategic decisions. Keeping these in mind, address the following questions:
Also, review the overall process by which your team worked together over the course of the simulation and answer the following questions:
Capital Budgeting Video
Thinking about capital investment proposals
When you are an executive at a company and are approached by someone who is proposing that the company make a capital investment expenditure, one HUGE consideration you need to remember is that each and every number except maybe the amount of the initial investment is a forecast. That means that the person presenting you with the proposal for investment has made a lot of assumptions. The numbers are not guaranteed.
What questions would you ask of someone who was asking for you to make a capital investment? When looking over their calculations for payback period, NPV, IRR, MIRR, or any of the other concepts we’re covering this week, what questions would you ask to be sure you agreed with their proposal and analysis?
Business Math, 9e
What will be useful?
As we delve into this last week of class and you are reviewing the material in preparation for your final exam, I hope you will reflect on all that you have learned in the class. What have you learned here that will be useful to you in your career or in your personal life?
Idealism refers to behavior or thought that is based on a conception of things as they should be or as one would like them to be. Realism is sometimes described as “warts and all,” existing in fact rather than something imagined. What are some contemporary examples that utilize idealism? Are the purposes the same as those of the Classical Greeks? Why do you think Romans developed realistic portraiture? What are some contemporary examples that utilize realism? Which do you prefer, realism or idealism?
What we have learned so far in this course is that students come to us from diverse backgrounds and have their own unique learning needs. We have also learned that the systems of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are grounded in differentiated instructional practices to form the basis of quality curriculum.
As noted in Week Two, you participate in your school’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) as developing experts in implementing differentiated instruction. For this assignment, you will create the content for a blog (not actually creating the blog at this time) that identifies differentiated assessment and teaching strategies. These strategies can be used to assess student mastery of the new Common Core State Standards while providing engaging and rigorous classroom instruction.
For the purpose of this assignment, you will be using a Word document (two to three pages) to create a prospective blog that can be designed online at another time.
Within your blog, you must:
Use your course text and at least two scholarly articles from the Ashford University Library or Google Scholar to support your research. Your paper will be formatted according to APA guidelines including title and reference pages.
1) Privacy policies are found all over the Web. Pick three web sites with privacy policies and compare and contrast them. What do they include and what is missing? (10 Points)
2) If you were supplying electronic voting machines for an election, what could you do to violate individuals’ privacy rights? That is, suggest some not readily apparent ways you could rig the machines to make it possible to determine after the election who had voted for which candidates. (10 Points)
How does Greenberg apply the modern concept of sustainability to California — specifically, its legacy, its illusions, its prominent sectors? What does she term “market-driven sustainability” and what alternative approaches does she propose? What principles can you distill from her research?