BUS522 Complete Coure Latest 2022 September (Full)
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 1 Discussion
Annual Report Highlights
Use either EDGAR or a company’s website to locate their annual report. Provide the reference in APA to the annual report.
Discuss a few highlights of their financial statements, including the definition of the line items you are highlighting and what it tells you about the company.
In response to your peers, explain if you would or would not invest in the company.
The Great Recession
The past can offer us an opportunity to understand and fine tune our understanding of the present and future. Using either the text book or other readings.
Discuss the key factors that lead to the Great Recession of 2017.
Explain why these key factors are important to future financial market.
Provide an example of how the Great Recession has shaped today’s financial market.
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 2 Discussion
Bond Risk
Most people view bonds in highly rated companies or municipalities as “safe” investments.
If you could safely say that the bond originator will not default, what are the other risks to holding a bond?
Provide an example of how you could lose money on a default free bond.
In response to your peers, are all the risks captured? What are some ways, looking at your own investments, you could balance the risks?
Annuity
What are the upsides and downsides to annuities for retirees?
What future assumptions do you have to make about market conditions for annuities to make sense for retirees?
In response to your peers, discuss any other upside and downsides to annuities for retirees that may not have been presented in the post. Considering the assumptions made, what could be some potential outcomes?
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 3 Discussion
Mutually Exclusive Events
What is the meaning of mutually exclusive events? Are mutually exclusive (or disjointed) events independent or dependent? Provide an example of such events and explain your reason.
What is meant by collectively exhaustive events? Explain how it relates to mutually exclusive with an example.
In response to your peers, do you believe these events are mutually exclusive? Do you have similar experiences?
Examples in your World
The past three units have covered a many different topics and models from corporate structures, to nominal distributions, to anchoring bias. Though the examples are geared toward finance they can be used in many industries or other situations. Taking what was covered so far, how can these tools be useful in your career or personal life? Feel free to expand on the topic and please include at least one reference.
In response to your peers, what do you think of the example? Are there other statistical methods, models or data that could be useful?
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 4 Discussion
Opportunity Cost
Think of a project in your work or personal life you have or would like to do: what are the capital and opportunity costs associated with it? For example, are there sunk costs? Are there any capital costs associated with the project?
In response to your peers, can you think of other market factors or externalities that may factor into the costs?
NPV
Summarize two of the capital budgeting methods using the textbooks as well as your own research.
What are some advantages and disadvantages of them?
When assessing the value of two projects, what other criteria should be included, if any?
In response to your peers: Do you agree with the criteria? Are there any capital expenditures in your life that you go beyond NPV to judge?
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 5 Discussion
Corporate Governance
Using either the material within this unit or doing your own research find an example of failed corporate governance. Discuss why you believe it happened as well as ways you believe it could be avoided.
In response to your peers, do you agree with your classmate’s assessment on the root causes of the governance failure? Would there be other controls you would put place or process you would change to keep it from happening again?
Value-Based Management
Looking at your organization what are some processes that you would think value-based management would be helpful, what are some value drivers you have identified and how would you forecast their effect?
In response to your peers: Do you have similar experience with those value drivers? What, if any, data do you believe could help your classmate forecast the outcome of the process change?
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 6 Discussion
Personal Inventory
After watching the video on inventory, what is something in your personal inventory? Try and go through the examples shown in the video. For example, what is your consumption rate, what are the holding costs and how many do you believe you should have on hand and why?
In response to your peers, what are some other things that might play into your classmate’s inventory example? What other holding costs can you see and what are some things that would affect the forecasts of that item in your life?
Qualitative and Quantitative Forecasting
Why is it important for managers to be able to utilize methods of making decisions or forecasting that are both quantitative and qualitative in nature? Can you recount an instance where a business you've worked for or are familiar with, has made both a qualitative-based and a quantitative-based decision in the same business area? In addition, please provide an example of an instance where you have had to make a decision or forecast and how you came to the conclusion.
In response to your peers, what data, either qualitative or quantitative would you like to have in that situation? How would it have helped?
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 7 Discussion
Deciding on a Decision
Think of a decision that you have had to make in your work (you may use the example you used in the Unit 6 DB) and walk through the five steps listed in section 8.2 of the Managerial Decision Modeling textbook. You do not need to create the model but speak to the inputs that would be involved.
In response to your peers, what, if anything, would you add to each step? Thinking of the MECE framework, what other solutions do you think could have been modeled out?
Break Even
Take a process and try and breakout the fixed and unit costs, and what revenue (think per unit or per hour) that item would have to bring either to you, or your organization to break even. For example, if you were driving for uber, what are the fixed and variable costs of the car, and how much per hour would you have to make to break even? Try to find data where you can and estimate otherwise.
In response to your peers, do you agree with their analysis/assumptions? What other costs would you factor in?
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Unit 8 Discussion
Doing Business in Other Countries
Using research from the library (e.g., ProQuest, IBIS world and the like) pick a country:
What are some things you need to think about when doing business there?
How stable is their currency, and what affect does their currency have on your purchasing power?
What customs or ethical rules might need to be adjusted?
In response to your peers, what are some differences between the country you posted vs. your classmates? What adjustments would you make to your business model working in that country?
Cash Cycle
Looking at the organization you work for, or an industry you are interested in, what are some factors that would go into your cash conversion strategy? How long do you hold inventory, if you have it, and why?
In response to your peers, how does your industry compare with what has been posted? What are some other factors you might think play into the perfect net working capital amount?
Topics with Greatest Impact for You (Optional)
Thinking back on the prior units, what topics interested you most? Share with the class what you think you learned that had the most direct application to your current role or a role you would like in the future.
In response to your peers, what did you think about that topic and what real-world experiences have you had, if any, with that topic?
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 2 Assignment
Time Value of Money
Overview:
Suppose you bought a house and took out a mortgage for $50,000. The interest rate is 8%, and you must amortize the loan over 10 years with equal end-of-year payments.
For tax purposes, you must predict the yearly interest expense.
Instructions:
• Create an amortization schedule in a table in Microsoft Excel.
• Each row and column should be clearly labeled. Columns should include at a minimum:
o Beginning Amount,
o Payment Amount,
o and Interest for each year.
• Create a graph that shows how the payments are divided between interest and principal repayment over time.
Requirements:
• Microsoft Excel file
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 3 Assignment
Dividends
Overview:
You have been hired to do some due diligence for a famous investor from Omaha who is interested in investing in one of two companies, Goodman or Landry Corp. The investor has given you Goodman Corporation’s and Landry Incorporated’s stock prices and dividends, along with the Market Index, in the attached spreadsheet. Stock prices are reported for December 31 of each year, and dividends reflect those paid during the year. The market data are adjusted to include dividends. You must use this data to compete the supplied models.
Instructions:
• Start with the partial model in the file Ch06 P15 Build a Model.xlsx.
• Answer questions a-g within the workbook.
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 6 Assignment
Firefly Shipping Model
Overview:
Mal Foil the owner of Firefly Shipping has asked you to create a model to project the number of units they must be prepared to ship in the first month of the new year. Mal has supplied you with a template of what he would like to see.
Instructions:
• Download: Unit 06 Assignment – Firefly Shipping Model.xlsx
• Mal also has a specific set of requirements:
o use a 3-month weighted average to forecast January.
o see how the 3-month weighted average method would perform against historical data.
o see the 3-month weighted average charted out within the model.
o Mal is not sure how what weights he would like to use. Your model should allow him to adjust the weights, listed in G4-I4, and see these changes change the models output.
• The 3-month weighted average formula is listed below:
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= (????????−1∗????????−1)+(????????−2∗????????−2)+(????????−3∗????????−3)
(????????−1+????????−2+????????????−3)
o Ft = The forecasted values (column D)
o Wt-X = the weight for the prior months. For example, if Ft = April then, Wt-1 would equal to March, Wt-2 would equal February and Wt-3 would equal January.
o Ut-X = the units for the prior months, similar to how the weights work.
BUS522 Financial Tools for Managers
Unit 7 Assignment
Steve’s Mountain Bicycle Shop
Steve’s Mountain Bicycle Shop is considering three options for its facility next year. Steve can expand his current shop, move to a larger facility, or make no change. With a good market, the annual payoff would be $76,000 if he expands, $90,000 if he moves, and $40,000 if he does nothing. With an average market, his payoffs will be $30,000,
$41,000, and $15,000, respectively. With a poor market, his payoff will be –$17,000, –
$28,000, and $4,000, respectively. This assignment will explore Maximax, Minimax, and Maximin using this scenario for Steve’s Mountain Bicycle Shop.
Instructions:
• Create an Excel Document that shows which options Steve should pick in each of the below situations:
o Maximax,
o Maximin,
o Equally likely,
o Option if Steve uses criterion of realism at α = 0.4 (Hurwicz),
o Minimax
• The table(s) should be clearly presented and labeled. It should include information on the possible outcomes as well as the best choice in each of the above listed.
• You may be creative in the presentation, so test your formatting skills!
Requirements:
• Microsoft Excel file
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