Business & Finance

The purpose of this assignment is to assess your energy balance and health outcome.Input your 3-day activity data into the Activity Journal within iProfile®.Write at least a 525-word response in APA format addressing the following questions:What are your current exercise habits?According to iProfile® report, what were your total expended calories? Provide a screenshot of your results summary.From Week 4, what was the average amount of calories you consumed through food?Are you in energy deficiency, balance, or excess?What everyday changes, if any, might you make to increase the amount of energy expended in your day-to-day activities?What types and amounts of exercise would work best for you?Can you perform these activities year-round? If not, suggest alternative activities and locations for inclement weather.Create a screenshot of your results summary by:Inputting your data within the Activity Journal oniProfile® after selecting the right dates. Access the energy balance report to determine how many calories you burned during the 3-day period. Access the Activity Journal Summary and the Energy Balance. Provide a screenshot of the results summary.Include references with citations in APA format.The Grading Guide for 3-Day Activity Analysis will be used for this assignment 

 During week eight we will be focused on cost volume profit analysis. We will be looking at the ways that cost, volume, and profit interact. This can be critical for a business to understand. Failure to understand these items can lead to a business failing. For our discussion board post in week four please be sure to read chapter 7. Then locate a news article about a store or business that has shut down and provide a link to the article. Then provide a summary of the article in your own words and brainstorm why this business or store may have failed. Then answer the question “What are some aspects of cost volume profit that may have been at play that led to the closure of this business?” Be sure to integrate the concepts of cost volume profit that you are learning about this week into your post. 

Discussion Question 1 (20 points)Discuss the three (3) types of needs assessment (analyses) and explain why each is important to the needs assessment process. (20 points) (A 1-page response is required.)

Within the Week 4 Assignment Forum, review and discuss Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) concepts as follows:When creating your initial post, assume you are the CFO of Hankins Corporation. Given the key financial data below, perform a detailed and thorough financial analysis (show and explain all calculations) that includes the following:Describe the firm’s market value capital structure:What is the market value for each type of financing used by the firm: equity, preferred stock, and debt?What is the total market value for Hankins Corporation?What are the respective market value weights for each component of the firm’s financing (equity, preferred stock, and debt)?If the firm is evaluating a new investment project that has the same risk as the firm’s typical project, what rate should the firm use to discount the project’s cash flows? Hint: the firm’s WACC is the appropriate discount rate. Compute Hankins’ WACC:What is the cost of equity using CAPM?If the YTM of the bonds is 5.93%, and YTM represents the cost of debt, what is the after-tax cost of this debt?What is the cost of the firm’s preferred stock?Based on this information, what is the WACC for Hankins Corporation?Key financial data for Hankins Corporation:Common stock outstanding = 5.4 million shares; market value = $64/share; beta = 1.135.6% Preferred stock outstanding = 290,000 shares issued with par value = $100 each. Current market value of preferred stock = $103/share. 6.7% semi-annual bonds outstanding = 125,000 bonds issued withpar value = $1,000 each; market value is 109% of par; all bonds mature in 20 years.Market risk premium = 6.8%T-bills current yield = 4.3%Corporate tax rate = 34%

write job description for each of the following  job titles:1. Newspaper Editor2. Daycare center director3. Financial analyststep1: perform job analysisstep2: establish the essential functionsstep3: organize the data conciselstep4: add disclaimerstep5: add the signature linesstep6: finalize

1.As a manager, discuss how you would use or have used the concepts presented in chapters 9capital budget and operating budget.2. Why might managers find a flexible-budget analysis more informative than static-budget analysis?3. How might a manager gain insight into the causes of flexible-budget variances for direct materials, labor, and overhead? Provide at least one numerical example to support your thoughts

A SWOT Analysis is a very common tool used in strategic planning. Basically, it is a list of the organization’s Strengths and Weaknesses (internal) and Opportunities and Threats (external). Your task is to collaborate with your team in the Company Discussion Page and complete a comprehensive list of the internal and external factors that may impact your organization. Again, this is a simulated company so I expect you to use strong critical thinking skills to predict what factors would be in play for your company.Submit a reflection paper discussing your experience this week.

   Task 1Give an overview of the concept of agile project management and be sure to include in your discussion the concepts of a sprint, planning meeting, stand-up meeting, scrum Master, Product Owner, backlog, a story, etc. How do you become a certified Scrum Master – refer to the scrum alliance and Scum.org ms of slack be important to a project manager?Task 2Reflect on the assigned readings for Week and then type a 1.5 page paper regarding what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.  Define and describe what you thought was worthy of your understanding in half a page, and then explain why you felt it was important, how you will use it, and/or how important it is in project planning. 

Why is it critical for company managers to have a clear strategic vision regarding their organization?  Write the discussion about 450 words excluding the reference page.

Discuss the main differences between deduction for AGI and deduction from AGI. Which deductions do the taxpayers prefer?