...Corporate Finance 1 Group assignment (Version 1) Group assignment instructions The objective of the group assignment is to promote deep thinking on a selected range of topics and to develop your practical quantitative modelling skills. The assessment is a group assignment and should be performed in your allocated groups (usually between 4 and 6 people). Seeking assistance from anyone outside your group or providing assistance to any other group constitutes academic misconduct and will be taken seriously by the university (however, you are allowed to provide assistance to the other members of your own group). If there is any significant similarity between the reports submitted by two or more groups for a particular question, then those group leaders will score zero for that question in the assignment. The mark for the rest of the group will be unaffected. Further action may be taken by the university against any specific group members who have obtained or provided assistance The assignment includes 6 questions (each with sub-parts). Your group must attempt one question for each person in the group (minimum 4 and maximum 6). Four of the questions are compulsory and must be attempted by all groups. The remaining two questions are optional and will be attempted by groups with more than 4 people (or individuals in a group of 4 who would like to lead 2 questions). Each member of your group should take the role of leader for 1 or 2 questions. It is expected that the leader...
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...As you continue to do everything you can to be the best parent you can be to your child, it can be a little frustrating when you see that they're introverted. This isn't because introversion is a bad thing. It's just that most parents want their children to make good friends and be sociable with people. These abilities are still doable as an introvert. You've just got to be intentional about showing your toddler how to manage social situations without running away to hide. If your toddler is struggling to be social, consider trying these four different avenues. 1. Play Dates If you have friends who have toddlers, try to set up a few playdates. Play dates allow the children time to connect with one another and play. Bring a few toys and snacks. You could invite the other parent and toddler to your home or you could go to their home. If that seems like too much, it could also be a nice idea to find a middle ground. If both toddlers enjoy the playground, consider taking them. During the colder months, there are lots of indoor jungle gyms that are specifically for toddlers and young children. Schedule play dates with different children so that your toddler can meet a variety of people and get comfortable with around others....
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...How to Manage an Entitled Employee Leslie Cain Keller Graduate School of Management Dr. Mary Welsh August 18, 2014 Table of Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………3 Background…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Literature Application………………………………………………………………………..3 Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………5 Resolution Recommendation…………………………………………………………………6 Reflection……………………………………………………………………………………..7 References…………………………………………………………………………………….8 Abstract How do you handle an employee with personal issues who feel that those issues entitle them to different treatment then the other employees at the company? It is important to exercise compassion but not let it affect decisions for your employees that will cause problems for your company and the other employees. Also learning how and when to use disciplinary action for employees who abuse their sense of entitlement. See how I suggest handling the employee in this paper who uses her personal situation to get away with being late and calling in and it has created tension in the office with the other employees. Background Company ABC has rehired an employee, Sarah, that has worked for the company in previous years and been released of her position both times for being tardy, calling in repeatedly and poor work performance. Sarah is exhibiting the same behaviors now as she has in the past. She was in a drug rehab program and going through a divorce...
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...Deija Smith 1/17/15 How to manage cash flow Cash flow is the movement of money into or out of a business, project, or financial product. It is usually measured during a specified, limited period of time. Cash flow can be used, for example, for calculating parameters: it discloses cash movements over the period. Cash flow entails the movement of funds in and out of a business. This information should be tracked on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis to identify where a business is currently from a financial standpoint and where it will be several months in the future. When it comes to the basics of cash flow one should know there are two types of cash flow: positive and negative. Positive cash flow means the cash coming into the business exceeds the amount leaving through expenses, salaries and accounts payable. On the other hand, negative cash flow means the cash going out of the business is greater than incoming cash. One thing that’s not for certain is positive cash flow. Companies have to work very hard at it and manage cash effectively to control the inflow and outflow of funding. In order to project cash flow a business must know the budget process well. The budget process is designed to help anticipate and create strategies for funding during shortages or investing during surpluses, helps a company know how much it will receive and spend at any point in time. To successfully project cash flow, organizations look at their prior year’s checkbook as a basis of...
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...Managing diversity in the workplace means bringing together people of different ethnic backgrounds, religions and age groups into a cohesive and productive unit. Advances in communication technology, such as the Internet and cellular phones, have made the marketplace a more global concept. In order to survive, a company needs to be able to manage and utilize its diverse workplace effectively. Managing diversity in the workplace should be a part of the culture of the entire organization (Root, 2015). Businesses that fail to successfully manage diversity will suffer economic and social consequences. A workplace culture that allows low morale, employee turnover, harassment, discrimination, absenteeism, and disruption to work teams results in a loss of productivity. When individuals are marginalized or isolated by their co-workers and/or managers because of cultural differences, the outcome is a loss of productivity, business opportunities and the potential for charges of harassment and discrimination (McArthur, 2010). To surpass these risks and effectively manage diversity, George and Jones (2014) believe that managers (and other organizational members) must possess or develop certain attitudes and values and the skills needed to change other people’s attitudes and values. These two authors go on to describe the steps that managers can take to change attitudes and values and promote the effective management of diversity. Step one is to secure top management commitment. Top management...
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...company products, rumors spread out, or publicized problem. This loss of the companies can be immediately financial loss, losing further business, decreasing of client base or losing goodwill. What is special about reputation risk is it interrelated to other risks and if it is not properly managed, it may turn into a crisis that danger the existence of the firm. A lot of business failures were caused by poorly manages of reputation risk. How to identify and assess reputation risk Many risks can be quantifying the exposure, but it is not the case for reputation risk, as it is related to some intangible assets and value of the firm, it is difficult to quantify and therefore some subjective method should be use to identify and assess reputation risk. Surveys of stakeholders, comparison with peers, media analysis and focus group meetings all are useful methods to assess reputation risk. Once you identified and assessed some reputation risk issues, you can located it on the risk map according to the frequency and the severity to visualize them and start planning about how to deal with those high severity and high frequency scenarios....
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...Zharkenov Margulan Essay #8 Is it difficult for you to manage your time? Everyday life can be chaotic sometimes. One way to avoid feeling stressed is to have a game plan ready. A serious weakness with this argument, however, is that this is difficult to manage their time. Therefore, the main questions addressed in this essay are: a) why it works; b) what hinders proper for planning time; c) how I plan my time. There are various explanations for why planning is so important to our time. Time management is necessary to perform maximum efficiencies. For example, when you study at university you do not have time to do all necessary things and the best students is not necessarily the smartest. So if you will be able to plan your time, the mood will be good and scores will be high. More generally, it seems hard to deny that the planning time is difficult in use. A classic illustration often cited is that people cannot do all they have planned. On those days when you have a lot to do, prioritizing can help you get things done in a more efficient manner. When you find ways to prioritize, you might find that some things are more important than others, and that some can be crossed off your list of deals completely. What sort of picture do these considerations allow us to construct? Let us say you did the priorities of their affairs. Now you need to plan every thing in time. One observer has already drawn attention to the paradox in planning time. His name is Stephen Covey...
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...Virginia University, I began working at a golf resort as a switchboard operator. I needed the money to help pay for school. I was taking a total of 16 credit hours and working 40 hours a week. This was not an easy schedule to manage but I somehow managed to make it all work. After working as a switchboard operator for about one year, I applied for a position at the front desk. I was offered the position and came to love my job very much and was starting to learn a great deal about the hospitality industry. I truly loved my work so much so that I decided that I wanted a career in the industry and earning a degree in Journalism became secondary. I eventually quit school to devote all of my time to working in the hotel business. Three years after starting at the golf resort, I was offered a job at a much smaller, limited service hotel as a Front Desk Representative. I accepted the position knowing that in a smaller setting, I would have the opportunity to work more closely with the General Manager, Tracey. Tracey had been in the hotel business for many years and was considered to be one of the best within the property management company that owned the hotel. Tracey taught me the ins and outs of managing a small property. I learned about excellent customer service to how to read a profit and loss statement and everything in between. I was eventually promoted to Front Desk Supervisor and given a raise. I had the preferred schedule as well. I worked Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to...
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...How to Manage Your Time Tisha Wingate ITT Technical Institute How to Manage Your Time During a person’s life, the need to prioritize their time at one point or another is a necessity. Having deadlines with work, children’s after-school activities, family life and/or illnesses, and going back to school; all of these situations call for a better scheduling of time. This paper will be focusing on managing time to go back to school for most adults using Stephen Covey’s articles about time management. As adults, having a set routine to get through the day is very helpful. However, when adding college into the mix, everything can feel out of kilter and overwhelming. If a day-to-day or a monthly calendar/schedule was at a person’s fingertips, and it was setup to show all aspects of their life’s responsibilities, much of the stress could disappear. Stephen Covey was a world-renowned author of time management in today’s world. During his life, he wrote numerous articles and books that covered how to schedule a person’s time to assist in making the most of every minute in their life count properly. His book entitled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, if one follows will help turn completely disorganized and overwhelmed people into a fully-functional-know- what-I-am-doing organized and on-top-of-each-situation person. Starting with the most important habit, Be Proactive, which means to be prepared for the unseen and being able to adjust to what life throws at a person....
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...HOW TO GET THE TRUTH IN 5 M I NU T E S OR LESS IN ANY CONVERSATION OR SITUATION DAVID J.LIEBERMAN, PH.D. ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN NEW YORK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Jennifer Enderlin, my editor at St. Martin's. She is an exceptional talent whose ability is matched only by her boundless passion for her work. And to those who have worked tirelessly, my warmest thanks to the publicity, marketing, advertising, and sales departments at St. Martin's for their intense efforts and commitment: Alison Lazarus, John Cunningham, Steve Kasdin, John Murphy, Jamie Brickhouse, Mike Storrings, Janet Wagner, Mark Kohut, and James Wehrle, and to the entire Broadway Sales Department for their continued efforts on behalf of this book. A special thanks to St. Martin's publisher, Sally Richardson, for her vast enthusiasm and belief in this project. A thousand thanks to David Stanford Burr, production editor, and Nancy Inglis, copy editor, for their outstanding work on the manuscript. Their hard work and diligence is evident throughout this entire book. I would like to thank my agents, Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada. The success of their agency is a clear reflection of their professionalism and dedication. In an industry of giants, they stand without equals. My infinite appreciation and gratitude to Barbara and William O'Rourke, who gave me the two things every writer needs: tranquility and computer help. And my thanks to Laurie Rosin, one of the nation's...
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...Astiapesukoneen pikakäyttöohjeet fi Tässä kerrotaan lyhyesti, miten käytät astianpesukonetta Lue kuitenkin ennen ensimmäistä pesukertaa asennus- ja käyttöohjeet! Vedenpehmentimen säätö * Kysy vesilaitokselta veden kovuusaste ja merkitse se tähän... Nopeasti tehty... Katso säätöarvo ... °dH °fH ja toimi näin °Clarke mmol/l Säätöarvo koneessa 0–6 0–1,1 0 12–25 9–18 1,2–2,5 1 15–21 26–37 19–26 Annostele erikoissuola (tarvittaessa) 0–8 7–14 * vain ennen ensimmäistä pesukertaa tai vedenkovuuden muuttuessa 0–11 2,6–3,7 2 22–35 38–62 27–44 3,8–6,2 3 Annostele pesuaine C – Säätöarvo kasvaa asteen verran (0–3) painikkeen B jokaisesta painalluksesta. Kun painikkeiden A, B ja C merkkivalo syttyy, on saavutettu vedenkovuuden maksimi säätöarvo. Jos yrität nyt taas säätää suuremman säätöarvon, merkkivalot sammuvat ja veden kovuusasteen säätöarvoksi palautuu 0. – Kytke kone pois toiminnasta pääkytkimellä. Säädetty arvo jää koneen muistiin. Vain ennen ensimmäistä pesukertaa: kaada suolasäiliöön noin litra vettä. Lasinkirkasta ... Kaada säiliöön max. 1,5 kg erikoissuolaa (ei pesuainetta). Sulje korkki. Käynnistä pesu välittömästi. Lisää aina kun täyttötarpeen osoitin vaalenee! Paina merkin 1 kohdalta, nosta kansi 2 ylös. Lisää huuhtelukirkastetta. Sulje kansi. KLIK! Lisää pesuainetta. Työnnä kansi kiinni, paina alaspäin. PLOP! Paljon likaa, paljon...
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...How to manage my Family Time Arbra Jones GEN 200 Barbara White How to Better Manage my Family Time For most adults twenty-four hours in a day comes and goes faster than they would like. Most days start before the sun rises and ends well into the night with little time in between to notice the possible change in weather. Juggling the responsibilities of family, work, social life and for a growing majority school, requires skills one would normally find in a traveling circus. A person could spend the better part of their day away from home fulfilling work related responsibilities and return only to find there is not enough time for family. So how can a person find the time to complete so many tasks in twenty four hours and still have time to spend with their family? I have learned in order to make sure I have enough time during the day for all my responsibilities as well as time for my family, I must utilize proper time management skills. One of the first steps in proper time management is creating a strategy where goals are planned out. I first need to determine what my daily goals are and create a schedule prioritizing them by order of importance. According to Time-Management-Guide.com, “proper time management starts with prioritizing goals”. Once I create my daily list of goals I can determine which goals will have the most priority. For goals that must be carried out day to day, an example being helping my children complete homework requirements, they would...
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...If you have a close loved one that passed and they had no will or spouse, you may be curious about who is going to manage their estate. If you don't think anyone close to them has the qualifications to become the administrator of the estate, you'll want to talk with a probate lawyer so you can get the situation taken care of. If you know that you would qualify and you want the estate to get settled quickly, and you don't want to see their personal belongings go the state after they have passed, you may want to apply. Here are a few reasons why this would be beneficial. You Get Paid You are paid a fee to manage the person's estate when you become the administrator of the estate. This isn't enough to quit your job or replace your income, but it's an amount worth getting if you want to see that the estate is handled...
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...The Ways Nestle Managed Its Environment Over Time Nestle used different ways to manage its environment. It did this through expansion of the product offering, expansion of the customer base, and by developing lower-cost ways to make and sell products. Early on, Nestle managed its environment by expanding into new markets, in both developing and emerging nations. As trade barriers fell, the CEO of Nestle Barbeck-Latmathe seized the opportunity and decided it’s the right time for Nestle to expand geographically into the developed and emerging markets such as those in Eastern Europe, India and Asia. By doing this, Barbeck drove Nestle’s performance dramatically, taking into consideration the massive number of potential customers in these regions and the enlargement in Nestle’s customer’s base. In the 1990’s; Nestle managed its environment by acquiring other companies. The companies which Neslte acquired at that time included U.S. food companies Carnation, Buitoni Pasta, Ralston Purina, Dreyer’s ice cream and Chef America, the British chocolate maker Rowntree, the French bottled water company Perrier, and the Mexican food maker Ortega. It is noticeable that Neslte regards acquisitions and efforts at diversification as logical ways to supplement their business. Nestle only acquires food making companies, the business it has special knowledge and expertise in. After all, Barbeck’s intentions were to customize these products to suit the tastes of customers in different countries...
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...reason to save money is your retirement. The sooner you start saving for retirement, the less you will have to save in the future. You can put your money to work for you. As you continue to contribute overtime you will be earning more interest on the money you have, then you put in each month. You should at least be contributing up to your employer's match and eventually you will want to contribute ten to fifteen percent of your gross income. 3 . Save for a Down Payment for a House A third reason to save money is for a down payment on a house. Your negotiating power goes a lot farther when you have a significant down payment towards your home. You will receive better interest rates, and be able to afford a bigger home. You can determine how much you...
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