...Fundamentals of Networks Alhaji Mansary University of Phoenix Integrative Network Design Project Part 3 Prof, Marjorie Marque 12/12/12. Kudler Fine Foods Network: Final Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is on their way to upgrading their present network infrastructure with better wireless technology that will provide an improved communication medium both for the stores and employees. This will help maximizing the company’s profits with the aid of the new systems and servers performance. The new inventory system will let a store’s POS system to alert the warehouses that they need to ship more products already when the store is running low in stock. This will eliminate or at least make the man-hours needed in checking the stock. VoWLAN (Voice over WLAN) is the one to provide all the communications needed to be done by taking or making calls while providing the services needed by the customers by using the same medium. Other technological Advances will provide real-time network analysis and security monitoring which will bring overall benefits to the Kudler Company. Network Overview Kudler’s network infrastructure is now becoming very old. The stores are on separate networks so the bus network topology that they have does not allow effective communication already. This is a major problem because of the fact of lacking central location for network servers and backups or security set-up. This is the reason an enterprise wireless WAN is being rolled...
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...SECTION 1: GENERAL QUESTIONS (Q1-Q4) Q1: How many LANs and WANs are forming the enterprise network? LANs: __________ WANs: _____________ Q2: How many subnetworks do you see? Answer: __________ subnetworks List the subnetworks: Q3: When PC1 communicates with Server 1, how many data links a message has to go through? Answer: __________ data links When PC1 communicates with Server 1, how many physical links a message has to go through? Answer: __________ physical links When PC1 communicates with Server 3, how many data links a message has to go through? Answer: __________ data links When PC7 communicates with Server 2, how many different routes a message can take? Answer: __________ routes Q4: What physical topology is used to interconnect the four routers? ____________________ SECTION 2: NOW, CREATE ALL NETWORK NODES (PCS, SERVERS, ROUTERS, AND SWITCHES) ON PACKET TRACER. NO CABLING YET. CHANGE ALL LABELS OF NETWORK NODES AS IN THE FIGURE. Questions (Q5-Q12) based on the R2 (1841 Router) in “out-of-the-box condition”. Q5: How may Ethernet ports does the 1841 router have initially? Answer: __________ Q6: What are the port (interface) names assigned to the Ethernet ports? Answer: Q7: What are MAC addresses of Ethernet ports (or LAN ports)? Do not worry about VLAN1 now. Q8: How may WAN ports (also called Serial ports) does the router have? Answer: _________ Q9: Do LAN/WAN ports have an IP address? Answer: _________ Q10: Are LAN/WAN ports currently up or down...
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...1. A family wishes to connect several devices to share an Internet connection and a Bluetooth wireless printer. They have three personal computers. One is in the same room as the printer. The other two are together in another room. In addition, they want to utilize the network for television DVR, VoIP phone, and game console. Describe what network device or devices you would recommend they purchase and explain why. Also describe the media utilized. Note, you are not required to detail the topology utilized, but thinking about this will help you to choose and justify your device choices. a. Describe what network device or devices are recommended for purpose for the given home network scenario(s). For a family who wishes to connect several devices to share and Internet connection and a Bluetooth wireless printer, I would recommend that family procure a wireless router, a modem, and a few CAT5e Ethernet cables. b. Explain the recommendations justifying why these would suit the needs for the network The family has several devices that need internet connectivity; the recommendations I made will make this happen. The modem connects to a wireless router, via plugging the broadband into the WAN port of the router, and the router will access the Internet through a unique IP address (assigned by the ISP). This will then provide local IP addresses for all of the devices connected to it, allowing the family to get Internet out to all of the devices (both wired and wireless). An...
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...Stock Analysis – Cisco Systems Timothy L. Miller FI560 Securities Analysis Miriam Benard December 11, 2011 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to make a buy or sell recommendation for Cisco Systems stock based on technical and fundamental analysis. The technical analysis consists of analysis of the following; * Return on Equity (ROE) * The company’s projected future growth of earnings * Analysis of its required rate of return using the CAPM measurement * The company’s intrinsic value using the discount valuation technique. The fundamental analysis consists of describing the competitive forces in the industry including the company’s relative advantages and disadvantages to its competitors and a discussion on ROE as the basis for growth. Based on the technical analysis, it appears that Cisco’s stock is under priced. Its intrinsic value is $23.55 in 2011 (see calculation in CAPM section) which is quite a bit higher than its current price. Background Cisco designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provides services associated with these products and their use. They provide a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. These products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Cisco conducts its business globally...
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...Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Prime Bank Ltd. Technical analysis looks at the price movement of a security and uses this data to predict its future price movements. Fundamental analysis on the other hand looks at economic factors which are known as fundamentals. Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Prime Bank Ltd. Group:16 Department of Finance. Jagannath University, Dhaka Page Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Prime Bank Ltd. Submitted To, Kawser Ahmed Shiblu Lecturer Department of Finance Jagannath University, Dhaka Submitted By Uttam Golder On the behalf of Group: 16 Department of finance Jagannath University, Dhaka Department of Finance. Jagannath University, Dhaka Page i Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Prime Bank Ltd. List of Group Member Serial 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Name Uttam Golder Rajib Chandra Banik Md. Monir Hossain Joy Roy Choudhury Md. Al-Masur Rahaman Khan ID M 130203004 M 130203025 M 130203069 M 130203033 M 130203077 Department of Finance. Jagannath University, Dhaka Page ii Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Prime Bank Ltd. Letter of Transmittal February 15, 2015 Kawser Ahmed Shiblu Lecturer Department of Finance, Jagannath University, Dhaka Subject: - Submission of report on “Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Prime Bank Ltd.” Dear Sir, With due respect, we would like to state that it is a matter of great pleasure and honor for us to submit our report on...
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...AGI shareholders. * AGI board unanimously approved to market off the business, but it subject to three conditions; * Retirement of current debt in full; * Payment of a reasonable dividend to AGI shareholders; and * The courier business had to be left with sufficient capital to stay in business. * Proposal To address the above situation, we propose the following valuation: * TEV/EBITDA multiple for both ICS and Amtelecom Communications * METHOD #1 - Using the Stock Price / Dividend Yield. * METHOD #2 -Average EBITDA Industry Trading Multiples * METHOD #3 - Using Average EBITDA Transaction Multiples (M&A Comparable Method) * METHOD #4 - Discount Cash Flow Valuation Analysis. * Fundamental Analysis using g @5% and WACC @6% If the market value of a stock is lower than its intrinsic value, this stock is defined as “trades at a discount. To figure out whether AGI is...
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...Risk of Arbitraging The Cost of Arbitrage: Why There Might Appear to be an Arbitrage Opportunity When There is None. Dealing with Risk in Active Investing Readers’ Corner Appendix to Web Page: Formal Analysis of Abnormal Returns, No-arbitrage, and Market Efficiency What this Chapter is Doing Chapter 3 does three things: First, it looks at three valuation and investment approaches that use financial statement information, but in limited, suspect or impractical ways, and points out the pitfalls in these methods: o The Method of Comparables o Screening Analysis o Asset-Based Valuation Second, it outlines the architecture of fundamental valuation approaches that employ all available information, and illustrates that architecture with the dividend discount model. In this chapter, as in each chapter in the book, approach the material with the question: how do I get an edge? What are...
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...1. Explain what efficient market hypothesis is. ` In a simple statement, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) means that security prices fully reflect all available information (Fama, 1991). There are three forms of EMH. Weak Form EMH Semi-Strong Form EMH Strong Form EMH • All past prices of a stock are reflected in today's stock price. • Technical analysis cannot be used to predict and beat a market. • All public information is calculated into a stock's current share price. • Neither fundamental nor technical analysis can be used to achieve superior gains. • All information in a market, whether public or private, is accounted for in a stock price. • Not even insider information could give an investor the advantage. Adapted from http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/securities-markets/weak-semistrong-strong-emh-efficient-market-hypothesis.asp#axzz27eAhlXfl The assumptions behind this hypothesis are; 1. A large number of profit-maximising participants analyse and value securities independently. 2. News regarding securities comes to the market randomly and independently. 3. Trading decisions of all the investors adjust security prices rapidly to reflect the effect of new information. . 2. Link it to the idea of the fully revealing rational expectations equilibria. The EMH is the application of Rational Expectations Theory by Muth (1961). Assuming there is only one equilibrium price, it states that outcomes do not differ systematically from what...
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...Edwin Porusingazi Monash I.D -22853766 Date - 04/25/2014 Brief profile of Adobe Systems Adobe Systems, Inc. is a software company, which provides digital marketing and digital media solutions. It offers a line of software and services used by creative professionals, marketers, knowledge workers, application developers, enterprises and consumers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing and engaging with compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. The company operates through three business segments: Digital Media, Digital Marketing and Print & Publishing. The Digital Media segment provides tools and solutions that enable individuals, small businesses and enterprises to create, publish, promote and monetize their digital content anywhere. Its customers include traditional content creators, web application developers and digital media professionals, as well as their management in marketing departments and agencies, companies and publishers. The Digital Marketing segment provides solutions and services for how digital advertising and marketing are created, managed, executed, measured and optimized. Its customers include digital marketers, advertisers, publishers, merchandisers, web analysts, chief marketing officers and chief revenue officers. The Print & Publishing segment addresses diverse publishing needs of technical and business publishing, and OEM printing businesses. Adobe was founded by Charles...
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...Contents Page 1.0 Executive summary 1 2.0 Introduction 2 3.0 Business context 3 3.1 Company profile 3 3.2 Company history 4 3.3 Key management 4 3.4 Ownership structure 6 3.5 Recent financial performance 8 4.0 Characteristics of industrial market 10 4.1 Major players 10 4.2 Market share 10 4.3 Turnover 12 4.4 Industry life cycle 13 5.0 Current issues and their impact on Sino Techfibre 14 5.1 SWOT analysis 14 5.1.1 Strengths 14 5.1.2 Weaknesses 14 5.1.3 Opportunities 14 5.1.4 Threats 15 5.2 Globalisation 16 5.3 Porter’s five forces 16 6.0 Profit/loss statement 18 7.0 Balance sheet 19 8.0 Assumptions and predictions for 2010, 2011 and 2012 22 9.0 Evaluation of financial performance 22 9.1 Operating profit margin 23 9.2 Interest expense rate 23 9.3 Financial leverage multiplier 24 9.4 Tax retention rate 24 9.5 Total asset turnover 25 9.6 Return on equity (ROE) 25 10.0 Valuation process 26 10.1 Beta coefficient (β) 26 10.2 Risk-free rate (Rf) 26 10.3 Expected return on market portfolio (Rm) 27 10.4 Risk premium 27 11.0 Dividend discount model (DDM) 28 12.0 Free cash flow to equity (FCFE) model 30 13.0 Price/Earnings (P/E) ratio model 32 14.0 Net tangible asset backing model 34 15.0 Price/Book value (PBV) ratio model 35 16.0 Valuation and recommendation 36 17.0 Reference 38 18.0 Bibliography 40 19.0 Appendix 41 Executive summary This report...
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...Debt and Value: Beyond MillerModigliani Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business Aswath Damodaran 1 The fundamental question: Does the mix of debt and equity affect the value of a business? Assets Existing Investments Generate cashflows today Includes long lived (fixed) and short-lived(working capital) assets Expected Value that will be created by future investments Assets in Place Debt Liabilities Fixed Claim on cash flows Little or No role in management Fixed Maturity Tax Deductible Growth Assets Equity Residual Claim on cash flows Significant Role in management Perpetual Lives Different Value? Different Financing Mix? Aswath Damodaran 2 Approaches to Valuation Discounted cashflow valuation, relates the value of an asset to the present value of expected future cashflows on that asset. Relative valuation, estimates the value of an asset by looking at the pricing of 'comparable' assets relative to a common variable like earnings, cashflows, book value or sales. Contingent claim valuation, uses option pricing models to measure the value of assets that share option characteristics. Aswath Damodaran 3 Valuation Models Asset Based Valuation Discounted Cashflow Models Relative Valuation Contingent Claim Models Liquidation Value Stable Replacement Cost Two-stage Three-stage or n-stage Current Equity Firm Sector Option to delay Option to expand Young firms Option to liquidate Equity in...
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...Human Behavior and the Efficiency of the Financial System by Robert J. Shiller* Abstract Recent literature in empirical finance is surveyed in its relation to underlying behavioral principles, principles which come primarily from psychology, sociology and anthropology. The behavioral principles discussed are: prospect theory, regret and cognitive dissonance, anchoring, mental compartments, overconfidence, over- and underreaction, representativeness heuristic, the disjunction effect, gambling behavior and speculation, perceived irrelevance of history, magical thinking, quasimagical thinking, attention anomalies, the availability heuristic, culture and social contagion, and global culture. Theories of human behavior from psychology, sociology, and anthropology have helped motivate much recent empirical research on the behavior of financial markets. In this paper I will survey both some of the most significant theories (for empirical finance) in these other social sciences and the empirical finance literature itself. Particular attention will be paid to the implications of these theories for the efficient markets hypothesis in finance. This is the hypothesis that financial prices efficiently incorporate all public information and that prices can be regarded as optimal estimates of true investment value at all times. The efficient markets hypothesis in turn is based on more primitive notions that people behave rationally, or accurately maximize expected utility, and are able...
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...INVESTMENT VALUATION: SECOND EDITION Chapter 1: Introduction to Valuation Chapter 2: Approaches to Valuation Chapter 3: Understanding Financial Statements Chapter 4: The Basics of Risk Chapter 5: Option Pricing Theory and Models Chapter 6: Market Efficiency: Theory and Models Chapter 7: Riskless Rates and Risk Premiums Chapter 8: Estimating Risk Parameters and Costs of Financing Chapter 9: Measuring Earnings Chapter 10: From Earnings to Cash Flows Chapter 11: Estimating Growth Chapter 12: Closure in Valuation: Estimating Terminal Value Chapter 13: Dividend Discount Models Chapter 14: Free Cashflow to Equity Models Chapter 15: Firm Valuation: Cost of Capital and APV Approaches Chapter 16: Estimating Equity Value Per Share Chapter 17: Fundamental Principles of Relative Valuation Chapter 18: Earnings Multiples Chapter 19: Book Value Multiples Chapter 20: Revenue and Sector-Specific Multiples 3 16 37 81 121 152 211 246 311 341 373 425 450 487 533 593 637 659 718 760 Chapter 21: Valuing Financial Service Firms Chapter 22: Valuing Firms with Negative Earnings Chapter 23: Valuing Young and Start-up Firms Chapter 24: Valuing Private Firms Chapter 25: Acquisitions and Takeovers Chapter 26: Valuing Real Estate Chapter 27: Valuing Other Assets Chapter 28: The Option to Delay and Valuation Implications Chapter 29: The Option to Expand and Abandon: Valuation Implications Chapter 30: Valuing Equity in Distressed Firms Chapter 31: Value Enhancement: A Discounted Cashflow Framework Chapter...
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...Is Skype worth $8.5 billion? An exercise in valuing young, growth companies Posted by Aswath Damodaran Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Last week, Microsoft announced that it would buy Skype for $8.5 billion. The reaction was fast, furious and very predictable. First, there was the search for reasons for the deal and technology mavens listed a few. Second, there was the reaction from investors and analysts, which was generally not very positive. Third, it was noted that Bill Gates, the face of Microsoft for so long, was strongly in favor of the deal (thus providing cover for Steve Ballmer). Ultimately, though, the discussion of the deal was lacking in one key respect: Is Skype worth $8.5 billion to Microsoft? A few of the analysts noted that the price paid was roughly ten times Skype's revenues in 2010, an undoubtedly rich price, but by itself proving nothing. After all, if you had been able to buy into Google at ten times revenues in 2003, you would be rich now. A great deal of attention was paid to whether Skype was the right company for Microsoft to buy and the strategic/synergistic fit of the two companies. It has always been my contention with acquisitions that it is not the strategic fit or synergistic stories that make the difference between a good deal and a bad one, but whether you buy a company at the right price. Put in more direct terms, buying a company that is a poor strategic fit at a low price is vastly preferable to buying a company that fits like a glove at the wrong...
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...comparable (or comp) same-store-sales in Q1 2013. This is the first such decline in 6 quarters of Walmart reporting comp increases. Based on a recent report published by Bloomberg, it appears Wal-Mart is struggling to keep its stores stocked with items that consumers are seeking. As seen in the below chart, Walmart’s tock, WMT, has been lagging behind its main competitors, Costco (COST) and Target (TGT). Given the weakness in global economies, and cautious consumer spending in the U.S. (WMT's biggest market), investors might be wondering whether Walmart stock is a good buy, sell or hold. Does WMT stock still make sense as a good investment or should investors seek better opportunities somewhere else? Let's analyze some of the valuation, fundamental and technical variables to better determine whether Walmart stock is a good buy, sell...
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