Develop and explain the probability and relative frequency of the data you found for each mode of transportation.

The mayor and city council members of Seatville have hired you as a consultant to determine the transportation modes within their city. The mayor wants to know where to spend budget dollars to improve infrastructure and transportation modes. Being a diligent consultant, you interviewed 1,255 people during a 16-week period. You determined the following methods of transportation were used:

  • 850 residents drove a personal car,
  • 200 used public transportation (bus),
  • 5 rode a bicycle,
  • 50 walked, and
  • 150 rode a motorcycle.

Prepare a report that outlines the requirements of your consulting task. In your report, you should include the following:

  1. Provide an introduction that outlines the problem and gives on overview of the situation as well as a conclusion that sums up your report.
  2. Develop and explain the probability and relative frequency of the data you found for each mode of transportation.
  3. Compute the relative frequencies to two decimal places. If you need practice computing relative frequency, watch the Unit II Relative Frequency Example video created by the CSU Math Center.
  4. Use this data to make a final recommendation of where the mayor and city council should spend their infrastructure/transportation.

Your completed report must be at least three pages in length, and you must use your textbook and at least one other academic source. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed. 

Why does politics have such an important impact on strategy in the healthcare sector?

Repeal of Obamacare?

The ACA, signed into law in 2010, substantially changed the direction and strategies of most US healthcare organizations. The US Department of Health & Human Services was given the responsibility of implementing many of the provisions that sought to “expand coverage, emphasize prevention, improve the quality of health care and patient outcomes across health care settings, ensure patient safety, promote efficiency and accountability, and work toward high-value health care.” The law instituted healthcare exchanges to facilitate purchasing insurance and banned lifetime dollar limits and discrimination based on preexisting conditions (Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation 2016). The law was designed to motivate care coordination and integration across the continuum of care by transitioning to a population health and value-based care focus. Healthcare organizations responded, among other ways, through mergers and acquisitions. Physicians merged into mega– group practices. Pharmaceutical and insurance companies consolidated (Singer 2016). Hospitals acquired other hospitals, as well as physician practices and insurance businesses. Providers opened accountable care organizations, which were established to take capitation that could function next to traditional fee-for-service models. Healthcare insurers merged to counterbalance the growing market power of hospitals. In sum, changes happened in and across all sectors in the healthcare field. Much of the consolidation has been blamed on the ACA, and in early 2016 these changes seemed inevitable (Gluck 2016). However, few predicted the election of Donald Trump in the fall of 2016 and his effect on the direction the healthcare sector has taken. Trump signaled that on his first day in office he would “work immediately on repealing Obamacare” (Koronowski 2017). A full or even partial repeal of the ACA would have significant impact on the strategies of healthcare organizations. Although we may not know what the repeal means for some time, and the final shape of the healthcare field under a Trump administration may gradually evolve, most Americans support coverage guaranteed regardless of preexisting conditions yet oppose a mandate. The ACA also cut $700 billion from Medicare provider reimbursements, which will probably not be restored by Trump’s reforms (Kapur 2016). Whatever the results, the political winds of change have roared through a healthcare sector that now must review and revise its plans.

Repeal Obamacare? Week 1

Read “Repeal Obamacare?” on Page 20 of this week’s text, “Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and Execution” and address the following questions:

1. Why does politics have such an important impact on strategy in the healthcare sector?

2. Why were healthcare organizations merging under the ACA? Why might these strategies have needed to be revisited?

3. How does this case demonstrate the difficulty in only having a prospective strategy?

Explain, in your own words, why working capital investments are subtracted each year in the cash flows.

When a business considers investing in a new project, the decision must be carefully evaluated. Businesses should invest in projects that are expected to add value to the company. One method to determine the added value of a project is net present value (NPV) analysis. NVP analysis determines the present value of the benefits and costs of a project. If the project’s NPV is greater than $0, then the project is considered to add value to the company. For this discussion, you will practice calculating the added value of project using the NPV.

Prepare: 

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,

For the initial post, you will complete the NPV problem below. You will not be able to see other students’ posts until you post your initial post.

Problem: 

A large auto company has just completed the research and development (R&D) on a new product, the Electrobicycle. The Electrobicycle is an electronic, climate-controlled bicycle with zero emissions. The R&D efforts focused on developing the capability to utilize electricity to power bicycles. Ultimately, the auto company expects Electrobicycles to be popular for most urban citizens due to convenience and low cost.

The R&D, which cost $3 million, is complete and paid for. The plant and equipment to mass produce the Electrobicycles will cost $2 million. This plant and equipment will be depreciated over 5 years using the straight-line method to zero book value ($400,000 per year). A working capital investment of $1 million will be needed at the beginning of the project. A working capital investment of $200,000 per year will be needed thereafter.

At the end of 5 years, the auto company believes there will be no more sales opportunities for Electrobicycles and will cease all production. Thus, at the end of the project, all working capital investments (the $1 million initial investment and the $200,000 per year) will be recovered at full value. The plant and equipment will be scrapped for a salvage value of $300,000 (after tax).

The company expects moderate sales in years 1 and 2, and then significant growth in each year thereafter as consumers adopt the Electrobicycles. Revenues and earnings will cease at the end of Year 5. The revenues, after-tax earnings, and cash flow for the 5-year life of the project are shown in this table.

Table 1

Projected Electrobicycle Financial Projection

Numbers in $000’s

TABLE ATTACHED

Note: n/a = not applicable

Calculate: 

  • Determine the NPV for the Electrobicycle project. Use the annual project cash flow from the table above. For the required rate of return, use the percent value from your birthday date. For example, if your birthday falls on the 16th of the month, the required rate of return would be 16%.
    • For guidance, review Section 7.1 of the textbook, NPV Example: The Pizza Scooter Delivery Project Revisited.

Write: 

In your post, include the following:

  • Calculate the NPV of the Electrobicycle project. Be sure to show your NPV calculations.
  • Explain, in your own words, why working capital investments are subtracted each year in the cash flows.
  • Explain, in your own words, the meaning of the required rate of return for the project.
  • Assume the auto company has a required rate of return of 15%. Based on the required rate of return you used for the Electrobicycles (based on your birthday date), is the Electrobicycle project more or less risky than the auto company? Explain your answer.
  • Based on your concluded NPV, should the company invest in this project to build Electrobicycles? Justify your answer.
What is the purpose of NPV analysis?

In the past two weeks, you have chosen a publicly traded company (APPLE Inc.) and have prepared Section 3 of the Week 5 final project. Section 3 evaluated the stock price of the company using the constant growth formula. This week, you practiced NPV calculations in the discussion, and you are working on Section 4 of the Final Project. In Section 4, you will use the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to calculate the company’s required rate of return. Then, using this CAPM required rate of return, you will recalculate the company’s stock price using the constant growth formula.

At this point, you have begun to develop an understanding of the value of the company’s stock. Ultimately, you will need to decide if you can recommend investing in this company’s stock (with a buy recommendation) or if you do not feel it is a good investment (a sell recommendation). For many companies, the evidence will be quite strong in one direction or the other. For other companies, the evidence will be conflicting, and you may consider issuing a holdrecommendation.

Write: 

Write a two-to-three-page answering the following questions:

  • What are the similarities between the time value of money formulas (from Week 3) and the NPV analysis in the Week 4 discussion?
  • What is the purpose of NPV analysis? Be sure to discuss the concepts of risk and return in your answer.
  • What are two improvements or corrections you could make to your previous assignments in preparation for the final project that is due in Week 5?
  • What is going well and what are you struggling with in regard to Weeks 3 and 4?
  • What is one question you have about the Week 4 assignment or the Week 5 final project?
Create a one-page pictograph or a one to two slide PowerPoint that includes all of the details of your future health plan and goals.

For this assignment, you will pull together everything you have learned in the last eight weeks.

Instructions:

  • Review your assignments from Units 1-7.
  • Create a one-page pictograph or a one to two slide PowerPoint that includes all
    of the details of your future health plan and goals.
    o Includeinformationregardingdietchanges,exercise,waterintake,stress reduction, mind-body connection, and anything else you will be taking away from this course.
  • Be creative!
    Requirements:

• Include resources that you used to create your future health plan and goals.

calculate the required rate of return for your chosen publicly traded company using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). 

In this assignment, you will recalculate the value of the company’s stock (APPLE) based on your company’s specific required rate of return. To do this, you will calculate the required rate of return for your chosen publicly traded company using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). 

Last week, you determined a preliminary estimate of the company’s stock price using the constant growth formula. To simplify the calculation, you were required to use general market required rates of return, based on size. However, this is an assumption that does not account for the specific risk of an investment in a specific company. This week, you will calculate the required rate of return for your chosen publicly traded company using the CAPM. The CAPM is a more precise tool to estimate a firm’s required rate of return. This tool is “tremendously valuable because required returns are used as the discount rates in the valuation formulas when doing time value of money problems and security valuation” (Hickman et al., 2013, Section 9.3, para. 1). You will then use this CAPM required rate of return to revise your stock price value based on the constant growth formula. This will allow you to determine your final recommendation of buy, hold, or sell.

Write:

In your paper, address the following five parts in a Word document:

Part 1: (two paragraphs)

  • Explain the three types of risk and beta, and how these concepts relate to a company’s required rate of return.

Part 2: (two paragraphs)

  • Find your company’s beta from a credible source.
  • Compare your company’s beta to the market beta of 1.0. 
  • Calculate the company-specific required rate of return using the CAPM formula.
    • Show all calculations. 
    • Use the beta you determined for your chosen company
    • Use a risk-free rate of 2.0%.
    • For the market risk premium, use the following assumptions:
      • For a large capitalization company (greater than $10.0 billion in market capitalization) use 6.0% as the market risk premium.
      • For a mid-cap company (between $2.0 billion and $10.0 billion in market capitalization) use 8.0% as the market risk premium.
      • For a small-cap company (less than $2.0 billion in market capitalization) use 11.0% as the market risk premium.
  • Compare the company-specific required rate of return you calculated to the required return based on size you used in Section 3: Dividend Analysis and Preliminary Valuation in Week 3 for the constant growth formula.
    • Determine whether the company-specific required rate of return higher or lower than the rate of return based on size that you used in Section 3 in Week 3 for the constant growth formula?
    • Explain the difference in required rate of returns.

Part 3: (two to four paragraphs)

  • Recalculate both estimates (the low-end and the high-end) of the stock price using the constant growth formula.
    • Use the company’s specific required rate of return you determined using the CAPM.
    • Review your selected high-end and low-end growth rates from Week 3. 
      • If either growth rate is higher than the new CAPM discount rate, you must reduce your selected growth rate(s).
      • Your growth rates cannot be higher than the discount rate, because the calculations will result in a negative stock price, which is not meaningful.
      • Include a short, written explanation to explain the revised growth rates.
  • Show your revised high-end and low-end stock price calculations
  • Compare each of the two recalculated stock prices to the current stock price per share of the company.
  • State whether each recalculated stock price (low-end and high-end) is above or below the current market price.
  • State whether each recalculated stock price (low-end and high-end) indicates if the stock price is currently under-valued or over-valued in the market.
    • (See Section 9.3: Required Returns in your course text.)
  • State your recommendation for your concluded stock price for the company.
    • Use either the high-end stock price or the low-end stock price from the constant growth formula using the CAPM required rate of return.
  • Justify the conclusion of value for your stock based on the most important financial facts from the prior weeks’ analysis.

The Section 4: Valuation Conclusion paper

Note: Since this is Section 4 of the Week 5 final project, there is no need for an introduction paragraph.

Write a  narrative work on this topic below

Write a  narrative work on this topic below
   I have learned that the biggest problems come from not listening, 3 pages in MLA format

Why are the codes of ethics needed? Who benefits?

1. Read Chapter 2 and respond to the questions below:

. Why are the codes of ethics needed? Who benefits?

. Advocacy has been included in the 2005 code of ethics? Is this needed? Why? Give several examples of times when career counselors in various settings might need to become advocates?

. How could a career counselor do harm to his/her clients?

. What aspects of career counseling practice might if not properly done, result in a liability suit?

What is meant by cost-based query optimization?

16.3: Define the following terms: disk, disk pack, track, block, cylinder, sector, interblock gap, and read/write head.

17.1: Define the following terms: indexing field, primary key field, clustering field, secondary key field, block anchor, dense index, and nondense (sparse) index.

 19.5: What is meant by cost-based query optimization?

a brief discussion about three issues/considerations regarding nutrition, diabetes, and children that nurses must be aware of.

Read the following Clinical Case:

Jason is 11 years old and has Type 1 Diabetes. He was diagnosed with Diabetes when he was 5 years old. He is comfortable taking his “blood sugar” readings during the day. He likes to participate in sports and is on the soccer team, which practices three times a week after school. His mother always packs his lunch for school so he does not have to worry about eating the food in the cafeteria.

For this written assignment plan a day’s meal for Jason.

· Include breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.

· In particular, include any snacks he may need after school to maintain a balanced diet during soccer practice.

· Also include a brief discussion about three issues/considerations regarding nutrition, diabetes, and children that nurses must be aware of.

You may use any of the resources found in this module or any other evidence-based sources (include those as in-text citations and references using APA Editorial Format).

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