Explain the social determinants of health and the possible linkage between health and behavior.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863696/?tool=pmcentrez After reading this resource, respond to the following prompt: Taking into account all social factors that may influence a person’s (or a community’s) health behavior, explain the social determinants of health and the possible linkage between health and behavior. Use module resources to support your answer.
Choose an evaluation method described by Toseland & Rivas (2017) or London (2007), and use it to evaluate your group
The Ending Stage and Evaluation
The ending stage of a group is just as important as the beginning stage. Effective termination is an important part of the therapeutic process and an expectation of the NASW Code of Ethics (1996). Some members of the group may need further therapy or services, and it is the responsibility of the clinical social worker to assess every member’s needs. Also, the members should feel that some type of closure has occurred, and this is often done through ending exercises. These exercises help the members of the group say goodbye to one another and acknowledge the group’s accomplishments. Another important part of the ending stage is the evaluation of the group intervention. The NASW Code of Ethics (1996) requires that some type of evaluation method is implemented in clinical practice. The social worker should evaluate the group’s goals and the level of success of the group process.Learning ObjectivesStudents will: Learning ResourcesRequired ReadingsToseland, R. W., & Rivas, R. F. (2017). An introduction to group work practice (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.· Chapter 13, “Ending the Group’s Work” (pp. 395-416)· Chapter 14, “Evaluation” (pp. 417-443)Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014). Social work case studies: Concentration year. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing [Vital Source e-reader].· “Working With Organizations: The Southeast Planning Group” (pp. 51–52)London, M. (2007). Performance appraisal for groups: Models and methods for assessing group processes and outcomes for development and evaluation. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 59(3), 175–188. Assignment: Assessing Group Process 5Provide a 600-word paper:For this Assignment, – Describe the overall process of the group and your feelings about the group experience. Choose an evaluation method described by Toseland & Rivas (2017) or London (2007), and use it to evaluate your group (i.e., analysis of the product, group questionnaire).’- Identify something you might have changed during this process and describe what you could have done differently. Group Process Assignments should integrate course concepts related to group process. Assignments should demonstrate critical thought when applying course material to your group experience. Support ideas in your Assignment with APA citations from this week’s required resources. Must contain at least 3 references and citations.
Calculate the after-tax cost of debt under each of the following conditions
1. Calculate the after-tax cost of debt under each of the following conditions: a. Interest rate, 8 percent; tax rate, 0 percent. Round your answer to two decimal places. % b. Interest rate, 8 percent; tax rate, 25 percent. Round your answer to two decimal places. % c. Interest rate, 8 percent; tax rate, 30 percent. Round your answer to two decimal places. % 2. LL Incorporated’s currently outstanding 9% coupon bonds have a yield to maturity of 12%. LL believes it could issue new bonds at par that would provide a similar yield to maturity. If its marginal tax rate is 40%, what is LL’s after-tax cost of debt? Round the answer to two decimal places. % 3. Duggins Veterinary Supplies can issue perpetual preferred stock at a price of $52.5 a share with an annual dividend of $3.50 a share. Ignoring flotation costs, what is the company’s cost of preferred stock, rps? Round the answer to two decimal places. % 4 Summerdahl Resorts’ common stock is currently trading at $30 a share. The stock is expected to pay a dividend of $3.00 a share at the end of the year (D1 = $3.00), and the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% a year. What is the cost of common equity? Round your answer to two decimal places. % 5.Booher Book Stores has a beta of 1.2. The yield on a 3-month T-bill is 4.5% and the yield on a 10-year T-bond is 8%. The market risk premium is 4%, and the return on an average stock in the market last years was 8.5%. What is the estimated cost of common equity using the CAPM? Round your answer to two decimal places. % 6. Shi Importers’ balance sheet shows $300 million in debt, $50 million in preferred stock, and $250 million in total common equity. Shi’s tax rate is 40%, rd = 7%, rps = 5.7%, and rs = 11%. If Shi has a target capital structure of 30% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 65% common stock, what is Shi’s WACC? Round your answer to two decimal places. % 7 David Ortiz Motors has a target capital structure of 40% debt and 60% equity. The yield to maturity on the company’s outstanding bonds is 8%, and the company’s tax rate is 40%. Ortiz’s CFO has calculated the company’s WACC as 8.74%. What is the company’s cost of equity capital? Round your answer to two decimal places. % 8.On January 1, the total market value of the Tysseland Company was $60 million. During the year, the company plans to raise and invest $25 million in new projects. The firm’s present market value capital structure, shown below, is considered to be optimal. Assume that there is no short-term debt. New bonds will have an 6% coupon rate, and they will be sold at par. Common stock is currently selling at $30 a share. The stockholders’ required rate of return is estimated to be 12%, consisting of a dividend yield of 4% and an expected constant growth rate of 8%. (The next expected dividend is $1.20, so $1.20/$30 = 4%.) The marginal corporate tax rate is 40%. a. In order to maintain the present capital structure, how much of the new investment must be financed by common equity?$ b. Assuming there is sufficient cash flow such that Tysseland can maintain its target capital structure without issuing additional shares of equity, what is its WACC? Round your answer to two decimal places. % c. Suppose now that there is not enough internal cash flow and the firm must issue new shares of stock. Qualitatively speaking, what will happen to the WACC?_________________ I. rs and the WACC will increase due to the flotation costs of new equity.II. rs and the WACC will decrease due to the flotation costs of new equity.III. rs will increase and the WACC will decrease due to the flotation costs of new equity.IV. rs will decrease and the WACC will increase due to the flotation costs of new equity.V. rs and the WACC will not be affected by flotation costs of new equity. 9. A project has an initial cost of $47,975, expected net cash inflows of $13,000 per year for 9 years, and a cost of capital of 13%. What is the project’s NPV? (Hint: Begin by constructing a time line.) Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ ________ 10. A project has an initial cost of $50,000, expected net cash inflows of $12,000 per year for 8 years, and a cost of capital of 10%. What is the project’s IRR? Round your answer to two decimal places. % 11. A project has an initial cost of $54,575, expected net cash inflows of $15,000 per year for 8 years, and a cost of capital of 14%. What is the project’s MIRR? Round your answer to two decimal places. % 12. A project has an initial cost of $58,550, expected net cash inflows of $12,000 per year for 7 years, and a cost of capital of 12%. What is the project’s payback period? Round your answer to two decimal places. years 13. A project has an initial cost of $36,650, expected net cash inflows of $10,000 per year for 9 years, and a cost of capital of 13%. What is the project’s PI? Round your answer to two decimal places. ________ 14. A project has an initial cost of $52,125, expected net cash inflows of $12,000 per year for 8 years, and a cost of capital of 12%. What is the project’s discounted payback period? Round your answer to two decimal places. years 15. Your division is considering two investment projects, each of which requires an up-front expenditure of $17 million. You estimate that the investments will produce the following net cash flows: a. What are the two projects; net present values, assuming the cost of capital is 5%? Round your answers to the nearest dollar. Project A $ __________ Project B $ __________ What are the two projects’ net present values, assuming the cost of capital is 10%? Round your answers to the nearest dollar. Project A $ __________ Project B $ __________ What are the two projects’ net present values, assuming the cost of capital is 15%? Round your answers to the nearest dollar. Project A $ __________ Project B $ __________ b. What are the two projects’ IRRs at these same costs of capital? Round your answers to two decimal places.Project A % Project B % 16. Davis Industries must choose between a gas-powered and an electric-powered forklift truck for moving materials in its factory. Since both forklifts perform the same function, the firm will choose only one. (They are mutually exclusive investments.) The electric-powered truck will cost more, but it will be less expensive to operate; it will cost $21,500, whereas the gas-powered truck will cost $17,960. The cost of capital that applies to both investments is 13%. The life for both types of truck is estimated to be 6 years, during which time the net cash flows for the electric-powered truck will be $6,860 per year and those for the gas-powered truck will be $4,600 per year. Annual net cash flows include depreciation expenses. Calculate the NPV for each type of truck. Round your answers to the nearest dollar. Calculate the IRR for each type of truck. Round your answers to two decimal places. Which type of the truck should the firm purchase?_________________ 17. After discovering a new gold vein in the Colorado mountains, CTC Mining Corporation must decide whether to mine the deposit. The most cost-effective method of mining gold is sulfuric acid extraction, a process that results in environmental damage. Before proceeding with the extraction, CTC must spend $900,000 for new mining equipment and pay $165,000 for its installation. The gold mined will net the firm an estimated $350,000 each year over the 5-year life of the vein. CTC’s cost of capital is 17%. For the purposes of this problem, assume that the cash inflows occur at the end of the year. a. What is the project’s NPV? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. $ ________ What is the project’s IRR? Round your answer to two decimal places. % b. Should this project be undertaken if environmental impacts were not a consideration?_________________ c. How should environmental effects be considered when evaluating this, or any other, project?_________________ I. Environmental effects should be ignored since they would have no effect on the project’s profitability.II. Environmental effects should be treated as sunk costs.III. Environmental effects could be added by estimating penalties or any other cash outflows that might be imposed on the firm to help return the land to its previous state (if possible).
Briefly discuss what cultural competence means to you and whether there any benefits of developing cultural competence when working with children and families.
The initial post has several sections to it. Make sure to complete all of them. You will be required to write your thoughts before and after doing the reading. Write those down in a separate document and paste into the forum when you are done. I will grade using the rubric for online posts outlined in the syllabus. 1. Before doing the reading or further research, briefly discuss what cultural competence means to you and whether there any benefits of developing cultural competence when working with children and families.2. The NEA policy brief outlines reasons to become culturally competent, which of these reasons resonated with you and why? Provide an example, ideally from your work with children, which would illustrate the importance of that point. (CulturalCompetence-VanRoekel-NEA attachment)Complete the Cultural Competency Self-Assessment (attached below). While you answer it, think of your work with children. If you haven’t worked with children, think of your school growing up. 3. What did you learn through the CC Self-Assessment exercise? In which do need to work on? 4. How do you think the self-assessment connects with or reflect some of the concepts described in Baird’s reading? Include page numbers and specific reflections that show you have read. ( Required readings: Working with Diversity-Baird Ch6-)EACH QUESTION SUPPOSE TO HAVE 6-7 SENTENCES
Explain whether you believe McLuhan’s global village or Lule’s global village of Babel better describes our world and why.
2. Explain whether you believe McLuhan’s global village or Lule’s global village of Babel better describes our world and why.3. In support of your argument for either McLuhan’s vision or Lule’s vision, you’ll describe how media influence economics, politics, and culture in ways that positively or negatively affect the global village? This essay will consist of multiple ideas; Mcluhan, Lule’s and mine. There will be a discussion describing the connection between the pervasive media environment and the global village. I will then pick a side in which I agree with Mcluhan’s global village or Lule’s global village when describing the world we live in. With the evidence shown, (whomever I choose) I will go more in depth about how the media has influenced economics, politics, and culture and that’s either in a positive way or negative effect on the global village. Essay Must be 5 pages, 12 times font and doubled spaced No PLAGARISM
If market interest rates remain unchanged, do you think it is likely that the bond will be called in three years? Why or why not?
Stock and Bond Valuations
As an investor, you are considering an investment in the bonds of the Front Range Electric Company. The bonds pay interest semiannually, will mature in eight years, and have a coupon rate of 4.5% on a face value of $1,000. Currently, the bonds are selling for $900. If your required return is $5.75 for bonds in this risk class, what is the highest price you would be willing to pay? What is the current yield of these bonds? If you hold the bonds for one year, and interest rates do not change, what total rate of rate of return will you earn? Why is this different from the current yield and YTM? If the bonds can be called in three years with a call premium of 4% of the face value, what is the yield to call on these bonds? If market interest rates remain unchanged, do you think it is likely that the bond will be called in three years? Why or why not?
Write a short exploratory that references both the work of African American artists from the past and present.
With an historical perspective in mind, review the contemporary African American offerings and samples in the genres of literature, music, film offered in the module. Look Up, Ahead, Backward, and Forward Again: Exploring the intersection of history and contemporary art-making, write a short exploratory that references both the work of African American artists from the past and present. Requirements: should be 800 – 1500 words should be in MLA format with In-text citations AND Works Cited page should reference chosen text/media and at least FOUR outside sources should be written in third person; please steer clear of informal second-person (“you”) and narrative first-person (“I”)Questions to help guide your work: Are there any direct historical references in the contemporary work? Are there any implied historical references in the contemporary work? Are there any allusions to earlier literary works, either by African Americans or others, in the contemporary selection? (Look up “allusion” here) If the contemporary work references a current event, can the cause or effect of that event be traced to a particular historical event, person, or phenomenon? Does the reception or popularity of the contemporary work reflect the difficulties we have talking about the history of African American life in America? Does the reception or popularity of the contemporary work surprise or disappoint? Does the contemporary artist consider him or herself an activist? Does the contemporary art reflect popular culture? Do you see any similarities between the traditional, classic, and modern art-making by African Americans and the art-making of contemporaries? Do you notice any differences? Does the contemporary work fit into any of the categories of protest described in the resource in the module? Does the contemporary work incite any feelings of hope for a future reckoning of our shared past as Americans? must be written in expository, 5 Paragraph Format (i.e., Introduction, 3 Supporting Paragraphs, Conclusion, etc.). You must also include at least 5 Sources in this
Why is evaluating training an important part of strategic training?
Why is evaluating training an important part of strategic training? Your discussion is to be submitted in 12-point Times New Roman font using APA format. You must have a minimum of two sources to support your answer. Students are required to post their primary response (300 word minimum)
When are warranty contracts considered separately priced?
1. FASB Code Questions :Pleasant Co. manufactures specialty bike accessories. The company is known for product quality, and it has offered one of the best warranties in the industry on its higher-priced products—a lifetime guarantee, performing all the warranty work in its own shops. The warranty on these products is included in the sales price.Due to the recent introduction and growth in sales of some products targeted to the low-price market, Pleasant is considering partnering with another company to do the warranty work on this line of products, if customers purchase a service contract at the time of original product purchase. Pleasant has called you to advise the company on the accounting for this new warranty arrangement.InstructionsGo to http://aaahq.org/asclogin.cfm to log in and prepare responses to the following. Provide Codification references for your responses.(a) Identify the accounting literature that addresses the accounting for the type of separately priced warranty that Pleasant is considering.(b) When are warranty contracts considered separately priced?(c) What are incremental direct acquisition costs and how should they be treated? 2. Written Questions :Answer the following questions in 1 page or less for each question.Question 1:Pleasant Co. is considering issuing bonds for the expansion of its business overseas. Is it more advantageous for Pleasant Co. to offer customers the option to purchase additional service contracts or to provide warranties on all products sold considering its upcoming bond issuance? Suggested approach to answer this question:1. Write out the journal entries for Assurance-typed warranties and Service-typed warranties and think of the balance sheet impact of each.2. Think about how the balance sheet impact would impact the selling price of bonds. Remember that investors look at liquidity ratios when determining the risk of a bond issuanceQuestion 2:Pleasant Co. currently relies upon third-party service providers to repair products under assurance-typed warranties and is considering opening service locations. Opening service locations would require significant fixed asset investment but would be less expensive per repair.Discuss the impact on the balance sheet and impact on any two liquidity ratios of moving from a per unit more expensive third-party service provider to a less expensive in-house warranty servicing in an e-mail format to your hypothetical manager.Suggested approach to answer this question:· Consider where Pleasant Co. would gather funds for the investment in fixed assets to open service locations and its effects on the balance sheet.· Write out the journal entries for assurance-typed warranties and think of how the estimates in the journal entries are affected by this proposed change.
Summarize in a short paper what worked best for you during the negotiation exercise.
This exercise allows you to see how many everyday opportunities there are to barter and negotiate – and to reflect on your negotiations. You will negotiate a series of 5 trades beginning with a paper clip and ending with something more valuable, e.g. you might trade your paperclip for a pen, then the pen for a pack of gum, then the gum for a used thumb drive, then the thumb drive for a DVD, then the DVD for a used computer bag.But there’s a catch: none of your negotiations can be done face-to-face or with other students in the class. Business is done more and more at a distance and so are negotiations. You can use any form of electronic, telecommunications or social media outlets that you would like to. You also must negotiate at least one trade with someone with whom you have conflict or who you really don’t like very well.Keep a log of what happened in the trade. Then summarize in a short paper what worked best for you, etc.Negotiation Requirements:Summary Requirements
