Critically assess the utility of Neural Networks in a modern financial environment
Critically assess the utility of Neural Networks in a modern financial environment
You will need to plan your answer carefully to provide a focused and succinct essay whatever your
approach and reasoning ability within the word-limit.
The assignment answers should be written in an academic and logical manner, not a journalistic style.
The assignment refers to the related lectures on Neural Networks, their design and applications.
Evidence of wider reading and critical thinking are strongly encouraged. The word limit is 2000
words. You should not exceed it. Additionally, I attached some of my lecturer’s PowerPoint to
help/support the making of the essay
Name five key factors that affect a firms external financing requirements?
Question 1
Define each of the following terms.
a.Operating plan, financial plan
b. Spontaneous liabilities, profit margin, payout
c.Additional funds needed (AFN; AFN equations capital intensity ratios, self-supporting growth rate.
d. Forecasted financial statement approach using percent of sales
e. Exceed capacity; lumpy assets; economies of scale
f. Full capacity sales target fixed assets/sales ratios required level of fixed assets
Question 2
Name five key factors that affect a firms external financing requirements?
Question 3
Maggies muffins, Inc., generated $5,000,000 in sales during 2013, and its year-end total were $2,500,000. Also, at year-end 2013, current liabilities were $1,000,000, consisting of $300,000 of notes payable, $500,000 of accounts payable, and $200,000 of accruals. Looking ahead to 2014, the company estimates that its assets must increase at the same rate as sales, its spontaneous liabilities will increase at the same rate as sales, its profit margin will increase by %7 and its payout ratio will be %80. How large a sales increase can the company achieve without having to raise funds externallythat is, what is its self-supporting growth rate?
Discuss how city and county residents are taxed for sport venues and whether public funding should be used for sport and entertainment venues
Discuss how city and county residents are taxed for sport venues and whether public funding should
be used for sport and entertainment venues (10 points).
Research and give one example of how public funding has been used to build a stadium (5 points).
Known as one of the worlds most spectacular venues, the Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta, Georgia
is the first LEED Platinum certified professional sports stadium in North America. The stadium is
home to the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United FC, and the Chick-fil-A-Kickoff Game. The construction
for the stadium broke ground in 2014 and opened to the public in August 2017.
Building Mercedes Benz Stadium was a controversial decision during the beginning of the proposal
process in 2010. In fact, Atlanta already had a stadium downtownthe Georgia Domethat debuted
in 1992 at a cost of $214 million ($398.8 million today) and was the second largest covered stadium in
the world (by capacity) at the time (Associated Press 2017). The Georgia Dome held historic events,
such as the 1996 Summer Olympics, NCAA mens final four, and hundreds of professional and
amateur sporting events throughout the years. The Georgia Dome had not even reached its 20th
birthday by the time discussions started on knocking down the facility and building a new one.
The Georgia Dome was demolished in 2017, and 95 percent of the stadium was recycled and reused.
The lot where the Georgia Dome once stood is now used as a green space known as the Home Depot
backyard, an 11-acre greenspace next to the Mercedes Benz stadium used for parking and tailgating as
well as events and programming on nongame days. The new stadium was able to get platinum LEED
certified recognition because
it saves 29 percent in energy usage in comparison to other stadiums,
rainwater is used for landscape irrigation,
it has 4,000 solar panels,
LED lighting throughout the facility reduces energy usage by as much as 60 percent, and
it has edible landscaping (Mercedes Benz Stadium 2020).
Arthur Blank has vowed to rehabilitate the west side of Atlanta by using Mercedes Benz Stadium as
the fulcrum that will help to spread success throughout Atlanta and the surrounding communities. In
fact, he created a plan called Westside Works, which is a long-term neighborhood program that is
focused on creating employment opportunities and job training for residents of the west side
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community where Mercedes Benz Stadium is located. One of the programs within Westside Works is
a six-week culinary academy that trains chefs and is a pipeline to employment inside Levy Restaurant
venues in metro Atlanta, including Mercedes Benz Stadium (Solomon 2019). Since construction of
the stadium was completed, Mercedes Benz Stadium has hosted many events including a Super Bowl
in 2019 and the NCAA Mens Basketball tournament in 2020, and has made the list of possible
venues for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Both Mercedes Benz Stadium and the Georgia Dome used public funding through taxpayer dollars to
secure the construction of the stadium, with both promoters saying that stadium construction in that
area would help the community.
Discuss how city and county residents are taxed for sport venues and whether public funding should
be used for sport and entertainment venues (10 points).
Research and give one example of how public funding has been used to build a stadium (5 points).
Compare and contrast both food franchises, and discuss the differences in their layouts
Fast Food Franchise Please respond to the following: Choose two fast food franchises, such as McDonalds and Burger King, and examine their facility layouts. Compare and contrast both food franchises, and discuss the differences in their layouts.
What do you anticipate in the future with respect to sports in your life, and how is that future connected with your past or present experiences, and what may be occurring in your life in the future?
The goal of this assignment is to see and describe your early observations/experiences of sport in a
way that enables you to put them in a broader social context, not just in terms of your individual life.
Be assured that you are in no way required to be athletic in order to enjoy and succeed in this class!
If any of the prompts below are not applicable to you, just note that and keep going with whatever is
relevant to you. If you did not have experiences of playing physical games or sports, write about what
you observed at sporting events that you saw in person, or on television.
Instructions: Write an essay that runs about 2 pages (12 point font, double spaced, 1 inch margins all
around).
When children first play sports (or do not play sports) they do so in connection with ideas about
themselves, about their bodies, and about the meanings of their experiences or observations. Along
these lines, what do you recall from your first exposure to watching or participating in sport?
Opportunities to play sports, and the character of sport experiences, often are different for boys and
girls and for children from different racial or ethnic groups and social class backgrounds. Write about
how gender, race/ethnicity, and/or social class may have influenced the sports for you as a child.
Many young adults say that without their parents, they never would have had the opportunity to play
sports as a child or adolescent. Explain the ways that your parent[s]/caregivers encouraged/facilitated
of discouraged/interfered with your sport exposure or participation.
What do you anticipate in the future with respect to sports in your life, and how is that future
connected with your past or present experiences, and what may be occurring in your life in the future?
compose a three (3) paragraph reflection on your initial reactions and thoughts about the film.
Watch the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3HxUfqfNmE
compose a three (3) paragraph reflection on your initial reactions and thoughts about the film. Make sure to make connections to your work with children and families such as eating healthy, economic challenges, how this effects kids and their education, health problems etc.
Discuss implications and challenges unique to your target country.
Expanding into a new country requires a manager to understand the nuances of culture which may
impact the local marketing and human resources strategies. These intangibles are crucial and must
be identified and understood if a company wants to be successful in the new market, but it can be
much harder to define and measure than other risk factors.
Instructions
Research the culture of Indonesia for your Global Business Plan. Your goal is to gain an
understanding of the overall mindset of the culture, and the intrinsic motivations that will impact both
local consumer behavior, and the personnel that you will employ. Delve deep into their culture by
researching Indonesias values, using all of the resources that have been provided throughout this
course. Be sure to review resources like Hofstede Insights & Global Edge.
Compose your initial post that shares your cultural research with the class and includes the following:
Discuss implications and challenges unique to your target country.
Include an analysis of the Hofstede cultural values and how those might apply to the anticipated
behaviors of both consumers and personnel.
Give specific examples of previous mistakes made in that country such as marketing blunders and
translation errors.
Be sure to cite at least (1) additional outside resource that supports your ideas.
APA formatting is required.
Describe a key conflict in the play and how it corresponds to a characters development.
Discussion 1
Macbeth is often considered one of literatures greatest tragedies, not only because of Macbeths tragic fall from grace, but because of how the play relates to human nature and the conflicts inherent in human nature. Think of what kinds of conflicts you saw in Macbeth. Consider what literary techniques helped convey the conflict
State a conflict that you see present in Macbeth (please refer to the list of conflicts).
Respond to one of the following and provide specific textual examples:
Describe a key conflict in the play and how it corresponds to a characters development.
Describe two key literary techniques and elements of drama that aid in developing the conflict.
Explain how the conflict identified in the play relates to human nature and the human condition.
Discussion 2
Reflect on Mistaken Identity: A Ten Minute Play. This is a modern comedy that centers on the quest for love and understanding. Consider whether the function of the conflict in this play and the way the literary elements and techniques enhance the conflict is different from what we studied in Macbeth.
State a conflict that you see present in Mistaken Identity: A Ten Minute Play (please refer to the list of conflicts )
Respond to one of the following, providing examples or quotations from the play to illustrate your ideas:
Describe a key conflict in the play and how it corresponds to a characters development.
Describe two key literary techniques and elements and techniques of drama that aid in developing the conflict.
Explain how and why the conflict in this comedy is different from and/or similar to the conflict explored in tragedy
Discuss some of the access control methods that are utilized within your organization
the subject related to cyber security. you have to sport your answer with citation. you have yo cover
all questions.
Discuss some of the access control methods that are utilized within your organization. For example,
does your organization leverage public key infrastructure, key card authentication, or login hours?
what access control methods have you seen, and how effective were the control methods? Discuss the
pros and cons of each of the controls.
What does Ta-Nehisi Coates mean when he writes that race is a social construct? What is a social construct?
Your response will be about 300 words, thats an average of 100 words for each of
the three questions below.
1. What does Ta-Nehisi Coates mean when he writes that race is a
social construct? What is a social construct?
Source:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-mean-when-wesay-race-is-a-social-construct/275872/
2. Why does Angela Davis write that we must consider racist systems,
such as the prison industrial complex, in a global context?
Source:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Chapter 2
3. What do you think: Which theory of gender makes the most sense to
you? Please explain why in detail.
Source:
Theories of gender an overview
NOTE: Its interesting to bear in mind that French writer and feminist Simone de
Beauvoir was the first to formally challenge the gender binary (youre either
female or male and there are no other options) by raising the distinction between
sex and gender in her 1949 book, The Second Sex, famed for, among other
things, the quote, One is not born but becomes a woman. De Beauvoir posited
that man is the default setting in a society (think the white, male, educated,
upper class, able-bodied, Christian hegemony in our particular society), and
woman (and everyone who isnt a member of the hegemony) is defined by society
in relation to man (cisgender male). Everyone else is subordinate to manother,
lesser genders.
Three theories of gender
1. Gender essentialism relies on biology to explain genderits all in the sex
chromosomes. The observed differences between men and women are defined by
innate biological characteristics. This theory posits that categories of difference
(male or female; straight or LGBTQI+; white, black, brown; etc.) are not socially
constructed; rather they are innate, intrinsic, immutable genetic differences that
define each distinct groups nature and disposition.
Beware: The general philosophy of essentialism (not specifically gender
essentialism) has been debated since ancient Greece. Today, it is often used by
racists and homophobes as a basis for embracing white and heterosexual
supremacy.
2. Social constructivism posits that gender is socially constructed: Individuals do
not define their genders; rather, gender norms are defined, taught, and reinforced
by a society, by the people and institutions that create and participate in a
society.
Philosopher Judith Butlers concept of gender performativism complements
social constructivism. She says gender performativity is not a matter of choosing
which gender one will be today; performativity is a matter of reiterating or
repeating the acts ones society has defined as the norms.
NOTE: Performativism is the performance of a social or cultural role, for
example, a woman might perform motherhood, which means she acts in a way
compatible with social norms for how a mother should behave, think, and feel.
(And, oh ye gods if she does otherwise!)
Butler says your gender expression is not an expression of something within you,
it IS you. Consequently, you cannot be incorrectly expressing your gender.
This is a tricky concept, so think of it this way: Roses are red, right? So, believing
someone is incorrectly expressing their gender is like saying a yellow rose
because it is yellow, rather than the dominant redis incorrectly expressing its
rose-ness. But thats not true: We know the yellow rose is still a rose; it is simply
one of a non-dominant color.
3. Intrinsic inclination mode, a theory developed by geneticist Julia Serano, posits
that certain behaviors associated with exceptional (outside of the norm) gender
expressions are actually quite normal variations that are intrinsic (natural)
expressions of ones gender. For example, the gender expressions of members of
the LGBTQI+ community are intrinsic (natural) expressions, not exceptional
gender expressions. If you recall, in contrast to this theory, gender essentialism
would attribute such behaviors to genetic anomalies (abnormalities).
Serano challenges the concept of gender performativism (Butler) as possibly
patronizing (meaning that, although it appears to be helpful, it is based in a sense
of superiority) because, for some people, gender expression is indeed an
expression of something innate inside them.
For example, some children express their transgender identities at very young
ages, well before they have had adequate time to learn socially constructed
norms. Serano would consider this an innate expression of gender, not an
exceptional gender expression.
However, Serano is critical of both social constructivism and gender essentialism,
because they do an inadequate job of defining gender. Nonetheless, she still
embraces certain aspects of both.
Again, when people act in ways that do not conform to socially constructed
gender norms, gender essentialism would blame that on genetic anomalies. This
would mean that the LGBTQI+ population all have genetic anomalies that define
their genders.
Instead, Serano posits the concept of subconscious sexhow your brain expects
your body to be. The two should, in theory, match. For example, if the brain is
wired female, the body should have female parts and vice versa. According to this
concept, transgender peoples brains tell them their physical bodies dont match
their subconscious sex, while cisgender peoples brains find matching bodies.
Although this sounds similar to gender essentialism, Serano conceives that social
constructivism also contributes in a significant way to how one interprets ones
subconscious sexthe interpretation is affected by social constructs.
Conclusion
Butler, de Beauvoir, and Serano share some common thinking: Primarily, they
agree that ones gender is defined by more than one thingnot just your
conscious awareness of your gender. It is, possibly, a combination of biology,
society, and you.
You decide which, if any, theory, or theories, makes sense to you. However, more
important, perhaps, than coming up with the correct theory, is simply accepting
people for who they are, however they choose to express that.
