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Description The budget is arguably the most important policy decision elected officials make. Why Discussion Question 1(150 words) The textbook says, “Budgeting is not a scientific activity” and is instead a craft. Why? ( Discussion question 2) 150 words

Description Task There will be two writing assignments in this course to give you practice and opportunities to get feedback on your writing. This is an individual writing assignment. For this writing assignment, you will be given an economic podcast and will be asked to critically evaluate it. You will be graded on the quality and thoroughness of your analysis. Therefore, you will also be graded on the clarity, flow, and overall cohesiveness of the writing in your paper. Podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/reemployment-part-1/ Prompt The beginning of the podcast states, “Covid-19 is the biggest job killer in a century. As the lockdown eases, what does re-employment look like Who will be first and who last? Which sectors will surge and which will disappear?” After listening to this podcast, the President of the United States asks you to come up with a critical evaluation regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the labor market. Based on your report, the President will make its policy recommendations. You are to analyze one of the four economists' arguments/opinions in the podcast. Follow the paper outline below: Paper Outline Introduction (10 points): The introduction (first paragraph) briefly summarizes what you consider to be the main point(s) of the article. If there are many, focus on the one(s) that you will analyze in the assignment. Summary (10 points): A short summary of the podcast should be included. This summary should capture the key points presented in the podcast and any important facts or elements. Do not spend the whole assignment summarizing the entire article. Summaries should be succinct and to the point and be approximately one paragraph. Explain “your chosen” economists’ arguments (30 points): The President has heard about the “the above economist” but does not know enough to enact a policy. In this section you need to explain what the economist is arguing. (Don’t just summarize what they said. You need to demonstrate their argument using the models and tools you have learned throughout the semester). Critical Evaluation of the argument (40 points): This is the most important aspect of this assignment. Students should focus on whether they agree/disagree with the economist and what their recommendations may be. Students can also analyze how the material in the podcast will impact the economy in a macro setting. The analysis portion has the potential to be varied in nature. However, I recommend sticking to my guidelines below: To evaluate the argument you need first to understand the author’s arguments. Start by identifying the assumptions inherent in the argument, checking to see if the conclusions follow from these assumptions. Try to distinguish the argument from the evidence provided to support the argument To do the critical evaluation, essentially you should take apart the various steps in the argument and see if they make sense separately and as a whole. Can you use the tools learned in class to think about the argument in another way? Check to see if the author is missing anything in his/her argument or has used some tool or method incorrectly or inappropriately. Is there evidence that contradicts their argument? I expect you to use at least 1 economic model we have learned in class. (ie, Supply/Demand, Cost curves, Market structures (Perfect Competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, etc), utilities, etc). All models must be drawn by hand. Any models “grabbed” from the text or internet will not count and will adversely affect your grade. Conclusion (10 points): It is important to have a strong conclusion since this is the last chance you have to make an impression on your reader. The goal of your conclusion isn’t to introduce any new ideas, but to sum up, everything you’ve written. Specifically, your conclusion should accomplish three major goals: Restate the main idea of your essay, or your thesis statement. Summarize the main sub-points of your essay. Leave the reader with an interesting final impression. Works Cited: Must cite at least 3 sources. Class notes/lectures can account for one source. The textbook can account for one source. How to format your assignment Your assignment should be typed, double-spaced, and have a font size of 12 points. Minimum of 3 pages (not including models, works cited page). The assignment should be in Word. Your models must be hand-drawn, scanned as an image, and pasted to your word document. - Original work only no plagiarism.

Description Research current financial information and key performance indicators for Johnson & Johnson using Yahoo Finance via the following link: Yahoo! Finance - Johnson & Johnson You must use Johnson & Johnson for this assignment. You must use Yahoo Finance for the data. The information must be current (as of this course) unless otherwise required. Create a PowerPoint presentation in APA format for investors to assess Johnson & Johnson’s financial growth and sustainability. This assignment must be done in PowerPoint. No other formats will be accepted (ie Word). Identify the following key performance indicators for Johnson & Johnson: the company, its ticker symbol, cash flow from operations (TTM), price-to-earnings ratio, stock dividends and the yield, earnings per share ratio, average revenue estimate for the next 12 months, revenue from the previous 3 years, statement of cash flows identifying net cash from operating, investing, and financing activities over the past 3 years, average trade volume, current stock price, 52-week high, 1-year estimated stock price, analysts’ recommendation for the stock (buy, sell, or hold), and market cap for the company. Relate the stock price to price-to-earnings ratio. Explain market capitalization and what it means to the investor. Evaluate trends in stock price, dividend payout, and total stockholders’ equity. Relate recent events or market conditions to the trends you identified. Determine, based on your analysis, whether you think the organization is going to meet its financial goals, the outlook for growth and sustainability, and explain why you recommend this stock for purchase. IMPORTANT: The template for this presentation is provided to you above in order to give everyone an opportunity to maximize points on this assignment. This is the basic outline for the assignment. Follow the guidance below and within the template itself. If you are familiar with PowerPoint, you may “jazz it up” as you wish, but it is not necessary. Slide 1: Make sure you enter your name and date. Slide 2: You should not need to change anything here unless you add slides. Slide 3: REQUIRES answers to all of the Key Indicators within the notes. No other discussion is required for this slide. Simply provide the answers. Slide 4: REQUIRES figures and a discussion within the notes addressing the requirements set forth. Slide 5: REQUIRES figures and a discussion within the notes addressing the requirements set forth. Slide 6: REQUIRES figures and a discussion within the notes addressing the requirements set forth. Slide 7: REQUIRES a discussion within the notes addressing the requirements set forth. Slide 8: REQUIRES a discussion within the notes wrapping up the presentation. Slide 9: Required references are already given to you in their proper format. You should not need to change anything here unless you use additional references. If you do use additional references, use the Reference and Citation Generator link below to format your references.

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Description On this assignment you should submit your work in the form of a Microsoft Word, but you can add an Excel spreadsheet as an addendum only if you want; it is not mandatory. I DO NOT ACCEPT OTHER FORMATS. Moreover, your answers should contain explanation of what you are doing and why. A simple yes or no answer, or simply providing the numerical answer without any explanation will not be sufficient. This is NOT a math problem and your detailed work should be shown with explanation. This means for every major calculation or formulation, you should show and explain your work. Remember, you are presenting this to the VP of your company, for example, who may not understand technical terms and you should explain everything you do. The assignment should follow APA format. (For more information please read the additional files, thank you :)

Description While the video provides a reason why a country may want to manipulate the value of it's currency, doing so is usually a violation of the free trade rules for fully floating currencies. The Chinese Yuan is a managed float currency, while the US Dollar is fully floating. You will examine these terms this week. Note: The video has Closed Captioning. To activate it, start the video, mouse over the bottom of the video and click on the CC icon, then select from the menu. This week we are going to look more globally and examine exchange rates. An exchange rate is simply the price of one currency in terms of another currency. In other words, how many US Dollars does it take to buy one British Pound? Remember that an exchange rate ALWAYS involves two currencies which means two countries. Review in detail, the three Exchange Rate presentations before you start your work on this week's discussion assignment. The Exchange Rates Part I presentation is below and can also downloaded as a Powerpoint presentation by clicking: Exchange Rates Then review the downloadable Exchange Rates Part II Powerpoint presentation by clicking: here here - Alternative Formats . (Part III is linked later in the instructions.) - Alternative Formats While they are conceptually simple, many economic factors go into the determination of exchange rates. And exchange rates influence many of the prices you pay in the store, they influence the number of jobs in the export sector of the economy and they even impact the price of a cup of coffee. Many people believe that a “strong” US Dollar is critical to the strength of the US economy. A “strong” dollar means one that can buy a goodly amount of a foreign currency. But does a “strong” dollar really benefit the US economy? And if so, in what ways? And in what ways does it harm the US economy? Review the Powerpoint presentation: Exchange Rates Part IIIExchange Rates Part III - Alternative Formats before continuing with the week's discussion. Now we are ready to examine how exchange rates are set and what the impacts on the US economy from a “strong” dollar versus a “weak” dollar actually are. Assignment Summary: Watch the above video and study the three Exchange Rate Powerpoint presentations; Read the article in the textbook: "Is a Strong Currency Always in a Nation's Interest?", page 692-693 (Week 4 pdf attached). Go to the X-Rates Web site (http://x-rates.com) and find the current: exchange rate for the US Dollar (USD) and any other country's currency that you wish to study - you can select the same country that you are using for your research project, (unless it is the Peoples' Republic of China). Do NOT select the Chinese Yuan as your other currency since it is not a freely floating currency; then from the icons below the currency selection boxes, select Graphs and then select 1 year; based on the 12 months of data, which currency is appreciating (gaining value) and which is depreciating (losing value)? Remember it can do both in a year. Now go to the CIA World Factbook and find out what goods and products the country you chose exports. Since most all of the goods that you buy are either imported or contain inputs from other countries, what do the trends in the exchange rates you examined tell you about the prices you can expect to pay for goods imported from the country you choose or for products that use inputs from that country (i.e., the exports of your country)? In a global economy most products contain materials from other countries and that includes food. If you had orange juice today, it may well have come from Brazil. Your computer and your cell phone contain parts from America or Japan or Taiwan or Thailand or one of the European countries or from all of these places. Thus, exchange rates directly impact the prices you pay for goods. This is your chance to learn more about how that works. On the discussion board, share your findings about whether the currency of the country you chose (Vietnam) is appreciating or depreciating relative to the US Dollar. What do you think this means for American imports from your country? (Vietnam) What do you think it means for American exports to your country? (Vietnam) Refer to at least two different concepts from this week’s Chapters. Your illustration of the concepts MUST include an explanation why you think they are relevant to the week’s topic using specific information from the articles, Powerpoint presentations, videos and other research that you have done. Remember to include citations and references as needed. Book: Mankiw, N. G. (2014). Principles of Economics (8th ed). Stamford CT: Cengage. ISBN: 9781337516860 (Hardback) or ISBN: 9781337607698Chapters 32-35

Description Assignment questions (Please remember to justify clearly all your conclusions and label all graphs) I would like to begin the content portion of this project by providing more background on its motivation. The term project focused on the stock price and as we mentioned during week #1, a closely related often-cited goal in business is profit maximization. Therefore, the goal of our semester has been to manage the following equation: ????=????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? As we discussed in class, total revenues are typically assumed to come from demand and so question #1 is all about demand and shifters of demand. 1. Demand analysis Specify the demand equation using your REDID. The intercept for this equation will be the third digit of your REDID starting from the right. If this digit is a zero, please pick the digit immediately to its right that is not a zero. The coefficient will be the third digit of your REDID starting from the left, but multiplied by -(1/2). So, if your REDID is 123456890, then your demand equation is: ????????=8?(12)?3?????????????. If your REDID is 987654321, then your demand equation will be ????????=3?(12)?7?????????????. If any digit is a zero, please pick the digit immediately to its right that is not a zero. If your REDID is 120456090,then your demand equation will be ????????=9?(12)?4?????????????. ********((MY RED IS IS: 824335467))********** This equation completes the specification for the demand equation for your primary product. So, if your company was Sherwin Williams and you pick yellow paint, this equation would specify the demand for yellow paint.The usage of the REDID is to provide some randomization to the demand equation selection to continue to ensure the integrity of the project and not to make you crazy over the demand equation. If you have any questions about the selection of your demand equation, please send me an email. Please determine the three most important demand shifters for the market for your primary product. So, if your product is yellow paint and your company is Sherwin Williams, your answer to this question will focus on the market for yellow paint, generally, and not just the paint produced and manufactured by Sherwin Williams. Please use graphs of the demand equation that you constructed above to demonstrate how the shifters you have chosen impact the demand for goods bought and sold in your primary market. Again, in the context of the above example, these graphs would correspond to the graphs for yellow paint. 2. Cost analysis The second term in the above equation is total cost. The lecture on cost was all about Q(short for Quantity), since total revenue=Price*Quantity. This lecture focused on where Q came from because we need to produce Q in order to supply it to the market and subsequently sell it in the market. A key assumption about cost, then, is that it corresponds to manufacturing cost, i.e., the cost we incur to sell our product in the marketplace. So, in the context of the above example, this would be the cost to manufacture (i.e. make) yellow paint. In other words, we need to make our product in order to sell it and so the lecture on production taught us how to produce our product and the lecture on demand and supply taught us how to represent the corresponding supply equation. The intercept for the supply equation is the fifth digit from the left and the coefficient will be 1. So, if your REDID is 123456890, then your supply equation will be, ????????=5+????????????. If your REDID is 12340980, then your supply equation will be ????????=9+????????????. Please graph this supply equation and remember to label all axes. What are the three most important shifters for the supply of your product? Please now assume that costs of production and supply are related and recall from our lectures in class that the two factors that drive production for any firm are labor and capital. How is the production of your product impacted by the shifts in the supply of your product? (Hint:if our product is yellow paint and after doing our research we find that technology is an important shifter in the supply of yellow paint. Then, in addition to discussing how technology affects the supply of yellow paint, we want to explain how technology affects the production of yellow paint and in particular, does it affect labor, capital, both? If it affects neither, but it does affect cost, then please state it. In all cases, please make sure to explain your position and use graphs to support your position). The slides also describe economies of scale, scope, and cost complementarities as additional tools to represent costs. Does your firm exploit any of these in order to reduce its costs? If so how and if not why not? (Please use graphs to support your answer). Finally, bringing everything together, of the market structures described during our last two virtual lectures, in which, if any, do you operate your business? Do you have market power, why or why not? If so, how do you exploit it? 3. Corona Virus effects In a recent Wall street journal article from February 27, 2020 titled “The Fed can’t wait to respond to the coronavirus”, the author stated, “Today, the novel Coronavirus is a material risk to the economy. It represents an unexpected shock...”Inevitably,in our lifetimes, we may run into such shocks again and we, as business managers and family members, should help other people within our business and our family. Assuming the CoronaVirus is tantamount to a risk factor to the economy, how does the shock of the CoronaVirus affect your primary market? (Please be sure to consider system wide/market shocks, industry specific,and firm specific shocks in your response. For these types of shocks, additional helpful considerations include the fixed costs and the variable costs you may face. How are these costs affected by CoronaVirus? How are revenues, profits affected? Remember:profit=revenue-total costs. It may also be helpful to classify it as a supply shock or demand shock or as affecting both.How does the market, your industry, your firm get affected?). How can you successfully navigate your business through such shocks for the security/protection (both financially and personally) of your employees and shareholders and both your family members and those of your employees? MY PROJECT WAS DONE ON THE COMPANY: WALMART! I HAVE ATTACHED PAST WORK FROM PROJECT AND SLIDES FROM LECTURES

Description Part 1: This task has a purpose to illustrate the concept of monopoly and price discrimination. The video shows how monopoly power arises and how it might disappear. Here is the video (Links to an external site.) Then you are to answer the following questions. What are the conditions that exist in the video for the monopolist to achieve monopoly power? Have you observed price discrimination in the video clip? Briefly explain. What might possibly undermine the soup maker’s monopoly power? Part 2: This assignment is to illustrate a couple of points we learned in the three different market structures, i.e., perfect competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition. This part is for you to watch two video clips from the movie “You’ve Got Mail” which is about the bookselling industry, where product differentiation matters. Write up your answers to the following questions (please answer question by question). While watching the video clips, please keep in mind that you are to discuss the following points: What are the differences among the monopolistic competition, competitive markets, and monopoly? Please use all the knowledge you learned from the previous modules to help you answer this question. You should also refer to the video as well. Is the bookselling a perfectly competitive industry? Briefly explain Can you identify barriers to entry from the video? How the sellers differentiate their products from their competitors as suggested by these video clips?

Description COMPETENCIES 4047.1.1 : Technology for Organizational Improvement The graduate evaluates technology for organizational improvement. 4047.1.2 : Impact of Proposed Technology The graduate determines the impact of a proposed technology on an organization. INTRODUCTION In today's ever-changing world of technology, organizations must compete with each other to offer better products and services. Organizations look for new technologies to run their companies more efficiently and gain market share. Emerging technologies are innovations that are new or cutting-edge or considered ground-breaking and sometimes perceived to "disrupt" the way businesses operate. For this assessment you will read the attached case study, which presents the existing technology and needs of a fictional organization. You will propose an emerging technology solution that will benefit the organization in the case study. You will need to discuss the impacts of this technology within the context of the organization. 4-8 pages REQUIREMENTS Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. A. Summarize an organizational need in the case study, including the scope of the need. B. Propose an emerging technology solution to address the organizational need from the case study. Provide justification that classifies this technology as emerging. C. Explain the steps of the adoption process that you recommend the organization use to integrate the new emerging technology, including a description of why each step is necessary and how each step relates to the organization. D. Describe both a positive and a negative impact that your emerging technology solution could have on the people or current processes in the organization, providing examples for how to address the negative impact. E. Compare your emerging technology solution to an alternative technology solution, providing at least two advantages and two disadvantages that each technology may have for the organization. F. Recommend a method that can be used to determine whether adoption of the proposed emerging technology solution will be successful or unsuccessful, based on the needs of the organization. G. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. H. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission. RUBRIC COMPETENT The submission accurately summarizes an organizational need in the case study, and the scope is relevant to the organizational need. COMPETENT The submission proposes an emerging technology as a solution to the identified organizational need. The proposed solution is relevant to the case study and the proposal justifies what classifies this technology as emerging. COMPETENT The submission explains the steps of the adoption process that are recommended for the organization to use to integrate the new emerging technology and includes a description of why each step is necessary and how each step relates to the organization. COMPETENT The submission describes both a positive and a negative effect the emerging technology solution could have on the people or current processes in the organization and includes examples for how to address the negative impact. COMPETENT The submission compares the emerging technology solution to an alternative technology solution and provides two advantages and two disadvantages each technology may have for the organization. COMPETENT The submission recommends a method that can be used to determine whether adoption of the proposed emerging technology solution will be successful or unsuccessful and relates to the needs of the organization. COMPETENT The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available. COMPETENT Content reflects attention to detail, is organized, and focuses on the main ideas as prescribed in the task or chosen by the candidate. Terminology is pertinent, is used correctly, and effectively conveys the intended meaning. Mechanics, usage, and grammar promote accurate interpretation and understanding.

Description 1. Suppose you win free tickets to a movie plus all you can eat at the snack bar for free. Would there be a cost to you to attend this movie? Explain. 2.Suppose we can divide all the goods produced by an economy into two types: consumption goods and capital goods. Capital goods, such as machinery, equipment, and computers, are goods used to produce other goods (i.e., if a country produces more capital goods this year, this country can produce more consumption goods in the next few years) a. Use a production possibilities frontier graph to illustrate the trade-off to an economy between producing consumption goods and producing capital goods. Is it likely that the production possibilities frontier in this situation would be a straight line or bowed out? Briefly explain. b. Suppose a technological advance occurs that affects the production of capital goods but not consumption goods. Show the effect on the production possibilities frontier. c. Suppose that country A and country B currently have identical production possibilities frontiers but that country A devotes only 5 percent of its resources to producing capital goods over each of the next 10 years, whereas country B devotes 30 percent. Which country is likely to experience more rapid economic growth in the future? Illustrate using a production possibilities frontier graph. Your graph should include production possibilities frontiers for country A today and in 10 years and production possibilities frontiers for country B today and in 10 years. 3. Show in a diagram the effect on the demand curve, the supply curve, the equilibrium price, and the equilibrium quantity of each of the following events: a. The market for newspapers in your town. The salaries of journalists go up. b. The market for New York Giants cotton T-shirts. The Giants win the Super Bowl. c. The market for donuts. People realize how fattening donuts are. d. The market for round-trip flights to Cancun, Mexico. Mexican all-inclusive resorts offer discounts to US college students AND the cost of oil and fuel increases. 4. In the U.S., the demand for pick-up trucks is P = 140 – 2.5Qd and the supply of pick-up trucks is P = 5Qs – 100 where P is the price of a pick up truck in thousands of dollars (when a truck costs $20,000, P = 20) and quantity is measured in millions of trucks. a. In a graph, plot the demand and supply curves. b. Using algebra, find the equilibrium price and quantity. Then clearly indicate the equilibrium price and quantity in your graph. c. Suppose the U.S. Department of Transportation imposes costly regulation on manufacturers that cause them to reduce supply by half at any given price. Calculate and plot the new supply function and indicate the new equilibrium quantity and price in your diagram.