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Corporate Finance With S&P Card + Connect Plus (9th Edition) Chapter 18, Problem 2QP

Corporate Finance With S&P Card + Connect Plus (9th Edition) Chapter 18, Problem 2QP

 " Gemini, Inc., an all-equity firm, is considering a $1.9 million investment that will be depreciated according to the straight-line method over its four-year life. The project is expected to generate earnings before taxes and depreciation of $685,000 per year for four years. The investment will not change the risk level of the firm. The company can obtain a four-year, 9.5 percent loan to finance the project from a local bank. All principal will be repaid in one balloon payment at the end of the fourth year. The bank will charge the firm $28,000 in flotation fees, which will be amortized over the four-year life of the loan. If the company financed the project entirely with equity, the firm’s cost of capital would be 13 percent. The corporate tax rate is 30 percent. Using the adjusted present value method, determine whether the company should undertake the project." 

    Data, Information And Industry Trends

    Data, Information And Industry Trends

    Evaluate Big Data in a minimum 1,400-word report and include the following: 

     

    • Analyze Big Data and its relation to Volume, Velocity and Variety. 

    • Assess the importance of Big Data within government organizations. 

    • Evaluate two examples of information that the government is collecting.

    EDU 525 Assignment 3: Reflections And Lessons Learned

    EDU 525 Assignment 3: Reflections And Lessons Learned

    For this assignment, reflect on the various theories and practices in adult education, training, and lifelong learning that you have studied in the course, and create a presentation of your ideas. You may use the presentation software of your choosing, such as Prezi, Haiku Deck, PowToon, or other similar software

    For tips on creating effective presentations, watch the video titled, “How to give great presentations. An alternative to PowerPoint, Bullet Points, boring presentations”.

    Create an eight to ten (8-10) slide presentation in which you:

    1. Rate your understanding of adult education theories and practices prior to completing this course compared to your understanding of adult education theories and practices upon completing the course. Examine the extent to which your understanding of adult education, training, and lifelong learning has changed from Week 1 until now.

    2. Construct your own definition of adult education.

    3. Explore the key concepts that you have learned in this course that you believe will have the greatest impact on your approach to educating adults in your current or future career.

    4. Select at least two (2) of the key concepts that you discussed above. Devise a strategy that outlines the steps you could take to apply the selected concepts at your current or future workplace.

    5. Narrate each slide, must have introduction  page conclusion page and a reference page intext citations also

    Finance Analyze

    Finance Analyze

    Use your favorite web browser and find "Inside the Meltdown." It's a PBS Frontline video that runs several minutes short of an hour. Your assignment:

    1. Watch and analyze the video
    2. Prepare a 2 page written analysis
    3. Can you predict what follows the next several years after the video concludes?

    Special Education (UDL)

    Special Education (UDL)

    DQ 1 In reviewing the reading strategies from this week's readings, identify which strategy you are most likely to use as an educator. Explain why you think this strategy will be most helpful within the inclusion classroom. 

    DQ 2 Explain why the principles prescribed for Universal Design for Learning benefit all students. How can these flexible approaches be used in planning to meet the needs of diverse students in a classroom? 

    Offering Solutions Presentation

    Offering Solutions Presentation

    Choose three parental challenges to address at a Parent Information Night from the list below.

    • Financial issues
    • Limited opportunities for recreation and leisure
    • Sibling issues
    • Constant care and supervision of a child with a disability
    • Increased potential for marital problems
    • Logistical issues such as transportation
    • Difficulty getting time away from job
    • Frequent disability-related crises
    • Health issues of family, other members
    • Difficulties obtaining appropriate educational services

    Design a 10-15 slide electronic presentation (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi or other presentation software) that describes each challenge and include potential solutions, strategies, and resources that could help parents facing such a challenge. Include presenter’s notes, a title slide, reference slide, and in-text citations within your presentation.

    Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.

    While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

    This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

    Emerging Technology And The Methodology Slide Presentation

    Emerging Technology And The Methodology Slide Presentation

    Refer to both the Overall Concept for Assignments 1-4 especially using Screenr in Assignment 4 and your responses from Assignments 1 through 3 in order to complete this assignment.

    Create a presentation in which you present your research on a particular emerging technology and the methodology used to ascertain its appropriateness for your educational setting. Use Screenr to produce a video screencast which illustrates your use of the selected emerging tool.

    Following is a list of resources for presentation software. Be aware that while presentation software may have a free trial, some may require a credit card and cancellation after the free trial period. Some free software may have limited images, layouts, templates, and options. Check any system requirements for the software to ensure your computer is ready.

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/ [free trial requires credit card and cancellation]

    http://prezi.com/ [free trial requires credit card and cancellation]

    https://www.haikudeck.com/

    https://www.zoho.com/docs/

    http://slidedog.com/

    http://www.emaze.com/

    http://www.wps.com/

    If you have or would like to use other presentation software, please ensure it complies with the requirements of the assignment.

    Project Presentation

    Overall presentation style and structure

    1. Present your findings using presentation software with at least ten (10) main topics / slides in your presentation.
    2. Include a title slide and references section. (These two [2] slides are not part of the ten [10] slide requirement).
    3. Develop a creative, appealing presentation for a professional audience, using two to three (2-3) colors and two to three (2-3) visuals in your presentation.
    4. Provide coherent, clear, organized, and substantive content that can be easily understood by the audience.
    5. Provide audio narration of the presentation slides as if you were delivering the speech. (Note: If you do not have access to a microphone, then you should provide detailed speaker notes with your presentation.)
    6. Create a section of the presentation (five [5] slides) in which you:
      1. Provide a high-level introduction to your final project, using either a concept map or other organizing element.
      2. Introduce the emerging technology, the educational setting in which the technology would be used, and aspects of the scenario into which you propose introducing an emerging technology.
      3. Provide at least one (1) Website link to the source of information on the emerging technology.
      4. Briefly discuss the comparative study of the selected emerging technology and similar existing technologies. Conclude with the main reason why the selected technology is most appropriate for your endeavor.
    7. Create a video screencast (five [5] minutes or less) using Screenr, the ASSURE model, and Assignment 3 to demonstrate the appropriateness of your chosen emerging technology for your particular context. You will:
      1. Demonstrate clearly the appropriateness of the emerging technology at each aspect of the ASSURE model.
      2. Name your screencast by typing FirstName_LastName_Assignment4 in the "Describe your screencast" field (e.g., John_Doe_Assignment4).
      3. Publish a working and accessible link to your Screenr video, and insert the link into your presentation.
    8. Create a section of the presentation (five [5] slides) for reflection in which you:
      1. Provide your personal reflection, highlighting what you learned from researching this emerging technology and developing the project.
      2. Discuss your personal observations of the technology and its potential applicability in an actual work or school setting beyond the one you explored within your project.
      3. Discuss supporting research from at least five (5) peer-reviewed references, published in the last five (5) years.
    9. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
      1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
      2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
    10. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

    Directions for submitting your presentation:

    • Submit your presentation to the area designated by your professor.
    • Review at least two (2) other classmates' presentations and post a response indicating what you learned by identifying two (2) specific points that your classmates made in the presentation.

    The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

    • Review current research related to emerging technologies for instruction and learning.Apply education principles and / or the ASSURE model to the design and evaluation of new technologies. Recommend reasons and methods for using visualization tools for teaching and learning.
    • Use technology and information resources to research issues in designing, developing, and evaluating educational technologies.
    • Write clearly and concisely about issues in designing, developing, and evaluating educational technologies.

     

    W9D2

    W9D2

    "Emerging Technologies for Instruction and Learning"  Please respond to the following:

    · Predict the next new technology-based assessment. Point out two (2) attributes and / or features of this prospective new technology. Discuss fundamental differences between the proposed technology (i.e., electronic e-Portfolios, clicker technology, surveys, and computer adaptive testing [CAT]).

     

    Reflective Essay: Classroom Management Reflection

    Reflective Essay: Classroom Management Reflection

    Write a 3-4-page paper that includes the following 3 parts & respond to the questions. Include smart goals in 3 parts of the paper. Using APA style and references.

     

    Part 1: Classroom Management Self-Inventory include the following paper.

    Part 2: Motivation and Engagement include the following in paper

    Part 3: Final Conclusion Reflection include the following in paper.

     

    The city as palimpsest

    The city as palimpsest

    In the required reading for Unit 1, David Harvey writes of the city as a palimpsest, a “composite landscape made up of different built forms superimposed upon each other with the passing of time” (p. 49). In his view, “Planners, architects, urban designers . . . all face one common problem: how to plan the construction of the next layers in the urban palimpsest in ways that match future wants and needs without doing too much violence to all that has gone before. What has gone before is important precisely because it is the locus of collective memory, of political identity, and of powerful symbolic meanings at the same time as it constitutes a bundle of resources constituting possibilities as well as barriers in the built environment for creative social change” (pp. 49–50).

    Choose one area of one Canadian city and create a visual essay, using maps, photographs, and explanatory text to describe the city as a palimpsest in which the area’s history is partially visible beneath the new. With reference to your visual research, and informed by readings from the course materials and beyond, provide a thoughtful and critical analysis of your visual essay that includes or considers the aspects below—images, layers, social justice, and political agenda. Your visual essay should include at least 15 and no more than 20 images, at least three of which must be maps. 

    Images: Find or create images of this part of your chosen city in the Mercantile Era, the Commercial Era, the Industrial Era, and the Post-Industrial Era. Scale the maps so that they can be layered, one on top of the other, to communicate the changing city.

    Layers: Consider layers of physical geography, Aboriginal heritage, colonial history, and twentieth-century policies and trends: how has the form and function of the city changed over time?

    Social justice: In the required reading for Unit 6, Sandercock notes that questions about social justice and the city invite us to attend to radical practices that individually do not seem system-threatening “but taken together they . . . have the potential for making people less dependent on global capital, increasing social power and experiencing their own political power, albeit at a local level” (p. 177). Are there traces of people’s advocacy, over the past century, visible in the design and shape of your chosen city?

    Political agenda: Brooks, in the required reading for Unit 4, cites Murray Edelman, who writes that the political agenda changes as “conditions accepted as inevitable or unproblematic may come to be seen as problems, and damaging conditions may not be defined as political issues at all” (p. 7). Can you see evidence of the changing political agenda in the layered history of your city?