Evaluate the Stock Market Performance

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  • This assignment is based on O’Leary Lab 4: Stock Portfolio Analysis and consists of two (2) parts – an Excel-based assignment and a paper.

    You have been assigned to evaluate the stock market performance of firms who manufacture accounting software products. Your evaluation will be based on large- and medium-market firms. The firms are as follows:

    Large-Market Stocks
    • Oracle Software (Oracle Corp: NASDAQ)
    • SAP (SAP AG: NYSE)

    Medium-Market Stocks
    • Microsoft Great Plains (Microsoft: NASDAQ)

    Small-Market Stocks
    • QuickBooks (Intuit: NASDAQ)
    • Peachtree (Sage Grp: LSE)

    Part I: Excel Spreadsheet Assignment

    • Create one (1) Excel workbook that contains each of the four (4) scenarios (detailed below). Use the appropriate Excel formulas and functions to justify your derived results. Note: Follow the completion and submission instructions provided in the table below.

    Scenario 1

    You have been given $5,000,000 to invest the five (5) stocks. You must invest the $5,000,000 accordingly:

    • No more than 35% of your investment will be in the Large-Market Stocks, with a minimum of 15% investment in any given stock
    • No more than 30% of your investments will be in the Medium-Market Stock, with a minimum of 15% investment in the stock
    • No more than 35% of your investment will be in the Small-Market Stocks, with a minimum of 15% investment in any given stock

    The purchase date of the stock will be six (6) months ago. Track your stocks’ daily performance for the 120 trading days following the purchase date. During this time, you will note the gains and losses each day. At the end of the 120 days’ tracking period, calculate your net gain (or loss) for each stock and your total investment at the end of the 120 days. Develop the appropriate charts that highlight your performance. You will create a minimum of two (2) charts.

    Note: Your purchase must be in whole shares. For example, you cannot purchase 100.5 shares. You must purchase either 100 or 101 shares. For this reason, you may not total to exactly $5,000,000, but you will come close.

    Scenario 2

    You are now skeptical of the Medium-Market stock. With that, you will now invest your $5,000,000 accordingly:

    • No more than 50% of your investment will be in the Large-Market Stocks, with a minimum of 20% investment in any given stock
    • No more than 50% of your investment will be in the Small-Market Stocks, with a minimum of 20% investment in any given stock

    The purchase date of the stock will be six (6) months ago. Track your stocks’ daily performance for the 120 trading days following the purchase date. During this time, you will note the gains and losses each day. At the end of the 120 days’ tracking period, calculate your net gain (or loss) for each stock and your total investment at the end of the 120 days. Develop the appropriate charts that highlight your performance. You will create a minimum of two (2) charts.

    Note: Your purchase must be in whole shares. For example, you cannot purchase 100.5 shares. You must purchase either 100 or 101 shares. For this reason, you may not total to exactly $5,000,000, but you will come close.

    Scenario 3

    You are now skeptical of the Large-Market Stock. With that, you will now invest your $5,000,000 accordingly:

    • No more than 50% of your investment will be in the Medium-Market Stock, with a minimum 20% investment here
    • No more than 50% of your investment will be in the Small-Market Stocks, with a minimum 20% investment here

    The purchase date of the stock will be six (6) months ago. Track your stocks’ daily performance for the 120 trading days following the purchase date. During this time, you will note the gains and losses each day. At the end of the 120 days’ tracking period, calculate your net gain (or loss) for each stock and your total investment at the end of the 120 days. Develop the appropriate charts that highlight your performance. You will create a minimum of two (2) charts.

    Note: Your purchase must be in whole shares. For example, you cannot purchase 100.5 shares. You must purchase either 100 or 101 shares. For this reason, you may not total to exactly $5,000,000, but you will come close.

    Scenario 4

    You are now a believer of only the Medium Market Stock. With that, you will now invest your $5,000,000 into that stock.
    The purchase date of the stock will be six (6) months ago. Track your stocks’ daily performance for the 120 trading days following the purchase date. During this time, you will note the gains and losses each day. At the end of the 120 days’ tracking period, calculate your net gain (or loss) for the stock and your total investment at the end of the 120 days. Develop the appropriate charts that highlight your performance. You will create a minimum of two (2) charts.

    Note: Your purchase must be in whole shares. For example, you cannot purchase 100.5 shares. You must purchase either 100 or 101 shares. For this reason, you may not total to exactly $1,000,000, but you will come close.

    Note

    Do not worry about any commission fees or miscellaneous charges.

    Assignment

    Determine how much money you earned or lost with each stock on a daily basis.

    Instructions on how to complete

    There is no sample Excel workbook to use as part of the project; therefore, you will create your own workbook. In creating your workbook, be sure to include the following data (however, other data will be stored in your scenario) in a columnar format. 

    • Stock name
    • Stock symbol
    • Number of shares purchased / acquired
    • Stock price
    • Date of stock transaction

    Start your scenario using the opening-day price for each stock as your purchase price and use the closing stock price to calculate how much money you earned or lost each day.

    At the end of your scenario, calculate the following for each stock in question.

    • The highest stock price for the period for the stock(s) selected
    • The lowest stock price for the period for the stock(s) selected
    • The average stock price for the period for the stock(s) selected
    • The largest amount of profit (loss) earned for the period for the stock(s) selected
    • The lowest amount of profit (loss) earned for the period for the stock(s) selected

    Track the stock for 120 consecutive days that the market is open.

    Submit

    One Excel workbook that contains each of the four (4) scenarios. You will need to use the appropriate Excel formulas and functions which will show the instructor how you derived your results.

    Part II: Paper

    • Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
    • Summarize the various accounting systems that each firm provides. Be sure to address the following for each firm:
      • The various types of accounting systems it sells (e.g., Oracle sells Oracle Financials as well as PeopleSoft financials)
      • The industries that it markets itself to (e.g., most firms sell their products to banking firms, construction firms)
      • Strengths and weaknesses of the products sold by the firm as noted by reviewers of the products.
      • Whether Wall Street views this company in a positive or negative way. Explain why.
    • Summarize your findings from each scenario, emphasizing your decisions on which stocks were used and the criteria for determining the number of stocks used. Suggest a strategy to improve your selection of courses.
    • Describe an ideal scenario that would have exceeded the results from your best scenario in Part 1 of the assignment.
    • Determine at least two (2) ways in which your findings could be used to better drive management decisions.
    • Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

    Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

    The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

    • Discuss how automated accounting software can help management make better informed business decisions.
    • Organize information between Word and Excel to communicate to internal and external users.
    • Use technology and information resources to research issues in microcomputer applications for accountants.
    • Write clearly and concisely about microcomputer applications for accountants using proper writing mechanics.

    Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

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The list below includes some provocative discussions related to the events in this unit’s reading and related to being new to the United States. For this assignment, you will write two journal entries that reflect on Parts 1 and 2 below. The total length of your journal assignment must be a minimum of three pages in length, with each journal entry being at least one page. (For example, this means that you could have one journal be one page and the other be two pages, each could be one and a half pages, or some other means by which each is at least one page in length and your total overall pages total three.) The journals will need to reflect your understanding of the time period and need to avoid being anachronistic. (Remember that this term loosely means to apply today’s values or perspectives on the past.) To accomplish this, you will need to write both journals as if you are a first generation immigrant (in the first person). Your first journal entry needs to be from the viewpoint of an immigrant from Europe (e.g., Ireland, Italy, Germany, England, or France). Your second journal entry needs to come from the standpoint of an immigrant from Asia (e.g., China or Japan). You will need to develop an argument within both journal entries based on the bulleted items below. In your own words, justify academically the side of the argument you choose, remembering to cite your sources along the way. Part 1 Are you treated as an equal by earlier generations residing here? What are others’ attitudes toward you? Why do you think they act this way? Would you feel pressured to pledge your loyalty to a political machine? Would you agree to engage in a strike? Talk about some leisure opportunities and how they are divided by race or class or are for everyone. Part 2 What is the “American dream?” What did this “dream” look like for immigrants coming to the United States after the Civil War was over? Explain which leisure opportunities could be part of the American dream. What part did the anti-immigration sentiment play in the American dream? As this is a point of view essay, a modern perspective will not accurately address what the question is asking for. It is strongly suggested that you use at least one selection from the America: History and Life with Full Text database within the CSU Online Library. All sources and their use must be appropriately identified per 6th edition APA format.

Developing Skills

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Describe in detail how a young child’s fine motor skills are developed—making sure to include the theory of motor-skill learning that best fits this situation.

Pre-kindergarteners profit from encounters that back the advancement of fine engine abilities in the hands and fingers. Youngsters may as well have quality and smoothness in their grasp and fingers before being asked to control a pencil on paper. Taking on smoothness and quality first can kill the advancement of an unseemly pencil handle, which is coming to be more ordinary as adolescent youngsters are occupied with composing encounters soon after their hands are primed. The accompanying exercises include the utilization of manipulative which will uphold youthful youngsters’ fine engine improvement, and will serve to assemble the quality and aptitude important to hold a pencil suitably.

Fine Motor Activities

·  Molding and moving play mixture (play dough) into balls – utilizing the palms of the hands confronting one another and with fingers twisted somewhat towards the palm.

·  Rolling play mixture into minor balls (peas) utilizing just the finger tips.

·  Using pegs or toothpicks to make outlines in play batter.

·  Cutting play mixture with a plastic blade or with a pizza wheel by holding the actualize in a corner to corner velar handle. (see appended graph)

·  Tearing daily paper into strips and after that folding them into balls. Use to stuff scarecrow or other craft creation.

·  Scrunching up 1 sheet of daily paper in one hand. This is a super quality developer.

·  Using a plant sprayer to splash plants, (inside, outside) to spread snow (blend nourishment coloring with water with the goal that the snow could be painted), or melt “creatures”. (Draw creature pictures with markers and the shades will run when splashed.)

·  Picking up items utilizing vast tweezers, for example those discovered in the “bedbugs” amusement. This might be acclimates by grabbing cheerios, minor blocks, little marshmallows, pennies, and so on., in checking amusements.

·  Shaking craps by measuring the hands together, shaping a void air space between the palms.

·  Using little measured screwdrivers like those discovered in an erector set.

·  Lacing and sewing exercises, for example hanging dabs, cheerios, macaroni, and so forth.

·  Using eye droppers to “grab” colored water for color blending or to make imaginative plans on paper.

·  Rolling little balls out of tissue paper, then sticking the balls onto development paper to structure pictures or outlines.

·  Turning over cards, coins, checkers, or catches, without carrying them to the edge of the table.

·  Making pictures utilizing stickers or self-staying paper fortifications.

·  Playing amusements with the “manikin fingers” -the thumb, record, and center fingers. At loop time have every tyke’s manikin fingers tell about what happened throughout the weekend, or utilize them within tunes and finger plays (Adams, 1987).

Explain whether any motor tasks or skills can be accomplished via observational learning. Justify your response. Now, consider a situation in which a young child (3–4 years old) is developmentally delayed in fine motor skill development. Create a strategy which would help the child strengthen his or her fine motor skills.

There is continually something new to look into a kid even kids you suppose you know well. Provided that you make a propensity of asking inquiries, you will get to know who a youngster is and can stay informed regarding whom that kid is coming to be. Requiring from particular inquiries can furnish a center perception and expedite results. You have rehashed chances to witness kids polishing abilities, showing information, and displaying conducts in a well known and nature. Would you be able to watch what kids know, as well as how they suppose and tackle issues? By gathering perceptions, you can find replies to your inquiries and manufacture a picture of kids’ execution and advance without meddling with their day by day exercises or standard conduct.

Case in point, when Laura, a tot guardian, faculties something not right with four-year-old Kara’s fine engine advancement, she alludes to the observational agenda she uses to screen youngsters’ improvement. Taking into account her perceptions, she acknowledges Kara is not carrying both hands to midline, while Taylor, an alternate tyke the same age, does so oftentimes. Laura keeps watching and chooses to converse with the physical specialist who counsels with the project to ask for exercises to help Kara achieve this turning point.

To survey four-year-old Kathy, the instructor shot Kathy and Josie playing together in the square territory. A few days after the fact, he made a few notes about the discussion Kathy was having with an alternate preschooler. On yet a third event, he spared a painting Kathy made with Josie. When the time it now, opportunity to assess Kathy’s execution and advance, her instructor’s judgments about her developing capacity to connect with her associates will be dependent upon these and different perceptions.

These cases outline how normal evaluation of youthful kids can help screen their improvement and studying and help you settle on dynamite choices about how to underpin their proceeded advancement.

What are some of your inquiries concerning the kids in your forethought? Watching can help you research a child’s: 

·  Health and physical advancement. What sorts of extensive engine and minor engine exercises does the tyke favor? How does the youngster control scissors and pastels? Does the family have worries about the tyke’s health?

·  Temperament. Could a youngster usually be depicted as adaptable? Abate to warm up or dreadful? Feisty or extreme?

·  •skills and capacities. What does the youngster do well? What does the youngster find testing? What aptitudes is the youngster attempting to attain?

·  Interests. What exercises make a kid’s eyes illuminate? What does the youngster discuss? The point when given a decision, what does the kid decide to do?

·  Culture and home life. How does the kid express social or family customs throughout play? How order is took care of and love communicated at home?

·  Approach to studying. How does the kid approach another action? How might you depict the youngster’s cooperation with materials?

·  Use of verbal dialect. What amount of dialect does the youngster have? Does the youngster converse with other kids? Different grown-ups? What does the youngster discuss?

·  Use of non-verbal communication. How does the youngster move? Does the youngster utilize signals? Is the youngster physically expressive?

·  Social cooperation with mature people and associates. Does the youngster cooperate with other youngsters? How does the youngster launch communications? How does the youngster handle clashes?

·  Cognitive abilities. Does the youngster show engage in books and other print material? Does the youngster recognize likenesses also distinctions? (www.eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov)

Could you please put this in format required? I really must go now. Just let me know how much!!!!

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***http://my.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/APAsample.pdf 

References:

Adams, J. A. (1987). Historical review and appraisal of research on the learning, retention, and transfer of human motor skills. Psychological Bulletin, 101(1), 41.

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EXPLAIN the reasons for the uncertainty and violence that followed the conclusion of the Cold War in

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Answer the following questions:  Always references are checked. 

1)  Discuss how social engineering techniques contribute to computer abuse and misuse.

2)  Discuss how social media contributes to computer abuse and computer crimes.

3)  Describe and discuss at least two of the hacking techniques mentioned in the chapter that you or family/friends have experienced.  How did you solve the hacking attack?

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Heterosexism Reflection Essay Write a 1–2 page paper using what you have learned in this…

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Write a 1–2 page paper using what you have learned in this course and at least one external source.

Examine each of the following topics for one group of your choice in the :

– Historical and , language, and labels regarding the group you have chosen.
– Have members of your group reclaimed any labels?
– Current issues being faced by individuals in the group you have chosen.
– Remember to cite your sources and use appropriate formatting as per APA (6th ed.)Answer Preview Heterosexism Reflection EssayAPA463 Words Added to cart

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Provide two examples of how being familiar with and following digital forensics best practices And criminal justice would benefit you, even if you worked in a non-criminal justice digital forensics position. please provide your answer at least a paragraph.