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The major claim (or “thesis”) you plan to make in your final paper should answer your research question. You may not have completely finalized that claim yet, but it will be helpful to articulate your current thinking. You can (and should!) revise your thesis as you continue your research and writing.

For the Week 4 Assignment you will submit a draft of your thesis. In this workshop forum you will work collaboratively with your classmates to develop your thesis and the overall argument in support of that thesis. Read the instructions for the Week 4 Writing Assignment, and then post your research project’s major claim (or “thesis”) using the format described in The Craft of Research section 8.2.1: “Although I acknowledge _____ , I claim _____, because _____” (see p. 122-124). Additionally, as required in the Week 4 Assignment, give the most important reasons and evidence for that claim.

Requirements: Post a first draft of your thesis and argument by Day 3. Review your classmates’ posts, and provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers by Day 5 (see below for additional guidance on writing a good response). After your classmates critique your draft, revise it in a follow-up post by Day 7.

Guided Response: This forum is a collaborative writing workshop, which provides students with the opportunity to try out ideas and receive feedback from their peers. It is not a traditional “discussion” or conversation. Rather it is a place for constructive criticism. To that end, help your classmates clarify their claims and strengthen their arguments. Evaluate one another’s evidence as described in section 9.4 of The Craft of Research (p. 135-138). If your classmate faults your argument, revise your post and try again. For example, you might revise your evidence to make it more sufficient, accurate, or authoritative. Or you might qualify your claim to make it more credible (see p. 127-128).

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Spending time on drills with numerals can be confusing for a child before she/he has had many concrete experiences with basic math concepts. Why is it important for the pre-primary child to experience naturalistic and informal experiences with numerals?

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Cash Flow Estimation and Capital Budgeting

Case Assignment

Estimating Project Cash Flows

ABC Golf Equipment Corporation is considering venturing into the golf club manufacturing business with a new driver golf club.  As the CFO, it is your job is to add the financial perspective to the decision. It is estimated that the current cost (t=0) of the machinery to create the golf club would cost $2,050,000 including all installation expenses. The company also expects to have to maintain $100,000 of inventories associated with the manufacturing of the golf clubs.  The machinery is expected to last ten years. The production equipment is expected to last ten years.  The project’s cash inflows are expected at begin during year 1 (t=1) and continue through all ten years (t=10).  The company expects to sell 500 golf clubs per year at an anticipated price of $500 per golf club.  Operating costs, excluding depreciation, are anticipated to be 75% of sales each year.  The project’s cost of capital is 12% and the firm’s tax rate is 35%.  Determine the project’s cash flows for years t=0 to t=10.

Note: Don’t forget to consider depreciation (use straight line) when doing the calculations.The equipment is expected to have a resale value of only $40,000 at the end of the tenth year, so this amount is the salvage for purposes of the analysis.

Before you start the analysis, you can work through the example below for guidance.

Acme Company is considering the purchase of new equipment that will be used to produce widgets.  As the CFO, you’ve been asked to complete a financial analysis of cash flows associated with this new purchase.  It is estimated that the cost (t=0) of the equipment will be $285,000, with shipping and installation costs of $25,000.  The machinery is expected to last 5 years, and is expected to sell for $30,000 at the end of the 5-year period (this remaining value is referred to as the “salvage value”). Assume that the salvage value of the equipment will be equal to the market value of the equipment (i.e., there will be no gain or loss on sale of the equipment at end of Year 5). The project’s cash inflows will begin during year 1 (t=1) and will continue through all five years (t=5).  The company expects to sell 600 widgets each year at a price of $500 per widget. Operating costs, excluding depreciation, are anticipated to be 70% of sales each year.  The firm’s tax rate is 35%.  Calculate:

1) The initial investment cash outlay, and assume that the equipment requires $20,000 of supplies (i.e., working capital) be kept on hand at all times.

2) Straight-line depreciation

3) Operating cash flows for the 5-year period

Answers:

1) Compute the initial investment cash outlay. This is the total cost of equipment purchase ($285,000), installation and shipping ($25,000), and change in net working capital ($20,000):

= $285,000 + $25,000 + $20,000

= $330,000

2) Calculate straight-line depreciation, where salvage value is $30,000 and useful life of the equipment is 5 years:

            = [($285,000 + $25,000) – $30,000] = $280,000

            = ($280,000 / 5 years) =$56,000

           

3) Calculate operating cash flows, where CFt = (revenues – costs)*(1 – tax rate)

CF1 = ($300,000 – $210,000)*(1 – 35%) = $58,500

CF2 = ($300,000 – $210,000)*(1 – 35%) = $58,500

CF3 = ($300,000 – $210,000)*(1 – 35%) = $58,500

CF4 = ($300,000 – $210,000)*(1 – 35%) = $58,500

CF5 = ($300,000 – $210,000)*(1 – 35%) = $58,500

= $58,500 x 5

= $292,500

Required:

Computations (use Excel).

Use Excel to estimate the project’s cash flows. Presentation always matter, but you want to make sure that Mr. Hillbrandt can easily follow your work. He is a busy man.

Memo (use Word).

Write a memo to Mr. Hillbrandt and comment on the three questions below.  Limit the memo to four or five paragraphs since CEOs want an initial succinct explanation to accompany the financial calculations. Start with an introduction and end with a recommendation. Each of the four or five paragraphs should have a heading.

  1. If the manufacturer plans on using debt to finance the project, should the estimated project cash flows be changed to reflect these interest charges?  Why or why not?
  2. If the manufacturer spent $200,000 studying golf clubs last year, should that cost be taken into account with this analysis?  Why or why not?
  3. If the manufacturer could rent out the factory that is storing the golf club machinery for $80,000 a year, should that be taken into account with this analysis?  Why or why not?

Short Essay (use Word).

If ABC Golf Equipment Corporation goes ahead with this new manufacturing venture, the company may no longer be allowed to represent a competing brand of golf clubs that currently accounts for 20% of its profits. Should this be considered in the analysis?  Why or why not? What other factors should be considered in making the decision?

Start with an introduction and end with a summary or conclusion. Use headings. Don’t forget to reference your sources. Maximum length of two pages.

Assignment Expectations

Each submission should include two files: (1) An Excel file; and (2) A Word document. The Word document shows the memo first and short essay last. Assume a knowledgeable business audience and use required format and length. Individuals in business are busy and want information presented in an organized and concise manner.

 

 

 

 

 

CASH FLOW ESTIMATION AND CAPITAL BUDGETING

Capital Budgeting Podcast (2014).  Pearson Learning Solutions, New York, NY.

Capital Budgeting Interactive Video. (2014).  Pearson Learning Solutions, New York,

As a financial manager, you are to focus on maximizing shareholder wealth.  You do that by accepting positive NPV projects and rejecting negative NPV projects.  In order to run a NPV calculation, you need cash flows which need to be estimated. 

There are several steps to estimate a project’s cash flows.

First, some assumptions need to be made regarding how many units of the goods are to be sold and at what price per unit.  The tax rate will also need to be determined. 

Second, depreciation needs to be calculated.  You need to decide which depreciation methodology you will use such as straight-line depreciation or MACRS. 

Third, you need to calculate the salvage value on the property and/or equipment that is disposed of at the end of the project’s life. 

Fourth, you can now proceed to put things together and estimate the project’s cash flows:

At Time 0 (today), you are likely to have the following cash outflows:

Building and/or equipment

Increase in net working capital

= total investment outlays (negative value) 

At Time 1 through Time N (the end of the project’s life), you are likely to have the following cash flows each year:

Sales revenue (units sold x sales price)

– Variable costs (usually some percentage of the sales revenue)

– Fixed operating costs

– Depreciation

= EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes)

-Taxes on the operating income

= NOPAT (net operating profit after taxes)

+ Depreciation add-back

= Operating cash flow 

Then at Time N (the end of the project’s life), you have terminal year cash flows likely consisting of the following:

+ Return of the net working capital

+ net salvage value

= Total terminal cash flows 

The project cash flows can finally be determined by adding together for the appropriate year the total investment outlays, the operating cash flows, and the total terminal cash flows. 

Now that you have the project cash flows, you can apply the various capital budgeting methodologies including net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), modified internal rate of return (MIRR), profitability index (PI), regular payback period, and the discounted payback period. 

Many of these can be calculated with Excel.

=NPV calculates a project’s NPV in Excel.

=IRR calculates a project’s IRR in Excel.

=MIRR calculates a project’s MIRR in Excel 

Review this video that focuses on NPV:

JohnFinance (2014). Net Present Value. Retrieved June 2014 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNG9Va00fI

NPV is the best out of all the capital budgeting methodologies.  It takes into all of a project’s cash flows, it uses the time value of money, doesn’t have problems with non-normal cash flows like IRR can have when it can result in multiple IRRs, assumes reinvestment of the cash flows at the more conservative cost of capital instead of the higher less realistic IRR reinvestment rate assumption, gives consistent results with mutually exclusive and independent projects. 

Optional Resources

Bookboon.com. (2008). Corporate Finance. Retrieved from http://bookboon.com/en/economics-and-finance-ebooks 

Welch, Ivo. (2014). Corporate Finance (3rd Ed.). Chpts 4 and 12. Retrieved from http://book.ivo-welch.info/ed3/toc.html

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Forensic psychology addresses scientific questions about criminal actions, where the understanding of the actions leads to inferences about offender characteristics. Canter (2000) introduced the radex of criminality, the combination of quantitative and qualitative aspects of a crime. In addition, these quantitative and qualitative characteristics are viewed through the prism of development and change over time. The radex can be applied to any criminal behavior.

One of the most important investigative events of the last century was the creation of behavioral analysis units (BAUs) by the FBI. There are three BAUs. They are known not because of their ability to solve serial murders but because of their creation of a database, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), on which criminal justice professionals around the country and even the world have relied ever since.

Offender character assessment is the derivation of inferences about a criminal from evidentiary and psychological aspects of the crimes he or she has committed. For this process to move beyond deduction based on personal opinion and supposition to an evidence-based science, a number of aspects of criminal activity need to be examined, analyzed, and categorized. The notion of a hierarchy of criminal differentiation is introduced to highlight the need to search for consistencies and variations at many levels of that hierarchy. However, current research indicates that the key distinctions are those that differentiate, within classes of crime, between offences and between offenders. This also leads to the hypothesis of a circular ordering of criminal actions, analogous to the color circle, a radex.

The radex model, tested using multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) procedures, allows specific hypotheses to be developed about important constituents of criminal differentiation:

  • Salience: MDS analyses reveal the importance of the frequency of criminal actions as the basis on which the significance of those actions can be established.
  • Models of differentiation: The research reviewed mainly supports distinctions between criminals in terms of the forms of their transactions with their explicit or implicit victims.
  • Consistency: Offenders have been shown to exhibit similar patterns of action on different occasions. The most reliable examples of this currently are in studies of the spatial behavior of criminals.
  • Inference: Under limited conditions, it is possible to show associations between the characteristics of offenders and the thematic focus of their crimes.

In general, these results provide support for models of thematic consistency that link the dominant themes in an offender’s crimes to characteristic aspects of his or her lifestyle and offending history.

We never analyze anything in isolation but compare new information to the existing knowledge about similar past and parallel events. Both psychological evaluations and crime investigations follow this pattern of determining what a criminal is and what a crime is. That is what the radex model addresses.

Instructions

In your main post:

  • Analyze the different components of the radex model of criminal differentiation, looking at expressive and instrumental criminal conduct against person and property on a continuum of increasing seriousness.
  • Include in your analysis a summary of the domains and a critique of how they can be or cannot be useful for forensic psychology and for criminal justice professionals. What are the limitations you see in relying on this approach?

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Positive deviance is a kind of asset-based approach recommended for health advocacy and, in particular, generating change within systems.

Review the Positive Deviance Initiative website, linked above.

Select one positive deviance case study to review here: http://www.positivedeviance.org/projects/past.html

Summarize the case study, in your own words.

Analyze the positive deviance approach for this example. Why was a positive deviance approach helpful when other strategies may not have worked? In order to answer this, you will need to reflect on the value of positive deviance. In what circumstances is positive deviance most appropriate?

Write Two pages. Edit, polish, cite, and reference your writing

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Prepare a three- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages), formatted according to APA style, that details the effectiveness of humor in persuasion. You may use this week’s recommended scholarly sources as a basis for your observations. Your paper should delineate three or more aspects of the effectiveness of humor and indicate at least three risks of attempting to use humor in persuasion. Your paper should include previous theories of persuasion and discuss how the technique of humor can support or limit the effectiveness of persuasion.

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This first assignment is a 450-600 word research paper in APA format (using the two scholarly articles referenced above, plus two additional journal sources) that lends insight into the development and use of the business model canvas and the person(s) who developed it. NOTE: Four (minimum) scholarly journal sources are required for this paper.

DETAILS:

  • Discuss the genesis of the Business Model Canvas
  • What are the unique features of the approach of the Business Model Canvas?
  • How does the Business Model Generation compare/contrast to other business model approaches?
  • What are the benefits and/or limitations of using Osterwalder’s business model canvas in the context of your organization?