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American essayist and social critic H.L Mencken wrote, “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. This means that people are innately born wanting to be safe and that freedom is not a concern as long as they are safe. However I disagree with H.l Mencken. Not all believe that they should give up their freedom just so they can be safe. For them, being safe goes against their morale and is not a life worth living for. Throughout history, many prominent figures illustrate…

and market, using the financial statements provided in Tables 2 & 3 and the ratio data included in Table 5. Be sure to evaluate the firm on both a cross sectional & a time-series basis. Ratio Analysis: Track Software, Inc. Ratio Actual Industry Average 2015 Cross Sectional Time -Series 2014…

correlation of the two stocks are calculated and revealed. Using the result of the closing price minus the opening price to divide by the opening price can figure out the monthly returns during the 5 years in order to obtain the average monthly return. Then, the average monthly return time 12 months that can lead to the annualized return. Afterwards, the standard deviation applies the formula σ=√(∑_(i=1)^n▒〖P_i [R_i-〖E(R)]〗^2 〗) to get the consequence which is required to multiply 12 months to…

At the end of the 1920s there was a huge imbalance between the rich and the poor: 0.1 percent of society earned the same total income as the bottom 42 percent.6 This imbalance, combined with production of more and more goods and rising personal debt, would soon doom our country. When giving his state of the union address in 1928, President Calvin Coolidge remarked that "America had never been met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time.”7 The next year,…

According to the estimates available, Arvind will sell approximately 80 million metres of fabric (includes domestic value-added and plain fabrics as well as exports) for the year 1997-98. This is an increase of 8.92 per cent over the last year when it sold approximately 74 million metres of fabric. The trouble is that this growth is too less. Its sales forecast and viability required it to function at 80 per cent of the built-up capacity. That meant an output of at least 100 million metres (of…

Capstone Investment Alternatives In order to properly utilize the assets of an organization, an organization needs to understand how to properly analyze various investments, how to project cash flows from alternative investments and how to raise funds to finance alternative projects. Having a thorough understanding of how the stock market works and how individual stocks are performing in comparison is a key to making sound investment decisions. The alternatives explored in this case are…

Corporate Finance and Applications Fall 2016 Professor R.A. Michelfelder, Ph.D. 52:390:310 December 14, 2016 Due: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 11:59 PM by Email FINAL EXAMINATION Please briefly respond to all of the following questions on each page. There are 6 pages of questions. This is a take-home examination. All responses are to be in your own words. This examination is due on Tuesday, 12/20/2016 at 11:59 PM and there are no exceptions. Any late submittals will result…

Currently, my high school grade point average (GPA) is a 3.6 unweighted and 4.5 weighted. In my college courses, my GPA is 4.0. I am extremely proud of this number, but I wish that I had the motivation and work ethic that I have now during my freshman year. If my motivation and work ethic changed during my freshman year, I would have a higher GPA today. For the spring semester, my midterm exams are in March. I am not very concerned about any of my classes and their midterms. I will check the…

create a deadly cocktail for the market. The markets rose faster than anyone could have imagined, “it had taken more than twenty years, from 1906 to 1927, for this key stock-market indicator [Dow Jones Industrial Average] to climb to 200 from 100. But in just over a year, the average jumped from 200 to 300.” (Blumenthal). The market continued to grow which led rich and poor investors alike to continue to pump massive sums of money into it, this was great news for the companies that saw their…

rates impact the production and would set barriers to export in other countries, such as Africa. • SOCIAL: India population is more than 1 billion and the focus of Nano is to target the bottom of the pyramid, which is around 300 million. By 2020 the average and disposable income will grow significantly and there will be a substantial growth of the middle class. Farmer protests due to subtracted land in Singur led Tata to move the production. • TECHNOLOGICAL: 4 million Tata’s vehicle are running…