Scenario For this final project, put yourself in the role of a security analyst who is performing an audit of your company. Your organization is a mid-sized manufacturing company that released its own smart headset. The headset has the ability to project important documents on an optical screen for the technicians in the field. The documents could be product schematics, invoices, emails, text messages, or any documents put in the shared drive on the server. The headset has constant communication with the server that resides in the central office; the connection is made through the technicians’ cell phones via the Bluetooth connection.

I. Personnel or human factor trend Select a personnel or human factor trend and discuss the following critical elements: A. Describe how the trend or strategy provides protection to an organization. B. Defend the trend as a credible solution based on your analysis of the threat model for the scenario. 2 II. Data protection strategy or technology trend Select a data protection strategy or technology and discuss the following critical elements: A. Describe how the strategy or technology provides protection to an organization. B. Defend the strategy or technology as a credible solution based on your analysis of the threat model for the scenario. III. System protection trend Select a technology in one of the following areas: ● Network protection technologies ● Endpoint/server protection technologies ● Software code protection strategies and technologies For your selected technology, discuss the following critical elements: A. Describe how the selected technology provides protection to an organization. B. Defend the technology as a credible solution based on your analysis of the threat model for the scenario..

1) Which of the following is not true?

Select all that apply:

a) Advances in technology are only possible in advanced economies.

b) Advances in technology have no impact on worker productivity

c) Advances in technology increase worker productivity

d) Technological change is a combination of invention and innovation.

2) A common measure of productivity used to track growth of GDP per capita is ________________

Select the correct answer below:

a) quantity of labor used in production

b) dollar value of wages paid to workers

c) dollar value of output per worker hour

d) quantity of output per year

3) Which of the following are examples of property rights?

Select the correct answer below:

a) The owner of a house is the only party that is able to enter into a contract selling that house.

b) If you have money in your pocket, you have the right to use that money any way you want.

c) You trained as an engineer, and you are free to work for any person or group who wants to hire you to work as an engineer.

d) All of above are examples of property rights.

4) The production function function is _____________.

Select the correct answer below:

a) the relationship between costs and revenues

b) the technical relationship between inputs and outputs

c) the same as the supply function for a firm

d) the output of a firm as a function of the number of workers

5) Which of the following examples best illustrates labor productivity?

Select the correct answer below:

a) Ron has the time to work two jobs, whereas Leila can only work one.

b) Sheena works at a factory and can produce three components per hour, whereas Ed who is her colleague can produce two components per hour.

c) Ross is more outspoken that Lena and often in business meetings, his opinion prevails over Lena's.

d) Peter can answer a complicated accounting question, whereas John cannot, but John is a better marketer than Peter.

6) The "New Economy" controversy is about

Select all that apply:

a) whether the high productivity growth rates which started in the 1990s can be sustained in future decades

b) the spread of globalization and whether it benefits or hurts countries.

c) whether labor productivity has grown or decreased in recent decades

d) the use of fiscal and monetary policy to help the economy during hard times

7) Which of the following is an example of a violation of contractual rights?

Select the correct answer below:

a) The government of South Africa seized the farms owned by foreigners.

b) Failure to pay an employee who performs services agreed upon

c) There are countries in which women are not allowed to vote.

d) none of the above illustrates a violation of contractual rights.

The Heaton Electronics Company produces SD memory cards in sizes ranging from 2GB to 32GB. The management team are looking at options for growing the company in the future. The company has identified three options for growth.

• Keep the product range the same but increase the factory capacity to produce more of the products
• Expand the product range to include larger memory cards (up to 124 GB)
• Invest in new technology for manufacturing cards with extremely large memory sizes.

The management team believe that the profit (after investment) over the next three years will depend on whether the demand for the larger memory card sizes grows slowly, moderately or at a rapid rate. The potential profit under each market condition is shown below

Table: Potential profit (in £millions)

Part a)

i) What is the best decision using the Maximax rule?

ii) What is the best decision using the Maximin rule?

[2 marks]

Part b)

What is the best decision using the Minimax Regret rule (show your working, include your opportunity losses in your answer)

[4 marks]

Part c)

The company decide to use a Hurwicz criterion of alpha (  ) = 0.6. Calculate the best decision using the Hurwicz criterion. (show your working in your answer)

[4 marks]

Part d)

Are the company being optimistic or pessimistic using an alpha of 0.6 for the Hurwicz criterion? Briefly explain your answer.

[2 marks]

Part e)

The company narrow down the choice to either expanding the product range or investing in new technology. Both projects generate cash flow at different stages of the project. The cash flow generated at each stage is shown below. Using a discount rate (r) of 2.5%, calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) for both projects and determine the best decision based on the NPV.

Table: Cash flow comparison for two projects

[6 marks]

One the 2010 Chile Earthquake. What was the state of their preparedness and mitigation prior to the earthquake? What factors influenced their preparedness and mitigation (or lack-thereof)? What are the successes or failures for the response and recovery?

Strategic management and business policies (Panera Bread Company (2010): Still Rising Fortunes) Develop a complete strategic audit report that contains the following components

1. Implementation and Evaluation

ii. Analyze new monetary policy actions undertaken by the U.S. government throughout the time period by describing their intended effects, using macroeconomic principles to explain the actions for 2000-2010.

ii. Analyze new fiscal policy actions undertaken by the U.S. government throughout the time period by describing their intended effects, using macroeconomic principles to explain the actions for 2000-2010.

how did the 2008-2010 recession impact the CIT group in the micro and macro economic levels? what were the managerial decisions taken after the recession in order to bounce back?

Applying Interrelations of Financial Statements

Fill in the missing amounts, a through t, for each of the three separate companies.

What is the arithmetic average time-weighted rates of return for the investor? (Do not round intermediate

calculations. Enter your answer as a decimal number rounded to four decimal places)

Arithmetic average time-weighted rates of return?