Question 1 - 1,500 words

The CEO has forwarded to you an interesting article and requires you to provide her with a deeper theoretical understanding of the issues discussed so that she can fully engage in the lively discourse at an upcoming conference.

You are required to find a newspaper article or web page report of an item of accounting news, i.e. it refers to a current event, consideration, comment or decision that has been published after the 1st of June 2018. Your article could also come from one of the professional journals. The article should not come from an academic journal. Academic journals generally do not contain news articles or articles of less than one page and are usually only published 2 or 4 times a year. Your article should also relate to a different issue to what you will be investigating in Question 2 (in other words, don't use an article about the exposure draft you will be using in question 2). If you are having a problem ensuring that your article is from an appropriate source contact your subject coordinator.

You then need to explain the article that you have found in your own words and clearly relate the concepts, ideas and facts within the article to one or more of the theories or topics that you have studied this session. Support your analysis of the assumptions and implications of the topic or theory as appropriate with reference to sources in APA 6 style. For example, this article from the Sydney Morning Herald in April 2016 could be linked to the topics of accounting regulation and measurement (and perhaps others). You must provide a copy of the article or web page, with details of the source, date and page number with your answer.

Suppose you are a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a UK based listed Part A - company. The company is currently trading at £10 per share and 10 million shares in issue. The total market value of the issued share capital of the company is £100 million. You have been requested to write a report to the board of directors with respect to raising an additional funding of £50 million to enable the next stage of development of international projects to be carried out. Note 2: For the report in Part A, it should critically review the advantages and disadvantages of the main funding options and have many appropriate academic references to strengthen your discussion. Further, your report should form the basis for a discussion at the next board meeting. In particular, you are required to include the different financing choices available through the equity and debt markets.

Part B - This additional funding will allow the business to become more global with the opportunity to develop a market in numerous countries with payment being made in the local currency. The directors are conservative in their attitude to risk. You have been requested to provide a report to the directors critically evaluating alternative derivatives including forwards, futures, options and swaps that are available in the market in order to minimize the risk with respect to payment in international currencies. : For the report in Part B. it should critically discuss and compare the use of derivatives including forwards, futures, options and swaps to hedge Foreign Exchange (FX) Risk. With reference to appropriate academic references, discussions must include: • how it works in mitigating FX risk. advantages and disadvantages of each type of derivative in managing FX risk.  

Can you please assist in answering Part B in bold. thank you

Using Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards to Motivate Student Achievement

Objectives

• To identify extrinsic and intrinsic rewards that motivate student achievement.
• To generate suggestions for how instructors can use extrinsic and intrinsic rewards to motivate student achievement.

Introduction

The purpose of this exercise is to explore the use of rewards in motivating student achievement. There are two types of rewards—extrinsic and intrinsic—that can be used to fuel student motivation. Extrinsic motivation drives people’s behavior when they do things in order to attain a specific outcome. Extrinsic motivation is the payoff a person receives from others for performing a particular task. For students, these rewards include things like grades, getting better jobs, verbal recognition from peers and professors, academic scholarships, and admittance to honorary societies and associations. In contrast, intrinsic motivation is driven by positive feelings associated with doing well on a task or job. Intrinsic rewards are self-granted; the payoff comes from pleasing yourself.

Instructions

1. Individually brainstorm a list of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards that are associated with academic achievement.
2. As a group create a master list of all unique ideas generated through brainstorming. As a group, identify the top five extrinsic and intrinsic rewards from the list. The group can use a voting procedure to arrive at consensus.
3. Generate specific recommendations for how any college instructor might build these top five extrinsic and intrinsic rewards into a classroom environment.

Questions for Discussion

1. What did you learn about the use of rewards from this exercise?
2. How can instructors improve student achievement through the application of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards?
3. Can instructors really motivate students?

1-4 Economic Theories and Models Are the following topics ones that would be covered in microeconomics or macroeconomics? Explain. The effects of an increase in the supply of lumber on the home-building industry Changes in the national unemployment rate Changes in the inflation rate Changes in the country’s economic growth rate The price of concert tickets?

Describe the decision rules for NPV and IRR. How do changes in the WACC affect the outcome of these decisions? (There are 4 parts to this question. 1-2 sentences each) NPV decision rule: Impact of changes in WACC on NPV rule: IRR decision rule: Impact of changes in WACC on IRR rule:

What physical changes occur in adolescence that mark the transition to a mature young adult?

How do physical changes that occur during this time impact an adolescnet’s psychological development?

What role do parents, teachers, mental health professional and medical professionals have in assisting throughout these changes?

A basketball player's average number of points per game (PPG) for each of his seasons is given in the table below. Find the sample standard deviation of the average points per game made per season by the basketball player. (Round your answer to one decimal place.) Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. PPG Season PPG 1984-85 33.4 1985-86 27.2 1986-87 29.4 1987-88 26.9 1988-89 20.4 1989-90 23.7 1990-91 30.1 1991-92 32.8 Season PPG 1992-93 27.1 1994-95 24.9 1995-96 33.2 1996-97 26.8 1997-98 22.7 2001-02 37.9 2002-03 34.4

The following data give the percentages of random samples of United Kingdom citizens who were smokers, in a variety of years.

  Age (years)

Year 16–19 20–24 25–34 35–49 50–59 60+

1978 34 44 45 45 45 30

1988    28 37 36 36 33 23

1998 31 40 35 30 27 16

2000 29 35 35 29 27 16

2002 25 38 34 28 26 15

2007 20 31 27 22 21 12

(a) Test the hypothesis that the actual percentages of smokers do not depend on the year considered. (b) Test the hypothesis that there is no effect due to age group.

Hawaiian Tropic recently ended a marketing and promotion campaign for their new line of sun block products containing their patented sunsure technologies. Previous to the campaign 50% of those who use Hawaiian Tropic products used older sun block products. The company surveyed bathers on beaches from Maine to California and found that of a sample of 3,850 users of Hawaiian Tropic products, 2002 were using the new technology sun block products. At the 0.05 level of significance can we conclude that a greater percentage of individuals are using the newer sun block product?

a.     State the null and alternative hypotheses.   What is the decision rule?

b.     What is your decision concerning the null hypothesis? Compute and interpret the p-value. Interpret your decision.

APPLE STORE DIGITAL BUSINESS CASE

This case reveals the genesis of the Apple Stores, a revolutionary retail concept launched by Ron Johnson, Apple Computer's senior vice president of retail. In January 2002, Apple Computer was at the eve of one of the most stunning commercial successes ever known in consumer markets. The case details how the retail strategy emerged as a keystone of Apple's overall strategy to support the digital lifestyle of its customers. By analyzing the stores' most innovative elements will araise interesting issues in consumer behavior: the processes of consumer engagement, empowerment, and conversion to purchase. What benchmarck would you reccomned Ronh Jonshon use to evaluate the success Apple store? For instance: Store traffic (Store as a MUSEUM) 1 page please