Given the information in the following table for three consecutive years in the U.S. economy, calculate the missing data.

If you were on the Board of Directors for a publicly traded company, what type of share-based compensation (Stock options, RSU’s, SAR’s, etc.) would you choose as part of your executive compensation packages and why? ( Answer should be 75-100 words only)

Research publicly traded companies and select two companies in different sectors. Provide a written comparison of the capital structure for each. Explain your conclusions on the similarities and differences. What factors can you suggest for why each company adheres to their chosen structuring mechanism?

For the publicly traded U.S. company Apple (AAPL), explain how macroeconomic principles, theories, policies, and tools affected strategy development within the organization. o In other words, what macroeconomic principles, theories, policies, and tools do you see at work within the company, driving the economic decisions and strategy development?

Question1: TRUE OR FALSE

1. The risk premium offered by an asset is determined solely by its specific risk?

2.All other things being equal, a risk-free rate increase increases the value of the call option?

3. Private companies (i.e., not publicly traded) are affected by systematic risk as well as company-specific risk?

4. Market efficiency is due in large part to strong competition among investors?

Task 1. Consider the following scenarios

1. An order processing application for a pet supplies store. The customers should be able to place orders online and for every order they must receive an order confirmation vie e-mail and upon shipping they must receive a shipping notice via e-mail.
2. A publicly traded retailer with retail outlets and online shopping and shipping options
3. A small, private law firm having a small website with forms for potential clients to complete; including name, address, contact number, and reason for scheduling an appointment
4. A real estate Appraisal Company that provides online appraisals for a publicly traded financial institution’s residential-loan applicants which sends all applicant information to the appraisal company electronically
5. A Web hosting company that provides leased servers for Web sites of client’s ranging from small firms to large online retailers
6. A city government that allows people with parking tickets to pay the fines online using a credit card or online check

Last week we discussed in the class, the threats posed by each of the above scenarios and explain what its effect may be if a web application is compromised. One of the software strategies to cover the emergent security threat to an application is to build abuse cases. The result I expect is a report which integrates the software development lifecycle with security in every step of it for the abuse case described for any one of the scenarios mentioned above. You can also attempt the exercise for any scenario which interests you . (5 points)

(a) Use Excel, MegaStat, or MINITAB to fit three trends (linear, quadratic, exponential) to the time series. (A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round the intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

(b) Use each of the three fitted trend equations to make numerical forecasts for the next 3 years. (Round the intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and round your final answers to 1 decimal place.)

I am having issue predicting the future trendlines.I got 11407.7, 12433.4, and 13551.4 and these were incorrect. Can you please help me learn what I am doing wrong.

1. Listed below is the selling price for a share of PepsiCO Inc. at the close of each year.

Year             Price                            Year                Price

1990             12.9135                       2000                49.5625

1991             16.8250                       2001                48.6803

1992             20.6125                       2002                42.2211

1993             20.3024                       2003                46.6215

1994             18.3160                       2004                52.2019

1995             27.7538                       2005                59.8534

1996             29.0581                       2006                62.0002

1997             36.0155                       2007                77.5108

1998             40.6111                       2008                54.7719

1999             35.0230                       2009                60.8025

a. Plot the data.

b. Use EXCEL’s Data Analysis add-in to determine the least squares trend equation.

c. Discuss the regression equation and include both the coefficient of determination and the          

   correlation coefficient in the discussion. Make sure to test the coefficient to determine if  

   it is statistically significant at the .01 significance level.

d. Calculate the points for the years 1992 and 2004.

e. (i) Estimate the selling price in 2014.                                                                                                                       

(ii) Does this seem like a reasonable estimate based on historical data? Why or why not?

f. By how much has the stock price increased or decreased (per year) on average during the period?

Show ALL of your work and show it in a neat and orderly fashion.

discuss the advantage as well as limits of ratio analysis for publicly traded corporations

Discuss how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act affects a publicly traded corporation.