You have recently been hired by Swan Motors, Inc. (SMI), in its relatively new treasury management department. SMI was founded 8 years ago by Joe Swan. Joe found a method to manufacture a cheaper battery with much greater energy density than was previously possible, giving a car powered by the battery a range of 700 miles before requiring a charge. The cars manufactured by SMI are midsized and carry a price that allows the company to compete with other mainstream auto manufacturers. The company is privately owned by Joe and his family, and it had sales of $97 million last year.

SMI primarily sells to customers who buy the cars online, although it does have a limited number of company-owned dealerships. Most sales are online. The customer selects any customization and makes a deposit of 20 percent of the purchase price. After the order is taken, the car is made to order, typically within 45 days. SMI’s growth to date has come from its profits. When the company had sufficient capital, it would expand production. Relatively little formal analysis has been used in its capital budgeting process. Joe has just read about capital budgeting techniques and has come to you for help. For starters, the company has never attempted to determine its cost of capital, and Joe would like you to perform the analysis. Because the company is privately owned, it is difficult to determine the cost of equity for the company. Joe wants you to use the pure play approach to estimate the cost of capital for SMI, and he has chosen Tesla Motors as a representative company.

1. You used Tesla as a representative company to estimate the cost of capital for SMI. What are some of the potential problems with this approach in this situation? What improvements might you suggest?

You have recently been hired by Layton Motors, Inc. (LMI), in its relatively new treasury management department. LMI was founded eight years ago by Rachel Layton. Rachel found a method to manufacture a cheaper battery that will hold a larger charge, giving a car powered by the battery a range of 700 miles before requiring a recharge. The cars manufactured by LMI are midsized and carry a price that allows the company to compete with other mainstream auto manufacturers. The company is privately owned by Rachel and her family, and it had sales of $197 million last year.

LMI primarily sells to customers who buy the cars online, although it does have a limited number of company-owned dealerships. The customer selects any customization and makes a deposit of 20 percent of the purchase price. After the order is taken, the car is made to order, typically within 45 days. LMI's growth to date has come from its profits. When the company had sufficient capital, it would expand production. Relatively little formal analysis has been used in its capital budgeting process. Rachel has just read about capital budgeting techniques and has come to you for help. For starters, the company has never attempted to determine its cost of capital, and Rachel would like you to perform the analysis. Because the company is privately owned, it is difficult to determine the cost of equity for the company. Rachel wants you to use the pure play approach to estimate the cost of capital for LMI, and she has chosen Tesla Motors as a representative company. The following questions will lead you through the steps to calculate this estimate.

7. You used TSLA as a pure play company to estimate the cost of capital for LMI. Are there any potential problems with this approach in this situation and why?

Please provide steps.

Marketing

Huawei Technologies Brief History Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommunications equipment and sells consumer electronics, including smartphones and is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The company was founded in 1987 You have been appointed as a Marketing Specialist to assist Mancosa to develop a Marketing Plan for year 2020. Please note: Your Marketing Plan must be based on market research, situation analysis and must clearly present marketing mix strategies and tactics that are likely to achieve Huawei Technologies business goals. It is important that you explain the rationale for your recommendations - why you are recommending these strategies and tactics - and why the 'client' should believe your recommended marketing strategies and implementation will be successful. Project Requirements: Develop a Marketing Plan that will help Huawei Technologies to attain a competitive advantage in a customer driven market: Report Structure: The Marketing Plan should have the following headings Each section should start on a new page. 1. Title Page:  Includes the title, submission date and your name/student number. 2. Table of Contents:  Page with major section names and their associated page numbers. 3. Executive Summary: (3)  Summary of the highlights of the entire plan.  Tip: It is easiest to write this last. 4. Situation Analysis: (10)  Summary of the key market and environmental factors, Tip: PESTEL, SWOT analysis. 5. Competitive Review: (10)  Including a focused marketing review of the company and their top three competitors. 6. Segmentation of customers (15)  Discuss the segmentation variables and select one that should be used by Huawei Technologies. 7. Marketing Mix strategies (20)  Discuss, Product, Price, Place, Promotion and the extended 3Ps. 8. Bibliography: (2)  Include all of your sources including information from articles, books, websites and other sources in Harvard style.

Huawei Technologies Brief History Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommunications equipment and sells consumer electronics, including smartphones and is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The company was founded in 1987 You have been appointed as a Marketing Specialist to assist Mancosa to develop a Marketing Plan for year 2020. Please note: Your Marketing Plan must be based on market research, situation analysis and must clearly present marketing mix strategies and tactics that are likely to achieve Huawei Technologies business goals. It is important that you explain the rationale for your recommendations - why you are recommending these strategies and tactics - and why the 'client' should believe your recommended marketing strategies and implementation will be successful. Project Requirements: Develop a Marketing Plan that will help Huawei Technologies to attain a competitive advantage in a customer driven market: Report Structure: The Marketing Plan should have the following headings Each section should start on a new page.

1. Title Page:  Includes the title, submission date and your name/student number.

2. Table of Contents:  Page with major section names and their associated page numbers.

3. Executive Summary: (3)  Summary of the highlights of the entire plan.  Tip: It is easiest to write this last.

4. Situation Analysis: (10)  Summary of the key market and environmental factors, Tip: PESTEL, SWOT analysis.

5. Competitive Review: (10)  Including a focused marketing review of the company and their top three competitors.

6. Segmentation of customers (15)  Discuss the segmentation variables and select one that should be used by Huawei Technologies.

7. Marketing Mix strategies (20)  Discuss, Product, Price, Place, Promotion and the extended 3Ps.

8. Bibliography: (2)  Include all of your sources including information from articles, books, websites and other sources in Harvard style.

The officers of a high school senior class are planning to rent buses and vans for a class trip. Each bus can transport 35 students, requires 3 ​chaperones, and costs ​$ 1,200 to rent. Each van can transport 7 ​students, requires 1​ chaperone, and costs ​$ 90 to rent. Since there are 280 students in the senior class that may be eligible to go on the​ trip, the officers must plan to accommodate at least 280 students. Since only 30 parents have volunteered to serve as​ chaperones, the officers must plan to use at most 30 chaperones. How many vehicles of each type should the officers rent in order to minimize the transportation​ costs? What are the minimal transportation​ costs?

How do you solve this word problem?

Salaries for teachers in a particular elementary school district are normally distributed with a mean of $44,000 and a
standard deviation of $6,500. We randomly survey ten teachers from that district.
1.Find the probability that the teachers earn a total of over $400,000

2.If we surveyed 70 teachers instead of ten, graphically, how would that change the distribution in part d?

3.If each of the 70 teachers received a $3,000 raise, graphically, how would that change the distribution in part b?

The Mercantilist and Physiocratic economic schools of thought are the earliest recognizable school of thought in human history.

a) Identify a similarity and a difference between those schools of thought.
Your answer needs to provide at least two paragraphs.
The first paragraph discusses the similarity between these schools of thought.
The second paragraph discusses the difference between these schools of thought.

b) Discuss the economic idea or thought that you have found the most interesting from any of these schools of thought or their thinkers. Explain your reasoning.

c) Identify a local/global problem or a positive aspect in current societies that might be caused by an economic policy that is based on an economic concept that was originally identified by the Physiocrat School of Thought.

Your answer needs to provide at least two paragraphs.
The first paragraph discusses the local/global problem or a positive aspect in current societies.
The second paragraph explains how the concept that you identified is causing the problem or the positive aspect.

Answer all the questions in well developed paragraphs. The paragraphs should be at least five or six sentences long, and they should clearly include a topic sentence.