Essay Topics3: Write a short essay on each of the topics, answering all questions in each topic in a clear, coherent, and concise essays.

A. The Convertibiliy Plan Explain the Argentinean experiment with the Convertibility

Plan. What were the conditions that prompted the Plan? What was the central piece

of the Plan? What were consequences of the Plan in the late 1990s and early 2000s?

B. Market Economic System List and explain three strengths of a market system.

Then, explain the concept of market failure (one of the weaknesses). What are the

four major market failures we have covered in class? Explain each in detail and give a

brief example of how the government would get involved to fix (or at least try to fix)

each particular market failure.

Please indicate your evaluation of the candidate for the following questions, and briefly explain your reason for each evaluation:

Able to meet deadlines? YES NO Reason: Able to work under pressure? YES NO Reason: Friendly? YES NO Reason: Reliable? YES NO Reason: Easy-going? YES NO Reason: Able to use technology? YES NO Reason: Professional appearance? YES NO Reason: 2. Would you re-employ this person in your organization in the future? (If no, please provide details on a separate sheet.) YES NO 3. Do you have any doubts about this person’s suitability on the job? (If yes, please provide details on a separate sheet.) YES NO 4. Please confirm your contact information and relationship to the candidate:

Your name: Your company: Your job title:

How do you know the candidate? ___________________________________

1. What suggestions do you have to improve the reference request form? Specifically, are there any items or wording you would change, remove, and/or add to the form? Please explain.

QSO 320 Milestone Three

1. For White and Organic wine, what were the Measures of Central Tendency based on the sales figures?

2. What would the total profit for each type of wine be given the following production costs for the wine; White wine 17% of total sales, red wine is 12%, and organic wine is 21%?

3. Deduct the sales commision discussed in question 2 from Milestone Two: Data Analysis Part II and recalculate. Draft and present the answers.

4. How would you summarize the provided data? Develop pivot tables using the cle

Commision Data

“Bankrupt” Corporation is in a deep financial crisis. You are one of the financial avengers “Bankrupt” is desperately seeking help from. CEO of the company informed you that he is considering the two risky projects “Thanos” and “Loki” to protect the firm from financial collapse. Both projects have similar risk characteristics. Bankrupt’s WACC is 11%. The initial investments for both the projects are $200 million. Cashflow from the projects are as follows;

Year           1                2                3                4

Thanos       10M           60M           80M           160M

Loki           70M           50M           20M           160M

Now, your job is to explain the following questions in great detail so that the CEO understands your plans to protect the firm.

1. Explain the concept of capital budgeting decisions. How it is different from the firm’s investing decisions.
2. Explain the concepts of independent and mutually exclusive projects
3. What is NPV -explain with an example?
4. Calculate NPV for both the projects and show the steps
5. Explain your decision when Thanos and Loki are mutually exclusive, and when they are independent.
6. WACC has increased to 15%. What change you will see in NPV?
7. What is IRR and how it is different from NPV? What is the IRR for Thanos and Loki? Based on IRR which project you should accept?
8. How is IRR identical to Bond’s YTM?
9. WACC has increased to 15%. What change you will see in IRR? Is it good for the firm?
10. What is the reinvestment assumption for NPV and IRR? Why NPV is better than IRR?
11. Find the MIRR for both projects and explain the difference with IRR.
12. Is MIRR a better measure than NPV? Why and why not?
13. Calculate the pay-back and discounted pay-back for both the project. Discuss the differences between the two methods.

how to use subsetting in Python lists. Practice making subsets of the namelist.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plot

# set up your lists

numlist = [8, 6, 5, 3]

namelist = ['freshmen', 'sophomores', 'juniors', 'seniors']

colorlist = ['red', 'green', 'pink', 'yellow' ]

explodelist = [0.1, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]

# make the pie chart

plot.pie(numlist, labels=namelist, autopct='%.2f%%', colors=colorlist,

        explode = explodelist, startangle = 90)

plot.axis('equal')

plot.savefig('piechart.png')

A closer look into business ethics: Please pick one of the following companies and answer the following questions with as much detail as you can based on your extensive research of the unethical practices that took place.

5. How did they get caught?

6. What were the assessed penalties?

7. List one (or a few) interesting fact s one may not know about the company or the fraud that took place.

8. What measures could the company (upper level management or employees in general) have done to prevent such fraud?

9. What kinds of internal controls would you put in place to prevent such fraud from taking place again?

10. What steps do you think the accounting profession has taken to prevent such fraudulent activities?

Please choose from the following companies: Saytam (2009)

Scarlett is practicing math fluency. She has 100 math operation flashcards with 42 addition problem cards, 56 subtraction cards, and 2 multiplication cards. Scarlett will time herself to see how fast she can solve the problems on seven cards. She chooses her seven cards and they are all addition cards. Is choosing all addition cards likely? Explain by running a simulation. (10 points)

Part A: State the problem or question and assumptions. (2 points)

Part B: Describe the process for one repetition, including possible outcomes, assigned representations, and measured variables. (3 points)

Part C: Use digits from a table of random digits or use your calculator to perform one repetition. Submit the list of random digits and indicate those that represent addition cards. (3 points)

Part D: Suppose there was one repetition when all seven cards were addition cards after 200 repetitions of the simulation. State your conclusions from these results. (2 points)

Provide a brief overview of how analytics impacts you in your current career or will impact you in your future career. Present five ways you use or will use analytics in your work and at least three things you'd like to learn more about to support this work. Provide as much or as little information, but be clear about how analytics is important in your job/career, five ways you use or will use analytics, and the things you'd like to learn more about.