Project Topic Overview: Creation of a New Venture

Create a strategic plan for a new venture: You may choose any idea but do not use something that has already been created. IIT IS A NEW VENTURE!

You must organize the plan to focus on the following subjects:

Summary of New Venture

Overall description of the new venture

How the venture exploits market voids and is a creation or opportunity

Business level strategies

Internal analysis of the new venture

External analysis of the new venture

Governance structure of the venture including description and analysis of CEO, TMT, and BOD

Analysis for Future Expansion

Corporate level strategies

Alliances

M&As

International strategy

No previous chegg answers please and type instead of writing and scanning :-)

FASB has develop new accounting standards for accounting for leases. These new standards are not covered in your text book. Research the new FASB Lease Accounting Standards and answer the following questions:

1. Why did FASB develop new lease accounting standards?

2. How will accounting for leases change under these new standards?

3. When will the new standards take effect?

4. How will the changes effect companies who lease assets/

5. Based on your reading and research do you think companies are prepared for these changes?

Submit a paper containing your answers and observations concerning these questions and suggestions you would make to companies who are preparing to implement the new standards.

Project Topic Overview: Creation of a New Venture

Create a strategic plan for a new venture: You may choose any idea.

You must organize the plan to focus on the following subjects:

Summary of New Venture

Overall description of the new venture

How the venture exploits market voids and is a creation or opportunity

Business level strategies

Internal analysis of the new venture

External analysis of the new venture

Governance structure of the venture including description and analysis of CEO, TMT, and BOD

Analysis for Future Expansion

Corporate level strategies

Alliances

M&As

International strategy

No previous chegg answers please and type instead of writing and scanning :-)

A company is considering a 5-year project to open a new product line. A new machine with an installed cost of $90,000 would be required to manufacture their new product, which is estimated to produce sales of $80,000 in new revenues each year. The cost of goods sold to produce these sales (not including depreciation) is estimated at 55% of sales, and the tax rate at this firm is 40%. If straight-line depreciation is used to calculate annual depreciation, what is the estimated annual operating cash flow from this project each year? (Answer to the nearest dollar.)

You just isolated a new strain of mutant mice, and preliminary mating suggest that the new mutant phenotype is not inherited in an autosomal fashion. Circumstantial evidence seems to indicate that the mutant phenotype may be following either an X-linked dominant or a mitochondrial-type inheritance pattern.

a.) What two informative crosses would you set up to distinguish between these two possibilities?

b.) How would the results distinguish between the two possibilities?

A   production   company   plans   to   build   a   new   warehouse   in   order   to   supply   its   new   sales   points.   On   the   basis   of   a   preliminary   analysis   of   the   problem,   it   has   been   decided   that   the   facility   should   accommodate   at   least   800   pallets   of   80×80   cm2   dimension.   The   pallets   will   be   stored   onto   conventional   racks   and   transported   by   means   of   reach   trucks.   Each   rack   has   four   shelves,   each   of   which   can   store   a   single   pallet.   Each   pallet   occupies   a   1.0×1.0   m2   area.   Racks   are   arranged   as   in   the   figure   provided   in   the   lecture   notes,   where   side   aisles   are   3.0   m  

An electric utility company is considering construction of a new power facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Construction of the plant would cost $275 millioneach year for five years. Expected annual net cash flows are $85 million each year for five years.

Power from the facility would be sold in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas, where it is badly needed. The firm has received a permit, so the plant would be legal as currently proposed, but air pollution would be an issue with the new facility.

To alleviate the environmental concerns the company could spend an additional $50 millionwhen the plant is built. The additional funds cover the costs of special equipment designed to minimize the air pollution. At this time, the special pollution-abatement equipment is not required by law. If the firm adds the environmental protections to the facility, the expected annual net cash flows are $90 million for five years.

Unemployment rates are high in the area Where the plant would be built. The plant would provide about 500 new, well-paying jobs.

The risk-adjusted WACC for this project is 15%. As an employee of the utility company, you have been tasked with analyzing the project. You are to make your recommendations to the company’s Board of Directors in a memo.

1. Calculate the NPV, IRR and regular Payback period for this project (with and without the environmental protection equipment).
2. What is your recommendation for the utility company? Provide support for your responses.
3. What additional qualitative/quantitative factors should be considered in accepting or rejecting both versions of this project? The factors might include job creation, salvage value, project life, discount rate (WACC) etc.

1. What are the new rules;
2. Could you suggest a new set of Mobile rules:
3. Think of specific examples of how HCI and mobility are different from when apps were static on PCs
4. Consider the impact on the designer and the app design process
5. Why is HCI arguably even more important now than previously?

3. McCormick & Company is considering establishing new products in a new factory in Largo, Maryland. Theproject is expected to last for eight years. To determine the right financing option, you need to determine the appropriate discount based on the weighted average cost of capital. The cost of equity is estimated using the capital asset pricing model. Cash flows are assumed to be steady, the nominal risk-free rate for the short-term US government treasury bills is 1.5 percent, the 10-year government bonds rate is 2.5 percent, and the inflation rate is 2.54 percent. What is the real risk-free rate? Then, assume a beta of 1.2 and a market return of 5 percent. What is the cost of equity?

4. McCormick& Company is considering purchasing a new factory in Largo, Maryland. After you and your team have conducted an analysis of alternative investments and cost of capital, McCormick has decided that a risk premium of 13 percent is appropriate for the investment into a new factory. Adding the risk premium to the current risk-free rate of 7 percent, what is the minimum acceptable rate of return?

1.Liz is retiring from the US Postal Service and will turn 70 next year. After 39 years of service, her monthly pension is $7,500.  She does not qualify for Social Security.  Liz has accumulated $700,000 in her thrift savings plan.  The government requires that she convert it to an annuity or move it to a IRA.  All of the money is pretax and tax can be avoided if it is moved to the IRA.  The annuity will be calculated based on her life expectancy of 17.5 years after age 70. The current USTreasury long-term bond rate is 3 percent. How much will she get as an annuity monthly payment?  Should Liz take the annuity or move the money to the IRA? The tax regulations require that she take out 4 percent of the amount each year.

2. Kathy plans to move to Maryland and take a job at McCormick as the assistant director of HR. She and her husband, Stan, plan to buy a house in Garrison, MD, and their budget is $500,000. They have $100,000 for the down payment and McCormick will pay for closing costs. They are considering either a 30-year mortgage at 4.5 percent annual rate or a 15 year mortgage at 4 percent. Calculate the monthly payment for each. Property taxes and insurance will add $1,000 per month to which ever mortgage they choose. What should Kathy and Stan do?

identify a new initiative utilizing new technology in your organization or a health care organization with which you are familiar. (Examples: online training for annual competency training, tele-visits, a move from traditional servers to cloud data management, operations systems in place in supply chain management, bar coding, inventory management, etc.) Once you have identified the initiative, conduct an online search to find information about IT implementation for similar initiatives in other industries.

The Assignment:

In 3–4 pages, describe the operational impacts of the new initiative you identified. Explain how the initiative transformed your organization. Apply your observations about other industries to your analysis of the initiatives in your organization. Assess how the common traits of a successful IT transformation apply to your organization.