A large U.S.-based furniture manufacturer with significant exports to the European Union has accumulated $120 million in cash and short-term securities. As a financial manager, you have been tasked with developing a strategy to manage the funds. Considering the prevailing level of interest rates and inflation, and the need for diversification, you must decide how much of this sum the company should keep as cash on hand and how to invest the remaining amount. What are your recommended allocations?

A large U.S.-based furniture manufacturer with significant exports to the European Union has accumulated $120 million in cash and short-term securities. As a financial manager, you have been tasked with developing a strategy to manage the funds. Considering the prevailing level of interest rates and inflation, and the need for diversification, you must decide how much of this sum the company should keep as cash on hand and how to invest the remaining amount. What are your recommended allocations?
In an Excel spreadsheet, show the amounts you recommend for cash on hand as well as each asset class the company should invest in (such as stocks, bonds, real estate, index ETFs, company acquisitions). Include a brief explanation of your allocation decision. Attach the spreadsheet to your discussion post.

What does the company/product do that is not as good as the competition? How is this going to affect your customer’s sales?Thought needs to be given to how you can compensate for, or overcome these issues. What is the cost of overcoming these issues?Is it necessary to overcome the issues or are they something you can accept and deal with?

Using the same health care organization identified in the first assignment, complete a SWOT analysis on the organization over all based on information you gathered when completing the first assignment. Use the provided template and submit the completed version.
For more information on how to conduct a SWOT Analysis, you may want to watch the video, Conducting a SWOT Analysis.Be sure you SWOT Analysis includes each of the following:
Step 1: Strengths
First, identity one or two major competitors. Next, consider what does the company/product do better than (or at least equivalent to) the competition. This could be:

Specific product attribute advantage.
Brand perceived value.
Customer service of company.

Step 2: Weaknesses
What does the company/product do that is not as good as the competition? How is this going to affect your customer’s sales?Thought needs to be given to how you can compensate for, or overcome these issues. What is the cost of overcoming these issues?Is it necessary to overcome the issues or are they something you can accept and deal with?
Step 3: Opportunities
What area of the market could you enter with some modifications to the product/service or company? The main elements here could include:

Change size, shape, or color.
Additional services.
New packaging.
Different distribution points.
New promotional focus.

Step 4: Threats
What actions could threaten the product or standing in the market?

New competitor entry.
Major product failure.
Reduction in promotional spend.
Customer changes.
Changes in the market.

Assume you are a hospital HIM Manager and you need to work toward part of the new strategic plan that indicates that your department will use benchmarking to improve coding production. Based on the concepts of successful benchmarking described in the article, describe how you will embrace, adopt, and implement benchmarking for your coding production. 

Instructions: 

Read the article provided: 

Hughes, Gwen. “Using Benchmarking for Performance Improvement (AHIMA Practice Brief).” Journal of AHIMA 74, no.2 (2003): 64A-D (Please see the attached article).

Assume you are a hospital HIM Manager and you need to work toward part of the new strategic plan that indicates that your department will use benchmarking to improve coding production.
Based on the concepts of successful benchmarking described in the article, describe how you will embrace, adopt, and implement benchmarking for your coding production. 
You may complete this assignment in a list or table type of format (rather than a research paper format) as long as you include thorough information and description of the steps you plan to take 
You completed assignment should be 1-2 pages, not including the cover sheet and reference page.

Explain how a constitutional liberty has personally benefited or impacted you as a student or a citizen in the United State

Introduction
You are a recent immigrant who has moved to the United States to attend college. Your family has never been to the United States, and you are excited to tell them all about it, in particular the fundamentals of the U.S. government you are learning about in one of your courses.
Instructions
Compose a 3-page letter to your family in which you outline the fundamentals of the U.S. government. Be sure to do the following:

Briefly explain the purpose of the Constitution. Use relevant and factual information in your explanation. 
Briefly explain two American ideals (e.g., democracy, liberty, equality, justice, freedom, or opportunity).

Your explanation should include a definition of each ideal and your understanding of what those ideals mean to the average U.S. citizen. 

Using what you submitted in your Week 4 Activity, explain how the current event article you chose serves as an example of one of the ideals selected.
Explain how a constitutional liberty has personally benefited or impacted you as a student or a citizen in the United States.

Provide two or more specific and relevant examples.

For example: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion. Title VII also applies to private and public colleges and universities, employment agencies, and labor organizations. So if you chose this one, in your letter you would identify this constitutional liberty and how it applies to you specifically, and you would provide 2 or more specific and relevant examples. 

Cite all sources using in-text citations and a source list 

Do you believe that subsidized public programs (section 8, foodstamps, welfare, etc)reduce or increase recipients incentive to work? Explain your answer.

Do you believe that subsidized public programs (section 8, foodstamps, welfare, etc)reduce or increase recipients’ incentive to work? Explain your answer.
At least three pgs in length but is no longer than four p in length, is double-spaced, and uses 12- point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. Section headings/subheadings should be used.
Journal posts should include a full title pg including your name, and double-space all submissions. 

How much and in what ways has the launch of the Cayenne changed the meaning of the Porsche brand?

formated paper answrering the following questions from the attached case. If any outside resources are used please provide links and cite in APA format.
 

How much and in what ways has the launch of the Cayenne changed the meaning of the Porsche brand?
What is the value of the Rennlist online brand community to Porsche? How does it help and/or hurt the brand?
Should Wiedeking listen to the Rennlist brand community? Why or why not? Should he engage with them?
Imagine that you are a new Cayenne owner. How does the Rennlist brand community affect your Porsche ownership experience? 

Discuss the relevance of this statement for organizations growing and responding to change. What responsibility does a leader have to honor stakeholder concerns when feelings are the primary basis for the concerns? 

According to the textbook, people are more motivated when “they are shown a truth that influences their feelings” than they are by analysis. Discuss the relevance of this statement for organizations growing and responding to change. What responsibility does a leader have to honor stakeholder concerns when “feelings” are the primary basis for the concerns? 

Provide a microeconomic analysis of Under Armour and analyze different microeconomic criteria and the market in which it operates.

Provide a microeconomic analysis of Under Armour and analyze different microeconomic criteria and the market in which it operates. This analysis will inform recommendations for how the company can be successful in the future. Be sure to provide some specifics about analyzing so the reader knows what to expect – use the outline provided in the Final Project Document as your guide. 
– use this link for company information  http://investor.underarmour.com/financial-information/annual-reports 

A lottery ticket buyer purchases 10 tickets a week, always playing the same 10 5-digit lucky combinations. Write a C++ program that initializes and array or a vector with these numbers and then lets the player enter this weeks winning 5-digit number. The program should perform a BINARY search through the list of the players numbers and report whether or not one of the tickets is a winner this week. Here are the numbers:13579 26791 26792 33445 5555562483 77777 79422 85647 93121

A lottery ticket buyer purchases 10 tickets a week, always playing the same 10 5-digit “lucky” combinations. Write a C++ program that initializes and array or a vector with these numbers and then lets the player enter this week’s winning 5-digit number. The program should perform a BINARY search through the list of the player’s numbers and report whether or not one of the tickets is a winner this week. Here are the numbers:13579 26791 26792 33445 5555562483 77777 79422 85647 93121

Explain the importance of strategic leadership and methods to a health care organization.

 
Strategic Leadership
Using resources from the Capella Library, course readings, and the Internet, address the following:

Explain the importance of strategic leadership and methods to a health care organization.
Describe methods a leader may use to align the mission, vision, and goals of individual stakeholders to the mission, vision, goals, and objectives of the organization.
Describe effective communication strategies a leader may choose to employ when communicating the strategic vision of the organization to key stakeholders.
Explain why leaders must align the organizational culture with the internal and external environments. How can leaders accomplish that?
Describe ways an organization can use financial forecasts to guide organizational leadership.