How has taking this course allowed you to better understand yourself? What insights have you gained? In what ways has this course helped you to understand your thoughts, feelings or behaviors? In what areas of your life do you still struggle and need help with?  

Reflection Paper
 
INTRODUCTION
 
One of the main goals in this course is for you to develop personally through knowledge of psychology. This assignment will give you the opportunity to apply psychological principles to your own life, to your relationships, and to your life in society.
 
For this assignment you will write a reflection paper detailing the personal development you feel you have achieved.
 
Your paper should adhere to the following guidelines:
 
? Content: See paper description below.
 
? Length: Approximately 1200 to 1800 words in length (about 5 to 7 pages long)
 
? Typography: Use a size 12 Times New Roman or Arial font, double-spaced
 
? Citation style: Include APA style references to the textbook and other course materials. Please note: While APA style doesn’t usually allow the writer to refer to her/himself in the first person (i.e., using “I” or “me” to refer to yourself), this paper will require the use of first person language.
 
? Due date and grade weighting: The paper is due no later than the final day of the term and will account for 10% of your final grade.
 
 
 
PAPER DESCRIPTION
 
During this term you have learned about, discussed, and written about the following topics:
 
? Research methods
 
? Neuroscience and behavior
 
? States of consciousness
 
? Learning and memory functions
 
? Thinking, language, and intelligence
 
? Motivation and emotion
 
? Human development
 
? Health psychology: understanding stress and coping
 
? Personality
 
 
 
As you review the topics in this list, reflect on how a better understanding of these topics in psychology has impacted you in four areas:
 
? Personal: How has taking this course allowed you to better understand yourself? What insights have you gained? In what ways has this course helped you to understand your thoughts, feelings or behaviors? In what areas of your life do you still struggle and need help with?
 
? Social: How has taking this course allowed you to better understand your relationship(s) with someone else? Think about a significant relationship, and discuss how topics studied in this course have allowed you to gain a better understanding of that relationship.
 
? Organizational and Societal: How has taking this course allowed you to better understand the world around you? Think both about organizations to which you belong (school, place of employment, religious or civic organization) and about society in general. What have you learned in this class that can help you better understand groups to which you belong and issues in our world (for example, racism, sexism, homophobia, class issues, differing cultures and ways of life, religious differences, etc.)
 
? Lasting Impact: Lastly, discuss what topic(s) in the course you were most affected by. Reflecting back on the semester, what was the topic or assignment that applied the most to your life? Why do you think this topic impacted you? How does what you have learned in this course relate to your career aspirations? In general, why do you think it is important for students to take anIntroduction to Psychology course
 

Describe the issues associated with entering into an OD process. Describe the issues associated with contracting for an OD process.

Organization Development & Change
11 edition Thomas G. Cummings • Christopher G. Worley
CHAPTER
4
Entering and Contracting
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Learning Objectives
Describe the issues associated with entering into an OD process.
Describe the issues associated with contracting for an OD process.

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Entering Into an OD Relationship (1)
Clarifying the Organizational Issue
What is the presenting problem?
Gain a clearer perspective of the underlying issues and symptoms
Gather enough preliminary data to make informed choices about the next steps

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Entering Into an OD Relationship (2)
Determining the Relevant Client
Identify organization members who can directly impact the change issue
Involve all relevant members in selection of an OD practitioner and the subsequent change process
Complex situations with multiple organizational units require additional data and interviews with key organization members and customers

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Entering Into an OD Relationship (3)
Selecting an OD Practitioner
Experience and Expertise
References – “How effective has the person been in the past, with what type of organizations, using what kinds of techniques?”
OD Practitioner approaches the organization with openness and insists on diagnosis vs. having a “fixed” approach

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Essentials of an Effective OD Proposal
Elements
Objectives of proposed project: Statement of the goals in clear and concise terms, including measurable results
Proposed process of action plan: Description of 1) diagnosis, 2) data analysis process, 3) feedback process, and 4) action-planning process
Roles and responsibilities: List of key stakeholders in the process, including the OD practitioner, and the specific responsibilities for which they will be held accountable
Recommended Interventions: Description of proposed change strategies, including training, off-site meetings, systems or processes to be redesigned, and other activities
Fees, terms and conditions: Provide an outline of fees and expenses associated with the project

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Developing a Contract (1)
Mutual Expectations
Outcomes and deliverables are clearly stated
Clearly defined working relationships and involvement of stakeholders
Expectations of OD Practitioner are clear (publishing cases and results)

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Developing a Contract (2)
Time and Resources
Access to client, key managers, members
Access to information
Ground Rules
Confidentiality
Practitioner’s role in the process

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Interpersonal Process Issues in
Entering and Contracting (1)
Client Issues
Exposed and vulnerable in admitting the need for assistance and dependency on the practitioner to provide help
Inadequate in the ability to solve the organization’s problems
Fear of losing control

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Interpersonal Process Issues in
Entering and Contracting (2)
OD Practitioner Issues
Empathy
Worthiness and Competency
Over identification
Under estimate the importance of the entry and contracting phase

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Factors Affecting
Client-Practitioner Dynamics

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Getting a job or getting into Graduate School is probably very much on your mind these days. If not, it is time for you to start thinking about what you are going to do after leaving Troy Universiity. These are a few questions you need to answer concerning your future job. 1. Where do you plan to live? There is no need to do a wide job search unless you are willing to move to where the job is. Therefore, location is a very important first step; make a list of towns, cities, states, or regions you would like to or would be willing to live. If you are able to go wherever the job is your chances of getting the job you want becomes even better.

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Part 1: Job Search
Getting a job or getting into Graduate School is probably very much on your mind these days. If not, it is time for you to start thinking about what you are going to do after leaving Troy Universiity. These are a few questions you need to answer concerning your future job.
1. Where do you plan to live? There is no need to do a wide job search unless you are willing to move to where the job is. Therefore, location is a very important first step; make a list of towns, cities, states, or regions you would like to or would be willing to live. If you are able to go wherever the job is your chances of getting the job you want becomes even better. But if you cannot move then your job search will be more narrow and location specific. But sometime local has its advantages, because who you know can become an important factor in landing a job, otherwise be nice to “Uncle Joe”, he may be your ticket to landing your first job. Best advise never rule out networking. The Department through facebook and our website networks with alumni, check it out. They are listing jobs all the time. 
2. What are you qualified to do? Everyone has a dream job and getting that job will probably take a lot more experience than you have right now. So how do you get the experience you need? Most people start out in an interim level job and work their way up. So what job would you be happy doing as you gain experience? Make a list of your strengths, what skills do you have that will make you an asset to an exployer. 
3. What experience do you have? Most of the jobs you will be looking at require experience. What experience do you have? If you have done an internship or taken Design Studio you have some experience. Some of you have also worked doing freelance or taken on leadership roles. These are examples of experience you have gained while in college. 
Okay here is your first assignment:
1. Do a job search online or by other means i.e. newspaper, job board, word of mouth, family, etc. Choose three jobs you are qualified for and would like to have. It is very important you consider the location of this job, if you are not willing to move to this town or city look elsewhere. You will share these jobs with us in class. Be able to explain why you chose these jobs and why you feel it is a job for you. Your grade for this assignment will be put in by the instructor.
·        Upload the job posting you think you would like to have; not just the URL but the actual ad. Answer:
1.     Where is this job located?
2.     Why would you like this job?
3.     What are you qualified to do?
4.     What experience do you have?

Explain how you believe human creative expression can impact issues we deal with in the present day (contemporary to your coursework, not the future scenario posed above). Be sure to be specific about the issues you are addressing.

 
Scenario
For the purposes of this assignment, imagine you are a researcher of human cultures, an anthropologist who is looking from the future back to our world today.here did you see the work?
What elements or characteristics stand out to you? In this position, you develop a natural curiosity about cultural works and how they represent a particular culture. You are also curious about how cultural works influence the environment in which they exist. You are new at your job, and your first project is to conduct a thorough analysis of today’s culture via a cultural work, looking to understand how it represents culture and how it reflects its cultural environment. The results of your analysis will be used to craft the copy for a brochure accompanying a museum exhibit about cultural works of the current year.
Directions
Analysis of a Cultural WorkAs an anthropologist, you will start your task by analyzing the work of human creative expression that you selected in Module Four. With this work in mind, respond to the questions below. Remember, the insights you gain here will be used to write the copy that will go in the museum exhibit brochure.
Answer the following questions:

Describe the work in detail. Consider the following:

Where did you see the work?
What elements or characteristics stand out to you?

Describe the purpose of the work. Consider the following:

What do you think the creator intended to express?
Were they successful?

Use the work to explore how acts of creative expression impact and are impacted by the people and situations that surround them. Consider the following:

What contributions does the work selected make to continuing a dialogue about that culture and the importance of its works?

State questions you have after thinking deeply about this work. What more do you want to know regarding the following?

The relationship between culture and expression: What is the relationship between the possible intent of the creator and your own interpretation of its meaning?
Explain how your values have shaped and are shaped by your expression and that of others.

Explain how you would approach answering these questions:

What would you study about this work that might address the questions you stated?
Where would you find information to address the questions?Next, draw conclusions about how the work you selected relates to the humanities:

Explain why you believe humans have a need to express themselves through created works of cultural and historical significance.

Describe a culture shift or event related to the work you selected. This could be a cultural shift that influenced the creation of the work, or it could be a cultural shift that came about because of it.
Explain how a concept or resource you encountered in this course has informed your explanation. Be sure to cite any sources used.

Explain how you think the act of human creative expression impacts and is impacted by the culture in which it was created.

Explain the relationship between human creative expression and the culture in which the work you selected was created using the insights you gained from studying it.
Explain how a concept or resource you encountered in this course has informed your explanation. Be sure to cite any sources used.

Explain how you believe human creative expression can impact issues we deal with in the present day (contemporary to your coursework, not the future scenario posed above). Be sure to be specific about the issues you are addressing.

Use the insights you gained from studying the work you selected to explain how creative expression can impact today’s issues.
Explain how a person or concept encountered in your study of the humanities has informed your explanation. Be sure to cite any sources used.

What to Submit
Your submission should be a three- to four-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Two sources are required, one of which must be academic. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Explain the gender, racial, and ethnic disparities found in sentencing. Address whether there is disparity in who receives probation versus incarceration.

Trial consultants conduct research related to jury profiling. They must be able to investigate statistics, build profiles of potential jurors, and report accurate data to a trial team who selects the jurors for a case. In this assessment, you research statistics and write an investigative report that explains the impact of policies and procedures on those of diverse backgrounds and makes evidence-based recommendations to a trial team who is looking to reduce disparities based on gender, race, and ethnicity in the trial process.
Watch the following video for an overview of this assessment:
Video with transcript
PreparationResearch at least 2 scholarly sources, other than the textbook, that provide statistical demographic information for sentencing and corrections. Use the websites of your local or federal agencies to find the most recent data.
Assessment DeliverableUsing local or federal statistics on sentencing and corrections, write and UPLOAD (No Links) a 700- to 1,050-Microsoft® Word (No PDF) investigative report as if you were a trial consultant investigating policies and procedures and their impact on those of diverse backgrounds Your report should explain current data regarding disparities in sentencing based on gender, race, and ethnicity, and make recommendations to the trial team about reducing these disparities in the trial process.
Include the following information, with supportive examples from your research, in your report:
Describe the gender, racial, and ethnic group demographic information for the following in your area:
Criminal sentences handed down in court
Corrections institutions (both prisons and jails)
Probation and parole populations
Explain the gender, racial, and ethnic disparities found in sentencing. Address whether there is disparity in who receives probation versus incarceration.
Describe how biases might affect courtroom proceedings, such as a bail/bond proceeding, pretrial proceeding, first appearance, and legal representation (e.g., having a private lawyer instead of a public defender).
Propose at least 1 recommendation for how to address gender disparities and at least 1 recommendation for how to address the racial and ethnic disparities in the areas discussed.
Cite at least 2 scholarly sources, other than the textbook, in your report. Format your citations according to APA guidelines.
Required – Submit your uploaded assessment correctly Wk4 Your Name Example: Wk4 Pete Moss
Submit your assessment in the correct format.
Assessment Support (Important)Review the rubric for guidance on deliverable expectations.
If you choose the federal level, the following resources include federal data that may be helpful:
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Demographic Differences in Sentencing from the United States Sentencing Commission
Prisoners in 2020 – Statistical Tables from the U.S. Department of Justice
Probation and Parole in the United States, 2019 from the U.S. Department of Justice
If you choose to include data on juveniles, refer to Patterns of Juvenile Court Referrals of Youth Born in 2000, a bulletin from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs that uses data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive to summarize demographics of youth referred to juvenile court.
Review “Statistics 101: Proportions, Ratios, and Rates” from Statistics Canada on YouTube if you would like more information on interpreting basic statistical data.

explain what Marketing action you recommend Disney take to reverse the negative impression these harassment scandals had among Disney PUBLICS ( their external audiences) to make all Disney divisions a more respectful place of employment. 

 
MARKETING ASSIGNMENT 
The objective of the integrated semester is to help you extend your knowledge of how the Finance, Operations, Management, and Marketing disciplines work and how they integrate their functioning in the real world of business. This assignment is an assessment of how well you understand the integration process. 
This assignment will be dealing with DISNEY and has 2 parts. 
Part 1: 
Listed below you will find one WEAKNESSES and one THREAT for DISNEY, read them carefully then proceed to answer the questions that follow : 
1) Disney Weakness: 
Walt Disney Company has a higher employee turnover rate compared to competitors. 
2) Disney Threat: 
There is a predicted global recession in the near future. This can cause a problem for Disney in the sense that attendance at their global entertainment venues will decline negatively, impacting their revenue and profit. 
Assignment Questions: 
– Pick one, either the Disney Weakness or the Threat and explain how you would turn the Disney weakness into a Strength or the Disney Threat into an Opportunity. 
– Explain how your actions would impact Marketing, Finance, Management and Operations. 
Part 2: 
Assume you are the new CEO of Disney and you have to now rebuild the Disney Brand Image that was damaged due to major harassment scandals so it bounces back from all the negative publicity it received from these incidents. Note: harassment covers not only sexual offensives against women but bullying, microaggression and offensive behaviors against LGBTQ, people with disabilities, older members of the workforce and people from other cultures. 6 
Your overall bounce back strategy is to commit to a change in the Disney work place culture at all levels involving all employees in all Disney companies and divisions. After your careful investigation and detailed understanding of the issues you want to take steps to develop a culture of trust, respect and purpose for all employees and a harassment free work environment in all 32 Disney Global Business units with a total of 203,000 employees. To establish consistency in policy and procedures on a global basis requires you retain services of an outside consulting firm with expertise in development of Human Resource Programs that can guide the Disney Organization step-by-step through a critical process so all their employees become trained and certified in policies to end Harassment within their organization. The cost to implement the program is $600 per employee for a total cost of $12,180,000.(203,000 employees x $600 each). 
Your Assignment has 3 parts 
– Explain how you would Announce , Market and Promote this program internally to all Disney employees so they take a Pledge of Commitment to make the Disney workplace a more respectful place of employment. 
– Secondly: explain what Marketing action you recommend Disney take to reverse the negative impression these harassment scandals had among Disney PUBLICS ( their external audiences) to make all Disney divisions a more respectful place of employment. 
– Lastly , explain the impact these actions have across Marketing ,Finance, Management and Operations. 
Please read all the instructions carefully before beginning to answer the questions. Contact your instructor if you don’t understand the assignment’s requirements. The assignment must be submitted as instructed. You will lose points if you fail to follow the instructions or if the submission is formatted incorrectly.

The assignment should be prepared as a Word document, 3-4 pages in length per each discipline’s questions.
The document should be double-spaced, using Arial font #12.
Add any appendices or references at the end of the Word document for each discipline separately.
Upload the appropriate Word file through the link on Canvas to each of your Integrated Semester courses separately by the due date (i.e. the Marketing assignment should only be uploaded to your Marketing class).
Your reference sources, in addition to the base case and question sets, should be online sites and articles, Bloomberg terminals, your Integrated Semester textbooks, PowerPoint slides, and other sources your professor assigns.
Turnitin, a software tool that improves writing and prevents plagiarism, will be used to assess your sourcing of information. Do your own work.

Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.Consider how your topic has been discussed and represented. What approaches could be more constructive? What could be done differently to encourage, promote, or transform your topic?

In this activity, you will analyze your topic using the general education lens you chose in the previous module in order to determine how the topic has affected institutions. During your analysis, you will also describe an element related to your topic that could benefit from change and assess the benefits and challenges associated with addressing wellness. Finally, you will analyze how modern social practices have been impacted by wellness.
Include diverse perspectives from varied sources to support your points. You should continue to gather the sources you will integrate into your project. These sources will include two resources from the module resource sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. It may be beneficial to identify more than the number of sources required for the project so that you can eventually choose the most useful and credible ones. Look to the SNHU Shapiro Library for assistance in finding evidence and resources from outside the course.
You are not required to address each item below the rubric criteria, but you may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking and writing.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
You will be evaluated on both criteria.
Analyze your chosen issue or event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine its impact on various institutions.Apply the perspective of the general education lens you chose in the previous module to your topic. Then determine how the topic might affect institutions such as politics, community, family, economy, education, or market-driven organizations.
Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.Consider how your topic has been discussed and represented. What approaches could be more constructive? What could be done differently to encourage, promote, or transform your topic? This response is not simply your opinion but should be supported by reliable evidence.
Assess the benefit and challenges of addressing issues in wellness.What may be the positive impact of critically analyzing wellness? Conversely, what are the more difficult aspects of addressing wellness? This part refers to wellness overall and is not specifically about your project topic.
Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture.How have contemporary social practices been influenced by wellness? For example, consider practices such as communication, cultural expression, governance, or caregiving.
Submit your short paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Patricia is researching venues for a restaurant business. She is evaluating three major attributes that she considers important in her choice: taste, location, and price. The value she places on each attribute, however, differs according to what type of restaurant she is going to start. If she opens a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles, then taste is the most important attribute, three times as important as location, and two times as important as price. If she opens a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, then location becomes three times as important as taste and two times as important as price. She is considering two venues, respectively, a steak restaurant and a pizza restaurant, both of which are priced the same. She has rated each attribute on a scale of 1 to 100 for each of the two different types of restaurants. Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences. Which of the two options should Patricia pursue if she wants to open a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles? Calculate the total expected utility from each restaurant option and compare. Graph is not required. Describe your answer, and show your calculations.

      2 problems. Chart attached for problem 2
Answer 2 problems below.  Ensure all questions are answered.  Chart for problem 1 attached
 
Please complete the following two applied problems:
Problem 1:
Patricia is researching venues for a restaurant business. She is evaluating three major attributes that she considers important in her choice: taste, location, and price. The value she places on each attribute, however, differs according to what type of restaurant she is going to start. If she opens a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles, then taste is the most important attribute, three times as important as location, and two times as important as price. If she opens a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, then location becomes three times as important as taste and two times as important as price. She is considering two venues, respectively, a steak restaurant and a pizza restaurant, both of which are priced the same. She has rated each attribute on a scale of 1 to 100 for each of the two different types of restaurants.

Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences.

Which of the two options should Patricia pursue if she wants to open a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles? Calculate the total expected utility from each restaurant option and compare. Graph is not required. Describe your answer, and show your calculations.
Which of the two options should she pick if she plans to open a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area? Describe your answer, and show your calculations.
Which option should she pursue if the probability of finding a restaurant venue in a suburban area can be reliably estimated as 0.7 and in a metropolitan area as 0.3? Describe your reasoning and show your calculations.
Provide a description of a scenario in which this kind of decision between two choices, based on weighing their underlying attributes, applies in the “real-world” business setting. Furthermore, what are the benefits and drawbacks, if any, to this method of decision making?

Problem 2:
The demand function for Newton’s Donuts has been estimated as follows:
Qx = -14 – 54Px + 45Py + 0.62Ax           fin 20
where Qx represents thousands of donuts; Px is the price per donut; Py is the average price per donut of other brands of donuts; and Ax represents thousands of dollars spent on advertising Newton’s Donuts. The current values of the independent variables are Ax=120, Px=0.95, and Py=0.64.
Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences, whenever it is necessary.

Calculate the price elasticity of demand for Newton’s Donuts and describe what it means. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
Derive an expression for the inverse demand curve for Newton’s Donuts. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
If the cost of producing Newton’s Donuts is constant at $0.15 per donut, should they reduce the price and thereafter, sell more donuts (assuming profit maximization is the company’s goal)?
Should Newton’s Donuts spend more on advertising?

As a financial consultant, you have contracted with Wheel Industries to evaluate their procedures involving the evaluation of long term investment opportunities.  You have agreed to provide a detailed report illustrating the use of several techniques for evaluating capital projects including the weighted average cost of capital to the firm, the anticipated cash flows for the projects, and the methods used for project selection.  In addition, you have been asked to evaluate two projects, incorporating risk into the calculations. You have also agreed to provide an 8-10 page report, in good form, with detailed explanation of your methodology, findings, and recommendations. Company Information Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A.  The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has additional annual costs of $600,000.  The Marginal Tax rate is 35%. Required: Wheel has just paid a dividend of $2.50 per share. The dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of six percent per year forever. If the stock is currently selling for $50 per share with a 10% flotation cost, what is the cost of new equity for the firm? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm? The firm is considering using debt in its capital structure. If the market rate of 5% is appropriate for debt of this kind, what is the after tax cost of debt for the company? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm? The firm has decided on a capital structure consisting of 30% debt and 70% new common stock. Calculate the WACC and explain how it is used in the capital budgeting process. Calculate the after tax cash flows for the project for each year. Explain the methods used in your calculations. If the discount rate were 6 percent calculate the NPV of the project. Is this an economically acceptable project to undertake? Why or why not?

 
As a financial consultant, you have contracted with Wheel Industries to evaluate their procedures involving the evaluation of long term investment opportunities.  You have agreed to provide a detailed report illustrating the use of several techniques for evaluating capital projects including the weighted average cost of capital to the firm, the anticipated cash flows for the projects, and the methods used for project selection.  In addition, you have been asked to evaluate two projects, incorporating risk into the calculations.
You have also agreed to provide an 8-10 page report, in good form, with detailed explanation of your methodology, findings, and recommendations.
Company Information
Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A.  The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has additional annual costs of $600,000.  The Marginal Tax rate is 35%.
Required:

Wheel has just paid a dividend of $2.50 per share. The dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of six percent per year forever. If the stock is currently selling for $50 per share with a 10% flotation cost, what is the cost of new equity for the firm? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm?
The firm is considering using debt in its capital structure. If the market rate of 5% is appropriate for debt of this kind, what is the after tax cost of debt for the company? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm?
The firm has decided on a capital structure consisting of 30% debt and 70% new common stock. Calculate the WACC and explain how it is used in the capital budgeting process.
Calculate the after tax cash flows for the project for each year. Explain the methods used in your calculations.
If the discount rate were 6 percent calculate the NPV of the project. Is this an economically acceptable project to undertake? Why or why not?
Now calculate the IRR for the project. Is this an acceptable project? Why or why not? Is there a conflict between your answer to part C? Explain why or why not?

 
Wheel has two other possible investment opportunities, which are mutually exclusive, and independent of Investment A above.  Both investments will cost $120,000 and have a life of 6 years. The after tax cash flows are expected to be the same over the six year life for both projects, and the probabilities for each year’s after tax cash flow is given in the table below.

Investment B

Investment C

Probability

After Tax Cash Flow

Probability

After Tax Cash Flow

0.25

$20,000

0.30

$22,000

0.50

  32,000

0.50

  40,000

0.25

  40,000

0.20

  50,000

What is the expected value of each project’s annual after tax cash flow? Justify your answers and identify any conflicts between the IRR and the NPV and explain why these conflicts may occur.
Assuming that the appropriate discount rate for projects of this risk level is 8%, what is the risk-adjusted NPV for each project? Which project, if either, should be selected? Justify your conclusions.

discuss what you are going to do in the writing and editing process to complete your research paper. You may want to anticipate the following questions in your discussion: What do I have left to write? How can I improve the drafted portion of my paper? What kind of information do I need to include to finalize the paper? Do I need more sources? How will I focus the remaining paragraphs?

Assignment Details
Style and format: MLA – both in-text and works cited entries are required
Assignment Prompt
Up to this point, you have carefully gathered, evaluated, analyzed, summarized, assessed, and reflected upon your research sources. It is now time to begin drafting the research essay. This assignment will guide you through the planning and drafting processes for your research paper, and will allow you to receive instructor feedback before submitting the final draft of your research project.
Assignment Requirements
Section 1: Select a substantial portion of your research paper to draft and insert into the assignment. This could be anything: the introduction and following body paragraphs, the body paragraphs/support from which you are going to build the rest of the essay, or the last several paragraphs of your research paper including the conclusion. This section should be no less than 2 pages, not including the Works Cited page. Supporting evidence from at least 2 of your sources should be incorporated and properly documented both within the text and on the Works Cited page.
Section 2: After you have inserted the rough draft of your research paper, write a paragraph explaining what part of your research paper you are working with and what you hope the reader takes away from it.
Section 3: In a final paragraph, discuss what you are going to do in the writing and editing process to complete your research paper. You may want to anticipate the following questions in your discussion: What do I have left to write? How can I improve the drafted portion of my paper? What kind of information do I need to include to finalize the paper? Do I need more sources? How will I focus the remaining paragraphs?
The goal of this assignment is to allow you to begin drafting the research paper in a meaningful way so that the final product is as complete and polished as possible.
Rules for formal and academic writing apply to the draft. (Note: First person point-of-view is allowed in the final two discussion paragraphs.)
Assignment 3 Checklist:
Before submitting the final version of this assignment, be sure your work includes:
A draft of a substantial portion of your research paper (at least 2 pages, not including the Works Cited page) (Section 1)Supporting evidence from at least 2 of your sources incorporated into the draft; sources should be documented both within the text and on a Works Cited page
An explanatory paragraph discussing the placement and purpose of the drafted material (Section 2)
A paragraph discussing direction for the rest of the essay (Section 3)