I would like you to share a quote with the class that reflects something about you, your life, and your experiences.      Please read Traditional Male Circumcision in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Systematic Review of Prevalence and Complications, located at http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/12/09-072975/en/, and, after doing so, address the following question: Questions 2: Is there a line between protecting cultural traditional healing and protecting people’s lives/health? If so, what is the line? Who determines it?

Question 1: 
I would like you to share a quote with the class that reflects something about you, your life, and your experiences.     
Please read Traditional Male Circumcision in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Systematic Review of Prevalence and Complications, located at http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/12/09-072975/en/, and, after doing so, address the following question:
Questions 2:
Is there a line between protecting cultural traditional healing and protecting people’s lives/health? If so, what is the line? Who determines it?
Question 3:
For this reflective discussion:  Reflect upon two concepts that you learned in this course.

What are the concepts? What insight or ideas did you gain from learning each of these concepts? Were there aspects of the concepts that you would challenge?
What is the importance of these concepts to public health? How will you use this new wisdom in your current or future career?
Optional: Offer feedback on how the course and/or facilitation of the course can be improved.

In answer to the challenges Nelnet faces in servicing a growing volume of student loans, the company chose to deploy a knowledge management system called OpenText Process Suite. Go online and investigate the features and capabilities of this suite of software products. What functions does Open Text provide that can augment and assist customer relationship management (CRM) systems? Find and briefly summarize a customer success story of an organization that integrated Open Text with its CRM system.

In answer to the challenges Nelnet faces in servicing a growing volume of student loans, the company chose to deploy a knowledge management system called OpenText Process Suite. Go online and investigate the features and capabilities of this suite of software products. What functions does Open Text provide that can augment and assist customer relationship management (CRM) systems? Find and briefly summarize a customer success story of an organization that integrated Open Text with its CRM system.

Professionals in psychology work in different sub-fields: substance abuse, applied behavior analysis, administration, research, therapy, and academia etc. Explain the importance of the principles in the APA and the Ethics Code in making ethical decisions in I/O psychology. What is the best way for you to use these principles in your field of study? How do you see yourself using these principles? Using your own example, explain how you would use these principles to make an ethical decision should you be put in the position where you feel any one of these principles is being compromised.

 
Professionals in psychology work in different sub-fields: substance abuse, applied behavior analysis, administration, research, therapy, and academia etc. Explain the importance of the principles in the APA and the Ethics Code in making ethical decisions in I/O psychology. What is the best way for you to use these principles in your field of study? How do you see yourself using these principles? Using your own example, explain how you would use these principles to make an ethical decision should you be put in the position where you feel any one of these principles is being compromised.

Facebook, email, electronic commerce, and collaborative sites for both work and leisure are a normal part of our everyday computing activities. Personal information entered on these websites become partially owned by the sites themselves.  Deleting items never really gets rid of them. After reading this week’s course materials, describe what Internet users should know about one of the following topics: What should you know about website privacy? How do you know when an online transaction is secure? Why is Anti-spyware software important to my online security?  

 
Facebook, email, electronic commerce, and collaborative sites for both work and leisure are a normal part of our everyday computing activities. Personal information entered on these websites become partially owned by the sites themselves.  Deleting items never really gets rid of them.
After reading this week’s course materials, describe what Internet users should know about one of the following topics:

What should you know about website privacy?
How do you know when an online transaction is secure?
Why is Anti-spyware software important to my online security?

 Identify an investment decision that you or someone else has made. (This should be for goods or services for which one or more payments were made in order to receive increased benefits from those goods or services at a later time.) How do you think the concept of supply and demand impacted the investment decision?  Now that you understand the time value of money, how would you use your problem solving skill (especially critical thinking strategies) to rethink the decision in the future?

 Identify an investment decision that you or someone else has made. (This should be for goods or services for which one or more payments were made in order to receive increased benefits from those goods or services at a later time.)

How do you think the concept of supply and demand impacted the investment decision? 
Now that you understand the time value of money, how would you use your problem solving skill (especially critical thinking strategies) to rethink the decision in the future?

write in which you use logic to conclude something based on your own experience. Focus on what you learned about deductive arguments to construct a valid, sound modus ponens or modus tollens argument. First, briefly tell me what validity is and how your argument follows the structure of either modus ponens or modus tollens. Next, defend the truth of your two premises. Focus on defending your first premise (the conditional relationship between the antecedent and the consequent). Creative editing gets extra marks, especially if it helps to confirm the truth of your premises! 

write in which you use logic to conclude something based on your own experience. Focus on what you learned about deductive arguments to construct a valid, sound modus ponens or modus tollens argument. First, briefly tell me what validity is and how your argument follows the structure of either modus ponens or modus tollens. Next, defend the truth of your two premises. Focus on defending your first premise (the conditional relationship between the antecedent and the consequent). Creative editing gets extra marks, especially if it helps to confirm the truth of your premises! 

prompts include drawing a comparison between the characters Will Kane in High Noon and Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.  To compare and contrast these two characters, use incidents from the respective films.  Who are these characters?  What is their motivation? In what ways might they be similar?  How do they differ? 

prompts include drawing a comparison between the characters Will Kane in High Noon and Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.  To compare and contrast these two characters, use incidents from the respective films.  Who are these characters?  What is their motivation? In what ways might they be similar?  How do they differ?  One needs to consider the different times in which the two films are set as well as the different times, literally, the two films were made.  1952 and 1976, respectively. (For example, the Kenndey assassination, Vietnam, the moon landings, and Watergate happened between those years.) 

Complete the simulation “Applying ANOVA and Nonparametric Tests” located on . Prepare a 3summary addressing the following items:   What are three lessons you learned relative ANOVA and Nonparametric tests? As a result of using this simulation, what concepts and analytic tools will you be able to use in your workplace (i.e., how do you expect to apply what you learned)? Based on your experience, what additional information would you recommend to the key decision maker in the simulation to solve the challenge given?

Individual Assignment: Applying ANOVA and Nonparametric Tests Simulation
 
Complete the simulation “Applying ANOVA and Nonparametric Tests” located on . Prepare a 350-700-word summary addressing the following items:
 
What are three lessons you learned relative ANOVA and Nonparametric tests?
As a result of using this simulation, what concepts and analytic tools will you be able to use in your workplace (i.e., how do you expect to apply what you learned)?
Based on your experience, what additional information would you recommend to the key decision maker in the simulation to solve the challenge given?
 
 
Individual Assignment: Quiz
 
Be prepared to take a quiz on topics covered in the previous weeks.

As your organization grows, the possibility of having child-care and elder-care issues grow. You have been tasked to head up a small committee to assess the possibility of including these benefits into the current compensation package. Identify at least six (6) questions the committee will have to answer in order to develop a strategy to include these benefits.  

HRM 533 Total Rewards
Week 10 Discussion 1: “Future Benefits”
1.) It is the year 2020. Speculate wht work-life benefits are mmost prominent among the top employers in that year and why you selected them.
 
Week 10 Discussion 2: “Work Cultures”
1.) As your organization grows, the possibility of having child-care and elder-care issues grow. You have been tasked to head up a small committee to assess the possibility of including these benefits into the current compensation package. Identify at least six (6) questions the committee will have to answer in order to develop a strategy to include these benefits.
 
Please note these are discussion questions not an assignment. Also add The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits & Total Rewards (2007) as a reference  for  full 10 points credit.

Your brother wants to borrow $10,000 from you. He has offered to pay you back $12,000 in a year. If the cost of capital of this investment opportunity is 10%, what is its NPV? Should you undertake the investment opportunity? Calculate the IRR and use it to determine the maximum deviation allowable in the cost of capital estimate to leave the decision unchanged.

Week 3 Problem Set
Answer the following questions and solve the following problems in the space provided. When you are done, save the file in the format flastname_Week_3_Problem_Set.docx, where flastname is your first initial and you last name, and submit it to the appropriate dropbox.
Chapter 7 (pages 225–228):
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Your brother wants to borrow $10,000 from you. He has offered to pay you back $12,000 in a year. If the cost of capital of this investment opportunity is 10%, what is its NPV? Should you undertake the investment opportunity? Calculate the IRR and use it to determine the maximum deviation allowable in the cost of capital estimate to leave the decision unchanged.
 
8.
You are considering an investment in a clothes distributor. The company needs $100,000 today and expects to repay you $120,000 in a year from now. What is the IRR of this investment opportunity? Given the riskiness of the investment opportunity, your cost of capital is 20%. What does the IRR rule say about whether you should invest?
 
19.
You are a real estate agent thinking of placing a sign advertising your services at a local bus stop. The sign will cost $5,000 and will be posted for one year. You expect that it will generate additional revenue of $500 per month. What is the payback period?
 
21.
You are deciding between two mutually exclusive investment opportunities. Both require the same initial investment of $10 million. Investment A will generate $2 million per year (starting at the end of the first year) in perpetuity. Investment B will generate $1.5 million at the end of the first year and its revenues will grow at 2% per year for every year after that.

a. Which investment has the higher IRR?
b. Which investment has the higher NPV when the cost of capital is 7%?
c. In this case, for what values of the cost of capital does picking the higher IRR give the correct answer as to which investment is the best opportunity?

 
 
 
Chapter 8 (260–262)
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Pisa Pizza, a seller of frozen pizza, is considering introducing a healthier version of its pizza that will be low in cholesterol and contain no trans fats. The firm expects that sales of the new pizza will be $20 million per year. While many of these sales will be to new customers, Pisa Pizza estimates that 40% will come from customers who switch to the new, healthier pizza instead of buying the original version.
a. Assume customers will spend the same amount on either version. What level of incremental sales is associated with introducing the new pizza?
b. Suppose that 50% of the customers who will switch from Pisa Pizza’s original pizza to its healthier pizza will switch to another brand if Pisa Pizza does not introduce a healthier pizza. What level of incremental sales is associated with introducing the new pizza in this case?
 
6.
Cellular Access, Inc. is a cellular telephone service provider that reported net income of $250 million for the most recent fiscal year. The firm had depreciation expenses of $100 million, capital expenditures of $200 million, and no interest expenses. Working capital increased by $10 million. Calculate the free cash flow for Cellular Access for the most recent fiscal year.
 
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A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 300,000 units a year and expects output levels to remain steady in the future. It buys chains from an outside supplier at a price of $2 a chain. The plant manager believes that it would be cheaper to make these chains rather than buy them. Direct in-house production costs are estimated to be only $1.50 per chain. The necessary machinery would cost $250,000 and would be obsolete after 10 years. This investment could be depreciated to zero for tax purposes using a 10-year straight-line depreciation schedule. The plant manager estimates that the operation would require $50,000 of inventory and other working capital upfront (year 0), but argues that this sum can be ignored because it is recoverable at the end of the 10 years. Expected proceeds from scrapping the machinery after 10 years are $20,000.
If the company pays tax at a rate of 35% and the opportunity cost of capital is 15%, what is the net present value of the decision to produce the chains in-house instead of purchasing them from the supplier?