Category: Finance

Please answer/solve the question/problem below:
-Name five key factors that affect a firm’s external financing requirements. 
-What is meant by the term “self-supporting growth rate”? How is this rate related to the AFN equation, and how can that equation be used to calculate the self-supporting growth rate? 
-Suppose a firm makes the following policy changes listed. If a change means that external, nonspontaneous financial requirements (AFN) will increase, indicate this by a (1); indi-cate a decrease by a (2); and indicate no effect or an indeterminate effect by a (0). Think in terms of the immediate effect on funds requirements. 
a. The dividend payout ratio is increased. 
b. The firm decides to pay all suppliers on delivery rather than after a 30-day delay in order to take advantage of discounts for rapid payment.
c. The firm begins to offer credit to its customers, whereas previously all sales had been on a cash basis. 
d. The firm’s profit margin is eroded by increased competition, although sales hold steady. 
e. The firm sells its manufacturing plants for cash to a contractor and simultaneously signs an outsourcing contract to purchase from that contractor goods that the firm formerly produced. 
f. The firm negotiates a new contract with its union that lowers its labor costs without affecting its output. 

This competency assessment addresses assessing the value of investment projects. The Arbitrage Pricing Theory helps calculate required stock returns considering a number of factors. In this Assignment, you will apply Arbitrage Pricing Theory to a business scenario.
Prepare this Assignment as a Word document. List each question followed by your answer.
Complete problem: Cost of Equity-CAPM
XYZ, Inc. has a beta of 0.8. The yield on a 3-month T-bill is 5%, and the yield on a 10-year T-bond is 7%. The market risk premium is 5.5%, and the return on an average stock in the market last year was 20%. What is the estimated cost of common equity using the CAPM? Show your work.
Complete problems: NPV, IRR, MIRR, Profitability Index, Payback, Discounted Payback
A project has an initial cost of $60,000, expected net cash inflows of $10,000 per year for 8 years, and a cost of capital of 12%. Show your work.
What is the project’s NPV? (Hint: Begin by constructing a timeline).
What is the project’s IRR?
What is the project’s MIRR?
What is the project’s PI?
What is the project’s payback period?
What is the project’s discounted payback period?
Your division is considering two investment projects, each of which requires an up-front expenditure of 20 million. You estimate that the investment will produce the following net cash flows:
Year          Project A                       Project B
1               $5,000,000                    $20,000,000
2                10,000,000                    10,000,000
3                20,000,000                     6,000,000
What are the two project’s net present values, assuming the cost of capital is 5%? 10%? 15%?
What are the two projects’ IRRs at these same costs of capital?
Show your work.
Prepare this Assignment responding to the problems as an Excel® or Microsoft® Word®, showing all necessary formulas and steps. List each question, followed by your answer. Please submit this Assignment through the Dropbox.
The Module 3 Competency Assessment has 3 parts:
Part 1 Analyze the discounted cash flow approach
Calculate cost of equity using CAPM
Part 2 Apply the NPV equations of an investment to project its NPV
Calculate a project’s NPV
Calculate a project’s discounted payback period
Calculate a project’s IRR
Part 3 Estimate an investments Net Present Values
Demonstrate a project’s NPV assuming cost of capital at different percentages

Research financial information and key performance indicators (KPIs) for Starbucks. You may find this information on Yahoo! Finance®, or in other finance resources online. If you are unfamiliar with using Yahoo! Finance, the Yahoo! Finance Navigation Guide provides helpful information on finding some of the KPIs for your company.
Your financial plan will need to include KPIs for your company. Create a 1- to 2-page outline or chart identifying KPIs and including the following:
•The company and its ticker symbol
•Cash flow from operations
•Price-to-earnings ratio
•Stock dividends and the yield, if any
•Earnings per share ratio
•Revenue estimates for the next 12 months
•Revenue from the previous 3 years
•Statement of cash flows and identification of net cash from operating, investing, and financing activities over the past 3 years
•Average trade volume
•Current stock price, 52-week high, and 1-year estimated stock price
•Analysts’ recommendations for the stock (buy, sell, or hold)
•Market cap for the company

Assignment: Evaluate a Congressional Proposal to Increase the Minimum Wage
Instructions
Background
For this assignment, write a paper evaluating the proposed increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour from the current $7.25 for United States companies classified as small (500 employees or less). The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate mastery of the theories (sustainability model and the model of supply and demand) learned, as well as to contemplate why empirical evidence may contradict economic predictions.  
Instructions
Be sure to cover the following points in your paper:
Use the supply and demand analysis to evaluate the potential impact of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 ($15/hour). Note that a minimum wage is a price floor. Your task is to demonstrate (incorporating supply and demand curves using Excel in your paper) the immediate effect of an increased minimum wage and then discuss, in detail, the potential long-term consequences of the increased salary for the companies.
Evaluate the impact that an increased minimum wage may have on the cost functions of originations that mostly hire low-skilled workers (e.g., fast food) and the impact that a minimum wage may have on the cost functions of organizations that only employ skilled workers (assume skilled workers seek a similar rise in wages to maintain existing wage differential).
Discuss the effect that an increased minimum wage to $15 will have on labor supply (reference).
Evaluate whether a relationship exists between the introduction of robotics and kiosks into fast food companies and the increases in minimum wages passed in states such as Washington and New York.
Length: 4-6 pages, not including title page and references
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly references
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards.

The work is a 2000 word Financial Analysis and Report that has to be done as pdf presentation (without speaker notes) beautifully designed and with nice pictures. More instructions in the images.

As a fund manager, you raised one billion dollars to invest in five assets of your choice. Your investors want your investments to be limited to the
following categories: stocks, commodities, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and Fama-French sorts. You can pick all your assets from one category, or
you can combine assets from multiple categories. Your investment started in January 2015. It is the end of December of 2023, and you are required to
produce a detailed report to inform other fund managers how your investments performed. The report should:
1. Provide a clear overview of the investment approach that you relied on. This overview should be backed by a clear justification of why you expect
this approach to be profitable, and how it fits the needs of your clients and the macroeconomic environment. (20 marks)
2. Describe the chosen assets, their riskiness, and how they fit into your investment approach. (20 marks)
3. Present the approach and constraints used in determining the weights of assets in your portfolio. (20 marks)
4. Assess the performance of your strategy for the period between January 2015 and December 2023 using a wide range of metrics. You should also
emphasise the key drivers of your portfolio’s performance. (20 marks)
5. Highlight the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on your portfolio and discuss possible adjustments in your investments for the upcoming years. (15
marks)General requirements
It is expected that you will draw upon a range of literature, academic and industry journals, Bloomberg, and other information sources throughout your
report to provide support for your arguments. Sections are generally expected to have roughly similar word counts, but marks will not be reduced if one
section is slightly larger than the other. 

After reading and careful analysis of article 1.0 which i have attached.
1.Develop the Profit and Loss Statement (only) for the first year of operations.
2.Clearly explain any assumptions in this P&L Statement.

It is best to run the model in R or stata
There are four directions
1. Research on the buffering effect of ETFs on market fluctuations: Analysis based on volatility model
2. Research on the correlation between ESG ETF and corporate social responsibility performance: Empirical analysis based on quantitative model
3. Research on the impact of ETFs on market risk premium: observations based on risk-adjusted returns
4. Analysis of market behavior characteristics of ETFs in emerging economies and optimization of investment strategies
You can refer to the attached file to write the report
I searched this and found only Tokyo from 2006-2017: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/toyo-keizai-trial/csr/environment-kankyo/
In addition, the database and code appendix for model running must be included.

Please, I need you to read all the rules in the Fish & Chips Case and follow exactly what needed. Also, I will need an early draft for beginning of next week, please.

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