Quantitative Methods and Analysis/ FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

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    TOTAL OF 10 MIN. PAGES
    EACH PROJECT SHOULD BE A SEPARATE PAPER WITH SEPARATE REFRENCES.
    WORK CITED IS NOT CONSIDERED A PAGE
    PROJECT PAPER 1 (1-2 PAGES)
    Please read the relevant parts of your textbook which refer to cash flow and financial planning.
    To avoid any uncertainty regarding his business’ financing needs at the time when such needs may arise Cyrus Brown wants to develop a cash budget for his latest venture: Cyrus Brown Manufacturing (CBM). He has estimated the following sales forecast for CBM over the next 9 months:
    He has also gathered the following collection estimates regarding the forecast sales:
    Payments for direct manufacturing costs like raw materials and labor are made during the month that follows the one in which such costs have been incurred. These costs are estimated as follows:
    Additional financial information is as follows:
    To receive full credit on this assignment please show all work including formulas and calculations used to arrive at the financial values.
    Group Project Guidelines
    Your submitted Group Project (150 points) must include the following:
    Grading
    You will be graded on the accuracy of your monthly cash budget and your demonstrated understanding of financial analysis procedures. You will also be graded on your group participation.
    Please add your file.
    PROJECT PAPER 2 (2-3 PAGES)
    A manufacturing company is thinking of launching a new product. The company expects to sell $950000 of the new product in the first year and $1500000 each year thereafter. Direct costs including labor and materials will be 45% of sales. Indirect incremental costs are estimated at $95000 a year. The project requires a new plant that will cost a total of $1500000 which will be a depreciated straight line over the next 5 years. The new line will also require an additional net investment in inventory and receivables in the amount of $200000.
    Assume there is no need for additional investment in building the land for the project. The firm’s marginal tax rate is 35% and its cost of capital is 10%.
    To receive full credit on this assignment please show all work including formulae and calculations used to arrive at financial values.
    Assignment Guidelines
    Your submitted assignment (130 points) must include the following:
    Grading
    You will be graded on the accuracy of your value calculations as well as your demonstrated understanding of payback periods net present value and cash flows.
    This assignment will be assessed using the rubric providedhere.
    Please submit your assignment.
    For assistance with your assignment please use your text Web resources and all course materials.
    Individual Project Rubric
    PROJECT PAPER 3 (1-2 PAGES)
    Clickhereto download theselected financial statements for Micro Chip Computer Corporation. Answer questions 1 and 2 below based on the financial data.
    Next consider Micro Chip’s Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended September 25 2008.Download the filehereand answer questions 1 and 2.
    To receive full credit on this assignment please show all work including formulae and calculations used to arrive at the financial values. Students using Microsoft Excel must provide an adequate explanation of the methodology used to arrive at that answer.
    Assignment Guidelines
    Your submitted assignment (120 points) must include the following:
    Grading
    You will be graded on the accuracy of your financial calculations as well as your demonstrated understanding of financial statement analysis.
    Please submit your assignment.
    For assistance with your assignment please use your text Web resources and all course materials.
    Individual Project Rubric
    PROJECT PAPER 4 (5-6 PAGES)
    Students will choose a company of their liking and use any of the 2 (qualitative or quantitative) research and analysis methods to demonstrate selected perceptions (approved by the faculty) of the company. This project requires you to research review and analyze perceptions of the company. Specifically your research paper will include the following:
    Present your findings as a Word document of 56 pages (body of paper) formatted in APA style.
    Please submit your assignment.
    Submitting your assignment in APA format means at a minimum you will need the following:
    This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria providedhere.
    Please submit your assignment as a Word document in APA format using the attachedtemplate. Using the template without deleting the headings ensures that you cover each segment of the assignment.
    Please submit your assignment.
    For assistance with your assignment please use your text Web resources and all course materials.
    PROJECT PAPER 5 (200 WORDS)
    How Many People to Survey?
    Poll results are prevalent in the media especially leading up to elections as are reports on surveys done by universities and research groups.
    The survey results of small groups of people are used to portray a general consensus about a population. Do you ever wonder how many people should be included in a survey to make it a meaningful reflection of a population? Now you will be able to answer your own question. After learning this you might never feel the same about these polls and surveys again.
    Using the following specific resources create a lecture (with citations) that includes the following:
    Part 1: Survey Analysis
    Entertainment Survey
    Using a newspaper article from the AIU library’s full-text database: Newsstand (ProQuest) create a lecture (with citations) that includes the following:
    Political Survey
    Use polls from one of the following sources:
    Source 1
    Source 2
    General Survey
    Use polls from one of the following sources:
    Source 1
    Source 2
    Overview
    Consider the 3 surveys presented.
    This section of the paper will be 23 pages in length and each survey or poll described must come from AIU Library’s Newsstand ProQuest Database and the sources provided.
    Please do not use quotes or copy definitions. You will not receive credit for understanding the materials if you use the words of others. Keep in mind that because you did research and you have citations in the body of the post you must also place a reference list at the end containing the textbook and the articles cited.
    Part 2: Application
    Create your own 3-question entertainment survey or using thisGeneral Opinion Surveyor another free survey program or thislink. Secure a minimum of 20 responses. Your survey respondents may be friends family or classmates. (Note:The small sample size was chosen for convenience and as you know is not a valid sample. The goal is for you to create deploy and analyze a simple survey.)
    Create Excel charts of your results and describe those charts in words. (You will receive no credit for charts that are copied from the survey software.)
    This section of the paper will contain 1 page of text and 3 charts.
    References
    Gallup. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
    Pew Research. (n.d.).Question search. Retrieved from http://people-press.org/question-search
    Survey Monkey. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.surveymonkey.com/
    Zoomerang. (n.d.). http://www.zoomerang.com/basic/
    Please submit your assignment as a Word document in APA format using the attachedtemplate. Using the template without deleting the headings ensures that you cover each segment of the assignment.
    Please submit your assignment.
    For assistance with your assignment please use your text Web resources and all course materials.

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