Beta and Capital Budgeting

Part 1: Beta

Visit the following web site or other websites:

Yahoo Finance

1. Search for the beta of your company (Pepsi-co)

2. In addition, find the beta of 3 different companies within the same industry as your company (Pepsi-co).

3. Explain what beta means and how it can be used for managerial and/or investment decision

4. Why do you think the beta of your company (Pepsi-co) and those of the 3 companies you found are different from each other? Provide as much information as you can and be specific.

Part 2: Capital Budgeting

Before you respond to Part 2 of discussion 6 review the following information on Capital Budgeting Techniques

Capital Budgeting Decision Methods

CAPITAL BUDGETING (PRINCIPLES & TECHNIQUES)

To avoid damaging its market value, each company must use the correct discount rate to evaluate its projects. Review and discuss the following:

• Compare and contrast the internal rate of return approach to the net present value approach. Which is better? Support your answer with well-reasoned arguments and examples.

• Is the ultimate goal of most companies–maximizing the wealth of the owners for whom the firm is being operated–ethical? Why or why not?

• Why might ethical companies benefit from a lower cost of capital than less ethical companies?

No Plagiarism APA formate please.

 

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Overview:

One way to examine e-commerce and its role in the business world is through value chain analysis. Michael Porter introduced the value chain concept in 1985. It consists of a series of activities designed to meet business needs by adding value (or cost) in each phase of the process. Typically, a division within a business design produces, markets, delivers and supports its products or services. Each activity adds cost and value to the product or service delivered to the customer.

Bidgoli, H. (2018). MIS (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning

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Your Topic: Think about providing value to your organization.

Review the image and how it relates to the value of an organization.

The following describes the relationship between the activities:

• The top four components—organizational infrastructure, human resource management, technological development, and procurement (gathering input)—are supporting activities.
• The “margin” represents the value added by supporting primary activities (the components at the bottom).

The following list describes primary activities:

• Inbound logistics—Movement of materials and parts from suppliers and vendors to production or storage facilities; includes tasks associated with receiving, storing, and disseminating incoming goods or materials.
• Operations—Processing raw materials into finished goods and services.
• Outbound logistics—Moving and storing products, from the end of the production line to end-users or distribution centers.
• Marketing and Sales—Activities for identifying customer needs and generating sales.
• Service—Activities to support customers after the sale of products and services.

For this discussion, analyze the value chain for your industry value chain.

For example: having superior relationships with suppliers (through prompt payments, electronic ordering, loyalty, and so forth), the company can ensure timely delivery and high quality of raw materials. These, in turn, add value for customers by providing a high-quality product at a lower cost. If good quality and lower costs are top priorities for customers, the company knows on which parts of the value chain to focus (e.g., better suppliers to ensure quality and reduce costs, superior operations to ensure quality, better distribution to reduce costs, better after-sales service to ensure quality with warranties). So, the value chain is really about understanding what aspects of an organization’s business add value for customers and then maximizing those aspects.

• Identify your primary activities
• Identify your secondary activities and how those relate to processes
• Create value for your organization

Look at this from the perspective as if you were working in that field. Reference MIS project 1 and the initial work you have done. In your write-up address all these points, you will need to add these to your report and presentation later in this term.

Requirements:
This activity will provide you with the opportunity to research, analyze and synthesize current technologies and the use of those technologies in a real-world scenario as they relate to information systems.

• Complete MindTap Case Study analyses & answer the questions:
  • M5 Case Study 9-1: Global Information Systems at Toyota Motor Company
  • M5 Case Study 8-2: Bridging the Gap Between E-Commerce and Traditional Commerce
• Research current similar stores & new technologies, shopping innovations
• Post a narrative summary (no more than 500 words) to this Discussion Board 5
• Respond to at least 2 other classmates

Remember to use APA style for any citations.

 

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Introduction

The discussion groups serve as the main form of communication and collective learning in this course. You have been assigned to a discussion group and you will learn together throughout the course. The purpose of the boards is to respond and ask questions about the readings with your classmates. If you quote the readings, please use proper citation.

Directions

After reading the required selections, please post a response and follow up question to the group thread. You can respond to more than one question and questions should only be a guide to the conversation not required questions to be answered in essay form.

Guiding Questions:

1. What are some “habits of sensing”? How does smelling a particular scent translate into nostalgia or moral judgments about people?
2. We often approach others with the expectation that they manage emotions in their interactions with us. How are our expectations shaped by gender, race, ability, age, and social class?
3. What are the major fears and emotional threats faced by Mixed Martial Artists? What strategies do they use to deal with these fears and threats?
4. Why was this article entitled “Getting Angry to Get Ahead?”

 

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Please complete Toolkit Exercise 7.3 on p. 252 of your textbook before addressing the second question below.

Please reflect on an instance where you were on the receiving end of organizational change. What was your initial reaction to the change? Explain why. If your attitudes toward the change initiative changed over time, discuss why? What did the change leader do to perhaps facilitate that change? What did you do to facilitate that change? How might other internal stakeholders influence your response to that change?

Tip: now you need to complete the Toolkit Exercise 7.3, then answer the questions raised and comment briefly on the three articles. I won’t know the contents of these three posts until you finish this question.

 

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