Choose a publicly traded company that issues bonds. You can locate this information by reviewing your chosen company’s annual report online. A good place to start is the Annual Reports website.
In your case study, discuss the following aspects of the company.
What are the key features of one of the bonds issued by your chosen company? Discuss how the bond’s terms and collateral can affect the bond’s interest rate.
How would a potential investor determine the value and risk of the bond?
Explain the concept of the time value of money (TVM) as it applies to the company’s bond offerings.
Your case study should be at least two pages in length. Use APA Style to cite and reference all quoted and paraphrased material, including your textbook. Use a minimum of two sources, one of which may be the textbook. Include a title page, introduction, body, conclusion, and references page. An abstract is not required.
In today’s fast-paced world, hoteliers have invested heavily in information technology (IT) in order to meet the changing needs of a “next tech” and “design-savvy” generation, improve guest satisfaction and ensure a unique experience. In the hospitality industry, IT innovation capability has been widely recognized as being a source of competitive advantage as it enhances interactions between customers and front-line employees (Ottenbacher & Gray, 2004; Sipe, 2016). Hotels are striving to incorporate novel competitive services offerings (Victorino et al., 2005) as well as providing a unique innovative guest experience. However, the increasing use of technology in services, especially in the hospitality sector, neither employees’ sense making nor their roles as accepters or rejecters have been examined in as determinants of technological change implementation success (Hu et al., 2009). How do you think technology has changed work environments among the front-line employees over the last decade?
APA writing conventions should be followed with a minimum of two (2) sources referenced (in the end of your answer) and cited (as appropriate within your answer). Your response (minimum of 300 words) should be a thoughtful, objective academic analysis of the concepts being learned in the course
In this final week of the course, you will have taught your mini-unit, and you now have the opportunity to reflect on its implementation. Reflection is an important part of teaching, as it allows you to think about what went well, what did not go so well, and changes you would make next time.
For this assignment, you will write a 3-5-page paper in which you reflect on the development and implementation of your mini-unit. You will also reflect on your learning progress on the course competencies and how that learning applies to your educational practice.
Assignment Instructions
Complete the following:
Reflect on the development of your mini-unit.
Review the development of your mini-unit plan. Based on what you know now, what changes or adjustments would you make to:
Stage 1: Establishing goals. Explain why you would make those changes.
Stage 2: Creating assessments. Explain why you would make those changes.
Stage 3: Designing learning events. Explain why you would make those changes.
Reflect on the implementation of your mini-unit.
What learning events worked well? What learning events did not work well? Why do you think so? What surprised you?
How well were you able to monitor student progress? What challenges did you face? How did you address those?
You have been retained by Widget Sales Company, an international company with offices in 25 countries, to develop a website that will allow its employees to enter travel expenses incurred on a business trip and store that data for reporting purposes. It is estimated that, initially, only the 100 employees in the US will use the system, but within two years, all 2,500 employees worldwide will be using it. The site should have functions that ask for input and calculate the following:
The total number of days spent on the trip.
The time of departure on the first day of the trip and the time of arrival back home on the last day of the trip.
The amount of any round-trip airfare.
The amount of any car rentals.
Miles driven, if a private vehicle was used. Vehicle allowance is $0.58 per mile.
Parking fees. (The company allows up to $12 per day. Anything in excess of this must be paid by the employee.)
Taxi fees. (The company allows up to $40 per day for each day a taxi was used. Anything in excess of this must be paid by the employee.)
Conference or seminar registration fees.
Hotel expenses. (The company allows up to $90 per night for lodging. Anything in excess of this amount must be paid by the employee.)
The cost of each meal eaten. On the first day of the trip, breakfast is allowed as an expense if the time of departure is before 7 a.m. Lunch is allowed if the time of departure is before noon. Dinner is allowed if the time of departure is before 6 p.m. On the last day of the trip, breakfast is allowed if the time of arrival is after 8 a.m. Lunch is allowed if the time of arrival is after 1 p.m. Dinner is allowed if the time of arrival is after 7 p.m. The program should ask only for the costs of allowable meals. (The company allows up to $18 for breakfast, $12 for lunch, and $20 for dinner. Anything in excess of this must be paid by the employee.)
The program should perform the necessary calculations to determine the total amount spent by the business traveler in each category (mileage charges, parking, hotel, meals, etc.) as well as the maximum amount allowed in each category. It should then create a nicely formatted expense report that includes the amount spent and the amount allowed in each category, as well as the total amount spent and the total amount allowed for the entire trip. This report should be written in a file.
In this phase you will be analyzing the project from several different roles: Project Manager, Database Analyst, and Python Developer. For each of these roles provide:
A high-level overview of each role. This will be very general and describe what a project manager, database analyst, and developer are expected to perform in any project.
What information each role will need in order to complete that portion of it. This will be specific to this particular project. Include the departments and/or personnel with whom each role will need to interact so there is an overall plan concerning how to proceed.
If you are unfamiliar with any of the roles, you can research the Internet for more information. Feel free to reach out to your peers, as many of these roles are represented by the various majors in the course. This should be a high-level analysis; the details will be provided in Phase 2 of the project.
Each phase of the project should follow Strayer Writing Standards.
WIDGET SALES COMPANY PHASE 2
In this phase you will provide the detail that each of the roles must perform in completing the website.
Project Manager
Provide a timeline for the various activities that need to be completed. You must include a start date and end date. Each individual activity should have its own start and end date. Indicate which activities can be done in parallel and which activities must end before another activity can start. The following is an example on how to start this. Try to be realistic in the assignment of dates:
Description
Start Date
End Date
Dependencies
Project Duration
1/1/2019
12/31/2020
Initial Meeting
1/2/2019
1/31/2019
None
Web Design
4/1/2019
10/31/2019
Database tables defined
Database Analyst
Provide an overview of the data that will need to be captured. This can be in table format, listing the variable name, the data type, and any restrictions on the data. The following is an example of the expectations for this part:
Table Name
Variable
DataType
Restrictions
Employee
EmpName
String
None
Employee
ExpensesAllowed
Boolean
Only Yes or No values
Expenses
HotelArriveDate
Date
Valid date
Expenses
HotelDepartDate
Date
Valid date, greater than arrival date
Developer
Provide the detail for the website. At a minimum, this should include the number of pages in the site and what data should be on each page. You must also include an overview of the Python functions needed to complete the functionality of the site. While no code will be required, you will need to provide the function signature, the parameters being passed in (if any), and a brief description of what the function will accomplish. Below is an example for this part:
def parking(days):
Calculates the maximum allowance for parking fees using MAX_DAILY_FEE * days
Gets the parking fees from the user
Adds the parking fees to totalExpenses (a global variable used for keeping track of the total amount spent by the traveler).
Determines if the parking fees exceed the allowed amount.
The content for the final exam topic should be taken from readings from either the The American Yawp or Oakes text, the McPherson reading, and information from our previous Civil War assignment. While I don’t have strict rules on the length of the response, the assignment should try not to exceed five pages, double-spaced with one inch margins (Note that formatting will probably be lost when you copy and paste into the email, so don’t worry if the response doesn’t feature double-spacing, etc. when you send). Make sure to review the definition of plagiarism and let me know if you have any questions regarding it.
Submit your assignment through Canvas under “Assignments” before the due date and time listed on this page. I may not be able to extend much late time, so make sure to stay in touch with me if you don’t think you can submit your work within eight hours of the due date and time.
.” Discuss that essay. What is McPherson’s thesis or main points and how does he prove his argument? Do you agree with the author? How has the Civil War affected the United States? Was it a war that occurred some one hundred and forty years ago that has little impact on us today, or did it forever change the nature of the country? How did it affect the country immediately following the war? Who were the losers and winners in this war? I have our Civil War assignment page still posted, so feel free to draw from that resource as well.
