Finance

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper about how the political process and changing public policy at the federal, state, and municipal levels influence budgeting. Include details on how the change came about and its effect on the resulting program. Ensure you: o   Identify political, economic, social, and cultural influences that caused the change in the budget. o   Identify the interaction among the federal, state, and municipal levels with regard to your selected program. o   Specify the limits of the agency budget office and how they may try to compensate for those limits. o   Identify some strategies and agencies politicians might use to justify increasing or decreasing the budget for the program you selected.   Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

The bonus budget is set at the start of the financial year by the finance team and given to the incentive team to to manage. The budget of the sales department is 24% of the full time employees salary. This is reviewed every quarter due to any over spend or under spend depending on sales. The issue that if there is any overspend the next quarter the agents are then impacted by the incentive scheme been reviewed and lowered. As a department we do not see the budget or have any idea on how the budget is performing. The agents are paid a certain % based on their conversion and revenue. Part of the issue is that the marketing team can send out marketing that drives calls into the call centre and this can have a positive effect on the agents conversion meaning that the incentive team are paying out more than they budgeted for within that quarter. When the bonus is reviewed if this negativity effects the agents and team moral can drop, Using the following pages 148-150 chapter 12 i need you to identfy what type of budget the budgeting problem uses is.  I then need to use the following Page s135-136 and week 11 The function and possible benefits of budgets. and talk about advantages and weaknesses. I need you to apply the concepts to the problem above

Read the following article/excerpt: Lazonick, W., and Jacobson, K. (2018, August 23). End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy. The New York Times Buffett, W.E. (1984). Warren Buffett’s 1984 Letter to Berkshire Shareholders. Read the “Dividend policy” section Question for discussion: Comment on when or under what circumstances share buyback would be considered a bad investment.

Research financial analysis using financial ratios. Identify and describe the five most important ratios for a potential equity investor. Explain the reasoning for your selection. Illustrate your discussion using numerical examples and respond to the following questions: Identify and describe the five most important ratios for a potential bond investor in a corporate bond issuance. Explain the reasoning for your selection. Illustrate your discussion using numerical examples. Identify and describe the five most important ratios for a potential bank investment in a short-term corporate loan. Explain the reasoning for your selection. Illustrate your discussion using numerical examples. Identify and describe the five most important ratios for a potential shareholder to assess prior to making a stock purchase in a company. Explain the reasoning for your selection. Illustrate your discussion using numerical examples. Review the article by Kaminski, Wetzel, & Guan. (2004). Describe the research question being addressed. Discuss the methods used and the conclusions reached by the study. Support your paper with a minimum of five (5) external resources In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages

Research Project: People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the Chinese Central Bank is a major tool in guidance of Chinese economy by directing the credit and guarding price stability. The project requires you to describe the roles and structure of that bank within the Chinese economic system. Discuss how PBOC is organized and functions.  The PowerPoint (attached) discuss how FED function, system, policies, and more. Take this as example of topics that can be discussed with PBOC. Please use APA format, and please use Word citation function for citing.

if you have 10 million dollars to invest  how will you invest it? you can not invest more than 15% in any one country or business what or who you are investing and why? chart ( only required one chart shows the percentage of your portfolio)/ analysis/ why  minimum 5 pages excluded chart   APA format must have 3 academic reference/ 3 global financial reference

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) presentation in which you analyze each of these required areas: Financial Institutions reviewed Audience Problem statement Research methodology employed Findings & Recommendations Your conclusions and recommendation for future research. Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as “speaker notes” for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists. Create a PowerPoint presentation. Think about who your target audience is and how your topic affects them. The required length of the PowerPoint Presentation option for this assignment is 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide). Your presentation MUST include key notes that contain 100-150 words per slide (you will insert this in these notes in the note section at the bottom of the slide). Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style. Save the file as a PPT file with the correct course code information in the name

Select two articles that pertain to cutting-edge international financial developments from reputable sources (i.e. WSJ). The articles should not be older than 10 days from when the assignment is due. In each IFM, there should be a brief summary of the news item, as well as the pros and cons covered in the article/news item. In addition, and most importantly, there should be an analysis of the event, with your reasoned views, with some theoretical and/or empirical justification. An IFM, or a crisp, professional discussion of the “International Financial Management,” will require you to select any two separate news items that pertain to cutting-edge international financial developments. You should select international financial developments pertaining to markets or instruments or institutions which were in the news in the immediate past seven to ten days before the respective IFM is formally due.

Land value Capture   1. What is Land value capture? (1/2-1 page) ·  It is not a new concept o   Canadian Pacific Railway was partly financed through giving rights for a 48-mile wide corridor along the route to the promoters of the highway (metrolinx source) -Using Land Value Capture to Fund Transportation investments ·  when people perceive value, they are willing to pay for it ·  part of the problem is that the current system is unable to easily release and subsequently capture this added value   https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Public-Sector/smart-cities-virtues-of-value-capture-19nov.pdf   2. Emerging Tools – Strategies – Explain what they are and how they can be used to fund transportation projects (2-3 pages) https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/land-value-capture-policy-brief.pdf https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/1279_Smolka%20Final.pdf   -Taxes -Fees -Land Value enhancement -Profit sharing linked with the project -Regulatory Instruments   – Special Assessment Districts – Section 37 (Ontario Planning Act) https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/official-plan-guidelines/section-37-benefits/   3.Case Study  – How were the above strategies used in these 2 projects (3-4 pages)   i) Metro Vancouver ii) Metrolinx – Toronto http://hlrn.org/img/documents/Land_Value_Capture_Discussion_Paper_EN.pdf

Write a justification for a capital purchase (1,000-1,200 words) to your vice president as to why the purchase would be a good investment for the hospital. Include a one-page executive summary for your proposal within your essay. The essay should include the following points: Discuss the facility considerations involved in obtaining this new piece of equipment. Is it a replacement piece or a strategic capital purchase? Explain how it meets organizational priorities and capital investment goals. Justify the purchase and why it is a good investment by evaluating the return on investment (ROI). Explain the operating costs you took into consideration when making the purchase. Explain if you will fund the purchase or finance it. What would be the funding sources or financial mechanism to support this purchase (for example, selling shares in your facility or voting on a bond)?