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Please, work on a presentation of strategic implementation in a company related to global trade. 
Research how a company has performed with a specific product or service in a chosen foreign market. Present your findings in a PDF file according to APA standards. Be prepared to make a presentation to the class.
Be sure to cover:
Company and stated strategy or mission statement
How the strategy has been implemented, some examples
Analysis of the results of the strategic implementation
Overall rating of company’s use of strategy to guide business expansion

 
Objective:
This assignment is designed to help you apply mathematical skills in analyzing financial statements and utilize technology in financial analysis.
Resource:
The 10-K report is an essential annual financial document that publicly traded companies must file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This detailed report covers a company’s financial performance, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and an extensive review of business operations, risks, and management’s perspective. It serves as a critical tool for investors, analysts, and regulators to assess a company’s financial stability, strategic direction, and overall business health. To delve into the specifics, access The Coca-Cola Company’s (NYSE: KO) 2021 Annual Report through this link Links to an external site. to an external site or refer to the attached Coca-Cola 2021 10K-2.pdf
Actions. Familiarize yourself with the annual report’s structure, particularly focusing on Item 8, which encompasses Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. It’s crucial to read and understand Coca-Cola’s financial statements thoroughly.
Assignment:
Financial Ratio Calculation – Utilize Excel to calculate Coca-Cola’s financial ratios for 2020, including the current ratio, debt ratio, debt-to-equity ratio, times-interest-earned ratio, profit margin ratio, and gross profit percentage. A template Excel file (Assignment – Financial Statement Analysis-1.xlsx Download Assignment – Financial Statement Analysis-1.xlsx), already incorporating the company’s income statement and balance sheet, along with the calculated ratios for 2021, is provided for guidance. 
Submit the updated ‘Financial Statement Analysis’ with the 2020 financial ratios as your completed assignment.
Here are some helpful videos to guide you in using Excel:
1. Excel Project Video: Constructing a Formula & Using the SUM FunctionLinks to an external site.
2. Excel Project Video: Copying a Formula Using the Fill Handle & Relative Cell ReferencesLinks to an external site.
3. Excel Project Video: How to Enter AnswersLinks to an external site.
4. Excel Project Video: Using Arithmetic Operators in ExcelLinks to an external site.
5. Excel Project Video: How to Navigate a Worksheet/Workbook & How to Save a FileLinks to an external site.
This tutorial provides a detailed introduction to Excel, perfect for those starting out: https://youtu.be/LgXzzu68j7M
Link:  Inline XBRL Viewer (sec.gov) 

Now, it is time to shift gears and focus on literature that addresses business swings and how the federal government and the Federal Reserve respond to economic conditions based on the different phases of the business cycle. Who is your favorite Economist or political figure who describes fiscally responsible tactics in which fiscal and monetary policies are enacted? During COVID-19 (2020-2022), which authors supported and/or opposed actions taken by the Federal Reserve and federal government? Can you explain whether the expansionary fiscal and monetary policy enacted during COVID-19 was beneficial to our domestic economy?
For this module week’s ECONverstation, respond to the following prompts.
Identify a piece of literature that addresses economic business swings within our domestic economy.
Do authors tend to agree with actions taken by the federal government and the Federal Reserve?
Can you explain whether authors believe public policies during COVID-19 (2020-2022) promoted economic output in the United States? 
Support your post by incorporating concepts from this module week’s readings as well as any additional literature or personal experience. All references should be documented using the current APA style.

water resource economics
Water Resource Economics
Spring 2024
25 points
(2-3 typed pages including tables/figures)
A vigorous debate rages over which of two potential urban water supply programs is an economically better way to supply safe affordable drinking water to residents of a large poor city. The high points of each program are:
Program 1: Supply a minority of the population with cheap piped‐in water by delivering 10,000 acre feet per year of utility supplied water from a central delivery system, at a price equal to the average cost of supply, $300/ac‐ft. The remainder of water must be bought from street vendors described, for example, at https://www.wiego.org/informal-economy/occupational-groups/street-vendorsLinks to an external site. at a price of $900 / ac‐ft.
Program 2: Supply the entire population by meeting all demands at a constant price.  This program would build and use a shiny new engineered central delivery system that supplies water at a constant price equal to the average cost of supply.  That price is $600 / per acre foot, charged to all buyers, for which total use is 70,000 ac-ft.
Your task is to compare Total Annual Economic Benefits (TAEB = CS + TR – TC) of each program by ranking the economic performance of each from the view of the city’s water buyers/suppliers.   You can use these abbreviations:
CS = consumer surplus   = willingness to pay minus actual payments          calculated for each program
TR = total revenue           = price x quantity                                                    calculated for each program
TC = total cost                 = average cost x quantity                                        calculated for each program
I will show you more about these terms in our class slides this week, letting you see a down-sloping water demand function for which the maximum price of water (y intercept) is $1650 per ac‐ft.
Q 1 (15 points) Calculate the Total Annual Economic Benefits (TAEB) to the city’s water stakeholders for each program and show calculations.
Q 2 (10 points). You have been hired as an expert consultant, and will snag a juicy consulting fee if you recommend the right choice. Describe your recommended choice and explain why you would make it.

Please do Problems 1.11 (note this is question one dot eleven, not question one dot one — for some reason, many students make this error) and 4.1.
See the attached doc for both questions.

Create a presentation for a small business plan to enter a foreign market.  You can team up with another student if you wish. Your presentation can be in PowerPoint or Google Slides or PDF format. Be prepared to make your presentation to the class. Your business can be a startup of your own creation or an international expansion of an existing US business. Your business strategy should address the following:
What country would you select?  Why?
What is your company’s competitive advantage?
What would be your mode of entry into that foreign market? 
What would be the major risks?
What is the host country’s attitude toward your company? At the government level, at the customer level? How receptive and appreciative is the host country toward your company’s business?

This week you will create an annotated bibliography for the Art Appreciation Project you began working on in Week 4. In addition to the source you identified in the Week 4 Art Appreciation Project Outline, you will find four additional scholarly or academic sources for a total of five. These sources will be the building blocks for your presentation, so be sure to spend time searching for sources, reading critically, and evaluating the relevance of each source.
For each source, provide the following.
The APA style reference
A one-paragraph summary of the relevant sections of the article written in your own words
A one-paragraph assessment of its overall quality and relevance to your presentation topic
To help make sure your document is properly formatted and meets all assignment requirements, please refer to the Assignment Connection in this week’s lesson.
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Price controls, such as one proposed on rents in Sanford in 2023 (see attached article), are an effort to impose a social value (affordable housing) on owners of apartments and houses. They often do no work as intended as the Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman noted with his pithy statement of “Roofs or Ceilings:”
Rent ceilings, therefore, cause haphazard and arbitrary allocation of space, inefficient use of space, retardation of new construction and indefinite continuance of rent ceilings, or subsidization of new construction and a future depression in residential building. Formal rationing by public authority would probably make matters still worse. https://fee.org/resources/roofs-or-ceilings-the-current-housing-problem/
If you could impose a price ceiling, name a good or service that you would like to see a ceiling (or floor) placed on and explain with a justification (do not use a good that another student has mentioned). Would there be any negative consequences? Draw a supply and demand curve (upload/attach a photo or drawing) illustrating the equilibrium price and where you would place your ceiling (or floor). 

Answer these questions about Monopoly and monopolistic competition: 
1-) You are the manager of a monopoly.
A) If the marginal cost of your product is $100 and the price elasticity of demand for your product is 2, what markup of price over marginal cost do you set?
B) If the price elasticity of demand is 3 rather than 2, what markup do you set?
C) Use your knowledge of factors that affect the magnitude of the price elasticity of demand to your answers to parts a and b.
2-) Explain how marginal analysis can help determine the profit-maximizing quantity for managers of monopolies, dominant firms, and monopolistically competitive firms.

Please research, prepare and deliver in class a report on how culture can affect business in a specific region of the world.  What would you tell international businesspeople about culture in your country?  What would be important for them to know?  You are encouraged to focus on your own personal cultural heritage, your country of origin, or you may focus on another specific country or region.