Write a 150- to 350-word response to each of the following questions based on this week’s readings and your personal experience.

Complete Parts A and B of this worksheet.

Cite any outside sources. For additional information on how to properly cite your sources, check out theReference and Citation Generator resource in the Center for Writing Excellence.

Part A

Define each vocabulary word in the following table. Use your textbooks or an outside source as references.

Provide examples where requested, use complete sentences, and be clear and concise when explaining your answers.

Vocabulary Words Definitions Purpose Type (If Applicable)
Information System
Hardware
CPU
Memory and Storage
Input and Output Devices
Software
Operating Systems

Part B:

Write a 150- to 350-word response to each of the following questions based on this week’s readings and your personal experience. Use your own words and provide examples to support your answers.

1. What is the difference between computer hardware and software?

2. Why is the use of information systems in health care important? Explain your answer.

Your neighbor faithfully applies fertilizer to his lawn to ensure beautiful, healthy green grass. Explain how your neighbor’s fertilizing habit affects at least one nutrient cycle.

Using the textbooks, the University Library or other resources, answer each of the following questions in 150- to 500-words. Be sure to provide references for the sources you use.

Question Response

Your neighbor faithfully applies fertilizer to his lawn to ensure beautiful, healthy green grass. Explain how your neighbor’s fertilizing habit affects at least one nutrient cycle.

Your friend commutes to work every day by driving a standard gasoline-powered car. Explain how your friend’s commute affects one or more nutrient cycles.

Urban areas typically have lots of pavement and compacted soils. Explain how these impermeable surfaces affect at least one aspect of the hydrologic cycle

Why is Britain leaving the European Union?

  1. What does Brexit mean?
  2. Why is Britain leaving the European Union?
  3. What was the breakdown across the UK?
  4. What is the European Union?
  5. Who is going to negotiate Britain’s exit from the EU?
  6. How long will it take for Britain to leave the EU?
  7. Why will Brexit take so long?
  8. What happens to EU citizens living in the UK?
  9. What happens to UK citizens working in the EU?
  10. What about EU nationals who want to work in the UK?
  11. What about all the economic warnings about Brexit? Were they wrong?
  12. What has been the effect on the value of the pound?
  13. What does that mean for prices in the shops?
  14. Will immigration be cut?
  15. Could there be a second referendum?
  16. Will I need a visa to travel to the EU?
  17. Will I still be able to use my passport?
  18. Some say we could still remain in the single market – but what is a single market?
  19. Has any other member state ever left the EU?
  20. What does this mean for Scotland?
  21. What does it mean for Northern Ireland?
  22. How will pensions, savings, investments and mortgages be affected?
  23. Will duty-free sales on Europe journeys return?
  24. Will EHIC cards still be valid?
  25. Will cars need new number plates?
  26. Could MPs block an EU exit?
  27. Will leaving the EU mean we don’t have to abide by the European Court of Human Rights?
  28. Will the UK be able to rejoin the EU in the future?
  29. Who wanted the UK to leave the EU?
  30. What were their reasons for wanting the UK to leave?
  31. Who wanted the UK to stay in the EU?
  32. What were their reasons for wanting the UK to stay?
  33. What about businesses?
  34. Who led the rival sides in the campaign?
  35. Will the EU still use English?
  36. Will a Brexit harm product safety?
  37. Which MPs were for staying and which for leaving?
  38. How much does the UK contribute to the EU and how much do we get in return?
  39. If I retire to Spain or another EU country will my healthcare costs still be covered?
  40. What will happen to protected species?
  41. How much money will the UK save through changes to migrant child benefits and welfare payments?
  42. Will we be barred from the Eurovision Song Contest?
  43. Has Brexit made house prices fall?
  44. What is the ‘red tape’ that opponents of the EU complain about?
  45. Will Britain be party to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership?
  46. What impact will leaving the EU have on the NHS?
  47. What were the referendum outcome prediction/expectations among the analyst, investors and general public prior to the referendum?
  48.   How did financial markets react to the results of the referendum?
  49.  What are short-term (long-term) economic and financial consequences of Brexit?

Overall trend assessment of the company’s balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows for the last three years.

Project requirements must include the following analysis:

  1. One page description of the corporation: its products or services, major markets.
  2. b. Overall trend assessment of the company’s balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows for the last three years.
  3. Selected ratio and trend analysis. Ratios must include liquidity, asset management, solvency, profitability, and market value ratios.  A three-year ratio analysis is the minimum expectation.
  4. Analysis of the company’s stock price and EPS trends for the last three years. Analysis must include comparison to key market competitors.
  5. Evaluation of the firm’s Beta in relation to a specified market index (eg. S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow 30).
  6. Assessment of the firm’s capital structure including any significant changes in the firm’s capital structure over the last three to five years.
  7. g. Calculate the WACC (weighted average cost of capital) based on the most recent balance sheet data.
  8. h. Assessment of the firm’s cash flow and determination of the firm’s free cash flow over the last three years.
  9. Closing summary of the firm’s financial health in relation to the overall economy and within its industry.