Capital Budgeting Decision

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Maryville Cleaners has the opportunity to invest in one of two dry cleaning machines.Machine A has a four-year expected life and a cost of $40,000.It will

cost an additional $10,000 to have the machine delivered and installed, and the expected residual value at the end of four years is $2,000.Machine B has a

four-year expected life and a cost of $60,000.It will cost an additional $15,000 to have machine delivered and installed, and the expected residual value at

the end of four years is $5,000.The company has a required rate of return of 10 percent.Additional cash flows related to the machines are as follows:

Machine A

Item

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Labor savings

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

$25,000

Power savings

1,500

1,500

1,500

1,500

Chemical savings

3,000

3,000

3,000

3,000

Additional maintenance costs

(1,200)

(1,200)

(1,200)

(1,200)

Additional miscellaneous costs

(2,500)

(2,500)

(2,500)

(2,500)

Machine B

Item

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Labor savings

$20,000

$25,000

$30,000

$35,000

Power savings

2,000

2,000

2,000

2,000

Chemical savings

3,500

3,500

3,500

3,500

Additional maintenance costs

(1,500)

(1,500)

(1,500)

(1,500)

Additional miscellaneous costs

(3,000)

(3,000)

(3,000)

(3,000)

Required

1.Compute the payback period for each of the two machines.

2.Compute the net present value for each of the two machines.

3.Determine the internal rate of return for each of the two machines.

4.Which machine purchase do you recommend that the company pursue based on the results of your calculations?

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Challenges in the Business Environment

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As you have explored in this course, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to

embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as the Chief Compliance Officer of a Fortune 500

company and must prepare a presentation for your suppliers regarding your Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via email, webinar, etc.
For this assignment, you are to create a presentation using PowerPoint (or other equivalent software) and your research on the Fortune 500 company from

Assignment 1. In your presentation, you are to summarize the important changes and explanations regarding the code of conduct that you would communicate via

email, webinar, etc. The specific requirements are listed below.

PowerPoint
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS:
Create a six to eight (6-8) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

  1. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.
  2. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and society social responsibility.
  3. Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:

Empowering Workers
Labor and Human Rights
Health and Safety
The Environment
Accountability

  1. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.
  2. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
  3. Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.
  4. Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references, from within the last 2 years, that you used for this PowerPoint presentation. Note:

Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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Secondary-group relationships in modern society.

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Today more of our social relationships are dominated by secondary groups instead of primary groups.
Charles Horton Cooley worried about the loss of intimacy as secondary groups became more prominent and pervasive. Émile Durkheim and Georg Simmel saw some benefits of the development of more secondary groups. Please explain what you think about the trend toward more secondary-group relationships in modern society, including its pros and cons.

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The Milagro Bean Field War

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Address at least one element of racism, classism, or sexism in The Milagro Bean Field War and how such
discrimination is grounded in larger economic, political, or social injustices that pervade American culture and society. For example, you could analyze water, land, culture, capital, etc. in conjunction with the issues noted above. Choose one idea and defend it with reasons, examples, details, chains of logic, the primary text, and academic secondary sources. Cite the latter two types of evidence appropriately in-text.

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