Discuss which of the three approaches to internal reward alignment your organization, or an organization you’re familiar with, uses to determine job valuation.

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DISCUSSION 1

You are a research analyst for a publicly traded company, and you’ve been assigned to give a presentation on how a company uses performance metrics in corporate valuation.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • Think about how you would present return on equity (ROE) and earnings per share (EPS) to a group of investors or senior management.
  • Explain the use of ROE and EPS in evaluating the value of a company. Include how to calculate ROE and EPS.
  • Why is understanding ROE and EPS important to a company’s value?
  • Share an example of a company whose ROE and EPS you calculated. What do these results say about the company?

RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENT POST

Demetric post

The return on equity (ROE) and earnings per share (EPS) are two metrics that are used to look a company’s performance. financial stability and possibility for future earnings. The return of equity looks at the company’s ability to generate revenue using the investors capital. The ROE lets you know economically managed. The return measures the return that the investors will receive on their investment. The return is profit from the previous twelve months. When a company has a high return of equity, this indicates a high value of the company. The return on equity is calculated by dividing the company’s income by the investor’s equity. Earnings per share (EPS) shows how profitable a company is. This metric measures earnings that attribute to common stock share and tracks the companies previous performance. EPS is calculated by dividing the net income by the total number of the company’s outstanding shares. Understanding of EPS and ROE is important because it tells you about the growing or declining trend of the company. IT also tells you about how much the company is able to exceed the cost of capital through its generation of income.

Kalindy post

Many companies use performance metrics in corporate valuation. ROE is known as return on equity and EPS is earnings per share. Return on equity shows how much “income to shareholders per dollar that they have invested” (Brealey, Myers, & Marcus, 2020). These value the “net income as a percentage of shareholders’ equity” (Brealey, Myers, & Marcus, 2020). While earnings per share show how money a company could earn for each share of stock (Fernando, 2022). You calculate earnings per share by dividing the net profit by the number of outstanding common shares. Return on equity is calculated by dividing the net income (a company’s profit) by equity. Understanding these calculations help determine a company’s value in different ways. They determine how profitable a company is and how well it may make those profits. The more profitable a company appears, the more likely investors will put more into the company. The company Walt Disney has the ROE of 6.26% and EPS of $1.06. These calculations show that company is.

DISCUSSION 2

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • Discuss which of the three approaches to internal reward alignment your organization, or an organization you’re familiar with, uses to determine job valuation.
  • Do you think that method is the most effective? How might the job valuation in this company differ if a different method was used?

What do we mean by “creativity” as well as “the creative act”?

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  1. Read the      following excerpt from a talk by the famous artist Marcel Duchamp below.
  2. Discuss with      each other the following questions based on this text:
    1. What do we       mean by “creativity” as well as “the creative act”?
    2. How is art       related to thought (conscious or semi-conscious intention), and perhaps       to “spirituality” (whatever you understand by that term for right now, we       are using to signify what ultimately drives or “forms” thought)? What does Duchamp mean by the “personal       art co-efficient”?

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CLASS EXERCISE

1. Read the following excerpt from a talk by the famous artist Marcel Duchamp below.

2. Discuss with each other the following questions based on this text:

a. What do we mean by “creativity” as well as “the creative act”?

b. How is art related to thought (conscious or semi-conscious intention), and perhaps to “spirituality” (whatever you understand by that term for right now, we are using to signify what ultimately drives or “forms” thought)? What does Duchamp mean by the “personal art co-efficient”?

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“The Creative Act”

By Marcel Duchamp

Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity. To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing…

If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the esthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out…

T.S. Eliot, in his essay on “Tradition and Individual Talent”, writes: “The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material”..

Millions of artists create; only a few thousands are discussed or accepted by the spectator and many less again are consecrated by posterity. In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius: he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that … includes him in the primers of Artist History…

I know that this statement will not meet with the approval of many artists who refuse this mediumistic role and insist on the validity of their awareness in the creative act – yet, art history has consistently decided upon the virtues of a work of art thorough considerations completely divorced from the rationalized explanations of the artist…

If the artist, as a human being, full of the best intentions toward himself and the whole world, plays no role at all in the judgment of his own work, how can one describe the phenomenon which prompts the spectator to react critically to the work of art?…

This phenomenon is comparable to a transference from the artist to the spectator in the form of an esthetic osmosis taking place through the inert matter, such as pigment, piano or marble…

Therefore, when I refer to ‘art coefficient’, it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in the raw state …bad, good or indifferent. In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. His struggle toward the realization is a series of efforts, pains, satisfaction, refusals, decisions, which also cannot and must not be fully self-conscious, at least on the esthetic plane…

The result of this struggle is a difference between the intention and its realization, a difference which the artist is not aware of. Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap, representing the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal ‘art coefficient’ contained in the work…

In other works, the personal ‘art coefficient’ is like a[n] arithmetical relation between the unexpressed but intended and the unintentionally expressed. To avoid a misunderstanding, we must remember that this ‘art coefficient’ is a personal expression of art … that is, still in a raw state, which must be ‘refined’ as pure sugar from molasses by the spectator; the digit of this coefficient has no bearing whatsoever on his verdict…

The creative act takes another aspect when the spectator experiences the phenomenon of transmutation: through the change from inert matter into a work of art, an actual transubtantiation has taken place, and the role of the spectator is to determine the weight of the work on the esthetic scale. All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists…

� From “Session on the Creative Act”, Convention of the American Federation of Arts (Houston, Texas, April 1957).

What role does advertisement play in your everyday purchases?

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Share your thoughts and opinions on consumer habits in media in this week’s discussion.

  • Think about the brands of products you buy:
    • Are there brand name items you purchase regularly and without reasonable regard to price?
    • What has influenced you to choose or stick with a brand name item or product?
    • Recall your last shopping trip. What did you buy? What main factors drove those purchasing decisions?
    • What role does advertisement play in your everyday purchases?

Researsh About Construction Project

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University of Business and Technology

College of Engineering

Architectural Engineering Department

 

Spring Semester 2022

Arch 463 – Building Construction Engineering I

Assignment (1)

(20 points)

 

 

Dr. Jawad Alsuliman

 

Student Name: ———————————————-

Student ID: —————

 

 

 

 

 

Assignment:

Cost overrun is an unexpected change in the project budget that ends up increasing the total

project cost. There are many well-known construction projects around the world ended up with

cost overrun such as;

• Scottish Parliament,

• Wembley stadium,

• Metro Dubai,

• British Library, and

• Jubilee line (London underground)

Write 750 words about one of the mentioned projects with addressing an overview of the project

and the causes that led to cost overrun (15 points). Then prepare a power point presentation that

shows the most significant facts about your chosen project 5 points).

OBJECTIVES:

1. To demonstrate an understanding of Construction Cost Estimation basics

2. To improve research and evaluation skills.

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES:

• Word count is 750 words. (10% flexibility in word count is permitted). If the word counts

violate these limits there will be an automatic 10% penalty deducted from the final mark.

• Diagrams and charts are to be used when appropriate.

• The recommended text size is 12 pt and Times New Roman font. And line space should

be double.

GRADE EVALUATION

Your overall grade will reflect:

1. The quality of the information in your investigation.

2. The relevance of your information to the given scenario.

 

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3. The detailed nature and comprehensiveness of your assignment.

4. The consistency of information in all sections.

5. The organization of the report.

ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION:

• The due date for the assignment is 25-04-2022.

• Any delay will incur a 10% penalty to be deducted from the final mark.

 

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