Create a histogram of its daily returns.

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Question 1 Use Python to answer this question. (a) Select a stock and obtain the stock prices for a one-year period. Create a histogram of its daily returns. (10 marks) (b) Calculate the daily price volatility of the stock and explain its significance. (10 marks) (c) Find the chain of call and put options available on this stock using either Eikon or the internet. Describe what a call option is and explain the information given for each call option. (10 marks) Question 2 Use Excel in your calculations. May purchases a house for $2.5 million and makes a down payment of 40% of the purchase price. She borrows the rest from the bank on a 25-year loan, which charges her 1.2% for the first year and 1-year SIBOR + 0.35% thereafter. The monthly payment of a variable-rate loan is calculated as if it is a fixed-rate loan on the outstanding loan balance and time remaining on the loan, whenever the variable rate is changed. (a) Compute the monthly payment she has to make in the first year. What is the loan balance remaining at the end of one year? (8 marks) (b) Calculate the monthly payment she has to make in the second year assuming the 1- year SIBOR is 1.7%. What is the loan balance remaining at the end of two years? How much was the interest and principal repayment made at the end of two years? (8 marks) (c) What is SIBOR? From your understanding of SIBOR, explain if the (mortgage) loan rate can ever be less than SIBOR? (4 marks) FIN201 Tutor-Marked Assignment SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SUSS) Page 3 of 4 Question 3 Use Excel in your calculations. The yield on 10 year Singapore Treasury bonds is 3% and the market return is 5%. You are studying UniSUSS stock which has a beta of 1.2. UniSUSS has just paid a dividend of 1.20 and expects dividends to grow at a rate of 4% per annum for the next 5 years, and to slow down to 2% growth per annum thereafter. (a) Calculate the discount rate you should apply to UniSUSS stock. (5 marks) (b) What is the intrinsic value of UniSUSS stock? (10 marks) (c) If dividends stop growing after the first 5 years, what is the intrinsic value of UniSUSS stock? (5 marks) Question 4 Answer the following questions using Python. Trunk Company plans to invest in Project A with the following estimated annual cash flows: Yr 1 $ 20,000 Yr 2 $ 90,000 Yr 3 $ 180,000 Yr 4 $ 220,000 Yr 5 $ 150,000 The project costs $500,000. The required return for this project is 5% compounded quarterly. Trunk Company looks at another Project B which might potentially be better than Project A. Project B has the following cash flows:
Yr 1 $ 150,000 Yr 2 $ 220,000 Yr 3 $ 180,000 Yr 4 $ 90,000 Yr 5 $ 20,000 This project also costs $500,000. The required return for this project is 5% compounded quarterly, same as Project A. (a) Compute the IRR of Projects A and B, and propose whether to accept or reject each project, assuming there are unlimited funds. Explain your decision. (10 marks) FIN201 Tutor-Marked Assignment SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SUSS) Page 4 of 4 (b) Calculate the NPV of each project. Propose whether to accept or reject each project based on NPV, and choose one project, assuming the Company has funds only for one project. Explain your decision. (10 marks) Explain why one of the projects is superior although the cash flows are the same except that they are received in different years. What should the cost of the inferior project be in order to make you indifferent to either project? What is the resulting annual discount rate of the inferior project? (10 marks)

Design a Cultural Competency Training Workshop

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Design a Cultural Competency Training Workshop
Resources: Social Science Strategies for Managing Diversity: Industrial and Organizational Opportunities to Enhance Inclusion
As the Human Resources Management team, you all are concerned about recent alleged discrimination complaints brought to your attention by several employees based on race, national origin, and pregnancy. You decide it is time to design a cultural competency training workshop for all levels of employees. To accomplish this task, you will need to:
Research several different types of cultural competency workshops, seminars, or Microsoft® PowerPoint® on the topic using a search engine of your choice from the Internet, your texts, or the University Library.
Design a cultural competency training workshop that considers protected classes of employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, suitable for all levels of employees.
Create the training workshop written in the third person voice and the content should be presented as a Microsoft®PowerPoint® Presentation which includes Speaker notes.
Use at least a minimum of three in-text citation sources within the document. The sources must be identified in an APA correctly formatted References page.

Prepare an essay (3–4 pages) on the differences between the classical and positivist approaches to punishment.

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The classical view of punishment was fueled by the notion that offenders were evil men and women who had to be punished severely or killed for their egregious acts. It was felt that the demons that possessed the offenders would never leave except by expiation and punishment.

As the influence of natural and social science grew, many individuals began to reexamine the widely accepted idea that crime resulted from demonic possession, free will, or mental imbalance. Positivists took a progressive stance and began to analyze the causes of crime and punishment.

Prepare an essay (3–4 pages) on the differences between the classical and positivist approaches to punishment.

Assignment Guidelines:

  • Use your course materials, the textbook, the Web resources, and the library to research the classical and positivist approaches to punishment.
  • In a Word document of 3–4 pages, address the following:
    • Identify 2 specific differences and 2 similarities between each perspective as it relates to punishment.
    • Examine 2 of the social arguments used to support both schools of thought.
    • Out of the 2 schools of thought, which do you agree with most?
    • Include 3 philosophical or social issues that could be used to support either model.

Dealing with Validity, Reliability, and Ethics

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Respond to one of the following questions and reply to at least one other student’s post.

a. Lichtman (2013) elucidated “personal criteria” for “a good piece of qualitative research”, which include being explicit about the researcher’s role and his or her relationship to those studied, making a case that the topic of the study is important, being clear about how the study was done, and making a convincing presentation of the findings of the study. Based on the work you have done in this course, what would be your personal criteria?

b. Patton uses the term “prepon­derance of evidence” to describe the “best fit” between the data a researcher gathers and the patterns and conclusions he or she draws. This is a term borrowed from courtroom procedure, where it is the standard of proof used in noncriminal cases. In the legal context, a judge or jury must find that a given fact is proven if, based on the evidence provided. it is more likely than not (or to “>50% likely”) to be true. In your opinion, is this an appropriate standard for the validation of qualitative research? (Note that in both the QR and legal contexts, “preponderance” implies a quantifiable amount.)

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the chapter we read is
Chapter Nine
Dealing with Validity, Reliability, and Ethics

All research is concerned with producing valid and reliable knowledge in an ethical manner. Being able to trust research results is especially important to professionals in applied fields because practitioners intervene in people’s lives. Research results are trustworthy to the extent that there has been some rigor in carrying out the study. Ensuring validity and reliability in qualitative research involves conducting the investigation in an ethical manner.

I. Validity and Reliability

Validity and reliability in a qualitative study are about providing information and rationale for the study’s processes and adequate evidence so that readers can determine the results are trustworthy. The applied nature of most social science inquiry makes it imperative that researchers and others have enough confidence in the conduct of the investigation and in the results of any particular study that they may trust themselves in acting on the study’s implications or constructing social policy or legislation based on them. Lichtman’s four criteria for good qualitative research are that it (1) be explicit about the researcher’s role relationship to those studied, (2) make a case that the topic of the study is important, (3) be clear about how the study was done, (4) and make a convincing presentation of the findings of the study. Exhibit 9.1 is a list of sample questions often asked of qualitative researchers that touch on validity and reliability.

II. Internal Validity or Credibility

Internal validity deals with the question of how research findings match reality. Internal validity in all research thus hinges on the meaning of reality. One of the assumptions underlying qualitative research is that reality is holistic, multidimensional, and ever changing. Validity must be assessed in terms of whether the findings are credible given the data presented. Additionally, validity has to be assessed in relationship to the purposes and circumstances of the research, rather than as a context-independent property of methods or conclusions. Because human beings are the primary instrument of data collection and analysis in qualitative research, interpretations of reality are accessed directly through participants’ observations and interviews