Assignment 2: Johnson Controls Capital Investments

Due Week 9 and worth 450 points

Visit the Website of Johnson Controls Inc., located at http://www.johnsoncontrols.com, and review its 2012 financial forecasts. According to the forecasts, Johnson Controls will increase capital investments to approximately $1.7 billion. More than 70% of the company’s capital expenditures in 2012 are associated with growth and margin expansion opportunities.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Suggest a methodology to supplement the traditional methods for evaluating the capital investments of Johnson Controls in the emerging markets to reduce risk providing a rationale of how risk will be reduced.

2. Assess the potential impact of inflation on planned capital investments in China and examine approaches for an accurate evaluation of the investments. Suggest how this knowledge may impact management’s decisions.

3. Contrast the modifications you would make in evaluating the projects to increase internal capacity in North America to evaluating expansion projects in the global market and how this information will impact the decisions made related to expansion.

4. Examine the benefits of using sensitivity analysis in evaluating the projects for Johnson Controls and how this approach can provide a competitive advantage for the company.

5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.

Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

 Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 Plan and evaluate capital investments.

 Use technology and information resources to research issues in managerial accounting.

 Write clearly and concisely about managerial accounting using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

. approximately 450 words

APA  CITATION

MUST ANSWER ASSIGNMENTS 1 AND 2.  I uploaded other student answers so just do basic research and do not copy their answers. word doc have all the student answers. also mention the source if your copying words from some where DUE TONIGHT

assignment 1

After reading pages 1-32 of Wellington and Winter’s The Unions and the Cities

(a) Outline the authors’ argument against allowing public sector employees the right to strike?

(b) Now that 45 years have passed, do you agree or disagree with their predictions? 

assignment 2

(a) Read Steve Malanga’s 2010 City Journal article about California athttp://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.html . Notice that Republican Ronald Reagan was governor when California state employees were first granted the right to organize in 1968.  Given the facts as Malanga states them, construct an explanation based on Olson’s theory that would explain why public sector unions have become powerful in California.

(b) Give two examples of California public secvtor unions that have influenced elections in the interest of expanding demand for their services and raising their members’ wages. How would Olson explain this behavior?

 (c) What has happened to crime rates and student achievement scores in California since the massive pay increases to public safety personnel (police) and teachers that Malanga describe?   See: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0308.pdf andhttp://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0233.pdf . Are the nation’s highest salaries and benefits justified by outcomes?

(d) Would Olson be surprised that even Arnold Schwarzeneger, the Terminator,* was unable to defeat union power in California?

Telemedicine: Benefits and Challanges

Telemedicine can be extremely beneficial for people living in isolated regions and is currently being applied in virtually all medical domains. To address major health issues related to affordability, access, and quality of care, healthcare providers need to consider telemedicine as a reliable option when access to traditional medicine is difficult and out of reach. Healthcare providers, however, must consider legal and ethical issues when planning, designing, and implementing telemedicine. Key among these issues are those of patient confidentiality, privacy, data security, and transmission.

• How does telemedicine differ from the traditional medicine? 
• What are other legal or ethical issues involved in telemedicine? 
• Which of these issues, in your opinion, will be the most difficult to address? 
• What technologies or infrastructure are necessary for the successful practice of telemedicine? 
• What obstacles can prevent healthcare providers from seeing telemedicine as a reliable option, even when access to traditional medicine is difficult or out of reach? 

Drawing on course readings or outside scholarly sources, support your answer with references, examples, and clear rationales.