Assignment 2: Cost of Debt and Equity

The manager of Sensible Essentials conducted an excellent seminar explaining debt and equity financing and how firms should analyze their cost of capital. Nevertheless, the guidelines failed to fully demonstrate the essence of the cost of debt and equity, which is the required rate of return expected by suppliers of funds.

You are the Genesis Energy accountant and have taken a class recently in financing. You agree to prepare a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 6–8 minutes using the examples and information below:

1. Debt: Jones Industries borrows $600,000 for 10 years with an annual payment of $100,000. What is the expected interest rate (cost of debt)?
2. Internal common stock: Jones Industries has a beta of 1.39. The risk-free rate as measured by the rate on short-term US Treasury bill is 3 percent, and the expected return on the overall market is 12 percent. Determine the expected rate of return on Jones’s stock (cost of equity). Here are the details:

Jones Total Assets	$2,000,000
Long- & short-term debt	$600,000
Common internal stock equity	$400,000
New common stock equity	$1,000,000
Total liabilities & equity	$2,000,000

Develop a 10–12-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Perform your calculations in an Excel spreadsheet. Cut and paste the calculations into your presentation. Include speaker’s notes to explain each point in detail. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Final Project: Using Visuals to Communicate a Message

Visual media can have a significant impact on how effectively a message is communicated. Appropriate and strategic visuals can inspire the audience, lend clarity to a message, and, in general, say things that words alone cannot. 

Throughout this course, you decided on a message to communicate, determined the most effective platform or medium for that message, and selected the most appropriate visuals to support the message. For the Final Project, you will use a minimum of three different types of appropriate media to deliver your intended message. Note that if you did not create the visual, you must include a reference for the visual(s) contained in the project. 

For this project, use the concepts you’ve learned in this course to effectively apply visuals to a business-related message. Below, you will find just a few examples of how visuals can be utilized to communicate a message in the business setting. Feel free to use any of the examples listed below, or if you choose to select examples not included on the list, be sure to request instructor approval prior to completing the Final Project. 

Examples of Business Communication	How Each Example Might Look for Your Assignment
Presentation on department achievements	PowerPoint slides with visuals such as video clips, images, and charts and associated speech in the Speaker’s Notes section at the bottom..
Print advertisement for your own business	Word document or PDF version of an advertisement, complete with appropriate image(s), embedded (or links to) video clips, composition, typography, and company logo and website.
Training materials on your job responsibilities	Word document or PDF version of job instructions using typography, composition, and relevant images and video to promote clarity.
Company website	Word document, PowerPoint, or PDF mock-up that illustrates what you would want your website to look like. Complete with appropriate images, effective composition and color usage, company logo, video clips, and shapes representing where the buttons would be.

 

Your Final Project must contain aspects of each element discussed in the course as it applies to your example communication piece. It must use appropriate typefaces, deliver a clear message, and have clear brand identity. It must also use an appropriate composition of graphics, photos, video, or other visual media. In addition to the text, your paper must contain a minimum of five scholarly sources, two of which must be from the Ashford University Library. 

In your five- to seven-page paper (not including the title and reference pages or the three visual media examples), be sure to address the following: 

 

• Discuss the rationale behind choosing each of the three media elements and support your discussion with concepts from the course material.
• Explain why the media elements contained in your Final Project deliver the message you intended to communicate.
• Describe the intent of the message.
• Apply a minimum of five concepts from the course material to support your choice of media elements. For example you may use concepts such as visual literacy, perception, visual marketing, storytelling, design, branding, social media, communication theories, or any of the other concepts presented during the course. Be sure to discuss the relationship of the concepts to the media elements that you have chosen.

Writing the Final Paper

The Paper:

 

 

1. Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages or the three visual media examples) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. Title page, reference page, and any exhibits or appendices are not counted in the paper length. 
2. Must include a cover page that includes:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must include a title page and an abstract.
4. Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
5. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
6. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
7. Must use a minimum of five scholarly in addition to the text, two of which must be from the Ashford University Library.
8. Must use APA style to document all sources. 
9. Must include a reference page that includes the scholarly sources that you relied upon in constructing your paper per APA guidelines. 
10. Must be written in the third person.

 

Summarize six benefits an advertiser can realize by incorporating magazine media into the creative mix for advertising.

 

At least 200 word essay in APA format.  No Wiki, Dictionary.com or the sort.  All work has to be cited and quoted properly.

 

 

 

 

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Tania Collins has a 2-stock portfolio with a total value of $10,000. $3000 is invested in Stock A with a beta of 0.80 and the remainder is invested in Stock B with a beta of 1.40. What is her portfolio’s beta? just the answer Daniel Reynolds has 30% of his stock holdings in stock A with a beta of .70, 20% are in stock B with a beta of .80, and the remainder is in a stock with a beta of 1.10. To the nearest .01, what is the beta on the portfolio? Taggart Inc.’s stock has a 50% of producing a 25% return, a 30% chance of producing a 10% return, and a 20% chance of producing a -25% return. What is the firm’s expected rate of return?