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 Exp19_Word_Ch02_CapAssessment_Personal_Finance

Project Description:

This semester you are enrolled in a personal finance course at your local university. One of the assignments is to write a research paper about investing. You conducted research on the various types of investing instruments, and wrote a final draft of the report. In the following project, you will format the document to enhance readability and appearance. You will create, modify, and apply styles; apply bullets and numbering; and insert two pictures into the document.

Start Word. Download and open   the file named Exp19_Word_Ch02_CapAssessment_PersonalFinance.docx.   Grader has automatically added your last name to the beginning of the   filename. Ensure that nonprinting characters are displayed.

Change the document theme to   Office, and both theme colors and theme fonts to Office. If the theme is not   available, click Browse for Themes, and then select the downloaded theme file   Office.thmx.

Ensure that the insertion point   is on the first paragraph of the document. Create a paragraph style and name   it Title_Page_1 with the following formats: 22   pt font size, and a font color of Blue-Gray, Text 2, Darker 50% (fourth   column, last row). Apply the new style to the first paragraph of the   document, Personal Finance, if   necessary.

Click in the paragraph below Updated by: and type Laura Sims. Change the case of Laura Sims to UPPERCASE.

Select document text from the   paragraph beginning with Personal   Finance through the end of the document. Justify the selected text and   change line spacing to 1.15. 

Place the insertion point on the   left side of the title Personal Finance   (below Laura Sims) and insert a   page break (not a section break). 

Apply Heading 1 style to Personal Finance at the top of page 2.   

Apply Heading 2 style to   paragraph headings, including Introduction,   Equity Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, U.S. Treasury Bills, Fixed Deposits, Sources, and Conclusion.   

Modify Heading 2 style to use   Dark Red font color (the first color under Standard Colors). 

Select the six paragraphs in the   Introduction section on page 2,   beginning with Equity stocks and   ending with Fixed deposits. Apply a   diamond bullet to the selected text.

Select the second paragraph in   the Introduction section, beginning   with The best time to prepare for your   retirement, and apply these formats:
  • 0.6” left and right indent
  • 6 pt spacing after the paragraph
  • Boxed 1 1/2 pt border using the color Blue-Gray, Text 2, Darker 25% (fourth   column, fifth row)
  • Shading of Blue-Gray, Text 2, Lighter 80% (fourth column, second row)

Apply the default numbered-list   format (1., 2., 3.) to the three types of bonds in the Bonds section. 

Select the three quotes by   Warren Buffet and the Source: paragraph   in the Equity Stocks section.   Display the selected text in two columns with a line between the columns. 

Insert the picture file WallStreet.jpg at the beginning of the   line that contains The major stock market   in the Equity Stocks section.   Change the height of the picture to 3”, and apply Top and Bottom text   wrapping. Apply the Rounded Diagonal Corner, White picture style. Position   the picture so that it appears below the Equity   Stocks heading. Align the picture so that it is centered horizontally   relative to the margin.

Insert the picture file GreatIdeas.jpg at the beginning of   the paragraph that contains If you want   something a little less risky than stocks in the Bonds section. Change   the height of the picture to 3”, and apply Top and Bottom text wrapping.   Apply the Center Shadow Rectangle picture effect. Position the picture so   that it appears above the Bonds heading.

Spell check and review the   entire document—no author names are misspelled.

Display the document in Outline   view. Collapse all paragraphs so only lines formatted as Heading 1 or Heading   2 display. Move the Sources section   to below the Conclusion section.   Close Outline view.

Save and close Exp19_Word_Ch02_CapAssessment_PersonalFinance.docx.   Exit Word. Submit the file as directed.

Chapter 10

Subaru’s Sales Boom Thanks to the Weaker Yen For the Japanese carmaker Subaru, a sharp fall in the value of yen against the U.S. dollar has turned a problem—the lack of U.S. production—into an unexpected sales boom. Subaru, which is a niche player in the global auto industry, has long bucked the trend among its Japanese rivals of establishing significant manufacturing facilities in the North American market. Instead, the company has chosen to concentrate most of its manufacturing in Japan in order to achieve economies of scale at its home plants, exporting its production to the United States. Subaru still makes 80 percent of its vehicles at home, compared with 21 percent for Honda. Back in 2012, this strategy was viewed as something of a liability. In those days, one U.S. dollar bought only 80 Japanese yen. The strong yen meant that Subaru cars were being priced out of the U.S. market. Japanese companies like Honda and Toyota, which had substantial production in the United States, gained business at Subaru’s expense. But from 2012 onward, with Japan mired in recession and consumer prices falling, the country’s central bank repeatedly cut interest rates in an attempt to stimulate the economy. As interest rates fell in Japan, investors moved money out of the country, selling yen and buying the U.S. dollar. They used those dollars to invest in U.S. stocks and bonds where they anticipated a greater return. As a consequence, the price of yen in terms of dollars fell. By December 2015, one dollar bought 120 yen, representing a 50 percent fall in the value of the yen against the U.S. dollar since 2012.    For Subaru, the depreciation in the value of the yen has given it a pricing advantage and driven a sales boom. Demand for Subaru cars in the United States has been so strong that the automaker has been struggling to keep up. The profits of Subaru’s parent company, Fuji Heavy Industries, have surged. In February 2015, Fuji announced that it would earn record operating profits of around ¥410 billion ($3.5 billion) for the financial year ending March 2015. Subaru’s profit margin has increased to 14.4 percent, compared with 5.6 percent for Honda, a company that is heavily dependent on U.S. production. The good times continued in 2015, with Subaru posting record profits in the quarter ending December 31, 2015. Despite its current pricing advantage, Subaru is moving to increase its U.S. production. It plans to expand its sole plant in the United States, in Indiana, by March 2017, with a goal of making 310,000 a year, up from 200,000 currently. When asked why it is doing this, Subaru’s management notes that the yen will not stay weak against the dollar forever, and it is wise to expand local production as a hedge against future increases in the value of the yen. Indeed, when the Bank of Japan decided to set a key interest rate below zero in early February 2016, the yen started to appreciate against the U.S. dollar, presumably on expectations that negative interest rates would finally help stimulate Japan’s sluggish economy. By late March 2016, the yen had appreciated against the dollar and was trading at $1=112 yen. Sources: Chang-Ran Kim, “Subaru-Maker, Fuji Heavy Lifts Profit View on Rosy US Sales, Weak Yen,” Reuters, February 3, 2015; Yoko Kubota, “Why Subaru’s Profit Is Surging,” The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2014; Doron Levin, “Subaru Profit Soaring on Weaker Yen,” Market Watch, November 15, 2014; Y. Kubato, “Weaker Yen Drives Subaru Maker’s Profit Higher,” The Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2016. Page 294 Case

Questions

 Why do you think that historically, Subaru chose to export production from Japan, rather than set up manufacturing facilities in the United States like its Japanese rivals? 

What are the currency risks associated with Subaru’s export strategy?

 What are the potential benefits?  Why did Subaru’s sales and profits surge in 2014 and 2015? Is Subaru wise to expand its U.S. production capacity?

What other strategies could the company use to hedge against adverse changes in exchange rates? What are the pros and cons of the different hedging strategies Subaru might adopt? 

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 A human resources manager stores a spreadsheet with sensitive personal information on her local workstation. The spreadsheet is the only file with sensitive data, and the name of the spreadsheet does not change.

As a security specialist, you must choose the best form of encryption to protect the spreadsheet. Your choices are:

• BitLocker
• BitLocker To Go
• File encryption via Encrypting File System (EFS)
• Folder encryption via EFS

Answer the following question(s):

• Which form of encryption would ensure the spreadsheet is always stored on the disk in encrypted format? More than one form may be correct.

Fully address the question(s) in this discussion; provide valid rationale for your choices, where applicable, be sure to include three questions in your thread, and respond to at least three other students’ questions.

500 words 

APA format with reference needed.

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or this assignment, the focus is to develop actionable signatures that would detect your APT actor on a network. — that I identified previously (APT40). see attached document.

Please review the document attached for detailed instructions.

research and discuss a company’s trademark that has been awarded protection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. You may select the company that you work for, or a company you aspire to work for. You’re welcome to select one simply from a company you admire or that intrigues you in any way. Have fun making a choice.

Describe the trademark, its application (e.g., does it cover merchandise, a service, a website … what does the mark relate to?). Was there any objections or litigation surround the trademark application or award? If so write about that. Do you believe there is a risk of infringement? Are there international IP implications? What other interesting information surrounded its application or award? In [too?] many cases, it’s not so simple as designing a mark and completing governmental documents, so help your classmates learn about the complicated, challenging process of filing for and attaining IP protection from the U.S. government.

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Part 1
Your book talks about the “Scope Triangle” or the Iron Triangle. 
Question 1: Your book addresses six areas that are part of the iron triangle – 

1. Describe each of the areas included in the iron triangle
2. Of the six which areas do you feel are the most important and why? 

Question 2: You are managing a project and your sponsor has given the following constraints:

1. The project must be completed in 2 months
2. The project must include 7 core pieces of scope
3. The project must stay within 1 million dollars

What concerns do you have with the three constraints above and how do you proceed?

Part 2

Scope Creep – Discuss ways in which scope creep occurred on projects with which you have been associated.  Was the project manager able to reverse scope creep? Is it possible to reverse scope creep and what is the impact? How do you identify scope creep?

Text

Title: Effective Project Management 

ISBN: 9781119562801 

Authors: Robert K. Wysocki 

Publisher: Wiley 

Publication Date: 2019-05-07 

Edition: 8th Edition