Finance discussion Section 1 By being the Chief Finance Officer, there is a need to ensure that the business is able to raise capital and issue a particular level of equity. The company then requires an approach that will be welcoming to investors who will help the business achieve its intended goals and meet also meet the desires of the investors who find value in the shares of the company that they purchase. The purchasing of these shares can be done through both common stock and preferred stock. Although the two, common stock and proffered stock, work in more similar ways, they are still different. Bratton and Wachter (2013) detail that common stock allows the investor also to have some partial ownership to the company, which then gives the investors the right to choose representatives in the company. For preferred stock, on the other hand, it is more similar to a bond since the shares allow the investor to receive a certain amount in every dollar that the company makes. The allowance of these two stocks will allow businesses to…
How To Run Your Business Based on Forecasting and What-if Analysis For many businesses, accurate budget forecasting is hard to achieve. Either these companies are still using tools and models long outdated by rapid advancements in technology, or they do not possess the expertise to make consistent adjustments throughout the year. If you fear that your company may be in a similar position, maybe it is time to switch to a more modern, efficient business forecasting method. Gone are the days of manual spreadsheet creation. Not only are these obsolete systems prone to errors, but they also require countless additional hours of paid labor. With numerous Excel spreadsheets requiring constant updating, approvals, and consolidations, it is no wonder incorrect data inputs frequently arise. If you’ve been looking to use this period of global economic re-adjustment to make your numbers line up, you are on the right track. With the amount of data you have already gathered from your business’s performance throughout the first quarter of the year, you can quickly determine the accuracy of your quarterly forecasts. You…
FOOD SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BIOTERRORISM: IS IT ALL A SCARE TACTIC? Introduction Food safety encompasses the hygienic handling, preparation, and even the storage of food in ways that ensure its safety as far as consumption is concerned. Bioterrorism, on the other hand, refers to the ways and techniques of converting safe food to bad food that becomes unfit for consumption. This paper attempts to establish a connection between food safety and security versus bioterrorism. The above will be achieved by succinctly looking into the following three key areas: Elements of Food Security According to Schmidhuber and Tubiello (2007), four salient features of food security helps ensure the safety of food for consumption; these are: availability of food, stability of the food, utilization of the food and access to food. Availability as an element sees to it that issues, such as starvation are non-existence. Additionally, this element plays a crucial role in ensuring that issues such as struggling for food are also non-existent. The second is stability that ensures there is a constant supply of food to all in sufficient quantities.…
Globalization and Health Introduction Globalization is a phenomenon that has drawn a lot of attention to policymakers and practitioners in healthcare due to its significant impact on healthcare policing and practice. Globalization has led to increased proliferation of advanced medical technologies as well as integration in healthcare provision that has helped many nations and individuals live healthily. The evolving world today make population health an interconnected and a complex concept that must be approached from both national and global approach. According to (Hanefeld 2015), globalization brings a lot of complexities that pose several challenges to the health of many individuals. This paper focuses on how globalization, through global market integration, offers both benefits and challenges to population health policing and public health administration. Analysis of the issue is presented through understanding globalization, its key drivers, and how these factors have influenced population health. Globalization Globalization, for the purpose of this paper, is defined as the pattern of integration of economic markets in an effort to create a self-regulating global market for goods, services, skills, and technologies (Hanefeld, 2015). The need…
Human Beings are undoubtedly the Cause of Global Warming Global warming is one of the largest challenges facing the earth today. Lineman, Do Kim, & Joo (2015) define global warming as the increase in global average temperatures, mainly because of the increasing quantities of carbon dioxide gas in addition to other greenhouse gases in the space. It causes the greenhouse effect where solar radiation reaches the atmosphere, and some sun’s energy is redirected back to space. At the same time, the rest is trapped and radiated again by greenhouse gases. This cycle eventually makes the earth have extreme temperatures. This essay will examine why human beings’ activities are the reason for global warming. It is believed that human beings have increased this universal occurrence. Hughes (2018) says Global warming is fast emerging as a worldwide threat to ecology function, hence the crucial need to understand the impact of extreme heat radiations on both humans and the environment. There are various ways human activities and emissions have contributed to global warming. Among them is burning fossil fuel. Fossil fuels have high…
Climate Change and global warming effects Climate Change Climate change has been closely associated with global warming, which is the rise in the atmospheric temperature. Climate change has been attributed to human activities such as the use of fossils, which increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The presence of human activity has been prudent by burning oil and coal, which emit greenhouse into the atmosphere. The release of greenhouses gases has caused an increase in the earth’s temperature as the reflected rays from the surface are not released into the outer space. Even though carbon dioxide occurs naturally, an increase in its concentration through human civilization increases the heat trapped on earth. The temperatures have increased by 2oF during the 20th century, which is unusual (Berry, Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Betts, and Harrison, 2017). The rise in temperature has had various effects on the ecosystems and life on earth. Global warming has had various effects, such as the formation of acid rain and persistent droughts. The land has degraded over time through soil erosion. A…
Monetary and fiscal policies Monetary and fiscal policies are the key major policies use in managing demand pressures in the economy (CBN, 2017). Monetary policy is the manipulation of the economy through the use of monetary instruments such as open market operation, money supply, liquidity ratio and interest rates to influence overall demand in the economy (Micheal & Ebibai, 2014), while fiscal policy is the manipulation of government expenditure, taxes, subsidy and debt to control aggregate demand in the economy (Ahmad, 2008). Monetary policy is implemented by the monetary authorities, the Central Bank, while fiscal policy is implemented by the fiscal authorities, the Ministry of Finance (Abdulazeez, 2016). Meanwhile, both monetary and fiscal policies pursue the same ultimate objectives but they apply different instruments (Abdulazeez, 2016). On the basis of economic principles, fiscal policy and monetary policy are used to manage the health of an economy by expanding aggregate demand and economic growth (Khaysy & Gang, 2017). The reason is that monetary policy and fiscal policy complement each other (Khosravi and Karimi, 2010). The monetarists believe that monetary policy influences…
relationship between microeconomic theory and essential components of microeconomics Introduction Economics is the inquiry into the activities which revolve around extraction, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. It can be classified into two distinct disciplines of study, which are macroeconomics and microeconomics (Eastin & Arbogast, 2011). Macroeconomics digs into the broader scope of the economic aggregates like national income statistics and total output within a country. On the contrary, microeconomics sheds light on markets and the decision making processes of specific economic structures such as businesses and market consumers. This paper aims at establishing a relationship between microeconomic theory and essential components of microeconomics; supply and demand in the U.S housing industry. Analysis of demand and supply is the study of the interchange between sellers and buyers to arrive at favorable prices and quantities. As the paper unfolds, it will highlight how both the home buyers and sellers respectively associate value and cost to the prices of houses. Supply and demand analysis surrounds the most fundamental tools of microeconomics in the markets for private entities. The analysis into supply…
The Emergence of Online Streaming and its impact on demand and supply of cable and internet services. Introduction Just like DVRs and VCRs, the emergence of online streaming caught the world by storm when they were first introduced. Since its introduction, online streaming, which is formally known as (streaming video on demand), has been uprooting many cable TV significant networks. Online streaming has resulted in internet movements such as the “cord cutters” who have abandoned cable TV and are solely dedicated to using SVOD. As technology continues to advance, and consumers’ preferences changes, the availability of online streaming continues to impact the market for cables and internet services. Therefore, while using demand and supply, this paper will address how the market for internet services and cable services have been affected. The market for cable Services In economics, five primary determinants of demand impact consumer’s decisions on whether to buy a product or not. These are the price of the goods or service, the income of buyers, the cost of relatable goods or services, the taste or preferences of consumers, and…
Hong Kong biodiversity Biodiversity defines variability in living organisms. It’s essential for the living organisms to adapt to their ecosystem and perform different roles throughout their lives. Humans also benefit from biodiversity. Biodiversity promotes good climatic culture and attracts the tourism industry. It provides the aesthetic value of a region. Biodiversity is determined by three aspects, namely: genes, species, and ecosystem. Genetic diversity defines distinguishing traits in organisms of the same species. Ecosystem biodiversity describes habitat and specific community occupied by a particular organism. Species biodiversity refers to different organisms within a given habitat. It’s undisputable saying Hong Kong is a key biodiversity area. Hong Kong biodiversity Hong Kong experiences a subtropical climate. It’s located in the pearl of River Delta and the South China Sea. It has over more than 200 highlands with highly crenulated coastline. Granite and volcanic rocks give soils different textures. It has a wide range of water sources ranging from rivers and sea. It has a beautiful coral ecosystem. Coral community plays a vital role in Hong Kong. Cultural services in Hong Kong, such as…