300 word minimum with references and accompany citations. APA format
You have gathered your information on the AI for the Tic-Tac-Toe game and began to develop your own ways to improve it using C++. Now, it’s time to present your findings in a final paper. Remember that your final analysis and recommendations must include the following:
Before you submit your final paper, be sure that you have met the requirements and read the paper checking for proper mechanics including spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
The focus of the reseach paper is Host Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS) or AntiVirus Systems. Computer Virus creates major headaches for most organizations, as this list of 10 worst PC virus outbreaks shows. These viruses combined have caused damages into the billions of US Dollars. How can one protect against virus outbreaks in an organization? What are the common causes of this problems? How would use address this troublesome trend? Use your textbook, internet, and other publications to research this topic. The rubric for this assignment can be viewed when clicking on the assignment itself.
Paper Requirements:
Question 1
A relatively new aspect to the marketplaces of a number of cities worldwide is something called the sharing economy, in which people rent assets such as cars and rooms directly from each other. Also called a peer-to-peer economy, these transactions are generally conducted via the Internet from dedicated Websites or mobile apps. Two of the faster-growing companies in this sharing economy are Uber, which is a ride-sharing service, and Airbnb, which helps travelers find lodging away from the traditional hotel market. Do some research on these two companies and the sharing economy in general and then address the following:
– Discuss the sharing economy from a supply and demand standpoint. How do companies like Uber and Airbnb affect supply and demand in the markets for shared rides (taxis, limos, etc.) and rented rooms, respectively?
– Why do you think these two companies continue to grow and remain successful?
– Some cities have fought to prevent companies like Uber and Airbnb for being able to conduct business. Explain why cities would do this, and discuss whether you agree or disagree with these cities. (Look up the city of Dallas and its ongoing entanglement with Uber.) – Explain who benefits and who loses when sharing-economy companies like Uber and Airbnb are allowed to operate.
– Also, feel free to entertain me and your classmates with any additional interesting information you have uncovered with respect to the sharing economy and how it relates to topics covered in this class.
Question #2
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was passed by President Obama and Congress in response to the recession of 2007-2009. The primary components of this bill included tax cuts and increased government spending, with an emphasis on infrastructure spending such as roads and bridges. Included in the bill was a “Buy American” provision which required all manufactured goods (a few exceptions did apply) purchased with ARRA funds to be made in the United States. The intention of this provision was to increase jobs in the United States by preventing foreign companies from reaping the rewards of the new spending projects.
a. Are attempts to protect U.S. firms from foreign competition, such as the Buy American provision, good ideas? Explain.
b. Explain why some American companies might be opposed to this provision.
c. Explain whether or not you believe the Buy American provision would create jobs in the United States.
d. What do you think will be the economic consequences of a Buy American provision?
e. Do you believe the government should get involved in this aspect of private business, even when the available funds are coming from the government? If so, why? If not, why not?
The purpose of this project is to help you develop skills not only in performing the calculations behind financial analysis but in interpreting the numbers as well.
You are to pick a company. You should pick one either from the industry in which you are currently working or an industry in which you are interested. You could also pick a division of a company. It is imperative that sufficient data about your company are available and that you use the data. One way to be sure is to pick a publicly held company. If you pick a privately held company or a division of a company, make sure that the data necessary to do a significant financial analysis are available.
If you use data that are not publicly available, be sure to talk to your manager and to make absolutely sure that revealing that data is not a problem.
You will also need to find a standard against which to compare your findings. This could be a different company in the same industry or the same company at a different time. Additionally, average or benchmark numbers are available for several industries. If you decide to use a different company in the same industry or the same company at a different time, make sure that there are enough differences between the two to make a meaningful analysis.
After you have selected a company, put yourself in the place of an analyst who has been asked to perform an analysis of the company and to provide a recommendation to management.
Use ratio analysis, common size analysis, or other techniques to determine areas in which the company is doing well and areas that management should look at. Then, present your analysis and recommendations in the form of a paper.
A good place to start would be to perform a complete DuPont analysis of the company, and compare it to the standard. The DuPont analysis might provide guidance as to what particular areas of the company should be examined next and what ratios should be calculated. If the DuPont analysis does not reveal anything useful, you might wish to calculate several of the ratios that are available to you.
The completed paper should be about 1,000 words. In the paper, you do not have to explain the ratios in depth. You may assume that the reader has a basic understanding of finance and knows what ratio analysis is, although he or she might not be able to list all the ratios and how to calculate them from memory. The reader is not going to want a lot of background about financial analysis. He or she really wants information that he or she can apply to the given situation, which is the company that you have selected.
If you like, you can write the paper in the form of a memo to management. You do not have to cite your source for how to calculate the ratios. You do need to provide a reference to where you got that data for your subject company and for the other company or standard to which you compared your company.
· The spirit of this assignment is for you to calculate and interpret results. The purpose is not for you to find calculations and interpretations that have been done by someone else.
· The paper is expected to conform to the standards for graduate school writing.
· The purpose of your analysis is internal evaluation. Refrain from using stock market valuation ratios.
When you have completed the project, place it in one Word document, and place that document in the appropriate Dropbox.