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This is a paper that is focusing on the economic indicators that measure macro economic variables. The paper also provides additional information to use in writing the assignment paper.

Economic indicators that measure macro economic variables

Specific Guideline and Instructions:
Economic indicators measure macro-economic variables that directly or indirectly enable economists to judge whether economic performance has improved or deteriorated. Tracking these indicators is especially valuable to policy makers, both in terms of assessing whether to intervene and whether the intervention has worked or not.

There are various techniques to measure these macro-economic variables. The most common indicators include are levels of real national income, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), spending, and output. National income, output, and spending are three key variables that indicate whether an economy is growing, or in recession. You can also write about the Human Development Index (HDI) or the Human Poverty Index (HPI).

Please provide specific examples and explain at least 2 variables that are used as international economic measurements techniques (research the most recent data).
Submission Format:

This is a five-page paper. This limit will lead you to focus on the quality of your research and not on the number of pages you write.

Make sure that your writing is cohesive and supported by your sources and watch carefully for typos, and grammar errors.

All papers submission are through the turnitin plagiarism checker. A similarity score exceeding 19% will not be graded

At least 3 different sources with in text citation.

Remember, ensure  that the paper is at least three pages exclusive of the cover and the reference pages. Also, ensure that you include all the references you use in finding research for this assignment paper. References should be at least three for the paper. All references, citation, and writing should follow the APA formatting and styling guidelines. Finally, ensure you focus on the assignment topic in detail.

Market research can show us what is true about our target markets, or the populations to which we’d like to sell our products(s). Choose a real-life firm and product, and identify one research problem (or “question”)….

Market research can show us what is true about our target markets

Market research can show us what is true about our target markets, or the populations to which we’d like to sell our products(s).

Further, choose a real-life firm and product, and identify one research problem (or “question”) you could use to guide a marketing research study.

Finally, at minimum, identify your research methods, the type of data you’d like to collect, why your study would be meaningful to the firm, and what kind of evidence-based decision the firm could make based on the results of your study.

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How to do market research in 4 steps: a lean approach to marketing research

Should the following be included in the relevant cash flow projection in the capital budgeting analysis of Sneaker 2013 Project? Why or why not? And if you include any of the following items in the relevant cash flow, explain if it should be a positive or negative cash flow.

Should the following be included in the relevant cash flow projection

PB6025 Finance: Questions for Sneaker 2013 Case

A.    Questions for the Sneaker 2013 Project

1.      Should the following be included in the relevant cash flow projection in the capital budgeting analysis of Sneaker 2013 Project? Why or why not? And if you include any of the following items in the relevant cash flow, explain if it should be a positive or negative cash flow.

a.       Building a factory and purchase/installation of the equipment
b.      Research and development costs
c.       Cannibalization of other sneakers sales
d.      Interest costs
e.       Changes in current assets necessary for the product line
f.       Changes in current liabilities necessary for the product line
g.      Taxes
h.      Cost of goods sold incurred in the production of the product line
i.        Advertising and promotion expenses
j.        Depreciation expenses

2.Estimate the following for the Sneaker 2013 Project. Show calculation, with supporting explanations for each of the questions below:

a.       What is the project’s initial investment outlay if the investment happens in 2012?
b.      What is the project’s annual net operating cash flow from Year 2013 to 2018?
c.       What is the projects’ terminal, non-operating net cash flow at the end of the project in 2018?
d.      Show all projected relevant cash flows of this project for capital budgeting decision.
e.       Is the Sneaker 2013 Project economically viable based on Payback, Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return? Why or why not. Explain in details.

B.     Questions for the Persistence Project

1.      Which cash flows should be relevant for capital budgeting decision for this project? Also explain if the cash flow associated with each item that you include is a positive or negative cash flow.
2.      Estimate the following for the Persistence Project. Show calculation, with supporting explanations for each of the questions below:
a.       What is the project’s initial investment outlay if the investment happens in 2012?
b.      What is the project’s annual net operating cash flow from Year 2013 to 2015?
c.       What is the projects’ terminal, non-operating net cash flow at the end of the project in 2015?
d.      Show all projected relevant cash flows of this project for capital budgeting decision.
f.    Is the Persistence Project economically viable based on Payback, Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return? Why or why not. Explain in details.

C.     Which project, Sneaker 2013 or Persistence, is risker? Why?

D.    How will you incorporate the difference in their risks into the capital budgeting analysis?

E.     Which project, Sneaker 2013 or Persistence, is better for New Balance shareholders? Why?

F.      What is your final recommendation to Rodriguez?

How would you deal with consumer concerns about privacy in their relationships with retailers? Discuss. Describe three unethical, but legal acts on the part of retailers that you have encountered. How have you reacted in each case? Discuss.

How would you deal with consumer concerns about privacy in their relationships with retailers

1) How would you deal with consumer concerns about privacy in their relationships with retailers? Discuss.

2) Describe three unethical, but legal acts on the part of retailers that you have encountered. Also, how have you reacted in each case? Discuss.

3) A competing bicycle store has a better location than yours. Moreover, it is in a modern shopping center with a lot of customer traffic. Your store is in an older neighborhood and requires customers to travel further to reach you. Further, how could you use a merchandising, pricing, and communications strategy to overcome your disadvantageous location? Discuss.

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Consumer privacy in retail:
The next regulatory and competitive frontier

You have likely received a distinctive and personalized retail offer based on your preferences and past buying behaviors. While many may like the individualized attention, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of how their data is used and more sensitive to privacy matters.

In an ever-more-complex data environment, retailers face a growing list of global and state privacy regulations aimed at protecting consumers. The penalties, which can quickly surpass the billion-dollar mark, are too steep to ignore.

Mishandling data can mean placing future revenues at risk. Advanced privacy policies protect consumer data, but they do so much more. They create the ability to leverage more accurate information to create a more intimate and trusting relationship with the consumers. Privacy policies should be in line with, if not central to, the retailers’ business strategy to build and also
maintain this consumer trust. As a result, retailers should become more trust-focused and consumercentric in their policies regarding data privacy.

This is a paper that is focusing on the Is Achilles’s anger a virtue or a vice as present in The Iliad. The paper also provides additional information to use in writing the assignment paper.

Is Achilles’s anger a virtue or a vice as present in The Iliad

Essay 1

Select one (1) of the following topics for a 750-1000 word essay which includes a title, internal citations, and a Works Cited page in MLA format. Your essay must use at least one secondary source from Chattanooga State’s library (books, ebooks, or databases) as well as the primary text with which your essay is associated. (Note: A primary source is the work itself, such as The Odyssey. A secondary source is a work someone else has written critiquing some element of The Odyssey.) Please remember to use the current MLA formatting guidelines for both your internal citations and your Works Cited page. Failure to use and cite appropriate sources will result in an F for the essay. Please ask the instructor if you have any questions.

Dreams are not only recurrent, but also very important, in The Epic of Gilgamesh. They serve as a vehicle of communication between gods and mortals, anticipating events symbolically, but accurately. What narrative function do they serve? That is, why is it useful to know what is going to happen before it does? Be sure to use specific examples from the primary source and additional supports from a secondary source to prove your points.

Is Achilles’s anger a virtue or a vice as present in The Iliad

Is Achilles’s anger a virtue or a vice, as presented in The Iliad?  Similarly, is Odysseus’s cunning a virtue or a vice?  Be sure to use specific examples from the primary source and additional supports from a secondary source to prove your points.
Homer’s epics both have important female characters who are tremendously influential in the development of the plots, including Athena, Helen, and Penelope.  What role do the women play within these works and in what ways is this significant?  Be sure to use specific examples from the primary source and additional supports from a secondary source to prove your points.

Remember to save your file as a RICH Text document and submit it with your name as the file name and assignment number (for example: JohnDoeEssay1. Consult the Read Me First page for naming instructions.

Checklist:

The essay meets the minimum required word count.

The essay is written in third-person, formal, academic prose (first and second-person have NOT been used).

Also, the essay contains an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, body paragraphs supporting the thesis statement, and a conclusion paragraph.

Additionally, the essay uses the required primary source and documents the source using MLA format.

The essay uses at least one required secondary source from Chattanooga State’s library. (books, ebooks, or databases) and documents the source using MLA format.

The essay does not contain more than 25% of outside material (review the submission report in the dropbox; revise and resubmit before the deadline if necessary).