John Perna

Task: Stock prices (Aviva plc, Barclays PLC, Coca-Cola HBC AG and HSBC Holdings plc). For the empirical analysis, we consider daily stock prices between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2015. Data in SPSS format will be provided on Moodle.Task 1:a. Identify all the extreme stock price values in the data based on 95th percentile for all the stock indices.b. Find the descriptive statistics for the stock prices of Aviva plc, Barclays PLC, Coca-Cola HBC AG and HSBC Holdings plc. Exclude cases listwis...

Chapter OverviewResearch Methodology –(1500 words) 3.1 Chapter Overview 3.2 Research Philosophy and Justification: (e.g. positivism, interpretivism or pragmatism)  3.3 Research Approach and Justification (e.g. deductive, inductive or abductive) 3.4 Research Method: Quantitative or Qualitative  3.5 Research Strategy and Justification (e.g. case study, survey, action research, experiments, grounded theory) 3.6 Data Collection method and justification (e.g. Primar...

NPV and IRRRequired: Your report should address the following requirements: (A) Calculate the Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return of the proposed investment and provide a recommendation on the proposed investment. Using academic literature, provide critical analysis of these two advanced approaches of making capital budgeting decisions. (50%) (B) Using appropriate academic literature, provide critical analysis of the developments and applications of ‘sophisticated ...

Motivations for Snap Inc.’s IPOThe assignment is based on the following documentsA case study: ‘Snap Inc.’s IPO’Snap Inc.’s IPO prospectusAn Excel file containing daily share price of Snap from its IPO toMarch 2020 (Snap shareprice) Snap’s Annual Report 2020 Read the above documents and the IPO book (e-copy available on Blackboard) to answer the following questions. You can use external references/material from credible sources (such as the financial pres...

Reasons for SuccessThis case regards an Italian small enterprise called Batabito, based in the Veneto region, in the heart of the Italian sport shoe-manufacturing district. This small, family-run firm was established in the 1970s, when the number of amateur athletes was growing throughout Italy and the rest of Europe. The firm started producing mountaineering shoes mainly on behalf of older, larger, third party firms which partly outsourced their production to trusted smaller producers. The c...

Task: Using the materials learned each week throughout this course, in your groups create an Operations plan for the selected scenario provided by your instructor – Mark Bukata. The written report must be completed to a highly professional level. Clarity, appearance, content, spelling and grammar are all important aspects within the report.Where information is not provided your Group may make assumptions based upon some business logic. These assumptions must be listed in your report under...

Part 1: Database DesignAs reported by the BBC, women are still severely underrepresented in public statues in the UK. The Public Statues and Sculpture Association lists 122 public statues of women. The WikiData knowledge base only lists 98 items described as statues of women in the UK, but many are not geolocated – i.e., the precise latitude and longitude of the location are not available. The Assignment_1--Statues-Wikidata.csv dataset available in the datapackage on Blackbaord was c...

Ethics in Sales ManagementYou are a Sales Manager for the Courtyard by Marriott downtown Toronto; your responsibility is to sell rooms to the sports group market.  Sameer Khan is a new client who is a buyer from a national driving school Academy. Sameer recently signed a contract with you and bought 300 room nights for a local boxing match for his entire National sales team as a team bonding event. (A purchase order worth around $45,000). You are sure there is the opportunity for much more...

Now that your raw source data is consolidated, cleaned, and normalized, apply basic formatting for ease of readability, navigation, analysis, and future usage. Apply bold text formatting to the column headers for ease of visualization. Apply the AutoFilter to the column headers for ease of filtering & sorting. Split Panes, freeze the top row of data, freeze the columns up to and including PO. Ensure date fields are formatted as dates. Ensure dollar value fields are formatted with...

Task: Each student will write an analysis of an international case-study on innovation that will be confirmed in week 4. Students will use the first 4 week to source, identify and choose a significant case study that must be approved by the lecturer. Use the theories covered in this course to identify, analyse and explain the innovation sources, types and patterns in the case study.The purpose of the coursework is to provide students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of the princi...