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Lenny is setting her investment journey.  What is the first step she should take to reach her financial goals? Make a list of her goals and prioritize them List down available financial products. automate insurance Evaluate her financial position and budget.

This homework submission should include all calculations for part (a), completed on the designated tab of the Homework Student Workbook, and a document explaining the implications of your findings for the business or business transaction. After reading this week’s resources, respond to the following:You are a financial analyst for the Brittle Company. The director of capital budgeting has asked you to analyze two proposed capital investments: Projects X and Y. Each project has a cost of $10,000, and the cost of capital for each is 12%. The projects' expected net cash flows are shown in the table below. Expected Net Cash Flows Year Project X Project Y 0 – $10,000 – $10,000 1 6,500 3,500 2 3,000 3,500 3 3,000 3,500 4 1,000 3,500   Use the Workbook to calculate each project's net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), modified internal rate of return (MIRR), and profitability index (PI). Which project or projects should…

Using spreadsheet (e.g, Excel), design a decision aid to help you complete the following task. You are looking for a new apartment and decided to go through a realtor instead of shopping for the apartment through advertisments. Avbel Realty provided you with the following list of seven available apartments in the area specified. The apartments have been evaluated by Avbel Realty using 12 different criteria (listed as 2-13) on the speedsheet in figure 5.17) Here are some suggestions on how to set up your decisions aid: (1) Decide which of the 12 factor you want to inclide in your decision model. (2) For each factor selcted in step (1),  decide how much decision weight you want to assign it relative to the other factors. Suggestion: You may want to distribute the decision weight so that they add up to 100 (i.e, 100 percent). Be prepared to discuss and justify your decisions about factors and weights, especially in comparison to the factors and weights used by other students. References ;…

Use the information provided to answer the questions.Use the information provided below to calculate the following. Where applicable, use the presentvalue tables provided in APPENDICES 1 and 2 that appear after QUESTION 5. 5.1.3 Calculate the Net Present Value of each project (with amounts rounded off to the nearest Rand). 5.1.4 Use your answers from question 5.1.3 to recommend the project that should be chosen. Motivateyour choice.  INFORMATION Zeda Enterprises has the option to invest in machinery in projects A and B but finance is only available to invest inone of them. You are given the following projected data:Project A Project BInitial cost R300 000 R300 000Scrap value R40 000 0Depreciation per year R52 000 R60 000Net profitYear 1 R20 000Year 2 R30 000Year 3 R50 000Year 4 R60 000Year 5 R10 000Net cash flowsYear 1 R90 000Year 2 R90 000Year 3 R90 000Year 4 R90 000Year 5 R90 000 Additional informationThe discount rate used by the company is 12%.

A project will be constructed at Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johore with a limited budget from the government. The designer has put forward three design proposals and you were engaged as Building Maintenance Consultant to undertake a life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) based on the three designs and advice on the most economical design to be constructed. Based on the information given in Table Q3, recommend the most economical design based on the LCCA to choose from.

Think about how Jamie Lee Jackson’s scenario of goal setting, which is the Continuing Case located in Connect, applies to your daily life. Write a 150-200-word summary discussing the following items. Note: You can go over the word count if so desired. For this assignment, create and submit the following two items: Three S.M.A.R.T. financial goals, (one each) for short, intermediate, and long-term goal financial goals. Make sure that your goals meet the S.M.A.R.T. guidelines. Using your intermediate or long-term goal and the time value of money (TVM) equation, calculate how your money will grow based on two different time horizons or interest rates. Respond to the following questions after completing the two items above: How does the length of time affect the growth of the account? What steps do you need to take to determine how much to set aside today for a goal in the future to meet your own personal financial goals? How does inflation affect the growth of money over time?

Design a plan to research and select a new or used automobile.

You have been assigned to perform a project selection based on profitability index. You have collected data on the three project alternatives A1, A2, and A3 and your team has calculated the following (table) present worth equivalent for the benefits, costs, and investments at a social discount rate of 10%. The service life of each alternative is identical. (a) Find the PI(i) for each project alternative (b) Find the best alternative based on incremental PI(i) analysis (c) Why is the profitability index referred to as a measure of capital efficiency?

SHOW ME HOW TO DO IT IN EXCEL (SHOW THE FUNCTIONS USED AND HOW YOU USED THEM) + CLERLY SHOW INPUTS AND OUTPUTS. Yakima Racks is evaluating two alternatives, mutually exclusive methods for a new kayak carrier frame. It has developed the following estimated after-tax cost savings for each alternative method. Project managers require an appropriately applied IRR methodology for their decisions. If the project discount rate is 11%, and the cash flows are those noted below, which method would you recommend? Provide results for both traditional NPV analysis and an appropriately applied IRR analysis.   Explain your recommendation fully on your worksheet. Show all cash flows and related analyses.  Clearly specify your recommendation and reasoning clearly on your worksheet. A:  Titanium Pully CFs:  T0=(115,000), T1=1,000; T2=5,000; T3=25,000; T4=45,000; T5=100,000 B:  Metal Hook  CFs:  T0=(95,000), T1=45,000; T2=35,000; T3=30,000; T4=20,000; T5=10,000   THEN, ANSWER THIS QUESTION CHOOSE FROM…