Finance
Emotional biases
As we continue this week learning about emotional biases, the purpose of this assignment is to evaluate and compare these biases to the other biases we have already covered: Belief Perseverance Biases and Information Processing Biases.
For this assignment, respond to the following:
Briefly describe emotional biases in your own words. (hint – use your concept map!).
Analyze and report on the similarities between emotional biases and belief preservation biases and between emotional biases and information processing biases. Then discuss the differences.
Conclude with an analysis of how the management methods of emotional, belief preservation and information processing biases are similar and how they differ.
(NOTE: Please kindly notice that the assignment is related MBA Finance course–check the textbook of “Behavioral finance and wealth management: how to build optimal portfolios: that account for investor biases” (2nd edition)).
Financial obligation
1. Companies have financial obligation to its employees. The issue of organizations having the ability to pay the employees can be an important factor during the negotiation process. In efforts to make certain the organization has the ability to meet the financial responsibility to the employees, some things should be considered. Not only do the organization look at the financial obligation, they should also look at the worth or importance of the job. Based on what you have learned, define job analysis. Identify and discuss in detail two things that are a result of the job analysis.
Health behaviors
Which of the following health behaviors would you least like (worst) your children (age under 17) to do? In the process of making a decision weigh the legal, physical, emotional, financial consequences of each life style activity. Rationally defend your forced choice of the behavior.
1. Drink two (2) drinks before dinner every night
2. Smoke pot twice a week
3. Smoke 1/2 pack of cigarettes a day
Write the assignment in one or two pages using 12 font and double spaced. NO OUTSIDE SOURCES
Federal Reserve Bank
Determine the most significant monetary policy that the Federal Reserve Bank has been responsible for implementing in the past 12 months and the resulting impact on the U.S. economy.
Analyze how the U.S. monetary policy affects the global economy.
Financial risks
Question Description: Suppose a U.S. wood-products company has facilities and employees in Canada providing its raw materials (wood), but has most of its sales in the United States.
(1) What are the most important operational and financial risks in this arrangement? (2) How can the company pay its Canadian employees, who presumably want Canadian dollars, when its U.S. customers are paying in U.S. dollars? Furthermore, how can it calculate its profit if revenue is in U.S. currency and most of its costs are in Canadian currency?