Assignment 2: Applications of Forecasting by Firms

Forecasting is used as a tool for planning. When developing forecasts, firms need to think of all possible scenarios and their future impacts.

For example, if you are in a management role and overforecast sales, you will then overforecast employees or payroll as you will schedule more employees than needed to meet your projected sales. This overforecasting will lead to excess purchasing of supplies and, ultimately, lead to insufficient cash flows because you will need to pay for expenses incurred to maintain and provide services for revenues that did not come in as projected. A small error in forecasting at the start can significantly affect overall results. In this assignment, you will be exposed to the basic principles of forecasting.

Tasks:

Research a firm that applies forecasting principles and methods. Y

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Assignment 1: Discussion—Assessment of Risks

Risks are common for all firms, but there are different levels of risks in different industries and in different countries. The differences in risks from firm to firm or industry to industry are called unsystematic risks. Consequently, individual firms and industries deal with risks in different ways.

Tasks:

Consider two companies that deal in two entirely different industries, such as Microsoft, which is a technology company, and Caterpillar Inc., which manufactures heavy equipment.

Respond to the following questions:

• Explain how the risks and the approaches to anticipate these risks differ for each company.
• Analyze the kinds of risks that are most intimidating for each.

Describe the evolution of inequality in a country of your choice (The preferred country of discussion is South Africa or Nigeria but generally you can use any country except USA, CHINA, GERMANY and UK). Illustrate your discussion using data you have collected and displayed in the form of tables or graphs. In your discussion, using graphs please show the trends in the following: Gini Coefficient, share of income going to top 1%, Earnings of top deciles as % of median, Quantile ratios, General Entropy Index (GE index decomposes overall inequality into Sub-groups) trends, Discuss the potential reasons behind the changes in inequality that you observe. The word limit of this essay is 1500 words. Referencing style: Harvard System of Referencing

Assignment 1: Markets, International Trade, and the Government

You are given the following scenarios for consideration:

• Scenario 1: Assume that the government imposed a price ceiling on gasoline in order to prevent prices from getting too high. What are the economic implications of this action in the gasoline markets? Use graphs as needed and explain your answers thoroughly.

• Scenario 2: Assume that the government imposed a price floor on wages (minimum wage) in order to make sure that workers can earn a living wage. Is this a price floor? What are the economic implications of this action in the labor markets? Use graphs as needed and explain your answers thoroughly.

• Scenario 3: What are the gains and losses of international trade? What happens when tariffs are imposed, in terms of the importing and exporting countries? Use graphs as needed an

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After reviewing the most current data for the U.S. Balance of Payments and its Balance of Trade, please give your substantiated opinion on the following: How dangerous is for the U.S. to run a trade deficit? Does the size of the deficit matter? Is the TPP or any other bilateral agreement aggravating or easing the effects of the deficit? Is the deficit balanced by any surplus in the Balance of Payments, presently or in the foreseeable future? What could the Government or Private Enterprises do to maintain a competitive hedge for the U.S. Economy?

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