{"id":5096,"date":"2021-06-14T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:37:26","slug":"decision-making-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/decision-making-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"DECISION MAKING SKILL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a manager, part of your role is to develop strategy, and share &nbsp;this strategy with various stakeholders within the organization. This &nbsp;assignment will allow you to take your findings as a manager and &nbsp;communicate these findings to those who are affected.<\/p>\n<p>Your company has been presented with a decision on replacing a piece &nbsp;of equipment for a new computerized version that promotes efficiency for &nbsp;the upcoming year. As manager you will need to decide whether or not &nbsp;the purchase of the new equipment is a worthwhile investment and to &nbsp;communicate your recommendations to Executive Management for a final &nbsp;decision. To be convincing, sufficient support for your recommendations &nbsp;must be provided in order to be considered valid and accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Existing Equipment &nbsp;&nbsp;Original Cost 60,000 &nbsp;&nbsp;Present Book Value 30,000 &nbsp;&nbsp;Annual Cash Operating Costs 145,000 &nbsp;&nbsp;Current Market Value 15,000 &nbsp;&nbsp;Market Value in Ten Years 0 &nbsp;&nbsp;Remaining useful Life 10 years &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Replacement Equipment &nbsp;&nbsp;Cost 600,000 &nbsp;&nbsp;Annual Cash Operating Costs 50,000 &nbsp;&nbsp;Market Value in Ten Years 0 &nbsp;&nbsp;Useful Life 10 years &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other Information &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cost of Capital 10% &nbsp;&nbsp;Payback requirement 6 years &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this assignment, use the information above to develop a &nbsp;comprehensive analysis using NPV, Payback Method, and IRR to develop a &nbsp;recommendation on replacing the existing equipment with a new &nbsp;computerized version. Develop an executive summary of your findings in a &nbsp;Microsoft PowerPoint presentation format to present to Executive &nbsp;Management.<\/p>\n<p>Do the following in your presentation:    Include a statement of the problem or topic, a concise analysis of &nbsp;the findings, and a recapitulation of any main conclusions or &nbsp;recommendations.   Be sure to incorporate specific details to highlight or support the summary including calculations.   Using your knowledge of capital budgeting techniques, explain how &nbsp;principles of capital budgeting, such as the payback method, IRR, and &nbsp;NPV, can be used to assess the potential projects and assist in the &nbsp;decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>Develop a 10-12 slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA &nbsp;standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming &nbsp;convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.ppt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As a manager, part of your role is to develop strategy, and share &nbsp;this strategy with various stakeholders within the organization. This &nbsp;assignment will allow you to take your findings as a manager and &nbsp;communicate these findings to those who are affected. Your company has been presented with a decision on replacing a piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}