Category: Finance

Topic 5: OpenSea, web & e-commerce Your mission: You are an Executive at OpenSea and the company leadership has been discussing how the platform can build upon its successes. Your challenge is to develop a FinTech strategic plan of action to advance OpenSea’s mass adoption, profitability and future success. After the invention of database technologies in 1960, commercial activity and financial data documentation rapidly shifted from paper to purely digital entries. Despite the improvements that this software provides, data stored in this way is exposed to potential misuse by a variety of actors, including the operator of the system, its personnel, and other external actors. The Web’s “original sin” Ad-based business models have been called the “original sin” of the World Wide Web, leading to today’s widespread calls to rein in excess of personal data collected by Web 1.0 internet companies. While regulatory efforts, such as the European Data Protection Regulation and California’s Consumer Privacy Act, provide legal remedies for already recorded data, Web 3.0 solutions can provide users with nuanced control over personally identifiable data prior to its exposure to third parties. Web 1.0 era e-commerce companies, such as eBay, and early FinTech companies, such as PayPal, rely on public internet infrastructure but interface with databases maintained by these companies. These walled gardens are accessible only to users that agree to the rules (i.e., terms and conditions) of the platform provider. Conversely, Web 3.0 solutions enable permissionless peer-to-peer value transfer, with rules
automatically enforced through smart contracts. Smart contracts are a collection of software programs that are executed autonomously on a distributed network of computers and maintained by independent operators. Immutable record-keeping and digital ownership High-speed internet and Web 2.0 solutions shifted the distribution of software, music, and movies from physical media to purely digital delivery. However, while buyers of CDs and DVDs could sell the old albums or movies on secondary marketplaces, this is not possible with Web 2.0 media, which is rented or licensed to users in a purely digital form. Digital rights management solutions restrict buyers to use the media inside of the environments provided by the seller or licensee – as is the case with Amazon’s media platform and Apple’s iTunes. The internet introduced new protocols for audio and video formatting that disrupted legacy media distribution technologies while simultaneously impacting ownership models that relied on physical products. Early blockchains, such as bitcoin, enabled the creation of digital bearer instruments, which allow ownership rights to be reliably transferred from one person to another without the sender keeping a copy of the virtual asset. While digital products are generally fungible – one bitcoin can be replaced by any other bitcoin without impacting its value or function – newer blockchain-based standards can allow for the creation of digitally unique, non-fungible, and semi-fungible virtual items. Digital economies Purely digital economies started to emerge in multi-massive online role-playing games in the late nineties. Today these online worlds generate multibillion-dollar revenues from the sale of in-game items (According to a 2022 market report published by Grand View Research , the global video game market reached revenues of $195.6 billion in 2021). However, buyers of these goods only receive limited rights to their online persona and its virtual possessions. With the introduction of Web 3.0 technologies, publishers can permanently transfer digital assets to the user. E-commerce solutions built on Web 3.0 technologies also allow the transfer of digital assets directly from one user to another (peer-to-peer). One of the first solutions built in this way is OpenSea – buyers and sellers are not required to create accounts on the marketplace but connect to the service using a digital wallet under the user’s control. OpenSea collects a fee for transactions and is interoperable with other decentralized applications (dApps). Even though the goods sold on the marketplace are still mostly limited to digital art, digital collectibles, and Web 3.0 domains (as of May 2022), the company’s revenue already exceeds one million dollars a week. Visit OpenSea’s website to learn more about this Web 3.0 marketplace and consider the following: • What are the advantages for OpenSea and its users in building on Web 3.0 technologies? How might other industry players assess Web 3.0’s advantages? • How can Web 3.0 technologies link with other digital assets and ecosystems, such as personal data, e-commerce, gaming, cryptocurrencies, lending, and the metaverse? : How cother dienalad non dioml products aould Opensea da to its marketplace? How could OpenSea benefit from interoperability with other Web 3.0 applications?

I am looking for original work. Please no bullets, paragraph
format.
Scenario:
You will evaluate the choices in purchasing stock via online
brokerage accounts (where you can buy and sell stock via the Internet) and the
use of dividend reinvestment plans (known as DIPs and DRIPs) or mutual funds or
index funds.
For online brokers, you will be looking for the requirements
to open the accounts: costs, minimum balances, and other features. Because most
DIPs or DRIPs are available from publicly traded companies, you can search
their Web sites or a search engine on these plans and their requirements.
Tasks:
Write an introduction summarizing the above scenario.
Analyze three online trading sites [pick any three from:
Fidelity, J.P. Morgan, InteractiveBrokers, Charles Schwab, Robinhood, or
E*Trade]. What are the requirements for trading, including the prie per trade.
Also, Compare and contrast the online trading companies.
Evaluate three companies (look for investor information)
that offer DIPs or DRIPs [pick any three from: 3M Company(MMM), Telephone &
Data Systems (TDS), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ),
Northwest Natural Gas (NWN), S&P Global (SPGI), Universal Corporation
(UVV)]. Summarize requirements, including minimum investments, nature of the
return, costs, and other features.

From all the knowledge needed to effectively manage a healthcare organization, one of the most important areas is understanding the business’s current financial condition.
Financial analysis can be defined as the process of assessing the financial condition of a firm. It can be very useful in understanding the financial position of a company. There are a number of different ratios that can be used for this purpose, but each has it benefits and limitations.
Address the following:
Select two financial ratios you think are valuable when trying to understand the financial condition of a healthcare organization. Explain why you have selected them, explaining both the benefits
Discuss the potential limitations of the selected ratios.
Then select a healthcare company and use those ratios on that organization. What do these ratios tell you about how that organization? Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (which require supporting citations) in your initial response along with at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.

Write a research paper with five sections: introduction (3 to 5 sentences), Education Plans, Career Plans, Saving and Investing Strategies, and Conclusion (3 to 5 sentences) over the education plans, career plans, and saving & investing strategies sections are where you provide commentary on what you plan to do. You must cite three of the required readings listed in files.  You can also use outside sources.The paper needs to be APA format no abstract needed.

Please make sure you are discussing Ethical issue of a specific Business as it pertains Financial Management. Do not discuss general issues, legislation or elected officials.
some possible topics may be:
KPMG Financial Scandal
AMERATEX ENERGY, INC.
Financial Ethics Scandal at Wells Fargo
Ethical Issue: Enron
Steinhoff International Holdings Fraud
FIFA Corruption Case 2015
How Unethical Behavior Almost Led to The Downfall of CrossFit
Luckin Coffee Scandal
Volkswagen’s Ethical Breach Concerning Emissions Testing
INSIDER TRADING: IMCLONE SYSTEM
Bernard Madoff fund embezzlement
EQUIFAX DATA BREACH

If the opportunity cost of capital is 11%, and you have unlimited access to the capital, which one(s) would you accept? Why did you answer the way you did? Would your response change if the cost of capital is 16%? Why or why not?
Suppose that you have limited access to the capital and you need to choose only one project. Which one would you choose and why? The discount rate is still 11%. 
What is the payback period of each project? Please analyze if, in general, a decision based on payback is consistent with a decision based on NPV. 
What are the internal rates of return (IRR) on the three projects? Does the IRR rule in this case give the same decision as NPV? How do you know? 
If the opportunity cost of capital is 11%, what is the profitability index for each project? Please analyze if, in general, decisions based on profitability index are consistent with decisions based on NPV. 
What is the most generally accepted measure to choose between the projects? Please justify your answer. 

Please follow the instructions. USE the PowerPoint to add all the materials taught in the class. COMPANY: TARGET instructions: Based on the financial statements provided in the most recent 10-k (annual report):
Please calculate the financial ratios, showing at least 2 ratios from each of the six ratio areas we reviewed in class (at least 12 in total). you must also include the DuPont model in your work.

the bank I choose is bank of communications , I attached the assessment brief and the example of the assignment , please make it the same.
I ordered before and it was all wrong , I attached a screenshot of my doctor feedback please focus on the points that she mentioned .
I really need it to be perfect I want to pass please.

Question 3
Price a bond that has a face value of $100.00, pays an annual coupon of 8.00%, yields 8.00% p.a. and
matures in
a. 5 years
b. 10 years
c. 5 years and 10 years, but with a 9.00% p.a. yield
d. Given your earlier answers, which bond (the 5-year or 10-year) is more sensitive to changes in
yield?

For Assignment 2, you will be performing a Stock Analysis for the three companies you selected for Assignment 1. The point of this assignment is to practice locating and analyzing stock information.
Instructions
Gather the Financials information.
Access Hoovers to search for companies by industry.
Select domestic public companies at SEC.gov.
Use the 10K annual report as indicated below or from the company’s website under investor relations. Make sure the company you select is a domestic public company by using the 10k annual report from the companies’ website under Investor Relations.
Access the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to access your selected companies’ financial filings.
Select the Filings Tab and Company Filing Search in the drop-down menu to search for publicly traded companies.
Enter the selected company in the search engine to locate the required financial information to complete the Company and Stock Analysis template. (or)
Search for a Company’s Corporate Website and locate the link for investor relations to locate the required information to complete the Company and Stock Analysis template.