Essays on Advisor

1. List of industry and jobs I want to work in the financial consultancy industry and build my career efficiently in a leading financial consulting company that provides services to the banking industry. I am interested in three job positions including Financial Consultant, Financial Advisor, and Finance Analyst. 2. Financial consultancy industry and jobs positions Financial consultancy industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world that provides a variety of services to other organizations to improve their performance. I am interested in pursuing my career in the financial consultancy industry that offers a variety of service ...

My fascination with the intricate puzzles of global finance, burgeoning in the international business world today, truly sparked and unfolded when I traveled to England. This opportunity afforded me pause to better understand how business principles, theories, and practice come together in all sorts of ways. Nowadays the issues of politics, business, and economics are being intently discussed, and are ubiquitous as ever in the world today. Oddly enough, I would love to more deeply be a part of the business mechanisms, both on the worldwide level and in terms of ethical leadership development. As a senior currently pursuing ...

Using the Windows Performance Monitor utility, add a set of counters to the real-time performance monitor display that you consider most relevant to the performance of your SQL Server instance. Document this step by taking a screen shot of the real-time display. Windows Performance Monitor is used to study how programs running in your laptop or desktop affect computer's performance. The performance is monitored both in real time and by collecting log data for later examination. In SQL Server Management Studio, construct a SQL query that uses a SELECT statement and a JOIN clause to query data from both ...

National Security Council

Colleagues, good morning and welcome to the White House! The fact that you are here today already speaks highly of you all, considering the demanding education requirements, professional skills and personal integrity required to serve in this office. My name is Keith Kellogg, a retired Army Lt. Gen. I was recently appointed as chief of staff and executive secretary of the National Security Council. You may have seen my name in media headlines branding me as the top spy and the right hand of the National Security Adviser to the President (Bender, 2016). The realities are slightly different. As ...

Abstract

The Madoff Securities scandal was one of the biggest Ponzi schemes to hit America. This essay would examine the Madoff scandal from an audit perspective since it was the complacency (or collusion) of the auditors that encouraged the perpetrator of this scam. While the scam that was pulled by Bernie Madoff, was both large and difficult to spot, its detection also helped expose a crucial flaw that existed in corporate America at the time. This was the lack of regulatory oversight in the Securities business. While one could lay the blame for this scandal on the Regulator, another important ...

Assignment 3

Assignment 3

QUESTION 1 (1 point)

a) Statistical combination of the results of two or more studies

QUESTION 2 (1 point)

Figure 2 of the Jordan et al., meta-analysis depicts a forest plot illustrating the estimates of the association between hysterectomy and ovarian cancer. How many of the individual studies (in figure 2) reported statistically significant reductions in the risk of ovarian cancer in women with hysterectomy, compared to women without hysterectomy? Ans) There were 20 individual studies that reported statistically significant reductions in the risk of ovarian cancer in women with hysterectomy, compared to women without hysterectomy.

QUESTION 3 (1 point)

How would you interpret the overall summary estimate (relative ...

First of all it is necessary to give the definition to the term market failure. Market failure is “something that is inherent to the market that causes the market equilibrium allocation to be inefficient” (Morey, 2015). According to Pettinger, market failures “occurs when there is an inefficient allocation of resources in a free market” (Pettinger, 2015). Both of these definitions underline that market failure is the situation opposite the ideal market. Taking into the consideration, that we live in times when ideal market do not exist in reality and is replaced by tough economic rules and high competition.

There exist 10 main types of market failures:

Externalities – ...

Re: Portfolio’s Risk and Return Tradeoff

Profitable Portfolio construction is a difficult task and a task that demands huge knowledge and analysis. More than the monetary investment, it needs investment in the form of research about the past performance, current performance, and the future prospect as well as the research about the industry. Apart from that, balancing the risk and the return stands as the determining factor in the construction of the portfolio. An investor must also simultaneously look for the tradeoff of the risk and return of the entire portfolio rather than of the single stock. As an investment advisor of the company, I ...

Internal Analysis

The process of internal analysis helps in identifying and evaluating an organization’s capabilities, resources, and core competencies. Internal Assessment The internal assessment has three main components that are resources, value chain, and core competencies. The assessment of these components helps in determining the internal strength of the company.

Resource Based Views

The resource-based view helps an organization to analyze the tangible and intangible resources that are available at the disposal of the firm and can be used. These resources are determined to develop a competitive advantage of an organization. The main aim of the model is to analyze the internal resources ...

Discussion: Product Review Sites

The main advantage of these product review sites is that they are specific on restaurants. Zagat (https://www.zagat.com/) and Restaurant Engine (http://restaurantengine.com/restaurant-review-sites/) are purely on restaurants. They do not only review existing restaurants but also give information on how to start, run and grow a restaurant business. As such, people seeking information on restaurants will find almost all the information they need, and this helps to attract advertisers. Trip Advisor (https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurants) has diversified its reach to almost the whole of the hospitality industry, and this also helps it draw advertisers and spread all related information on restaurants, popular cities, foods, ...

The preferred entity for analysis in this assignment is Bell Investment Advisors, which is a large independent financial advisory company and operates as a fee-only company. It has been in operation for the last 25 years and offers both financial planning and investment management through life coaching services. The company has a long record of success and has been active in advising and monitoring the investments owned by its clients. This company has a strong link to my career interest area of a finance advisor. The company is located in Oakland San Francisco in the United States. Its offices ...

Investment Portfolio Statement

Investment Policy Statement: Executive Summary:

Tax ID: A1258122 Current assets: $10,000,000 Return: 7 % 1-yr Loss Limit: (Worst case scenario): - 10 % Purpose of investment policy statement: The main purpose of this investment policy statement is to provide the client with a clear investment plan that ensures maximum returns. It therefore:

Provides an excellent overview of all investment options available to the client

Ensures that all investment options are in line with the client’s needs, wants, and objectives It provides the required means of communication between the client and all other parties involved in the investment plan It meets all the laid out international, state, and federal laws ...

INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO STATEMENT

Investment Policy Statement: Executive Summary: Type of policy: Individual Retirement Investment Policy Tax ID: A1258122 Current assets: $10,000,000 Return: 7 % 1-yr Loss Limit: (Worst case scenario): - 10 % Purpose of investment policy statement: The main purpose of this Investment Policy Statement (IPS) is to provide the client with a clear investment plan that ensures maximum returns. The IPS plays the role of assisting the client in monitoring, evaluating and supervising his or her investment portfolio. The IPS therefore:

Provides an excellent overview of all investment options available to the client.

Ensures that all investment options are in line with the client’s needs, wants, and objectives. It provides ...

Business sector of loanable assets should be the corporate sector that equilibrates the interest for reserve funds with the benefit for speculation. In any case, if such a business sector existed, it would be a business opportunity for streams, not stocks. A business advisor should foresee such issues and try to avert them before they become a reality. However, the security business sector is a business quarter of stocks. The capital business sector is a business opportunity for stocks. Both bonds and capital hold on crosswise over periods and can be re-sold (Mankiw, 2009). Everybody who claims a security ( ...

DISSERTATION PROPOSAL

Brief Description The progress of the information society of the twenty first century is largely determined by the activity of computer design organizations. They develop a system to effectively collect, store, organize and process a variety of information, as well as creating software systems that provide coordinated work of a large number of industrial production, financial, economic, socio-political and other processes, which provide tremendous cost savings efforts of many thousands of professionals. Motivation of professionals, who automate the work of other people, is extremely important for the success of any modern organization, especially for computer design firms and companies ( ...

The demand for the financial specialists is at its peak than ever with the Bureau of Business Statistics projecting an 8% growth from 2014 to 2024. Reflecting on this statistics, more than 632400 new jobs in finance field shall be open within the same period. The high demand follows the increased regulatory frameworks in the business world accommodating companies to demand more financial specialists. In matching the world corporate demand for financial professionals, the finance graduates are faced with numerous financial careers that offer job opportunities to exercise their financial skills. This paper seeks to explore the careers in ...

The Blinding Absence of Light, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, tells the story of a group of prisoners held, and tortured, in an underground Moroccan prison. However, one of the most interesting relationships in the novel is that between Salim, and his father. There is a lot of tension in their interactions, and they fine communicating with one another very difficult. At one point, the father even denounces Salim before the king, wishing him dead. This tension in the relationship is used to allow the father to represent the governmental power that stands over the Moroccan people. More specifically, the ...

This is a letter to appeal the decision regarding my academic dismissal from the College of Business as of Spring 2016. I was dismissed in response to my GPA dropping below the required 2.0 that is necessary to remain enrolled and was unable to correct this oversight in time. The reason for this has to do with my current condition, as I am ADHD and have somewhat recently switched medications. Regardless of why this was necessary the results have been rather negative thus far and have reflected poorly on my academic habits. The side effects have made lose my ...

Introduction

In this essay, I purpose to develop an analysis on the forecasted return on my education and the expected future job. The paper has two main parts. First, I will discuss why I decided to pursue Finance including the costs and interest on my education loan. Second, I will analyze my research on the expected job and the predicted payback time.

My parents wanted me to pursue an education in Computer Science, but I choose Finance because of several reasons. First, I have a passion for accounting and learning how businesses such banks and insurance firms work. When I ...

Situation Analysis

Company Trip advisor is a US Based Company the offers guide and review services to travelers seeking information on various travel destinations. The advice and reviews are on a wide range of services including flights, hotels, resorts and travel packages among others. The business’ key operations are online based and entail an interactive platform (TripAdvisor, 2016a).

Goals

The major goals of the Company are to offer trusted service as well as a variety of choices for travelers across the globe (TripAdvisor, 2016c).

Resources

The key resources of the Trip advisor are its online platform and skilled personnel that determine its ability ...

Univesity

2. The core product, or product benefit, is freedom to explore uninhibited, and information regardless of location. What is excellent about the product, or the key feature of the core product, is the ability to use the device anywhere in the country, and receive the same benefit, with regard to provision of tourist information. The actual product is the Kiwi traveler, a speaker, dash-mount device that connects to the GPS in order to provide travel advice and tourist information for a traveler’s current location in real time. The augmented product includes special coupon offers from local retailers, or ...

Ethical issues and performance management go together especially for those who only start their business. The issue can become really sharp for a small firm where one should choose between a progressive discipline system itself and the ability to afford it. Let us consider the reasons for performance appraisals as part of progressive discipline system (Guerin, 2016) and against them. All the companies face various employees’ minor infractions (Bruce, 2014). They can be connected with their punctuality, tardiness in task performing, drawbacks in interpersonal relations or team work, etc. Some employees need just verbal warning to change themselves, in ...

Many authors regard their work as being a single standalone piece of art. By this logic, it can be safe to assume that the authors work their literary pieces to stand out against similar genres of works. However, in some cases many different stories end up sharing the same motif and theme. In many cases like this, it is not because of two authors collaborating to come up with a theme, or lesson, to teach society but a stroke of luck. When forming their stories, authors use society around them to develop their characters, settings, and such so in ...

Briefing paper 1: critical legal thinking

Critical thinking is a development in lawful hypothesis and a system of legitimate radical researchers that rose in the 90s in the United States of America. Considered the major development in reasonable hypothesis and statutory grant in the United States of America to have embraced a discussed Left governmental situation and outlook. Basic lawful studies were focused on forming society taking into account a dream of human identity without the shrouded hobbies and class control that the researchers contended are at the base of lawful liberal establishments in the West. Giving to CLS researchers Duncan Kennedy and Karl Klare, ...

For self-marketing strategy and tactics to work in today’s job market, it is essential to first clarify personal short- and long-term career objectives. In addition, it is important to identify skills and knowledge needed to achieve the said objectives and create a marketable personal brand (Warzel, 2011). My ultimate occupational objective, is to make a career at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In order to achieve this goal I will first need to land an entry level job at the CDC and then work my way up the career ladder. My short-term career objectives include ...

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

County Image Analysis

CONTENTS

Cover Sheet1

Executive Summary .3 Introduction..3-4

Analysis4-8

Conclusion.8 Bibliography9 Executive Summary This paper examines what is the country’s image and how the image of Indonesia affects its neighbouring stakeholders and the state itself. The research draws attentions to the fact that Indonesia’s burning forests produced by different companies have a great impact on all aspects of life of not only the country itself but also of the citizens of the neighbouring countries. Further investigation reveals that the reputation of Indonesia is also impacted by the media campaigns that promote all the negative effects the burning forests have on heath, ...

Strategic challenge #1

How will the EVP Foulkes choose which ailment to target initially in the Pharmacy Advisor Program? (John, Quelch, & Huckman, 2015, p.6) Non-adherence has caused the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $290 billion in annual cost on unnecessary medical treatment. It involves chronic disease such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression (John, Quelch, & Huckman, 2015, p.4). A CVS Health study showed a reduction in the total annual healthcare spending due to medication adherence (Exhibit 4, John, Quelch, & Huckman, 2015, p.10; cf. p.4). Consumers are attentive to the $290 billion expense reduction associated with patient medication adherence (John, Quelch, & Huckman, 2015, ...

REFLECTION PAPER

INTRODUCTION 3

DISCUSSIONS.4 CONCLUSIONS8 REFERENCES..9 INTRODUCTION Experience is one of the best teachers in order to succeed in the career of life and with the addition of the individual’s talents; these experiences can be useful in making a stable footing in the career of life. The goal of this paper is to map out how experiences from different industries enabled and helped an individual to hone the talents as well as to explore other possibilities of making a career out of that talent from the experiences she had in the past. Drawing from the interviews I have made, ...

Seven Questions Answered

1. Garret Hardin uses the metaphor lifeboat to show the diversity that exists in the world today. He uses it to differentiate between the rich and the poor whereby the rich nations are the lifeboats and the poor nations swim around them. Lifeboat ethics differ from spaceship ethics in that lifeboat uses the notion that some nations are superior to others while in a spaceship everyone has equal shares to the resources. 2. Hardin argues that all the floaters are brothers and one cannot discriminate and choose who to help. They also have similar needs, which make it more ...