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1. Question 2
   Analyze Wal-Mart’s historical earnings growth, dividend growth, and dividend payout ratio. What long-
   term trends emerge? How would you interpret them? (Hint: It might help to provide some graphs) Question 3
   Using the simplest DDM – the perpetual dividend growth model – provide an initial valuation of Wal-Mart.
   Please be specific about your assumptions.

2. 1. a) What share price to you estimate and how does it compare to current market values?
   2. b) Discuss how sensitive your model is to the assumptions you have made (provide a sensitivity
      analysis).
   3. c) Based on your findings in part a) and b) would you recommend buying shares in Wal-Mart based
      on your model?

Question 4

Using a three stage DDM provide a valuation of Wal-Mart. You may use the example shown in Exhibit 4
as a rough template for what to hand in but please keep in mind that this exhibit and the assumptions
made therein do not pertain to Wal-Mart itself. Please be specific about any assumptions that you made
in your model.

1. a) What share price to you estimate and how does it compare to current market values?
2. b) What assumption would you have to make about the long-term growth rate for the stock price to
   equal the analyst consensus price?
3. c) Provide a scenario analysis of your estimates. Specifically, compute the share price under the
   following nine scenarios:

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Question 5

Value Wal-Mart using a market multiple approach based on the information given in the case. (I realize
that this question is somewhat ambiguous and there is no single right answer to it.) Be careful to justify
your choice of model as well as some of the assumptions you will make.

Question 6

Take a very careful look at the case exhibits. Do you think Sabrina Gupta’s use of DDM models is advisable?
If not, what alternative(s) would you suggest?

DISCUSSION REQUIREMENTS

Your posts in the discussion area should exhibit careful thought and logical reasoning and provide evidence for your position. Each post should be at least one well-developed paragraph (approximately 4-6 sentences or more, unless otherwise indicated). Use correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The discussions must be completed by the due dates specified on the assignment itself and also specified in the Course Calendar.

GRADING

Each discussion topic is worth 10 points. The number of points you earn is determined as follows.

only need read chapter 2 and follow rubic talk about own thought.

here is link to book : https://books.google.com/books/about/Arguments_and…

FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS

USE THE PREVIOUS PAPERS ON THE NEW PAPER.

ORIGINAL THOUGHTS ONLY

NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE!!!!

Assignment 3: Project Execution, Control, & Closure Proposal
Due Week 10 and worth 150 points

Your Project Sponsor has approved your project proposal and has asked you to come up with a proposal for the execution, control, and closure for the project.

Instructions:

For this assignment, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
2. Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.
4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.
5. Use at least three (3) academic resources for this assignment. These resources should be related to your chosen project and the content provided in Assignment 3. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the key concepts, processes, and components of project management.
• Develop a process for managing & controlling a project.
• Develop a process for measuring the progress of a project in order to determine its effectiveness.
• Develop a process for coordinating project closure and determining the project’s effectiveness

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Read: Extracts from “The lies that bind: rethinking identity” by Kwame Anthony Appiah (located under files/week 6, see instructions for which chapters to read below).

Deliver: A written piece (ca 600-700 words) and a brief slide presentation (see instructions below).

Writing prompts:

Start by reading “1_Introduction.pdf” and “8_endnotes.pdf”. Then select ONE of the chapters addressing a specific collective identity, so read either “2_gender.pdf”, “3_creed.pdf” (creed is another word for religion/faith), “4_country.pdf”, “5_color.pdf”, “6_class.pdf” or “7_culture.pdf”.

Why I chose this reading is to introduce one perspective on how ideas around and expressions of our collective identities are constructed and change over time (feel free to skim through some of the specific examples in each chapter). This to get us in the mindset of the upcoming design challenge, which will be about exploring how to creatively transform collective identities or open up new identity categories or forms of belonging altogether.

After finishing the reading of your choice, write a short story about your own relationship to the collective identity described in the chapter, and how your sense of belonging or connectedness has changed over time. The specifics of your relationship to this identity does not have to match up with the examples in the reading, rather feel free to draw from your own experiences, choosing whatever sub identity*, intersectional identity*, or identity binary* of your choice.

Make sure to include at least one crucial moment or experience in your story that has changed your relationship to the collective identity. This could include a specific person’s or community’s influence on you, a move, a dramatic life event, an experience of alienation etc.

Second, describe a cultural phenomenon of some sort that you have witnessed cause a shift to the collective identity you just discussed on a larger scale during your lifetime, and that can be seen as intentional. (Just as in the above example, the shift can be in relation to a specific sub category, intersectional collective identity or identity binary).

Examples of cultural phenomena: a product, an organization, a network, a role model, a social or cultural movement or artifact, a ritual, a book, a space etc. Write a brief summary of this phenomenon and what shift it caused from your viewpoint.

Finally, include a brief note on how the reading influenced your own thoughts around the topics you just discussed.

Be prepared to share both your personal story and the cultural phenomenon of your choice with the class. Use whatever images you think would support your sharing, and upload this as a pdf to Canvas as well. Make sure the sharing will not go over 4 min.

* sub identity = if you picked for example “country”, a sub identity to this could be for example “American” or “Korean”.

*intersectional = if you picked for example “country” and you’re from China, an intersectional identity in relation to this would be for instance “Chinese” plus “woman” or “Chinese” plus “woman” plus “city person”.

*identity binary = if you picked for example “color” you could choose to write about your relationship to the identity binary of “white” and “black”, rather than focusing on one of the two.