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You are an IT director. You just got word that the home-grown software that you use for the entire company has a security flaw and needs an immediate patch. You have to outsource the work, spending an estimated $100,000 to fund the project. Your audience is your direct supervisor who will need to approve the cost of the project. This supervisor does not like to spend extraneous money for unimportant tasks. Write a sample body paragraph of a bad news email. (No need to write the neutral buffer or goodwill close, simply one effective body paragraph.) Follow the bad news strategy and good style techniques. Remember the order of content. To get you started, here is your neutral buffer intro: Our IT team continues to make good progress toward keeping our company secure. Privacy and security are the utmost priorities for ABC Bank, and we pride ourselves in our proactive approach. This month alone, we have caught 20 breaches to our server due to staff clicking emails containing malware. We have caught the breach before the malware did any damage and we continue to re-educate our team.

This test provides information about the function of the outer hair cells in the inner ear(cochlea) by presenting a stimulus into the ear canal and measuring the response sent back by the outer hair cells. 

A fixed coupon corporate bond with 30 years to maturity has a price quote of 93.5, with payments made annually.  What coupon rate would a company expect for this bond if you expect the yield to be about 8%?  (hint – Assume the quote should be used as percentage of par.  You do not need to consider this bond as quoted in 8ths)  * Please show your work clearly on your hand-written page.  Partial credit will be given if I can follow your work. *

A fixed coupon bond has 15 years to maturity and a coupon rate of 7.5%  Coupon payments are made semi-annually.  Assuming  a current market rate of 7%, what is the present value of the bond?  (HINT – assume this is a $1,000 bond) * Draw a timeline of show all cashflows for this bond.  Submit the timeline with your hand-written work. *

ABC Corporation just announced a 2-for-1 stock split.  Prior to the split the company had a market value of $3.2 billion with 40 million shares outstanding.  The split conveys no new information about the ABC Corporation. To receive full credit or to earn partial credit, please do your work on the hand-written page.  (Submit with all your hand-written work as the last problem on the exam.)  Prior to the split, what was the price per share of ABC Corporation stock? [a] What is the value of ABC Corporation after the split? [b] How many shares will be outstanding after the split? [c] What will the price per share be after the split? [d]  

Third page of work (if needed)   Please write your name at the top of the submission and make sure the problems are clearly labeled. 

The Covid-19 pandemic created considerable concern for the U.S. economy.  Actions were taken by the Federal Reserve during and shortly after the pandemic which dramatically impact the management of financial institutions.  Identify specific actions that were taken in 2020 in regard to: Reserve requirements Open market transactions Interest rates Ge specific with your answers and include the possible downside to each action taken.  

A fixed coupon corporate bond with 30 years to maturity has a price quote of 93.5, with payments made annually.  What coupon rate would a company expect for this bond if you expect the yield to be about 8.5%? (hint – Assume the quote should be used as percentage of par.  You do not need to consider this bond as quoted in 8ths)  * Please show your work clearly on your hand-written page.  Partial credit will be given if I can follow your work. *  

ABC Corporation just announced a 2-for-1 stock split.  Prior to the split the company had a market value of $2.1 billion with 30 million shares outstanding.  The split conveys no new information about the ABC Corporation. To receive full credit or to earn partial credit, please do your work on the hand-written page.  (Submit with all your hand-written work as the last problem on the exam.)  Prior to the split, what was the price per share of ABCorporation stock? [a] What is the value of ABC Corporation after the split? [b] How many shares will be outstanding after the split? [c] What will the price per share be after the split? [d]

A fixed coupon bond with 20 years to maturity has a coupon rate of 7.7%, with payments made annually.  What is the price the company would expect to see for this bond if it expects the yield to be 9%? * Draw a timeline of show all cashflows for this bond.  Submit the timeline with your hand-written work. *