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Assignment 

Develop and complete a vulnerability assessment tool to be used to conduct a survey of a home.

The paper is expected to include:

1) Cover page with student’s name, course title and number, and date submitted.

2) Body of paper:

A.  Introduction that provides the purpose of the paper;

B.  Discussion of the site selection and the rationale for the site selected;

C.  Components of the vulnerability assessment; and

D.  Suggestions and recommendations of security counter-measures to mitigate and reduce the risk of identified vulnerabilities to an acceptable level.

3) Reference list.

4) Appendix that provides a copy of the vulnerability assessment tool that you assembled and used for the project.

All papers should be submitted to the assignment folder and adhere to APA guidelines. It should be seven computer-generated, double-spaced pages and use a 12-point font. Margins are to be 1 inch (top, bottom, right, and left). This does NOT include the vulnerability assessment tool that will be added as an appendix. I am including a checklist and an example to help ensure a good product is produced with all required information.

Here is a CHECKLIST FOR THE PAPER

Content

1)   Facility described

2)   Mission of facility or organization described

3)   Perimeter of facility described

4)   Surrounding geographical and neighborhood described

5)   Assets identified

6)   Critical assets prioritized with rationale provided as to how they relate to facility’s mission

7)   Process to identify vulnerabilities to critical assets described

8)   Vulnerabilities identified and their relation to critical assets

9)  Relevant information from review of past security incidents described and how past security incidents were used to identify vulnerabilities

10)  Potential loss and consequences of loss described

11)  Security countermeasures to address vulnerabilities identified and described

12)  Cost of security countermeasures and impact on organization’s budgetary restraints addressed

13)  Vulnerability Assessment Tool included as an Appendix 

 

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Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: The Role of Personality Traits in Predicting Future Job Performance. To prove this point, however, some studies need to be explored with a special focus on personality traits and how they can be used as predictors of future job performance.&nbsp.Thompson (2005) in particular reviewed past literature about personality on the job and found out that proactive personality tends to boost job performance. This has been influenced by the employee’s interaction with other individuals as well as the degree of self-motivation or initiative that they exhibit. The research was conducted among 126 employees with a 1:1 proportion with their supervisors. Data were obtained by sending out survey questionnaires to randomly selected alumni of business schools and their respective supervisors. Out of the 2,718 letters containing questionnaires, the ones who responded yielded a number of 202 from the alumni and 126 from the supervisors.

Proactive personality, network building, organizational initiative-taking, and performance were the areas appraised by the questionnaire. A factor analysis was used. The path model that placed a vital mediating role on network building between proactive personality and job performance was also tested using the Structural Equation Model (Thompson, 2005). Analysis of the data gathered and presented confirmed the existence of a connection between being proactive and performing well on the job. In particular, a proactive personality trait is a good predictor of the individual’s implementation of his initiative in the organization.

Individuals with proactive personality are typically those who try to seek for solutions to organizational concerns at their own level even if it is already beyond what has been stated in their job description (Thompson 2005). This implies that employees who deal with the problems in a positive manner are able to carry out their tasks well in comparison to those who would just complain over administrative shortcomings. There are even those who will go out of their way to plan out and impose major programs that will address the needs of the organization.&nbsp.This kind of proactive attitude allows employees to go back and focus on their tasks while the administration is also able to work on the more pressing concerns after other areas have already been covered by the proactive employees.

 

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Instructions

Assignment 2: The Multiplier Effect

  1. Go to “FRB: Press Release—FOMC statement—December 16, 2009.”
  2.  You should now find a press release from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, dated December 16, 2009, which discusses the decisions of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) for that date.

This release also states that the Federal Reserve is in the process of purchasing $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and about $175 billion of agency debt. Additionally, the release states that the FOMC has decided to gradually reduce “the pace” of such Fed purchases. Discuss why you believe that the FOMC has made such a decision, and explain the consequences of such a decision on the economy.

In your answer, discuss the Federal Reserve’s use of open-market operations to influence the money supply and the respective consequences of such actions. Include a discussion of the money multiplier effect in your response. Justify your conclusions and provide appropriate examples.

Using Microsoft Word, submit your responses in the form of a short paper (1 ½ – 2 pages).

 

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For all questions in this quiz, “1 year” = 12 months = 52 weeks = 365 days

1.  What is the purchase price of a 26-week “T-bill” (US Treasury note) with a maturity value of $800 that earns a simple annual interest rate of 2.0 % ? Round answer to the nearest cent.

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2. If you paid $225 to a payday loan company for the use of $2500 for 3 months, what simple annual rate of interest is the company charging? Give answer as a percentage; round answer to nearest one-hundredth of a percent

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3. If a bank pays 2.5% interest compounded monthly on its certificates of deposit (CDs), what is the effective interest rate? Give answer as a percentage; round answer to nearest one-hundredth of a percent

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4. Nathan’s savings account has a current balance of $3500. After 4 full years, what will the amount of interest be on this account if interest is 3.3% compounded monthly? Round answer to nearest cent.

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5.   You have $30,000 to invest in a retirement savings account. Swindler Securities offers a retirement account with 4.57% interest compounded monthly, while Dimbulb Investments offers a retirement account with 4.6% interest compounded semi-annually. If you’re thinking of investing this money for 6 years, which would be the better option in terms of (higher) return? Why?

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6. Parents have set up a sinking fund in order to have $150,000 in 18 years for their new baby’s eventual college education. How much money should be paid quarterly into an account that pays 4.8% compounded quarterly? Round answer to the nearest cent.

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7. At age 40, Sheila makes her first monthly deposit of $400 into an employee retirement savings plan account earning 4.2% interest compounded monthly. She continues to make a monthly deposit of $400 until her 65th birthday (300 deposits in all). How much money is in Sheila’s saving plan account at the end of the 25 years?  Round answer to the nearest cent.

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8. What is the present value of an ordinary annuity that pays $2000 quarterly for 6 years at 5.2% compounded quarterly? Round answer to the nearest cent.

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9. A factory needs a $40,000 piece of machinery that has a useful life of 5 years. Knowing that the machine will have to be replaced every 5 years, the firm has the option of leasing a machine for $10,000 per year, or borrowing $40,000 to buy the machine. The nth National Bank can provide a $40,000 loan at 7.8% compounded annually over 5 years. Over the 5-year life of the machine:  is it cheaper to lease, or to borrow the money and buy the machine? 

(Hint: How much would the company end up paying if the money for the machine is borrowed?)

Show all work to support your choice: a simple “one or the other” answer, even if it’s correct, will result in zero credit!

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10. A family purchases a $400,000 home by paying 20% up front and taking out a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 3.6% compounded monthly to finance the balance of the purchase price. Determine:

a.      the monthly payment

b.     the unpaid balance after 15 years

c.      the total amount of interest paid to the lending institution over the course of the 30-year loan once the final payment is made

Round all answers to nearest cent. Show work!! Answers given without work shown will get zero credit.

                                                           Answers:        a. _________________________________

                                                                                   b. _________________________________

                                                                                   c. _________________________________

 

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