Assignment 4: Saving and Investing (32.0 points) 1. Describe a real or made up but realistic situation that could cause you or someone you know to have to use money from a financial reserve. (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) If someone were to have a sudden, serious illness that required a long hospital stay with large medical bills and left them unable to work, they would have to use money from a financial reserve like a savings account or a 401k plan to pay the bills. 2.
Assignment 4 1. Describe a real or made up but realistic situation that could cause you or someone you know to have to use money from a financial reserve. (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) Someone caught Ebola a serious illness that required a long hospital stay with large medical bills and left them unable to work. He then had to use money from a financial reserve like a savings account or a 401k plan to pay the bills.
Assignment 4: Saving and Investing (32.0 points) 1. Describe a real or made up but realistic situation that could cause you or someone you know to have to use money from a financial reserve. (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) If someone were to have a sudden, serious illness that needed a long hospital stay with large medical bills and left them unable to work, they would have to use money from a financial reserve like a savings account or a 401k plan to pay the bills. 2.
How many months' worth of expenses do you think your financial reserve should include? Describe at least two reasons for this decision. (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) 3. Would you rather have a savings account that offered simple interest, or an account that offered compound interest?
If you were opening a savings account with compound interest, would you prefer an account that offers annual compounding, quarterly compounding, or daily compounding? Why? (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) I would want an account that offers quarterly compounding so I can continue putting money in my bank so that interest will grow on it. Although I am not sure what I will choose when I am older, I think this one sounds the best and most intriguing.
Assignment 1: Economic Basics (24.0 points) 1. Describe two examples of important things that financial planning skills can help you do, and explain why these things are important to you personally. (4-6 sentences. 2.0 points) Create a budget and save and invest money. to me saving money is important because when I don’t have the money to do what I need to do that is a need.
Why? (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) A: I would rather have a saving account that offers compound interest. I would choose compound interest because I end up with more money over time , than a simple interest one. In compound interest the interest is added to the principal in the account so each year the interest money that is added to the principal account increases each year.
Describe a real or made up but realistic situation that could cause you or someone you know to have to use money from a financial reserve. (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) * If someone were to have a sudden, serious illness that required a long hospital stay with large medical bills and left them unable to work, they would have to use money from a financial reserve like a savings account or a 401k plan to pay the bills. 2. How many months' worth of expenses do you think your financial reserve should include?
There will be half as many paychecks that have to be prepared per year now. Money is also saved by the interest earned on the yet to be paid out funds and the cutback in bank fees. Also with the change in pay periods, we have totally changed the way the deductions are calculated, resulting in a more precise system as a whole. This project took around a year from start to finish, and it, alone, would be satisfactory to justify increase in my salary on
Hugo Boss is working toward improving their efficiency and responsiveness toward the NOS items buy utilizing a SCO Pilot system that will help with product availability issues. They are currently having issues during key retail replenishment periods, such as December, and losing revenue due to stockouts (1.1% of net sales in 2004). Changes in demand and production lag time created a persistent challenge to have the right amount of inventory at the right time. NOS (never out of stock) items do not change seasonally (style, color, and fabric remain constant for three years) and before the SCO pilot system, Hugo Boss was placing orders for these products once a month. Upon implementation of this system, they changed to ordering weekly.