Write 8 pages with APA style on Democracy and Islam Have Occupied a Central Position in Middle Eastern Politics.

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Write 8 pages with APA style on Democracy and Islam Have Occupied a Central Position in Middle Eastern Politics. The case study, written by Tessler and Brand in the year 1995, sheds some light on the present events happening in the Arab world as they reflect some repercussions originating from the historical realms of political Islam and democracy. The subject is of vital importance considering the current trend in Arab politics and its implications on international politics at large. The current events occurring in the Arab world have deep connections with the history of democracy and Islam in the region and can be better understood with regards to the historical trends.

According to Tessler and Brand (1995), Islam has significantly grown in its importance in the Arab world. Such sentiments are visible through the more apparent praying and veiling. And many campaigns seem to rake in a lot of support as they reinforce the Islamic banner. Such support can materialize into a successful election of the candidate provided that an electoral poll takes place. However, not all scholars agree with the supposed positive correlation between democracy and Islam. Many scholars argue that democracy and Islam are incompatible. To make a statement about the issue requires serious study into the current air prevailing across the Arab world while also seeking guidance from the theoretical frameworks. Political Islam is usually viewed as a conflicting concept to secularism or other liberal forms of democracy. However, in the Arab world, it is almost impossible to eliminate religion from political systems. The events of the Arab Spring demonstrated the need to reconsider the relationship between Islam and democracy as ideological rivals. Individual protests during the Arab spring grew immensely strong eventually changing the political system from authoritarian to democratic. More&nbsp.important is the fact that the events gave rise to the creation of Islamist parties that are eager to take part in the democratic elections and therefore, come to power (Malinova, 2012).&nbsp.

The Islamic concept of governance and power holds critical importance in international relations, particularly in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region, where Islam is a major religion that governs life.

Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the rise in cybercrime and the possible remedy.

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Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the rise in cybercrime and the possible remedy.

Many banking organizations have received complaints from their customers regarding the loss of money from cyber-thieves. Hence, many bank organizations have lost a large portion of their revenue to cybercrime reducing their competitiveness in this industry. In addition, the organizations lose their customers who feel that they do not get enough security of their money in these organizations. Therefore, the system designers are now facing a serious challenge of having to protect the organization from cybercriminals who each discovering new approaches of stealing from organizations.

Identity theft is the illegal and the unconsented acquisition of another person’s personal information such as identity card number, bank account number and password with an intention of using it in fraudulent operations. With the current embrace of technology in the business sector, the internet has become a new platform for theft especially with most internet users being ignorant of their privacy and security in their online presence. In the US, the banking sector loses over £1 billion every year to identity theft which is already sending warning signals to the online bankers.

With more banks venturing in online services and online financial transfer is dominant in these sectors, the banks and the customers are at a very high risk of losing their money to fraudsters. Statistics indicate that the number of cases of identity fraud increased in the recent past (Ryckman 12). In 2010 and 2012, the US banking industry has registered a loss of 80 and 101.3 dollars, which marks an increase of about 27% in financial loss (PR, Newswire Para. 1). As more customers complain about the loss of their monies, victim organizations continue to experience loss both in terms of money as well as the outflow of customers.&nbsp.

James Madison was brought in as assistant to Computron’s chairman, who had the task of getting the company back into a sound financial position.  Madison must prepare an analysis of where the company is now, what it must do to regain its financial health, and what actions to take. Your assignment is to help her answer the following questions, using the recent and projected financial information shown next. Provide clear explanations, not yes or no answers. Why are ratios useful? What three groups use ratio analysis and for what reasons? Calculate the profit margin, operating profit margin, basic earning power (BEP), return on assets (ROA), and return on equity (ROE).  What can you say about these ratios?

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Question 1

‘Jenny Cochran, a graduate of The University of Tennessee with 4 years of experience as an equities analyst, was recently brought in as assistant to the chairman of the board of Computron Industries, a manufacturer of computer components.

During the previous year, Computron had doubled its plant capacity, opened new sales offices outside its home territory, and launched an expensive advertising campaign. Cochran was assigned to evaluate the impact of the changes. She began by gathering financial statements and other data. (Data Attached)

  1. What effect did the expansion have on sales and net income? What effect did the expansion have on the asset side of the balance sheet?  What do you conclude from the statement of cash flows?
  2. What is Computron’s net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT)? What are operating current assets? What are operating current liabilities? How much net operating working capital and total net operating capital does Computron have?
  3. What is Computron’s free cash flow (FCF)? What are Computron’s “net uses” of its FCF?
  4. Calculate Computron’s return on invested capital (ROIC). Computron has a 10% cost of capital (WACC). What caused the decline in the ROIC? Was it due to operating profitability or capital utilization? Do you think Computron’s growth added value?
  5. What is Computron’s EVA?  The cost of capital was 10% in both years.
  6. Assume that a corporation has $200,000 of taxable income from operations. What is the company’s federal tax liability?
  7. Assume that you are in the 25% marginal tax bracket and that you have $50,000 to invest. You have narrowed your investment choices down to municipal bonds yielding 7% or equally risky corporate bonds with a yield of 10%. Which one should you choose and why? At what marginal tax rate would you be indifferent?

 

Question 2

James Madison was brought in as assistant to Computron’s chairman, who had the task of getting the company back into a sound financial position.  Madison must prepare an analysis of where the company is now, what it must do to regain its financial health, and what actions to take. Your assignment is to help her answer the following questions, using the recent and projected financial information shown next. Provide clear explanations, not yes or no answers.

  1. Why are ratios useful? What three groups use ratio analysis and for what reasons?
  2. Calculate the profit margin, operating profit margin, basic earning power (BEP), return on assets (ROA), and return on equity (ROE).  What can you say about these ratios?
  3. Calculate the inventory turnover, days sales outstanding (DSO), fixed assets turnover, operating capital requirement, and total assets turnover.  How does Computron’s utilization of assets stack up against other firms in its industry?
  4. Calculate the current and quick ratios based on the projected balance sheet and income statement data. What can you say about the company’s liquidity position and its trend?
  5. Calculate the debt ratio, liabilities-to-assets ratio, times-interest-earned, and EBITDA coverage ratios.  How does Computron compare with the industry with respect to financial leverage?  What can you conclude from these ratios?
  6. Calculate the price/earnings ratio and market/book ratio.  Do these ratios indicate that investors are expected to have a high or low opinion of the company?
  7. Use the extended DuPont equation to provide a summary and overview of Computron’s projected financial condition.  What are the firm’s major strengths and weaknesses?
  8. What are some potential problems and limitations of financial ratio analysis?
  9. What are some qualitative factors analysts should consider when evaluating a company’s likely future financial performance?

 

Submit your answers in a Word document.

 

Write a 3 pages paper on the life and death of stars.

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Write a 3 pages paper on the life and death of stars.

The most prominent stars were grouped and the brightest of them all were given names. The grouping of stars also helped astronomy to track the motion and positions of other heavenly bodies. It was by this tracking that an idea came up of creating calendars where they used the motion of the sun against the background stars. The widely used calendar in the world, The Gregorian Calendar, was based on the angle of the earth’s rotational axis and the sun. How was the star formed according to astronomy?

All stars are born from collapsing dust and cloud of gases which are concentrated at temperatures for a period of years. When the protostars settle down at average temperatures to form a main-sequence star. For most of its life, the stars use nuclear fusion which is generated through the fusion of hydrogen atoms at the core of the main sequence star. The reason behind ganging up of stars in pairs or multiple around the milk way may be because of the spinning dust and clouds of collapsing dust causing a break up of two or three blobs.

During the formation of a star, not all gas and dust is used up, The remaining materials become planets, comets, asteroids or may remain as dust. For a star to be as big as the sun it requires 50 million years from the beginning of the collapse till adulthood, where else our sun will remain in that state for 10 billion years. The helium formed in the interiors by the reaction of hydrogen fuels provides pressure which keeps the stars from collapsing under their own weight and produces energy that keeps on shinning.

When the helium at the core of the star is nearly exhausted, all-natural occurring elements heavier than Helium are formed via supernova nucleosynthesis or stellar nucleosynthesis. Supernova nucleosynthesis occurs when massive stars explode while stellar nucleosynthesis occurs during their lifetimes. During the end lifetimes of the star, there is degenerated matter is also formed. For instance, 1 gram of the mass converted entirely to energy would equally produce an explosion rough of 22,000 tons of TNT.

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