Reference no: EM132350678
ASSIGNMENT - R&D Project
Your company, Company X, has decided to take on a major R&D project. As with any project your goal is to complete the work as quickly, cheaply, and accurately as possible. The current date is February 1 2017.
The key will be to hire employees that can complete the task with minimal mistakes, as every mistake forces you to discard previous results, losing time, money, and other valuable resources. Details about the project including its employee, financials, and other information can be found below.
QUESTIONS
A. What is:
Ai. - the average cost of the project (Ignore the Post R&D monetisation period)?
Aii. - the average length of time (in months) it takes to complete the R&D project?
B. How much, on average, will the project (including its monetisation period) contribute to the wealth of the firm?
Use the most appropriate calculation here. Discuss.
C. Examine two input parameters in more detail. Discuss the findings and how they would influence your oversight/handling of the project.
It is the depth of your explanation that matters most here therefore do not pick something like the discount rate.
D. Use second order stochastic dominance to determine the optimal hiring strategy from Table 2.
Use a 2-way data table for full marks.
E. Discuss the process and findings from Part D.
Make sure to reference specific results and figures that help support/explain your conclusion.
F. What are some other details that you think would be useful to include in your model?
For each change/addition you should: describe the change and why it is important, how it could be implemented, and what affect you would expect for it to have on the model's results.
Attachment:- Financial Applications and Quantitative Analysis.rar