Capital Budget

Question 1

This assignment should be at least two pages in length and complete the following:

Goal Choice

• Clearly identify your chosen goal in an introductory paragraph.

Operating Budget

• Create an operating budget for your goal.
  • The budget should include common categories and subcategories such as general operations, HR, marketing, miscellaneous expenses, etc.
  • Include all major expenses required for the goal. Common expenses include salaries, marketing channels, and inventory.
  • Connect the costs/categories that you’re considering to your already created marketing, management, and HR strategies discussed in earlier portions of the project.

Capital Budget

• Identify two long-term assets from the capital budget that will play a role in the completion of your goal. These can be new purchases or existing assets.
  • Briefly explain the impact that each will have.

Question 2

This week you will begin working on Phase 2 of your course project. Using the same data set and variables for your selected topic, add the following information to your analysis:

1. Discuss the importance of constructing confidence intervals for the population mean.
   • What are confidence intervals?
   • What is a point estimate?
   • What is the best point estimate for the population mean? Explain.
   • Why do we need confidence intervals?
2. Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
3. Construct two confidence intervals for the population mean: a 95% confidence interval and a 99% confidence interval. Assume that your data is normally distributed and the population standard deviation is unknown.
   • Please show your work for the construction of these confidence intervals and be sure to format your equations to fit the appropriate form (may need editing here).
4. Write a paragraph that correctly interprets the confidence intervals in context of your selected topic.
5. Compare and contrast your findings for the 95% and 99% confidence intervals.
   • Did you notice any changes in your interval estimate? Explain.
   • What conclusion(s) can be drawn about your interval estimates when the confidence level is increased? Explain.