Financial Ratio Analysis

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to help students gain a better understanding of the financial statements used for corporate financial reporting and the key ratios used to make business decisions.

Assignment Steps

Select a Fortune 500 Company from one of the following industries:

  • Pharmaceutical
  • Energy
  • Retail
  • Automotive
  • Computer Hardware

Review the balance sheet and income statement in the company’s 2015 Annual Report.

Calculate the following ratios using Microsoft® Excel®:

  • Current Ratio
  • Quick Ratio
  • Debt Equity Ratio
  • Inventory Turnover Ratio
  • Receivables Turnover Ratio
  • Total Assets Turnover Ratio
  • Profit Margin (Net Margin) Ratio
  • Return on Assets Ratio

Analyze in 1,050 words why each ratio is important for financial decision making.

Submit your analysis as well as your calculations

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Discuss federal government’s involvement in the secondary mortgage market, specifically, the roles and functions of government agencies and GSEs, assignment help

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8 Questions:

  • Discuss federal government’s involvement in the secondary mortgage market, specifically, the roles and functions of government agencies and GSEs in helping the evolvement of the secondary market. Were there excessive risks taken by the GSEs?
  • Despite the criticism against mortgage-backed securities, MBSs provide benefits to investors. Discuss its role in portfolio management as a potential diversification tool.
  • What is high frequency trading? Discuss the competing perspectives (supports and concerns) regarding high frequency trading.
  • Does empirical evidence generally support EMH in weak, semi-strong, and strong form? Please provide some details of the supportive evidence or evidence against it.
  • Discuss the rationale and main criticisms of the following stock market interventions. Is there any evidence that these interventions failed to work?
    • Short-selling restrictions.
    • Circuit breaker.
  • Give a few examples of psychological factors or behavioral biases that could affect investment behavior. Provide details on how they affect investment behavior.
  • How have actively managed funds performed relative to passive funds? Discuss the values provided to investors of active funds. Do fund manager quality, experience and risk attitude affect fund performance?
  • Discuss the changes and overall healthiness in the commercial banking industry after the recent recession.

Instructions:

  • There are six chapter slides, read these slides, you should be able to find most answers in these PowerPoint. Also, read the attached notes.
  • If you need more details or evidence supporting your arguments, feel free to use online resources. Just make sure you include citations if you cite external articles/journal publications.
  • Bullet points copied from lecture slides are not accepted; you need to explain them in details. Please think carefully and write your answers in a clear and logical way. Also for most questions, you want to support your arguments using data.

Format:

  • Font size 12, 1.15 line space, “normal” margin.
  • Answer to each question is about 1 full page long (or at least 1 page, but do not exceed that length too much). Answers that are too short will not get full credit. Bibliography, graphs, and tables are not counted toward main text. Include them at the end of each essay.

Format of citations:

  • Example for in-text journal publications: “Chevalier & Ellison (J. Finance, 1999) found that the funds whose managers attended colleges with higher-SAT scores performed better.” You do not need to provide the full citation of this paper.
  • Example for citing online articles: “In 2014, 85% of active large-cap stock funds failed to beat or match their benchmark index[1].”

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-for-actively-managed-funds-1423454485

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Risk and Return Analysis, business and finance homework help

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Create a 1,050-word report, and include the following: Note: each bullet point below must be a heading in your paper.

  • Explain the relationship between risk and return
  • Identify an example of risk and return.
  • Explain which is more risky bonds or common stocks.
  • Explain how understanding risk and return will help you in future business ventures.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

See attached for grading guide

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Did Jim and Laura Buy a Car?, business and finance homework help

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Did Jim and Laura Buy a Car?

Worth 200 points

HINT: See Chapters 10-14 of the text to help understand some of the legal issues covered in this assignment.

Jim and Laura Buyer visit the local car dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently have is aging and is starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, Jim and Laura decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments.

Once at the car dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test-drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like the blue 4-door sedan. Therefore, they agree to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.00 is refundable. No documents were signed.

The next day, Stan Salesman calls Jim and Laura to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. Jim and Laura, on the way home from the dealership, decided that they were not going to buy the car because they did not want to spend that money each month. Therefore, Jim and Laura tell Stan salesman that they have decided not to buy the car and request their $100.00 deposit back.

Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract to buy the car. Stan is very persistent and insistent that Jim and Laura have contracted to buy the car; therefore, the $100.00 will be applied to the purchase price of the car. Jim and Laura are shocked and angry as not only do they not want to spend the money, but now feel as though they are being duped by Stan Salesman.

Jim and Laura have an appointment to see a lawyer in a few days, but know you are a student taking a business law class and come to you for advice. They are very frazzled, and understandably upset that they may have just purchased a car. Since you have been taking business law, you have read and understand the elements of a contract and the defenses to a contract. Therefore, although you are not a lawyer, you provide some basic advice from what you’ve learned in your business law class.

In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the above facts as presented, the material provided in the text, and material covered in the lecture. In your paper, be sure to address the following:

  1. Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
  2. Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile.
  3. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.
  4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
  5. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
    • Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Click here for the grading rubric.

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Create a consulting contract that defines the boundaries of your analysis and objectives of the project

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MUST BE ORIGINAL AND PASS ALL ORIGINALITY TESTS

Given that project teams within a large hospital department have been ineffective in meeting their productivity goals and providing patient information in a timely way, you are asked to work with the teams to analyze and resolve the situation. Develop the elements of your consulting contract using the following requirements:

  • Create a consulting contract that defines the boundaries of your analysis and objectives of the project.
  • Explain the kinds of information you seek and your role in the project.
  • Define the product you will deliver and support you will need from the client.
  • Identify suggested time schedule, confidentially, and feedback.

The requirements and format of the paper is to be as follows:

  • Include three (3) references
  • Typed, double spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), APA format

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writing a research paper , marketing homework help

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 The individual paper should be of a maximum of twenty two pages (22) double-spaced typewritten pages (excluding cover sheet, exhibits, bibliography, and appendices) in length. The number of participants determines actual team paper’s length.  Papers will be graded based upon content, quality, and pride of authorship. The grading criteria includes: 1) Paper appearance (title page, table of contents, tables/graphs/charts/graphics, foot-notes, reference list, appendices, etc.); 2) Problem-solution consistency (introduction clearly states the research objective, logical flow of the text, conclusion contains set of meaningful recommendations); 3) Content originality in each chapter; 4) Project uniqueness (topic formulation, methods of analysis, ways of data collection, caliber of recommendations, personal vision, material presentation techniques); 5) Research practicability (can be recommended for use in an industry).

I want you to write about Emirates Airlines based on table of content attached. 

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Leadership and Decision-Making Styles SLP

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For this assignment think about a specific decision that was made by your supervisor in the organization you currently work for or have worked for in the past. Review the background materials carefully on the Vroom-Yetton model and think about how this model applies to this decision that you experienced. Then write a 2- to 3-page paper applying the Vroom-Yetton model to this decision:

  1. Describe the decision that management had to make, and also whether their decision-making style was autocratic, consultative, or group-based. Explain your reasoning.
  2. Go through Vroom-Yetton’s seven questions and apply these questions to their diagram to see what decision-making style their model suggests. Briefly explain the reasoning behind your answers to the seven questions.
  3. Conclude your paper with a discussion of whether or not you would recommend this model to your supervisor and whether or not you were surprised by the recommendation given by this model regarding decision-making style.

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Gains from trade, economics homework help

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So, I have attached images of the problem I need help with here:

What I need help with is the following:

C’s opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye is ______ of jeans.

F’s opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye is ______ of jeans.

Who has the comparative advantage for jeans? rye?

The country producing rye will make ______ per month.

The country producing jeans will make ______ per month.

Total production of rye increase ________ per month.

Total production of jeans increases _____ per month.

I also need to fill in C’s production of jeans and F’s production of rye on the chart.




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Organizational Behaviour, management homework help

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  • As a manager of a busy clothing store, you have found that many customers are nasty and hostile to employees. Briefly explain what you would do or say to prevent the loss of good employees. Provide a specific example to help explain your answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • As a manager, what employee information is it unethical and unacceptable to collect about employees? Provide a specific example to help explain your answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • Briefly describe how perception can negatively affect the relationship between a manager and an employee. Provide a specific example to help explain your answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • Briefly explain the concept of upward communications. Provide a specific example of when a company should use that communication method, and why it would an appropriate and effective method to use.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Recognition may be motivational for a short while, but it does not have any staying power. Briefly explain why you chose that answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • In your opinion, what is the major factor that differentiates a good decision maker from a person who seems to make bad decisions? Briefly explain why you chose that answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • In your opinion, which is more likely to lead to employee success: the employee’s ability or the employee’s personality? Provide a specific example to help explain your answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

  • Provide a specific example of when a supervisor would allow his/her employees to behave unethically. Briefly explain why it would be an appropriate situation.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

*Scenario: You are the manager of two employees who are productive alone, but cannot seem to work together without conflict. However, their jobs require them to work together at least three days a month. Their conflict is starting to bother the other employees in the department and they are complaining to you about the conflict. What will you do? Briefly explain why you chose that answer.

Write your answer here in complete sentences.

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Session Long Project , management homework help

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Distribution Systems

Welcome to the second SLP assignment for this course. Investigate Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and discuss the following questions in a 4-page paper.

How does your organization distribute its product? If your organization is a service provider, explain how the services are allocated and passed on to its customers. How can a firm “inventory” services?

SLP Assignment Expectations

Research the organization with information you can find on the internet or other resources you find on your own. The paper should be 4 pages in length and have a cover sheet and a reference page. Clarity of presentation is important, as well as your ability to apply the topics to the logistics area of your selected firm. Use at least 3 different sources of information and annotate your sources of information appropriately on your references page and within the text as necessary. You will be assessed on how well you demonstrate your knowledge of the topic as it applies to your selected firm. Submit your assignment for grading by the end of this module.

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