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  • Wal-Mart Financial Analysis Report (2012/2013)

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    ACC 205 Week 5 Final Paper

    Write a five to seven page financial statement analysis of a public company, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In this analysis you will discuss the financial health of this company with the ultimate goal of making a recommendation to other investors.

    Your paper should consist of the following sections: introduction, company overview, horizontal analysis, ratio analysis, final recommendation, and conclusions.

    Here is a breakdown of the sections within the body of the assignment:

    •Company Overview: Provide a brief overview of your company (one to two paragraphs at most). What industry is it in? What are its main products or services? Who are its competitors?

    •Horizontal Analysis of Income Statement and Balance Sheet: Prepare a three-year horizontal analysis of the income statement and balance sheet of your selected company. Discuss the importance and meaning of horizontal analysis. Discuss both the positive and negative trends presented in your company.

    •Ratio Analysis: Calculate the current ratio, quick ratio, cash to current liabilities ratio, over a two year period. Discuss and interpret the ratios that you calculated. Discuss potential liquidity issues based on your calculations of the current and quick ratios. Are there any factors that could be erroneously influencing the results of the ratios? Discuss liquidity issues of competitive companies within the same industry.

    •Recommendation: Based on your analysis would you recommend an individual invest in this company? What strengths do you see? What risks do you see? It is perfectly acceptable to state that you would recommend avoiding this company as long as you provide support for your position.

    Writing the Final Paper

    1.Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

    2.Must include a title page with the following:

    a.Student’s name

    b.Course name and number

    c.Instructor’s name

    d.Date submitted

    3.Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.

    4.Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.

    5.Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

    6.Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

    Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

  • FIN 370 Initial Public Offering

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    FIN 370 Week 5 Team Assignment Initial public Offering Paper

    Write a 750 to 1,000 word paper describing an initial public offering for a global firm.
    Include the following:

    • The role of the investment banker and underwriter
    • The role of an originating house and a syndicate
    • An explanation of the pricing of the issue
    • A discussion of some of the risks involved in the public offering and how the securities laws deal with them
    • A discussion of any foreign exchange risks the company can face with your ideas about how to mitigate them

    Support your work with at least one scholarly reference besides

  • New Product Launch Marketing Plan, Part II

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    MKT 571 Week 4 Learning Team New Product Launch Marketing Plan, Part II
    Complete a market segmentation of no more than 1,400 words for your buyers. Be sure to include the following for both markets:
    • Detail the target market profiles, key buying behaviors, and decision motivators for your consumer and organizational target markets.
    • How you will manage each stage of the PLC including tactical plans for the Four Ps at each stage.
    • Expanding on your product offering from Week 2, provide the product mix for your team’s new offering including features and benefits, branding, any other products in its line, its differentiating characteristics from competitive or substitute products, packaging and labeling, and warranties and guarantees.
    • Create a new positioning statement for your product, and provide justification for your new positioning strategy.
      Use the Sample Marketing Plan in Ch. 2 of Marketing Management as a guide in developing the components of your plan. This should not be a guide to formatting your plan.

      Format your plan consistent with APA guidelines.

      Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

  • Week 4: Organizational Structure Paper

    $7.00

    MGT 230 Week 4 Organizational Structure Paper

    Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you select an organization with which you are familiar and present the following items as they relate to that organization:

    • Describe the organizational structure of your selected organization. Compare and contrast that structure with two different organizational structures.
    • Evaluate how organizational functions (such as marketing, finance, human resources, and operations) influence and determine the organizational structure of your selected organization.
    • Explain how organizational design (such as geographic, functional, customer-based, product, service, hybrid, matrix, marketing channels, and departmentalization) helps determine which structure best suits your selected organization’s needs.

    Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
    Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

  • CJA304 Technology and Communication Paper

    $12.50
    CJA 304 Week 4 Individual Technology and Communication Paper
    Prepare a 1,050 to 1,750- word paper that explains how technology has affected the communication capabilities of specialized databases in the criminal justice system.
    Include the following in your paper:
    A comparison of at least two types of specialized databases, such as the following:
    • Mobile data terminals
    • AFIS
    • Live scan
    • Facial recognition
    • Iris scan
    Overall positive effect due to new technologies
    Overall negative effect due to new technologies
    A discussion about which new specialized technologies you might want to use and why
  • Week 4 Individual Work

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    1. Why is the HRM role so much more complex, and important in the international context? (Chapter Nine).
    2. Explain the common causes of expatriate failure. What are some major success factors for expatriates? Explain the role and importance of each. (Chapter Nine).
    3. Discuss the role of reverse culture shock in the repatriation process. What can companies do to avoid this problem? What kinds of skills do managers learn from a foreign assignment, and how can the company benefit from them? What is the role of repatriation in the company’s global competitive situation? (Chapter 10).
    4. What are the reasons for the small numbers of female expatriates? What more can companies do to use women as a resource for international management? (Chapter 10).
  • Riordan Manufacturing HR System Update

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    BSA 502 Week 4 Individual Assignment Operations and Logistics Issues (Kudler Fine Foods)

    Operations Focus

    Review the Operations web page in the intranet section for Kudler Fine Foods in the Virtual Organizations link. Review the section on Purchasing on this web page. Also perform research on business purchasing through the Internet. P

    repare a 3-5 page paper on how Kudler could benefit from Internet purchasing and how this new system and process would be potentially implemented. Include at least two Internet sources. Describe Kudler’s current purchasing process and systems, discuss Internet purchasing concepts, and discuss implementation processes that Kudler could use to implement revised processes incorporating Internet-based purchasing.

  • HRM/531 Clapton Commercial Construction Company (Medium Business)

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    HRM 531 Week 4 Performance Management Plan Landslide Limousines

    Complete the Performance Management Plan task as described in the Email from Traci on the Atwood and Allen Consulting page.

    Hello,

    It’s Traci again. This week, I need you to develop a performance management framework to recommend to the client. You’ll need to make sure you address the following:

    Alignment of the performance management framework to the organizational business strategy
    Organizational performance philosophy
    The job analysis process you will complete to identify the skills needed by employees
    Methods used for measuring the employee’s skills
    Process for addressing skill gaps
    Approach for delivering effective performance feedback
    Oh, and make sure to reference my communication with the client for any relevant information. I look forward to seeing what you develop.

    Thanks,

    Traci Goldeman
    Manager
    Atwood and Allen Consulting

    Required elements:

    No more than 2450 words

  • FI 415 Week 4 homework Chapter 4 problems 3,5,8

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    3. Are the following statements true or false? Please explain why.

    1. The only way a company can grow at a rate above its current sustainable growth rate is by issuing new stock?
    2. The stock market is a ready source of new capital when a company is incurring heavy losses?
    3. Share repurchases usually increase  earnings per share.
    4. Companies often buy back their stock because managers believe the shares  are undervalued.
    5. Only rapidly growing firms have growth management problems.

    5. Increase  growth increases stock prices. Look at Figure 4.5, describe the trend in net equity financing in the U.S. during the last 30 years.  What does this say about the use of equity financing in U.S. corporations?

    1. Genentech Inc. is a California-based biotech pioneer recently acquired by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG. Roche paid $46.8 billion in cash for the 44 percent of Genentech it did not already own, implying a market value of over $100 billion for the entire  company.  For a look at Genentech’s recent  sustainable growth challenges, consider the following selected  financial data.
    2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
    Profit margin (%) 17.0 17.0 19.3 22.8 23.6
    Retention ratio

    (%)

    100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
    Asset turnover (X) 0.38 0.49 0.55 0.63 0.32
    Financial leverage

    (X)

    1.64 1.44 1.79 1.99 2.00
    Growth rate in sales  (%) 26.1 40.0 43.5 40.0 26.3
    • Calculate Genentech’s annual sustainable growth rate for the year 2003-2007
    • Did Genentech face a growth management challenge during this period?
    • How did Genentech cope with this challenge
    • Calculate Genentech’s sustainable growth rate in 2007 assuming an asset turnover of 0.72 times