Part I: Identify all the lazy dollars in your financial life. Identify source, amount and what action might be indicated. Part II. Develop a personal and household savings plan. What savings strategies will you use to improve your financial situation? Explain why you chose each strategy instead of others that you did not choose. How much will you save each month? How much interest will you earn and how much will you have saved in 5 years, 10 years, and 20 years?
Making personal savings plan is a good way of securing one’s financial future. Financial experts argue that one of the reasons why most people do not save is because they do not have personal goals, (Klawitter, Anderson & Gugerty, 2012). The following are the lazy dollars in my financial life;
Entertainment – charges to night cubs, drinks at the clubs, upscale coffee drinks, concerts
Food, clothes, jewelry, toiletries and candies
Vacations/recreations
The total costs for entertainment amounts to 50 dollars, vacations and recreations costs 100 dollars while expenses on food, clothes and candies are 35 dollars. These expenses are incurred on a weekly basis, although not on a regular basis.
Personal and Household Savings Plan
List of my financial obligations such as rent and utilities
List of my personal spending categories such as recreation
Assign the a percentage of the total expenditure to savings and write it as a dollar amount
Subtract this from the total income and divide the figure on the daily obligations
Look for budget areas that can be eliminated or reduced
Saving Strategies, I Will Use to Improve my Financial Situation
I will use two saving strategies and these include setting aside 10% of my net income on savings and placing the savings in a bank account. My personal savings plan will give me the approximate amount of income and financial obligations. Using it, I will be able to calculate the net income from which I will set aside 10% to savings. However, some expenses may be unforeseen, and this requires savings in traditional accounts in order to make them easily accessible. I shall choose these savings strategies since they provide a comprehensive mechanism of calculating the actual savings amount to be set aside unlike any other ad hoc method. With these savings strategies, with a monthly gross income of 565 dollars, the net income calculated shall be {(565-[100+35+50]} = $380. Setting aside 10% of these gives $38 dollars that go into my monthly savings account. In the savings account, I shall earn 8% interest rate and this translates to monthly interest of $2.53……………………………………………………………………………………..
For week two research and post the following financial statements of a healthcare provider:
The Balance Sheet, or as it is sometimes called The Statement of Financial Position
The Income Statement, which is also referred to as the Statement of Operations
The Statement of Cash Flows
The statements should and normally do show at least two years of comparable data.
Note these may be contained in extensive multi-page documents. So as we can better learn from each other please excerpt or scan just the statements above. As required by the article paper grading rubric, students should not use the same data from the same provider. Answer the following questions about the financials posted:
Share the following from the financials, what is the organizations…
Total assets and the change, increase (or decrease) in percentage from the prior year.
Total liabilities and the change, increase (or decrease) in percentage from the prior year.
Total revenues and the change, increase (or decrease) in percentage from the prior year.
Total expenses and the change, increase (or decrease) in percentage from the prior year.
Operating profits and the change, increase (or decrease) in percentage from the prior year.
Given the above report on what you believe to be the provider’s financial health. Is it improving or not? What strengths or challenges do you observe?
A rich Qatari man has approached you and your team for a professional advice on financial reporting practices and financial performance among Malaysian public listed companies. He needs your assistance in making a USD2 billion investment decisions in companies that listed on the main market (please exclude Banking/Construction).
You are required to perform analysis of financial statements released by Malaysian public listed companies. This report need 2 listed companies from the same industry and you are expected to download 2 most recent annual reports (e.g. year 2018 and 2019) of the companies from the following link:
http://www.bursamalaysia.com
<Listed Companies>
<Company Announcement>
<Category: Annual Report>; <Market: Main Market>
The following are information to be analyzed (but, not limited to):
1. Business nature of the company.
2. Ratio analysis: Horizontal and vertical analyses (minimum 15 ratios)
Please perform 2-years trend analysis on those ratios and provide your professional interpretation (comments) on the ratios calculated.
Based on the above analysis, please recommend the best 2 Malaysian public listed companies for the Sheikh to invest his USD2 billion money (please justify your recommendation).
Investing entails the act of committing an amount of money with the expectation of obtaining more income in the future. Investing in the stock market is the most common way to gain investing experience as a beginner. The stocks market presents an excellent way of growing wealth, even in the period’s market volatility, they can act as a good investment. As an investor one may decide to choose the stocks to invest in themselves or hire managers to help with the decision-making process (Lee et al., 2019). However, for one to be a good investor in the long term, they should choose the do it yourself method. Depending on the investor’s risk profile, one has to choose between stock mutual funds and individual stocks of specific companies. However, it is more advisable to build an investment portfolio to diversify the risks involved in the stock markets………………………………………………………………………………………….
Note: This is part of a project for 11 weeks please see the overview of it to get a good idea about the assignment. Also, please see the rubric and lesson content for additional information to complete the assignment.
As part of your work as Project Manager on the strategic analysis for the potential business operation standardization project, you will be developing a way to assess the various organizations and benchmark their performance in the areas that were highlighted as part of the current issues facing the organization.
Write a 1-2 page paper analyzing how you will structure and conduct the organizational assessments so that you can benchmark the performance between sites in at least two of the areas where there are issues currently impacting the organization (see list below). Provide examples of what the goals of the organizational assessment analysis would be and what benchmarking process you will recommend implementing. Provide examples to support your findings.
Issues impacting the organization:
Financial challenges – Not all sites are performing as well as expected
Patient safety and quality – Sites have different operating procedures
Healthcare reform implementation – Sites are in different phases of this process depending on when they started and available resources
Governmental mandates – Sites are interpreting mandates differently and responding based on their interpretations
Care for the uninsured – Several sites are struggling financially providing care for large populations of uninsured patients
Patient satisfaction – There is no standard way to measure and track patient satisfaction across all sites
Physician-hospital relations – Sites vary in the effectiveness of these relationships
Technology – Sites run different technology systems which are not integrated and some sites are much more technologically advanced than others
Population health management – Each site is conducting this differently and there is no way to easily evaluate data across the system.
Personnel shortages – There is no easy way to share resources between sites to address personnel shortages and make sure there are adequate numbers of cross trained employees.
Creating an accountable care organization – Sites vary in their willingness and bandwidth to make this transition.
You must reference at least two research sources (Wikipedia is not an acceptable research source) in your paper, and include appropriate APA citations for those sources.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document.
Read the case study indicated below, and answer the following questions:
James, M. L. (2010). Accounting for business combinations and the convergence of International Financial Reporting
Standards with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles: A case study. Journal of the International
Academy for Case Studies, 16(1), 95-108.
1. What key financial ratios will be affected by the adoption of FAS 141R and FAS 160? What will be the likely effect?
2. Could any of the recent and forthcoming changes affect the company’s acquisition strategies and potentially its
growth?
3. What were FASB’s primary reasons for issuing FAS 141R and FAS 160?
4. What are qualifying SPEs? Do they exist under IFRS? What is the effect of FAS 166 eliminating the concept of
qualifying SPEs on the convergence of accounting standards?
5. If the company adopts IFRS, what changes should management be aware of?
6. What are the principle differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP?
Your submission should be a minimum of three pages in length in APA style. Be sure to cite and reference all quoted or paraphrased material appropriately in APA style.
For this part of the final project, you will be given a scenario in which you are asked to illustrate your financial computation and analysis skills. This part of the assessment addresses the following course outcomes:
Compute financial ratios, time value, variables, and returns using industry standard tools for optimizing financial success
Analyze corporate financial data for multiple companies in evaluating past and future financial performances
Part II Prompt
For this section of your employment exam, you will select two companies. The first company needs to come from your TDAU thinkorswim portfolio. The second needs to be a competitor of the first company from the same industry. You will be responsible for collecting, synthesizing, and making decisions regarding both companies. After evaluating these companies’ financial data, you will then decide which company’s stock is the better investment.
This section of your employment examination must be submitted in two parts. Part A will contain the workbooks that house all of your quantitative data and formulas, along with any of the information that is relevant for your chosen companies. Part B will contain your answers to the questions asked below, composed in a cohesive manner. If you are referring to data that is found within the workbooks in Part A, be sure to include a citation—for example, “rate of return is 3.570 USD (E64, WB2),” where E64 is the cell that the calculation took place in and WB2 is designating “workbook 2.” This ensures that your instructor can quickly and accurately check data entry, formula use, and financial calculations.
Your submission must address the following critical elements:
Preparing the Workbooks
Download the annual income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements for the last three completed fiscal years for your chosen
companies. This information must be included in your final submission.
Prepare a worksheet for each of the companies to display their financial data for the last three fiscal years. Ensure your data is accurate and
organized. Include these worksheets as a workbook in your final submission.
Find historical stock prices for both companies and add this information to the respective spreadsheets. Consider the appropriate date range
you should use.
Three-Year Returns
What is the three-year return on the stock price of the first company (Company A)? How is the stock performing? Ensure that you use the appropriate formula in your spreadsheets to calculate the three-year return on the given company’s stock price.
What is the three-year return on the stock price of the second company (Company B)? How is this stock performing? Ensure that you use the appropriate formula in your spreadsheets to calculate the three-year return on your chosen company’s stock price.
How do these two stocks compare in terms of three-year returns? What does this indicate about these two companies?
III. Financial Calculations
Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the price-to-earnings ratio for the last three fiscal
years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula.
Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the debt-to-equity ratios for the last three fiscal years
of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula.
Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the return-on-equity ratios for the last three fiscal
years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula.
Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the earnings per share for the last three fiscal years of
the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula.
Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the profit margins for the last three fiscal years of the
given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula.
Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the free cash flows for the last three fiscal years of the
given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula.
IV. IndustryAverages
Obtain current industry averages of three of the financial calculations above for both companies and add this information to your spreadsheet for comparison. Ensure the accuracy and organization of your data.
In this context, how is each company’s financial health? How do these two companies compare to one another? Consider the appropriate date range you should use.
V. Performance Over Time
Analyze the performance of the Company A over time. What financial strengths and weaknesses does this company have? Consider addressing
the free cash flows and ratios you calculated earlier.
Analyze the performance of your Company B over time. What financial strengths and weaknesses does this company have? Consider addressing
the free cash flows and ratios you calculated earlier.
Analyze how the data differ between these two companies. Why do you think this is? Consider addressing the free cash flows and ratios you
calculated earlier.
VI. Investment
Are the companies considered growth or value companies? Why?
Which company’s stock is the better investment? Consider supporting your answer with data.
Discussion: Cash Flow and Financial Analysis (Turnitin is active. Read instructions) 500 Words
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Discussion 2: Cash Flow and Financial Analysis
Part 1: Importance of Cash
Generating cash is the ultimate responsibility for managers today. Cash and cash flow are considered the “lifeblood” of a business.
How important has cash generation been for your current company or a prior employer? How is cash generation different from the concept of profit and loss (P&L) in accounting? Provide an example of how a company manages cash flow.
Part 2: Application of Concepts/Financial Analysis
Review the materials in the link below. Based on the materials presented in this link, discuss why financial analysis is important in the overall understanding of the financial performance of a firm. Be specific and give examples based on your experience or research.
Read and respond to your classmates. Respond to at least 3 of your classmates’ posts
In your response to your classmates, consider comparing cash generation techniques at your company versus his or her company. Draw distinctions based on the industry and tell your colleagues why those distinctions are necessary for the management of cash flow. Below are additional suggestions on how to respond to your classmates’ discussions:
· Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.
· Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
· Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research.
· Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
· Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
· Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Reply to class mate1:
Part-1
Cash enables a business to meet its financial obligations for example payment for stocks, payment for taxes, labor payments, and many more. Cash generation is a strong indicator of the overall financial performance of a business. For example positive cash flow indicates that a business is thriving while a negative cash flow shows that a business is not performing well and may experience difficulties in running affairs. Cash generation also forms the basis of profit or loss. The difference is that in a cash flow statement, we get to record all day-to-day cash that is received or spent while in a Profit and Loss Statement, only the totals are recorded after a given accounting period. Daily monitoring of cash flow statements. Companies usually monitor the cash flows regularly in order to avoid irregularities or omissions. Cutting on costs. They do this by minimizing expenditure costs in order to maximize profits. Asking for partial payments or deposits for orders that have been gotten.
Part-2
Financial analysis helps in assessing the current financial position and operational efficiency. For example, The Statement of The Financial Position is a good report of the financial position of a business. Financial analysis is used to compare past performances and present performance to understand how the business grows. For example, the Profit and Loss Statements show that profitability can be used to know whether the business is performing well or not. This is to ensure that the business is not spending its own cash reserves to fund impending orders and enables it to stay afloat. Sometimes a business may delay payments to vendors until the stocks are nearly finished to ensure that there are no costs associated with dead stocks
Reply to Classmate 2:
CASH FLOW
In the business, money plays an important role whether it is a small scale business or large scale business where the cash is coming from the customer who purchases the product or uses the services of the company. (Murray, 2020) .This type of cash flow is called inflow because the company is getting money from the customer and the business has to pay the cash for the rent, utilities, monthly loan payments, office maintenance, transport, and employee salaries which are called outflow. Cash flow is very important to the business and the cash flow is negative then there would be a huge impact on the company and it takes many weeks or months to recover from the debt. Payments to the vendors have to be paid regularly and also the salaries to the employees have to be paid monthly.
If the company is new and starting the business then it would be very difficult with cash flow dealing because there will be many expenses where the money is going out and it takes more time to get the money back. Whenever the service is provided to the client, the first thing the company has to do is to invoice the services provided to the customer because the clients do not until the company invoices. So, the invoices have to be ready and sent to the customer as soon the services are offered or in some cases, the products have to be shipped to the client. Another important thing where the company has to focus on spending and it should be controlled across the organization
Financial Analysis
It is used to analyze the financial statements of the company by evaluating the business, budgets, and other financial related details which helps to determine the financial position of the company. If any company has the interest to invest money in some other company then the organization may check the financial statements of the company which is conducted by professionals who know the financial sector. (Masson, 2018). If the financial analysis is conducted internally then it would help the managers to make better decisions and also the financial analysis may help the investors to review the historical data of the company’s success and the company may choose the best investments based on the financial statements.
The fundamental analysis and the technical analysis are the two main outcomes of the financial analysis where the fundamental analysis financial data of the statements and ratios to obtain the value of the security and the technical analysis assumes the security value based on previous data and determine the price of the product. The financial policy and the economic trends evaluation, identifying the companies or projects to invest and also the long term business plan can be easily built by the financial analysis and the past data is required to analyze the financials of the company. The company has to look out for cheaper utility provider who provides the same type of services who are trying to grab the market which would help the company to save a large amount of money.
Reply to Classmate 3:
Part 1: Importance of Cash
Labour income is the money that is generated in the usual work procedures of a business. Every day, it has the ability to create positive streams that my organization can reliably have. In particular, income can show the true benefits of my organization. It is one of the great proportions of money sources and labour supply.
Non-profit joints are a budget statement for a certain period of time that gives an organization income, costs, and benefits. The P & L proclamation demonstrates the ability to perform business, care and benefit costs of the organization. The organization that generates the money shows the amount of money invested and consumed the money. It has three sections to finance income, subsidies and money. (Mulier, 2016)
For example, a partnership can be used to control money flotation, including the next year to prepare the flow of money, in order to know the possible risks, to improve charging improvement and payment. These are the best way to control money from collaborations (Mulier, 2016).
Part-2
Why financial analysis is important
Financial Analysis will determine the process of understanding the risks and the process of understanding the winner, analyzing the available financial information. You can also set accounting ratios among many of the elements in the balance sheet. Financial situations are used to determine the economic situation of ordinary businesses. Internal and external users typically focus on financial statements to understand the overall economic situation of the company. According to the example given, XYZ Company, the company’s assets totalled 1,275 million Euros; Total, fifty and fifty thousand scientists. The data provided shows that the current company is four hundred and twenty-five thousand. Internal users of XYZ managers also use balance to plan, evaluate and control operations(Kim, 2017).
Using the appropriate analysis methods, XYZ can analyze the probability of a profit or loss. This study has two important steps, formulating the available financial situation and adjusting them accordingly. Then, calculations of financial statements are carried out. Actually, none of these steps is done. (Kim, 2017)
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines Trimester T3 2019 Unit Code HI5019 Unit Title Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise Assessment Type Individual assignment Assessment Title Case Study – Giant Eggplant Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) Students are required to: · Describe the various transaction cycles, financial reporting, management reporting systems and e-commerce. (ULO 2) · Understand the risks inherent in computer-based systems/ERP, including e commerce, the role of ethics and the various internal control processes that need to be in place. (ULO 4) · Appreciate the opportunities for computer fraud and the security measures in electronic commerce that need to be taken to overcome this. (ULO 5) Weight 20% of the total assessments Total Marks 20 Word limit Not more than 2,000 words Due Date Week 8, Friday 5:00 pm (AEDT) Submission Guidelines · All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page. · The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers. · Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style. HI5019 Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise Individual Assignment Page 2 of 5 Assignment Specifications Background You are recently employed as an internal auditor at Giant Eggplant, a fruit and vegetable market in Rowville, Victoria. Giant Eggplant offers a range of agricultural, dairy and bakery products from local farms and bakeries. The company currently has 25 employees. These includes sales staff, store supervisors and administrative staff. The general manager of Giant Eggplant has recently noticed a decline in sales and profit while the purchases of products for resales continued to rise and you are commissioned to evaluate the company’s processes and procedures for revenue and expenditure cycles. Revenue Cycle Customers push their shopping carts to the checkout counter where a sales staff processes the sales. The company has five registers but they are not dedicated to specific sales staff because they play many roles in the day-to-day operations. In addition to checking out customers, sales staffs will stock shelves and perform other tasks as demand in various areas throughout the day. This fluid work demand makes the assignment of sales staffs to specific registers impractical. At the beginning of the shift, a store supervisor collects five cash register drawers from the finance clerk in an office at the back of the market. The drawers contain $100 cash in coins and small bills (known as float) to enable the sales staffs to make change. The supervisor signs a log indicating that he/she has taken custody of the float and places the drawers into the respective cash registers. Sales to customers are for cash and credit card. Credit card sales are performed in the usual way. The customers tap the credit card on the EFTPOS terminal located in front of the register and enter password if required. Receipts of the purchase and of the credited card transaction are provided to the customer after the completion of the transaction. The majority of the sales are for cash. The sales staff receives the cash from the customer, makes changes and issues a receipt for the purchases. At the end of the shift, the supervisor returns the cash registers drawers containing the cash and credit card receipts to the finance clerk and signs a log that he has handed in the cash drawers. The finance clerk later counts the cash and credit card sales. Using a stand-alone finance department computer, the clerk records the total sales amount in the sales journals and the general ledger Sales and Cash accounts. The finance clerk then prepares a deposit slip and delivers the cash to the local branch of the bank. Expenditure Cycle The expenditure cycle begins in the warehouse adjacent to the market where the inventory of non-perishable goods such as canned goods are kept. The company also maintain a one-day inventory of produce and other perishable products in the warehouse so sales staffs can quick restock the shelves when necessary. At close of business each evening, the warehouse clerk reviews the market shelves for items that need to be replenished. The clerk restocks the shelves and adjusts the electronic stock records accordingly from the warehouse computer. At this time, the clerk takes note of what needs to be reordered from the suppliers and prints purchase orders from the computer. Depending upon the nature of the product and urgency of the need, the clerk either mails the purchase order to the supplier or orders by phone. Phone orders are followed up by faxing the purchase order to the supplier. When the goods arrive from the vendor, the warehouse clerk reviews the packing slip, HI5019 Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise Individual Assignment Page 3 of 5 restocks the warehouse shelves, and updates the stock records from the computer. At the end of the day, the clerk prepares a hard-copy purchases summary from the computer and sends it to the finance clerk for posting to general ledger. The vendor’s invoice is sent to the accounting clerk. The clerk examines it for correctness and files it in a temporary file until it is due to be paid. The clerk reviews the temporary file daily looking for invoices to be paid. Using the accounting department computer, the clerk records all cheques in the electronic cheque register. The clerk then files the invoice and mails the cheque to the supplier. At the end of the day, the accounting clerk prints a hard-copy journal voucher from the computer, which summarise the day’s cash disbursements, and sends it to the finance clerk for posting to the general ledger. Using the finance department computer, the finance clerk posts the journal voucher and purchases summary information to the appropriate general ledger accounts. Required Prepare a report to the general manager to evaluate the processes, risks and internal controls for Giant Eggplant’s revenue and expenditure cycle. In your report, you need to include the following items: · Data flow diagram of revenue cycle · Data flow diagram of expenditure cycle · Analysis of physical internal control weaknesses in Giant Eggplant’s systems · Description of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems Assignment Structure The report should include the following components: · Assignment cover page clearly stating your name and student number · A table of contents · A brief introduction of what the report is about · Body of the report with sections to answer the above issues and with appropriate section headings · Conclusion · List of references The report should be grounded on relevant literature and all references must be properly cited and included in the reference list. Marking criteria Marking criteria Weighting Data flow diagram of revenue cycle 2% Data flow diagram of expenditure cycle 2% Analysis of physical internal control weaknesses in Giant Eggplant’s systems 6% Description of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems 6% Presentation 2% Research quality 2% TOTAL Weight 20% HI5019 Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise Individual Assignment Page 4 of 5 Marking Rubric Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Data flow diagram of revenue cycle /2 Present a data flow diagram that correctly depict the whole revenue cycle. Present a data flow diagram that correctly depict the whole revenue cycle with minor errors. Present a data flow diagram that depict the revenue cycle with some errors and/or omissions. Present a data flow diagram that depict the revenue cycle with errors and/or omissions throughout the diagram. Present a data flow diagram that does not properly represent the revenue cycle. Data flow diagram of expenditure cycle /2 Present a data flow diagram that correctly depict the whole expenditure cycle. Present a data flow diagram that correctly depict the whole expenditure cycle with minor errors. Present a data flow diagram that depict the expenditure cycle with some errors and/or omissions. Present a data flow diagram that depict the expenditure cycle with errors and/or omissions throughout the diagram. Present a data flow diagram that does not properly represent the expenditure cycle. Analysis of physical internal control weaknesses in Giant Eggplant’s systems /6 Present an excellent analysis of internal control weakness in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a very good analysis of internal control weakness in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a good analysis of internal control weakness in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a reasonable analysis of internal control weakness in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a weak or inadequate analysis of internal control weakness in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Description of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems /6 Present an excellent discussion of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a very good discussion of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems.. Present a good discussion of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a reasonable discussion of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Present a weak or inadequate discussion of IT controls that should be in place in Giant Eggplant’s systems. Page 5 of 5 Presentation Report included Report included Report included Report included Report lacked all elements and all elements and all elements and most elements some elements /2 was very well was well was generally and was and was poorly presented. presented. presented adequately presented. 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Research Quality An extensive A broad range of An adequate An adequate Little or no peer amount of high- quality peer- range of peer- range of peer- reviewed journal /2 quality evidence reviewed journal reviewed journal reviewed journal references were from peer- references and references was references was included and reviewed journal other sources included and included and these were articles and was included used to support used to a basic rarely used to other sources and used discussion. extent to support was included effectively to support discussion and used effectively to support discussion. support discussion. discussion. effectively.
Review the Form 10-K for the company selected for team assignments.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on the following:
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Report on the Financial Statements
Explain the purpose and content of each of these reports.
Assuming the report you review is an Unqualified Opinion, express your thoughts on other types of financial statement reports such as Qualified Opinions, Adverse Opinions, and Disclaimer of Opinions.
Click on the link titled Financial Management for the Supply Chain Professional to watch the workshop being presented.
MOVIE CRITIQUES
Students are required to compose a film critique on each of the films assigned in the course. The critiques should be between 500 and 750 words long. They should be well written, following standard rules of grammar and composition, and developing consistent, cohesive ideas over several paragraphs.
A critique is an analytical essay on a film, in which you give your opinion on the aesthetic quality of the film and then give your reasons for your opinion. Do not limit yourself to reacting to the film (“I loved it !”) and do not use generic terms like “incredible,” “wonderful,” “marvelous,” etc. Unlike a review, you assume that the reader has already seen the movie; you do not need to give an extensive plot summary; you do not need to hide plot information so as not to spoil the surprise of the viewer; and you do need to be consistently analytical and critical.
Your first paragraph should summarize the film’s plot and act as a transition to the analytical part of the essay.
The second paragraph should explain how the Supply Chain concepts for the week were depicted by the film and why the depiction was or was not meaningful. What Supply Chain lessons were learned? What suggestions might you give to the role players to effectuate different and perhaps more satisfying (or even prosperous) result?
You are under all circumstances to make sure the opinions expressed in your film critiques are yours and not those borrowed from a printed or internet source! Plagiarism will be severely treated in this class. I encourage you to consult outside sources on the film you are critiquing, but you must use a reference system to credit all the sources you use.