Identify advantages and disadvantages of international investing. Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you […]

Part 1: Financial Acumen 1. Review at least three (3) articles on `. Summarize the articles in 400 – 600 words. Use APA formatting throughout including in-text citations and references. 2. Discuss the benefits of establishing solid financial acumen in a company? Discuss your personal experiences in a situation where financial acumen was either not supported as an organizational hallmark or, conversely, was built into […]

Use the following information for problems 1, 2, and 3. David Jones, the new administrator for a surgical clinic, was trying to determine how to allocate his indirect expenses. His staff was complaining that the current method of taking a percentage of revenues was unfair. He decided to try to allocate utilities based on square footage of each department, administration based on direct costs, […]

Topic: Several factors, both internal and external, impact a company’s stock price, and the subsequent perceived valuation of a company. Sometimes that perceived value matches that of the financial statements, and other times it is vastly different. Therefore, discuss the factors that lead to a valuation of a company’s worth compared to that of the financial statements, and how company executives create the most value […]

Corporate Social Responsibility  The discussions each week are designed to (a) reinforce the research topics that you are reading about, (b) challenge you to explore the topics further, and (c) test your understanding of the concepts and their application within business research. Before beginning work on this week’s discussion post, review the following resources: The discussion assignment consists of two parts. Part 1 From the […]

 Discuss the pros and cons of using the various measures of profitability to examine a company’s performance. Identify three external stakeholders of an organization who management should be prepared to communicate the key elements of the financial statements.    Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length  text book is attached    Fried, G., DeSchriver, T. D., & Mondello, M. (2013). Sport finance. […]

Write a 2 – 5 page essay explaining the facts of the case and how the court ruled. What did Chief Justice Hecht say about the court’s reasoning in his majority opinion? What is a concurring opinion, and what did Justice Guzman say in hers? Note the unusual step taken by Justice Guzman in urging the Texas Legislature to take a look at the workers’ […]

Practical Portfolio Management Project In this small project you will try to link theory to practice. You have heard a lot about risk, return, weights, standard deviations, beta, etc.. Now it is our turn to collect data, analyze it and put it to work. Here is what I’d like you to do for this project: A firm’s beta can be estimated from the slope of […]

Problem Set 1    (Note: Some of these problems require the use of the time value of money tables in the Chapter 1 Appendix). 1.   Ben Collins plans to buy a house for $65,000. If that real estate property is expected to increase in value 5 percent each year, what would its approximate value be seven years from now? 2.   At an annual interest rate […]

The task for this paper is to: You are to select a technology we have been discussing from the approved list. Write an introduction that will include different parts of the paper. Discuss the technology of choice in detail. How does a business incorporates this technology. Discuss the relevance of technology to today’s companies today. Must include Excel charts to present any data of choice. […]