Due Week 9 and worth 172 points Use the Internet to research two (2) publically held health care organizations in your state that you believe would benefit from a merger. Download and review each organization’s financial statements. Write a ten to twelve (10-12) page paper in which you: 1. Conduct basic financial statement and operating indicator analysis to assess the financial condition of the two […]

 Picture this scenario. You own your own small chain of supermarket stores. You want to compete with some of the bigger retailers and have just been presented with an exciting new technology called intelligent shopping carts just like the Shopping Buddy and the Media Cart (see Marcom Insight on page 574). What are your thoughts about the advantages and disadvantages of using this new technology? […]

Assignment Component Unsatisfactory   Emerging   Proficient   Exemplary   Score Content Knowledge: Understanding   Communicates understanding of financial factors employed in the selected decisions. CO 1, 3 HRM PO 1, 2 NPM PO 1, 2 OL PO 1, 2 ILO 1, 2, 3, 6     Response does not incorporate analysis or synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic.   Response reflects lack […]

  a) Think of something you want or need for which you currently do not have the funds. It could be a vehicle, boat, horse, jewelry, property, vacation, college fund, retirement money, etc. Select something which costs somewhere between $2,000 and $50,000. Use the “Present Value Formula”, which computes how much money you need to start with now to achieve the desired monetary goal. Assume […]

Business culture is the context in which the measures exist. They are bound to each other in terms of context and environment. Understanding business metrics as key performance measures is an important part of business strategy and management. In this assignment, you will look at financial performance measures. Financial performance measures are vitally important to assessing corporate performance. However, financial measures are primarily backward looking […]

Week Topic Learning Objectives Readings Assignment       1     The Goals and Functions of Financial Management   Review of Accounting   Financial Analysis LO 1:  Identify the concepts of financial management and apply those concepts to various financial situations.   LO 2: Assess the role of accounting in finance and how it is applied to financial analysis. Text Readings:  Block, Chapters 1-3 […]

You are planning to buy a corporate bond with a seven-year maturity that pays 7% coupon interest. The bond is priced at $108,500 per $100,000 par value. You expect to sell the bond in two years when a similar-risk free five-year bond is priced to yield 7.2% annually to maturity. Assuming you can invest all cash flows at an 8% annual rate (4% semiannually), calculate […]

Assignment Management of Working Capital Case Study: “George’s Trains”. View the following Video: Click Here  ççç It appears that George is running a profitable business. George is aware you are in an MBA Managerial Finance class and comes to you for advice on his working capital practices. More specifically George asks: How you would describe my working capital practices, including my methods of capital budgeting […]

1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT? a. The ratio of long-term debt to total capital is more likely to experience seasonal  fluctuations than is either the DSO or the inventory turnover ratio. b. If two firms have the same ROA, the firm with the most debt can be expected to have the lower ROE. c. An increase in the DSO, other things held […]

  Tax Issues Associated with Financial Planning Understanding the tax consequences of your financial planning decisions is very important. These decisions may sometimes have life-long consequences in addition to a one-time result. For example, when a person decides to save for retirement, there are tax consequences for each year when money is added to the account as well as when it grows. There are additional […]