Due Week 7  Important Notes This exercise is considered an academic writing exercise. Quality of response, grammar, and punctuation are considered in your overall grade. This exercise does not require the use of APA format or a cover page. This exercise uses the “” MS Excel template. Use the “” to assist you in completing the required worksheets. (Both documents are also available in […]

  Choose a company from Fortune 500 list and perform a comprehensive analysis of the company’s external environment. Make sure you address the following questions when conducting the analysis:  1. What is/ are the company’s industry/ industries?  2. Which companies are immediate competitors of the firm? base your selection on the market capitalization and market share comparisons.  3. Who are the company’s suppliers? Do they […]

Submit your solution document in the form of a single MS Word file The Attachement below is the case study. The information provided in this case study will be used at various parts of this assisgment.   Question 2 (38 marks)   (a) Using the information given in the case study above, determine Belle’s   insurance requirement using the CPF Insurance Estimator found at   […]

Marcie owns a 10 percent interest in a shopping mall located in Portland, Maine. Her adjusted basis for her interest is $250,000, and its fair market value is $900,000. She exchanges it for undeveloped land in York, Pennsylvania, that is held by her sister, Sandra. Marcie is aware of the §1031 related-party requirement that neither she nor Sandra dispose of the property received for a […]

Consolidation work and financial statements subsequent to acquisition Background and Information Palus Corporation acquired 90 percent of Stalus Company’s voting stock on January 1, 2010. The price paid was $145,000. The excess of costs over book value was $10,000, which should be attributed to goodwill and must be amortized over 10 years. The fair value of the non-controlling (minority) interest was equal to 10 percent […]

Select a current product with which you are familiar, and pitch a new Integrated Marketing Communication plan (IMC) to your client. Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 8-10 slides that includes the following components:    Identify any considerations you will need to employ to build and maintain the brand and customer loyalty. Create a print ad and a video broadcast for the product featuring your new strategy (Youtube TM, […]

MT Sinai Hospital is a 600 bed facility complete with operating rooms and x ray equipment. They have decided to make a 90 bed addition. The addition of 90 beds involves deciding how many beds should be allocated to the medical staff for medical patients and how many to the surgical staff for surgical patients. The average hospital stay for a medical patient is 8 […]

Which of the following is not a method of “benchmarking”? Conduct an industry group analysis.Evaluating a single firm’s performance over time.Identify a group of firms that compete with the company being analyzed.Utilize the DuPont system to analyze a firm’s performance What decision criteria should managers use in selecting projects when there is not enough capital to invest in all available positive NPV projects? The discounted […]

New Jersey Water Co (NJWC) is considering whether to refund a $50 million, 14% coupon, 30-year bond issue that was sold 5 years ago. It is authorizing $3 million of flotation costs on the 14% bonds over the 30-year life of that issue. NJWC’s investment bankers have indicated that the company could sell a new 25-year issue at an interest rate of 11.67% in today’s […]

Corporate governance has become increasingly important over the years.  The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was enacted to improve transparency in financial accounting and to prevent fraud.  Which of the following is correct?     fraud has not occurred since enactment of SOX   SOX has not increased auditing costs   government agencies are not required to comply withSOX   SOX requires companies to have a strong […]