Assignment 3: Understanding the Numbers for Better Decisions

It is the management’s responsibility to maximize shareholder wealth as it is based on the organization’s future cash flows. To accomplish this, managers have to understand how to use financial statements for analysis.

In this assignment, you will explain the importance of the statements to the financial reporting process and management decisions.

Tasks:

• Locate the financial statements of a U.S. publicly-traded company of your choice (the company must have inventory and accounts receivable) by visiting the organization’s Web site to locate the investor section. Or you may use one of the following Websites:
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Yahoo Finance
  • Google Finance
• Review the information presented in the financial statements of the company you selected.
• Using the company you selected, calculate one ratio from each ratio category located at this Financial Ratios resource.  Complete a trend analysis of each ratio for a three-year period.
  • Describe what the trends you see for your company based on your ratio analysis. What does this mean for the company?
  • Compare your company’s ratios with those of the industry it is in.
• Analyze the financial reporting information and the financial health of the company with the help of the calculated ratios.

Submission Details:

• Write a 2–3-page research paper explaining each selected ratio, the ratio category, and your individual analysis of the company as compared to the industry and the time sensitive analysis.
• Include a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet with your relevant calculations.
• Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
• By Wednesday, June 14, 2017, save your report as M1_A3_lastname_firstinitial.doc and upload it to the M1 Assignment 3 Dropbox. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

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Select an area of social welfare policy in which you are interested. Respond to the following:

·         Identify the aspects of the policy that reflect a conservative perspective and the aspects that reflect a liberal perspective.

·         Explain the impact of the mixed ideological foundation on the focus and structure of the policy.

The political ideologies of a country are very specific to its cultural history. Keeping this in mind, respond to the following:

·         Discuss how the policymaking of one other country aligns with or differs from the United States due to its cultural history.

·         Provide examples to explain why the policymaking is similar or different.

(THIS IS WHAT MY INSTRUCTOR WROTE TO ME AND I NEED THIS)

Philosophical Viewpoints on Social Welfare Policies

Discussion—Philosophical Viewpoints on Social Welfare Policies

Discussion—Philosophical Viewpoints on Social Welfare Policies

In this assignment, you will examine the ideological struggles that underlie policymaking in the United States. This includes the following:

·         The historical legacy of fear of a strong central government and how this fear has influenced the development of the US Constitution.

·         The ideological divisions in the United States’ politics which fall primarily along a Conservative–Liberal continuum.

Research areas of social welfare policy using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

Select an area of social welfare policy in which you are interested. Respond to the following:

·         Identify the aspects of the policy that reflect a conservative perspective and the aspects that reflect a liberal perspective.

·         Explain the impact of the mixed ideological foundation on the focus and structure of the policy.

The political ideologies of a country are very specific to its cultural history. Keeping this in mind, respond to the following:

·         Discuss how the policymaking of one other country aligns with or differs from the United States due to its cultural history.

·         Provide examples to explain why the policymaking is similar or different.

Write your initial response in 300–400 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

DUE DATE SAT 29TH 5PM

NO PLAGIARISM

1-2 PARAGRAPHS 

“China and its Great Wall” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Describe two (2) specific aspects about the Great Wall of China, such as facts about its size, length, purposes, varied materials, labor force, and its phases of construction. Consider the various purposes of such a wall and its impact for good or bad, and compare the Chinese wall in this respect to some specific wall of more modern times. 

Need a little help understanding what I’m looking for in the discussion this week?  Just watch this video for a little extra help:

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Explore

China and Its Great Wall

• Chapter 7 (pp. 216-218, 225), early phases, (pp. 617-618) later phase 
• Explore wall interactively at http://www.airpano.ru/files/China-Great-Wall/2-2
• Video at http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/discovery-atlas-china-revealed-the-great-wall.htm
• UNESCO article at http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/438
• “China’s Wall Less Great in View from Space” article at http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html

When I hear the word culture, I automatically think about other countries, when in fact, we have many cultures right here in our own back yard.  Webster defines culture as “the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group;  shared by people in a place or time” so it doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be another country. Whether growing up in the north and playing hockey during the winter or drinking “pop” compared to growing up in the south with Sunday dinners and sweet tea after church, we all have been impacted by a certain culture simply based on what part of the country we grew up in. Based on the information in the video, we are not nearly as “globalized” as we think we are. We either overestimate the numbers to make our argument more favorable for us or we are not as informed as first thought. While technology allows us to reach out to people in other countries, it makes us a very small percentage of who we actually interact with. Global connections can come in the form of countries import/exports to working together in times of war. These allow for countries to work together and end up seeing how everyone lives, seeing the differences and similarities. Trading goods allow for countries to show off their skills at whatever goods are being produced and allow companies to interact, thus forming friendships and cultural integration. Learning other cultures is a great thing and can make you more proud or thankful with the culture you grew up in or have now. With every culture being different, there will be some that we either don’t like or disagree with. That doesn’t make them or us wrong, just makes us human and being human is going to mean there will be differences. That is the great thing about human life, no one is exactly the same.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture (Links to an external site.)

TED. (2012). Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually the World isn’t Flat. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat