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For this milestone, you will participate in a discussion in which you develop a research study design in preparation for your final research investigation and also assist your classmates in refining their own proposed studies. This assignment involves giving and receiving feedback to your peers, who are a valuable resource to tap as you move one step closer to successful completion of your final project.

To complete this assignment, review the Final Project Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric document.

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Please answer in “discussions2”. You basically need to answer the in “dissucion2” to prepare for “the Final Paper Writing a…”. If you could finish “discussion2” well, I will ask you to help me finish the final paper in near future

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Discussion topic was: Offshoring, which is a short form for offshore sourcing, occurs when the IS organization uses contractor services or even its hybrid captive center in a distant land. The functions sent offshore range from routine IT transactions to increasingly higher-end, knowledge-based business processes. Against the backdrop of the above statement, Is offshoring a problem to your country? To the global economy? Please explain.

I will send you 2 posts of this discussion. You just have to comment/reply in minimum 150 words for each post in a meaningful way

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OPTION #2: FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS: RETAIL

Financial analysts, investors, lenders, auditors, and many others perform ratio analysis to help review and evaluate a company’s financial statements and financial performance. This analysis allows the stakeholder to gain an understanding of the financial health of the company and gives insights to allow more insightful and, hopefully, more effective decision making.

In this lab, you will access XBRL data to complete data analysis and generate financial ratios to compare the financial performance of several companies. Financial ratios can more easily be calculated using spreadsheets and XBRL. You will (1) select an industry to analyze, (2) create a copy of a spreadsheet template, (3) input ticker symbols from three U.S. public companies, and (4) calculate financial ratios and make observations about the state of the companies using these financial ratios.

The company and competitor you should choose from are:

Company

Symbol

Target

TGT

Walmart

WMT

Home Depot

HD

Lowes

LOW

Nike

NKE

Under Armour

UAA

AT&T

T

Verizon

VZ

Nestle

NSRGY

Best Buy

BBY

Macy’s

M

Christian Dior

CHDRY

Canon

CAJ

HP

HPQ

Anheuser-Busch inBev

BUD

Heineken Holding

HKHHY

1. Open a web browser and go to drive.google.com.

2. If you haven’t done so already, sign in to your Google account.

3. Go to http://tinyurl.com/xbrlratios. You will see a spreadsheet similar to Lab Exhibit 8-3A.

4. Click File > Make a copy. . . as shown in Lab Exhibit 8-3A.

5. Rename your spreadsheet if desired and click OK to save a copy to your Drive. A new tab will open with your copy of the spreadsheet. You may now edit the values and formulas.

6. Referring to Lab Exhibit 8-3B for your industry’s ticker symbols, in the Main Company Ticker field, input the ticker of the company you would like to focus your analysis on and press Enter. In a moment, the value on the spreadsheet will change to Loading. . . and then show your company’s financial figures.

7. In the Most Recent Year field, enter the most recent reporting year. It may be the current year or the previous year.

8. In the Period field, enter either FY for a fiscal year or Q1 for 1st quarter, etc.

9. In the Round to field, choose the rounding amount. 1,000 will round to thousands of dollars; 1,000,000 will round to millions of dollars.

10. In the Comparable 1 Ticker field, input the ticker of a second company you would like to compare with your first company.

11. In the Comparable 2 Ticker field, input the ticker of a third company you would like to compare with your first company.

12. Take a screenshot (label it 8-3A) of your figure with the financial statements of your chosen companies.

13. First, review the Facts sheet (or tab) to determine whether there are any values missing for the companies you are analyzing. Describe what impact (if any) the missing data have on the ratios. Once you have determined whether any data are missing, you have a chance to find some interesting trends and comparisons in the data. You will click through the sheets at the bottom to review the ratios. To aid in this analysis, the template also includes spark lines that provide a mini-graph to help you quickly visualize any significant values or trends.

Required:

Submit your Excel file separately. Submit your Word document with the analysis of the ratios and the answer to each of these questions.

Q1. Review the 14 financial ratios and make some conclusions or judgments about the values, trends, or comparisons with the other companies. For example, if one company has a significantly higher debt-to-equity ratio than the other two, what might be driving this.

Q2. Has the company you are analyzing seen any major changes in its ratios in the past three years? Which of the three companies is most liquid in the most current year?

Q3. How has your company managed short-term liabilities over the last three years?

Q4. Analyze liquidity, profitability, financing (leverage), and activity for your company. Where is it strong?

Q5. Consider the DuPont framework to interpret the results and make sure you make a judgment about your company’s financial position based upon the data.

Your well-written paper must be 2500 words in length, in addition to the title page and reference page. It must contain 6 references (at least 4 of which are scholarly/peer reviewed). The paper should be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.).

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part 1 has been done i want part 2 and do not forget the table of contents.

Consider yourself as Global Manager for one of the following Saudi companies: Jarir Bookstore, Baja, Al-Baik, Herfy or Coffee Day. At present the company you’ll choose is planning to do business in the USA and UK.

You are required to develop a detail strategy on the following :

Part 1:

▪ Give a brief introduction about the chosen company (history, products, etc)

▪ Explain what type of virtual management characteristics will be implemented and why? (Explain how you will implement the virtual management?)

▪ How the virtual teams will work together?

▪ What tools are they using for communications and task management? (Give a real example)

▪ How you will manage the teams in both locations in terms of language, cultural, time, political, and economical differences?

Part 2:

▪ What are techniques that you will be using in order to create a strong team with a high level of teamwork?

▪ What are the advantages and disadvantages of managing a virtual team?

▪ What type of conflicts might occur between members? When it’s happened how will you solve it?

▪ As a manager how you will manage the outsourced projects?

▪ What techniques that you will apply to encourage and motivate your team for improvement?
Project report structure :

▪ Title Page: the name of the institution, the title of the report, the name of the author and then add the date.

▪ Abstract: Brief summary of your work, you have to give the reader an overview of the whole report.

▪ Table of contents: ͋ All points covered.

͋ Conclusion.

͋ References: Use APA style

Useful links:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/docume…

▪ APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa

▪ About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

▪ About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Guidelines for the project assignment:

▪ This is an individual project assignment, which is part from your course score. It requires effort and critical thinking

▪ Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial

▪ Use 1.5 or double line spacing

▪ Use the footer function to insert page number

▪ Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project

▪ Your project report length should be between 1600 to 1700 words

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USE THE OUTLINE TO HELP YOU TO DO IT.

How to Write the Synthesis Essay

Grading Rubric:

General requirements [check list]

  • The essay is six paragraphs in length, no more, no less.
  • You must use two quotes from The House of Sand and Fog. The quotes can go anywhere in the essay but no more than one per paragraph.
  • You must have an introduction and conclusion that uses the techniques based in my lecture. See below for more on this. You must have the thesis at the end of the introduction. If you “announce” your thesis, the entire introduction will be incorrect.
  • You must create two sections in the body of the essay with two paragraphs per section. Follow your version of the outline form.
  • You must have correct section and topic sentences. Please see my lecture on the essay on placement of the section sentences. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND YOU WILL LOSE POINTS IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS CORRECTLY.
  • Quotes must be integrated into your text with signal phrases. Cite the speaker in the text: Author X says “….” Colonel Behrani describes his son as “…” See the handout Integrating quotes in the Module. It is absolutely essential for you to use in-text citations correctly. See “APA in-text Citations” in the module. If you are unsure, ask me or a librarian to help you.
  • You must have a perfectly formatted reference page using the citations from your sources
  • The essay must be in perfect APA final copy form. You must use Grammarly since basic grammar and spelling count.
  • Introduction and Conclusion: You must begin with either a quote, questions or anecdote, which could be a scene from the film. After the quote, questions or anecdote you must explain its significance to the film and Hegel and Nietzsche’s theories. End the introduction with the thesis.
  • Your conclusion must either predict or recommend.
  • Body: Remember to locate section sentences and topic sentences correctly. See my lecture on essay structure, which shows you how. Make sure you are using direct references to the film to support your ideas.

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150-200 words, DOUBLE SPACED , PROPER GRAMMAR AND AMERICAN ENGLISH, GRADUATE LEVEL VOCABULARY. GIVE EXAMPLE FOR EACH QUESTION. CLEAR AND DETAILED COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO LEVEL OF EDUCATION. I CURRENTLY WORK IN THE FIELD WHICH I WILL BE DOING MY GRADUATE STUDIES WHICH IS PUBLIC HEALTH , HOWEVER MY UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES WAS IN BIOLOGY. FOR MY GRADUATE STUDIES IT WILL BE ONLINE BASED WHERE MY UNDERGRADUATE WAS ON CAMPUS.

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Assume you are a small manufacturer of hypodermic needles. You have sixty employees, and sales are $23 million. You are nervous about overseas competitors, whose products are getting better. You want to further improve your quality and may be interested in applying lean thinking to your operations.

Evaluate several software packages and identify in 4 slides specifying why you support the acquisition of this package

Evaluate several computerized time-management systems and identify in four slides covering your selection process.

Evaluate several creativity packages and select one or two that you might consider and address why you selected this package. Listing pros and cons in four slides.

3 Scholar Sources Needed; MLA Style; 12-15 slides bullet points 12 words Footnotes needed

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Please read the instruction. I have attached required file.

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(1) 5 pts

This work must be your own. Reply on an Excel spreadsheet

Ford Motor has been successfully producing the Ford Aspire in India. It has best-in-class safety features and has premium interiors. Designed to exude success, it’s been chosen the best car in India by several critics. Ford now wishes to extend the product into other parts of Asia and is considering producing the car in China.

This will involve an initial investment of RMB 4 billion in year zero. The plant will start production in year one. The plant is then expected to produce cars for ten years. We can also assume a salvage value at the end, year 10, of RMB 500 million. The tax law there allows the use of the straight-line method over the ten years of cash flow to depreciate the original value to the salvage value.

The plant will produce 80,000 cars per year. Ford assumes that it can sell the cars initially for RMB 65,000. Thereafter the selling price is expected to increase 4% per year.

Auto production materials for each car are expected to be RMB 18,000 per vehicle in the initial production year and increase at 2% per year.

Total labor costs for the plant are forecasted to cost RMB 1.1 billion and thereafter increase at 7% per year.

Ford will rent the land on which the plant is built for RMB 300 million per year. The initial payment is upfront, in year zero, so this is a year zero expense through a year 10 expense.

Ford’s cost of capital is 15%. Profits are taxed at 21%. (Remember that Ford is a big company with lots of ongoing operations. With all projects, it’s important to think on the margin. Ask what impact this has using that frame of reference. Tax is a great place to apply this thinking. Ford pays taxes as long as the entire firm is profitable, right? In a year when this project makes a profit, it creates an additional tax liability for Ford. What about in startup (or construction) years when this project creates a loss? Doesn’t this project in those years create expenses that are swallowed up in the vastness that is Ford? That also means that this creates expenses which cause a reduction in Ford’s tax liability that year. Does that mean an internal tax credit or savings can be applied to this project?)

Assume all cash flows take place at the end of the year.

What is the NPV? (1 pt) The IRR? (1 pt) The Payback? (1 pt).

If labor costs actually increase by 10%, what is the NPV? (1 pt).

Return labor costs to a 7% increase: If the cost of capital is recalculated and determined to be 16%, what is the NPV? (1 pt) Fill all answer cells with yellow paint, I will grade only those. Don’t fill yellow paint on any cell except an answer cell. Be very careful, it’s important that many of you do well on this and one mistake can obliterate the entire spreadsheet.

(2) 5pts, ½ pt each

Answer these questions on the same XL sheet, true or false: (list “a” through “j” in column A and “true” or “false” in column B)

a. Bankruptcy Chapter 7 is about closing down a firm and liquidating its assets

b. In an LBO, one of the first tasks of a financial manager is to pay down debt

c. The main characteristics of leveraged restructurings are high debt, incentives to management, and private ownership.

d. Private equity partnerships have limited lives, forcing the sale of portfolio companies

e. Private equity managers compensation depends on the exit value of a company

f. Although a firm going through Chapter 11 is still a new entity, there is new equity, it is entitled to tax-loss carry forwards

g. In a bankruptcy, junior creditors at the bottom of the capital structure are incentivized to play for time

h. Chrysler’s 2009 bankruptcy is an example where absolute priority of payments were not adhered to

i. When accompany becomes bankrupt, it is usually in the interests of stockholders to seek a liquidation rather than a reorganization

j. Large, multi-tech firms have a significant risk because they tend to under-invest in disruptive ideas.