Explain what your calculations and comparison show about the business’s current financial health.
Overview
To prepare for your report in Project Two, you must calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen business’s current financial health. Once you’ve calculated these ratios, you will use the results to analyze the business’s current financial position. This will help you make decisions about how to improve or maintain their financial health. Pay close attention to working capital management. If liquidity is an issue, think about how the company will meet its short-term obligations.
Directions
For the company you chose in the Module Two journal assignment, open the following documents:
- The balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from the most recent fiscal quarter (from Mergent Online)
- The Ratios Most Recent Fiscal Qtr worksheet in the Project Two Financial Formulas workbook.
- For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the third quarter in 2022, you’ll compare those results to the same financial calculations from the third quarter in 2021.
Use the documents to calculate key financial ratios.
Then open the following documents:
- The balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from the same fiscal quarter one year ago
- The Ratios Same Fiscal Qtr 1 Year Ago worksheet
Use the documents to calculate the same financial ratios. Finally, compare those ratios and analyze your results.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Financial Calculations. Calculate accurate financial formulas to assess the business’s current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following formulas using the Ratios Most Recent Fiscal Qtr and the Ratios Same Fiscal Qtr 1 Year Ago worksheets in the Project Two Financial Formulas workbook:
- Working capital
- Current ratio
- Debt ratio
- Earnings per share
- Price/earnings ratio
- Total asset turnover ratio
- Financial leverage
- Net profit margin
- Return on assets
- Return on equity
- Fiscal Quarter Comparison. Summarize the differences between the following:
- The results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter
- The results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from one year ago
- For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the third quarter in 2022, you’ll compare those results to the same financial calculations from the third quarter in 2021.
- Comparison Analysis. Explain what your calculations and comparison show about the business’s current financial health. Give examples to support your explanation for the following questions:
- Do the results show the business is financially healthy or unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
- What might be the causes of the business’s financial success or failure?
- Is more information needed to determine the business’s financial health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?
- Short-Term Financing. Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise funds needed to improve its financial health. Base your response on the business’s current financial information.
What to Submit
Your submission should be a 2- to 3 page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. You must also submit the following:
- The Ratios Most Recent Fiscal Qtr worksheet from the Project Two Financial Formulas workbook
- The Ratios Same Fiscal Qtr1 Year Ago worksheet from the Project Two Financial Formulas workbook
- The Excel files for your downloaded balance sheet, income statements, and cash flow statements from Mergent Online
Supporting Materials
The following resources can help you complete this milestone:
Video: Mergent Online: Public Company Financials (4:46)
Watch this video from the Shapiro Library to learn more about how to access and use Mergent Online. This video shows information on the As Reported Currency page within the Company Financials tab. For the purposes of this course, however, the best way to see financial data is to click Standardized beneath the Company Financials tab. This will allow you to access the Standardized Annual Balance Sheet.
Shapiro Library FAQ: How Do I Cite a Company Profile From Mergent Online?
Use this resource to help answer any questions you have about citing from Mergent Online.
Discuss how the stock for your company is trending. Explain why the stock is in either an uptrend or downtrend.
You may have seen how financial news media provides real-time financial market reporting. They often produce stock-market news feeds for traders. These news feeds include a stock chart. The stock chart may include different filters that allow you to see how the stock is performing today or has performed over one or more years.
Many factors can affect pricing. Those factors can’t be controlled or accurately predicted. The approaches used to value stocks (determine what the stock is truly worth) are usually theoretical. You should consider what drives stock prices and why.
For this discussion, first go to Mergent Online. Find the pricing chart under the Company Details tab, and then click Pricing Summary for your selected company. This is the company you have selected for your Project Two assignment. Filter the time period to one year.
In your initial post, address the following:
- Discuss how the stock for your company is trending. Explain why the stock is in either an uptrend or downtrend.
- Convince your peers either to invest in your chosen company or not invest in the company. Explain your reason why.
Discuss your experience with cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain and cryptocurrency have great potential to bring prosperity into our world. The concept of a truly shared and democratic economy is at the core of the blockchain initiative.
In your initial post, address the following:
- Discuss your experience with cryptocurrencies.
- Have you used Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ripple, Tether, Litecoin, Ethereum, or other cryptocurrencies? If so, explain why you chose to use one of these systems and describe your experience.
- If you haven’t used cryptocurrencies, discuss your opinion about using them. Would you be interested in using or investing in cryptocurrency? Explain why or why not.
- How do you think blockchain technology and cryptocurrency might affect the economy in the future?
What future directions should research in this subject take?
Literature Review: Final Assignment Instructions
Overview
What Is a Literature Review?
A literature review is a survey and a discussion of the literature in a given area of study. It is a concise overview of what has been studied, argued, and established about a topic; it is generally organized chronologically or thematically. A literature review is also written in essay format.
A literature review is not an annotated bibliography because it groups related works together and discusses trends and developments rather than focusing on one item at a time. It is also not a summary; rather, a literature review evaluates previous and current research in regards to how relevant and/or useful it is and how it relates to your own research. Therefore, a literature review is more than an annotated bibliography or a summary because you are organizing and presenting your sources in terms of their overall relationship to your problem statement.
A literature review is written to highlight specific arguments and ideas in a field of study. By highlighting these arguments, the writer attempts to show what has been studied in the field and also where there are weaknesses, gaps, or areas needing further study. The literature review must also demonstrate to the reader why the writer’s research is useful, necessary, important, and valid.
Literature reviews can have different types of audiences, so consider why and for whom you are writing your review. For example, many literature reviews are written as a chapter for a thesis or dissertation in order to support a proposal or are written in order to help the writer develop a base of knowledge in a particular business area.
Asking the following questions will assist you in sifting through your sources and organizing your literature review. Remember, your Literature Review: Final Assignment organizes the previous research in light of what you are planning to do in your own project.
· What’s been done in this topic area to date? What are the significant discoveries, key concepts, arguments, and/or theories that scholars have put forward? Which are the important works?
· On which particular areas of the topic has previous research concentrated? Have there been developments over time? What methodologies have been used?
· Are there any gaps in the research? Are there areas that have not been looked at closely yet but should be? Are there new ways of looking at the topic?
· Are there improved methodologies for researching this subject?
· What future directions should research in this subject take?
· How will your research build on or depart from current and previous research on the topic? What contribution will your research make to the field?
What is the meaning of the painting called the alternative to Harris burg
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As an educator, what are some ways you might integrate strong values and ethics into your content-area lessons to help support students’ character development that not only support your spiritual beliefs but also those of your students?
As an educator, what are some ways you might integrate strong values and ethics into your content-area lessons to help support students’ character development that not only support your spiritual beliefs but also those of your students? Provide at least two specific ideas for activities.
What modifications could improve it, if any?
In considering how Medicaid is jointly funded by the U.S. federal and state governments, how has this funding structure positioned Medicaid so that it has both offered opportunities for public health and financing innovations (e.g. ACO’s, Expansion, Waivers, Work Requirements)
– while also making it vulnerable to political shifts and policy retrenchment (e.g. reductions in access)?
What modifications could improve it, if any?
(Keep political feasibility in mind!)
Please post your 2 paragraph response to this DB!
You can also use this Interesting article re: why single-payer health care is not politically feasible in the U.S., nor most U.S. states; https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-states-are-proposing-single-payer-health-care-why-arent-they-succeeding/
How does forecasting play a role in their future plans?
Your initial original post must be a minimum of 300 words and Your responses to classmates’ posts must be a minimum of 150 words each
The question
The great toilet paper shortage of 2020 has been felt by many in the US. Many have blamed the shortage on hoarding behavior, but the problem is more complex than that. Read the following article:
and discuss how Proctor & Gamble or other TP manufacturers could best prepare for the next pandemic supply chain disruption. Please remember that TP is bulky and building warehouses to store mountains of TP may not be the answer. How does forecasting play a role in their future plans?
You must start a thread before you can read and reply to other threads
After you post the answer I will post two classmates answer to you to respond on them.
How do you see your practice contributing to the identity of trust and the profession of nursing?
Lk12:48 …From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who
has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Nursing care often requires the delivery of medications to patients. This carries a huge responsibility
because all medications have the potential for side effects, but failing to assess an individual’s risk
makes the drug more potentially dangerous. That is why a professional nurse administers or
supervises the administration of medications in the hospital. The nursing profession is consistently
rated the most trusted profession in the world. What is trust and why is this important in the nursing
profession? How do you see your practice contributing to the identity of trust and the profession of
nursing?
Write a 1-2 page scholarly paper (you must have reliable resources) on the concept of trust and
trustworthiness (fidelity), and think about what you have been given that empowers this ability to
demand of you.
Note: Definition websites, Wikipedia, etc. are not reliable resources. You are expected to examine
the concept from a biblical perspective in a scholarly journal or commentary.
How will this shift to home care impact day-to-day nursing practice?
As technology in healthcare continues a shift to homecare is inevitable, safety is of utmost importance. Review the most current Patient Safety Goals for homecare found under the NPSG Program Links. Review the 5 NPGS listed for the Home Care option and discuss each one related to how the nurse can ensure they are met. Finally, locate an article that discusses technology and home care and summarize the findings. How will this shift to home care impact day-to-day nursing practice?
https://www.jointcommission.org/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/
