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public filings on the Securities and Exchange

public filings on the Securities and Exchange

Bus 499 wk 10 assignment 5 capstone
Select a publicly traded corporation for which you would like to work or are currently working.
Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.

Analyze the five (5) forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.

Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.

Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.

Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.

Select two (2) corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how effective they are at controlling managerial actions.

Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1) recommendation for improvement.

Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation that should be

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation that should be

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation that should be
Option 1: Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation that should be 5 to 10 minutes in length. Please include detailed speaker notes, based on the Week 4 Persuasive Messages Part I & Part II assignment. Apply the four aspects of designing business presentations discussed in the textbook to your presentation.

Include at least one visual to support on your slides, for example, using a line chart to show increasing sales.

Include the following in presentation slides:

Title

Introduction

Recommendation

Benefits

Impact if product or service does not sell as much as expected Conclusion

References

Create a Microsoft Word summary of no more than 350 words to accompany your project. Format consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

An investor recently purchased a corporate bond

An investor recently purchased a corporate bond

An investor recently purchased a corporate bond
Chapter 3 How to

Reviewing Chapter 3 – Financial statement

Reviewing Ch3 – FM

3-1

An investor recently purchased a corporate bond which yields 9%. The investor is in the 36% combined federal and state tax bracket. What is the bond’s after-tax yield?

3-2

Corporate bonds issued by Johnson Corporation currently yield 8%. Municipal bonds of equal risk currently yield 6%. At what tax rate would an investor be indifferent between these two bonds?

3-3

Little Books Inc. recently reported $3 million of net income. Its EBIT was $6 million, and its tax rate was 40%. What was its interest expense? [Hint: Write out the headings for an income statement and then fill in the known values. Then divide $3 million net income by (1–T) [1] 0.6 to find the pre-tax income. The difference between EBIT and taxable income must be the interest expense. Use this same procedure to work some of the other problems.]

3-4

Pearson Brothers recently reported an EBITDA of $7.5 million and net income of $1.8 million. It had $2.0 million of interest expense, and its corporate tax rate was 40%. What was its charge for depreciation and amortization?

3-5

Kendall Corners Inc. recently reported net income of $3.1 million and depreciation of $500,000. What was its net cash flow? Assume it had no amortization expense.

3-6

In its most recent financial statements, Newhouse Inc. reported $50 million of net income and $810 million of retained earnings. The previous retained earnings were $780 million. How much in dividends was paid to shareholders during the year?

3-7

The Talley Corporation had a taxable income of $365,000 from operations after all operating costs but before (1) interest charges of $50,000, (2) dividends received of $15,000, (3) dividends paid of $25,000, and (4) income taxes. What are the firm’s income tax liability and its after-tax income? What are the company’s marginal and average tax rates on taxable income?

The firm’s income tax liability?

3-8

The Wendt Corporation had $10.5 million of taxable income.

a. What is the company’s federal income tax bill for the year?

b. Assume the firm receives an additional $1 million of interest income from some bonds it owns. What is the tax on this interest income?

c. Now assume that Wendt does not receive the interest income but does receive an additional $1 million as dividends on some stock it owns. What is the tax on this dividend income?

3-9

The Shrieves Corporation has $10,000 that it plans to invest in marketable securities. It is choosing among AT&T bonds, which yield 7.5%, state of Florida munibonds, which yield 5%, and AT&T preferred stock, with a dividend yield of 6%. Shrieves’s corporate tax rate is 35%, and 70% of the dividends received are tax exempt. Find the after-tax returns on both securities.

3-10

The Moore Corporation has operating income (EBIT) of $750,000. The company’s depreciation expense is $200,000. Moore is 100% equity financed, and it faces a 40% tax rate. What is the company’s net income? What is its net cash flow?

3-11

The Berndt Corporation expects to have sales of $12 million. Costs other than depreciation are expected to be 75% of sales, and depreciation is expected to be $1.5 million. All sales revenues will be collected in cash, and costs other than depreciation must be paid for during the year. Berndt’s federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%. Berndt has no debt.

a. Set up an income statement. What is Berndt’s expected net cash flow?

b. Suppose Congress changed the tax laws so that Berndt’s depreciation expenses doubled. No changes in operations occurred. What would happen to reported profit and to net cash flow?

c. Now suppose that Congress, instead of doubling Berndt’s depreciation, reduced it by 50%. How would profit and net cash flow be affected?

d. If this were your company, would you prefer Congress to cause your depreciation expense to be doubled or halved? Why?

3-12

You have just obtained financial information for the past 2 years for Bridgewater Equine Corporation. Answer the following questions.

a. What is the net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT) for 2007?

b. What are the amounts of net operating working capital for both years?

c. What are the amounts of total net operating capital for both years?

d. What is the free cash flow for 2007?

e. How can you explain the large increase in dividends in 2007?

Bridgewater Equine Corporation: Income Statements for Year Ending

December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

2007 2006

Sales $1,200.0 $1,000.0

Operating costs excluding depreciation 1,020.0 850.0

Depreciation 30.0 25.0

Earnings before interest and taxes $ 150.0 $ 125.0

Less interest 21.7 20.2

Earnings before taxes $ 128.3 $ 104.8

Taxes (40%) 51.3 41.9

Net income available to common stockholders $ 77.0 $ 62.9

Common dividends $ 60.5 $ 4.4

Assets

Cash and equivalents $ 12.0 $ 10.0

Short-term investments 0.0 0.0

Accounts receivable 180.0 150.0

Inventories 180.0 200.0

Total current assets $372.0 $360.0

Net plant and equipment 300.0 250.0

Total assets $672.0 $610.0

Liabilities and Equity

Accounts payable $108.0 $90.0

Notes payable 67.0 51.5

Accruals 72.0 60.0

Total current liabilities $247.0 $201.5

Long-term bonds 150.0 150.0

Total liabilities $397.0 $351.5

Common stock (50 million shares) 50.0 50.0

Retained earnings 225.0 208.5

Common equity $275.0 $258.5

Total liabilities and equity $672.0 $610.0

Production budgets

Production budgets

Production budgets
C 102-Production budgets should always show both
29. Production budgets should always show both budgeted units of product and costs.

Select one:

TrueFalse
32. A cost that changes with volume, but not at a constant rate, is called a:
Select one: a. Variable cost. b. Curvilinear cost. c. Step-wise variable cost. d. Fixed cost. e. Differential cost.
33.

The financial budgets include the cash budget and the capital expenditures budget.

Select one:

TrueFalse
35.

The high-low method of deriving an estimated cost line uses all the data points available.

Select one:

TrueFalse

22. Identify the situation that will result in a favorable variance.
Select one: a. Actual revenue is higher than budgeted revenue. b. Actual revenue is lower than budgeted revenue. c. Actual income is lower than expected. d. Actual costs are higher than budgeted costs. e. Actual expenses are higher than budgeted expenses.

The difference between the actual cost incurred and the standard cost

The difference between the actual cost incurred and the standard cost

The difference between the actual cost
14. The difference between the actual cost incurred and the standard cost is called the:

Select one:

a. Flexible variance.b. Price variance.c. Cost variance.d. Controllable variance.e. Volume variance.

21. Which of the following is the correct interpretation of a degree of operating leverage of 5?
Select one: a. Operating leverage of 5 means that sales can decrease by 5% before the firm’s current level of sales will hit the break-even point. b. Operating leverage of 5 means that if sales increase by 5% the firm will hit its break-even point. c. Operating leverage of 5 means that if sales increase by 5%, there will be a 25% increase in the firm’s pretax profit. d. Operating leverage of 5 measures the degree of debt employed by the firm’s debt structure. e. Operating leverage of 5 means that the company would need to increase sales by 5 times in order to hit its break-even point.

Business Enterprise

Business Enterprise

Business Enterprise

“Feeling Burned Out at Work? Join the Club,” Feintzeig, February 28, 2017
1. What are the consequences of employee burnout? What is the impact on employees and employers?
2. How are organization attempting to reduce burnout at work? Why are some organizations resisting addressing burnout issues?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-kind-of-jobs-program-for-middle-america-1488114000?mod=djem_jiewr_ES_domainid

“New Kind of Jobs Program for Middle America,” Mims, February 26, 2017
1. Why has the need for coding skills exploded in the U.S.?

2. Speculate on whether the success of coding schools will lead to 12-week bootcamp type educational experiences in other technical areas.

Measuring Risk

Measuring Risk

Measuring Risk

For this assignment, you will write a three to four page research paper in which you describe at least three ways in which risks are measured, including value-at-risk and credit scoring, in a manufacturing business. In this paper, please address the following questions:

How does Value-at-Risk affect investing for a manufacturing firm?
How might a manufacturing business be affected by credit scoring?
What other investment and financial risks are associated with manufacturing?
How might the investment and financial risks of your manufacturing firm be mitigated?
Does the firm have an effective plan for managing risks? Explain.
Must be in APA format and have a reference page.

Canadian politics

Canadian politics

Canadian politics
“The message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transpotatio or wheel or road into human society, but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous han functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure.” (McLuhan, 1964, p. 8)

McLuhan’s insight suggests that we need to look beyond the simple message to the social influence of the medium. As your textbook states, “…the manner in which people communicate shapes not only the society in which they live but how they interact within it (p. 461). Discuss how the ways that we communicate through social media, texting, blogging (both locally and globally) influence the ways that we perceive the world. Find a video (some interesting ones on TED.com) or a news article that provides support for your discussion.

Your submission should be approximately 500 words and include sociological concepts from your text as well as some of your own ideas as well as information from your selected video or article. (please include the link to your article or video.)

qualitative research in helping Marriott further penetrate the non- business- travelers segment in the United States

qualitative research in helping Marriott further penetrate the non- business- travelers segment in the United States

qualitative research in helping Marriott further penetrate the non- business- travelers segment in the United States

“Marriott: Marketing Research Leads to Expanded Offerings”.
Write a 3 to 5 Page paper (1000 to 1500 words) in APA format.
Below is a recommended outline.
1. Cover Page (See APA Sample paper)
2. Introduction a. A thesis statement
b. Purpose of paper
c. Overview of paper

3. Body a. Discuss the role of qualitative research in helping Marriott further penetrate the non- business- travelers segment in the United States.
b. Assume the respondents be segmented based on their evaluations of hotels on quality, price, service, amenities, comfort, and convenience? How many segments should there be? How would you prepare the data for inclusion into the marketing research report?
c. What charts and graphs would you use in preparing a report for Marriott?

4. Conclusion – Summary of main point’s
a. Lessons Learned and Recommendations

5. References – List the references you cited in the text of your paper according to APA format.

Marriott: Marketing Research Leads to Expanded Offerings
With roots that go back to before the Great Depression, Marriott International (www.marriott.com) has come a long way from its founding by husband and wife John and Alice Marriott. As of 2009, Marriott had a presence in 66 countries with more than 3,100 properties.
This sustained vast expansion over the last several decades is due in large part to marketing research. Marriott began pioneering segmentation in the hospitality industry by expanding its product offering in the 1980s, both upward and downward in quality from its flagship Marriott brand. Marriott found from focus groups and survey research that it could have many types of hotels serving different market segments, and that these market segments, although all providing the same basic needs, would not compete with each other. Certain brands under the Marriott umbrella serve the business traveler. Courtyard by Marriott, with pricing and scaled-back service levels compared to the larger Marriott hotels, is targeted toward the price-sensitive frequent business traveler. Courtyard hotels—said to be designed for business travelers by business travelers—offer high-speed Internet access, ample workspace within the room, and other amenities that are appealing to the business traveler. Fairfield Inns are priced still more modestly to appeal to travelers who are even more price sensitive. Other brands under the Marriott flag, such as the Ramada line, serve more of a family-style vacation market, with a focus toward comfort and affordability.
However, differentiation is not based on service and pricing alone. Marketing research has revealed other attributes that are important. For example, a family or a basic business traveler on a budget might be looking for a convenient location in addition to affordability. Hence, Marriott places Fairfield Inns along interstates and highways, because these targeted groups travel by car. Convenient location becomes another attribute that adds value and enhances perception of the Marriott brand name.
When Marriott began its Fairfield Inn and Suites brand, it started simply as Fairfield Inn. Then, with marketing research (focus groups and surveys), Marriott found that its
Fairfield Inn customers desired a luxury-class room within the value hotel of the Fairfield line. Responding to this, Marriott changed the name to Fairfield Inn and Suites and added high-class rooms that contain amenities such as a spa.
Analysis of internal secondary data identified a substantial number of travelers who stayed in Marriott hotels for more than a few nights. Focus groups and surveys revealed that these extended-stay travelers have different needs. They might need meeting space to conduct business, a kitchenette to dine in occasionally, or a suite space so that they do not get tired of seeing the same four walls around their beds when they come “home” in the evening after yet another day on the road. For these travelers, Marriott opened the Residence Inn line (a hotel line designed for an extended stay). Marriott found from subsequent marketing research that this segment had room to expand to a more value-priced line as well. Again, responding to this research, Marriott introduced TownePlace Suites (a value-priced extended-stay hotel line). Some of the guests at the Residence Inn or TownePlace Suites spend up to 6 months to a year at the same hotel.
At the high end, Marriott offers even fuller service and higher prices with its Hotel Resorts & Suites and its Renaissance upscale business properties. According to Marriott’s research estimating potential demand, the size of this high-end segment is substantial. With all of these hotel lines, Marriott continues the commitment to quality that began with John and Alice. Knowing from research that all hotel residents desire quality, Marriott strives to provide this in all facets of the hotel service. One way in which Marriott demonstrates this is by empowering its customer service representatives to address customer problems.
Although each of the various Marriott brands has worked hard to carve out a niche for itself, they all share the Marriott brand identity—the key ingredient to their success. According to Gordon Lambourne, Vice President, Marketing and Public Relations, the Marriott brand identity is all about commitment to service excellence, a strong focus on employees that work in the hotels, taking care of the associates so that they can really focus on their jobs and provide a level of service that customers demand and expect today and that service is consistent throughout the world from Philadelphia to Hong Kong. Each of Marriott’s hotels has a different personality with a distinct design and service level that make the guest feel like they are in London or Munich or Paris, but all these hotels have a common thread running through them that identifies them as Marriott hotels. The numerous Marriott brands, rather than creating competition for each other, actually help bring in more business. According to Gordon Lambourne, each of the brands does an excellent job of going out to its particular segment. Each brand has its loyal following and markets itself independently and as a part of a portfolio of brands. There is some crossover, however, but Marriott views it as a great opportunity, to serve customers whose needs may change. So a customer looking for an extended stay might prefer the Residence Inn, but choose a full-service hotel such as the Renaissance for a shorter trip. So whatever happens, whatever that need might be, Marriott is well positioned to capture that customer and that piece of business. Conclusion Marriott has been highly successful in using marketing research to develop a segmentation strategy of targeting different customers with different needs by providing different products and options. The diverse offerings have helped Marriott appeal to an increasingly wide range of clients and win greater business. Continued reliance on marketing research will be critical to Marriott’s success in the future.

African American Poetry

African American Poetry

African American Poetry

Critical Response to poems by two African American Authors, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1. A Song in the Front yard & The Rites for Cousin Vit, 2. Margaret Walker, 1. Poppa Chicken. Provide a brief biography of each poet, then share what you think the authors intent of the work is regarding each (3) poems, socially and culturally in 3-5 paragraphs 3 pages? Plagiarism sensitive. Must be relevant, professionally articulate in complete competent answers. Define the topics in subheading that clearly states who and what you are talking about.