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Finance paper about IBM company

Finance paper about IBM company

1-Five major sections:

l Company background / introduction

l Competitive strengths

l Financial analysis (focus section)

l Stock valuation analysis

l Investment summary & recommendations

2- Company Competitive strengths

• Cost / price leadership

• Differentiated products

• Industry positioning:

• market share, brand & reputation, corporate culture, management track record, etc.

3- Economic moats

• A cost advantage

• A size advantage: economic scale

• Intangible assets: patents, brand recognition, government licenses, etc.

• High switching cost

• Network effect: a firm’s value increases as number of users increase

Soft moats: exceptional management, unique corporate culture.

4- Financial analysis

• Sales / growth analysis

• Profitability and margin analysis

• Asset turn over analysis

• Liquidity analysis

• Financial leverage

• ROE analysis (DuPont formula)

• WACC analysis and Enterprise value

• Free cash flow projections

5- Sales / growth analysis

• Sales

• by business segments

• by regions

• Historic sales growth rate (last 5 years)

• Estimating future growth rate:

• next 5-year growth rate from Yahoo Finance

• Sustainable growth rate

6- Ratio analysis

• Profitability and margin analysis:

• EBIT margin and net margin

• Asset turn over analysis:

• Total asset turnover

• Inventory turnover

• Liquidity analysis

• Quick ratio

• Financial leverage

• Debt/equity ratio

• EBIT/interest coverage
7- ROE analysis

8- Free cash flow projections

Using the % of sales approach:

• Look up 2016 year:

• sales, EBIT, depreciation, taxes, capex and working capital change

• Estimate sales growth rate for next 3 years;

• Estimate growth rates for other income statement items:

• EBIT, Taxes, capex and working capital change

• Estimate free cash flows for next 3 years
9- WACC analysis

• Market value of debt

• Market value of equity

• Total enterprise value

• Cost of debt estimate

• Cost of equity estimate using CAPM

• WACC calculation

10- Questions to be answered in the paper:

• What are the company’s competitive strengths?

• How are the company’s financial conditions?

• What are reasonable estimates for company beta and growth rate and discount rate?

• What is the fair value from the DDM and DCF models?

• Does the price target from the stock valuation models provide 10% upside?

• What’s the investment recommendation based on the buy criteria?

10 pages needed about IBM Company. Use the details above to write about IBM, the computer company. Yahoo finance and other good soruces are needed. Also need 1 more page of work cited work, thank you.

opium war DBQ thought organizer

opium war DBQ thought organizer

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ORG 300 – Module 6: Critical Thinking

ORG 300 – Module 6: Critical Thinking
Module 6: Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Assignment(70 Points)

Important! Read First
Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not complete both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.

Note that while there are two options for the Critical Thinking assignment, there is only one rubric. Review the rubric to confirm you are meeting the assignment requirements.

Option #1: Leaders Who Fall to the Pitfalls of Leadership

In this week’s required reading, The Value of Valuing Employees, the author states that there are six pitfalls that a leader can fall into—poor behaviors that can make employees or followers feel as if they don’t matter. Comaford (2013) states that “When employees are made to feel that they don’t matter, it happens on an emotional level, not an intellectual one” (para. 6).

Think about each of the pitfalls mentioned in the reading.
For each of the six pitfalls, provide an example of a leader (from your work, life experience, from the media, or your research on leaders) who you think engaged in that particular pitfall. Note that you should consider using fictitious names for both the individual and the organization.
Describe the situation, focusing on how the leader committed the pitfall.
Explain the impact of the pitfall on the organization and on the team.
What could the leader have done differently in order to correct his or her behavior?
Support your statements with two outside academic sources other than the textbook, course materials, or other information provided as part of the course materials.
Write a 3- to 4-page paper, using each pitfall as a separate heading in your paper. For this assignment, you will want to refer to the handout – Writing an Effective Essay.You may also want to view the sample paper, Does your paper look like this? and go to the CSU-Global Library’s APA resources for an APA Template Paper. Be sure your paper follows APA style according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

 

ORG 300 – Module 4: Critical Thinking

ORG 300 – Module 4: Critical Thinking
Question
Module 4: Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Assignment (75 Points)

Important! Read First
Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not complete both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.

Note that while there are two options for the Critical Thinking assignment, there is only one rubric. Review the rubric to confirm you are meeting the assignment requirements.

Option #1: Setting and Achieving Goals

The setting and achieving of goals is a critical part of leadership. A carefully designed plan is the key to the successful completion of organizational goals. Whether you are a leader or a follower, you will be responsible for helping an organization to achieve its goals.

Write a 2-3 page essay on the importance of developing plans to achieve organizational goals. In your paper, address the following:

Discuss two types of planning that organizations use to assist in the achievement of goals.
Determine when it is most appropriate to use each type of planning.
Your paper must follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Incorporate references from at least two peer-reviewed articles from the CSU Global library

ORG300 – Applying Leadership Principles

ORG300 – Applying Leadership Principles
Question
CSU-Global – ORG300 – Applying Leadership Principles

Critical Thinking for Module 2 – Option 2 – Leadership Communication Case Study Analysis

Option #2: Leadership Communication Case Study Analysis

This assignment will not only help you improve your leadership and communication skills, it will also establish the foundation for other courses you take at CSU-Global.

For this assignment, analyze the following case, which is related to leadership communication:

Ben Williams is the CEO of a public relations firm. He has four direct reports who are in charge of different components of his firm including operations, human resources, finance, and administrative support. On a semiannual basis, the firm surveys the employees to assess their level of satisfaction with the leadership.

Williams has noticed a trend in survey results over the last year. Comments and scores indicate the staff is unhappy with the level of communication from the top down. Williams does not understand why this is an issue.

Currently, Williams communicates with staff when there is a problem or if he believes they need to make a change. He does this by telling them exactly what they need to do, but not why they need to do it. Staff often find out about new projects when others have already begun working on them. Williams does not like electronic communications, nor does he believe that meetings are useful. However, as he reviews this trend, he realizes he must change the way he communicates.

For this assignment, research the topic of leadership and communication. Make sure you address the following questions:

What communication strategies are associated with effective leadership?
What does Williams need to differently to communicate effectively as a leader?
Be sure to evaluate the sources you find via the library or open web for credibility.
Your assignment will be 3-4 pages, in addition to the title and reference pages. Include all elements listed below in your paper. View the sample paper – Does your paper look like this? to see how these elements should appear. Keep in mind that this assignment structure reflects that of most Critical Thinking assignments at CSU-Global.

Title Page
You can use the APA Template Word document, which is already formatted in APA style. Just replace the informational placeholders with your information. Write directly into this template and save it as your own paper.

Introduction
This section is where you include your thesis statement. Follow the instructions on Writing an Effective Essay (one of your required readings this week). Use Page I of this module, Leadership and Communication, to help you. Ask yourself two important questions: Who is the audience and what is the message?

Body of the Paper
In this section, answer the two questions:

What communication strategies are associated with effective leadership?
What does Williams need to differently to communicate effectively as a leader?
If you use sources from the library or open web, be sure to include in-text citations.

Conclusion
In this section,

Restate thesis
Summarize main body points
Return to the hook to bring the essay full-circle
References

See sample paper and the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements to construct your Reference list.

MGMT 640 – London purchased a piece of real estate last year for $85,100

MGMT 640 – London purchased a piece of real estate last year for $85,100
Question
London purchased a piece of real estate last year for $85,100. The real estate is now worth $101,200. If London needs to have a total return of 0.23 during the year, then what is the dollar amount of income that she needed to have to reach her objective?

ADM 5302 – Unit VIII PowerPoint Presentation

ADM 5302 – Unit VIII PowerPoint Presentation
Unit VIII PowerPoint Presentation

Using the hard work that you put in the Research Paper for Unit VII, you will build a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation to present your findings, and portray the importance of implementing an ethics-training program for a public organization. This is the framework for an actual presentation that you may be asked to make in the future. Use this opportunity to get feedback and put together a “first-rate” presentation!

Components of the presentation will include:

? five to six abbreviate bullets for each slide, using approximately 24-point font,

? a simple but appropriate background for your slides, and

? the “Notes View” section below each slide to incorporate the talking points that you would use when presenting each slide.

The sequence of slides will be:

? Slide 1: Title slide – title of the assignment, student name, course title, and date;

? Slide 2: Basis for your research;

? Slide 3: Conclusions from your research;

? Slide 4: Four Goals for an ethics-training program;

? Slide 5 and 6: Cite two examples of public administration corruption;

? Slide 7 and 8: Describe two areas public institutions should focus on over the next five years;

? Slide 9: Summary (note the key points and why you believe this is important), and

? Slide 10: References (APA format)associated with risks or rewards be included

Briefly describe how you would implement the fore mentioned mechanisms to measure, record and report progress of activities in accordance to agreed schedule and agreed schedule changes

Briefly describe how you would implement the fore mentioned

Briefly describe how you would implement the fore mentioned mechanisms to measure, record and report progress of activities in accordance to agreed schedule and agreed schedule changes
Recommended Changes
Conclusion