Shaun Hoggan

Week 2 Assignment
Monday, Day 7: Learning Team – Prepare a solution to the following problem from the text: Chapter 10: # P10-3A.

Week 2 Discussion
Learning Teams: Begin working on the assignment, Ratio Analysis Memo and Presentation, which is due in Week Five. Your solutions should be submitted to the Assignments Forum on Thursday, Day 3, of Week 5.

1)    Use the Virtual Organization link on the page to access the Virtual Organizations. Select one of the Virtual Organizations as the basis for this assignment. Be sure to obtain instructor approval of your selected organization before beginning this assignment.

2)    Use the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following ratios:

a)    Liquidity ratios
i)     Current ratio
ii)    Acid-test (quick) ratio
iii)   Receivables turnover
iv)   Inventory turnover

b)    Profitability ratios
i)     Asset turnover
ii)    Profit margin
iii)   Return on assets
iv)   Return on common stockholders’ equity

c)    Solvency ratios
i)     Debt to total assets
ii)    Times interest earned

 

3)    Be sure to show your calculations for each ratio.
4)    Then, prepare a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.
5)    Prepare a 350-750-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following items:

a)    Discuss what the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios tell you about the financial position of the company
b)    Identify which users would be interested in each type of ratio.
c)    Explain what the collected data tells you about the performance and position of the company.

6)    Prepare 8 – 10 Microsoft® Power Point® slides with speaker notes illustrating your financial analysis of your selected organization.
7)    Be sure to properly cite the source(s) of the data that you used to calculate your ratios and the horizontal and vertical analysis in your paper. If you used an electronic source, include the URL. If you used a printed source, please attach a copy of the data to your paper.

Week 3 Assignment
Monday, Day 7: Learning Team – Prepare a solution to the following problem from the text: Chapter 10: # P10-3A.

Week 3 Discussion
Learning Teams: Corporate Characteristics Proposal – Due in Week #4

Your team has been hired as consultants for a start-up business venture. As part of your analysis of this new business venture, prepare a 1,050-1,750-word proposal to the CEO in which you discuss the following items:

1.    Describe the different forms of business organizations that could be selected as the basis for the business.
2.    The characteristics of a corporation.
3.    The different types of stocks and corresponding characteristics, which a corporation could issue.
4.    The advantages and disadvantages to the corporate form of doing business.

Be sure to properly cite any references used in your paper.

Week 4 Assignment
Monday, Day 7: Learning Team – Corporate Characteristics Proposal.

Week 4 Discussion
None in Syllabus

Week 5 Assignment
Thursday, Day 3: Learning Team – Submit the team solution to the Ratio Analysis Memo and Presentation and Learning Team Peer Evaluation.

Week 5 Discussion
None in Syllabus