What is the difference between market capitalization and enterprise value? What do each of these variables measure?

Assignment grades will be based on 50% completion and 50% accuracy. Please show all work, including cell references if you are using Excel.

 

 

Using the Excel File “MCD vs. WEN Annotated_v2” uploaded on Canvas, find the following variables in 2017 to 2021 for Wendy’s. All questions are worth 5 points each.

 

1. Find the Current Ratio

2. Find the Quick Ratio

3. Find the Cash Ratio

4. Describe the trend of the above ratios from 2017 ~ 2021

5. In 2021, which firm, in general, has more safety in terms of meeting obligations over the next 12 months?

 

6. Find the Total Debt ratio (use textbook definition debt = liabilities)

7. Find the Debt to Equity ratio (use textbook definition debt = liabilities)

8. Find the Equity Multiplier (use textbook definition debt = liabilities)

9. How is the debt situation looking like for Wendy’s in years 2017 ~ 2021?

10. In 2021, which firm is using more debt proportionally?

 

11. Find the Asset Turnover ratio

12. In 2021, which firm is using its assets more efficiently?

 

13. Find the Net Profit Margin

14. Find the ROA

15. Find the ROE

16. Describe the trend of the above ratios from 2017 ~ 2021

17. Which firm is more profitable?

18. Is the ROE meaningful in this case? If yes, describe what it measures. If no, describe why it’s not meaningful

 

19. What is the difference between market capitalization and enterprise value? What do each of these variables measure?

20. Go to Key Stats spreadsheet for each firm and scroll down to the current capitalization section. Which firm is larger? McDonald’s or Wendy’s? Why?

21. Bonus: Stay on the Key Stats spreadsheet and scroll all the way down to Valuation Multiples based on Current Capitalization. You should be able to find the P/E ratio for each firm in row 79. Which firm has a larger P/E ratio in 2021 (1 pt)? Explain one potential reason why this company would have a larger P/E ratio (4 pts).

Explain how evolving demographics and emerging technologies transform organizations.

Explain how evolving demographics and emerging technologies transform organizations.

500 words

According to George and Jones (2020), a company’s stance on social responsibility is the way its managers and employees view their duty or obligation to make decisions that protect, enhance, and promote the welfare and well-being of stakeholders and society as a whole. This includes the way the company handles changing demographics and emerging technologies.

Global Environment

Consider the forces in the global environment and your professional experience when responding to the following questions:

  • What are some of the implications of demographic forces for the industry you work in or aspire to work in?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of technological change?
  • How can information technology lead to beneficial changes within the workplace in the industry you work in or aspire to work in?

Social Responsibility

Consider your professional experience when responding to the following questions.

  • What do you consider to be the top three benefits to social responsibility?
  • How does your organization implement social responsibility initiatives? If they don’t, what considerations should be made?
What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects? 

Consider the profile examples on project leaders Sir John Armitt and Jim Watzin from the chapter. If you were to summarize the leadership keys to their success in running projects, what actions or characteristics would you identify as being critical? Why? What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects?

APA format

400 words

Explain the government’s impact on the cost of health care.

Write  1,000- to 1,200 about the impact of regulation and policy.

Choose a current health policy from your state that is being considered as a legislative act.

  1. Explain the pros and cons of the proposed health policy from the perspective of the patient, family, or community and its role in reducing the cost for health care insurers.
  2. Explain the government’s impact on the cost of health care.
  3. Explain what regulatory authority will implement or enforce this health care policy.
  4. Describe the differences between federal, state, and local health care regulatory responsibilities in the chosen health policy.

Include three scholarly sources including your textbook.

Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices

The Assignment (1-2 pages):

Developing Organizational Policies and Practices

Add a section to the 2-3 page paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following in 1-2 pages:

· Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

· Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

· Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.

· Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.

· Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.

· Due to the nature of this assignment, your instructor may require more than  7 days to provide you with quality feedback.

create a brief section  analyzing how your plan is consistent with Christian teachings as grounded in the Holy Bible.

This Conflict Resolution: Part 3 – Action Plan Assignment will eventually be the last section  of the Conflict Resolution: Part 4 – Proposal Assignment. This section will consist of you  providing a detailed plan for addressing the conflict identified in the previous assignments.

Your intervention plan that is selected should be congruent with the theoretical conceptualization that  you outlined in your Conflict Resolution: Part 2 – Literature Review and Conceptualization  Assignment. The Conflict Resolution: Part 3 – Action Plan Assignment needs to provide an  understanding for how the suggested intervention would cause change in the underlying conflict  dynamic. The effect of your action plan on all parties should be thoroughly analyzed.

Be sure you justify the need for criminal justice organization alternative resolution techniques.    Additionally, for the first time in this series of papers, you should address your conflict  resolution plan through the lens of a Christian Worldview.  In other words, create a brief section  analyzing how your plan is consistent with Christian teachings as grounded in the Holy Bible.   As with previous papers, the action plan should be grounded in the conflict resolution research  literature.

INSTRUCTIONS

Items to include are outlined as follows:   Length of assignment is 6 to 8 pages

o Excluding title page, abstract, reference section, or any extra material

 Format of assignment is the current version of APA

 Number of citations – Minimum guideline is 4 – 8 peer reviewed academic

journal articles and at least one Holy Bible reference.

What purpose do theories in criminology serve?

Each discussion should be 300 words or more for original posts

APA in-text (Links to an external site.) citations and references are required for any external and textbook material provided. Excessive quotations (more quotes than your own words) will not award points.

Discussion Questions (Choose one):

  1. What purpose do theories in criminology serve? Provide and discuss an example(s) where criminal theories have pushed the envelope further in the field of Criminology.
  2. Compare and contrast theories from the Classical School and the Positive School. Which theories/Schools of Thought are more prevalent/in use today?
Discuss the case for intermediate sanctions and the impediments to effective intermediate sanctions.

Discussing the pros and cons of intermediate sanctions

Review the following document (Executive Summary)   https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165043.pdf (Links to an external site.)  then respond to the following questions:

Discuss the case for intermediate sanctions and the impediments to effective intermediate sanctions.

Are there some crimes that should not be eligible for intermediate sanctions?