Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve its financial health

Overview

In preparation for your report in Project Two, you will need to calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen business’s current financial health. Once you’ve calculated these ratios, the results will be used to analyze the business’s current financial position and help them make decisions about how to improve or maintain their financial health. Pay particular attention to working capital management. If liquidity is an issue, consider how the company will meet its short-term obligations.

Prompt

Using the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet and the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online for your chosen company, calculate the financial ratios for the most recent fiscal quarter. Then, compare those ratios with the same ratios for the same fiscal quarter from one year prior in Mergent Online, and analyze your results.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

• Financial Calculations: Calculate accurate financial ratios to assess the business’s current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following ratios:
  • 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: Using Mergent Online, summarize the differences between the results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a year before for your chosen business.
  • For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the 3rd quarter in 2020, then you will compare those results to the same financial calculations from the 3rd quarter in 2019.
• Comparison Analysis: Explain what the results of your calculations and your comparison indicate about the business’s current financial health, providing examples to support your explanation. You might consider the following questions:
  • Do the results indicate the business is financially healthy or financially unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
  • What might be the cause(s) 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 needed funds to improve its financial health. Base your response on the business’s current financial information.

You have been recognized as an expert on financial analysis

You have been recognized as an expert on financial analysis. As such, you have been hired to conduct a review of a company’s latest consolidated financial statement and make recommendations to leadership based upon your findings.

Select a consolidated financial statement from a for-profit organization. You can use the internet to search for a company. I have added a list of recommended companies to the folder “Help for the Week 5 Assignment”. Please refer to this folder to help you with understanding how to complete a business proposal.

Write a 1,050- word proposal in which you:

• Analyze the consolidated financial statement selected.
• Recommend specific actions to leadership based on your findings.

Cite your sources in APA format within the text of the document and include the APA formatted references on the APA formatted references page. You must use at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

An evaluation of Walmart’s transportation and warehousing networks, focusing on constraints, modes of transportation, infrastructure, and special handling requirements.

Prompt: For this milestone, you will submit an evaluation of Walmart’s transportation and warehousing networks, focusing on constraints, modes of transportation, infrastructure, and special handling requirements. You will also make recommendations to improve transportation. 

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: 

IV. Transportation: In this section, first consider the effectiveness of Walmart’s transportation network in order to then determine possible cost savings without sacrificing performance. 

A. Evaluation 

1. Identify constraints within the transportation network and discuss the impact they will have on the overall supply chain operation. Be
   sure to provide specific examples to illustrate.
    
2. Analyze the transportation network and determine whether or not the correct modes of transportation are being used based on time,
   cost, and quantity.
    

B. Recommendations: Make recommendations on how to improve the transportation network given the constraints you identified using specific 

examples to illustrate and justify your claims. 

V. Warehousing: In this section, first analyze your client’s warehousing network in order to then determine requirements and develop recommendations for adequately meeting current and future storage needs. 

A. Evaluation 

1. Analyze the current warehousing infrastructure to determine if the current warehousing network adequately meets storage needs.
   Additionally, consider eventual expansion requirements of Walmart’s operation. What are the constraints or restrictions involved in the
   possible locations?
    
2. Identify considerations for special handling of hazardous materials and describe their impact on warehousing for the current mix of
   products that Walmart’s SCM is handling, using specific examples.

What can Kickstarter do in the coming years to reinforce their competitive advantage?

From their inception, the founders of Kickstarter were largely aligned in how they prioritized a culture rooted in achievement and ethical behavior. 

However, they ran into numerous problems and have also dealt with competitive threats due to the exploding interest in crowdfunding.

Question: What can Kickstarter do in the coming years to reinforce their competitive advantage? 

Instructions:

* I HAVE PROVIDED A TEMPLATE for you to use. CLICK HERE for the Template. 

* Answer the question listed above by providing TWO core strategic actions. You may list additional information and discussion, but focus your efforts on these TWO recommendations that Kickstarter should incorporate. For each recommendation, associate a threat/opportunity with a strength/weakness.

* Also, pay very close attention to the consulting frameworks we have introduced thus far and the criteria that constitute a sustainable competitive advantage. 

* Ensure that you adhere to the norms of written communication, including message, grammar, and spelling

A law firm has hired you as the forensic accountant to prepare a calculation of economic damages due

A law firm has hired you as the forensic accountant to prepare a calculation of economic damages due to the injury that Jane sustained.

1. Despite Jane Doe’s injury, she expects to continue working until the age of 65. Your objective is to calculate the economic damages that Jane Doe will experience over her work-life expectancy (age 65) due to lost wages and benefits

2. Published statistics illustrate that Jane Doe’s life expectancy, based on her age and education, is 85 years of age.

3. As a result of Jane Doe’s injury, she can no longer perform household services. Legal counsel has asked you to calculate the amount of economic damages needed to replace the loss of household services over Jane Doe’s remaining life expectancy

4. Jane Doe’s trial date is scheduled on the two-year anniversary of her injury. Economic damages calculated from that date forward will need to be discounted to present value

Discussion: research design and t tests: how are they connected?

Whether in a scholarly or practitioner setting, good research and data analysis should have the benefit of peer feedback. For this Discussion, you will perform an article critique on t tests. Be sure and remember that the goal is to obtain constructive feedback to improve the research and its interpretation, so please view this as an opportunity to learn from one another.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the Learning Resources and the media programs related to t tests.
• Search for and select a quantitative article specific to your discipline and related to t tests. Help with this task may be found in the Course guide and assignment help linked in this week’s Learning Resources. Also, you can use as a guide the Research Design Alignment Table located in this week’s Learning Resources

ASSIGNMENT 

Write a 3- to 5-paragraph critique of the article. In your critique, include responses to the following:

• Which is the research design used by the authors?
• Why did the authors use this t test?
• Do you think it’s the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?
• Did the authors display the data?
• Do the results stand alone? Why or why not?
• Did the authors report effect size? If yes, is this meaningful?  

Required Readings

Frankfort-Nachmias, C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G. (2020). Social statistics for a diverse society (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 8, “Testing Hypothesis” (pp. 243-279)

Wagner, III, W. E. (2020). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 6, “Testing Hypotheses Using Means and Cross-Tabulation” (previously read in Week 5)
Chapter 11, “Editing Output” (previously read in Week 2, 3, and 4)

Walden University Library. (n.d.). Course Guide and Assignment Help for RSCH 8210. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/rsch8210
For help with this week’s research, see this Course Guide and related weekly assignment resources.

Document: Week 6 t test Scenarios (PDF)
Use these scenarios to complete this week’s Assignment. (see attachments)

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Must USE SUBHEADING

Describe the first three steps you would take to begin the strategic planning process for a human services organization.

SOCW 6070 WK5 Assignment: Leadership and Strategic Planning

In this assignment, you consider how leaders can engage in a strategic planning process with stakeholders to develop a plan to guide the organization’s evolution and development for the long-term. Since strategic planning should engage persons who will be affected by an organization’s decisions (e.g., staff, administration, board members, members of the community), it is important to include key stakeholders in the planning process so that it reflects their perspectives and interests.

For this Assignment, think about how you would begin the strategic planning process for a human services organization. Consider the human services organizations for which you have worked either in your fieldwork or as an employee. Based on what you know about a particular organization, what steps might you take to establish a plan for the organization’s long-term development?

Assignment (2–4 pages in APA format): 

Describe the first three steps you would take to begin the strategic planning process for a human services organization. 

Be sure to include the key stakeholders—who should be involved in each step and why they need to be included in the process. 

In addition, include steps you would take to establish stakeholder support and confidence.

Note: Although you will base your strategic plan on what you know about an actual organization, do not include any identifying information about the organization or its stakeholders.

— Feedback:

As you continue to submit paper assignments in this class there are two basic elements that I need you to add to your paper. The first is the purpose or intent of your paper added to your first paragraph. The second is a conclusion at end of your paper which summarize your major points and the impact that the issue will have on the practice of social work. You simply say in conclusion and then you make your final remarks.

Resources

Lauffer, A. (2011). Understanding your social agency (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

Chapter 10, “Agency Structure and Change” (pp. 324–352)

Northouse, P. G. (2021). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

Chapter 7, “Creating a Vision” (pp. 161-208)

Chapter 8, “Establishing a Constructive Climate” (pp. 182-208)

Chapter 10, “Listening to Out-Group Members” (pp. 252-275)

Description of practicum setting and population.

The purpose of this assignment is to create a lesson plan to be delivered in the practicum setting. Refer to your student learning needs assessment data and annotated bibliography to complete this assignment.

Write a detailed lesson plan that includes the following information.

1. Description of practicum setting and population.
2. Lesson outcomes with rationale and alignment to student learning needs that were identified in your learning needs assessment.
3. Teaching strategies with research-based rationale for effectiveness.
4. Description of how different learning styles are addressed in your chosen teaching strategies.
5. Outline of content that will be covered in the lesson plan.

This resource requires a minimum of 2-3 scholarly sources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Sochi Olympics—What’s the Cost of National Prestige?

Sochi Olympics—What’s the Cost of National Prestige?

The Sochi Olympics was an example of project costs running out of control; so much so that the final price tag (estimated to be more than $50 billion), dwarfed the costs of every other Olympic Games to this point in time.  In addition to picking a questionable, sub-tropical location for the Games, from the very beginning, the process of developing the site was subject to meddling from politicians, including President Vladimir Putin. Another major cost to the final price tag was related to charges of wide-spread corruption, as sub-projects for the Games (such as infrastructure, buildings, and roads) ended up with highly inflated price tags.   This is a great case for general class discussion as we consider the purpose for Olympic Games, the challenges of cost control with critical deadlines that must be adhered to, and the fact that costs are rising for Games to the point where in 2017, Rome, Budapest, and several other cities withdrew their bids to host the 2024 Olympics because they could not trust the final costs and could not justify the value they would gain versus the costs of the project.

Questions

1. Consider the following statement: “Government-funded projects intended to serve as ‘prestige projects,’ such as the Sochi Olympics, should not be judged on the basis of cost.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?
2. Project success is defined as adherence to budget, schedule, functionality (performance), and client satisfaction.  Under these criteria, cite evidence that suggests the Sochi Olympics project was a success and/or failure.
3. When a project has a “hard gate,” like being ready on time, how does that affect normal success criteria?  Is it fair to judge a project with a critical completion date by normal project success standards?  Why or why not?
4. Consider the problems with the Rio Olympics sites that quickly occurred following completion of the 2016 Summer Games.  Access the internet to find evidence of the current state of the Sochi Olympic site.  How is it being used and what are the current problems and opportunities for Sochi?

disadvantages the United States faced when entering the war.

Instructions: 

Read the following Discussion question carefully, then submit an original answer.  Your answer should be at least a few sentences to a paragraph in length.  There is no “right” or “wrong” answer, but your opinion should be well-reasoned and based on fact.  (no references needed) this is just an opinion…

In hindsight, World War II can be seen as a tremendous victory which lifted the U.S, to the heights of world power.  However, when the U.S. entered the war in 1941, victory was not a foregone conclusion.  Discuss several disadvantages the United States faced when entering the war.  How did we overcome them?