Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Drakopoulou’s article A Review of Fundamental and Technical Stock Analysis Techniques (Links to an external site.) from Journal of Stock and Forex Trading (2015). Review the financial statements for one publicly traded company, such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), General Motors (NYSE: GM), Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE), International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), American Airlines Group Inc. […]

Let me first summarize the general consensus on the “GLOBALL thought experiment” – the hypothetical global currency. Your discussions were both on point, thoughtful, and enjoyable to read.  Most of the class was of the mindset that it would not likely work (particularly in the short run) for various reasons — most important being loss of monetary sovereignty, political frictions, and various market imperfections including […]

Part 1: Firms in the real estate investment trusts (REITs), airlines, electric utilities, and paper products industries tend to have high leverage. Explain why firms in these industries would prefer to have high leverage.  Part 2: Firms in the computer hardware, footwear, apparel and luxury goods, and data processing industries tend to have low leverage. Explain why firms in these industries would prefer to have low leverage.  Include some […]

Assume that you recently graduated and landed a job as a financial planner with Cicero Services, an investment advisory company. Your first client recently inherited some assets and has asked you to evaluate them. The client presently owns a bond portfolio with $1 million invested in zero coupon Treasury bonds that mature in 10 years. The client also has $2 million invested in the stock […]

Assume ABC Company has chosen to invest in new manufacturing equipment. The initial cost of the equipment is $1,200,000. The equipment has a useful life of 20 years. The company uses straight-line depreciation. Their tax rate is 30%. Their weighted average cost of capital is 10%. The new equipment is expected to increase net cash flows by $500,000 in year 1, $350,000 in years 2 […]

Hello, I have one page paper on enterprise risk management that is based on an article. I want you to add more information about enterprise risk management to make it about 5 pages. Use one more source in explaining what is Enterprise risk management to make it consistent with the original paper I have, and then write about this article (http://www.rmmagazine.com/2016/10/03/innovation-vs-negligence/) that explains some problems […]

Information Systems Business Case (Week 3 IP) ◦Based on the information contained in the Business Systems Plan and the Strategic Information Systems Assessment, write an IT strategy statement that details the following: ◾Critical success factors for the IT manager  ◾A general strategy for how the IT department will determine congruence between the goals of the IT department and the goals and objectives of the case […]

Explore and Discuss the challenges of understanding and reporting taxes and cash flows in the context of this week’s learning on valuation. Build from your discussion posts and create a one to two-page document that draws upon information and analysis from this week’s readings, the two discussion board posts (and any student follow-up posts/replies). Show your understanding material. Feel free to reference/incorporate this week’s discussion […]

In anticipation of Mary’s request for comparative analysis, it will be useful at this time to do some research. You know that you can obtain the financials of companies within the same sector or Standard Industry Code as Apix Printing (e.g., commercial printing), and that the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Standard Industry 2012 code for Apix Printing is presently 323111. Use Hoover’s Pro […]

⚫ Selects one FOREIGN country/region (from American perspective) and its currency (note some countries have dollarized so do not have their own currencies) to work on the project. (If you have interest to work on two countries and currencies, then ideally you please pick one key currency and one less popular currency. Less developed countries and regions have unique business and investment opportunities. It will […]