This Portfolio Project has two parts: Calculations due this week and a 4- to 6-page essay due next week in Module 8. While the calculation requirements of this assignment are important, equally important are your discussion and analysis of the quantitative results. You will submit two documents: 1) a spreadsheet containing your horizontal and vertical analysis (and perhaps your ratios) in Module 7 and 2) […]

Coogly Company is attempting to identify its weighted average cost of capital for the coming year and has hired you to answer some questions they have about the process. They have asked you to present this information in a PowerPoint presentation to the company’s management team.  The company would like for you to keep your presentation to approximately 10 slides and use the notes section […]

Use the balance sheet and statement of income for Ascension Health. In a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, prepare a vertical analysis of the company for the years 2013 and 2014 and a horizontal analysis from 2013 (base year) to 2014 (subsequent year). This is the website. Download and review the financial statements of Ascension Health, a nonprofit, religious-based healthcare system, from http://www.ascensionhealth.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=45&Itemid=160.  Once on this page […]

Saving for a car or home in installments: Suppose you have $10,000 to put in a savings account now and in addition you hope to put in more money each month for the next 5 years. Investigate bank interest rates to find the best possible savings interest rate near you compounded at a monthly rate. Look up information on annuity and sinking funds. Figure out how much you […]

You are the lead consultant for the Diligent Consulting Group. It is mid-October. One of your top clients, Sunshine Floor Barn, has just closed the books for the first three quarters of the year (January through September). Sunshine Floor Barn requests that you analyze the sales performance of its 5 product lines over this 3-quarter period. From past consulting work you have done for the […]

My first file uploaded is the rough draft followed by similar assignments I handed in meant to come up with the rough draft. My professor wrote this about the rough draft..please resubmit work with the name of the company clearly standing out.  You need a real organization or a made up one.  All you should be doing is combining all of your previous diversity projects […]

Critique the Professionals      Locate an example of professional communication from a reputable online source. Choose a paragraph that has at least three sentences. Evaluate the effectiveness of this paragraph at three levels, starting with the paragraph structure.  Is the paragraph unified and cohesive? Does it have a clear topic sentence and sufficient support to clarify and expand on that topic? Second, evaluate each […]

 Define the termsfinanceandfinancial management, and identify the major sub-areas offinance.Finance: the study of applying specific value to things that we own, the services we use, and thedecisions we make.Financial Management: the process for and the analysis of making financial decisions in thebusiness context.There are four major sub-areas of finance.They are:1.Investments.This subarea involves methods and techniques for making decisionsabout what kinds of securities to own, which […]

This discussion is similar to the game Two Truths and a Lie. Your first post is to write about any current topic either from this course, your future career, or something currently in the news. Take a position and back your position using two solid facts and one fake fact. You must have citations for all three facts, but you can make up the citation […]

Bangers, Inc. is a start-up manufacturer of Australian-style frozen veggie pies located in San Antonio, Texas. The company is five years old and recently installed the manufacturing capacity to quadruple its unit sales. To jump start the demand for its products, the company founders have hired a local advertising firm to create a series of ads for its new line of meat pies. The ads […]