Financial Reporting Strategies and Decision Making

Financial Reporting Strategies and Decision Making
This is the second component of your course project.
The organization chosen is The American Red Cross

This assignment focuses on the financial strategies used by your selected organization to report finances and produce the financial information necessary to enhance performance. For this assignment, review and interpret financial statements and examine the processes used to create these statements.

In your assignment:

Analyze the accounting processes used by the organization.
Analyze the types of funds and financial reports used by the organization.
Analyze the financial statements used by the organization. 
Examine the fiscal health of the organization, including an examination of revenue and expenditure trends, assets and liabilities, and debt trends (if any).
Explain how you would communicate these findings and collaborate with professional tax, financial, and legal consultants to support the organization’s financial position.
Review the scoring guide for this assignment now, to learn about the criteria on which your assignment performance will be graded.

Submission Requirements
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, consistent with the expectation for stakeholders in human services professions. 
APA formatting: Format resources and citations according to current APA style and formatting requirements. Include correct headings, citations, and references.
Number of resources: Include at least 5 resources (peer-reviewed publications), excluding the course text. Critically evaluate the literature and practices addressed.
Length of paper: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not counting the cover page, abstract, and references. 
Structure of paper: Include a cover page, an abstract, and a reference page. 
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Headings: Use headings in APA format, based on the assignment tasks. 
Submit your paper to Turnitin and then submit your assignment and Turnitin report in the Assignment area as attachments. Your assignment should be a Word document.

Resources
Financial Reporting Strategies and Decision Making Scoring Guide.
APA Style and Format.
Human Services PhD Research Guide.
Turnitin.