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Financial Analysis Apple, Inc.
$25.00Financial Analysis Apple, Inc.
The Final Project will involve applying the concepts learned in class to an analysis of a company using data from its annual report. Using the concepts from this course, you will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the company and write a report either recommending or not recommending purchase of the company stock.
The completed report should include:
An introduction to the company, including background information.
A complete and thorough financial statement review.
Pro Forma financial statements (Balance Sheet and Income Statement) for the next two fiscal years, assuming a 10% growth rate in sales and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for each of the next two years.
Complete ratio analysis for the last fiscal year using at least two ratios from each of the following categories:
a. Liquidity
b. Financial leverage
c. Asset management
d. Profitability
e. Market value
Calculate Return on Equity (ROE) using the DuPont system.
Assess management performance by calculating Economic Value Added (EVA).
Review of the soundness of the company’s financial policies (e.g. capital structure, debt, leverage, dividend policy, etc.) based on the material covered during class.
A synopsis of your findings, including your recommendations and rationale for whether or not to purchase stock from this company.
This report should be 15 – 20 pages long excluding title page and reference page(s) using APA 6th edition formatting guidelines. Support your findings and recommendations with evidence from at least five scholarly sources in addition to the annual report; such as the textbook, industry reports, and articles from the Ashford library. Be sure to include links to websites that were used as references or to access company information.
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Financial Research Report – Apple Inc
$25.00FIN 534 Week 9 Assignment 1 – Financial Research Report
Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client that align with its investment goals. Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)
The assignment covers the following topics:
•Rationale for choosing the company for which to invest
•Ratio analysis
•Stock price analysis
•Recommendations
Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:
1. Provide a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.
2. Determine the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Provide support for your rationale.
3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
4. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the company from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
5. Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles or material from the Strayer Library.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
•Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
•Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
•Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
•Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
•Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
•Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
•Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
•Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
•Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics. -
FIN 534 Week 4 Homework
$10.00FIN 534 Week 4 Homework
Fin534 Financial Management
- What is the present value of the following uneven cash flow stream − $50, $100, $75, and $50 at the end of Years 0 through 3? The appropriate interest rate is 10%, compounded annually
- We sometimes need to find out how long it will take a sum of money (or something else, such as earnings, population, or prices) to grow to some specified amount. For example, if a company’s sales are growing at a rate of 20% per year, how long will it take sales to double?
- Will the future value be larger or smaller if we compound an initial amount more often than annually — for example, every 6 months, or semiannually—holding the stated interest rate constant? Why?
- What is the effective annual rate (EAR or EFF%) for a nominal rate of 12%, compounded semiannually? Compounded quarterly? Compounded monthly? Compounded daily?
- Suppose that on January 1 you deposit $100 in an account that pays a nominal (or quoted) interest rate of 11.33463%, with interest added (compounded) daily. How much will you have in your account on October 1, or 9 months later?
- What would be the value of the bond described above if, just after it had been issued, the expected inflation rate rose by 3 percentage points, causing investors to require a 13 % return? Would we now have a discount or a premium bond?
- What would happen to the bond’s value if inflation fell and declined to 7%? Would we now have a premium or a discount bond?
- What is the yield to maturity on a 10-year, 9% annual coupon, $1,000 par value bond that sells for $887.00? That sells for $1,134.20? What does a bond selling at a discount or at a premium tell you about the relationship between and the bond’s coupon rate?
- What are the total return, the current yield, and the capital gains yield for the discount bond in Question #8 at $887.00? At $1,134.20? (Assume the bond is held to maturity and the company does not default on the bond.)
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FIN 534 Homework 3 Set 1
$15.00Directions: Answer the following questions on this document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link in the course shell. This homework assignment is worth 100 points. YOU MUST ENTER CORRECT INFORMATION IN THE YELLOW-CODED CELLS DO NOT TOUCH THE NON-YELLOW-CODED CELLS ANSWERS ARE IN THE RED-BORDERED CELLS Use the following information for questions 1 through 8: The Goodman Industries’ and Landry Incorporated’s stock prices and dividends, along with the Market Index, are shown below. Stock prices are reported for December 31 of each year, and dividends reflect those paid during the year. The market data are adjusted to include dividends. Goodman Industries Landry Incorporated Market Index Year Stock Price Dividend Stock Price Dividend Includes Divi- dends 2013 $25.88 $1.73 $73.13 $4.50 17.49 5.97 2012 22.13 1.59 78.45 4.35 13.17 8.55 2011 24.75 1.50 73.13 4.13 13.01 9.97 2010 16.13 1.43 85.88 3.75 9.65 1.05 2009 17.06 1.35 90.00 3.38 8.40 3.42 2008 11.44 1.28 83.63 3.00 7.05 8.96 1. Use the data given to calculate the annual returns for Goodman, Landry, and the Market Index, and then calculate average annual returns for the two stocks and the index. (Hint: Remember, returns are calculated by subtracting the beginning price from the ending price to get the capital gain or loss, adding the dividend to the capital gain or loss, and then dividing the result by the beginning price. Assume that dividends are already included in the index, Also, you cannot calculate the rate of return for 2008 because you do not have 2007 data.) 2. Calculate the standard deviations of the returns for Goodman, Landry, and the Market Index. (Hint: Use the sample standard deviation formula given in the chapter, which corresponds to the STDEV function in Excel.) 3. Estimate Goodman’s and Landry’s betas as the slopes of regression lines with stock return on the vertical axis (y-axis) and market return on the horizontal axis (x-axis). (Hint: Use Excel’s SLOPE function.) Are these betas consistent with your graph? 4. The risk-free rate on long-term Treasury bonds is 6.04%. Assume that the market risk premium is 5%. What is the required return on the market using the SML equation? 5. If you formed a portfolio that consisted of 50% Goodman stock and 50% Landry stock, what would be its beta and its required return. 6. What dividends do you expect for Goodman Industries stock over the next 3 years if you expect the dividend to grow at the rate of 5% per year for the next 3 years? In other words, calculate D1, D2, and D3. Note that D0 = $1.50 7. Assume that Goodman Industries’ stock, currently trading at $27.05, has a required return of 13%. You will use this required return rate to discount dividends. Find the present value of the dividend stream, that is, calculate the PV of D!, D2, and D3, and then sum these PVs. 8. If you plan to buy the the stock, hold it for 3 years, and then sell it for $27.05, what is the most you should pay for it? (Problem 7-19) Use the following information for Question 9: Suppose now that the Good Industries (1) trades at a current stock price of $30 with a (2) strike price of $35. Given the following information: (3) time to expiration is 4 months, (annualized risk-free rate is 5%, and (5) variance of stock return is .25. 9. What is the price for a call option using the Black-Scholes model? -
Case Study of Danone Strategy
$30.00Case Study of Danone Strategy
Index
Introduction 4
Chapter 1: Distinctive features of Danone’s strategy under Franck Riboud’s leadership 5
1.1 Danone’s strategy 6
1.2 A social business 6
1.3 Change of governance 7
Chapter 2: Successfulness of Danone’s strategy 8
2.1 Corporate strategy successfulness 8
2.2 Dairy division successfulness 9
2.3 Water Division successfulness 9
2.4 Early life nutrition successfulness 9
2.5 Medical nutrition successfulness 9
Chapter 3: Extend of food industry local or global. 10
Chapter 4: Danone’s competitive advantage. 12
Chapter 5: Recommendations 14
References 17
Appendix 1: Danone’s sales business lines 1996 – 2014 21
Appendix 2: Porters 5-forces model 22
2.1 Porter five forces analysis 22
Competitive rivalry 22
Power of suppliers 24
Consumer bargaining power 24
Substitutes 24
Barriers of entry 24
Appendix 3: Financial information Danone 2009 – 2014 (values in € million) 25
Appendix 3.1: Danone income per product category. 26
Appendix 3.2: Net profit/income (depending on annual report) 26
Appendix 3.3 Sales comparison 26
Appendix 3.3 Dividend 26
Appendix 3.4: Comparison dairy products profits in millions 27
Appendix 3.5: Comparison water products profits in millions 27
Appendix 3.6: Comparison medical nutrition products profits in millions 27
Appendix 3.7 Danone Cash flow 27
Appendix 4: Threshold and distinctive capabilities 28
Appendix 5: VRIN model 29
Appendix 6: SWOT analysis 30
Appendix 7: Value network 31
Appendix 8: BCG matrix 34
Appendix 9 comparison of business structures 35
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Baby Prestige Business Proposal
$25.00Baby Prestige Business Proposal
ECO 561 Week 6 Final Proposal –
Individual Assignment – Final Proposal
Resource: Business Proposal and Peer Review feedback.
Revise your Week Four business proposal using the feedback provided by your peers and facilitator as necessary. In addition to your week four paper, the second part of your paper will use the revised information to recommend appropriate pricing and non pricing strategies for your new or existing good or service based on the projected economy’s stage in the business cycle and the prevailing projected economic conditions for one or more macroeconomic factors. Explain the
evidence that supports these recommendations.
Required Elements:
• Describe the current global economic conditions and their effect on local macroeconomic indicators for your good or service.
• Describe the local economy’s stage in the business cycle.
• Describe how current credit market conditions affect your planning or
operating decision for your good or service.
• No more than 2100 words (in addition to the 1400 word paper completed in week four, an additional three pages at most is needed)
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Business Proposal Beechnut baby foods
$20.00Business Proposal Beechnut baby foods
ECO 561 Week 4 Individual Assignment – Business Proposal
You will apply economic principles presented in Weeks One through Three in this week’s assignment. Your assignment will be reviewed by your peers and by your facilitator in week five and should be revised as necessary based on feedback as the first part of the final assignment in week six.
Select a new, realistic good or service for an existing industry.
Write the economic analysis section of a business proposal. This will include statements about the market structure and the elasticity of demand for the good or service, based on text book principles. You need to create hypothetical data, based on similar real world products to estimate fixed and variable costs.
Required Elements:
Identify market structure
Identify elasticity of the product
Include rationale for the following questions:
How will pricing relate to elasticity of your product?
How will changes in the quantity supplied as a result of your pricing decisions affect marginal cost and marginal revenue?
Besides your pricing decisions, what are your suggested nonpricing strategies? What nonpricing strategies will you use to increase barriers to entry?
How could changes in your business operations alter the mix of fixed and variable costs in line with your strategy?
No more than 1400 words
Your proposal is consistent with APA guidelines
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Database Environment DBM 380
$12.00DBM 380 Week 2 ASSIGNMENT
Individual: Database Design and ERD Creation
The following assignment is based on the database environment proposed in the Week One Individual Assignment.
Perform a logical design on the proposed database environment without going through the full normalization process. Include the identification of all entities and attributes associated with the environment.
Use a 2-page memo to document your logical design including the process you went through.
Discuss the process you went through to select the appropriate data types, primary and foreign keys, and other constraints that are necessary to maintain the integrity of the database.
Create a detailed ERD using the data specifications from the logical design. Use Microsoft® Visio® or another tool to create this diagram.
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Critical Evaluation of Main Leadership Theories
$25.00Critical Evaluation of Main Leadership Theories
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
1.0 Definition of Leadership 4
2.0 Leadership Theories 5
2.1 Trait Theory 5
2.1.1 Trait-Leadership Model 6
2.1.2 Criticism of Trait Leadership 7
2.1.3 Implication of trait leadership 7
2.2 Behavioural Theory 7
2.2.1 Behavioural Leadership Model 8
2.2.2 Criticism of Behavioural Theory 10
2.3 Contingency or Situational Theory 10
2.3.1 Fielder’s Contingency Model 11
2.3.2 Criticism of the Contingency Model 13
3.0 Critical analysis of Transformational Leadership 13
3.1 Rationale for choosing and reflecting of Transformational Leadership 13
3.2 Transformational Leadership components 14
3.3 Steps to develop transformational leadership skills 15
3.4 Criticism of transformational leadership 16
3.5 Future of Transformational Leadership 17
4.0 Conclusion 17
References 18