This assignment is concerned with the financial performance and financial position of a company over a period of time. Key areas of interest are:
How well has the company performed as seen through its performance ratios?
How does the company choose to finance its activities and investments and what are the implications of these choices for its financial position?
Use your research to address the following:
Describe six major factors that distinguish financial management in firms operating entirely within a single country from those that operate in several different countries.
Describe some of the common barriers to entry for a firm entering a new country for business.
Discuss how financial management varies from country to country.
What can be done to improve ethics in finance?
What can be done to improve ethics in corporate governance?
Analyze ways in which to improve ethics in finance.
Analyze ways in which to improve ethics in corporate governance.
Competency 6: Strategically manage global financial environment.
List six major factors that distinguish financial management in firms operating entirely within a single country from those that operate in several different countries.
Describe common barriers to entry for a firm entering a new country for business.
Discuss how financial management differs from country to country.
Using the Government Spending and Taxation case, Chapters 5 and 6, the knowledge you have gained in this course, as well as at least three additional credible resources, analyze the case by addressing the following:
Describe how government spending and the composition of the government changed in recent decades. In other words, in what areas has the government cut spending and in what areas has the government increased spending in recent decades?
Determine if this change in government spending and composition will help Americans achieve a higher living standard. Be sure to support all opinions with research.
Democracy can survive if the majority of the U.S. citizens pay little or nothing in taxes while benefiting directly from a higher level of government spending. Why or why not?
Explain how the Social Security system’s basic principles are different from private insurance.
Determine how Social Security affects the economic well-being of blacks, relative to whites and Hispanics.
Assess if the current Social Security system promotes income equality. Why or why not?
Propose how the Social Security system could be modernized to ensure long-term solvency and fairness in distribution. Be specific and support your proposal with research.
#5. Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement? 0-350 words
Create a 500-750-word summary of the business model canvas. Include research from at least five sources. Within the summary, describe your ideas for key partnerships, cost structure, key activities, key resources, value propositions, customer relationships, channels, customer segments, and revenue streams. Describe why you selected these as the key elements of your business.
Using an importance-performance matrix, identify and justify an improvement priority you would recommend to the operation’s service quality provision, explicitly stating scope, target audience and planned outcome of your recommended improvement.
Evaluate individual and organizational value systems.
Critique real-world ethical issues through the lens of ethical principles.
Interpret the impact of organizational policies on individuals, the organization, and the community.
Analyze and propose an ethics/social responsibility strategy to implement within the organization.
Select an organization to analyze and propose an ethics/social responsibility strategy to implement within the organization.
Analyze the results of this assessment as it relates to you.
Discuss and explain the 4 kinds of role intelligences that explain the relationship between temperament and intelligence (i.e., diplomacy, strategy, tactics, and logistics).
Answer the following short answer essay questions. Each response should be approximately 250 words, using proper APA format and citation.
When can private property become public property? Does public property ever become private property?
What are the advantages of keeping a formula as a trade secret rather than getting patent protection?
Critically analyse leadership, culture and change. This might be a strategic challenge, opportunity or project that the organisation has either faced in the past or is currently ‘live’– the critical thing is that it involved a significant ‘change’.
You will critically analyse the:
Organisational leadership / leaders
Organisational culture
Way that the organisation approached the change process
Identify dimensions of leadership and culture that affected the successful / unsuccessful outcome.
Analyse / assessment of organisational leadership (both of the organisation in general and of the particular issue)
What the practical considerations are of implementing your recommendations
