Category: Finance

Identify key performance indicators for the company you selected, including the following.

Corporate Finance Competency Assessment Title: Investor Presentation Total Number of Points: 100

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Select a Fortune 500 company or another company you are familiar with.

Consider pharmaceuticals, computer hardware, retail, or automotive industries for your selection.

If you choose a company that is not in the Fortune 500, ensure that enough financial information and key performance indicator results are available to complete the assignment.

Imagine your manager has asked you to help with a presentation on the company’s financial performance at the company’s annual meeting.

Research financial information and key performance indicators for the company.

Create a 10- to 16-slide presentation for investors to assess the company’s financial growth and sustainability.

Use speaker notes to convey the details you would give if you were presenting.

Complete the following in your presentation:

Identify key performance indicators for the company you selected, including the following.

The company and its ticker symbol o Cash flow from operations

Price-to-earnings ratio o Stock dividends and the yield, if any

Earnings per share ratio

Revenue estimates for the next 12 months

Revenue from the previous 3 years

Statement of cash flows and net cash from operating, investing, and financing activities over the past 3 years

Average trade volume o Current stock price, 52-week high, and 1-year estimated stock price

Analysts’ recommendations for the stock (buy, sell, hold)
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Evaluate Johnson division’s proposal to expand into the cosmetic surgery market. You are aware that the Director of Finance does not support the initiative because of the low average accounting rate of return achieved over five years.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

You are the newly appointed Director of Corporate Strategy for Scowcroft Private Clinic and one of your first objectives is to evaluate Johnson division’s proposal to expand into the cosmetic surgery market. You are aware that the Director of Finance does not support the initiative because of the low average accounting rate of return achieved over five years.

Johnson division has provided the following figures, which have been validated by the finance department.

Summarise the history of the exchange rate regime of a particular country; Discuss three relationships that describe the behaviour of exchange rate (CIP, PPP, IFE).

International Finance – Autumn Semester 2021/22

Summarise the history of the exchange rate regime of a particular country;
Discuss three relationships that describe the behaviour of exchange rate (CIP,
PPP, IFE).

Estimate the PPP between a particular country and the US. (Students need to
collect monthly data for not less than 5 years to complete this part of the
essay).

Assessment criteria

Appropriate structure and consistency/logic

Good presentation

Reasoned argument and conclusion

Scope of research

Originality

Critical Analysis

Describe your personal leadership goals and how the Michigan Model of Leadership and the EMBA leadership development curriculum will help in the achievement of those goals.

Adopted by thousands of businesses and leaders around the world, and recognized by the Financial Times as one of the 40 most important management frameworks in history, the Michigan Model of Leadership underlies all leadership research and teaching at Michigan Ross.

Describe your personal leadership goals and how the Michigan Model of Leadership and the EMBA leadership development curriculum will help in the achievement of those goals.

Explain the management accounting methods you used for generating the information that you are about to share in terms of your adherence to industry standards and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) code of ethics.

Investor Report

Provide a short overview of your company and the purpose of this report.

Name your company and describe its business and your vision for its future.

Explain the purpose of the report and describe why the information is important.

Explain the management accounting methods you used for generating the information that you are about to share in terms of your adherence to industry standards and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) code of ethics.

Justify the use of job order costing for this business. Be sure to compare and contrast the various costing systems you learned about in this course as part of your defense.

Share and explain the selling prices you established for each of your products. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.

Share and explain your contribution margin per unit. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.

Identify your break-even points for achieving different target profits. Then explain the target profits you selected for each area of your business. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.

Evaluate the significance of the variances in terms of the potential to impact future budgeting decisions and planning.

Is Bitcoin a better portfolio diversifier than gold? Should investors include bitcoin in their portfolios? Is gold a hedge or safe haven against oil price movements?

Domestic stock diversification and international stock diversification with 4 cryptocurrencies

Is Bitcoin a better portfolio diversifier than gold? Should investors include bitcoin in their portfolios? Is gold a hedge or safe haven against oil price movements?

Is Bitcoin a hedge, a safe haven or a diversifier for oil price movements?

Is Bitcoin a better safe-haveninvestment than gold and commodities?Does Bitcoin still own the dominant power?

How would you define tax reform? If you were advising a United States senator, what one specific Federal tax would you add, eliminate or modify?be as specific as you can. Why would you advocate for this particular change?

Tax Reform

How would you define tax reform? If you were advising a United States senator, what one specific Federal tax would you add, eliminate or modify?be as specific as you can. Why would you advocate for this particular change?

Describe whether or not this company is profitable. If the company is unprofitable, explain if it is growing fast enough for sales to outpace expenses.Describe whether or not the company generates positive cash flow from operations.

Assignment: Interpreting Financial Statements

Using the Business Report Template, address the following using Medi-Supply’s income statement:
Interpret the quality of the income statement for this company. Is the income statement improving or deteriorating over time? Explain your answer, including why you reached your conclusion. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)

Describe whether or not this company is profitable. If the company is unprofitable, explain if it is growing fast enough for sales to outpace expenses. (75 words, or 1 paragraph)

Based on their income statement, would you invest in the company? (75 words, or 1 paragraph)
Part 3: Calculating the Operating Cash Flow

Using the Financial Statement Excel Template, which includes the needed data, compute the operating cash flow for Medi-Supply. Be sure to use proper Excel formulas to show your work in cells where math is involved to derive the answers.

Using the Business Report Template, address the following using Medi-Supply’s operating cash flow:
Interpret the quality of the operating cash flow for this company. Is the operating cash flow improving or deteriorating over time? Explain your answer, as well as why you reached your conclusion. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)

Describe whether or not the company generates positive cash flow from operations. (75 words, or 1 paragraph)

Based on the quality of their cash flow, would you invest in the company? (75 words, or 1 paragraph)
Note: For each part of your business report, be sure to reference at least one scholarly source to support your findings, for a total of three (3) scholarly sources. Use the Week 2 Assignment Business Report Template and the Week 2 Assignment Financial Statement Excel Template, provided in this week’s Learning Resources, to complete this Assignment.

Complete a loan servicing calculation (NSR).Download and complete the FHOG application form that is relevant to your state/territory, from the internet (or print from Appendix 15)

Complete a Loan Application & Recommend a product

1. Recommend a product for the clients and explain your reasons for recommendation

2. List the supporting documents that would be needed to support the loan

3. Complete a loan costing sheet

4. Complete a loan servicing calculation (NSR)

5. Download and complete the FHOG application form that is relevant to your state/territory, from the internet (or print from Appendix 15)

6. Complete a loan application form (a blank Westpac loan application form has been provided for you which you should use) and complete all of the accompanying documents as provided for you.

What argument did your classmate make that you found particularly persuasive?Considering the turbulence of the first part of this century (wars, food and fuel shortages, and so on), is looking to the past the best way to predict the future?Why or why not?

Address the following in a substantive post:

Considering the turbulence of the first part of this century (wars, food and fuel shortages, and so on), is looking to the past the best way to predict the future?Why or why not?

Respond substantively to at least one other post. If possible, select a post that presents a perspective unlike yours. Consider questions such as the following when responding to your classmate’s post:

What are the similarities and differences between your post and your classmate’s?

What argument did your classmate make that you found particularly persuasive?

What additional point would you like your classmate to consider about making future predictions?