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Analyze Uber’s financial success and present your findings to senior management. In your findings, you will identify financial key performance indicators, industry financial benchmarks, and accounting guidelines related to Uber.

MBA500

You have analyzed the current financial records of your organization and evaluated whether the operational plan aligns with key performance indicators of the finance department.

Now, your CEO wants you to present to senior management how your department (or any individual department) can contribute to the financial success of the organization.

Prompt

Analyze Uber’s financial success and present your findings to senior management. In your findings, you will identify financial key performance indicators, industry financial benchmarks, and accounting guidelines related to Uber.

Review the Uber Case Study provided in the textbook, and review the additional information related to Uber provided.

Review the Uber Case Study provided in the textbook.

Critical Thinking Case: Uber: Riding the Gig Economy

Review the following additional information related to Uber.

Investor information for Uber balanced scorecard/financial: In the annual report, review Uber’s balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.

Uber: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environment, social, governance (ESG) metrics

Create a presentation for your CEO and senior management, discussing the following key criteria:

Identify the financial key performance indicators of Uber’s success.

Analyze how different functional areas, departments, or both of Uber contribute to its overall financial success.

What common industry financial benchmarks should Uber consider in developing its strategies to grow the business?

Which financial benchmark can Uber adopt to measure its performance and increase its industry attractiveness? Use Porter’s five forces to support your answer.

Are there any critical elements of accounting guidelines that will be crucial for Uber to meet? Explain your reasoning.

LINKS FOR FINANCIAL/investor for Uber

Discuss some of the factors, including environmental, sustainable, and governance (ESG) factors, that you believe have impacted the stock performance and why

 Discussion: Understanding Pricing of a Stock

You may have seen how financial news outlets provide real-time financial market reporting.

They often produce stock-market news feeds for traders; these news feeds include a stock chart.

The stock chart may include different filters that allow you to see how the stock is performing today or has performed over one or more years.

There are many factors that will influence pricing that can’t be controlled or predicted accurately.

The approaches used to value stocks (determine what the stock is truly worth) are usually theoretical. You should consider what drives stock prices and why.

For this discussion, first go to Mergent Online. Find the pricing chart under the “Company Details” tab, then click on Pricing Summary for your selected company.

This is the company you have selected for your Project Two assignment. Filter the time period to one year.

In your initial post, address the following:

• Discuss how the stock for your company is trending. Explain why the stock is in either an uptrend or downtrend. •

Discuss some of the factors, including environmental, sustainable, and governance (ESG) factors, that you believe have impacted the stock performance and why

. • Convince your peers to either invest in your chosen company or to not invest in the company. Explain your reasoning.

In your response posts to at least two peers, discuss the following:

• Do you agree with your peer’s argument to either invest or not invest in their company? Explain why or why not, making sure to also include information not previously shared by your peer.