Question 1
One basic method that an accountant can use to analyze the financial situation of a business is ratio analysis. This can be a useful tool no matter the type of legal structure of the business and regardless of whether or not ownership is public or private. To help assure the availability of the necessary data, though, this assignment will be focused solely on a publicly-traded company. As an overview, you will choose a publicly traded company from a list provided at the end of this assignment. Locate the company?s website, retrieve the latest company?s annual report from that site, calculate specific ratios for the latest two fiscal years, and respond to a limited number of analysis questions. Please note that this entails far more than finding pre-calculated ratios from a website such as Yahoo! Finance or Google Finance. If you desire, you can use such a site for a reasonableness check on the results of your calculations, but any such comparisons should not be part of your resulting paper. Also, you might not match exactly to their figures anyway since those may include quarterly updates. The paper should be three-to-four double-spaced pages (not counting the cover page and bibliography) in Word doc using a standard font (11 or 12 point) and appropriate margins (e.g., no more than one-inch). APA formatting should be followed. The paper should include a section for the ratio calculations and a section to respond to questions. You should also include a cover page and a bibliography. Your paper should be properly cited using APA referencing style. This means that the citation should be in a bibliography ? and in the body of the paper if you refer to or directly quote any information, terms, etc. from others. Submit your paper to the W6_Individual_Assignment Dropbox no later than midnight Sunday at the end of Week 6. For the section showing the ratio calculations, provide appropriate details regarding the formula used, the source of the data, and the resulting calculations. Although you are certainly welcome and encouraged to use Excel to complete these tasks, copying and pasting from Excel into the Word document is discouraged unless it can be done in a manner that is cosmetically appropriate. The requirements for the ratio analysis section are: 1. Compute the following for each of the two most recent years: ? Profit Margin ? Return on Shareholders? Equity ? Current Ratio ? Interest Coverage Ratio 2. Document your work by including items such as: ? The website for the company ? The web page link for the annual report (or file name if a PDF is downloaded) ? The page number of the annual report (rather than the PDF) for each number used ? Appropriate details of the calculations The questions that should be addressed in the second section of the paper are: 1. If you were an accountant for a potential vendor for this company, explain which of these ratios would be of the most interest to you. Would there also be a second ratio of interest to you? 2. If you were an accountant for a potential investor in this company, explain which of these ratios would be of the most interest to you. In your opinion, what other ratio or ratios beyond the ones listed above should also be considered in an investment context? 3. What is your overall opinion of this company based on the limited analysis completed via the four ratios? Feel free to mention any questions that you feel should still be considered in view of the ratios and/or the changes from one year to the next. Please also consider these suggestions for your success on this assignment: o If you choose a company from the list and have any trouble finding its website, the annual reports, or specific information, consider selecting a different company from the list instead. o If the company has subsidiaries, be sure to use the consolidated financial statements. o Be sure to use the financial statements rather than summaries elsewhere in the annual report. The company I chose was Intuit Inc Just need help starting out; are some basic ideas of how to get started Thanks
Question 2
I need urgent help with this projectband I don't mind paying for it. In the following, the introduction, the general objectives and the data collection sections of a research proposal that you are planning are described. 1. State your main specific objective (only one) and four secondary objectives based on the general objectives described. 2. Describe the statistical methods that you will use to address your objectives. Justify each of these methods. You should use methods from the material learned in this course only and each of the methods used should come from a different chapter. 3. Conduct a sample size calculation that will provide sufficient power (80% at the 95% significance level) to your main analysis (analysis of the main objective) Introduction: Chronic kidney disease progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) when kidney function has irreversibly deteriorated and is no longer adequate to sustain life. Patients with ESRD require life-sustaining renal replacement therapy with dialysis or kidney transplantation if a kidney donor is available. There are two main types of dialysis, peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD). In PD, extra fluids and waste are removed from the blood inside the body, using the body's own peritoneal membrane. Dialysis fluid enters the peritoneal cavity through a flexible catheter. Extra fluid and waste travel across the membrane into the dialysis fluid, which is then drained through the catheter after a pre-determined dwell period. PD is mainly offered at home to patients who are able to perform it either independently or with the help of a trained person. In HD, blood is drawn and sent through a dialyzer (automated waste and fluid filter), before returning to the body. HD is generally performed in units situated in hospitals, satellite units (off site of hospitals but associated with an in-hospital mother unit), and sometimes at home where a dialysis machine is provided to the patient. Access-related infections are frequent in individuals receiving dialysis. In PD, access-related infections involve either the abdominal lining (peritonitis), the skin at the site of catheter placement (exit site infection), or within the tunnel of subcutaneous tissue through which the catheter passes (tunnel infection). PD peritonitis is the leading cause of PD failure. Failure of PD and transfer of patients to HD due to infection is frequent and occurs in 30-40% of PD patients. Access-related infections among HD patients are also a major concern. Access-related infection rates in HD patients vary with venous access types- Arteriovenous Fistula (AVF), Arteriovenous Graft (AVG) and Central Venous Catheter (CVC). An AVF is created by surgically joining an upper extremity artery and vein. Blood travels from the fistula through a tube to the dialyzer, crosses the dialyzer, and then returns to the fistula through a second tube. This access mode is the least likely to lead to infection, but is precluded in some patients because of obesity, small blood vessels or weakened veins and arteries. Among patients who are unable to have an AVF, an AVG is created by connecting an upper extremity vein and artery using a synthetic tube. Another alternative is placement of a CVC into a jugular, subclavian, or femoral vein, with tubing and ports outside the body for easy access. Tunnelled CVC is used permanently only for patients unable to use AVF or AVG. About 30% of HD patients use CVC. Access-related infection among HD patients may involve the skin at the catheter exit site, the tunnel in CVC, or may lead to bacteremia. Several patient factors such as age, presence of diabetes mellitus, hygiene, and nasal Staphylococcus carriers may influence access-related infection rates in both PD and HD patients. Among PD patients, access-related infection rates are higher during the first two years of catheter insertion. Among HD patients, peripheral atherosclerosis, longer periods of catheter indwelling and previous bacteremia have been associated with increased rates of infections. You wish to compare the risk of access-related infections and the risk of mortality between PD and HD patients, and among HD patients between those who received AVG, AVF or CVC. You also wish to compare the burden of access-related infections among dialysis patients by comparing the number of days spent in-hospital because of infection in the first two- years following dialysis onset between PD and HD and among HD patients between AVG, AVF and CVC. You are also interested in identifying patient characteristics associated with mortality and those associated with the risk of access-related infections and total number of in-hospital days of PD and HD patients in the two-years following dialysis onset. (Assume that patients stay on the dialysis modality and access type that they started with at dialysis onset for the time of the study) A retrospective cohort study was conducted. Study patients were all patients 18 years of age or older receiving dialysis between January 2000 and October 2006 in six dialysis centres in Quebec. Data were abstracted from dialysis unit charts. The date of cohort entry was the date of onset of dialysis. Patient characteristics assessed: Dialysis specific variables: Date of onset of dialysis, dialysis modality and type of blood access Demographics: age, sex, dry weight, socioeconomic status (Low or high), distance to dialysis centre, dialysis centre, date of death (if applicable), date and reason for ending follow-up, (kidney transplant, death, transfer to institution care, or end of the study period). Co-morbidity: hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, seriously impaired vision, hypercholesterolemia and antibiotic resistance Medication use: ace inhibitors, lipid lowering agents, antidiabetic agents, anticoagulants, immunosuppressive agents, antidepressive agents and antibiotics .,The course chapters are: Descriptive statistics(types of data, histograms, stemplots, boxplots, means, medians, variance, relocatin/rescaling) Probabiity diagnostic tests(laws of probability, Bayes theorem, diagnostic tests And cnditional probabilities) Discrete distributions(discrete random variables, expectation and variance of discrete r.v., binomial distribution, poisson distribution) Continous distributions(continous random variables, expectation and variance of continous r.v, uniform distribution, normal distibution, area under normal curve, central limit theorem, normal approximation to the binomial) Iference for a single mean(random sampling, t distribution, hypothesis testing for means, type I and type II errors, p-values, CI for means, sample size calculation) Inference for two means (unpaired samples, paired samples, confidnece interval for differences in means, sample size calculations) Non parameteric inference(sign test, rank sum test, signed rank test, confidence interval for medians) Inference for one and two proportions(one proportion:large sample inference, exact inference, sample size calculation. Two proportions: large sample inference, sample size calculation, number needed to treat, odds ratio and relative risk, Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio) Contingency tables Correlation (one and two sample chi square test, Fisher's exact test, kappa statistics, chi square test for trend, estimation and inference for Pearson's correlatino coeeficient, spearman's rank correlation) Simple linear regression( differences between regression and correlation, Model assumptions, Least square estimates, inference, regression diagnostics, goodness of fit, transforming the outcome),I really have no clues how to do it,Could you let me know today if it is accepted or not. Thanks,I am sorry for disturbing but I would really like to know today if you accept it ot no. thanks,Is it clear now?,I have agreed to pay 60$ for all the questions.
Question 3
(Lessee-Lessor Entries, Balance Sheet Presentation, Sales-Type Lease) Winston Industries and Ewing Inc. enter into an agreement that requires Ewing Inc. to build three diesel-electric engines to Winston?s specification. Upon completion of the engines, Winston has agreed to lease them for period of 10 years and assume all cost and risk ownership. The lease is noncancelable, becomes effective on January, 2011, and requires rental payments of $413,971 each January 1, starting January 1, 2011. Winston?s incremental borrowing rate is 10%. The implicit interest rate used by Ewing Inc. and known to Winston is 8%. The total cost of building the three engines is $2,600,000. The economic life of the engines is estimated to be 10 years, with residual value set at zero. Winston depreciates similar equipment on a straight-line basis. At the end of the lease, Winston assumes title to the engines. Collectivity of the lease payment is reasonable certain; no uncertainties exist relative to unreimbursable lessor cost. Instructions (Round all numbers to the nearest dollar.) A) Discuss the nature of this lease transaction for viewpoints of both lessee and lessor. B) Prepare the journal entry or entries to record the transaction on January 1, 2011, on the books of Winston Industries. C) Prepare the Journal entry or entries to record the transaction on January 1, 2011, on the books of Ewing Inc. D) Prepare the journal entries for both the lessee and lessor to record the first rental payment on January 1, 2011. E) Prepare the journal entries for both the lessee and lessor to record interest expense (revenue) at December 31, 2011. (Prepare a lease Amortization schedule for 2 years.) F) Show the items and amounts that would be reported on the balance sheet (not notes) at December 31, 2011, for both lessee and lessor.
Question 4
1. At the end of the year, the Long Life Bulb Company announced that it had produced a gross profit of $1,000,000. The company has also established that over the course of this year it has incurred $345,000 in operating expenses and $125,000 in interest expenses. The company is subject to a 30% tax rate and has declared $57,000 total preferred stock dividends. a. What factors must be considered in regards the dividend Life Bulb Company can pay to their common stockholders? b. Compute the increased retained earnings for 2009 if the company were to declare a $2.25 common stock dividend and the company has 100,000 shares of common stock outstanding. Prepare a statement of changes of stockholders? equity to reflect the activity specified in a) and b). 2. Darling Paper Container, Inc. has purchased several machines at a total cost of $300,000. The installation cost for this equipment was $25,000. The firm plans to depreciate the equipment using the MACRS 5-year normal recovery period. Prepare a depreciation schedule showing the depreciation expense for each year. 3.In a meeting with their financial advisor, Mr. and Mrs. Smith concluded that they would need $40,000 per year during the retirement years in order to live comfortably. They will retire ten years from now and expect a 20-year retirement period. How much should Mr. and Mrs. Smith deposit now in an account paying 9 percent to reach financial happiness during retirement? 4.A firm has had the indicated earnings per share over the last three years. Year EPS 2010 $3.00 2009 $2.00 2008 $1.00
Question 5
"Need written 5 pages based on the attached case answering the following questions ONLY...along with powerpoint. 1. Company background, mission, goals, and strategies Suggest a company's mission statement. List the organization's official goals (where the organization wants to go), and make sure to tie said mission statement to the organization's official goals and suggest a strategy or strategies to accomplish it (how it will get there). 2. Organizational structural design While there is no one best way to organize, the right structure depends on prevailing circumstances and considers organization goals, strategies, technology, and environment. According to Robey and Sales (1994), "in practice, very few examples of purely functional and self-contained departmental structures can be found. Rather, we find a wide variety of mixed structures, which contain elements of both bases at the same level of management (p. 195). In designing the new structure to improve Cedar Tech's effectiveness, students should take into consideration its management' s vision and the pursuit of the growth strategy including adding new offerings. You may give students a hint of the general approaches that could be taken. One approach would be to add a new vice president for technology. In this regard, a director of newly formed VOIP practice, the director of enterprise storage practice (formerly manager), and the director of services (formerly help desk manager) report to him/her instead of reporting to the vice president of operations. Additionally, VOIP and security engineers and project managers will report directly to the new director of VOIP; whereby storage engineers and storage project managers report directly to the director of enterprise storage. Finally, all technicians will report directly to the director of services (since the organization has many technicians, suggest that 3-4 supervisors are needed). According to Burton et al. (2006), the choice of an organization's configuration, known as structure or architecture, is a critical decision. According to them, "In the literature on organization design two fundamental dimensions have been used to distinguish the basic configurations: Product/service/customer orientation and functional specialization" (Burton et al. 2006, p. 58). These two dimensions generate four basic configuration-namely: Simple, functional, divisional, and matrix (Burton, 2006; Miles & Snow, 1978). Hint to students that organizational charts in most growing organizations are not static, they are ever changing. At the heart of any organizational design are the twin issues of differentiation and integration. While vertical differentiation is the method by which an organization designs its hierarchy of authority and decides its reporting relationships to link roles and subunits, horizontal differentiation is how an organization groups tasks into roles and groups roles into subunits, meaning functions and divisions (Daft, 2004; Jones, 2007). Students should show the variety of specialized roles, functions, and units and tie the various elements together by means of vertical and horizontal techniques for integration. It is important that students address the advantages and disadvantages of their design; and argue that the number of levels in its hierarchy and the span of control at each level are appropriate. It makes sense to promote or add new director to head each major sales specialization; example: Director of government, education, and medical sales, director of small and medium sales, and director of enterprise sales. Promoting human resources manager and other key mangers to director' s position might make sense too . Another general approach would be to create a separate software licensing department under a director that marker and fulfill software licensing sales requirements. Said director might report to the vice president of sale. Ask students to draw their specific alternatives on the board. A hybrid form of structure would be one specific possibility, with software licensing advisors reporting to both director of software licensing and to the various key sales specialization (Enterprise, GEM, and SMB sales) using the "matrix" form, and other functional departments such as sales, operations, finance, and technology reporting to each of the functional vice presidents via director (s). The functional heads who would still report directly to the president would probably be finance, technology, sales, and operations. The new structure must take into account the high coordination across functions relative to any given customer's requirements, necessary for the projects to complete. Additionally, the new structure must emphasize client satisfaction with vertical and horizontal information easily flows by grouping together the individuals who communicate with one another. 3. Motivating and rewarding employees Responses should focus on how to create a motivating work environment through job design, socialization, organizational objectives, and goal setting. Obviously, people work for many different reasons. The most obvious reason is the need for money. However, for many, money alone is not what keeps them showing up for work every day (Greenberg & Baron, 20003).discuss the importance of some of the theories learned and their impact on employees' motivation such as the equity theory, ways to restore it, and the effects of inequity; organizational justice, its forms, and its consequences; and expectancy theory that explains how employees make choices among alternative behaviors and levels of efforts (Griffin, 2008; George & Jones, 2008; Kreitner & Kinicki, 2007). In addition to this, managers should promote a healthy workforce by satisfying employees ' physiological needs through providing them with membership in a fitness center or subsidizing such membership. In addition to that, management should provide a supportive working environment and safe working conditions. It is important to also provide an opportunity to socialize. More importantly, management should compensate employees in relation to work performed, thereby avoiding underpayment. Organizations that practice underpayment are always looking to fill out vacancies resulting from voluntary turnover. Managers also need to identify goals and clarify the amount of work needed by employees to achieve and tie it to an effective reward system. Additionally, it is also recommended that managers should involve employees in the formulation strategy of their work goals especially if these goals directly affect them. Employees tend to accept and easily commit to goals if they helped formulate them or took part in their formulation (Ghazzawi, 2007). To be effective, mangers also need to provide timely performance feedback. Finally, management should recognize employee achievements. Such recognition and award will satisfy employees' esteem needs. In doing so, managers should clearly link rewards to performance (Greenberg & Baron, 2008).
