Compare and contrast 2008 to the 2023 banking collapses?
Category: Accounting
Financial Accounting.
You may consider using the same company and annual reports that you chose in your Week 1 – Discussion Forum, Reading and Using the Annual Report Case Study. This choice will only work if the company generates the bulk of its revenue from the sale of goods and maintains inventory. If not, then you will need to select another company for this analysis. Choose a company that a fellow student has not already posted.
Address the following:
Calculate the inventory turnover ratio and number of days’ sales in inventory for the company for the latest two years. Obtain the industry averages for these ratios and any other pertinent information from the Mergent OnlineLinks to an external site. database, available through the UAGC Library, or use another outside resource of your choice, and then analyze the results. Be sure to show your calculations.
If needed, review the How to Find Industry Ratios and Averages Using Mergent OnlineLinks to an external site. tutorial on how to use the Mergent OnlineLinks to an external site. database.
Discuss what each of these ratios tells you about the company’s efficiency in managing its inventory and how they compare to the industry average.
Identify the major causes of any changes in these ratios and discuss your assessment of the company based on these changes.
As an investor, explain whether or not you are satisfied with the company’s inventory management.
Foreign Policy
is Human rights acceptable?
Emotional Intelligence
What is Emotional Intelligence and what role does it play in leadership?
Discuss “Intelligence” and what role does it play in your leadership growth and development?
Emotional Intelligence
What is Emotional Intelligence and what role does it play in leadership?
Discuss “Intelligence” and what role does it play in your leadership growth and development?
The difference between the date of record and the ex-dividend date
Explain the difference between the date of record and the ex-dividend date from the perspective of the shareholder.
2. What does expected return and variance have to do with corporate finance?
3. Explain why profit maximization is not the appropriate goal for a corporation, and explain what the appropriate goal is.
The difference between the date of record and the ex-dividend date
Explain the difference between the date of record and the ex-dividend date from the perspective of the shareholder.
2. What does expected return and variance have to do with corporate finance?
3. Explain why profit maximization is not the appropriate goal for a corporation, and explain what the appropriate goal is.
The use of data analytics in retail
Requirements:
Your posts should be informative, substantial (several paragraphs) and the initial post submitted by Friday.
Discuss your ideas with at least one other students by midnight prior to the week ending.
Your total of 2 posts (1 initial post and 1 response) must be submitted on 2 different days throughout the week.
Include the Survey Monkey link so others can take your survey
Be sure to review the grading requirements.
Week 3 Data Analysis Discussion Question:
Expanding on our discussion about the use of data analytics in retail, you are going to create a survey in the free version of Survey Monkey to gather data
related to some aspect of retail operation that would relate to one or more of the 3 core goals of big data learned this week. You are designing this survey so
that you can gather data, create a report and analyze the data you have gathered.
Clearly identify the the goal or goals you are using as the basis of your survey
Identify 2 objectives of what you want the survey to accomplish based on the goal(s) selected
Create a 7-10 questions survey related to the the objectives you have identified (be sure to identify which questions relate to which objectives)
Provide the link to your survey so others can take your survey
Discuss how the goal(s) related to your objectives and why you think the objectives you created would be important to management as they relate to one or
more of the core goals of big data. In your response, take at least one of your classmate’s survey, analyze the survey, and comment on how you feel their
survey meets the objectives they identified in their post.
The use of data analytics in retail
Requirements:
Your posts should be informative, substantial (several paragraphs) and the initial post submitted by Friday.
Discuss your ideas with at least one other students by midnight prior to the week ending.
Your total of 2 posts (1 initial post and 1 response) must be submitted on 2 different days throughout the week.
Include the Survey Monkey link so others can take your survey
Be sure to review the grading requirements.
Week 3 Data Analysis Discussion Question:
Expanding on our discussion about the use of data analytics in retail, you are going to create a survey in the free version of Survey Monkey to gather data
related to some aspect of retail operation that would relate to one or more of the 3 core goals of big data learned this week. You are designing this survey so
that you can gather data, create a report and analyze the data you have gathered.
Clearly identify the the goal or goals you are using as the basis of your survey
Identify 2 objectives of what you want the survey to accomplish based on the goal(s) selected
Create a 7-10 questions survey related to the the objectives you have identified (be sure to identify which questions relate to which objectives)
Provide the link to your survey so others can take your survey
Discuss how the goal(s) related to your objectives and why you think the objectives you created would be important to management as they relate to one or
more of the core goals of big data. In your response, take at least one of your classmate’s survey, analyze the survey, and comment on how you feel their
survey meets the objectives they identified in their post.
Impact of new technology on accounting profession
Topic 1: Review at least 2 of the Big 4 accounting firm’s use of data analytics and other new technologies. Discuss how you think this new technology is
currently and will impact the accounting profession. Do you see any ethical concerns with the new technology and/or growth of big data as it specifically
relates to professional ethics? Be sure to provide specific examples to back up your discussion.
Topic 2: Review the video Using Big Data to Help Retailers Improve Their Business and using peer reviewed articles found in the library to back up your
position, discuss why you think big data analysis is useful in the retail environment. As part of your discussion, discuss how the core goals of big data
mentioned in the lecture would relate to retail operations. Be sure to provide specific examples to support your position.
Watch Video
Using Big Data to Help Retailers Improve Their Business
Duration: 3:21
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwBS_IXw3JQ