Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment

 

 

Choose 1 of the following Fortune 500 companies to study throughout this course:
• CVS Health
• Chevron
• Kroger
• Bank of America
• Home Depot
• Comcast
• Target
• United Parcel Service
• Procter & Gamble
• Caterpillar
Research the company and then answer the following questions:
• Which company did you choose?
• What is the company’s website address?
• What are 3-5 entrepreneurial strengths of the company?
• What are the major elements of the company’s approach to entrepreneurship and value creation?
• What is 1 action the company could take to increase its entrepreneurial value creation?

 

The Cash Flow Statement

 

Reese Company is a young and growing company. You have been retained to advise Reese in the
preparation of their Statement of Cash Flows (indirect method). For the fiscal year ended December 31,
2024, you have obtained the following information concerning certain events and transactions of Reese.
1. Depreciation expense of $350,000 was included in the Income Statement.
2. A gain of $6,000 was realized on the sale of machinery. It originally cost $75,000, of which
$30,000 was undepreciated on the date of sale.
3. On July 1, 2024, building and land were purchased for $700,000. Reese gave in payment
$75,000 in cash, $200,000 market price of its unissued common stock, and signed a $425,000
mortgage note payable.
4. The amount of reported earnings for the fiscal year was $700,000, which included a deduction
for a loss of $110,000.
REQUIRED: Determine if each of the transactions should be classified as an operating, investing, or
financing activity on the Statement of Cash Flows. Also, identify the amount of each cash flow and whether
it was an inflow or outflow. The event or transaction may have multiple classifications!
Discussion 4 Requirement
 Address the following question:
During the semester you have examined the financial statements and various ratios. Discuss the following:
 In your opinion, which one financial statement provides the most valuable information for investment
decisions? Why?
 If you had to choose only two ratios, which would provide the most relevant information for an investor?
Why?
Research Project Part 6:
 Using the Cash Flow Statement and Notes for your company, answer the questions below:
1. From the Investing Activities section, what amount was spent on capital expenditures?
2. From the Financing Activities section, did the company buy back any of its own stock?
3. How would you describe your companies’ trend in liquidity?

Case Analysis: Xample Manufacturing Annual Draft Operating Budget

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the A Budget Model for a Small Manufacturing Firm article. A Writing a Case Study AnalysisLinks to an external site. resource is available in the Writing Center.

Review the Xample Manufacturing Case below. Using the information and the financial data derived in the Xample case, and after reading Fleming’s article, you will create an annual budget in draft form divided into four periods (Quarter 1, Quarter 2, Quarter 3, and Quarter 4) using the provided budget template below.

Xample Manufacturing Case

Consider the following case scenario: Imagine you are a manager of a small plastic parts manufacturing contracting business making parts under contract to electronic consumer goods industry and defense industry companies, and you are in charge of developing a projected annual operating budget.

Your budgetary figures are as follows: For fiscal year 2019, your firm received a $3 million contract from Sony to provide small parts for its current Ultra HD Blu-Ray Player, as well as various contracts totaling $1.75 million from other business. Xample also has an $180,000 annual contract from Boeing, and a contract for small plastic parts from Ratheon totaling $1.6 million annually.

Your chief financial officer (CFO) has provided you with the following annual expenses:

Xample Manufacturing Expenses

Annual Salaries

$1.63 million

Annual Benefits

$ 245,000

Annual Rent

$ 760,000

Annual Insurance

$ 45,000

Annual Depreciation

$ 780,000

Annual Overhead

$ 180,000

Annual Supplies

$ 96,000

Annual Raw Materials

$ 2.6 million

Using the Xample Manufacturing Operating Budget Template Download Xample Manufacturing Operating Budget Template,

Complete a 12-month operating budget.
Include the projected net profit (or loss).
Turn in with the summary below.
After completing the budget template, please write a two- to three-page summary, and include the following:

Explain the process for creating an operating budget and its importance.
Describe how revenues and expenses are grouped for planning and control in the financial statements.
The Case Analysis: Xample Manufacturing Annual Draft Operating Budget paper

Reasons for investing in a Mutual Fund

 

1. Assume you are an investment advisor. Your client is unsure what are the main benefits and reasons for investing in a Mutual Fund or in an index fund with an ETFs.
a. Explain the main differences and similarities between each other
b. Explain what are the main advantage and disadvantage of investing in mutual funds or ETFs versus investing in Equity Stocks.
c. Explain the difference between investing in fixed income and an ETF that follows the S&P 500.
d. Explain the main difference between active and passive management
e. Explain what is the difference between investing in value companies or in growth companies.

2. Go to https://www.morningstar.com

a. What information does provide the Morningstar Style Box®?
b. Morningstar assigns a Rating to each Mutual Fund. What are the criteria they use

to assign this rating?
c. Use the information provided above (style box and ratings) to choose 3 different funds (10 different assets per fund) to prepare 3 portfolios for 3 different types of investors:
i. Aggressive
ii. Moderate
iii. Conservative
d. In half a page for each portfolio, explain:
i. The rationale behind choosing the given funds per each portfolio
ii. The criteria chosen to build each portfolio
iii. The total amount to invest in each portfolio is 1.000.000€.
e. Follow up the prices for all 3 portfolios for a week. Calculate the return for each portfolio at the end of the week. Explain your results and show them graphically. Compare in the same graph the development of the three portfolios you have chosen and the development in the same period of the S&P500 index. Explain your conclusions.
f. Explain how much is your return in this period, and compare it to an investment in the S&P 500 index.

 

Earning and Profits (E&P) versus Retained Earnings

Write a rsearch paper about Earning and Profits (E&P) versus Retained Earnings – What is the difference?
You are to research your selected topic to address the following:

• Background (history) of the topic
• Impact on individual income taxation at the federal level
• Significantly affected groups.
• The social or economic impact
• Outlook for the future – Should it be continued or not.

Qualified Business Income (QBI)

Write a rsearch paper about Qualified Business Income (QBI)
You are to research your selected topic to address the following:

• Background (history) of the topic
• Impact on individual income taxation at the federal level
• Significantly affected groups.
• The social or economic impact
• Outlook for the future – Should it be continued or not.

Left skewed distribution

 

 

Question 154 pts
Match the best answer on the right to the item on the left.
Group of answer choices
Left skewed distribution

P(A|B)

n

s

Data is collected from every member of the population

Data is collected from a subset of the population

Data is collected by watching the behavior of entities in a sample

Data is collected by imposing a treatment on entities in a sample and examining the results

Data is collected as a result of computer modeling

Data is collected by asking a series of questions (e.g. questionnaire)

α

r

µ

q = 1 – p

x₁, x₂, x₃

Normal distribution

A measure of the spread or variability of the data set

Sample does not fairly represent the population

Flag question: Question 2
Question 24 pts
A company feels it’s soda pop filling machine is not working properly. It is supposed to fill each cup with 12 fluid ounces of soda. They think it is not putting the correct amount of soda in the cups. Which statistical method would be best to use in this situation?
Group of answer choices

Confidence interval

Hypothesis test

Conditional probability

Regression analysis

Flag question: Question 3
Question 34 pts
A school district wants to identify factors that may be affecting how well the students are doing based on their grade point averages. Which statistical method would be best to use in this situation?
Group of answer choices

Regression analysis

Hypothesis test

Confidence interval

Pareto chart

Flag question: Question 4
Question 44 pts
A senator is thinking about running for president. But she will only do so if more than 60% of the voters view her favorably. She gathers some data to see if she has this level of support. Which statistical method would be best for her to use?
Group of answer choices

Regression analysis

Binomial distribution

Confidence interval

Hypothesis test

Flag question: Question 5
Question 54 pts
A company wants to estimate how long it will take to produce 100 units of a product based on production rates in the past. Which statistical method would be most effective?
Group of answer choices

Confidence interval

Hypothesis test

Regression analysis

Correlation analysis

Flag question: Question 6
Question 64 pts
The CDC wants to determine factors that affect the COVID-19 rates. Which statistical method would be most appropriate?
Group of answer choices

Confidence interval

Regression analysis

Hypothesis test

Binomial distribution

Flag question: Question 7
Question 74 pts
A consumer group feels that the average person spends fewer than 10 dollars each month on tooth care products. They decide to use hypothesis testing to see if they are right. Which of the following would be the alternative hypothesis?
Group of answer choices

Ha: µ < 10

Ha: µ > 10

Ha: µ ≠ 10

Ha: µ = 10

Flag question: Question 8
Question 84 pts
A scientist has come up a new fertilizer for roses. She feels that with the use of this fertilizers, the average blooming time span will increase. But she feels the time span will still be 55 days or more. You don’t agree with the scientist. Which of the following would be the alternative hypothesis to test your belief?
Group of answer choices

Ha: µ ≠ 55

Ha: µ ≥ 55

Ha: µ < 55

Ha: µ > 55

Flag question: Question 9
Question 94 pts
A teacher wants to track the number of books students have read each week for the past 20 weeks. Which of the following graphs might be most effective to use?
Group of answer choices

Pie chart

Time series graph

Pareto chart

Scatter plot

Flag question: Question 10
Question 104 pts
A basketball coach want to study scoring by players who are grouped by the position they play (e.g. guard, forward, etc.). Which of the following graphs would be the best for displaying this data?
Group of answer choices

Bar chart

Scatter plot

Histogram

Pie chart

Flag question: Question 11
Question 114 pts
Quality is important when making cleaning products. The quality control department wants to test throughout each production day, select every 100th product produces. What type of sample is this an example of?
Group of answer choices

Systematic sample

Random sample

Stratified sample

Cluster sample

Flag question: Question 12
Question 125 pts
To study the effectiveness of patient care in US hospitals, an organization focused only on patients in hospitals in urban areas. Would you expect the results to be biased? Why or Why not?
Group of answer choices

No, as all patients in urban areas have the same expectations as other groups

Yes, as patients in hospitals outside urban areas may have different expectations on patient care than others

Yes, as patients may feel pressure to respond positively about patient care so as not to upset their doctor

No, as patient in hospitals outside of urban areas likely feel the same as patients in urban areas

Yes, as hospitals outside of the United States were likely excluded from the study

Flag question: Question 13
Question 135 pts
The residents of State A complain that their property taxes are too high compared with resident with State B. Which of the following would NOT be a justification for the higher property taxes in state A?
Group of answer choices

Voting day in state A is Tuesday compared to Thursday in state B

Quality of school system

Quality of roads

The number of people that live in the state

Property values

Flag question: Question 14
Question 145 pts
To study the interest in sports of junior high kids, an organization focused on those kids being most active during the outside time of the day. Would you expect the results to be biased? Why or why not?
Group of answer choices

No, sports are universally of interest

Yes, as inactive kids may have different opinions from the others

No, all students who are in sports, are likely already in after-school activities

No, as inactive kids likely feel the same as the active kids

Yes, the wording of the questions might push kids to a specific answer

Flag question: Question 15
Question 155 pts
A study wants to show that the most expensive cars get stopped for speeding more often. Which of the following issues is most likely to bias the results?
Group of answer choices

The state the car comes from

The functionality of the radar gun used for gauging speed

The gas mileage of the various cars

The age of the tires on the cars

Expensive cars draw more attention than cheaper cars

Flag question: Question 16
Question 164 pts
Imagine you read poll results that found that 49% of individuals liked buying food at movies, while 42% of individuals did not like buying food at movies. This poll had an error of +/- 4%. Based on this result, can one say that in the population, more people clearly like buying food at the movies?
Group of answer choices

No, as the poll results show most people do not like to buy food at the movies

No, as polls cannot reflect the population

Yes, as the confidence intervals for the two groups do not overlap

No, as the confidence intervals for the two groups overlap

Yes, as that had the higher percentage in the poll

 

 

1998 Gross Domestic Product

  1. Below is a hypothetical table such as would be generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics when reporting historical and forecasted levels of gross domestic product for the United States. Use the answer table to fill in the blanks for the missing estimates. Make sure you show your work.

1998 Gross Domestic Product Answer (Remember to show work):
2028 Personal Consumption Expenditures Answer (Remember to show work):
2008 Gross Private Domestic Investment Answer (Remember to show work):
2018 Exports Answer (Remember to show work

  1. Explain what the consumption function shows, and describe what is held constant along the consumption function.
    Your response must be at least 200 words in length
  2. In your own words, describe what happens when firms and workers underestimate future prices in the economy. Focus your answer on what would happen to actual output as opposed to the expected potential output.

The funding source and how it applies to the intervention

Find a source of funding most appropriate for your proposed inion yo

Find a source of funding most appropriate for your proposed intervention. Funding sources can be local, regional, national, state, or federal. Describe the
funding source and how it applies to the intervention you are proposing. What would you need to do to secure this funding for your proposed intervention?
What data would be most compelling in order to secure the need for this funding? 2 references