A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic. It provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research. A good literature review doesn’t just summarize sources – it analyzes, synthesizes, and critically evaluates to give a clear picture of the state of knowledge that you have gathered on the subject.
Writing a literature review involves finding relevant publications (such as books and journal articles), critically analyzing them, and explaining what you found. There are five key steps:
Search for relevant literature
Evaluate sources
Identify themes, debates, and gaps
Outline the structure
Write your literature review
You need a minimum of four (4) scholarly sources. This shows that your topic has credibility and you have gathered your information from an unbiased source. You will summarize each source you are using to gather your information. Blogs are biased opinions; therefore, you may not use them. You will also include your three (3) research questions that will guide your research. Review the example.
Please be certain to look at the example of how to write a Literature Review. An example is provided for you in Couse Content. You may also look at the Prospectus and see how it should be prepared.
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Tag: Theories
Theories, models, and practices of finance to the financial management of an organization.
An 6-8 slide presentation to your staff describing your analysis, linking what tools you utilized and why you chose those tools. You will use data to support your evidence-base financial decisions. You will also explain your recommendations to maximize stakeholder value, translating those to tactical outcomes to be implemented by your staff.
Introduction
This assessment builds on your prior work in Assessments 1 and 2. It is a presentation to your staff describing you analysis, linking what tools you utilized and why you chose those tools. You will use data to support your evidence-base financial decisions. You will also explain your recommendations to maximize stakeholder value, translating those to tactical outcomes to be implemented by your staff.
Apply the theories, models, and practices of finance to the financial management of an organization.
Analyze financing strategies to maximize stakeholder value.
Apply financial analyses to business planning and decision making.
Use data to support evidence-based financial decisions.
Scenario
The senior leadership has approved your recommendations to move forward. You are now tasked with operationalizing your recommendations. Meeting with your staff, you will translate recommendations to strategies and corresponding tactical objectives. You will explain how you used financial analysis to develop these recommendations, discussing the financial tools you will use to monitor implementation progress.
Your Role
You are one of the high-performing financial analyst managers at ABC Healthcare Corporation and are under consideration for a promotion to Director of Operations.
You are presenting to your staff a summary of the reports presented to senior leadership (Assessments 1 and 2).
Start by presenting the overall current financial condition of the company as presented to senior leadership (one to two slides).
Provide an overview of your analysis, linking what tools (financial statements, ratios, industry trends, capital structure) you utilized and why you chose these tools (two slides).
Link the data used to support your evidence-based financial decisions, providing justification for the recommendations (two slides).
State the recommendations focused on maximizing stakeholder value into strategies newly adopted by the company, i.e., expansion to a new geographical market, the development of a new dividend policy, changes in capital expenditures, reduction of workforce (one slide).
Translate those strategies to tactical objectives to be implemented by your staff, noting evidenced-based academic citations (one to two slides).
Theories
Describe three theories, concepts and/or supervisory practice principles.
Explain their application to your professional practice.