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Assignment: Team Assignment Grading Rubric

You have an opportunity to work with your classmates as teams. The ability to interact and solve

problems together — even at a distance — is a key skill in today's business environment.

You have been assigned to a Team (i.e., depending on course enrolment, a five or six person group

working as a team) to answer the Case Assignment instructions below. One person from the group is

to turn in the Assignment for the group in the Dropbox. Each person in the group must turn in their

individual peer evaluations to their Dropbox to receive credit for the Assignment. The Team Peer

Evaluation Form is found in Course Documents and will be individually submitted in addition to the

one group submission of the case analysis.

This Assignment will assess your knowledge based on the following outcome:

PC-1.1: Engage in a team setting with professional integrity and respect.

Supplemental Resource (not required) - The eText below can be found in the Library: Lipsinger, R.,

& DeRosa, D. (2010). Virtual team success: A practical guide for working and leading from a

distance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. can be a very helpful resource for this, and

subsequent virtual team projects.

Please note the sections on social loafing (pp. 67 –68, 78–88). Pages 76, 107 and 138 are helpful

Reference Guides intended to help you troubleshoot your virtual team.

Optional Guideline

Experience has shown the following timeline to be helpful. Please do not feel constrained by this time

line; it is not a graded item.

Unit 3: W ednesday — Greet each other in the Team Discussion Board.

Unit 3: Thursday — Determine who will lead the project, who will do which parts, by when, what your

communication expectations are and when you will be meeting next.

Unit 3: Friday — Confirmation of delegated duties. Delegated parties accept their delegated duty.

Unit 3: Saturday — Project Leader reassigns any duties not accepted by individuals on the team.

Unit 3: Sunday — Submit draft parts to Project Leader. Project Leader posts draft of the paper in the

Team Discussion Board.

Unit 3: Monday — Team edits/improves the draft Assignment deliverable.

Unit 3: Tuesday — One team member submits the paper. Individual Team Peer Evaluation Form

must be submitted to receive a grade for the Assignment.

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Some learners have found this to be a helpful guide for their first meeting…or initial DB posts.

AGENDA:

Determine project leadership.

Determine the specifications, resources, and timelines for the project.

Determine communication protocol.

Determine next meeting.

Assignment: Perform Financial Statement Analysis

Ratio analysis can provide both internal and external users with a tremendous amount of information

about firm performance. Select a publicly traded firm from the list below. Conduct a ratio analysis of

the firm and report your findings.

Disney

Apple

General Motors

Ford Motor Company

Wal-Mart

Instructions

Complete a ratio analysis on the company for three years. Include the ratio, its results and what the

results mean for the company. W ere there changes in the ratios, what could have caused the

change? (Liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, activity ratios, financing ratios, and market ratios).

The paper should include an individual evaluation section for each ratio then an overall comparison to

validate your conclusion.

Once the ratio analysis is completed answer the following questions.

1. Does the firm have any problem areas that you would investigate further if you were a

manager?

2. Are there any other specific pieces of information that you would request from your

management team with regards to this firm? If so, why? 3. W ould you invest money in this firm based on your analysis?

Criteria:

Your paper should use correct APA formatting for your in -text citations to justify your discussion and

place references at the bottom of the paper. Avoid using quotations, you should paraphrase t he

material and use an in-text citation to give credit to the reference. Review the APA formats found in

the Writing Center.

Include in your final paper:

Cover page with each team member’s name that participated on the team project

Introduction

Analysis

Conclusion

Reference page

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Directions for submitting your Team paper

Make sure that you save a copy of the paper you submit.

1. To submit your paper, have one member of your group go to the Dropbox and select Unit 3:

Assignment and follow the instructions.

2. Individually, each member of the group completes the peer evaluation form and individually

submits the peer evaluation to the Unit 3 Team Peer Evaluation Dropbox. (file name:

Kris.Kringle.peer.evaluation.unit-3)

Unit 3 Assignment: Team Assignment Financial Statement

Analysis

Possible

Points

Points

Earned

Content: 50 points

Response successfully answers the Assignment question(s);

thoroughly uses the text and other literature. Includes a strong thesis

statement, introduction and conclusion. The main points of the paper

are developed clearly. All arguments are supported well (no errors in

logic) using outside sources as assigned.

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Sources are primarily academic journals, with thoughtful use W eb

sources. References are applied substantively to the paper topic.

Skillfully addresses counter-arguments and does not ignore data

contradicting its claim. Refers to sources both in-text and in the

reference page.

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Achievement of a well-synthesized paper using contributions from

team participants to achieve a paper that resembles the collective

talents of the group. Team member performed with integrity and

respect towards other participants of the team (peer evaluation).

Points will be deducted if the Peer Evaluation Form is not submitted

to the Dropbox.

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Analysis: 30 points

Response exhibits strong higher-order critical thinking and analysis

(e.g., evaluation). Paper shows original thought.

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Analysis includes proper classifications, explanations, comparisons

and inferences.

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Critical thinking includes appropriate judgments, conclusions and

assessment based on evaluation and synthesis of information.

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Writing: 20 points

Grammatical skills are strong with typically less than one error per page. Correct use of APA.

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Appropriate to the Assignment, fresh (interesting to read), accurate, (no far-fetched, unsupported comments), precise (say what you mean), and concise (not wordy).

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Project is in 12-point font. Narrative sections are double- spaced with a double space between. Project is free of serious errors; grammar, punctuation, and spelling help to clarify the meaning by following accepted conventions.

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