Accounting and Management help
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acct_320__fina_412_ip_5.docxACCT 320
5-6 pages
Please select a publicly traded company, and e-mail it to your professor for prior approval. Then, complete the following:
1. Obtain the 10K report of the company for the immediate past year.
2. Describe the different sections of the report.
3. Explain the key items covered in the financial section of the report.
4. What are the total assets of the company?
5. What are the current assets of the company?
6. Provide a segmental breakdown of the markets.
7. What is the sales volume from each market?
8. What is the sales trend for each market for the last 2 years?
9. What is the net operating profit for the past year?
10. What is the cost of goods sold in the past year? What is the earnings per share for the past year?
Write a report for the company under the following headings:
1. Title page: Use a running head, and put the title in all capital letters.
2. Abstract: Provide a summary of your paper; this is not an introduction. Use third-person voice.
3. Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be mindful of the spacing, do not triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times New Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5–6 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. Use a variety of academic sources.
4. Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the last page of your paper. References must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lower-case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. The Reference page is not a bibliography; rather, it is an expanded listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.
Financial markets are the forums in which buyers and sellers of financial assets such as stocks and bonds, and commodities such as grains, oil and gold, meet. Because there are uncertainties of outcome, organizations must develop strategies to manage the risk associated with it.
Write a paper of 8-10 pages on business and financial risk, as follows:
1.Identify the major business and financial risks such as interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, credit, commodity, and operational risks.
2.How do organizations measures risk and what global initiatives exist in financial risk management?
EXTRA Instructions for IP5
Format and structure:
Please make sure it is in APA format, with cover page, reference page, double spacing and 1 inch margin.
Please do spelling and grammar check before you turn it in.
Please do not use very long paragraphs, each of your paragraph should be less than half of the page.
This is a long paper, you will need to have an abstract, and better to have an introduction and a conclusion also
Please pay attention to the length requirement of the paper (8-10 pages). It should be no less than 6 pages, and no more than 12 pages.
Content:
This is not just about financial risk such as bonds, stocks, etc. It is about both business risk and financial risk
You can use a company or an industry as an example to explain some risk concepts, but your paper should not be targeted to a particular industry.
Please make sure you have
· Discussions of business risk in general, especially in the areas of operational risks, and discussion of the concept of risk management
· Discussions of some risk management frameworks, such as the four categories of possible responses to business risks—accept, transfer, avoid, and reduce, and the measuring of risk, risk tolerances, etc.
· Define each type of risk, and discuss some tools and hedging techniques in managing this particular type of risk.
· Discussions of risk measurements such as risk tolerance
· Discussions of initiatives of managing risks from global business, such as diversification, foreign exchange risk, cultural risk, political risk, etc.
