Take your pick

JWI 531: Financial Management II Academic Submissions and Evaluations

 

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Assignment 3: Take Your Pick Due Week 9, Day 7 (Weight: 16.5%) The following are specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment:

• Explain the influence of leverage and risk on financial planning. • Develop a corporate strategy based on basic financial reports. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced financial management. • Write clearly and concisely about advanced financial management using proper writing

mechanics

Introduction: • We’d like you to design and develop strategy for a large public company using the themes within

the two modules we’ve just completed: risk management and the international module. Essentially, we’d like to put you into the shoes of the CEO and design a few key strategies that would help grow earnings and reduce risk in the company’s operations.

• Let’s get a bit more specific. Pick a public company (preferably the company used for Assignment #1) and examine what the company is doing now, both in terms of risk management and global strategy. In particular, here’s what we recommend you do:

• Pull up the company’s annual report (10-K). • Read the entire section titled “Item 1” (includes items describing the general business) and “Item

1A” (also known as the risks section). • Then, read the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and

Results of Operations.” • Next, examine the company’s international business situation. Sometimes this information is

located in a section called “Operating Segments”; other times it is not. You might have to dig around for this info.

• Also, search the document (hitting CTRL+F usually does the trick) and enter keywords that include “derivatives” and “hedging.”

• What do you see? What is the business doing right now? Write a minimum 4 page paper in which you do the following:

1. Analyze the company’s existing risk management and international strategies. 2. Prescribe new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these

areas

Your assignment should adhere to these guidelines: • Write in a logical, well-organized, conventional business style. Use Times New Roman font size

12 or similar, double-space, and leave ample white space per page. • All references must follow JWMI style guide, and works must be cited appropriately. Check with

your professor for any additional instructions on citations. • On the first page or in a header, include the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the

professor’s name, the course title, and the date. Title and reference pages are not included in the assignment page length.

JWI 531: Financial Management II Academic Submissions and Evaluations

 

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• Faculty have discretion to penalize for assignments over or under the assignment guidelines. Check with your individual professor if you feel the assignment requires a much longer or shorter treatment than recommended.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following grading criteria.

Weight: 16.5% Assignment 3: Take Your Pick

Criteria Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass High Pass Honors

1. Analyze the company’s existing international strategies. Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the company’s existing international strategies.

Partially analyzed the company’s existing international strategies.

Satisfactorily analyzed the company’s existing international strategies.

Completely analyzed the company’s existing international strategies.

Exemplarily analyzed the company’s existing international strategies.

2. Analyze the company’s existing risk- management strategies. Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the company’s existing risk- management strategies.

Partially analyzed the company’s existing risk- management strategies.

Satisfactorily analyzed the company’s existing risk- management strategies.

Completely analyzed the company’s existing risk- management strategies.

Exemplarily analyzed the company’s existing risk- management strategies.

3. Prescribe new international strategies. Weight: 25%

Did not submit or incompletely prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Partially prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Satisfactorily prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Completely prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Exemplarily prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

4. Prescribe new risk management strategies. Weight: 25%

Did not submit or incompletely prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Partially prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Satisfactorily prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Completely prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

Exemplarily prescribed new strategies for the business based on what they are and are not doing now in these areas.

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Weight: 16.5% Assignment 3: Take Your Pick

Criteria Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass High Pass Honors

5. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements. Weight: 10%

Multiple mechanical errors or much of the text is difficult to understand and fails to follow formatting instructions. The text does not flow.

Several mechanical errors make the parts of the text difficult for the reader to understand; the text does not flow or the discussion fails to justify conclusions and assertions.

More than a few mechanical errors; text flows but lacks conciseness or clarity; assertions and conclusions are generally justified and explained.

Few mechanical errors; text flows and concisely and clearly expresses the student’s position in a manner that rationally and logically develops the topics.

No mechanical errors; text flows and concisely and clearly expresses the student’s position in an exemplary manner that rationally and logically develops the topics.