Day: July 5, 2019

Market Summary and Value Calculation

 

It is easy to become too focused on the minutia of the numbers and lose sight of the larger picture of how a company is valued in the larger marketplace. In this portion of your report you will analyze Wal-Marts’s business and financial conditions and begin to create a macro-level view of the company and its performance within the market as a whole, as well as completing specific analyses that will help you to evolve your impressions of the Wal-mart’s financial stability and long term health.

 

· Summarize how Wal-Mart compares to the overall market

 

· Summarize what 3-5 market analysts are currently saying about Wal-Mart – Why 

 

· Calculate the value of the Wal-Mart’s financial assets by completing ratio analyses for the company for the last three fiscal years within the following bulleted categories. Provide a rationale as to whether each ratio is favorable or signals potential trouble for the company justifying your observations with evidence from the data and your findings.

 

Explain how the 10 ratio analyses of the company’s financial assets you calculated in your draft create a full picture of the overall health the compa

 

(Note: Your report must include a minimum of 2 ratios from each bulleted category, with a minimum of 10 total analyses. The greater the number of relevant ratio analyses you can provide, the stronger your business case will be to either purchase or not purchase the stock.)

 

· Categories for ratio analysis

 

o Liquidity

 

o Financial leverage

 

o Asset management

 

o Profitability

 

o Market value

 

· Explain how the 10 ratio analyses of the company’s financial assets you calculated in your draft create a full picture of the overall health the company

 

The Market Summary and Value Calculation

 

· Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length 

 

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

 

o Title

 

o Student’s name

 

o Course name and number

 

o Instructor’s name

 

o Date submitted

 

· Must use at least two industry or scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

CQ DEVELOPMENT PLAN/ACTION PLAN INSTRUCTIONS 

 

1. To begin this assignment, the student must have with them a copy of the “CQ Report” that was compiled/prepared specifically for them from the CQ Center. This is the same CQ Report that the student was asked to submit to Blackboard for the Module/Week 5 CQ assignment. Since the CQ Report contains results from your CQ Assessment, it provides specific information that will be necessary for you while working on this assignment. 

 

2. Write out your CQ Development Plan/Action Plan by fully responding to all questions and statements from pages 9-12 in your CQ Report. Please make certain that this Development Plan/Action Plan is not a filled in copy of your CQ Report, but instead is a written paper following Turabian format. Type out each of the questions, statements, and chart headings first and then respond thoroughly to each part of the plan as outlined in pages 9-12 of your CQ Report. The answers to your questions must be in complete sentences. Your responses to each question and statement must be very thorough. It should take at least 2–3 complete sentences to answer most points thoroughly. It will likely take more to answer some of them. 

 

3. Submit your assignment as a Microsoft Word Document in Blackboard for Module/Week 8. Please note that it will be of help to keep the Grading Rubric for this assignment in mind while working on your paper. You will be graded strictly according to the grading rubric. This assignment is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of Module/Week 8.

 

To be clear, each of the questions on page 9-12 should be used as headings in your paper, and then you should respond with 2-3 sentences. 

 

The questions are as follows: 

 

· YOUR CQ

 

o Describe your self-rated CQ scores in your own words.

 

· Present Challenges

 

o What intercultural challenges are you currently facing?

 

· Future Opportunities

 

o What multicultural or global opportunities do you want to pursue?

 

· Strongest CQ capabilities

 

o Your strongest self-rating in the four CQ capabilities is _________. 

 

o Write down one example of how you have used ______ in the last 6 months. 

 

o How, if at all, does your current role allow you to use your highest sub-dimensions? 

 

· Weakest CQ Capabilities

 

o Your weakest self-rating in the four CQ capabilities is _________

 

o Write down one example of how your CQ _________ may have caused problems for you in the pat 6 months. 

 

o How might your level of CQ on these sub-dimensions be holding you back from greater effectiveness working in culturally diverse contexts? 

 

· Action Steps

 

o List one specific multicultural skill you would like to improve in the next year. 

 

· Strength

 

o List specific, challenging action steps you can take to use your strongest self-rated CQ capability. 

 

§ Next 4 weeks: 

 

· 1)

 

· 2)

 

§ Next 8 weeks: 

 

· 1)

 

· 2) 

 

· Area for Improvement

 

o List Specific, challenging action steps you can take to enhance your weakest self-rated CQ capability so that it does not interfere with developing the multicultural skill you identified at the top of this page. 

 

§ Next 4 weeks 

 

· 1)

 

· 2) 

 

§ Next 8 weeks

 

· 1)

 

· 2) 

 

· Accountability 

 

o With whom will you share this plan in the next 2 weeks?

 

o How can this person help you accomplish your goals?

Does your company (or school) have a current disaster recovery plan? What are some of the activities involved in it? Do you feel confident that your company (or school) is prepared to survive a major disaster? Why or why not?

 

DQ requirement: Note that the requirement is to post your initial response no later than Sunday and you must post one additional post during the week. I recommend your initial posting to be between 200-to-300 words. The replies to fellow students and to the professor should range between 100-to-150 words. All initial posts must contain a properly formatted in-text citation and scholarly reference.

Briefly respond to all the following questions. Make sure to explain and backup your responses with facts and examples. This assignment should be in APA format and have to include at least two references.
1) What is a Denial of Service attack? How does it function? 

 

2) List two real Denial of service Attacks that occurred in the last few years. (Make sure to include references). 

Please answer the following questions:

 

1.  Explain the different court systems discussed in your reading. 

 

2.  Is the U.S. Constitution over the state and federal governments?  Explain your response. 

 

3.  Discuss the functions of the federal courts and their relationship to each other. 

 

4.  How are federal and state courts different?

 

Each response should be at least 100 words and submitted on a Word document.  Please make sure to cite your references in the correct APA format. 

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