Analyzing Financial Statements

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Walmart a publicly traded company and found their annual report. Now that you have their financial information, perform a ratio analysis on the financial statements. Focus on the financial statement analysis You will want to compute ratios for your company for the last two years. Do not compute each ratio you learned about for your company. There may be some that are not relevant. Rather focus on those eight ratios that you feel are the most important and relevant to analyze how Walmart is doing. Make sure to justify the ratios that you choose for your analysis. Compare how Walmart has done to the industry averages. Do you notice any trends that are positive or negative? Does anything look good or bad that is notable? Do you have any suggestions on things they could be doing to improve these ratios? Please analyze what you found for each of the eight ratios. Then organize your findings into a 15-minute presentation that will be 5 slides. Be sure to include some background on Walmart in presentation. Please use PowerPoint for your presentation.

Program Objectives Reflection Paper

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The program learning objectives for your major are as follows:

PLO 1: You will effectively research and communicate ideas and arguments associated with business leadership and management issues.

PLO 2: You will apply knowledge and skills which demonstrates competency in the following areas: management, operations, finance, and marketing.

PLO 3: Apply critical thinking to authentic work problems through the application of theoretical and experiential knowledge.

PLO 4: Demonstrate awareness of ethical and global issues for the business environment. For each of the above program objectives, describe how the curricular experiences (courses and coursework) and co-curricular experiences (changes in your work or life outside of the coursework) led to your acquisition of these skills.

If you were a transfer student, include in your descriptions courses and coursework taken elsewhere if they helped to achieve an objective. Please reflect on if your experiences at Gwynedd Mercy adequately prepared you to meet these objectives. If, in your reflection, you describe that your experience did not prepare you to achieve an objective satisfactorily, please elaborate on your answer and discuss experiences or courses that you think that you should have had.

HBR Case: Pearson’s Successmaker: Putting the Customer First in Transforming Product Development Processes

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HBR Case: Pearson’s Successmaker: Putting the Customer First in Transforming Product Development Processes: Read the case carefully and critically discuss both questions below in essay format: 1. What benefits did Pearson realize in making the shift from a waterfall process to an Agile one? What downsides might be associated with this shift? 2. Within the SuccessMaker team, should Gregg agree to follow the recommendations from his developers to move from Scrum to Kanban? Should he also push to move all the remaining team (the content/curriculum team) to Scrum or Kanban?

Sustainability in Business

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Sustainability is most often defined as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

It has three main pillars: economic, environmental, and social. These three pillars are informally referred to as people, planet and profits. Socially conscious investors evaluate a company’s operations on 3 criteria: Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG). You are helping investors to evaluate companies alignment with ESG practices (see link in questions 1).

Find an article or identify a website that pertains to a company engaging (not engaging) in these 3 sustainability practices. Include the link with your post. Please answer the following: 1. Based on the definition of ESG (see link below), what is the company doing (not doing) in regards to each of these 3 investment criteria?

Discuss all 3. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp 2. Discuss the specific benefits to each category (E, S, G) and stakeholders, including leaders and the brand image. 3. Build a case for senior leaders shifting from an ‘internal mindset’ to an ‘external mindset’. Mindsets explained: https://arbingerinstitute.com/BlogDetail?id=48 4. Build a case for the moral implications of leaders shifting to an outward mindset as it pertains to the social and governance issues of ESG. Is an inward mindset (i.e., a leader only thinks about his/her objectives, challenges, needs) unethical or ethical? Discuss. Please include links for your peers to review.

Explain how characteristics of technological forces affect a company’s retail operations

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Description Paper is missing two areas as noted below. Please revise the paper to include the two missing sections with 2 additional pages: Explain how characteristics of the legal and regulatory environment affect a company’s retail operations. This section is missing. How do the changing regulations and laws impact REI’s operations and what specific marketing changes could REI make to minimize their impact? As a secondary source of information in addition to our course resources, please access Moreno (2014) article as well to gain a foundational understanding of how the regulatory environment could impact US businesses in general, then tailor your content to analyze REI specifically in your section.

Explain how characteristics of technological forces affect a company’s retail operations. This section is missing. Satell (2013) discusses in his article how companies must adjust their strategies in this age of technology innovation. What is the impact of technological changes on REI’s operations and what specific marketing changes could REI make to minimize their impact?

Global workplace issues

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750 word research paper on any of the top six ethics-related global workplace issues (listed below). TOPICS: Forced Labor, child labor,working hours Health and safety in the workplace, working conditions Discrimination, harassment Financial malfeasance Fraud, theft Gift giving, bribes Assignment Requirements (Use as a checklist): * Topic is an Ethics-Related Global Workplace Issue * Use 10 or 12 pt Arial or Times New Roamn Font * Double-space * Minimum of 750 words. No more than 1,000 words * Minimum of two (2) cited sources * Use APA format and parenthetical citations right after cited material (See below) * Make sure your name is on the Paper * Paper should contain an Introduction, a Body, and a Conclusion

The current plan member service practices common with today’s managed care companies

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The current plan member service practices common with today’s managed care companies

Review the text and the three readings and write a five-page paper that critiques the current plan member service practices common with today’s managed care companies: Altman, D. (2018). Corporate health costs don’t look like a crisis. Axios. Buchmueller, T., & Valletta, R. (2017). Work, health, and insurance: A shifting landscape for employers and workers alike. Health Affairs, 36(2), 214-221. Evans, M. & Fleming, K. (2018). Millennial expectations are fundamentally changing the healthcare landscape. Forbes. Kongstvedt, P.R. (2020). Health insurance and managed care: What they are and how they work (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning (Chapter 3: The Provider Network).

Business Source Complete EBSCO

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Business Analysis Databases Using the Library database below, obtain and review business research reports on the company examined in Unit 1. Save copies of the reports as you will need to be able to refer to them during the remainder of the course. Business Source Complete (EBSCO): Business Source Complete offers full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, nonjournal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Media and Public Relations Databases Using the Library databases below, search for stories and articles on the company relating to strategic human resources topics (e.g., employee or labor relations, human capital management, compensation and benefits, diversity, affirmative action, outsourcing, downsizing, employment law matters, etc.) published in the last 12 months. Save copies of the articles as you will need to be able to refer to them during the remainder of the course Newsstand (ProQuest) ProQuest Newsstand offers access to full text of over 1,300 newspapers. The collection includes national newspapers. Regional Business News (EBSCO) Regional Business News provides full text for more than 80 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications. Step 2: Corporate Social Media In-Depth Review Review the selected company’s presence on at least 8 corporate social media channels, paying particular attention to human resources issues or topics. Consider a diverse range of social media channels, including video sites, blogging sites, photograph-sharing sites, and more. Step 3: Assessment of the Company’s Human Resources Posture Based on analysis of information obtained in Steps 1–3, prepare a professionally written report assessing the company’s current human resources posture, suitable for presentation to the senior executives of the company. Your report should present your assessment of the human resources areas listed below. The body of the report should be 8–10 pages excluding title, references page(s), and any appendices. Benefits and Compensation Business Leadership and Strategy Diversity Employee Relations Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Organizational and Employee Development Talent Management Technology

Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations

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Choose a topic below. (Topic list in the uploaded files) Taken from the assigned reading in Butts chapter 12, page 401, “Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations” Create a presentation of 10-15 slides or screens excluding the title and references. Your slides/screen should include titles, main ideas, bullet points, and relevant images, charts, graphs, etc. In your presentation: Describe an ethical situation, based on the chosen topic, that can get in the nurse’s way of practicing ethically. Describe the situation clearly and concisely. Identify how this situation relates to one provision within the Code of Ethics for Nurses. Identify two ethical principles that may arise when facing this situation. Discuss how a nurse might lessen the impact of the situation on the nurse’s practice. In addition to the course texts, cite and reference a minimum of two (2) additional scholarly sources to support your work. Close with a summary of your topic, and APA formatted reference slide(s).

MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK

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This task is designed to start students thinking about the complexity of managing people at work and the range of issues relevant within the field of employment relations. When it comes to debates about employment relations matters, there is no black and white, no right or wrong. Employment relations stakeholders often have different and sometimes competing views, and expected alliances can often shift depending on the issue. Students are encouraged to approach any employment relations matter objectively, recognise that there will be a number of perspectives on the issue, and critically evaluate all viewpoints before arriving at a conclusion. Details: Relevant Article: Campbell, I. and Burgess, J. (2018) ’Patchy progress? Two decades of research on precariousness and precarious work in Australia’, Labour & Industry: a Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work, vol. 28, no.1, pp 48-67. Question: In your own words answer the following: a. According to the authors, what are some problems with casual work? b. According to the authors, what are some problems with employment precariousness? c. According to the authors, why is job quality an important concept? Instructions: Read the article outlined above by Ian Campbell & John Burgess (available on vUWS). In your own words, construct a brief report that clearly addresses all three parts of the question outlined above. Your report should include an opening statement that addresses the purpose of the task and includes a precise reference to the article utilising the Harvard WesternSydU method. Please address each part separately using headings where appropriate. A separate conclusion is not required. No other research for this assignment is required. Guidelines: Assignments should be in Arial, 11 font, 1.5 spacing with appropriate margins As the report is short, you do not need to provide an executive summary, table of contents or appendices, though these may be required in other Report style assessments at UWS All students must use Harvard WesternSydU referencing. The 500 word limit must be adhered to within the acceptable range of + or – 10 per cent This is an individual assessment task – if a submitted report is assessed as not being the work of a single author then academic misconduct rules apply. Resources: Download the journal article from the Readings and Resources page of the vUWS site. Download the Harvard WesternSydU style guide for referencing, on the Readings and Resources page of the vUWS site,or the WSU Library webpage.