Discipline: Business & Finance

Q1. Why is it important for any organization (firms, nonprofits, etc.) to study and understand its external environment? Q2. Why is it important to study the internal resources, capabilities, and activities of firms? What insights can be gained?

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read the following sections of Chapter 1: The Goals and Activities in the Foundations of Financial Management textbook: Risk Management and a Review of the Financial Crisis Corporate Governance Goals of Financial Management In addition, read the articles listed here: What is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform […]

The Discussion for this week will once again give you the opportunity to analyze a public company’s financial statements. Discuss with your colleagues the cost flow assumptions presented in these statements. Why did the company choose these assumptions? What types of inventories did they report? Locate the annual financial report you selected in Week 1. […]

Main task: Mergers and Acquisitions Report Students are required to identify, and critically evaluate a hostile acquisition. Students must reference the source of information regarding their hostile takeover case. Please consider the following; “Examine a hostile acquisition and discuss the tactics employed by both the predator and the target companies. Please discuss a real life […]

Individually, write a report on the performance of your group during the Capsim® Capstone simulation that includes the following information: Briefly explain the main decisions and strategies that you have taken in each department (research, production, marketing, finance). Explain how the different departments are interconnected in the game and what are the relationships between them […]

Prior to completing this discussion forum, read Chapter 21 of your textbook. In this discussion, we will continue to review big data and data mining. Research the data mining practices of the organization you work for, or one that you are familiar with. Specifically, research their text mining and web mining practices. If they do […]

Prior to completing this discussion forum, read Chapter 21 of your textbook. There is no standard definition for big data or data mining. In this discussion forum, we follow the general definitions used in our textbook. “Big data” refers to a dataset that is too complex and big to apply traditional data analysis methods. “Data […]

 Research Paper: This is a graduate course and students will be expected to research and write papers summarizing in their own words what they have found on current topics from the weekly readings. Research is a theoretical review of relevant literature and application of findings in the literature to a topic related to a specific industry, field, […]

   Write a minimum 2-page paper (single-spaced and 12 point type) that answers the questions posed below. Tie in explicit reference to our course materials as relevant to your analysis(see below attachments/reading video’s/reading articles). When doing so, italicize specific concepts or terms used and cite the readings/videos (at least 2 or more cites) or the […]

   From our company’s perspective, we are currently holding a neutral position in the market competition. But at the same time, as our main strategy is selling at an average price for higher quality goods, it will be beneficial to have the first mover advantage. In order to do that, we need to increase our […]