This document provides grading guidelines for an individual assignment on financial ratio analysis for a Foundations of Corporate Finance course. Students are instructed to select a Fortune 500 company, review its 2015 annual report, calculate 8 key financial ratios using the company's balance sheet and income statement in Microsoft Excel, and analyze in 1,050 words why each ratio is important for financial decision making. The assignment is graded based on selecting an appropriate company, calculating the correct ratios, and writing mechanics and formatting. Additional comments may also be provided by the grader.

1. Financial Ratio Analysis
Grading Guide
FIN571 Version 9
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Financial Ratio Analysis
Grading Guide
FIN/571 Version 9
Foundations of Corporate Finance
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Individual Assignment: Financial Ratio Analysis
Purpose of Assignment

2. The purpose of this assignment is to help students gain a better
understanding of the financial statements used for corporate
financial reporting and the key ratios used to make business
decisions.Resources Required
Microsoft® Excel®
Content
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Comments:
Selected a Fortune 500 Company from one of the following
industries:
· Pharmaceutical
· Energy
· Retail
· Automotive
· Computer Hardware
Reviewedthe balance sheet and income statement in the
company’s 2015 Annual Report.
Calculated the following ratios using Microsoft® Excel®:

3. · Current Ratio
· Quick Ratio
· Debt Equity Ratio
· Inventory Turnover Ratio
· Receivables Turnover Ratio
· Total Assets Turnover Ratio
· Profit Margin (Net Margin) Ratio
· Return on Assets Ratio
Analyzed in 1,050 words why each ratio is important for
financial decision making.
Total Available
Total Earned
5
#/5

4. Writing Guidelines
Met
Partially Met
Not Met
Comments:
The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page,
and reference page—is consistent with APA formatting
guidelines and meets course-level requirements.
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a
reference page.
Paragraph and sentence transitions are present, logical, and
maintain the flow throughout the paper.
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise.
Rules of grammar and usage are followed including spelling and
punctuation.

5. Total Available
Total Earned
3
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Assignment Total
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8
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Additional comments:
Strategic Project Management
Now that you have successfully led this project, you feel that it
is the right time to introduce the concept of quality management
and its application to the project management processes,
especially that in your last meeting with the CIO he informed
you of how much it had cost the company to rework some work
elements in a previous project. Prepare a short report to the CIO
outlining the key concepts of quality management strategies and
how they impact your project. Explain how you plan to monitor
and control quality for your project deliverables.
Assignment Guidelines:
· In 750–1,000 words, address the following:
· How do you plan to manage quality on your project?
· What are ways in which to improve quality?
· Examine 2–3 quality management/project management
strategies.
· What are the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy?

6. · When should each strategy be used?
· How can you leverage work done by other researchers
regarding quality management strategies?
· How can you build a standard to be used in future phases of
the quality initiative so that other project managers follow your
approach to quality management?
· How will this standard affect future projects in terms of
efficiency and staff involvement? Explain.
· What barriers might have to be overcome when establishing
this standard? Why?
Use correctly APA style formatted references of solid academic
quality for your resources and use correctly formatted APA
style in-text citations to your references to substantiate your
information and positions as well as to give credit to other
author’s work.
Submitted Assignment
· The submitted Word document should do the following:
· Completely adhere to the assignment guidelines listed above.
· Consist of 750–1,000 words.
Contract Finalization
A sufficiently detailed Statement of Work (SOW) can assist
with the negotiations during the bidding process as well as deal
with potential conflicts during the execution of the
contract. The SOW can be utilized to address risks such as not
meeting requirements or non-performance of work.
Address the following in 4–5 pages:
· Prepare a Statement of Work with at least 8 sections.
· You may use all the information that you have compiled in the
previous assignments to craft this final Statement of Work.