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BA 325 Pivot Table Assignment Answer Sheet
Name:
Before you do anything fill out your name on the assignment and save your file as BA325 Firstname Lastname (use your actual name).
The table has all of the questions from the DuPont Assignment. Fill in your answers to the questions in the corresponding cell in the Answer column. Below the table there is a spot for the Screen Clippings from both the Practice Assignment, and the DuPont Assignment.
After you have filled out all of the answers and Screen Clippings submit the file to the Assignments folder in D2L.
Q Number
Question
Answer
Q1
How much was American Airlines’ Net Revenues in 2013?
Q2
What was the Return on Equity for Apple in 2015?
Q3
Which company had the highest Net Income and in which year? What was the value?
Q4
Which company had the lowest Net Income and in which year? What was the value?
Q5
How many unique companies in your sample had Net Losses exceeding one billion dollars? Which companies, and what years?
Q6
What was the Sum of the Net Income for all companies in the sample for 2015?
Q7
Which company had the highest total Net Income over the three year period? What was the value?
Q8
Which company had the lowest total Net Income over the three year period? What was the value?
Q9
Which industry had the highest Average Profit Margin over the three year period? What was the value?
Q10
In which year was the Average Profit Margin the highest for the entire sample? What was the value?
Q11
For how many companies do you have Profit Margin ratio data in 2013?
Q12
For what Industry do you have the most Profit Margin ratio data in the sample? What was the value? For that Industry what year was the highest? What was the value?
Q13
Which Industry has the highest Average Asset Turnover over the three year period? What was the value?
Q14
Which of the remaining Industries has the highest Asset Turnover in 2014? What was the value?
Q15
Which Industry has the highest Average Financial Leverage over the three year period? What was the value?
Q16
Which Industry has the lowest Average Financial Leverage that does not include negative numbers in any year? What was the value?
Q17
What is the Average Financial Leverage for the Transportation Industry in 2013?
Note: The answer is odd. You will have to use Data Cleaning to resolve the issue.
Q18
Which Industry has the highest Average Return on Equity over the three year period and which company is the highest within that Industry? What are the values?
Q19
Which two companies in the Public Utilities Industry have the highest Average Return on Equity during the period? What are the values?
Q20
Which Industry had the largest decrease in Average Return on Equity between 2013 and 2014? What was the value?
Q21
Which Industry had the largest increase in Average Return on Equity between 2014 and 2015? What was the value?
Q22
Bonus Question 1: How many industrie ...
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ASSIGNMENT 3
In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignments 1 and 2.
Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation's most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
· Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.
ASSIGNMENT 1
ASSIGNMENT 2
(http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).
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THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTY OF APPLE
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The External and Internal Environment of Apple
Clarice Torrence
BUS 499
Professor: Joseph Keller
August 12, 2019
Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
Apple being one of the most valued te ...
Primary / Secondary market research / regional data / Philadelphia MSA / STEM / Technology focused manufacturing research / 3D /innovation / segmentation / mind mapping / data mining / surveying
Primary / Secondary market research / regional data / Philadelphia MSA / STEM / Technology focused manufacturing research / 3D /innovation / segmentation / mind mapping / data mining / surveying
Financial Report of Apple Inc. for the year 2014 with full analysis of SWOT, PEST analysis, BCG Matrix, Ratio Analysis, Observations, Recommendations & Conclusion
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Make sure to read the instruction carefully
ASSIGNMENT 3
In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignments 1 and 2.
Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation's most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
· Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.
ASSIGNMENT 1
ASSIGNMENT 2
(http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).
Running Head: THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTY OF APPLE
1
THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTY OF APPLE
7
The External and Internal Environment of Apple
Clarice Torrence
BUS 499
Professor: Joseph Keller
August 12, 2019
Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
Apple being one of the most valued te ...
Primary / Secondary market research / regional data / Philadelphia MSA / STEM / Technology focused manufacturing research / 3D /innovation / segmentation / mind mapping / data mining / surveying
Primary / Secondary market research / regional data / Philadelphia MSA / STEM / Technology focused manufacturing research / 3D /innovation / segmentation / mind mapping / data mining / surveying
Financial Report of Apple Inc. for the year 2014 with full analysis of SWOT, PEST analysis, BCG Matrix, Ratio Analysis, Observations, Recommendations & Conclusion
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Running head: CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 1
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS7
Case study questions
Name
Institution
Introduction
The CARE International is known to be a humanitarian organization which offers relief help to regions that are experiencing natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. This paper will focus on answering the case study questions on diverse issues.
1. What were the main challenges encountered by CARE International before they created their warehouse prepositioning model
The challenges faced by CARE international are such as transportation issues, absence of agility, limited aptitude to gather supplies both locally and internationally (Gay, 2015). There is a challenge of the previous means of transportation utilized by vendors which is slow and also very unreliable as well as the cost of relief resources is very high.
2. How does the objective function relate to the organization's need to improve relief services to affected areas?
The objective function need to minimize the time used to respond to natural occurrences as well as transport reliefs to the affected area. The objective function is connected to the need of agency providing shipping relief services to the affected region at minimal response time.
3. Conduct online research and suggest at least three other applications or types of software that could handle the magnitude of variable and constraints CARE International used in their MIP model.
There are three software that can be incorporated to handle constraints Care International utilizes for Mixed-integer programming ideal which are “Mathematical Programming Language (AMPL), Gurobi, and Statistical Analysis System (SAS) (De & Mok, 2016).” These are tools that assist the organization in solving the linear and the quadratic optimization.
4. Elaborate on some benefits CARE International stands to gain from implementing their pre-positioning model on a large scale in future
Warehouse pre-positioning model has some advantages that it offers to CARE International such as they facilitate the delivery relief to the affected region, mostly in the time of the disaster occurrence. This model assist in providing relief in the affected region in relatively short period of time which means that the agency will be in a position to save more lives.
Warehouse pre-positioning model
Figure 1: Warehouse pre-positioning model
Application case
1. Describe the problem that a large company such as HP might face in offering many product lines and options.
One problem they might face is the issue of high cost for introducing new products, designing and manufacturing as well as the issue of supply chain complexity. The institution might face issues such as the unexpected increase in operational expenses, reduction in the forecasting accuracy and increase in the inventory costs.
2. Why is there a possible conflict between marketing and operations?
Yes. Marketing and operation department are the pillars of any organization. How ...
ADMG 302 Final Project – Step 4 -- Analysis Questions (90 points)
Before answering these analysis questions, complete the first three steps of the project (see the Canvas module).
To answer these analysis questions, you will need the worksheets from Steps 1, 2, and 3. You will also need IPG Photonics Corporation’s 12/31/2016 financial statements from the Form 10-K filed 2/27/2017 and Coherent Inc.’s 10/1/2016 financial statements from the Form 10-K filed 11/29/2016. If you have not already printed the worksheets and financial statements--balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow--it is recommended you print them before beginning your work on these questions. Also, you will need to look in IPG Photonics’ Notes to the Financial Statements to answer some questions, so have IPG Photonics’ 12/31/2016 financial statements available to view online.
The financial statements can be found in the typical place on each company's website (Investors or Investor Relations, SEC filings, Annual Reports). To access Coherent’s Form 10-K, you will need to accept the terms relating to a statement about risk factors—interesting!) As usual, the financial statements are in Item 8 of the reports, and the Notes to the Financial Statements are immediately following the financial statements.
To answer each question in this assignment, you first need to decide which information to use. Some questions require you to look closely at the ratios for IPGP, Coherent, and/or the industry averages on the Ratios worksheet. Other questions require you to use the percentages calculated in the Vertical and Horizontal analysis worksheets, and other questions require you to look in the financial statements or the Notes to the Financial Statements. The last six questions pertain to the investment analysis you started in Step 3.
One additional note that applies to several of the questions: On the Ratios worksheet, industry averages are the averages of all similar companies in the Semiconductor and Other Electronic Components industry. Although Coherent, Inc. is IPGP’s closest competitor, all similar companies in the industry are competitors, so when a question asks you to compare IPGP to competitors, look at Coherent’s ratio results and the industry averages.
After answering the questions in this file, login to Cengage and complete the "Final Project – Step 4 – Analysis Questions" assignment. There are no “Check My Work” opportunities on this assignment, and you can submit only once. Immediately after submitting the assignment, you will be able to see only your score. The detail about which questions you missed and the correct answers will display after the assignment deadline.
You are encouraged to work with classmates to discuss the questions and answers, but each student must complete his/her own assignment in CengageNOW.
Questions (2 pts. each)
Answers
1
In 2014, 2015 and 2016, how did IPG Photonics (IPGP) generate most of its cash flow?
a).
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Financial Data and Analysis:
Apple’s fiscal third quarter ended on June 27, 2015. The company boasted third quarter revenue of $49.6 billion, with a net profit of $10.7 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share. Revenue is up by 33% from last year’s third quarter results. Apple reports its revenue by operating segments: Americas, Europe, Greater China, Japan, and Rest of Asia Pacific. Greater China had the biggest year over year change with a 112% increase in Revenue. The Rest of Asia Pacific came in second with a 26% increase in the year over year revenue, with Europe, Americas, and Japan reporting 19%, 15%, and 9% respectively. International sales represents 64% of the company’s third quarter earnings. The company reports fifteen billion in operating cash flow and returned over thirteen billion to shareholders. The Apple board of directors declared a $0.52 cash dividend on the company’s common stock that was payable to stockholders on August 13, 2015. (Apple Inc.)
The increase is largely due to the popularity of the iphone 6S and Mac products . The iphone product sales are up 59% from this time last year and the Mac up 9%. The Greater China market helped Apple create record sales of the iphone 6S, which was first released on September 25, 2015 and will continue through October 2015. Thirteen million units were sold in the first week of release this year, as compared to the record of ten million last year. Analysts report three to four million units were sold in China alone. This momentum is due to China not subjecting Apple to governmental policy restrictions by having regulators delay the release as it did last year over security concerns. Additionally Apple allowed sixteen days for the presale, six more days than last year’s presale. (Thielman) Services also showed revenue growth of 9% in the year over year, which include revenues from iTunes, Apple Care, and other licensing services. Other products including Apple TV, iPod, Apple Watch, and Beats Electronics was up 49% from last year. (Apple Inc.)
The Apple Watch was first introduced in March of 2015. Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will not give specific unit sales and revenue data attributed by the Apple Watch alone as this product is reported in the Other Products category. The company does not want to divulge financial results of this product to its competitors. This strategy prevents the collection of competitive intelligence and limits imitation products from entering the market too quickly by the competition. However, the Other Products reported staggering growth of 49% in the year over year, which both leaders attribute to the successful launch of the Apple Watch. (Dillet)
August 1, 2014 Apple purchased Beats by Dr. Dre for $3 billion. Apple recognized the value of Beats steaming music business and it wanted the endorsement from Dr. Dre. Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre are now employees of Apple. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president has report ...
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Running Head; APPLE BALANCED SCORECARD1
APPLE BALANCED SCORECARD
The company under observation is Apple that deals in the creation of laptops and smartphone technology in the US, their mission statement is “Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad." This is to mainly show that as a company Apple has a commitment to ensuring that its customers that include students, teachers and program creators globally enjoy the best computing experience through their efficient and effective software and hardware. Their vision statement is “We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products and that’s not changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot. And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self- honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change. And I think regardless of who is in what job those values are so embedded in this company that Apple will do extremely well.” This is mainly to indicate the company believes in their capacity to withstand in the long run, through continued success and expansion.
The strategy applied by Apple has focused on differentiation of their products despite continual production on a yearly basis it is the same technology with minimal changes in software and design of the appearance. In this aspect, the iPhone can clearly be used as an example on a yearly basis a new design is released with some changes in the physical appearance yet minimal software differences. As per 2015, the shares of Apple sold made about $233,715, the dividends paid were about $11.4billion at about $0.57 per share. In 2016 there was about $ 213, 000 purchase in shares that resulted in dividends of about $12 billion being paid out by the company.2017 resulted in about $15billion in returns to investors in form of dividends, with an overall $25 billion revenue generated by the company. This indicates an increasing trend from the three years indicated continuously.
The key staff working in Apple are based in the marketing and technical positions, with the company dealing in manufacture of electronic devices there arises need for qualified staff to deal wit.
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and .
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and .
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and ...
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Your Name Here
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and .
Manufacturing Report 2015: Overcoming the Five Barriers to Business GrowthSikich LLP
In a comprehensive survey, Sikich polled businesses in the manufacturing industry and uncovered 5 barriers that manufacturing companies need to overcome to continue their business growth.
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Quantitative Critique Rubric- 5.25.2020
Student Name: Article Title:
Areas of critique
Questions to be answered regarding article
Critique Responses
Points achieved
Intent of the
Research (7)
Is the title of the study clear? (1)
What is the research question(s) if stated? What is the hypothesis if stated? (3)
What are the issues or variables being studied? Are there Independent & Dependent variables identified? (3)
Significance of study (5)
How is the research problem significant to nursing?
How will the findings improve practice? (5)
Methods (26)
What is the study design? Describe. Was this appropriate? (5) What is the level of evidence in this research? Describe model used to evaluate level of research (3)
Was the sample randomized or not randomized? Was the sample selection addressed?(3)
Was the sample size adequate? Was there a power analysis done? (3)
What evidence was provided that biases were eliminated or minimized? What steps were taken to control confounding participant characteristics that could affect the equivalence of groups being compared? Were these steps adequate? (6)
What were the inclusion and exclusion criteria? (3)
Describe the instruments used- were they reliable/valid? Is this addressed? (3)
Procedures (6)
Describe how the data was collected- was it consistent? (3)
Were the dependent variables always obtained in the same manner? (3)
Analysis (32)
What type of analysis was done? Identify the statistics used-were they appropriate for level of measurement? All assumptions met? (5) Was rationale provided for use of statistical tests?
Was analysis appropriate for the design/methods used? (3)
Were the relevant sample demographics described? (3) Were they used to answer RQ when inferential statistics would have been more appropriate? (3)
What were the results of the study? (3) Were any results significant? What do the tests tell about the RQ or hypotheses? (3) Were any tests non-significant? Is it plausible that these reflect a Type II error? (3) What factors might have undermined the study’s statistical conclusion validity? (3)
Was an appropriate amount of statistical information reported? Are the findings clearly and logically organized? (3) Were tables or figures used to summarize large amounts of statistical information? (3)
Results and Interpretation (24)
What was the researcher's interpretation of the results? (3)
Do the results make sense? Did the researcher develop reasonable conclusions? (3)
Do the researchers discuss the limitations of the study and their possible effects on the credibility of the research? (3) Did the researchers discuss the generalizability of the results? (3) Did the researchers discuss the implications for clinical practice? (3)
What is your interpretation of the results? (3)
How would you improve upon this study if you w.
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Quadrant Strategic Objective Measure Target for Year
Financial
Be profitable at the end
of the year profit margin Breakeven
Customer
Grow business by
focusing on gaining
customer and
outstanding customer Market share
5%
Operation
Build on to the Apple
name and expand brand
Marketing campaign
with a developed
plan in place 4 months
Learning and Growth
Employees have proper
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Running Head: APPLE CORPORATION
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Professor Keen
BUS/475
Week 4
Apple Corporation
Apple Corporation
Introduction
Apple Corporation is an American universal technology company with its headquarters in Cupertino, California. It deals with developing computer software and designing and selling consumer electronics. It also offers online services. The hardware products of Apple include smart phones, iPads, iPods and personal computers. The consumer software includes the iTunes media player, iOS operating system, OS X and the Safari web browser. Its online services include the iOS App Store, iCloud, Mac App Store and the iTunes store.
Apple Corporation was founded by a group of associates on 1st April 1976 to design and sell personal computers. It was however incorporated as Apple Computer Inc. on 3rd January 1977 only to be renamed thirty years later to Apple Inc due to its focus on consumer electronics. It is the largest technology firm in terms of total assets and revenue and the second mobile manufacturer after Samsung. It has a net worth of over 700billion USD with over one hundred thousand employees and over four hundred retail stores around the world. Apple Inc. has over one billion products in the market as at May 2016.
However, the aim of this paper is to develop strategic objectives in the measurement of attaining company's vision and mission based on a balanced scorecard taking into account different perspectives of the whole company. The balanced scorecard contains the financial perspective, Customer value, Internal Operations and Employee perspective.
Financial Perspective
Apple Corporation is the world’s largest technology company based on total assets and revenue valued at over 700 USD as at May 2016 (Ingram, 2008). It is also the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer. Apple Corporation Inc entered the top ten Fortune 500 list of publicly traded companies on May 2013. It announced a dividend of $0.57 in May 2016 after earning revenue of $51.5 billion and a net profit of $11.1 billion which was a 22% increase in revenue from the previous year. Apple Inc has transferred 90% of its cash and marketable securities outside the United States, which is about 234billion USD due to tax purposes. In 2015, the company accumulated over 80% of the total earnings made by the eight largest universal smart phone manufacturers.
High tax rates in the United States pose big threat to the profitability of Apple Corporation Inc. In ord ...
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Week 04
Acquisition and Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
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Customer Relationship Management?
CRM is the process of carefully managing detailed information about individual
customers and all customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty.
Now closely associated with data warehousing and mining
Relationship
Relationship
Identifying good customers: RFM Model
Recency
Frequency
Monetary Value
Time/purchase occasions since the last purchase
Number of purchase occasions since first purchase
Amount spent since the first purchase
R
F
M
Total RFM Score: R Score + F score + M Score
CASE: Database for BookBinders Book Club
Predict response to a mailing for the book, Art History of Florence, based on the
following variables accumulated in the database and the responses to a test mailing:
Gender
Amount purchased
Months since first purchase
Months since last purchase
Frequency of purchase
Past purchases of art books
Past purchases of children’s books
Past purchases of cook books
Past purchases of DIY books
Past purchases of youth books
Recency
Frequency
Monetary
Example: RFM Model Scoring Criteria
R
Months from last
purchase
13-max 10-12 7-9 3-6 0-2
Score 5pts 10 15 20 25
F
Frequency > 30 21-30 16-20 11-15 0-10
Score 25pts 20 15 10 5
M
Amount
purchased
> 400 301-400 201-300 101- 200 100
Score 50 45 30 15 10
Implement using Nested If statements in Excel
Decile Classification
• Standard Assessment Method
• Apply the results of approach and
calculate the “score” of each individual
• Order the customers based on “score”
from the highest to the lowest
• Divide into deciles
• Calculate profits per deciles
Customer 1 Score 1.00
Customer 2 Score 0.99
….
Customer 230 Score 0.92
Customer 2300 Score 0.00
Decile1
Decile10
…
..
…
..
Output for Bookbinders club
Decile Score RFM No. of Mailings Cost of mailing RFM Units sold RFM Profit
10 17.6% 5000 $3,250 783 $4,733
20 34.8% 10000 $6,500 1,543 $9,243
30 46.1% 15000 $9,750 2,043 $11,093
40 53.4% 20000 $13,000 2,370 $11,170
50 65.2% 25000 $16,250 2,891 $13,241
60 77.9% 30000 $19,500 3,457 $15,757
70 83.3% 35000 $22,750 3,696 $14,946
80 91.7% 40000 $26,000 4,065 $15,465
90 97.5% 45000 $29,250 4,326 $14,876
100 100.0% 50000 $32,500 4,435 $12,735
Note: Market Potential = 4435 units and margin = $10.20
Leaky bucket
New customer
acquisition
Purchase increase by
current customers
Purchase decrease by
current customers
Lost customers
Lost customers
Credit Card Rewards Program ...
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Running head: CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 1
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS7
Case study questions
Name
Institution
Introduction
The CARE International is known to be a humanitarian organization which offers relief help to regions that are experiencing natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. This paper will focus on answering the case study questions on diverse issues.
1. What were the main challenges encountered by CARE International before they created their warehouse prepositioning model
The challenges faced by CARE international are such as transportation issues, absence of agility, limited aptitude to gather supplies both locally and internationally (Gay, 2015). There is a challenge of the previous means of transportation utilized by vendors which is slow and also very unreliable as well as the cost of relief resources is very high.
2. How does the objective function relate to the organization's need to improve relief services to affected areas?
The objective function need to minimize the time used to respond to natural occurrences as well as transport reliefs to the affected area. The objective function is connected to the need of agency providing shipping relief services to the affected region at minimal response time.
3. Conduct online research and suggest at least three other applications or types of software that could handle the magnitude of variable and constraints CARE International used in their MIP model.
There are three software that can be incorporated to handle constraints Care International utilizes for Mixed-integer programming ideal which are “Mathematical Programming Language (AMPL), Gurobi, and Statistical Analysis System (SAS) (De & Mok, 2016).” These are tools that assist the organization in solving the linear and the quadratic optimization.
4. Elaborate on some benefits CARE International stands to gain from implementing their pre-positioning model on a large scale in future
Warehouse pre-positioning model has some advantages that it offers to CARE International such as they facilitate the delivery relief to the affected region, mostly in the time of the disaster occurrence. This model assist in providing relief in the affected region in relatively short period of time which means that the agency will be in a position to save more lives.
Warehouse pre-positioning model
Figure 1: Warehouse pre-positioning model
Application case
1. Describe the problem that a large company such as HP might face in offering many product lines and options.
One problem they might face is the issue of high cost for introducing new products, designing and manufacturing as well as the issue of supply chain complexity. The institution might face issues such as the unexpected increase in operational expenses, reduction in the forecasting accuracy and increase in the inventory costs.
2. Why is there a possible conflict between marketing and operations?
Yes. Marketing and operation department are the pillars of any organization. How ...
ADMG 302 Final Project – Step 4 -- Analysis Questions (90 points)
Before answering these analysis questions, complete the first three steps of the project (see the Canvas module).
To answer these analysis questions, you will need the worksheets from Steps 1, 2, and 3. You will also need IPG Photonics Corporation’s 12/31/2016 financial statements from the Form 10-K filed 2/27/2017 and Coherent Inc.’s 10/1/2016 financial statements from the Form 10-K filed 11/29/2016. If you have not already printed the worksheets and financial statements--balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow--it is recommended you print them before beginning your work on these questions. Also, you will need to look in IPG Photonics’ Notes to the Financial Statements to answer some questions, so have IPG Photonics’ 12/31/2016 financial statements available to view online.
The financial statements can be found in the typical place on each company's website (Investors or Investor Relations, SEC filings, Annual Reports). To access Coherent’s Form 10-K, you will need to accept the terms relating to a statement about risk factors—interesting!) As usual, the financial statements are in Item 8 of the reports, and the Notes to the Financial Statements are immediately following the financial statements.
To answer each question in this assignment, you first need to decide which information to use. Some questions require you to look closely at the ratios for IPGP, Coherent, and/or the industry averages on the Ratios worksheet. Other questions require you to use the percentages calculated in the Vertical and Horizontal analysis worksheets, and other questions require you to look in the financial statements or the Notes to the Financial Statements. The last six questions pertain to the investment analysis you started in Step 3.
One additional note that applies to several of the questions: On the Ratios worksheet, industry averages are the averages of all similar companies in the Semiconductor and Other Electronic Components industry. Although Coherent, Inc. is IPGP’s closest competitor, all similar companies in the industry are competitors, so when a question asks you to compare IPGP to competitors, look at Coherent’s ratio results and the industry averages.
After answering the questions in this file, login to Cengage and complete the "Final Project – Step 4 – Analysis Questions" assignment. There are no “Check My Work” opportunities on this assignment, and you can submit only once. Immediately after submitting the assignment, you will be able to see only your score. The detail about which questions you missed and the correct answers will display after the assignment deadline.
You are encouraged to work with classmates to discuss the questions and answers, but each student must complete his/her own assignment in CengageNOW.
Questions (2 pts. each)
Answers
1
In 2014, 2015 and 2016, how did IPG Photonics (IPGP) generate most of its cash flow?
a).
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Financial Data and Analysis:
Apple’s fiscal third quarter ended on June 27, 2015. The company boasted third quarter revenue of $49.6 billion, with a net profit of $10.7 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share. Revenue is up by 33% from last year’s third quarter results. Apple reports its revenue by operating segments: Americas, Europe, Greater China, Japan, and Rest of Asia Pacific. Greater China had the biggest year over year change with a 112% increase in Revenue. The Rest of Asia Pacific came in second with a 26% increase in the year over year revenue, with Europe, Americas, and Japan reporting 19%, 15%, and 9% respectively. International sales represents 64% of the company’s third quarter earnings. The company reports fifteen billion in operating cash flow and returned over thirteen billion to shareholders. The Apple board of directors declared a $0.52 cash dividend on the company’s common stock that was payable to stockholders on August 13, 2015. (Apple Inc.)
The increase is largely due to the popularity of the iphone 6S and Mac products . The iphone product sales are up 59% from this time last year and the Mac up 9%. The Greater China market helped Apple create record sales of the iphone 6S, which was first released on September 25, 2015 and will continue through October 2015. Thirteen million units were sold in the first week of release this year, as compared to the record of ten million last year. Analysts report three to four million units were sold in China alone. This momentum is due to China not subjecting Apple to governmental policy restrictions by having regulators delay the release as it did last year over security concerns. Additionally Apple allowed sixteen days for the presale, six more days than last year’s presale. (Thielman) Services also showed revenue growth of 9% in the year over year, which include revenues from iTunes, Apple Care, and other licensing services. Other products including Apple TV, iPod, Apple Watch, and Beats Electronics was up 49% from last year. (Apple Inc.)
The Apple Watch was first introduced in March of 2015. Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will not give specific unit sales and revenue data attributed by the Apple Watch alone as this product is reported in the Other Products category. The company does not want to divulge financial results of this product to its competitors. This strategy prevents the collection of competitive intelligence and limits imitation products from entering the market too quickly by the competition. However, the Other Products reported staggering growth of 49% in the year over year, which both leaders attribute to the successful launch of the Apple Watch. (Dillet)
August 1, 2014 Apple purchased Beats by Dr. Dre for $3 billion. Apple recognized the value of Beats steaming music business and it wanted the endorsement from Dr. Dre. Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre are now employees of Apple. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president has report ...
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Running Head; APPLE BALANCED SCORECARD1
APPLE BALANCED SCORECARD
The company under observation is Apple that deals in the creation of laptops and smartphone technology in the US, their mission statement is “Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad." This is to mainly show that as a company Apple has a commitment to ensuring that its customers that include students, teachers and program creators globally enjoy the best computing experience through their efficient and effective software and hardware. Their vision statement is “We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products and that’s not changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot. And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self- honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change. And I think regardless of who is in what job those values are so embedded in this company that Apple will do extremely well.” This is mainly to indicate the company believes in their capacity to withstand in the long run, through continued success and expansion.
The strategy applied by Apple has focused on differentiation of their products despite continual production on a yearly basis it is the same technology with minimal changes in software and design of the appearance. In this aspect, the iPhone can clearly be used as an example on a yearly basis a new design is released with some changes in the physical appearance yet minimal software differences. As per 2015, the shares of Apple sold made about $233,715, the dividends paid were about $11.4billion at about $0.57 per share. In 2016 there was about $ 213, 000 purchase in shares that resulted in dividends of about $12 billion being paid out by the company.2017 resulted in about $15billion in returns to investors in form of dividends, with an overall $25 billion revenue generated by the company. This indicates an increasing trend from the three years indicated continuously.
The key staff working in Apple are based in the marketing and technical positions, with the company dealing in manufacture of electronic devices there arises need for qualified staff to deal wit.
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and .
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and .
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and ...
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Annual Report Workbook
Getting under the hood of an Annual Report
and knowing what’s inside
by Donald Bittar
Introduction
You can use this workbook for analyzing many companies and saving your analysis for each one, like many professionals. Just like them, over time, you can compare a company’s actual performance to your analysis and predictions. Saving your analysis sheets can help sharpen you analytical skills.
The questions in the workbook are numbered the same way as they are in the book, ‘Getting Under the Hood of an Annual Report’. As there are no questions in the first chapter of the book, the workbook starts with Chapter 2. It will make it easier for you to relate the questions in the workbook to those in the book.
Your input to the workbook will appear in a dark green font while the questions appear in blue. The different font colors can make it easier for you to see your work.
You’ll need to do some number crunching to complete your annual report analysis. The Big Calculating Tool, located on your CD, can save you a great deal of time and make the number crunching nearly painless. Every ratio and calculation for the book is included in the Big Calculating Tool. You’ll have more time for analysis if you use the Big Calculating Tool.
Table of Contents
Questions for Chapter 24
Question 2.0 – What do you want to learn about company and why?4
Question 2.1 - Fundamental Information Set For Your Company4
Question 2.2 - The Marketplace Context5
Question 2.3 - Challenges and Success for Your Company6
Questions for Chapter 38
Question 3.1 – What is Management saying about your company?8
Question 3.2 – What did the Chairman say?9
Question 3.3 – Internal Controls and Auditors10
Questions for Chapter 411
Question 4.0 – What is your company’s fiscal year11
Question 4.1 – Current Assets11
Question 4.2 – Property, Plant and Equipment11
Question 4.3 – How good is the Goodwill12
Question 4.4 – Current Liabilities13
Question 4.5 – How much stock is there and who owns it?13
Question 4.6 – Who owns the stock?13
Question 4.7 – First look at the company’s strength14
Question 4.8 – Significant changes in the balance sheet15
Question 4.9 – Significant changes in the cash account15
Question 4.10 – Debt to equity and the competition15
Question 4.11 – ‘Income statement’. What’s in a name?16
Question 4.12 – How does your company report the core business?16
Question 4.13 – How does your company describe its business income?17
Question 4.14 – Irregular items. Good or Bad?17
Question 4.15 – The big questions. Are they makin’ money? Are they lookin’ good?18
Question 4.16 – Which trend is important and why?19
Question 4.17 – How strong is your company’s cash position?19
Question 4.18 – How well can your company pay its bills?20
Question 4.19 – How leveraged is your company?21
Question 4.20 – How well does your company invest in its future?22
Question 4.21 – Capital and .
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Quantitative Critique Rubric- 5.25.2020
Student Name: Article Title:
Areas of critique
Questions to be answered regarding article
Critique Responses
Points achieved
Intent of the
Research (7)
Is the title of the study clear? (1)
What is the research question(s) if stated? What is the hypothesis if stated? (3)
What are the issues or variables being studied? Are there Independent & Dependent variables identified? (3)
Significance of study (5)
How is the research problem significant to nursing?
How will the findings improve practice? (5)
Methods (26)
What is the study design? Describe. Was this appropriate? (5) What is the level of evidence in this research? Describe model used to evaluate level of research (3)
Was the sample randomized or not randomized? Was the sample selection addressed?(3)
Was the sample size adequate? Was there a power analysis done? (3)
What evidence was provided that biases were eliminated or minimized? What steps were taken to control confounding participant characteristics that could affect the equivalence of groups being compared? Were these steps adequate? (6)
What were the inclusion and exclusion criteria? (3)
Describe the instruments used- were they reliable/valid? Is this addressed? (3)
Procedures (6)
Describe how the data was collected- was it consistent? (3)
Were the dependent variables always obtained in the same manner? (3)
Analysis (32)
What type of analysis was done? Identify the statistics used-were they appropriate for level of measurement? All assumptions met? (5) Was rationale provided for use of statistical tests?
Was analysis appropriate for the design/methods used? (3)
Were the relevant sample demographics described? (3) Were they used to answer RQ when inferential statistics would have been more appropriate? (3)
What were the results of the study? (3) Were any results significant? What do the tests tell about the RQ or hypotheses? (3) Were any tests non-significant? Is it plausible that these reflect a Type II error? (3) What factors might have undermined the study’s statistical conclusion validity? (3)
Was an appropriate amount of statistical information reported? Are the findings clearly and logically organized? (3) Were tables or figures used to summarize large amounts of statistical information? (3)
Results and Interpretation (24)
What was the researcher's interpretation of the results? (3)
Do the results make sense? Did the researcher develop reasonable conclusions? (3)
Do the researchers discuss the limitations of the study and their possible effects on the credibility of the research? (3) Did the researchers discuss the generalizability of the results? (3) Did the researchers discuss the implications for clinical practice? (3)
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Quadrant Strategic Objective Measure Target for Year
Financial
Be profitable at the end
of the year profit margin Breakeven
Customer
Grow business by
focusing on gaining
customer and
outstanding customer Market share
5%
Operation
Build on to the Apple
name and expand brand
Marketing campaign
with a developed
plan in place 4 months
Learning and Growth
Employees have proper
training and knowledge
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Running Head: APPLE CORPORATION
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Week 4
Apple Corporation
Apple Corporation
Introduction
Apple Corporation is an American universal technology company with its headquarters in Cupertino, California. It deals with developing computer software and designing and selling consumer electronics. It also offers online services. The hardware products of Apple include smart phones, iPads, iPods and personal computers. The consumer software includes the iTunes media player, iOS operating system, OS X and the Safari web browser. Its online services include the iOS App Store, iCloud, Mac App Store and the iTunes store.
Apple Corporation was founded by a group of associates on 1st April 1976 to design and sell personal computers. It was however incorporated as Apple Computer Inc. on 3rd January 1977 only to be renamed thirty years later to Apple Inc due to its focus on consumer electronics. It is the largest technology firm in terms of total assets and revenue and the second mobile manufacturer after Samsung. It has a net worth of over 700billion USD with over one hundred thousand employees and over four hundred retail stores around the world. Apple Inc. has over one billion products in the market as at May 2016.
However, the aim of this paper is to develop strategic objectives in the measurement of attaining company's vision and mission based on a balanced scorecard taking into account different perspectives of the whole company. The balanced scorecard contains the financial perspective, Customer value, Internal Operations and Employee perspective.
Financial Perspective
Apple Corporation is the world’s largest technology company based on total assets and revenue valued at over 700 USD as at May 2016 (Ingram, 2008). It is also the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer. Apple Corporation Inc entered the top ten Fortune 500 list of publicly traded companies on May 2013. It announced a dividend of $0.57 in May 2016 after earning revenue of $51.5 billion and a net profit of $11.1 billion which was a 22% increase in revenue from the previous year. Apple Inc has transferred 90% of its cash and marketable securities outside the United States, which is about 234billion USD due to tax purposes. In 2015, the company accumulated over 80% of the total earnings made by the eight largest universal smart phone manufacturers.
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Acquisition and Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
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Customer Relationship Management?
CRM is the process of carefully managing detailed information about individual
customers and all customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty.
Now closely associated with data warehousing and mining
Relationship
Relationship
Identifying good customers: RFM Model
Recency
Frequency
Monetary Value
Time/purchase occasions since the last purchase
Number of purchase occasions since first purchase
Amount spent since the first purchase
R
F
M
Total RFM Score: R Score + F score + M Score
CASE: Database for BookBinders Book Club
Predict response to a mailing for the book, Art History of Florence, based on the
following variables accumulated in the database and the responses to a test mailing:
Gender
Amount purchased
Months since first purchase
Months since last purchase
Frequency of purchase
Past purchases of art books
Past purchases of children’s books
Past purchases of cook books
Past purchases of DIY books
Past purchases of youth books
Recency
Frequency
Monetary
Example: RFM Model Scoring Criteria
R
Months from last
purchase
13-max 10-12 7-9 3-6 0-2
Score 5pts 10 15 20 25
F
Frequency > 30 21-30 16-20 11-15 0-10
Score 25pts 20 15 10 5
M
Amount
purchased
> 400 301-400 201-300 101- 200 100
Score 50 45 30 15 10
Implement using Nested If statements in Excel
Decile Classification
• Standard Assessment Method
• Apply the results of approach and
calculate the “score” of each individual
• Order the customers based on “score”
from the highest to the lowest
• Divide into deciles
• Calculate profits per deciles
Customer 1 Score 1.00
Customer 2 Score 0.99
….
Customer 230 Score 0.92
Customer 2300 Score 0.00
Decile1
Decile10
…
..
…
..
Output for Bookbinders club
Decile Score RFM No. of Mailings Cost of mailing RFM Units sold RFM Profit
10 17.6% 5000 $3,250 783 $4,733
20 34.8% 10000 $6,500 1,543 $9,243
30 46.1% 15000 $9,750 2,043 $11,093
40 53.4% 20000 $13,000 2,370 $11,170
50 65.2% 25000 $16,250 2,891 $13,241
60 77.9% 30000 $19,500 3,457 $15,757
70 83.3% 35000 $22,750 3,696 $14,946
80 91.7% 40000 $26,000 4,065 $15,465
90 97.5% 45000 $29,250 4,326 $14,876
100 100.0% 50000 $32,500 4,435 $12,735
Note: Market Potential = 4435 units and margin = $10.20
Leaky bucket
New customer
acquisition
Purchase increase by
current customers
Purchase decrease by
current customers
Lost customers
Lost customers
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Survey Mode as a Source of Instability
in Responses across Surveys
DON A. DILLMAN
LEAH MELANI CHRISTIAN
Washington State University
Changes in survey mode for conducting panel surveys may contribute significantly to
survey error. This article explores the causes and consequences of such changes in
survey mode. The authors describe how and why the choice of survey mode often
causes changes to be made to the wording of questions, as well as the reasons that
identically worded questions often produce different answers when administered
through different modes. The authors provide evidence that answers may change as a
result of different visual layouts for otherwise identical questions and suggest ways
to keep measurement the same despite changes in survey mode.
Keywords: survey mode; questionnaire; panel survey; measurement; survey error
Most panel studies require measurement of the same variables at different
times. Often, participants are asked questions, several days, weeks, months,
or years apart to measure change in some characteristics of interest to the
investigation. These characteristics might include political attitudes, satis-
faction with a health care provider, frequency of a behavior, ownership of
financial resources, or level of educational attainment. Whatever the charac-
teristic of interest, it is important that the question used to ascertain it perform
the same across multiple data collections.
In addition, declining survey response rates, particularly for telephone
surveys, have encouraged researchers to use multiple modes of data collec-
tion during the administration of a single cross-sectional survey. Encouraged
by the availability of more survey modes than in the past and evidence that a
change in modes produces higher response rates (Dillman 2002), surveyors
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Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness
By Matt Chan January 4, 2017
Where do you get your news? That question has become incredibly important given the results of our Presidential Election. How many times have you heard, “I read a news story on Facebook and …” The problem: Facebook is not a news service; it’s a “social media” site whose purpose is to connect like-minded friends and family, to provide you with social connections, and online entertainment.
For Asian Americans social media provides an important and useful way of connecting socially and in some cases politically, but there is a downside. The downside is how social media actually works. These sites employ elaborate algorithms to track and analyze your posts, likes, and dislikes to provide you with a custom experience unique to you. The truth is you are being marketed to, not informed. What looks like news, is not really news, it’s personal validation. All in an attempt to keep you on the site longer, to click a few more things, to make you feel good about what you’re reading. It makes it seem like most people agree with you because you’re only fed information and stories that validate your worldview.
On the other hand, real news is hard work. Its fact-based information presented by people who have checked, researched, and documented what they are presenting as the truth. Real news can be verified.
“Fake News” is, well, fake, often times entirely made-up or containing a hint of truth. Social media was largely responsible for pushing “fake news” stories that were entirely made up to drive clicks on websites. These clicks in turn generated money for the people promoting the stories. The more outrageous the story, the more clicks, the more revenue. When you factor in the algorithms that feed you what you like, you can clearly see the more “fake news” you consume on social media, the more is pushed your way. There’s an abundance of pseudo news sites that merely re-post and curate existing stories, adding their bias to validate their audience’s beliefs, no matter how crazy or mainstream. It is curated solely for you. Now factor in that nearly 44% of Americans obtain some or most of their news from social media and you have a very toxic mix.
The mainstream news media has also fallen into this validation trap. You have one news network that solely reflects the right wing, others that take the view of the left-center leaning, and what is lost are the facts and context, the balance we need to evaluate, learn, and understand the world. People seeking fact-based journalism lose, because the more extreme the media becomes to entice consumers with provocative headlines and click-bait to earn more money, the less their news is fact-based and becomes more opinion driven.
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APPLICABLE PROGRAMS.
NOTICE: Any person who knowingly files a statement of claim containing any misrepresentation or any false, incomplete or misleading information may
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Current Opinion in Hematology: March 2007 - Volume 14 - Issue 2 - p 106–114
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Myeloid disease
Purpose of review Molecular study of cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia is among the most active areas of leukemia research. Despite having the same normal karyotype, adults with de-novo cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia who constitute the largest cytogenetic group of acute myeloid leukemia, are very diverse with respect to acquired gene mutations and gene expression changes. These genetic alterations affect clinical outcome and may assist in selection of proper treatment. Herein we critically summarize recent clinically relevant molecular genetic studies of cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia.
Recent findings NPM1 gene mutations causing aberrant cytoplasmic localization of nucleophosmin have been demonstrated to be the most frequent submicroscopic alterations in cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia and to confer improved prognosis, especially in patients without a concomitant FLT3 gene internal tandem duplication. Overexpressed BAALC, ERG and MN1 genes and expression of breast cancer resistance protein have been shown to confer poor prognosis. A gene-expression signature previously suggested to separate cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia patients into prognostic subgroups has been validated on a different microarray platform, although gene-expression signature-based classifiers predicting outcome for individual patients with greater accuracy are still needed.
Summary The discovery of new prognostic markers has increased our understanding of leukemogenesis and may lead to improved prognostication and generation of novel risk-adapted therapies.
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An update of current treatments for adult acute myeloid leukemia
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THEATER: WILSON'S 'MA RAINEY'S' OPENS
By FRANK RICH
Published: October 12, 1984, Friday
LATE in Act I of ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,'' a somber, aging band trombonist (Joe Seneca) tilts his head heavenward to sing the blues. The setting is a dilapidated Chicago recording studio of 1927, and the song sounds as old as time. ''If I had my way,'' goes the lyric, ''I would tear this old building down.''
Once the play has ended, that lyric has almost become a prophecy. In ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,'' the writer August Wilson sends the entire history of black America crashing down upon our heads. This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims - and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates. Harrowing as ''Ma Rainey's'' can be, it is also funny, salty, carnal and lyrical. Like his real-life heroine, the legendary singer Gertrude (Ma) Rainey, Mr. Wilson articulates a legacy of unspeakable agony and rage in a spellbinding voice.
The play is Mr. Wilson's first to arrive in New York, and it reached here, via the Yale Repertory Theater, under the sensitive hand of the man who was born to direct it, Lloyd Richards. On Broadway, Mr. Richards has honed ''Ma Rainey's'' to its finest form. What's more, the director brings us an exciting young actor - Charles S. Dutton - along with his extraordinary dramatist. One wonders if the electricity at the Cort is the same that audiences felt when Mr. Richards, Lorraine Hansberry and Sidney Poitier stormed into Broadway with ''A Raisin in the Sun'' a quarter-century ago.
As ''Ma Rainey's'' shares its director and Chicago setting with ''Raisin,'' so it builds on Hansberry's themes: Mr. Wilson's characters want to make it in white America. And, to a degree, they have. Ma Rainey (1886-1939) was among the first black singers to get a recording contract - albeit with a white company's ''race'' division. Mr. Wilson gives us Ma (Theresa Merritt) at the height of her fame. A mountain of glitter and feathers, she has become a despotic, temperamental star, complete with a retinue of flunkies, a fancy car and a kept young lesbian lover.
The evening's framework is a Paramount-label recording session that actually happened, but whose details and supporting players have been invented by the author. As the action swings between the studio and the band's warm-up room - designed by Charles Henry McClennahan as if they might be the festering last- chance saloon of ''The Iceman Cometh'' - Ma and her four accompanying musicians overcome various mishaps to record ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' and other songs. During the delays, the band members smoke reefers, joke around and reminisce about past gigs on a well-traveled road stretching through whorehouses and church socials from New Orleans to Fat Back, Ark.
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· Expectations for Power Point Presentations in Units IV and V
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2. You need an overview of the presentation slide (slide after the title slide). This is how you would organize a presentation if you were presenting it at work.
3. You need a summary slide (before the reference slide); same reason as above.
4. Please do not forget to cite on slides where you are writing about something related to what you have read. Please consider each slide a paragraph. You can cite on the slides or in the notes. If you do not cite, you will not get credit for the slide.
- Direct quotes should not be used in this presentation as they are not analysis.
5. Remember, all I can evaluate is what you submit, so please consider using notes to explain what you are writing in further detail. Bullets are great and you can use these but then provide more detail in the notes.
6. Graphics - Please include graphics/charts/graphs as this is evaluated in the rubric (quality of the presentation).
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Assignment 1
Positioning Statement and Motto
Use the provided information, as well as your own research, to assess one (1) of the stated brands (Tesla, SmoothieKing, Suave, or Nintendo) by completing the questions below with an ORIGINAL response to each. At the end of the worksheet, be sure to develop a new ORIGINAL positioning statement and motto for the brand you selected. Submit the completed template in the Week 4 assignment submission link.
Name:
Professor’s Name:
Course Title:
Date:
Company/Brand Selected (Tesla, SmoothieKing, Suave or Nintendo):
1. Target Customers/Users
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and
Big Data Analytics
Chapter 12: The Endgame, or Putting It All Together
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Chapter Contents
12.1 Communicating and Operationalizing an Analytics Project
12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
Developing core material for multiple audiences, project goals, main findings, approach, model description, key points supported with data, model details, recommendations, tips on final presentation, providing technical specifications and code
12.3 Data Visualization Basics
Key points supported with data, evolution of a graph, common representation methods, how to clean up a graphic, additional considerations
Summary
2
12.1 Communicating and Operationalizing an Analytics Project
3
12.1 Communicating and Operationalizing an Analytics Project
Deliverables and Stakeholders
4
12.1 Communicating and Operationalizing an Analytics Project
Deliverables
General Deliverables – from Textbook
Presentation for Project Sponsors
Presentation for Analysts
Code
Technical Specifications
Deliverables For This Course
Presentation for Analysts – half hour per team, next week
Technical Paper for Research Day Conference
Submit CD – Presentation, Paper, Data or URL, Code
5
12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
Case Study – Fictional Bank Churn Prediction
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The analytic plan contains components that can be used as inputs for writing the final presentations
scope
underlying assumptions
modeling techniques
initial hypotheses
and key findings
6
12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
Case Study – Fictional Bank Churn Prediction
7
12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
Case Study – Fictional Bank Analytics Plan
8
12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
12.2.1 Developing Core Material for Multiple Audiences
Some project components have dual use
Create core materials used for both analyst and business audiences
Three areas on the next slide used for both audiences
Sections after the following overview slide
12.2.2 – Project Goals
12.2.3 – Key Findings
12.2.4 – Approach
12.2.5 – Model Description
12.2.6 – Key Points Supported by Data
12.2.7 – Model Details
12.2.8 – Recommendations
12.2.9 – Additional Tips on the Final Presentation
12.2.10 – Providing Technical Specifications and Code
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12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
12.2.1 Developing Core Material for Multiple Audiences
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12.2 Creating the Final Deliverables
12.2.2 Project Goals
The project goals portion of the final presentation is generally the same for sponsors and analysts
The project goals are described first to lay the groundwork for the solution and recommendations
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Vietnam’s development over the past 30 years has been remarkable. Economic and political reforms under Đổi Mới, launched in 1986, have spurred rapid economic growth, transforming what was then one of the world’s poorest nations into a lower middle-income country. Between 2002 and 2018, more than 45 million people were lifted out of poverty. Poverty rates declined sharply from over 70% to below 6% (US$3.2/day PPP), and GDP per capita increased by 2.5 times, standing over US$2,500 in 2018.
In the medium-term, Vietnam’s economic outlook is positive, despite signs of cyclical moderation in growth. After peaking at 7.1% in 2018, real GDP growth in 2019 is projected to slightly decelerate in 2019, led by weaker external demand and continued tightening of credit and fiscal policies. Real GDP growth is projected to remain robust at around 6.5% in 2020 and 2021. Annual headline inflation has been stable for the seven consecutive years – at single digits, trending towards 4% and below in recent years. The external balance remains under control and should continue to be financed by strong FDI inflows which reached almost US$18 billion in 2018 – accounting for almost 24% of total investment in the economy.
Vietnam is experiencing rapid demographic and social change. Its population reached 97 million in 2018 (up from about 60 million in 1986) and is expected to expand to 120 million before moderating around 2050. Today, 70% of the population is under 35 years of age, with a life expectancy of 76 years, the highest among countries in the region at similar income levels. But the population is rapidly aging. And an emerging middle class, currently accounting for 13% of the population, is expected to reach 26% by 2026.
Vietnam ranks 48 out of 157 countries on the human capital index (HCI), second in ASEAN behind Singapore. A Vietnamese child born today will be 67% as productive when she grows up as she could be if she enjoyed complete education and full health. Vietnam’s HCI is highest among middle-income countries, but there are some disparities within the country, especially for ethnic minorities. There would also be a need to upgrade the skill of the workforce to create productive jobs at a large scale in the future.
Over the last thirty years, the provision of basic services has significantly improved. Access of households to modern infrastructure services has increased dramatically. As of 2016, 99% of the population used electricity as their main source of lighting, up from 14 % in 1993. Access to clean water in rural areas has also improved, up from 17% in 1993 to 70% in 2016, while that figure for urban areas is above 95%.
Vietnam performs well on general education. Coverage and learning outcomes are high and equitably achieved in primary schools — evidenced by remarkably high scores in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2012 and 2015, ...
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Definition
Quantum mechanics is the part of material science identifying with the little.
It brings about what may have all the earmarks of being some extremely peculiar decisions about the physical world. At the size of particles and electrons, a significant number of the conditions of old style mechanics, which depict how things move at ordinary sizes and speeds, stop to be helpful. In traditional mechanics, objects exist in a particular spot at a particular time. Be that as it may, in quantum mechanics, protests rather exist in a fog of likelihood; they have a specific possibility of being at point An, another possibility of being at point B, etc.Three revolutionary principles
Quantum mechanics (QM) created over numerous decades, starting as a lot of questionable scientific clarifications of tests that the math of old style mechanics couldn't clarify. It started at the turn of the twentieth century, around a similar time that Albert Einstein distributed his hypothesis of relativity, a different numerical unrest in material science that portrays the movement of things at high speeds. In contrast to relativity, nonetheless, the sources of QM can't be credited to any one researcher. Or maybe, various researchers added to an establishment of three progressive rules that bit by bit picked up acknowledgment and exploratory confirmation somewhere in the range of 1900 and 1930. They are:
Quantized properties:
Certain properties, for example, position, speed and shading, can once in a while just happen in explicit, set sums, much like a dial that "clicks" from number to number. This tested a crucial presumption of old style mechanics, which said that such properties should exist on a smooth, ceaseless range. To portray the possibility that a few properties "clicked" like a dial with explicit settings, researchers begat the word "quantized".
Particles of light:
Light can now and again act as a molecule. This was at first met with unforgiving analysis, as it negated 200 years of trials indicating that light acted as a wave; much like waves on the outside of a quiet lake. Light acts comparatively in that it ricochets off dividers and twists around corners, and that the peaks and troughs of the wave can include or counteract. Included wave peaks bring about more splendid light, while waves that counterbalance produce obscurity. A light source can be thought of ...
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For your initial post, provide a sentence to share which article you are referring to so that you can best communicate with your peers. Include a link to your selection.
· Explain how the argument contains or avoids bias.
i. Provide specific examples to support your explanation.
ii. What assumptions does it make?
· Discuss the credibility of the overall argument.
i. Were the resources the argument was built upon credible?
ii. Does the credibility support or undermine the article’s claims in any important ways?
In response to your peers, provide an additional resource to support or refute the argument your peer makes. Do you agree with their claims of credibility? Are there any other possible bias not identified?
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The article that I am looking at is Online Dating Vs. Offline Dating: Pros and Cons.It was written by Julie Spira, an online dating expert, bestselling author, and CEO of Cyber-Dating Expert. The name of the article is spot on in describing what it is about. The author goes through the pros and cons of dating online and offline in today’s day and age. The author avoids bias because she looks at both options in both their positive and negative attributes. She comes at the issues from both angles and I believe she does a very good job at remaining unbiased. She states that “if you're serious about meeting someone special, you must include a combination of both online and offline dating in your routine” (Spira, 2013, par. 18). She’s stating that both options have their pros and cons and that really a combination of both is needed to find someone. The only bias I could see anyone pointing out would be that she is a woman, so you do not get the male perspective on these things. That being said, I one hundred percent think she covers all of the questions people may have about online and offline dating in today’s world. The only assumption being made here is that the reader wants to be out in the dating world and they need to know what is best. But, the title of the article is pretty self-explanatory so if someone did not want to know these things, they would not have to waste their time reading it all because they could tell what it would be about by the title.
The resource that she used was herself, and like I stated above, she is an online dating expert, bestselling author, and CEO of Cyber-Dating Expert; so she is more than qualified to give her perspective on these issues. I find her to be credible and thought provoking. Her credibility supports everything the article says and makes the reader feel like they are being told the truth by someone who completely understands all of the pros and cons.
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Spira, J. (2013, December 3). Online Dating Vs. Offline Dating: Pros and Cons. Retrieved from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/online-dating-vs-offline_b_4037867
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August 19, 2019
Peter ReevesDefining the Problem
The health care system in Colorado is a composition of medical professionals providing services such as diagnosis, treatment, as well as preventive measures to mental illness and injuries ("Healthcare policy in Colorado - Ballotpedia," 2019). Health care policy involves the establishment and implementation of legislation and other regulations that the states use to manage its health care system effectively. Further, this sector consists of other participants, such as insurance and health information technology. The cost citizens pay for medical care and also the access to quality care influence the overall health care providers in Colorado. Therefore, the need for the creation and implementation of laws that help the state maintain efficiency in the health sector in Colorado.
Problem Statement
The declining standards of medical care within the United States has caused significant concern in the world. Due to these rising concerns, there have been various policies implemented, leading to mixed reactions among the different states. Some of the active policies implemented offer a long-term solution to this problem including Medicaid and Medicare. After acquiring state control, the Republicans dismissed the idea to expand and create medical insurance for Medicaid in Colorado. Sustaining the structure of the health care payroll calls for the deductions from the employees and the employers, which may lead to loss of jobs and increased burden of expenditure (Garcia, 2019).
Identify the Methodology
The main objective of this policy plan is to investigate the role of legislation in the management of the health care sector in the United States. Due to the need for achieving in-depth exploration, this paper uses a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection by addressing both practical and theoretical aspects of the research. Based on the answers that the policy requires, choosing survey as the research design. This method involves collecting and analyzing data from a few people who represent the principal group within health care. However, the survey method faces some challenges such as attitudes and perception of the health workers leading to the delimitation of the study. The target population for the study includes the nurses within the health sectors in Colorado. The selection of the participants involved in the use of stratified random sampling.
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The major stakeholders in the creation and implementation of the policy plan include the legislatures, local government, patients, and other private parties such as the insurance companies. Collectively, these bodies are involved in the makin ...
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AVOIDANT RESTRICTIVE FOOD INTAKE DISORDER (ARFID)
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a new diagnosis in the DSM-5, and was previously referred to as “Selective Eating Disorder.” ARFID is similar to anorexia in that both disorders involve limitations in the amount and/or types of food consumed, but unlike anorexia, ARFID does not involve any distress about body shape or size, or fears of fatness.
Although many children go through phases of picky or selective eating, a person with ARFID does not consume enough calories to grow and develop properly and, in adults, to maintain basic body function. In children, this results in stalled weight gain and vertical growth; in adults, this results in weight loss. ARFID can also result in problems at school or work, due to difficulties eating with others and extended times needed to eat.
DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
According to the DSM-5, ARFID is diagnosed when:
· An eating or feeding disturbance (e.g., apparent lack of interest in eating or food; avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food; concern about aversive consequences of eating) as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs associated with one (or more) of the following:
· Significant weight loss (or failure to achieve expected weight gain or faltering growth in children).
· Significant nutritional deficiency.
· Dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements.
· Marked interference with psychosocial functioning.
· The disturbance is not better explained by lack of available food or by an associated culturally sanctioned practice.
· The eating disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, and there is no evidence of a disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced.
· The eating disturbance is not attributable to a concurrent medical condition or not better explained by another mental disorder. When the eating disturbance occurs in the context of another condition or disorder, the severity of the eating disturbance exceeds that routinely associated with the condition or disorder and warrants additional clinical attention.
RISK FACTORS
As with all eating disorders, the risk factors for ARFID involve a range of biological, psychological, and sociocultural issues. These factors may interact differently in different people, which means two people with the same eating disorder can have very diverse perspectives, experiences, and symptoms. Researchers know much less about what puts someone at risk of developing ARFID, but here’s what they do know:
· People with autism spectrum conditions are much more likely to develop ARFID, as are those with ADHD and intellectual disabilities.
· Children who don’t outgrow normal picky eating, or in whom picky eating is severe, appear to be more likely to develop ARFID.
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Roger F. Lewis
Miami Dade College-North Campus
June 5, 2019
Bitcoin as a Cryptocurrency of Misconduct
In the expansion of cryptocurrencies in particular bitcoins have resulted in providing clients with exceptional advantages, the advantages in this matter have not had their hazards and struggles. In the peculiar free mode in the cryptocurrency arcade, it has been in constant misuse and linked to several illegal activities. Lawmakers globally repetitively stumble upon this very position (Anon,2019). The tendency on allowing a market to settle on its fosters this activity as the lawmakers tend to abstain from events of the market. They cannot also sit by and enable misconduct behaviors to foster in the markets. Tracking the cryptocurrency action has proved to be much more complicated than the standard plugged-in transactions. The bottom line is that these transactions occur globally has established a headache to try and monitor this particular field. The release of the bitcoin in the year two thousand and nine as the world’s pioneer and most profound mode of cryptocurrency was a breakthrough in the industry. Cryptocurrency, on the other hand, is the mode of exchange that occurs only in the digital dimension. Cryptocurrency uses complex codes as a skill of protecting data. Thus, monetary transactions are carried out most safely (Anon,2019). A public ledger is used to know the actual owner of a particular cryptocurrency.
Assets in the digital market portray distinctive characteristics –delegation, simple connections between members as well as the relative use of modern technology, many have the thought or mindset that in time bitcoins will be used as a forthcoming currency. To understand the illegal uses of bitcoins we must first address the non-illegal activities in this field. As earlier stated, there is a possibility that the bitcoins will indeed replace the current custom. One can lawfully use bid coins in the following areas; travels, to pay tuition fee for institutions and can be used as an alternative where the standards of payment are online. The above depicts numerous ways can use bitcoins to settle their bills. The difference in value between the bitcoins and the traditional currency leads to individuals opting to use the bitcoins for exchange in cases or scenarios where a high exchange rate is noted, and alternatively, the opposite is exact. Chargebacks risk is reduced in the event of using bitcoins, therefore easing access to the broader market for traders. In the event of unlawful trades, both ends to ...
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
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What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
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The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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BA 325 Pivot Table Assignment Answer Sheet
Name:
Before you do anything fill out your name on the assignment
and save your file as BA325 Firstname Lastname (use your
actual name).
The table has all of the questions from the DuPont Assignment.
Fill in your answers to the questions in the corresponding cell
in the Answer column. Below the table there is a spot for the
Screen Clippings from both the Practice Assignment, and the
DuPont Assignment.
After you have filled out all of the answers and Screen
Clippings submit the file to the Assignments folder in D2L.
Q Number
Question
Answer
Q1
How much was American Airlines’ Net Revenues in 2013?
Q2
What was the Return on Equity for Apple in 2015?
Q3
Which company had the highest Net Income and in which year?
What was the value?
Q4
Which company had the lowest Net Income and in which year?
What was the value?
Q5
2. How many unique companies in your sample had Net Losses
exceeding one billion dollars? Which companies, and what
years?
Q6
What was the Sum of the Net Income for all companies in the
sample for 2015?
Q7
Which company had the highest total Net Income over the three
year period? What was the value?
Q8
Which company had the lowest total Net Income over the three
year period? What was the value?
Q9
Which industry had the highest Average Profit Margin over the
three year period? What was the value?
Q10
In which year was the Average Profit Margin the highest for the
entire sample? What was the value?
Q11
For how many companies do you have Profit Margin ratio data
in 2013?
Q12
For what Industry do you have the most Profit Margin ratio data
in the sample? What was the value? For that Industry what year
was the highest? What was the value?
Q13
Which Industry has the highest Average Asset Turnover over
the three year period? What was the value?
3. Q14
Which of the remaining Industries has the highest Asset
Turnover in 2014? What was the value?
Q15
Which Industry has the highest Average Financial Leverage
over the three year period? What was the value?
Q16
Which Industry has the lowest Average Financial Leverage that
does not include negative numbers in any year? What was the
value?
Q17
What is the Average Financial Leverage for the Transportation
Industry in 2013?
Note: The answer is odd. You will have to use Data Cleaning to
resolve the issue.
Q18
Which Industry has the highest Average Return on Equity over
the three year period and which company is the highest within
that Industry? What are the values?
Q19
Which two companies in the Public Utilities Industry have the
highest Average Return on Equity during the period? What are
the values?
Q20
Which Industry had the largest decrease in Average Return on
Equity between 2013 and 2014? What was the value?
Q21
Which Industry had the largest increase in Average Return on
4. Equity between 2014 and 2015? What was the value?
Q22
Bonus Question 1: How many industries were in your sample?
Q23
Bonus Question 2: Pivot Tables are a useful analytical tool for
all business professionals, True or False?
Q24
Bonus Question 3: Which relationship displayed in the DuPont
assignment was most interesting to you? Why?
Screen Clippings:Practice Assignment
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5. Based on data from Ernst & Young
Analytics mindset case study DuPont @2016
DuPont DataTickerNameIndustryYearTotal Assets (M)Total
Shareholder Equity (M)Net Revenues (M)Net Income
(M)AALAmerican Airlines Group
Inc.Transportation201342,300(2,700)26,700(1,800)AALAmeric
an Airlines Group
Inc.Transportation201443,8002,00042,7002,900AALAmerican
Airlines Group
Inc.Transportation201548,4005,60041,0007,600AAPLApple
Inc.Technology2013207,000123,500170,90037,000AAPLApple
Inc.Technology2014231,800111,500183,20039,500AAPLApple
Inc.Technology2015290,500119,400231,30053,400ACYAerocen
tury Corp.Technology201316449283ACYAerocentury
Corp.Technology20142053525(11)ACYAerocentury
Corp.Technology201518341266ADGEAmerican DG Energy
Inc.Public Utilities201336118(5)ADGEAmerican DG Energy
Inc.Public Utilities201440159(6)AHHArmada Hoffler
Properties Inc.Finance2013435(47)1417AHHArmada Hoffler
Properties Inc.Finance20156905025320AIRTAir T
Inc.Transportation201336281032AIRTAir T
Inc.Transportation201437271012AIRTAir T
Inc.Transportation201544301123AMZNAmazon.com
Inc.Consumer
Services201341,4009,70074,500274AMZNAmazon.com
Inc.Consumer
Services201456,30010,70089,000(241)AMZNAmazon.com
Inc.Consumer
Services201567,70013,400107,000596AROWArrow Financial
CorporationFinance20132,2001929222AROWArrow Financial
CorporationFinance20142,2002019523AROWArrow Financial
CorporationFinance20152,5002149925ASTEAstec Industries
Inc.Capital Goods201374957793339ASTEAstec Industries
Inc.Capital Goods201480659597635ASTEAstec Industries
Inc.Capital Goods201577760898333ATSGAir Transport
6. Services Group
Inc.Transportation20131,000369580(20)ATSGAir Transport
Services Group Inc.Transportation20141,00034859030ATSGAir
Transport Services Group
Inc.Transportation20151,00036461941AVAVAeroVironment
Inc.Capital Goods201336431524010AVAVAeroVironment
Inc.Capital Goods201438534325214AVAVAeroVironment
Inc.Capital Goods20153983492593AZURAzure Midstream
Partners LPPublic Utilities2013174160531AZURAzure
Midstream Partners LPPublic
Utilities20141721547522BABoeing Co.Capital
Goods201392,70014,90086,6004,600BABoeing Co.Capital
Goods201499,2008,70090,8005,400BABoeing Co.Capital
Goods201594,4006,30096,1005,200BACBank of America Corp.
CorporationFinance20132,100,000232,70097,80011,400BACBa
nk of America Corp.
CorporationFinance20142,100,000243,50097,8004,800BACBan
k of America Corp.
CorporationFinance20152,200,000256,20092,10015,900BELBel
mond Ltd.Consumer Services20131,900908594(32)BELBelmond
Ltd.Consumer Services20141,700761586(2)BELBelmond
Ltd.Consumer Services20151,50065855116BJRIBJ’s
Restaurants Inc.Consumer Services201361140177521BJRIBJ’s
Restaurants Inc.Consumer Services201464734984627BJRIBJ’s
Restaurants Inc.Consumer
Services201568231792045BWPBoardwalk Pipeline Partners
L.P.Public Utilities20137,9003,9001,200222BWPBoardwalk
Pipeline Partners L.P.Public
Utilities20148,2004,0001,200229BWPBoardwalk Pipeline
Partners L.P.Public Utilities20158,3004,2001,200218BYBKBay
Bancorp Inc.Finance201342355283BYBKBay Bancorp
Inc.Finance201448367343BYBKBay Bancorp
Inc.Finance201549368292CCitigroup
Inc.Finance20131,900,000204,30093,20013,400CCitigroup
Inc.Finance20141,800,000210,50094,0007,200CCitigroup
Inc.Finance20151,700,000221,90087,90017,000CARVCarver
7. Bancorp Inc.Finance201363857301CARVCarver Bancorp
Inc.Finance20146405230(1)CARVCarver Bancorp
Inc.Finance201567655280CATOCato CorporationConsumer
Services201353334594461CATOCato CorporationConsumer
Services201459739192053CATOCato CorporationConsumer
Services201560838098759CFBKCentral Federal
CorporationFinance2013256238(1)CFBKCentral Federal
CorporationFinance201431635120CFBKCentral Federal
CorporationFinance201535138145CFNLCardinal Financial
CorporationFinance20132,9003218726CFNLCardinal Financial
CorporationFinance20143,40037716533CFNLCardinal Financial
CorporationFinance20154,00041318747CHLChina Mobile
Ltd.Public
Utilities2013192,800130,300102,50019,800CHLChina Mobile
Ltd.Public
Utilities2014209,000138,100104,10017,700CHLChina Mobile
Ltd.Public
Utilities2015219,900141,300106,30017,300CMCSAComcast
Corp.Consumer
Services2013158,80050,70064,7006,800CMCSAComcast
Corp.Consumer
Services2014159,30052,70068,8008,400CMCSAComcast
Corp.Consumer
Services2015166,60052,30074,5008,200CMRECostamare
Inc.Transportation20132,700657414103CMRECostamare
Inc.Transportation20142,700803484115CMRECostamare
Inc.Transportation20152,600964490144CNETChinaNet Online
Holdings Inc.Technology2013574530(0)CNETChinaNet Online
Holdings Inc.Technology2014473639(14)CNETChinaNet Online
Holdings Inc.Technology2015362732(9)CNICanadian National
Railway
CompanyTransportation201328,70012,20010,3002,500CNICana
dian National Railway
CompanyTransportation201427,80011,60011,0002,900CNICana
dian National Railway
CompanyTransportation201526,70010,8009,9002,800COSTCost
8. co Wholesale Corp.Consumer
Services201330,30010,800105,2002,000COSTCostco Wholesale
Corp.Consumer
Services201433,00012,300112,6002,100COSTCostco Wholesale
Corp.Consumer
Services201533,40010,600116,2002,400CPCanadian Pacific
Railway
Ltd.Transportation201316,0006,7006,000849CPCanadian
Pacific Railway
Ltd.Transportation201414,6004,8006,0001,300CPCanadian
Pacific Railway
Ltd.Transportation201514,3003,5005,2001,100CPFCentral
Pacific Financial Corp.Finance20134,700660194172CPFCentral
Pacific Financial Corp.Finance20144,90056819341CPFCentral
Pacific Financial Corp.Finance20155,10049519346CSBKClifton
Bancorp Inc.Finance20131,000187377CSBKClifton Bancorp
Inc.Finance20141,300194367CSBKClifton Bancorp
Inc.Finance20151,200368409CSCOCisco Systems
Inc.Technology2013101,20059,10048,60010,000CSCOCisco
Systems
Inc.Technology2014105,10056,70047,1007,900CSCOCisco
Systems
Inc.Technology2015113,50059,70049,2009,000CSXCSX
CorporationTransportation201331,80010,50012,0001,900CSXC
SX
CorporationTransportation201433,10011,20012,7001,900CSXC
SX
CorporationTransportation201535,00011,70011,8002,000CUDA
Barracuda Networks
Inc.Technology2013280(21)199(7)CUDABarracuda Networks
Inc.Technology2014350(6)234(4)CUDABarracuda Networks
Inc.Technology2015389(39)277(68)CVLTCommVault Systems
Inc.Technology201360535449653CVLTCommVault Systems
Inc.Technology201475546358664CVLTCommVault Systems
Inc.Technology201571440760826CZFCCitizens First
CorporationFinance201341038212CZFCCitizens First
9. CorporationFinance201441338203CZFCCitizens First
CorporationFinance201543340214CZRCaesars Entertainment
CorporationConsumer
Services201324,700(3,100)8,600(2,900)CZRCaesars
Entertainment CorporationConsumer
Services201423,500(5,000)8,500(2,800)CZRCaesars
Entertainment CorporationConsumer
Services201512,2009874,7005,900DALDelta Air Lines
Inc.Transportation201359,40011,60037,60010,500DALDelta Air
Lines Inc.Transportation201454,1008,80040,200659DALDelta
Air Lines
Inc.Transportation201553,10010,90040,5004,500DCIXDiana
Containerships Inc.Transportation201331716554(57)DCIXDiana
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Partners L.P.Public
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CorporationCapital
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Motors CompanyCapital
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CompanyCapital
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International Inc.Capital
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Inc.Public
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CompanyPublic
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PLCPublic Utilities201386,40015,50022,7003,600NGGNational
Grid PLCPublic
Utilities201490,30019,90023,6004,000NGGNational Grid
PLCPublic Utilities201585,60017,80024,5003,200NMNavios
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CorporationTransportation201534,30012,20010,5001,600NTTNi
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Utilities2013209,10088,500129,2006,300NTTNippon Telegraph
and Telephone CorporationPublic
Utilities2014197,00082,600108,8005,800NTTNippon Telegraph
and Telephone CorporationPublic
Utilities2015172,70072,400100,6004,700NVGSNavigator
Holdings
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Holdings
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Holdings Ltd.Transportation20151,60091031598NWNNorthwest
Natural Gas CompanyPublic
Utilities20133,00075275961NWNNorthwest Natural Gas
CompanyPublic Utilities20143,10076775459NWNNorthwest
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17. Shipholding Group
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Utilities2015119(16)718PATIPatriot Transportation Holding
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Holding Inc.Transportation201461331293PATIPatriot
Transportation Holding
Inc.Transportation201560371233PCHPotlatch
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CorporationConsumer Services20141,10022560890PCHPotlatch
CorporationConsumer
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CorporationTechnology20133781077(2)PCTYPaylocity Holding
CorporationTechnology201452891109(7)PCTYPaylocity
Holding
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Shipping Inc.Transportation201446122255(51)PRGNParagon
Shipping
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Worcester Railroad
CompanyTransportation201310977331PWXProvidence and
Worcester Railroad
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Worcester Railroad
CompanyTransportation201511481362PXSPyxis Tankers
Inc.Transportation201514255334PYDSPayment Data Systems
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Goods20142926231RFILRF Industries Ltd.Capital
Goods20153226331RPTRamco-Gershenson Properties
TrustConsumer Services20131,7007701689RPTRamco-
Gershenson Properties TrustConsumer
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TrustConsumer Services20152,10088424665RUNSunRun
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Goods20141,900325199(71)RUNSunRun Inc.Capital
Goods20153,000554305(28)RYRoyal Bank of
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of CanadaFinance2014834,20046,70038,6008,200RYRoyal
Bank of
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Inc.Technology201310875130(9)SAASinContact
Inc.Technology2014169103172(11)SAASinContact
Inc.Technology2015254125222(23)SBSafe Bulkers
Inc.Transportation20131,10057818783SBSafe Bulkers
Inc.Transportation20141,20070015415SBSafe Bulkers
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Corp.Consumer
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Corp.Consumer
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Corp.Consumer
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Technologies Inc.Technology201349(10)79(28)SEDGSolarEdge
Technologies
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Technologies Inc.Technology201530616732521SIEBSiebert
Financial CorporationFinance2013282516(6)SIEBSiebert
Financial CorporationFinance2014211914(7)SIEBSiebert
Financial CorporationFinance2015181610(3)SINOSino-Global
Shipping America Ltd.Transportation20138717(2)SINOSino-
19. Global Shipping America
Ltd.Transportation201469122SINOSino-Global Shipping
America Ltd.Transportation20151215111SJISouth Jersey
Industries Inc.Public Utilities20132,90082775282SJISouth
Jersey Industries Inc.Public
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Property Group Inc.Consumer
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CorporationPublic Utilities20134,1001,2001,200161STRQuestar
CorporationPublic Utilities20144,2001,2001,200227STRQuestar
CorporationPublic
Utilities20154,4001,3001,100209SUNWSunworks Inc.Public
Utilities20130(3)- 0(4)SUNWSunworks Inc.Public
Utilities20153524541SVTServotronics Inc.Capital
Goods20133024301SVTServotronics Inc.Capital
Goods2014352132(3)SVTServotronics Inc.Capital
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Utilities2015402,700122,700146,80013,300TASRTaser
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International Inc.Capital Goods201418512916520TASRTaser
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BankFinance2013827,10048,40033,1006,400TDToronto-
Dominion
BankFinance2014837,90048,50033,5007,100TDToronto-
20. Dominion
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S.A.Public
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S.A.Public
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S.A.Public Utilities2015133,60012,00052,1003,000TIKTel-
Instrument Electronics Corp.Capital Goods2014114160TIKTel-
Instrument Electronics Corp.Capital Goods201510418(0)TILTill
Capital Ltd.Finance201311- 0(0)TILTill Capital
Ltd.Finance2014534010(6)TKTeekay
CorporationTransportation201311,6001,1001,800(115)TKTeeka
y
CorporationTransportation201411,9001,1002,000(55)TKTeekay
CorporationTransportation201513,1009192,50082TLNTalen
Energy CorporationPublic
Utilities201413,9005,4004,300139TLNTalen Energy
CorporationPublic
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ADRCapital
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Corp. ADRCapital
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Corp. ADRCapital
Goods2015398,000140,000248,00019,800TMOThermo Fisher
Scientific Inc.Capital
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Scientific Inc.Capital
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Scientific Inc.Capital
Goods201540,90021,40017,0002,000TSMTaiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
21. ADRTechnology201550,50037,20026,6009,700TSUTIM
Participacoes S/APublic
Utilities201311,9006,2009,200695TSUTIM Participacoes
S/APublic Utilities201412,3005,8008,300657TSUTIM
Participacoes S/APublic
Utilities20159,0004,3005,100620UAMYUnited States Antimony
CorporationCapital Goods2013151111(2)UAMYUnited States
Antimony CorporationCapital
Goods2014171311(2)UAMYUnited States Antimony
CorporationCapital Goods2015181313(1)UNPUnion Pacific
Corp.Transportation201349,70021,20022,0004,400UNPUnion
Pacific
Corp.Transportation201452,70021,20024,0005,200UNPUnion
Pacific
Corp.Transportation201554,60020,70021,8004,800UPSUnited
Parcel Service
Inc.Transportation201336,2006,50055,5004,400UPSUnited
Parcel Service
Inc.Transportation201435,5002,10058,3003,000UPSUnited
Parcel Service
Inc.Transportation201538,3002,50058,1004,800USBU.S.
BancorpFinance2013367,70041,10020,0005,800USBU.S.
BancorpFinance2014406,20043,50020,4005,800USBU.S.
BancorpFinance2015425,70046,10020,6005,900UTXUnited
Technologies CorporationCapital
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CorporationCapital
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CorporationCapital
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Communications Inc.Public
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Communications Inc.Public
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Communications Inc.Public
Utilities2015244,60016,400131,60017,900WBKWestpac
22. Banking
CorporationFinance2013652,10043,60038,5006,800WBKWestpa
c Banking
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c Banking
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Fargo &
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Fargo &
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Drainage Systems Inc.Capital
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Stores Inc.Consumer
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Stores Inc.Consumer
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Acceptance CorporationFinance2013831366584104WRLDWorld
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Acceptance
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23. Practice DataTickerNameIndustryYearTotal Assets (M)Total
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Group
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Corp.Technology201316478289ACYAerocentury
Corp.Technology2014205133258ACYAerocentury
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Inc.Public Utilities2014402197ADGEAmerican DG Energy
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Goods2014121209AEHRAehr Test SystemsCapital
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Inc.Finance201343527814198AHHArmada Hoffler Properties
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Inc.Transportation201336- 010387AIRTAir T
Inc.Transportation201437- 010185AIRTAir T
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Inc.Consumer
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Inc.Consumer
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Financial CorporationFinance20132,20010592- 0AROWArrow
24. Financial CorporationFinance20142,2009095- 0AROWArrow
Financial CorporationFinance20152,50018099- 0ASTEAstec
Industries Inc.Capital Goods2013749- 0933705ASTEAstec
Industries Inc.Capital Goods201480611976736ASTEAstec
Industries Inc.Capital Goods201577710983741ATSGAir
Transport Services Group
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Services Group
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