ORG423 Portfolio Project Final Paper Requirements 1. Length: The final paper must be 1000 words minimum 2. Structure: The paper will adhere to all APA requirements and include the following elements: I. Title Page II. Executive Summary (1 page / 300 words maximum length) III. Introduction IV. Content a. Prioritized Skill List: Include a table showing your skills sorted in order of highest score to lowest score. Include the key for your score rating. I recommend that you do this in Excel and copy the table to Word. Use the following information to prepare this table: Score Capability Area Ethos/Image Audience Analysis and Strategy Social Media and Other Written Communication Oral Communication Visual Communication Dealing with Own Feelings Dealing with Others Cultural Communication Competence Group and Team Communication and Dynamics Organizational Communication Internal Communication External Communication KEY 1 = Need lots of work in this area 2 = Need some work in this area 3 = Acceptable, but could be stronger 4 = Very good abilities, close to leadership communication level 5 = Excellent abilities, leadership communication level achieved twarrington CSUG - Copyright Stamp b. Strengths Discussion: One or two narrative paragraphs describing what you consider to be your communication strengths. Use the results from the Checklist and the skill areas from the Prioritized Skill table as the basis for your discussion. Include specific examples of the results you have achieved using these skills in your personal and professional life. c. Weakness Discussion: One or two narrative paragraphs describing what you consider to be your communication weaknesses. Use the results from the Checklist and the skill areas from the Prioritized Skill table as the basis for your discussion. Include specific examples of the consequences you have encountered as a result of a lack of these skills in your personal and professional life. d. Goals, Programs, and Targets: For each skill area that you rated a 1 or a 2, prepare a goal, program, and target. A goal is a statement of a skills-based outcome that you want to achieve, a program is the description of the action steps that you will undertake to achieve the outcome, and a target is a numerical measure of the success of the effort and a date by which the program will be complete. Here is an example: Goal 1: Develop better oral communication skills when delivering impromptu and extemporaneous presentations. Program 1: Participate in 26 Toastmaster sessions for impromptu and extemporaneous presentations over the next 14 months. Actively solicit feedback from fellow members concerning areas for improvement, and change my behaviors based on this feedback. Target 1: By June 30, 2012, all of the feedback received from fellow members of Toastmaster’s will note only positive comments and will n.

1. ORG423 Portfolio Project
Final Paper Requirements
1. Length: The final paper must be 1000 words minimum
2. Structure: The paper will adhere to all APA requirements and
include the following elements:
I. Title Page
II. Executive Summary (1 page / 300 words maximum length)
III. Introduction
IV. Content
a. Prioritized Skill List: Include a table showing your skills
sorted in order of highest
score to lowest score. Include the key for your score rating. I
recommend that you
do this in Excel and copy the table to Word. Use the following
information to
prepare this table:
Score Capability Area
Ethos/Image
Audience Analysis and Strategy
Social Media and Other Written Communication

2. Oral Communication
Visual Communication
Dealing with Own Feelings
Dealing with Others
Cultural Communication Competence
Group and Team Communication and Dynamics
Organizational Communication
Internal Communication
External Communication
KEY
1 = Need lots of work in this area
2 = Need some work in this area
3 = Acceptable, but could be stronger
4 = Very good abilities, close to leadership communication
level
5 = Excellent abilities, leadership communication level
achieved
twarrington
CSUG - Copyright Stamp
b. Strengths Discussion: One or two narrative paragraphs
describing what you consider
to be your communication strengths. Use the results from the
Checklist and the skill

3. areas from the Prioritized Skill table as the basis for your
discussion. Include specific
examples of the results you have achieved using these skills in
your personal and
professional life.
c. Weakness Discussion: One or two narrative paragraphs
describing what you
consider to be your communication weaknesses. Use the results
from the Checklist
and the skill areas from the Prioritized Skill table as the basis
for your discussion.
Include specific examples of the consequences you have
encountered as a result of
a lack of these skills in your personal and professional life.
d. Goals, Programs, and Targets: For each skill area that you
rated a 1 or a 2, prepare a
goal, program, and target. A goal is a statement of a skills-
based outcome that you
want to achieve, a program is the description of the action steps
that you will
undertake to achieve the outcome, and a target is a numerical
measure of the
success of the effort and a date by which the program will be

4. complete. Here is an
example:
Goal 1: Develop better oral communication skills when
delivering impromptu
and extemporaneous presentations.
Program 1: Participate in 26 Toastmaster sessions for
impromptu and
extemporaneous presentations over the next 14 months. Actively
solicit
feedback from fellow members concerning areas for
improvement, and change
my behaviors based on this feedback.
Target 1: By June 30, 2012, all of the feedback received from
fellow members of
Toastmaster’s will note only positive comments and will not
include any areas
for improvement.
e. Summary Goals, Programs, and Targets Table: Summarize the
narrative descriptions
of your goals, programs, and targets in a table. The table will be
your management
tool to help you achieve your desired outcomes. The Achieved

5. column will be blank
until you have completed each program. Use the following
example as the basis for
your table:
Goal
Program
Target
Achieved? (Y/N)
1.
1.
1.
2.

6. 2.
2.
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.
V. Conclusion
VI. References
a. Cite and integrate at least three credible sources.
** Don’t forget to include, in the formal self-assessment, a
summary of the questionnaire contents
associated with the emotional intelligence instrument.
** Also, in the formal self-assessment, make sure to provide
evidence from workplace experience
supporting the responses to the emotional intelligence
questionnaire.
Baruch College FIN 3000 Midterm I Exam Fall, 2017

7. Name:____________ Section: ___________
Please, read carefully: the exam has 30 questions, but will be
graded out of 28 points. In practice this means you can “choose
your own extra credit”. Write your answers both on this front
sheet and on the scantron. If you do not understand a question,
raise your hand and ask me. Many answers are rounded, pick the
closest: using different digits precision is not supposed to have
any effect on your answers.
If something looks too hard, most likely there is another way to
do it. Think, pay attention to the text of the exercise, and
REMEMBER TO CHECK THE SETTINGS/MEMORY OF
YOUR CALCULATOR. Good Luck!
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Answer
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Baruch College FIN 3000 Midterm I Exam
Fall, 2017
Name:____________
1. A common problem for closely held corporations is:
A. the lack of access to substantial amounts of capital
B. the restriction that shareholders receive only one vote each
C. the separation of ownership and management
D. an abundance of agency problems
2. The principal participants in the financial markets are
I. Dealers, brokers, regulators
II. Businesses, banks, government
III. Mutual funds, hedge funds, investment banks
IV. Borrowers, savers, financial institutions
A. I
B. II
C. III
D. IV
3. Corporate managers are expected to make corporate decisions
that are in the best interest of:
A. the corporation’s management
B. the corporation’s board of directors
C. the corporation’s shareholders
D. all corporate employees
4. To purchase a car, you borrow from a bank $7,500 to be
repaid with 24 equal monthly payments, the first of which to be

10. made immediately.
The annual interest rate is 12%. What is the amount of your
monthly payment?
A. $253.05
B. $289.43
C. $349.55
D. $353.05
5. Corporations that issue financial securities such as stock or
debt obligations to the public do so primarily to:
A. increase sales
B. increase profitability
C. increase their access to funds
D. avoid double taxation of their profits
6. You currently own a level perpetuity making $1,000
payments every year.
Your friend Proposition Joe offers to purchase it from you, and
pay for it with 5 equal yearly payments, the first of which to
happen a year from now.
If the interest (discount) rate is 5%, what is the minimum yearly
payment that Proposition Joe has to offer for you to accept?
A. $ 3620.0
B. $ 4312.5
C. $ 4503.5
D. $ 4619.5
7. You are about to sign a 3-year rental contract for a new
apartment in Astoria, Queens. According to the lease contract

11. you will have to pay $3,200 per month at the beginning of each
month, for 36 months.
However, it would be more convenient for you to pay at the end
of each month, instead of at the beginning. But, since your
landlord has taken FIN3000, he says that if you desire to pay at
the end of the month some adjustment has to be made to the
monthly rent payment.
If the interest (discount) rate your landlord is using is 6%
annual (0.5% per month) what is the minimum you expect your
landlord to ask you in order to let you pay at the end of each
month?
(Pick the closest)
A. $3191
B. $3216
C. $3225
D. $3233
8. Which one of the following would be considered a capital
budgeting decision?
A. Planning to issue common stock rather than issuing preferred
stock
B. Deciding to expand into a new line of products, at a cost of
$5 million
C. Repurchasing shares of common stock
D. Issuing debt in the form of long-term bonds
9. Bruce and Sheila are talking about their savings accounts.
Bruce says that his account pays 10% annual interest
compounded yearly, and that Sheila should move her savings to
his bank, since hers only offers a (stated) annual percentage rate

12. (APR) of 9.8%.
Sheila however argues that it would make no sense to do so,
since her bank account compounds monthly and hence it
actually provides better interest payments. Who is right?
A. Bruce
B. Sheila
C. The two accounts are exactly equivalent
D. Not enough information is provided
10. Henry is assessing his retirement strategy, as he plans to
retire 10 years from now; currently he has $300,000 in a savings
account paying 4% annual interest, compounded quarterly.
He also knows that he will receive $200,000 as termination
payout from his life insurance 5 years from now, and he plans to
add this money to his savings account until the moment when he
retires.
If everything goes according to his plan, how much will Henry
have in savings 10 years from now, when he will be retiring?
(pick the closest)
A. $646,659
B. $687,403
C. $690,697
D. $740,122
11. Which ones of the following statements are FALSE?
I. Investment banks are similar to commercial banks except that
they invest deposits in stocks and bonds rather than loans.
II. Under Federal Law, Insurance Companies can only invest
their reserves in interest paying bank accounts
III. Mutual Funds and ETFs both offer to investors a cheap way
to diversify their risk without having to buy many individual

13. stocks
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II, and III
12. Suppose you must make 5 annual $1,000 payments, the first
one at the beginning of year 5 (end of the 4th year from now).
To accumulate the money to make these payments, you will
make three equal deposits into an investment account, the first
to be made one year from today. Assuming a 10% interest rate
on the investment account, what is the amount of these three
deposits?
(round to nearest dollar)
A.
$1,098
B.
$1,145
C.
$1,260
D.
$1,389
13. An example of a firm's financing decision would be:
A.
acquiring a competitive firm
B.
deciding whether or not to increase the price of its products
C.
issuing 10-year versus 20-year bonds
D.

14. none of the above
14. Everything else equal, when the interest rate increases the
future value of an annuity ______; this effect will be _______
as the number of periods increases.
A. increases, larger
B. increases, smaller
C. decreases, larger
D. decreases, smaller
15. In the U.S. the largest holders of corporate equities are
_________ ; the largest holders of corporate bonds are _______
.
A. Insurance Companies; Pension Funds
B. Households; Insurance Companies and Mutual Funds
C. Foreign Institutions; Pension Funds
D. Pension Funds; Banks and Savings Institutions
16. You are offered two possible investments by a broker.
Investment A can be purchased for $20,000 and will pay you in
return $3,000 per year for 20 years (starting a year from now).
Investment B can also be purchased for $20,000 and will pay
you in return $2,750 per year for 30 years (also starting a year
from now).
The broker argues that investment B is better since “you get a
smaller yearly payment, but you will receive payments for 10
more years”. You want to earn the highest overall return on
your initial investment, so… which one should you choose?
A. The first one
B. The second one
C. You are totally indifferent between the two, they

15. provide the same return
D. You need more information to make this choice
17. Which one of these securities is traded on the money
markets?
A. 3-months commercial paper.
B. A share of Microsoft’s Common Stock.
C. A 2-year Corporate Note.
D. A 20-year Corporate Bond.
18. Which ones of the following statements are FALSE?
I. Insurance Companies are not financial institutions
II. Preferred Stock is a type of Equity Securities
III. Hedge Funds are not financial intermediaries
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II, and III
19. Which of these investments is the least liquid
A. A savings account at Citibank
B. Common stock of Philip Morris

16. C. 20-year Bonds issued by Exxon Mobil
D. An apartment building in Buffalo, NY
20. Which ones of the following statements are TRUE?
I. Everything else equal, the lower the interest rate the higher
the value of a perpetuity
II. Among their functions, financial markets provide pricing
information
III. Stock options can be used to mitigate agency problems
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II, and III
21. Your firm has received a $100,000 loan from a bank. The
annual payments are $12,590.19; if the yearly interest rate is
7% how many loan payments must your firm make?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 12
D. 14
22. I want to retire in 20 years, and I want to have an annuity of
$100,000 a year for 10 years after retirement. I want to receive
the first annuity payment at the end of the 20th year. How much
do I need to deposit today in an investment account providing

17. an 8% interest rate in order to afford this retirement annuity?
(pick closest)
A. $156,000
B. $168,000
C. $725,000
D. $671,000
23. The principal savers in the financial markets are
A. Businesses
B. Individuals
C. Large hedge funds
D. Banks
24. Today, you have taken a 30-year mortgage of $300,000 with
an interest rate of 9% and monthly payments of $2,413.867.
How much will your outstanding balance be after 10 years of
payments? (Hint: this is the same as asking what will at that
point be the present value of the remaining payments)
(round to nearest dollar)
A. $167,118
B. $200,000
C. $264,786

18. D. $268,289
25. Marisa wants to travel extensively in Japan when she
graduates, 4 years from now. She expects the trip to cost
$12,000. Right now she has of $7,000 in a savings account
paying an yearly interest rate of 5%. After sitting down and
doing some calculations, she realizes that if she does not do
anything she won’t be able to afford the trip by the time she
graduates. In fact, she would miss her objective by roughly...
(pick the closest)
A. $3,217
B. $3,491
C. $4,113
D. $6,421
26. (Continues from Q25) In order to be able to afford the trip,
she plans then to finance the balance by making yearly deposits
(the first of which 1 year from now) into an investment account
earning 9% per year. How much does she need to deposit into
this investment account each year in order to be able to afford
the trip?
(pick the closest)
A. $1,065
B. $811
C. $764
D. $464

19. 27. (Continues from Q25-26 above) Marisa comes up with an
alternative plan: she could immediately move her $7,000 from
her savings account to the investment account with 9% interest
rate. Then she would make, if necessary, monthly deposits to
this same account until the time when she graduates. If she
follows this plan, how much will she need to deposit each
month?
(pick the closest)
A. $0 (moving the $7,000 to the investment account is enough
to reach the objective)
B. $35
C. $52
D. $209
28. The principal borrowers in the financial markets are
A. Businesses
B. Individuals
C. Pension Funds
D. Insurances
29. Which ones of the following statements are FALSE?
I. In Sole Proprietorships, the owner has unlimited liability
II. In Corporations, managers own the firm

20. III. In Partnerships, the owner and the business are taxed
separately
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II, and III
30. When corporations need to raise funds through stock issues,
they rely on:
A. The Commodity Markets
B. The Secondary Market
C. The Primary Market
D. The Foreign Exchange Markets
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ORG423 Portfolio Project
Self-Assessment of Leadership Communication Capabilities -
checklist
Barrett (2014, p.405) Appendix A
Read through the list of capabilities and, for each one, mark
your present level of expertise in the table below. The
instructions on determining your average follow the table. If

21. using this text in a class, you will probably want to ask your
instructor for the electronic version of this assessment.
1 = Need to develop, essentially need a lot of work on this
capability
2 = Need some work on this capability
3 = Acceptable, but could be stronger
4 = Very good abilities, close to leadership communication
level
5 = Excellent abilities, leadership communication level
achieved
Section 1 – Assessment of Core Capabilities
Area and Capability
1
2
3
4
5
Avg
Leadership Communication Ethos/Image
1. Understanding the characteristics of leadership
communication
2. Recognizing and able to distinguish transformational leaders

22. 3. Understanding how I am seen by others
4. Knowing how my personal style differs from others
5. Asking others to comment on my style
6. Assessing my own strengths and weaknesses
7. Setting goals for personal change

23. 8. Willing to work on improving personal effectiveness
9. Influencing the behavior of others
10. Inspiring trust in others
11. Projecting confidence
12. Making ethical decisions

24. Totals
Audience Analysis and Strategy
1. Analyzing the context for communication
2. Analyzing audiences
3. Tailoring messages to different audiences

25. 4. Selecting the most effective medium (channel)
5. Developing a complete communication strategy
Totals
Social Media and Other Written Communication
1. Deciding on communication purpose

26. 2. Clarifying your purpose
3. Organizing your written communication
4. Using formatting effectively
5. Using language correctly
Area and Capability
1
2
3
4
5

27. Avg
6. Writing clearly
7. Writing concisely
8. Writing confidently
9. Using an appropriate style and tone
10. Knowing how to use social media in professional settings

28. 11. Writing correspondence (texts, tweets, e-mails, etc.)
12. Writing formal documents and reports
13. Writing executive summaries and abstracts
14. Proofreading your own work
Totals
Oral Communication Skills

29. 1. Delivering an impromptu presentation
2. Delivering an extemporaneous presentation
3. Organizing your presentation
4. Talking in small groups
5. Talking in large groups

30. 6. Answering questions
7. Asking questions
8. Drawing others out
9. Summarizing and clarifying others’ ideas
10. Keeping to the topic

31. 11. Summarizing a discussion
Totals
Visual Communication
1. Recognizing when to use graphics
2. Selecting and designing effective data charts

32. 3. Creating meaningful and effective text layouts
4. Employing fundamental graphics content and design
principles
5. Ensuring “so what” is captured
6. Creating presentation visuals and slides
Totals

33. Emotional Intelligence 1: Dealing with Own Feelings
1. Knowing own personality type
2. Recognizing other types and their effect on behaviors
3. Being aware of own feelings
4. Identifying and controlling feelings

34. 5. Asserting own ideas and rights
6. Stating own needs
7. Expressing feelings to others
Totals
Emotional Intelligence 2: Dealing with Others

35. Area and Capability
1
2
3
4
5
Avg
1. Listening
2. Recognizing non-verbals
3. Being sensitive to others’ feelings
4. Asking people how they feel

36. 5. Acknowledging people’s feelings
6. Helping others express their feelings
7. Dealing with anger
8. Dealing with hostility and suspicion
9. Being comfortable with conflict
10. Withstanding silences

37. Totals
Diversity and Intercultural Communication
1. Realizing the value of diversity
2. Defining and appreciating cultural differences
3. Understanding differences is values and preferences

38. 4. Recognizing general communication preferences (direct or
indirect, explicit or implicit)
5. Understanding differences in attitudes toward authority,
time, risk, and change
6. Knowing customs common to cultures encountering
7. Communicating in intercultural social situations
Totals

39. Section 2—Group and Organizational Communication
Area and Capability
1
2
3
4
5
Avg
Group and Team Communication and Dynamics
1. Identifying and clarifying goals and objectives
2. Clearly defining the problem under discussion
3. Examining all facets of the problem

40. 4. Encouraging others to generate ideas
5. Using creativity to develop new ideas
6. Evaluating options
7. Helping groups make decisions
8. Exploring the people aspects of the problem

41. 9. Encouraging groups to develop action plans
10. Helping the team to confront difficult issues
11. Sensing tension in the group
12. Being sensitive to how people in the group are feeling
13. Being aware of how open or closed the group is

42. 14. Helping groups explore their commitment to group
decisions and or agreements
15. Surfacing vested interests and feelings about issues
16. Identifying those issues that are avoided
Area and Capability
1
2
3
4
5
Avg
17. Drawing attention to unhelpful behavior

43. 18. Helping the team deal with conflict or other tension
19. Supporting individuals against group pressure
20. Helping team members acknowledge each other’s strengths
21. Helping team members give each other feedback
22. Facilitating team review and critique

44. Totals
Organizational Communication
1. Recognizing different organizational structures
2. Understanding the human relations approach
3. Displaying ability to motivate others

45. 4. Recognizing the organizational role of communication
5. Understanding how power works in supervisor /subordinate
relationships
6. Knowing what it takes to build trust in supervisor/
subordinate relationships
7. Establishing communication protocols with supervisors
8. Recognizing the ethical expectations in an organization

46. 9. Creating an ethical environment
10. Being able to see the organizational cultural differences
11. Realizing which organizational cultures fit best with my
own individual personality and style
12. Giving praise and appreciation to peers and supervisors
13. Recognizing who talks to whom

47. 14. Soliciting feedback from others
15. Providing constructive feedback to individuals or groups
16. Receiving feedback without being defensive
17. Dealing with supervisors and more senior people
18. Mentoring others

48. 19. Coaching others
20. Networking
Total
Transformational Leadership and Internal Communication
1. Selecting the most appropriate leadership style

49. 2. Knowing how to adjust leadership styles when needed
3. Recognizing the characteristics of transformational leaders
4. Developing an internal communication strategy
5. Developing a vision
6. Communicating a vision

50. 7. Targeting messages to different levels in an organization
8. Creating a change communication program
Area and Capability
1
2
3
4
5
Avg
9. Implementing a change communication program
Totals
External Corporate Communication

51. 1. Developing an external communication strategy
2. Managing reputation
3. Analyzing external stakeholders
4. Developing targeted messages for all external stakeholders
5. Communicating with the news media

52. 6. Dealing with a communication crisis situation
Totals
Barrett, D. J. (2014). Leadership Communication (4th Ed.). New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Part 1: Assessing Your Own Leadership Communication
Abilities
Using the information gained from completing the checklist,
assign a score for your improvement need in each skill area (use
the key provided below).
KEY
1 = Need lots of work in this area
2 = Need some work in this area
3 = Acceptable, but could be stronger
4 = Very good abilities, close to leadership communication
level
5 = Excellent abilities, leadership communication level

53. achieved
Instructions: To calculate your average in each communication
area, take the following steps:
1. Add the number of marks within each column under the
capability area
2. Multiply the number of marks times the scale number (1–5)
at the top of each column
3. Record this number in each column in the totals row
provided
4. Total the row across
5. Then, divide by the number of capabilities listed and record
your average in the box.
Score
Capability Area
Ethos/Image
Audience Analysis and Strategy
Social Media and Other Written Communication
Oral Communication
Visual Communication
Dealing with Own Feelings
Dealing with Others
Cultural Communication Competence
Group and Team Communication and Dynamics

54. Organizational Communication
Internal Communication
External Communication
2. What do you consider your major communication strengths?
3. What do you consider your major communication
weaknesses?
4. What leadership communication roles do you currently play
in your organization?
Part 2 – Determining Your Leadership Communication Goals
Answer the following questions to help you develop your goals
and plan.
1. What communication leadership roles would you like to play
in the future (at your organization or
in your career overall)?
2. What are your short-term and long-term leadership
communication improvement goals?
3. What new skill do you want to work on first, second, third,
etc?

55. 4. What barriers do you anticipate having to overcome to reach
your improvement goals?
5. How long do you think it will take you to achieve your goals?
6. How will you know you are succeeding?
7. How will you obtain feedback?
Part 3 – Developing a Plan to Achieve Your Goals
Use this grid to help you plan and track your improvement.
Improvement Goal
Action Steps to Achieve Goal
Deadline
Method to Measure Success