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For the next five weeks, you will have a project that will begin in Unit 1, continuing through all units and ending in Unit 5. Your discussion and project will be connected each week, so you must complete your discussion work on time.
Below is a schedule of each week’s deliverables:
Unit #
Topic
Unit 1
Industry economic characteristics
and business strategies
Unit 2
Quality of financial statements
Unit 3
Financial ratio analysis
Unit 4
Capital structure and risk
Unit 5
Valuation, growth potential,
and recommendations
There are approximately 6,000 public companies in the United States (Israel, 2020). A firm is considered to be public if its securities trade on public markets.
Select two public companies from the same industry that trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or the Nasdaq stock exchange. Search the SEC’s EDGAR database for public companies.
Based on the information that you have gathered from annual reports, company Web sites, credit ratings, and scholarly articles, prepare an analysis about the 2 companies. Provide an introduction, a determination of the firms that you chose, and a conclusion regarding the information that you have gathered, which should include the following:
Industry economic characteristics
Porter’s five forces framework
Value chain analysis
Economic attributes framework
Prepare charts for the companies that are similar to those in Chapter 1 of the textbook.
Deliverable Requirements: For the next 5 weeks, you will have a project that will continue throughout all of the units, beginning in Unit 1 and ending in Unit 5. Your discussion and project will be connected each week, so you must complete your discussion work on time. Your analysis must be a PowerPoint presentation of at least 15 slides in length. Be sure to cite sources using the APA style, including references and in-text citations.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 15 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your presentation for this assignment is 15 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference slide: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the presentation. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.
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Grading Rubric: Maximum 140 Points
Grading Criteria Points
Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and presenter’s message and intent are clear 60 points Followed assignment guidelines and criteria 30 pts Yes/Complete Mostly Not at all
Overall quality 30 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Scholarly research that supports the presenter’s position is properly acknowledged and cited, and direct quotations do not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable 30 points Title slide, agenda, tables, exhibits, appendices or reference slides included 15 pts Yes Partially Not at all
Content is original with less than 35% match 15 pts Yes 36–50% 51% or over
Critical thinking: Position is well-justified; logical flow; examples 15 points Position is justified with examples 7.5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Presentation flows logically 7.5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Structure: Includes introduction and conclusion slides, proper slide formatting, and reads as a polished, academic or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable 15 points Includes introduction and conclusion slides 5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Slides are formatted properly with 5 lines of text 5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Reads as polished academic or professional presentation 5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Mechanical: No spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors 15 points Spelling and grammar are accurate 10 pts Yes Partially Not at all
Punctuation is accurate 5 pts Yes Partially Not at all
APA: Deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual 5 points References are cited in accordance with APA formatting 2.5 pts Yes Partially Not at all
Reference slide is included 2.5 pts Yes Partially Not at all
References
Israel, S. (2020, October 30). The number of companies publicly traded in the US is shrinking—Or is it? MarketWatch, Inc. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-number-of-companies-publicly-traded-in-the-us-is-shrinkingor-is-it-2020-10-30
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). (n.d.). EDGAR. Investor.gov. https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/edgar
