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Overview
In preparation for your report in Project Two, you will need to calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen businesss current financial health. Once youve calculated these ratios, the results will be used to analyze the businesss current financial position and help them make decisions about how to improve or maintain their financial health. Pay particular attention to working capital management. If liquidity is an issue, consider how the company will meet its short-term obligations.
Prompt
Using the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet ATTACHED and the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online for your chosen company
Overview
In preparation for your report in Project Two, you will need to calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen businesss current financial health. Once youve calculated these ratios, the results will be used to analyze the businesss current financial position and help them make decisions about how to improve or maintain their financial health. Pay particular attention to working capital management. If liquidity is an issue, consider how the company will meet its short-term obligations.
Prompt
Using the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet and the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online for your chosen company, calculate the financial ratios for the most recent fiscal quarter. Then, compare those ratios with the same ratios for the same fiscal quarter from one year prior in Mergent Online, and analyze your results.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Financial Calculations: Calculate accurate financial ratios to assess the businesss current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following ratios:
Working capital
Current ratio
Debt ratio
Earnings per share
Price/earnings ratio
Total asset turnover ratio
Financial leverage
Net profit margin
Return on assets
Return on equity
Fiscal Quarter Comparison: Using Mergent Online, summarize the differences between the results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a year before for your chosen business.
For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the 3rd quarter in 2020, then you will compare those results to the same financial calculations from the 3rd quarter in 2019.
Comparison Analysis: Explain what the results of your calculations and your comparison indicate about the businesss current financial health, providing examples to support your explanation. You might consider the following questions:
Do the results indicate the business is financially healthy or financially unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
What might be the cause(s) of the businesss financial success or failure?
Is more information needed to determine the businesss financial health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?
Short-Term Financing: Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve its financial health. Base your response on the businesss current financial information.
The following resources can help you complete this milestone:
Video: Mergent Online: Public Company Financials (4:46)
Watch this video from the Shapiro Library to learn more about how to access and use Mergent Online.
Shapiro Library FAQ: How Do I Cite a Company Profile From Mergent Online?
Use this resource to help answer any questions you have about citing from Mergent Online.
Guidelines for Submission
Your submission should be a 2 to 3 page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. You must also submit the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet (which you will fill in completely as part of your Project Two submission) and the Excel files for your downloaded balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online., calculate the financial ratios for the most recent fiscal quarter. Then, compare those ratios with the same ratios for the same fiscal quarter from one year prior in Mergent Online, and analyze your results.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Financial Calculations: Calculate accurate financial ratios to assess the businesss current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following ratios:
Working capital
Current ratio
Debt ratio
Earnings per share
Price/earnings ratio
Total asset turnover ratio
Financial leverage
Net profit margin
Return on assets
Return on equity
Fiscal Quarter Comparison: Using Mergent Online, summarize the differences between the results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a year before for your chosen business.
For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the 3rd quarter in 2020, then you will compare those results to the same financial calculations from the 3rd quarter in 2019.
Comparison Analysis: Explain what the results of your calculations and your comparison indicate about the businesss current financial health, providing examples to support your explanation. You might consider the following questions:
Do the results indicate the business is financially healthy or financially unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
What might be the cause(s) of the businesss financial success or failure?
Is more information needed to determine the businesss financial health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?
Short-Term Financing: Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve its financial health. Base your response on the businesss current financial information.
The following resources can help you complete this milestone:
Video: Mergent Online: Public Company Financials (4:46)
Watch this video from the Shapiro Library to learn more about how to access and use Mergent Online.
Shapiro Library FAQ: How Do I Cite a Company Profile From Mergent Online?
Use this resource to help answer any questions you have about citing from Mergent Online.
Guidelines for Submission
Your submission should be a 2 to 3 page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. You must also submit the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet (which you will fill in completely as part of your Project Two submission) and the Excel files for your downloaded balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online.

Read the following articles about building and leading effective teams:
Building and Leading High Performance Teams
Building Effective Teams Isn’t Rocket Science, but It’s Just as Hard (Note: This article can only be accessed a limited number of times.)
Managing groups and teams is an essential element of the leading facet of the P-O-L-C framework. As you read these articles, reflect on your experience working in groups and teams, and then address the following prompts:
Think about a positive experience when you worked in a group or team and identify the principles that were presented in the articles that were exhibited by your group or team. Explain how these principles helped the group or team succeed.
Think about a negative experience when you worked in a group or team and identify which principles from the articles were lacking. Explain how the lack of these principles led to poor performance of the group or team.
If you were the manager of that group or team, how would you correct the issues that caused the poor performance? Consider the material from this module and in the articles.

Select one of the topic questions below. Make sure you identify which topic you have selected by noting its number (1, 2, 3, etc).
Compare and contrast deviance and crime. From the perspective presented in the audio, explain what social factors shape our understandings of what constitutes deviance and conformity. How would this weaken the argument that some things determined to be illegal because they are innately dangerous to individuals and groups or disruptive to society?
Define symbolic interactionism and contrast it with the two other main theory groups in society. Using all three, offer different origins of deviance that prescribe different responses of society toward deviance and conformity.
Discuss the operation of the criminal justice system from a sociological perspective (functionalism, conflict theory or interactionism). What insights does this afford you common in the public mind and what parts of this perspective contradicts commonly held understandings? How has changing definitions of deviant sexuality informed your opinion?
Apply race-conflict and feminist theories to the topic of crime. How does race or gender influence the criminal justice system? Be specific in your answer but insure your conclusions are generalizable.

This week our topic is the creativity of Architecture. After you view the readings and video, you will embark on your assignment.
You may walk around your neighborhood, venture to a historical building, gallery, place of worship, office building, library, museum, a particular neighborhood or street, school, memorial, park, etc. ( You get to choose).
Be sure to take a photograph (the photograph must be one that YOU have taken, not one from a magazine or website).
Post the photo on the discussion board and discuss with us why this photo is special to you. What do you see?
Focus on the design, when was it built? Who was the architect or designer? What does it represent?
Every day when we walk around and go about our daily lives, we often forget to take a few moments to appreciate the architecture around us which can be so fascinating.

Please view this video:
https://www.classicist.org/articles/classical-city-guide-new-york/

Week 2 Discussion
For this weeks discussion we will analyze and compare
texts (written and visual) with specific focus on theme and tone.
Post #1 Defining tone by analyzing
details.
For your initial post, respond to all questions
on written text and on visual texts (3 + 3 =6)
Read both selections: In Norton Field Guide
to Writing with Readings:
Us and Them, David Sedaris, pp 883 – 889
Who is Malala? Malala Yousafzai, pp 900 – 905
For the Written Text answer the following questions:
What is authors purpose in each piece?
Describe the tone of each story. Share a section of
each that illustrates the tone and mood.
Compare and contrast the two pieces. What elements are
similar? What elements are different? Which is more effective in
reaching the authors purpose?
Visual Text:
Compare and contrast the following portraits. You can
identify them as Left, Middle, Right.
Describe each one by using sensory details, the tone or mood
the portraits present.
Imagine who one of these men are and write a brief (two
sentences) biography.

All posts should
include word count.
Posts discussing
written texts should include quotes with APA in-text citation and
reference.

Propose a social legacy project that can be done in conjunction with the event to give back to the community. The budget for the legacy project must be planned for and included in the overall event budget and it not to exceed $10,000. Be sure to consider the five criteria from the “MAU Framwork for Community Service Projects” when proposing your idea.

Please also read through the instruction in upload files.

Please write a minimum of five paragraphs on “Is Authoritarianism preferable to Democracy? Why or why not?
Please make sure to be written in MLA format and use examples of countries to compare and contrast.

Part 1
Assignment Expectations
Length: 12-18 slides
Structure: Include a title
slide and reference slide in APA format. Your presentation must
include an objectives
slide. Be sure to fully explain all slides in the Speaker Notes and graphics
should also be included where appropriate.
References: Use the
appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources
utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three (3) scholarly
sources are required for this assignment.

Part 2.
The assignment should be
written in a 7th ED APA-formatted essay and include at least two
scholarly sources used and referenced, Use the appropriate APA style in-text
citations and references for all resources utilized.
Essay of 350 words no
introduction or conclusion needed.

Please make sure the assignment is coherent, concise, and ideas are fully developed. Please use big vocabulary words. Please make sure to proofread any grammatical errors or sentence structure issues. Please do not plagiarize. Please follow all the instructions. Pick 2 social movements that you feel have not arisen yet, and write two paragraphs for each movement. If you need to cite sources you can use 2 (for two movements).

Prompt (what will you be writing about):
Despite having sold more than 40 million copies, To Kill a Mockingbird is still one of the most
banned books in American school curriculum. This is based in its adult theme and charged
language.
Now that you have viewed this version (which is almost identical to the novel), what do you
think about his ban? Please respond to the following prompt, using the film study, and two
other academic/reliable sources. In your essay, use cited text examples from both research
sources as well as the film.

Should Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird be banned in middle and high schools? Why or why not?

Instructions (how to get it done):
Choose your side of this issue and decide what three supporting proofs you are going to use
to defend your argument.
Create a thesis statement that clearly states your argument and how you are going to prove it.
You are welcome to use the following template:
o
It is apparent that Harper Lees Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird,
should be banned in middle and high schools because of reason #1, reason #2,
reason #3.

Go to the library database and find two sources that will help you defend your argument. You
must use information from these articles in your essay and cite this new information with an in
text-citation. Format for citing from articles is:
According to research, Lees novel has been on the list of top ten banned books since
it was written in 1960 (Miller, 1986).
OR
o According to Miller (1986), Lees novel has been on the list of top ten banned books
since it was written in 1960
Be sure also to include text examples from the film. These should be cited also.

Requirements:

Length and format: 3-4 pages.
You should have at least two outside sources plus the film.
The title page and reference page are also required, but they should not be factored into the
3-4 page length of the essay.
It should also be double spaced and should conform to APA formatting and citation style.
Use the third-person, objective voice, avoiding personal pronouns such as I, you, we, etc.
Use APA format for in-text citations and references when using outside sources and textual
evidence.
Please be cautious about plagiarism. Make sure to use in-text citations for direct quotes,
paraphrases, and new information.