EVIDENCE ANALYSIS AND KEY FUNCTIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING

Part I: You will develop and submit annotated bibliographies on the topic you have chosen. –

  1. Use the 8-10 scholarly sources/materials you identified in your Module 2 Case Assignment.
  2. Identify two additional scholarly articles from professional journals.
  3. Apply the evidence analysis techniques introduced in the Case Assignment for this module as you review all scholarly sources/materials you found.
  4. Develop and submit your annotated bibliographies with at least 10 scholarly articles from professional journals. Information on annotated bibliographies can be found at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/ . A sample of APA annotation can be found at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/.

Length: The written component of this assignment should be 4-5 pages long (double-spaced).

Format: APA format is required for this assignment.

Part II: You will identify the purpose of your literature review.

  1. Identify the functions you will employ in your paper as identified in the Case Assignment for this module. For example, will your paper aim to describe, to compare and contrast, to classify, to explain cause/effect, or to present a particular argument? Or will it attempt some combination of these?
  2. Using your approved project topic, present an outline of your paper as a first step toward structuring your writing. Refer to “Sample Outlines” handout from the Background Information page of this module for guidance. The basic structure of your outline should be as follows:
  3. Introduction
  4. Body
    1. Main Idea #1
      1. Supporting details
      1. Examples
    1. Main Idea #2
      1. Supporting details
      1. Examples
    1. Main Idea #3
      1. Supporting details
      1. Examples
      1. Etc.
  5. Summary and Conclusion

Upload your annotated bibliography as well as your outline at the conclusion of this module.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Assessment and Grading: Your paper will be assessed based on the performance assessment rubric that is linked within the course. Review it before you begin working on the assignment. Your work should adhere to these MSHS Assignment Expectations.

 
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Essay

Air pollution

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there is an outline about <air pollution>. this is an English essay (for someone who is study in language school). so, use the word as simple as u can please. it requests 1000 words.  Give it to me in as soon as when done. Use the APA style please.

Here is the outline: u can do some change on the outline. But point it out please

Air pollution

Hook: what is the most important thing for all the animals and people live in earth?

Problem: cut down lots of trees, cars made CO2 every day, factories let out dirty air.

Thesis statement: the air pollution affect earth, affect the plants and animals, also affect 

our self.

Solution 1:

Government should restrict citizens use cars every day.

1. use limit line for all the city

2. restrict to offer new plate number.

3. Make subway and other public transport perfect.

Solution 2:

Be careful the dirty air let out from factories.

1. an inspection team work for supervise factories.

2. Laws about factories affect air pollution.

3. Use fine from factories to planting the trees.

Solution 3:

Air pollution care for life

1. use air purifier in home.

2. Stop make too much lampblack when cooking

3. Planting plants in own garden.

Thesis: air pollution is affect people life.

Summary: 3 solutions for how to solve air pollution. Restrict cars, supervise factories, air 

pollution care for life.

Final thought: air is the energy to keep life for every biology in the earth. People should 

clean air for themselves, also for animals and plants.

 
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STRUCTURING SCHOLARLY PAPERS

Case Assignment

Choose one of the articles from your required background readings, and address the questions appearing below for this paper. When counting the paragraphs, do not include the article abstract, and do not use the abstract to answer the questions. Also, be sure you are counting paragraphs—not sections.

  1. What is the author’s thesis and where does it appear in the paper?
  2. What is the main idea of the third paragraph of this paper?
    1. What supporting details and, if applicable, examples are provided to convey this main idea?
  3. What is the main idea of the fifth paragraph of this paper?
    1. What supporting details and, if applicable, examples are provided to convey this main idea?
  4. What is the main idea of the seventh paragraph of this paper?
    1. What supporting details and, if applicable, examples are provided to convey this main idea?
  5. In the end, what does the author conclude?

Length: 2-3 pages long (double-spaced), excluding the cover page and the reference list.

Format: APA format is required for this assignment.

 
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Financial Statement Analysis Project

Your Course Project

Financial Statement Analysis Project — A Comparative Analysis of Kohl’s Corporation and J.C. Penney Corporation

Below is the link for the financial statements for Kohl’s Corporation for the 2010 fiscal year ending January 29, 2011. Under the term Groupings Filter, change the term All Forms to Annual Filings using the drop-down arrow and press Search.

You should then scroll down and select the 10k dated 3/18/2011and choose to download in Word or PDF format.

http://www.kohlscorporation.com/InvestorRelations/sec-filings.htm

Below is the link for the financial statements for J.C. Penney Corporation for the 2010 fiscal year ending January 29, 2011.Under the term Groupings Filter, change the term All Forms to Annual Filings using the drop-down arrow and press Search.

You should then scroll down and select the 10k dated 3/29/2011 and choose to download in Word format.

http://ir.jcpenney.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=70528&p=irol-sec

A sample project template is available for download in Doc Sharing. The sample project compares the ratio performance of Tootsie Roll and Hershey using the 2012 financial statements of Tootsie Roll and Hershey provided at their websites.

   
Description
   

This course contains a Course Project where you will be required to submit one draft of the project at the end of Week 5 and the final completed project at the end of Week 7. Using the financial statements for Kohl’s Corporation and J.C. Penney Corporation, respectively, you will calculate and compare the financial ratios listed further down this document for the fiscal year ending 2010 and prepare your comments about two companies’ performance based on your ratio calculations. The entire project will be graded by the instructor at the end of the final submission in Week 7 and one grade will be assigned for the entire project.

   
Overall Requirements
   

 For the Final Submission:

Your final Excel workbook submission should contain the following. You cannot use any other software but Excel to complete this project.

  1. A completed worksheet title page tab, which is really a cover sheet with your name, the course, the date, your instructor’s name, and the title for the project.
  2. A completed worksheet profiles tab, which contains a-one paragraph description regarding each company with information about their history, what products they sell, where they are located, etc.
  3. All 16 ratios for each company with the supporting calculations and commentary on your worksheet ratio tab. Supporting calculations must be shown either as a formula or as text typed into a different cell.The ratios are listed further down this document. Your comments for each ratio should include more than just a definition of the ratio. You should focus on interpreting each ratio number for each company and support your comments with the numbers found in the ratios.
  4. The Summary and Conclusions worksheet tab, which is an overall comparison of how each company compares in terms of the major category of ratios described in Chapter 13 of your textbook.A nice way to conclude is to state which company you think is the better investment and why.
  5. The Bibliography worksheet tab must contain at least your textbook as a reference. Any other information you use to profile the companies should also be cited as a reference.

Required Ratios for Final Project Submission

  1. Earnings per Share of Common Stock
  1. Current Ratio
  2. Gross Profit Margin
  3. Rate of Return on Sales (Net Profit Margin)
  4. Inventory Turnover
  5. Days’ inventory outstanding (DIO)
  6. Accounts Receivable Turnover
  7. Days’ sales outstanding (DSO)
  1. Asset turnover
  2. Rate of Return on Total Assets (ROA)
  3. Debt Ratio
  4. Times Interest Earned Ratio
  5. Dividend Yield[For the purposes of this ratio, use Yahoo Finance to look up current dividend yield and stock price; just note the date that you looked up this information]
  6. Rate of Return on Common Stockholders’ Equity (ROE)
  7. Free cash flow
  8. Price/Earnings Ratio (Multiple) [For the purpose of this ratio, for both Kohl’s and J.C. Penney,  use the market price per share on January 31, 2011]

The Excel files uploaded in the Dropboxes should not include any unnecessary numbers or information (such as previous years’ ratios, ratios that were not specifically asked for in the project, etc.).

Please upload your final submission to the Week 7 Dropbox by Sunday at the end of Week 7.

For the Draft:

Create an Excel spreadsheet or use the project template to show your computations for the first 10 ratios listed above. The more you can complete regarding the other requirements, the closer you will be to completion when Week 7 arrives. Supporting calculations must be shown either as a formula or as text typed into a different cell. If you plan on creating your own spreadsheet, please follow the format provided in the Tootsie Roll and Hershey template file.

Please upload your draft submission to the Week 5 Dropbox by Sunday at the end of Week 5.

Other Helpful information:

If you feel uncomfortable with Excel, you can find many helpful references on Excel by performing a Google search.

Chapter 13 contains ratio calculations and comparison comments related to Apple and Dell so you will likely find this information helpful.

BigCharts.com provides historical stock quotes.

Either APA or MLA style can be used to complete the references on your Bibliography tab. There is a tutorial for APA and MLA style within the Syllabus.

 
Grade Information
   

The entire project will be graded by the instructor at the end of the final submission in Week 7, and one grade will be assigned for the entire project. The project will count for 18% of your overall course grade.

Category Points % Description
Documentation
and Formatting
9 5% The report will be submitted in the form of an Excel Workbook, with each page (worksheet) of the workbook named appropriately. Please do not use any other software (such as MS Works or Lotus) to complete the project. A quality report will include a title worksheet tab, a worksheet tab for the profile of the two companies, a worksheet tab for the ratio calculations and comments, a worksheet tab for the summary and conclusion, proper citations if applicable, and a Bibliography worksheet tab for the references.
Organization
and Cohesiveness
9 5% A quality report will include the contentdescribed above in the documentation and formatting section. The ratios should be listed in the same order in which they appear in the project information above.
Editing 18 10% A quality report will be free of any spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors. Sentences and paragraphs will be clear, concise, and factually correct. Ratios will be expressed as numbers or percentages, depending on what is appropriate, as is shown in the textbook. Note that not all ratios are shown as percentages. Two decimal places is sufficient for each of the ratios.
Content 144 80% A quality report will have correct ratio calculations and accurate supporting commentary. Any assumptions, if made, should be spelled out clearly. Supporting calculations must be shown either as a formula or as text typed into a different cell.
Total 180 100% A quality report will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.
   
 
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STRUCTURING SCHOLARLY PAPERS

Your Session Long Project for this course comprises writing an 8- to 10-page paper on a health science-related topic of your choice. However, you must do so in accordance with the steps outlined in each SLP assignment. This will ensure that you have applied the resources introduced in this course toward development of a scholarly paper befitting graduate-level scholarship.

We are approaching the conclusion of your Session Long Project. For this next component of your SLP, you will use the outline you created in Module 2 to draft your final paper. As you undertake this process, be sure to keep in mind the concepts, skills, and techniques introduced and/or applied in previous modules of the course. If you have questions related to the application of any of these, please contact your professor immediately.

Upload this initial draft of your final paper at the end of this module.

Length: A minimum of 8 double-spaced pages (excluding the cover page and the reference list).

Format: APA format is required for this assignment.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Assessment and Grading: Your paper will be assessed based on the performance assessment rubric that is linked within the course. Review it before you begin working on the assignment. Your work should adhere to these MSHS Assignment Expectations.

 
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

Case Assignment

Use the Revision Checklist (http://writingcenter.unc.edu/faculty-resources/classroom-handouts/revision-checklist/) referenced in your Background readings to review and refine your Module 4 SLP, which comprises your final paper for this course. Give an overall assessment of your SLP by addressing the questions on the checklist. For instance, you could start with an introduction explaining what the purpose of the paper is and then use short headings for the individual components (Subject, Audience, Purpose, Organization, Paragraphing, etc.) and finish with a conclusion. In the end, the assignment should clearly show that you evaluated your SLP with all the questions in mind and highlight some of the changes you might have made to your SLP based on a result of your application of the checklist.

Upload the resultant document at the conclusion of this module.

Length: 4-5 double-spaced pages (excluding the cover page and the reference list).

Format: APA format is required for this assignment.

 
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REVISING SCHOLARLY PAPERS

Your Session Long Project for this course comprises writing an 8- to 10-page paper on a health science-related topic of your choice. However, you must do so in accordance with the steps outlined in each SLP assignment. This will ensure that you have applied the resources introduced in this course toward development of a scholarly paper befitting graduate-level scholarship.

An academic paper will typically undergo several rounds of revision before its author(s) submit the document/manuscript for peer review. The same care should be taken to work completed toward satisfaction of graduate degree requirements. With this in mind, the Case Assignment for this module provided an opportunity for you to apply the Revision Checklist (http://writingcenter.unc.edu/faculty-resources/classroom-handouts/revision-checklist/) to your final paper.

This process should have resulted in a more refined draft of your final paper that you can now submit for my review and grading. Please ensure that all necessary revisions have been made to your final paper in accordance with the Revision Checklist.

Upload the refined draft of your final paper by the conclusion of this module.

Length: 8-10 double-spaced pages (excluding the cover page and the reference list).

References: At least eight scholarly articles must be used and included in the reference list.

Format: APA format is required for this assignment.

 
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PRESENT VALUE AND THE RISK/RETURN TRADE-OFF

For the SLP this session, you will be taking a close look at a company of your choice. You are free to choose any company you want as long as it is publicly traded on one of the major stock market exchanges such as NYSE or NASDAQ. This could be a company that you personally are interested in investing in, or a company whose product you buy, or one that you’ve read about in the news recently and would like to know more about. Do some research on this company, including recent articles. Also, look up the company on Google Finance. This will give you a wealth of information including stock prices over the last month, year, five years, etc., along with other information such as the beta or whether or not the company is profitable.

Once you have chosen a company and have done some initial research on it, write a 2- to 3-page paper discussing the following items:

  1. Give a brief description of the company and why you find it interesting.
  2. What is the beta of this company’s stock? Based on the magnitude of the beta, do you think it is low risk, high risk, or somewhere in between?
  3. Now look at recent stock price movements. What is the highest price the stock has been over the last year? The lowest price over the last year? Look at the five-year pattern as well. Based on what you see, what does this tell you about the riskiness of the stock?
  4. Look at some other companies in the same industry as your chosen company. How do they compare in terms of beta and other measures of riskiness? Would you prefer to invest in your chosen company, or do some of its competitors seem like a better bet?  

SLP Assignment Expectations

  • Answer the assignment questions directly.
  • Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
  • For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
  • For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations.
 
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Cash Budgeting

ACCT504 Case Study 3 on Cash Budgeting

The cash budget was covered during Week 4 when we covered TCO D and you read Chapter 4. There is also a practice case study to work on. This case study should be uploadedto the Week 6 Assignment Dropboxby 11:59 p.m.mountain time on Sunday at the end of Week 6. You are encouraged to use the Excel template file provided in Doc Sharing.

The LBJ Company has budgeted sales revenues as follows.

                                                                                   April                   May        June

Credit sales                                                            $94,000             $89,500             $75,000

Cash sales                                                                48,000               75,000               57,000

Total sales                                                            $142,000          $164,500          $132,000

Past experience indicates that 30% of the credit sales will be collected in the month of sale and the remaining 70% will be collected in the following month.

Purchases of inventory are all on credit;40% is paid in the month of purchase and 60% in the month following purchase. Budgeted inventory purchases are $195,000 in April, $135,000 in May, and $63,000 in June.

Other budgeted cash receipts: (a) sale of plant assets for $33,000 in May, and (b) sale of new common stock for $50,000 in June. Other budgeted cash disbursements: (a) operating expenses of $15,000 each month, (b) selling and administrative expenses of $10,150 each month, (c) purchase of equipment for $35,000 cash in May, and (d) dividends of $20,000 will be paid in June.

The company has a cash balance of $20,000 at the beginning of May and wishes to maintain a minimum cash balance of $20,000 at the end of each month. An open line of credit is available at the bank and carries an annual interest rate of 10%. Assume that all borrowing is done on the first day of the month in which financing is needed and that all repayments are made on the last day of the month in which excess cash is available.Also assume that there is no outstanding financing as of May 1.

Requirements:

1. Use this information to prepare a cash budget for the months of May and June, using the template provided in DocSharing.

2. What are the three sections of a cash budget, and what is included in each section?

3. Why is a cash budget so vital to a company?

4. What are the five basic principles of cash management that a company can follow in order to improve its chances of having adequate cash?

Grading Rubric for Cash Budget Case Study

Category Points % Description
Documentation
and Formatting
10% Case Study worksheet will be done in Excel and will contain formulas to receive maximum credit.
Organization
and Cohesiveness
10% A quality solution will include the content properly organized in accordance with the instructions provided. The cash budgets will be complete and the analysis will be consistent with the cash budgets presented.
Editing 10% Quality work will be free of any mathematical, spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors. Sentences and paragraphs (where appropriate) will be clear, concise, and factually correct.
Content 42  70% A quality project will have all required work completed and will be correct.
Total 60 100% A quality project will meet or exceed all of the requirements.
 
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PRESENT VALUE AND THE RISK/RETURN TRADE-OFF

Assignment Overview

For this assignment, make sure to first carefully review all of the required readings about present value, future value, risk and return, and the CAPM. Once you are relatively comfortable with these concepts, try working through some of the examples in the background readings and try computing the answers on your own. Once you are confident you both understand the concepts and the computational steps, complete the assignment below.

Case Assignment

Present your answers to the problem below in a Word document, and also upload an Excel file with your computations. Excel is required for Questions 2 and 3. Excel is optional for Questions 1 and 4, but you are required to show your steps for all quantitative problems. Even if you get the answer wrong, you can still get partial credit if you show your work.

  1. Calculate the following:
    1. Suppose you wish to raise some money for your favorite local charity. This charity needs $50,000 a year to run its operation and you want to make sure that it is ensured an annual payment of this amount from now on for every year in the foreseeable future. Given an interest rate of 5%, how much would you have to fund this perpetuity to guarantee the charity a payment of $50,000 per year?
    1. You decide to put $1,000 in a new bank account and don’t plan to withdraw the money for 10 years. If your bank does continuous compounding and the interest rate is 1%, what will be the value of this bank account in 10 years?
  2. Suppose you won the lottery but not all of your winnings will come in one year. Instead, you will get a series of annual payments over the next five years. The table below tells you what your payment will be every year for the next five years. Use the information in the table to make the following computations:
    1. The present and future value of your lottery ticket if the interest rate is 8%
    1. The present and future value of your lottery ticket if the interest rate is 10%
Year Payment
1 5000
2 6000
3 7000
4 8000
5 9000
  • The table below gives the probability of different returns for three different assets. Using this table, calculate the following:
    • The expected return of each asset
    • The standard deviation of returns of each asset
    • The coefficient of variation of each asset
    • Based on your answers to B) and C) above, which asset has the highest total risk and highest relative risk?
Asset A Asset B Asset C
Probability Return Probability Return Probability Return
0.3 5 0.1 25 0.1 4
0.4 8 0.3 20 0.8 5
0.3 9 0.5 15 0.1 6
0.1 14
  • Suppose the market return is 8%, the risk-free rate is 1% and the beta for a given stock is 1.2. Answer the following questions based on this information:
    • What is the required return for this stock?
    • If the beta increases by 50% (but risk-free rate remains 1%), what will be the new required return for the stock? What is the percentage-wise change in required return compared to your answer to A) above?
    • If the market return increases by 50% (but beta remains at 1.2), what will be the new required return for the stock? What is the percentage-wise change in required return compared to your answer to A) above?
  • Suppose there are three different companies. The first one, Trendy Tech Inc., has investors who are “fair-weather friends.” When the stock market is going up, everybody wants to invest in Trendy Tech, but as soon as the market goes down everyone jumps ships and sells their shares. The second company is Oily Oil Inc. Oily’s stock price seems to depend only on the price of oil and nothing else. Finally, there is Conglomerated Conglomerate Inc. Conglomerated is a giant company with holdings in almost every industry imaginable—from cell phones to grocery stores and even amusement parks. Based on this information, which company would you think has the highest beta? The lowest beta? Which one do you think has a beta closest to 1?

Assignment Expectations

  • Answer the assignment questions directly.
  • Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
  • For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
  • For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations.
 
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