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Review Case Three in The Tanglewood Casebook . You will find specific details on the last page of Case 3 in the casebook. Complete questions 1 – 6.

Describes How being a resident of public housing and attending a XXX (Please notice that the information about the college will be provided to the assigned writer) college is helping you to achieve your professional goals?

Review LSBF Global MBA – Case Study: Wal-Mart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=159v-_JEr0s
What are the pros and cons of using the strategic audit as a framework for case analysis? Choose one section of the case analysis discussed in Chapter 12 and apply this to Wal-Mart. Please use the case analysis below to apply to Wal-Mart.
Identifying Red Flags:
Howard Schilit, founder of the Center for Financial Research & Analysis (CFRA), works with a staff of 15 analysts to screen financial databases and analyze public financial filings of 3600 companies, looking for inconsistencies and aggressive accounting methods. Schilit calls this search for hidden weaknesses in a company’s performance forensic accounting. He advises anyone interested in analyzing a company to look deeply into its financial statements. For example, when the CFRA noticed that Kraft Foods made $122 million in acquisitions in 2002, but claimed $539 million as “goodwill” assets related to the purchases, it concluded that Kraft was padding its earnings with one-time gains. According to Schilit, unusually high goodwill gains related to recent acquisitions is a red flag that suggests an underlying problem.
Schilit proposes a short checklist of items to examine for red flags:
Cash flow from operations should exceed net income: If cash flow from operations drops below net income, it could mean that the company is propping up its earnings by selling assets, borrowing cash, or shuffling numbers. Says Schilit, “You could have spotted the problems at Enron by just doing this.”
Accounts receivable should not grow faster than sales: A firm facing slowing sales can make itself look better by inflating accounts receivable with expected future sales and by making sales to customers who are not creditworthy. “It’s like mailing a contract to a dead person and then counting it as a sale,” says Schilit.
Gross margins should not fluctuate over time: A change of more than 2% in either direction from year to year is worth a closer look. It could mean that the company is using other revenue, such as sales of assets or write-offs to boost profits. Sunbeam reported an increase of 10% in gross margins just before it was investigated by the SEC.
Examine carefully information about top management and the board: When Schilit learned that the chairman of Checkers Restaurants had put his two young sons on the board, he warned investors of nepotism. Two years later, Checkers’ huge debt caused its stock to fall 85% and all three family members were forced out of the company.
Footnotes are important: When companies change their accounting assumptions to make the statements more attractive, they often bury their rationale in the footnotes.
Schilit makes his living analyzing companies and selling his reports to investors. Annual reports and financial statements provide a lot of information about a company’s health, but it’s hard to find problem areas when management is massaging the numbers to make the company appear more attractive than it is. That’s why Michelle Leder created her Web site, www.footnoted.org. She likes to highlight “the things that companies bury in their routine SEC filings.” This type of in-depth, investigative analysis is a key part of analyzing strategy cases. This chapter provides various analytical techniques and suggestions for conducting this kind of case analysis.

Select a movie from AFI’s 10 Top 10 lists (http://www.afi.com/10top10/) and explain how three cinematic techniques and/or design elements have helped establish a major theme in that film. Note: While you are allowed to choose a film that does not come from the AFI lists, you are strongly encouraged to email your professor to receive approval before doing so.
Describe a major theme of the movie you have selected using evidence from the movie itself as well as course resources and other scholarly sources to support your position.
Identify at least three techniques (cinematography, lighting, acting style, or direction) and/or design elements (set design, costuming, or hair and makeup), and explain how these techniques and/or design elements contribute to the establishment of the theme. Reference particular scenes or sequences in your explanations.
State your opinion regarding the mise en scène, including
How the elements work together.
How congruent the design elements are with the theme of the movie.
Whether or not other techniques would be as effective (Explain your reasoning).
Note: Remember that a theme is an overarching idea that recurs throughout the plot of a film. It is the distilled essence of what the film is about, the main design which the specific scenes and actions lead a viewer to understand.
Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how the elements of your chosen feature-length film both establish and maintain one of its major themes.
The paper must be 800 to 1200 words in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Assignment Question:
Quoted companies have various alternative long-term sources of finance open to them in the form of share capital and debt. From a company’s perspective, debt is cheaper than shareholders’ funds. It follows from this that companies can minimise their weighted average cost of capital (WACC) by integrating a sensible level of gearing into their capital structure.
Select a quoted company (preferably geared) from within any of the following sectors: Chemicals, Food producers, General retailers, Health care equipment and services and Software & computer services.
Critically discuss the following using the quoted company selected:
1. The various external sources of finance available to the company. These sources of finance must be clearly identified, carefully explained and distinguished. 2. The possible considerations that may have been taken into account by the management when choosing the type of finance. All the relevant considerations explained and placed clearly in the context of the particular circumstances of the chosen quoted company.
3. The calculation of the WACC appears to be straightforward in theory but difficult in practice. Using all available information calculate the WACC of the chosen company. Evaluate the information available to calculate the WACC and the practical problems/difficulties that may be encountered for the chosen company.4. What are your conclusions and recommendations on the capital structure of the chosen company?
Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to:
Critically evaluate the most appropriate sources for financing, how to raise it, and what are the conditioning factors within localized and global market contexts, which need to be considered when taking decisions on these matters

Develop a three page comparison of true and quasi experimental designs using APA style and format. Include the following components in your comparison: differences, similarities, types of each design, and threats to internal and external validity, sources of confusion or confounding. Submit in the drop box. Three recent references and APA format are required. Be sure to STUDY the rubric to meet all the specific requirements for this assignment and to guide you for ease of submission. Article are to be no older than 2005.

Globalization and Business
LEARNING ACTIVITIES BREAKDOWN
Learning Activity 1
Topic
Globalization and Business 101.
Learning Objective
To better understand the historical development of globalization from antiquity to the current age.
Introduction
In this activity, the student will learn the meaning of globalization by studying its history in antiquity, known as “archaic globalization”, as well as studying two basic sociological theories of globalization, the Modernization and the Dependency Theory. The student will also review globalization in the post World War II era, mostly the Bretton Woods Summit, the founding of the United Nations, the Nixon financial reforms of 1972, and the four pillars of globalization: Economy, Politics, Culture and Technology.
Instructions
Forum 1: please use 1 page to answer this question separate.
1) Has globalization been around for thousands of years like some experts claim, or is it really a modern phenomenon?
Assignment 1:Please use 2 pages for the assignment.
Conduct online research on the modernization theory and the dependency theory. Prepare a 2 page report examining the basic ideas of both theories. In your opinion, choose one theory over the other.

Industrial Organization
Landmark Antitrust Case Study Assignment
I. Your assigned cases are posted on BB. Research your case, beginning with an easy source, such as Wikipedia, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and other similar sources. The use Lexus Nexus (the legal data base) for more details about the case.
II. Use the template below to report your research. Your grade will be determined by the overall quality of your research in conjunction with your analysis reported in item #8 below. Item #8 carries 40% of the weight for the grade of this assignment. The weight for items 1-7 is 60% of the grade.
1. Write a 100- word abstract of the case, including the date of the case.
2. Describe the provision of the US Antirust Law invoked to judge presence of anticompetitive behavior or potential of for moving the industry in that direction.
3. Describe the basis for the ruling and action that pertain to all OR some of the following factors:
4. The extent and trend in competition and expected in the future: Industry Structure and trend and projection for the future [based on the past, mostly]; CR4, CR8 and
5. HHI, specially in cases of mergers
– Market Structure
– The line of product[s] in question (cross elasticity of demand)
– The geographical domain of the product/firm and its relation to “monopolization” or “dominance”
– Trend in the firm’s profits
– Growth in “market power”
– Barrier to entry
6. Describe the “conduct” in question.
7. Non-price Strategies the defendant had used and describe how.
8. Describe the effect of the defendant’s “conduct” on other firms (or the main rival) in the industry.
9. Describe the initial legal action taken against or in-favor of the defendant.
10. Describe any subsequent legal action in the case (such as the Supreme Court), if any.
11. Carefully describe how the model of Structure-Conduct-Performance has been applied in the case under consideration. [The weight for this question is 40% of the grade.]

Develop a word paper in which your describe various aspects of the chosen facility (Golden Living Community,located in Independence, Missouri).
Respond to the following:
How are the family and/or provider roles considered in the selection? (150 – Words)
What resources are available for the patient, family and/or provider? (150 – Words)
How is this facility marketing itself? Is it competitive? (100 -words)
Conclusion (35 words) I do not need an introduction.
Answer the following question separate: This question has nothing to do with the above assignment.
How much money should be spent on medical care for the aging population? Why? (115- words)

Future Status of Puerto Rico Assignment: for decades the island has been divided between those seeking statehood versus those wishing to remain a Commonwealth (plus a smaller number seeking independence). Once again the Congress is encouraging the island to determine its future. Go to such sites as http://welcome.topuertorico.org (Links to an external site.) and http://www.puertoricousa.com (Links to an external site.)) to familiarize yourself with materials dealing with the debate about the island’s future. You may need to Google for information on parties since links do not always work for the party sites. Also, the Puerto Rico Herald does frequent opinion polls on the choices.

3.Submit your answers to the following questions in a 4-page, double-spaced essay: a.What were the results of the referendums over the past decades?
b.What are the positions of the major political parties of Puerto Rico on the issue?
c.What are the advantages and disadvantages of the choices open to the island?
d.What is your position? Why?