• Review the Fraud Risk Factors. Choose one (1) factor which you believe is the most important. Justify your response. Next, choose one (1) factor and determine two (2) policies that a company could put in place in order to counter the risk factor in question.
• Review the types of enterprise systems. Next, imagine that you are an IT organizational leader in a mid-sized company, and determine the type of enterprise system that your company would choose for an initial implementation if your company were to move away from legacy systems. Provide a rationale for your response.

 

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For this week’s assignment, you will need to complete an APA formatted annotated bibliography and an outline for your Accounting Standard Information paper. (You don’t turn in the actual paper until Week 06.) 

As background for your bibliography and outline:

Research the history of the accounting standard setting process and the current standard used by the country that you have selected.

Your outline should provide a map for your Week 06 paper in which you discuss how accounting standards are set (including a brief history), the influences of economic, and political, financial and cultural factors in the standard setting process, and the future of the standard setting process.

Also, measure the potential impact of ethical issues on stakeholders if the company does not follow the country’s laws.

Your APA formatted bibliography and outline come out of your early research for the project.

Please include at least 4 resources in your annotated bibliography. You should use only credible sources for your research.

Credible sources are reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study (all scholarly sources are credible sources). You want to identify sources where the author of the article is listed, if they’ve referenced other information, the sources should be cited so that you can check for the accuracy of and support what they have written. Wikipedia is not considered a credible source. 

You will also need to use the Rasmussen Online Library database to locate at least 2 journal articles on the subject.

Use APA formatting to document your sources.

 

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****Note this is a Financial Performance and Health report that should be written in 3 pages APA Style***

** Company is BOFA- Bank of America**

**References are needed**

Please follow the paper requirements..

After reviewing your chosen company’s organization context, you will conduct a financial analysis of the company’s financial statements for the last three consecutive years. Your analysis should include the review and interpretation of data from the following financial statements: the income statement, the balance sheet, statement of cash flow, and statement of retained earnings. Based on the review of the financial statements, assess the organization’s financial performance and financial health. Provide support for your assessment.

Prompt:

As a newly-hired manager at a company of your choosing, your first task is to review the company’s past and current financial performance and health and make initial financial projections in order to begin planning for the upcoming year. Your report will include several financial tables, along with a comprehensive narrative describing the organization’s context, financial performance, and health. Note that, in addition to the organization’s financial statements and website, other authoritative news sources—such as annual reports and external sites like Bloomberg.com—may offer insights that facilitate analysis or provide information on the organization’s priorities, challenges, and geographic distribution. In particular, you must cover:

A. Organizational Context

1. What key features of the organization (e.g., major products or services, customers, location, etc.) help set the boundaries for business decisions? In other words, what key goods or services does your organization provide, for whom, where, and why?

2. How is the company organized and managed (e.g., by product groups, geographic region, function, etc.)? How does that affect accounting and financial information and subsequent business decisions?

B. Recent Financial Performance

1. Assess what the organization’s consolidated income statements for the last three years say about its financial performance. Use relevant indicators, graphs, and spreadsheets to support your narrative. (Include all spreadsheets in an appendix.) For example, what do the amounts and year-to-year changes in revenue, operating income, net profit or loss, and Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization tell you? Do any items stand out?

2. Assess what the organization’s consolidated cash flow statements for the same time period say about its financial performance. Use relevant indicators, graphs, and spreadsheets to support your narrative. For example, what do the amounts and year-to-year changes in cash from operating activities, cash from investing, cash from financing, and total cash flow tell you? Do any items stand out?

3. Assess the organization’s underlying financial performance. Support your answer with the analysis above and relevant research. For example, is recent performance substantially affected by unusual events such as a major acquisition or spin-off? Is the business thriving or struggling in its industry? How do you know? .

Current Financial Health

1. Assess how the organization is capitalized and what that tells you about its financial health. Support your response with relevant graphs, spreadsheets, and indicators such as “cash and cash equivalents,” total debt, shareholders’ equity, current ratio, debt/equity ratio, and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). For example, does the organization have enough cash for payroll and other bills? Does it have the right mix of debt versus equity (stock)? How do you know?

2. Does the organization have the right amount of cash and other resources (e.g., key people, technologies, reputation, physical assets, etc.) to fuel future growth? What does this suggest for business decisions? For example, if it has too much cash, should it pay a large dividend, repurchase its own shares, or reinvest the excess funds?

3. Assess the financial value of the company using relevant indicators. What does your assessment imply for future business health and performance? For example, what is the business’s current market value? What is its price-to-earnings ratio? What do these suggest about investor perceptions of the business’s future?

 

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Ethics Around the Globe: Project for Business and Accounting students

You are the controller at a medium sized sports apparel company. Your sales manager has just signed a contract with the US Olympic committee to produce warm weather clothing for the downhill ski team. This contract would increase your revenues by 20% for next year as well as create exposure for your name and brand. In short, you think it would bring in future business. Your business model focuses on American Made products as well as quality.

As you investigate the sales manager’s proposal to the Olympic committee you find that the mark-up on the products is just 10% of total costs. This concerns you because on average, your mark-up percent is 40% of total costs. This means if anything unexpected happens with production, this contract could quickly go from being profitable to losing money for the company.

As you gather a team to discuss the risks and opportunities associated with this project, the sales manager is strongly pushing to accept the contract and to “let production deal with the risks”. The Vice President (VP) of Production states that if the cutting and sewing were outsourced to an emerging market producer, the labor costs could be reduced and the risk of the project losing money would be greatly reduced. He reasoned that the materials are still American made; just the assembly is done in another country. The VP of Production has a country in mind. The wages paid in this foreign country are one fifth those paid in the US and there are no benefits attached to those wages. This country does not impose any tariffs so shipping and importing costs would be very low. The VP’s knowledge is coming from his brother-in-law who works in this country. He could take care of any government fees, setting up the factory and finding workers. The VP has never seen the workers who would be hired or the working conditions in the factory.

Part 3:

In this last part of the project, imagine yourself as the CEO of this company. Consider the four ethical perspectives you addressed so far for this project. Choose the ethical perspective you believe is best. Using this as a foundation, explain in detail what the company will do in this matter and why. Describe the benefits and draw backs of your decision. How would you explain this decision to shareholders and employees?

Your response should be 2-4 pages in APA format with in text citations and references.

 

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Need help writing a one page for both part 1 and 2 questions. Attached is human resource and account/finance SAW, which are completed in 3.0 and 4.0. Just need reflection write up.

Part 1:

Prepare a one-page reflection writes up on human resource and accounting/finance, which addresses the following questions:

How is establishing a purpose statement and performance standards important to being an effective manager?

How does this section support the other sections of the SAW?

What research was used to support your work? Use APA style and formatting to cite your sources.

What current or past experiences did you draw from, if any?

Part 2

Attached is Memo: Doubling Sales from the Resources. Read the memo and determine how you will summarize it in your cover letter.

After evaluating the role of a manger, prepare a cover letter that will presumably be attached to the CEO memo. The cover letter should reflect these qualities:

Summarize the main points of the memo, highlighting and reiterating key points of the CEO memo.

-Reflect a writing level that is appropriate to your readers. Keep in mind these two factors:

Your readers are the employees of your functional area that you manage, and the appropriate reading difficulty level is between sixth- and eighth-grade reading levels.

-Use active voice.

-Be clear and concise. Keep the total length within one page.

-Contain a well-crafted message, reflecting a style that promotes trust and builds collaboration.

-Prepare your cover letter as a new memo. Your cover letter should have your name in the from: field and also an appropriate Re: subject title.

-List the resources that you used in helping to prepare this assignment. Include these resources on a separate page and format them according to APA style and formatting guidelines.

 

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