HRD 323 Assignment Overview

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HRD 323 Finance for Non-Financial Managers Assignment Overview CTRL-click the links below to jump to each assignment’s instructions. You may also manually scroll down through the document. For clarity, each set of instructions is entered on a separate page. Unit 1 Assignment Unit 2 Assignment Unit 3 Assignment Unit 4 Assignment Unit 5 Assignment Unit 5 Mastery Written Assignment Unit 6 Assignment Unit 6 Mastery Presentation Assignment Carefully review all instructions before beginning an assignment. Note that the Mastery Assignments due in Units 5 and 6 are worth 35% of your final grade, so plan your time accordingly! Page 1 of 9
Unit 1 Written Assignment Description For this week’s assignment, you are to prepare a three-to-five-page paper describing how one of the types of financial statement users would use financial statements and which particular items on the three basic financial statements that user would focus on based on their interest. The assignment is worth 50 points. Instructions 1. Review the article Users of Accounting Information (Internal, External, Examples) from Accountingcapital.com. Select one of the groups of users of financial statements to discuss. 2. Review the grading rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. A minimum of 750 words excluding the title page and references is required. Use a minimum of two sources written within the last six years. Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria, as it will be used along with the objectives above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 2 of 9
Unit 2 Written Assignment Description For this week’s assignment, you are to prepare a three-to-five-page paper (at least 750 words) on the reasons for GAAP and why GAAP is required for financial reporting. The assignment is worth 50 points. Instructions 1. Utilize at least three professional journals to prepare a paper discussing the reasons for GAAP and why GAAP is required for preparation of financial statements. 2. Review the grading rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. A minimum of 750 words excluding the title page and references is required. Use a minimum of three sources written within the last 6 years. Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria, as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 3 of 9
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Unit 3 Written Assignment Description For this week’s assignment, you are to prepare a three-to-five page paper based on your calculation of ROA for the Hershey Company for the last three available years. Discuss the positive and negative trends you can identify from the ROA. The assignment is worth 50 points. Instructions 1. Refer to the annual report of Hershey Company available at annualreports.com and calculate the most current three years ROA. Based on the ROA calculation discuss positive and negative trends you are able to identify. 2. Review the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. A minimum of 750 words excluding the title page and references is required. Use a minimum of two sources written within the last six years. Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria, as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 4 of 9
Unit 4 Written Assignment Description For this week’s assignment, you are to prepare a three-to-five page paper based on review of professional journals to discuss how a firm can reduce its breakeven point and the advantages a company realizes from reducing breakeven. The assignment is worth 50 points. Instructions 1. Review at least three relevant professional journals to determine different ways that a firm can reduce its breakeven point and the advantages from reducing breakeven. 2. Review the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. A minimum of 750 words excluding the title page and references is required. Use a minimum of three sources written within the last six years. Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria, as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 5 of 9
Unit 5 Written Assignment Description For this week’s assignment, you are to prepare a three-to-five-page paper discussing the advantages and disadvantages of debt and equity financing. The assignment is worth 50 points. Instructions 1. Using at least three professional journals for support, prepare a paper of at least 750 words discussing the advantages and disadvantages of using debt and equity financing. 2. Review the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. A minimum of 750 words excluding the title page and references is required. Use a minimum of three sources written within the last six years. Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria, as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 6 of 9
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Unit 5 Mastery Written Assignment Description For this mastery assignment, you are to prepare a 1,500-word, APA-formatted paper on the Annual Report of a publicly traded company. This assignment is worth 250 points. Instructions 1. Using the annualreports.com website, select a publicly traded company’s annual report to review. Discuss the strategies that the company is planning, the auditor’s report, and the information from the three basic financial statements. in addition, discuss in detail whether you feel the company would be a good investment over the next three to five years. 2. Review the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. Use at least two scholarly, peer reviewed, journal articles written within the last six years. Expected 1,500-word minimum, excluding title page and references page Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 7 of 9
Unit 6 Written Assignment Description For this week’s assignment, you are to prepare a three-to-five-page paper discussing which capital budgeting technique is most commonly used by publicly traded companies. The assignment is worth 50 points. Instructions: 1. Select an article from a professional journal and prepare a three-to-five-page paper discussing which capital budgeting technique is most used by public companies to determine which project should be accepted. Determine why that method is the most used. 2. Review the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric before submitting your completed assignment to ensure that you are meeting all grading criteria. Requirements: Prepare a quality, substantive paper that addresses the objectives of the assignment and the expectations set forth in the grading rubric. Use at least one scholarly, peer reviewed, journal article written within the last six years. Expected 750-word minimum, excluding title page and references page Use APA style: Refer to APA Resources and the Online Writing Center resources in Academic Resources (see SC College Resources Links) for guidance on writing style and page and citation formatting. Consult the Writing Assignment Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 8 of 9
Unit 6 Mastery Presentation Assignment Description For this mastery presentation assignment, you are to prepare and record a 10-minute narrated video presentation of your analysis of the company’s annual report that you submitted in Unit 5. This assignment is worth 100 points. Instructions Prepare a PowerPoint, Keynote, or Prezi presentation, then, using screen recording tool of your choice, narrate and record your presentation. You must save your recording to the cloud storage so that you can provide a shareable link to the recording. Be sure to include speaker notes. Submit the URL for your recorded presentation along with your speaker notes in Blackboard. Requirements: Prepare a narrated video presentation that meets the assignment objectives, the expectations set forth in the grading rubric , and the General Requirements for Narrated Video Presentations (see Blackboard for the document link). Any screen recording tool may be used to record yourself narrating/presenting your slide show as long as you can provide a shareable link to the recording . There is no required minimum number of slides, but you must cover the salient points of your analysis. Your presentation should include a title slide and a references slide. Citations and references must be in APA format. The recommended length of the narrated video is 10 minutes. Submit your completed presentation materials to Blackboard, as follows: o Copy & paste the shareable link to the Zoom recording into the submission text box. o Attach the slide deck (e.g., PowerPoint) file o Attach speaker notes and/or audio transcript file . o Do NOT submit an mp4 file of the recording! If there is any reason that prevents the creation of a video presentation, please contact your instructor to discuss an alternative. Consult the Presentation Grading Rubric to ensure you are meeting the assignment’s criteria, as it will be used along with the objectives listed above to assess your work. Return to the top of the document Page 9 of 9
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