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Unit 3 [217: Finance] 1 of 4 Assignment : Team Assignment Grading Rubric You have an opportunity to work with your classmates as teams. The ability to interact and solve problems together — even at a distance — is a key skill in today's business environment. You have been assigned to a Team (i.e., depending on course enrolment, a five or si x person group working as a team) to answer the Case Assignment instructions below. One person from the group is to turn in the Assignment f or the group in the Dropbox. Each person in the group must turn in their individual peer evaluations to their Dropbox to receive credit f or the Assignment. The Team Peer Evaluation Form is f ound in Course Documents and will be individual ly submitted in addition to the one group submission of t he case an alysis. This Assi gnment will assess your knowl edge based on the foll owi ng outcome: PC -1.1: Engage in a team setting with prof essional integrity and respect. Supplem ental Res ource (not required) - The eText below can be f ound in the Library: Lipsinger, R., & DeRos a, D. (2010). Virtual team success: A practical guide f or working and leading from a distance. Hoboken, NJ: John W iley & Sons, Inc. can be a very helpful resource f or this, and subsequent virtual team projects. Pleas e note the sections on social loaf ing (pp. 67 –68, 78 –88). Pages 76, 107 and 138 are helpful Ref erence Guides intended to help you troublesh oot your virtual team. Opti onal Gui deline E xperience has shown the f ollowing timeline to be helpf ul. Please do not f eel constrained by this time line; it is not a graded item. Unit 3: W ednes day — Greet each other in the Team Discussion Board. Unit 3: Thursday — Determine who will lead the projec t, who will do which parts, by when, what your communication expectations are and when you will be meeting next. Unit 3: Friday — Conf irmation of delegated duties. Delegated parties accept their delegated duty. Unit 3: Saturday — Project Leader reassigns any duties not accepted by individuals on the team. Unit 3: Sunday — Submit draft parts to Project Leader. Project Leader posts draf t of the paper in the Team Discussion Board. Unit 3: Monday — Team edits/impro ves the draft Assignment deliverable. Unit 3: Tuesday — One team mem ber submits the paper. Individual Team Peer Evaluation Form must be submitted to receive a grade f or the Assignment. Unit 3 [217: Finance] 2 of 4 Som e learners have f ound this to be a helpful guide f or their first meeting… or initial DB posts. AGE NDA : Determine project leadership. Determine the specifications, resources, and timelines f or the project.

Determine communication protocol. Determine next meeting. Assignment: Perform Fi nancial Statement Anal ysis Ratio analysis can provide both internal and external users with a tremendous am ount of inf ormation about firm perf ormance. Select a publicly traded firm from the list bel ow. Con duct a ratio analysis of the firm and report your findings. Disney Apple Gene ral Motors Ford Motor Com pan y W al -Mart Instructi ons Compl ete a ratio anal ysis on the company f or three years. Include the ratio, its results and what the results mean f or the com pan y. W ere there changes in the ratios, what could have caused the change? (L iquidity ratios, profitability ratios, activity ratios, financing ratios, and market ratios). The paper should include an individual evaluation section f or each ratio then an overall comparison to validate your conclusion. Once the ratio anal ysis is comp leted answer the foll owi ng questions. 1. Does the f irm have an y problem areas that you would investigate f urther if you were a manager? 2. Are ther e any other specific piec es of inf ormation that you would request from your managem ent team with regards to this firm? If so, why? 3. W ould you invest money in this firm based on your analysis? Criteria: Your paper should use correct APA f ormatting f or your in -text citations to justif y your discussion and place ref erences at the bottom of the paper. Avoid using quotations, you should paraphrase the material and use an in -text citation to give credit to the ref erence. Review the APA f ormats f oun d in the W riting Center. Incl ude i n your fi nal paper: Cover page with each team mem ber’s name that participated on the team project Introduction Analysis Conclusion Ref erence page Unit 3 [217: Finance] 3 of 4 Directi ons for submitti ng your Team paper Make sure that you save a copy of the paper you submit. 1. To submit your paper, have one mem ber of your group go to the Dropbox and select Unit 3: Assignment and f ollow the instructions. 2. Individually, each member of the grou p completes the peer evaluation f orm and individually submits the peer evaluation to the Unit 3 Team P eer Evaluation Dropbox. (file nam e: Kris.Kringle.peer.evaluation.unit -3) Unit 3 Assi gnment : Team Assi gnme n t Financial Statement Anal ysis Possible Poi nts Poi nts Earned Content: 50 points Response successfully answers the Assignment question(s); thoroughly uses the text and other literature. Includes a strong thesis statement, introduction and conclusion. The main points of the paper are developed clearly. All arguments are supported well ( no errors in logic) using outside sources as assigned. 20 Sources are primarily academic journals, with thoughtful use W eb sources. Ref erences are applied substantively to the paper topic.

Skillfully addresses counter -arguments and does not ignore data contradicting its claim. Ref ers to sources both in -text and i n the ref erence page. 20 Achievem ent of a well -synthesized paper using contributions from team participants to achieve a paper that resem bles the collective talents of the group. Team mem ber perf ormed with integrity and respect towards other participants of the team (peer evaluati on). Points will be deducted if the Peer E valuation Form is not submitted to the Dropbox. 10 Anal ysis: 30 points Response exhibits strong higher -order critical thinking and anal ysis (e.g., evaluation). Paper shows original thought. 10 Analysis includes proper classifications, expl anations, comparisons and inf erences. 10 Critical thinking includes appropriate judgm ents, conclusions and assessment based on evaluation and synthesis of inf ormation. 10 Writing: 20 points Grammatical skills are strong with typically less than one error per page. Correct use of APA. 6 Unit 3 [217: Finance] 4 of 4 Appropriate to the Assignment, fresh (interesting to read), accurate, (no f ar -f etched, unsupported comments), precise (say what you mean), and concise (not wordy). 8 Project is in 12 -point f ont. Narrative sections are dou ble - spac ed with a dou ble spac e between. Project is free of serious errors; grammar, punctuation, and spelling help to clarif y the meaning by f ollowing accepted conventions. 6 Total 100