Com 140 week 7 discussion question 2

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Business - General Business
Week 1
Discussion1 :
Company Growth
Please respond to the following:
•Imagine a startup company of your own and briefly trace its
development from a sole proprietorship to a major
corporation with a focus on how that development would be
financed.
Week 1 Discussion 2:
Impact of Financial Concepts
Please respond to the following:
•Discuss ways that the basic concepts we have discussed in
this chapter directly impact your life. Provide specific
examples to support your response.
Week2 discussion 1:
Investment Information
Please respond to the following:
•Assume you are deciding whether or not to invest in a
particular company. Discuss which elements of which
financial statements you would want to carefully examine.
Explain your rationale.
Week 2 discussion 2:

2. From the e-Activity, determine if the company you analyzed
would be a good investment for you or not. Provide specific
examples to support your response
Week3 discussion 1:
Retirement Planning
Please respond to the following:
•Starting with your current situation, describe what you must
do to ensure an annual retirement income of $60,000
starting at age 65.
Week 3 discussion 2:
Bond Valuation
Please respond to the following:
•Discuss the impact of Standard Poor’s downgrading the U.S.
credit rating in 2011. Address current and likely future impact
on U.S. business, individuals, the global economy and current
financial practices. Provide specific examples to support your
response.
Week 4 discussion 1:
Risk Assessment
Please respond to the following:
Drawing on what you discovered in the e-Activity, discuss
how instances of corporate mismanagement or fraud should
be taken into account when assessing the risks associated
with certain types of investments.
Week 4 discussion 2:
Stocks and Market Equilibrium
Please respond to the following:
•Discuss the non-rational factors that may have a role in the
valuation of stocks and stock market equilibrium. Provide
specific examples to support your response.
Week 5 discussion 1:

3. Stock Options
Please respond to the following:
•Based on what you discovered in the e-Activity, determine
the best way the company you research could leverage stock
options to offset employee compensation. Explain your
rationale.
Week 5 discussion 2:
Cost of Capital
Please respond to the following:
Analyze the various ways to determine the cost of capital and
determine which is the most difficult to get right. Explain
your rationale.
Wee k 6 discussion 1:
Capital Budgeting
Please respond to the following:
•Based on what you discovered in the e-Activity, make at
least two recommendations for regarding how your selected
company should approach its capital budgeting. Explain the
reasoning behind your recommendations
Week 6 discussion 2:
Stress Tests
Please respond to the following:
•Analyze the concept of “stress test” as applied to financial
institutions and create a better alternative for assessing the
viability of a financial institution.
Week 7 discussion 1:
Forecasting Financial Statements
Please respond to the following:
Analyze the process of forecasting financial statements and
make at least one recommendation for improving the
accuracy of forecasts. Provide specific examples to support

4. your response.
Week 7 discussion 2:
Corporate Valuations
Please respond to the following:
Drawing on what you discovered in the e-Activity, determine
what additional steps can be taken in the valuation of a
corporation to avoid instances like the one you researched
from occurring in the future. Provide specific examples to
support your response
Week 8 discussion 1:
Free Cash Flow
Please respond to the following:
Based on what you discovered in the e-Activity, determine
how the company you selected should address its free cash
flow, either through distributions to shareholders or
repurchasing of stock. Explain your rationale.
Week 8 discussion 2:
Capital Structure Decisions
Please respond to the following:
Analyze the approaches to capital structure decisions and
determine which theory is the most applicable across the
widest number of scenarios. Explain your rationale.
Week 9 discussion 1:
Working Capital Management
Please respond to the following:
Based on the content of this chapter and what you
discovered in the e-Activity, analyze cash management
technology and make at least one recommendation for
another technique that would enhance working capital
management. Explain the reasoning behind your
recommendation.

5. Week 9 discussion 2
Raising Capital
Please respond to the following:
Create an idea for a startup venture and discuss the most
viable way to raise the working capital to get the startup
running. Explain your rationale.
Week 10 discussion 1:
International Risk
Please respond to the following:
Based on what you uncovered in the e-Activity, determine
the most significant risk factors associated with investing in
the company you selected when compared with investing in
a domestic company. Provide specific examples to support
your response
Week 10 discussion 2:
Policy Changes
Please respond to the following:
Recommend three policy changes that would make the
Federal Reserve’s job of controlling U.S. interest rates easier.
Explain your reasoning
Week 11 discussion 1
Looking Back
Please respond to the following:
· Reflect on the lessons learned during this class and discuss
the most interesting or surprising thing you learned. Explain
what made it so.
· Summarize what you learned in this course in 140
characters or less (something you could post on Twitter).
Week 11 discussion 2:
Looking Ahead
Please respond to the following:

6. Discuss how you plan on using what you learned in this
course in your current or future position. What will prove to
be the most valuable?
Discuss how someone who is not in the financial profession
would use what you have learned in this class. Provide
specific examples to support your response
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