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1. Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices
impact financial management.Write clearly and concisely
about financial management using proper writing mechanics
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Research Hub, located in the left menu of your course in
Blackboard. Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which
you:
1.
2.
3. 4.
5. Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating
the significant
economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this
stock.
Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable
investment
for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.
Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in
the text.
Analyze the past three (3) years of the selected financial ratios for
the company; you
may obtain this information fromthe company’s financial
statements. Determine the

2. company’s financial health. (Note:Suggested ratios include, but
are not limited to,
current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings
ratio.)
Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the
stock from your
investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use
in order to minimize
these perceived risks.
Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment
opportunity.
Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed
articles, material from
the Strayer Learning Resource Center, and reviews by market
analysts. 6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not
qualify as academic
resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman
font (size 12), with oneinch margins on all sides; citations and
references must follow APA or school-specific
format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The
cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required assignment page
length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment
are: Critique financial management strategies that support
business operations in
various market environments.
Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions,
and taxation
effects.

3. Review fixed income strategies using time value of money
concept, bond
valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project
risks and
returns.
Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial
management.
Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact
financial
management.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
financial
management.
Write clearly and concisely about financial management using
proper writing
mechanics.
Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment. Grading
for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic /
organization of the paper, and
language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 300 Assignment 1: Financial Research Report
Exemplary Criteria
90-100% A 1. Provide a rationale for the stock that you
selected, indicating the significant economic,
financial, and other factors that led you to consider
this stock. Thoroughly provided a rationale for the stock that
you selected, indicating the significant economic,
financial, and other factors that led you to
consider this stock. Weight: 15% 2. Suggest the primary reasons
why the selected
stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include

4. a description of your client’s profile.
Weight: 15% Thoroughly suggested the primary reasons why
the selected stock is a suitable investment for
your client. Thoroughly included a description of
your client’s profile. 3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you
have
learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3)
years of the selected financial ratios for the
company; you may obtain this information from the
company’s financial statements. Determine the
company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios
include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick
ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.) Thoroughly
selected any five (5) financial ratios
that you have learned about in the text.
Thoroughly analyzed the past three (3) years of
the selected financial ratios for the company; you
may obtain this information fromthe company’s
financial statements. Thoroughly determined the
company’s financial health. Weight: 20% 4. Based on your
financial review, determine the risk
level of the stock from your investor’s point of view.
Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to
minimize these perceived risks. Thoroughly determined the risk
level of the stock
from your investor’s point of view based on your
financial review. Thoroughly indicated key
strategies that you may use in order to minimize Weight: 15%
these perceived risks. 5. Provide your recommendations of this
stock as an
investment opportunity. Support your rationale with
resources, such as peer-reviewed articles, material
from the Strayer Learning Resource Center, and
reviews by market analysts. Thoroughly provided your
recommendations of

5. this stock as an investment opportunity.
Thoroughly supported your rationale with
resources, such as peer-reviewed articles,
material from the Strayer Learning Resource
Center, and reviews by market analysts. Weight: 20% 6. 5
references Exceeds number of required references;all
references high quality choices.
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant
to Rule 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein,
and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in
definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by
reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this
Form 10-K.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large
accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a
smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large
accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, and “smaller reporting
company”
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (Check one).
Large accelerated filer Accelerated filer Non-accelerated filer (do
not check if smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting
company Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell
company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes No The
aggregate market value of common stock held by non-affiliates
(based on the closing price on the last business day of
the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter as
reported on the New York Stock Exchange-Composite
Transactions) was $160.9 billion. All executive officers and
directors of the registrant and all persons filing a Schedule 13D
with
the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect to registrant’s
common stock have been deemed, solely for the purpose of
the foregoing calculation, to be “affiliates” of the registrant.