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ACCT 2101 Project Instructions
ACCT 2101 Project Instructions
What to turn in: A typed, printed copy of your report and a printed copy of the financial statements. These must be neatly stapled together and submitted in class on or before the due date listed in the schedule. No exceptions. If you know or think you will be absent on the due date, please turn in your report early. This includes absences for GGC athletic events or other GGC sponsored activities. Five points will be deducted from your project grade for reports that are not stapled. Reports will not be accepted over email. You cannot use The Home Depot as this was our class example.
Report format: Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced, one-inch margins, length is 2 -3 pages.
About the assignment: Select a company that is publicly traded in the United States. Go to sec.gov and look up the annual report for a company. This document is called a Form 10-K. For the most recent year available, print out copies of the Income Statement, Statement of Retained Earnings, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows. Remember, the statements may have different names. Examples of alternative names can be found at the end of the textbook. Do not print the entire 10-K.
Select 3 financial ratios from the textbook and use the information from the financial statements to calculate the ratios. At the end of the textbook there is a list of financial ratios titled “Analyses.” There is also one or more ratios listed at the end of each chapter. Any 3 ratios may be selected from these sources.
Briefly research your company and its history.
Report Contents:
1) The introduction should describe the company. For example, what does the company do, where the company is located, when was it established, etc.
2) The body of the report should discuss the results of your financial ratio calculations. Be sure to include the name of the ratio and the formula. Then, show the calculations typed out. Lastly, interpret the ratio; this means describe what the ratio is telling you.
3) The conclusion of the report should include your opinion about whether or not you would invest in the company and why.
Grading Rubric
The following describes how the project will be graded. I start with 100 points and deduct points as follows:
IssuePoints Deducted
-Financial Statement(s) not included10 points each statement
-Financial Statement not printed from SEC.gov10 points
-Ratio(s) not included, report contents #25 points each
-Report contents #1 and #3 not included5 points each
-Grammar, writing style, calculations, format1 to 20 points
-Report not stapled5 points
Capstone Portfolio Discussion
Capstone Portfolio Discussion
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Capstone Portfolio Discussion
The artifacts I selected are the personal statement, plans for the future, and the video practice interview. I may exhibit effective future planning and career development when these items are put together. As such, the three artifacts address my profitable need using several approaches.
The items that demonstrate what I value in life when put together are the plans for the future and the video practice interview. Video practice interviews and plans for the future generate the paradigm through which I can easily plan my social and economic life. Also, they act as a reflection of career and professional behavior.
When put together, the personal statement and plans for the future show how I have made my liberal studies degree work. The functionality of my Liberal Studies degree gets based on individual plans and the need to adjust to my personal needs. Also, the two items act as a driver to achieving academic excellence.
The items that, when put together, illustrate my career goals are the personal statement and the plans for the future. A personal statement creates a systematic strategy toward an individual mission. Also, I can plan for the future to achieve my career goals.
Notably, the items that illustrate the kind of work and the intellectual pursuits I find rewarding are the plan for the video interview and the personal statement. A personal statement describes the intellectual capacity, which defines the ability of an individual to have comprehensive reasoning. Planning for the video interview creates a systematic approach to achieving the targeted work.
Moreover, the items that show the transformation I have undergone are the plan for the video interview and the personal statement. A personal statement enables me to reflect on the past to make future moves. Also, the plans for the video interview create a contemporary job-seeking comparison with the historical interview that was majorly physical.
Most importantly, the items that, when put together, show who I am as a student are a personal statement and plans for the future. Planning for the future characterizes the vision of students. A personal statement describes the present nature of the student.
Furthermore, the items that set me apart from the other IDS majors are my statements and my plans for the future. Plans for the future create dynamic moves that are different from the moves of other IDS majors. Alternatively, the personal statement distinguishes a person from the group.
Last but not least, the items that, when put together, show something else are the plans for the future and the plan for the video interview. Plan for the video interview provides an analysis of the positive nature of the career. In conjunction, the plan for the future provides a systematic move through which a strategic plan is exhibited for positive production.
Moral Standing in Business
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Moral Standing in Business
The anthropocentric or human-centeredness point of view believes that only creatures with the ability to think and reason rationally have moral standings. This means that animals, plants and ecosystems lack moral rights because they may not have absolute value and their welfare may not be considered for their own sake. Thus, the welfare of the nonliving creatures only matters if they are of benefit to humans. However, Albert Schweitzer, a renowned philosopher, challenged the theory that only humans matter morally.
Albert Schweitzer proposed that all living entities including plants, animals and trees have rights, which should be respected by human beings. He believed that non-human entities especially animals have interests and moral rights because they have independent lives that deserve protection and respectful consideration. In addition, he emphasizes that all living creatures have moral standings since they have interests that deserve reverence. The discipline of philosophy called environmental ethics studies the relation of human beings to non-human entities.
Businesses have direct ethical duties to non-living creatures other than human beings because these creatures have interests and beneficial contribution to the environment. In addition, they have industrial uses and play a role in ecological balance. Destruction of ecosystems and cutting down of trees will destroy the environment and will deprive some industries essential raw materials. Animals such as cows also have immense contributions to entities like the dairy and meat industries. Therefore, nonliving creatures also deserve direct ethical recognition by business entities.
I have referred to the different theories held by various philosophers and analyzed them to answer questions about moral standing. I believe that all creatures whether human or otherwise deserve respect and recognition since they have interests and value in their own right. Therefore, all objects count and are significant to the environment in one way or another.