Scenario: You are a loan officer for White Sands Bank of Taos. Paul Jason, president of P. Jason Corporation, has just left your office. He is interested in an 8-year loan to expand the company’s operations. The borrowed funds would be used to purchase new equipment. As evidence of the company’s debt-worthiness, Jason provided you with facts (available in the attached Scenario Worksheet). Jason is a very insistent (some would say pushy) man. When you told him you would need additional information before making your decision, he acted offended and said, “What more could you possibly want to know?” You responded you would, at minimum, need complete, audited financial statements.

Develop a minimum 700-word examination of the financial statements and include the following:

• Explain why you would want the financial statements to be audited.
• Discuss the implications of the ratios provided for the lending decision you are to make. That is, does the information paint a favorable picture? Are these ratios relevant to the decision? State why or why not.
• Evaluate trends in the performance of P. Jason Corporation. Identify each performance measure as favorable or unfavorable and explain the significance of each.
• List three other ratios you would want to calculate for P. Jason Corporation, and in your own words explain in detail why you would use each.
• As the loan officer, what else would you do to gain a better understanding of Paul Jason’s, and the Corporation’s financial picture and why?
• Based on your analysis of P. Jason Corporation, will you recommend approval for the requested loan? Provide specific details to support your decision.

Format the assignment according to APA guidelines.

Paper required.

Outline required for oral presentation

Outline required for paper

This assignment requires the MBA student to demonstrate highly developed and professional communication skills needed by effective business professionals.

The assigned requires two parts:

1.The submission of a strategy analysis paper (80 pts)

2.A professional short oral presentation of the key findings of their strategyanalysis (20 pts)

Study the following article:

Porter, M.E. (2008). The five competitive forces that shape strategy. Harvard Business Review, 86(1), 79-93..

In this business analysis paper students are to thoroughly analyze the company WD-40 and prepare a five forces analysis specific to the assigned company and industry.

Guidelines for the paper:

• Provide a brief introduction to the company WD-40 (e.g. what is its business, in what market is it, how long has it been in business, etc.)
• Apply each of Porter’s five forces to your assigned company, indicating the threat level (e.g. high, moderate or low), why you have made this assessment.
• Do NOT make recommendations for addressing these threats; only provide your assessment of the threats.
• Discuss one or more ethical considerations that are faced by either your assigned company or the market in which they operate.
• Include a graphic of the Five Forces model that provides a bulleted synopsis of your assessment for each of the five forces.

Criteria for the paper:

• Minimum of four (4) pages, to maximum (5) five pages (not including Porter Model illustration, title page, or reference page and any additional appendices).
• APA style and formatting required.However, no abstract is required for this paper
• Include a 1-page Porter model illustrating your analysis
• Reference page and title page

1-Marlene and Darlene are each the recipient of an annuity that pays $1,000 annual payments at the end of each year for 12 years. They both received their first payment on the same day. Explain how Marlene and Darlene could assign different present values to their respective annuities.

2-There are multiple factors that affect the present value of an annuity. Explain what these three factors are and discuss how an increase in each will impact the both the present value and the future value of the annuity.

3-Tobi owns a perpetuity that will pay $1,500 a year, starting one year from now. He offers to sell you all of the remaining payments after the next 25 payments have been paid. What price should you offer him for payments 26 onward if you desire a rate of return of 8 percent? What does your offer price illustrate about the value of perpetuities?

4-Explain the net present value formula and also explain what the net present value represents.

5-The IRR rule is said to be a special case of the NPV rule. Explain why this is so and why IRR has some limitations NPV does not.

6-Most financial experts will agree that net present value is the best capital budgeting method. Explain why this is so and also explain how even NPV can be unreliable when projecting project results.

7-This chapter introduced three new methods for calculating project operating cash flow (OCF). Under what circumstances is each method appropriate?

8-When is it appropriate to use the equivalent annual cost (EAC) methodology, and how do you make a decision using it?

Critical Thinking

The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities. To this purpose, you should review about these companies through secondary available information. Think about how you can apply the concepts/tools that you learned in this course.

Suggest logistics performance priorities for any ONE of the following, explaining why you have come to your conclusions:

1) FLYNAS (A low fare Airline)

2) DOMINOS (A fast food chain)

The Answer should be 3- 4 pages in length including the cover and appendices, with 1″ margins on all sides, double-spacing, and 12 point font. The cover of the report should include title, course code and name, your full name, and your University id number.

The Answer must follow the outline points below:

1. Executive summary (no more than one page)

– Summarize what is logistics performance priorities, what Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools have been applied to achieve the company’s objective.

2. Background information

– Briefly introduce the company background (e.g., name, products, business size, location, internal/external interesting facts, etc).

3. Problem Description

– Describe the objectives clearly and specifically.

– The objective may involve either logistics decision-making or process improvement.

4. Application of logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools that can be applied

– Describe what specific logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools can be applied to achieve the objective. This section should make it clear that you understand the concepts/tools you are about to use.

5. Analysis of expected results

– Analyze the expected results of the proposed solution.

6. References

Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

This Discussion Board requires students to perform the following 2 activities before they write:

• Search for and take an online entrepreneurship self-quiz. Identify the website address in your analysis.
• Take this personality quiz.

Write up to 3 paragraphs analyzing and comparing the results of both quizzes. Answer the following questions:

• What traits do you exhibit?
• Explain why you feel you can be a successful entrepreneur.
• What surprised you about your quiz results?
• Be sure to support your answers with a minimum of 3 quality references.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. Given the number of students in the class do not attempt to read everyone’s initial posts, but pick 5-10 students and read their initial post and then respond to at least 2 of them.

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.