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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to expose you to the basic process involved in the analysis of the cash flow statement.

Assignment Steps
Resources: Appendix A of Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making

Note: This is a two part assignment.

Part 1
Answer questions A-F in problem CT12-1 using both the attached Apple 2014 10-K from the appendix and the most recent 10-K report from Apple’s website. Answer the questions for fiscal year-ends 2016, 2015 and 2014.

Provide an 300-word analysis of your findings discussing the changes from year to year (2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016).
Include conclusions concerning the management of the company’s cash.

CT12-1 The financial statements of Apple Inc. are presented in attached Adobe documents.

Consolidated Financial Statements begin on page 46 for 2014’s 10-K and page 41 for 2016’s

Answer the following questions.

Instructions

(a) What was the amount of net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended September 27, 2014? For the year ended September 28, 2013?

(b) What was the amount of increase or decrease in cash and cash equivalents for the year ended September 27, 2014?

(c) Which method of computing net cash provided by operating activities does Apple use?

(d) From your analysis of the September 27, 2014, statement of cash flows, was the change in accounts receivable a decrease or an increase? Was the change in inventories a decrease or an increase? Was the change in accounts payable a decrease or an increase?

(e) What was the net cash used by investing activities for the year ended September 27, 2014?

(f) What was the amount of interest paid in the year ended September 27, 2014? What was the amount of income taxes paid for the same period?

Part 2
Complete a 350-word summary of findings and financial analysis from the following questions:

• What is the par or stated value per share of Apple’s common stock?
• What percentage of Apple’s authorized common stock was issued at September 2014, 2015 and 2016?
• How many shares of common stock were outstanding at September 2014, 2015 and 2016?
• Calculate the payout ratio, earnings per share, and return on common stockholders’ equity for 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Use the attached Excel® spreadsheet, use Excel formulas to calculate results and submit with your analysis and summary.

 
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Literature Review

Topic Title: Strategies to Implement and Integrate Big Data and Data Analytics to Improve Business Decisions (The research should answer the question what strategies should business use in leveraging big data and data analytics to improve business decisions?)

**Two business decisions are: Hiring decisions and Marketing decisions

**This paper is the continuation of first paper, I am attaching bellow.

Literature Review is a critical evaluation of peer-reviewed articles, texts, and other sources relevant to your research. The paper must contain a minimum of eight (8) peer-reviewed references published within the past 5 years.

Literature Review Content:

  • Subject or issue overview (do not rewrite the introduction)
  • Categorized or themed presentation of material supporting and refuting the subject or issue
  • Critical review and comparison of each referenced work
  • Conclusions based on the facts in the literature review

The paper should contain at least 6-8 pages of content not count title page, table page and a reference page.

* Table of contents, Introduction, conclusion and sub headings are mandatory

* APA Format should follow all APA rules (citations, quotations, references)

*Follow the Template

* No Plagiarism

 
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EVERYTHING IN THE FILE

 
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Locate and critically analyse an article from an Economics/International Business/Managemet/HR journal in light of the theories studied throughout the unit.

Article can be based on some of these theories:

Globalisation and International Business

Culture and International Business

Political and Legal Environments

International Institutions

It International Trade Theory

Foreign Market Penetration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

The Global Monetary System

The Strategy of International Business

Global Marketing

Global Human Resource Management

Ethics in International Business You will find such articles in daily newspapers as well as in more dedicated economic/business journals such as The Economist magazine.

Please Note – your business article must have been published within the last six months.Also Please clearly state the article name and aurthor.

The article analysis is comprised of a written paper of no more than 1500 words. In preparing your business article critique you should:

1. Provide a brief discussion of the article and point out the three most important issues contained within the article. Do not simply summarise.

2. Point out the underlying theoretical concepts which are relevant to the article

3. Point out the related policy issues (e.g. what government policy is or should be) and debate

4. Provide a critique if the article contains discrepancies/ ignores important policy problems or issues, or is inconsistent with economic or other theories studied in this unit.

5. The article should be properly referenced at the end of the paper and include a copy of or a link to the article.

Rubric Requires:

-High level of ability to conceptualise essential ideas and relate theory to practice.

 
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