Select a management book to read for the semester. Once you have read the book, you will write a 5 page, double-spaced summary of the book including details of what you learned from the book and how it related to the course content. In addition, you will assemble a 4-6 slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your paper. This presentation will be 15% of your grade for this project.

This is a semester long research project which accounts for 15% weight of the course grade.

Instructions:

For the final project I have tried to explain about it in the syllabus what it should be like. Be advised that

you’re not writing an essay on a certain topic; it’s going to be a research paper. So it has to have the

following things: i) write a brief introduction to your topic and state what you are doing? Why is your

work important? State it clearly. In other words, sell your work by telling this is why my work/research is

important or I am the first person doing this kind of work or to the best of my knowledge no past research

has examined this topic/area from my point of view etc. If you read any published articles you will know

how to shape yours?

ii) What have already been done in your topic/area? That is, read at least seven articles related to your

topic and cite them.

iii) Find out the data on your topic. For example if you’re writing a paper on “the impact of US exports

on economic growth” then obtain data on US exports and GDP growth, plot them in figures and analyze

them. Your analysis should focus on among others, what can you infer out of that data set? Let’s say, you

see US export is a record high or low in year 2000 then what could be the possible reason for it. Finally,

you draw the conclusion based on your research.

– Main title: 15/16 points bold

– Subheading in the body: 14 points bold

– Body: – 12 points

-Times New Roman

– Double Spaced, Format: APA

– Page requirement: minimum 10 in addition to a title page and references.

– Number of citations in the body must match the number of references listed.

Note: you are not required to develop econometric models you may skip that part.

Suggestions:

Look at the articles in the following journals published by undergraduate students. These are the journals

for undergraduate students.

-Foreign Affairs

-The Economist

-The World Bank, WTO

-Academic journals such as The World Economy, Undergraduate Economic Review, Undergraduate

Journal of Economics, Journal for Global Business and Community, IMF Staff Papers, Yale Journal of

Economics, Michigan Journal of Business

Additionally, go to the library home page and click article databases where you will see several search

engines. You can search articles through EBSCO host OR LexisNexis OR Jstor OR other search engines

available there or elsewhere. Down load at least 7 articles (related) and review them and use in your

research, and don’t forget to cite them (references at the end of the paper).

Don’t cite anything from Wikipedia, and unwarranted sources from Google. I suggest you to use EBSCO

host to find articles in your topic. Read a couple of articles from the above listed journals. The only way

you know how to write a research paper is to read published work first. Call library people at MU to find

out articles and other help. World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) makes a lot of research

papers available for free. Don’t pay a single dime for articles. Our library will get you one for free.

Since this is a college level work it is demanding. You have to follow these instructions, be specific,

concise and to the points. Finally, do your best.

Develop a financial plan for the next three years. Use the financial statements from your selected health care organizations that were the focus of the SWOT Analysis assignment and that you have been following in the e-activities throughout the quarter. Using the Annual Reports of both organizations, consider the financial ratio that analysts would use to evaluate the financial condition of each company. Speculate on the organizations’ ability to merge with their competitors.

Use your ratio analysis to determine whether the profitability trends are favorable or

unfavorable and explain your rationale.  

2. Suggest the key financial drivers that most likely will cause your health care

organizations to merge. Provide support for your rationale.   

3. Assume that your organizations have merged. Determine the evaluation criteria that a

financial analyst would use to evaluate the financial performance of the organization postmerger.

Identify the determinants that the analyst would use to decide whether the merger

generated favorable financial results for the organizations. Provide support for your

evaluation.   

4. Predict the financial stability of the health care industry over the next three years.

Provide support for your prediction.   

5. Use at least three quality, current (no more than four years old) academic resources.

Word Limit: 
• Research Proposal: 2,500 words (Plus or minus 10%) 
Learning outcomes assessed: 
1. Identify a research topic appropriate to the level and field of study 
2. Demonstrate a detailed understanding of the main frameworks and principles 
on research design 
3. Assess and contribute to the process of research 
4. Evaluate how quantitative and qualitative methods can be applied in 
academic research 
This coursework is worth 100 % of the total marks for this module. 
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Coursework Instructions 
Please read carefully 
• Carefully read the module handbook, the marking criteria and the grade 
descriptors. 
Academic Misconduct 
You are responsible for ensuring you understand the policy and regulations 
about academic misconduct. You must: 
• Complete this work alone except where required or allowed by this 
assignment briefing paper and ensure it has not been written or composed 
by or with the assistance of any other person. 
• Make sure all sentences or passages quoted from other people’s work in 
this assignment (with or without trivial changes) are in quotation marks, and 
are specifically acknowledged by reference to the author, work and page. 
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The essay must be at least 2000 words. You must cite from the readings and lecture. The only sources you may use are the Schaller textbook and the lecture notes. The easiest way to cite sources is to use MLA parenthetical citations that includes the author’s last name and page number (Mayer:199). Your essay must have MLA citations from Schaller in every paragraph except the intro and conclusion In each essay your first paragraph must contain a series of causal arguments that you intend to historically prove in the text of your essay. You need to tell the reader what caused what to happen, when and why. Never pose rhetorical questions in your essay. Rhetorical questions are cheap literary devices that make your writing style non-assertive and give the reader the impression that you are not in control of your essay or the material. Immediately give the reader your overall causal argument, and then, in succeeding sentences of your first paragraph list supporting arguments in chronological order. The supporting arguments should be chronological in order and build on each other. 

The topic sentences of your paragraphs must do more than simply describe what the paragraph is about, they must also state why the paragraph is important to the overall argument of your essay. In other words, the topic sentence summarizes the paragraph, but also links it back to one of the supporting arguments that you listed in your introductory paragraph. You must have dates or at least periodize in almost every paragraph. Paragraphs should be one-third to one-half page in length. Finally, your essay must have a conclusion that restates your original argument in light of the data and facts that were discussed in the text of your essay.

The analysis of a channel configuration within a specific environment. Select one firm and specify their institutional/business environment.

Keep in mind that it has to be a parents company. Not a brand. 

For example: If selecting Zara to be the chosen firm, that is INCORRECT. Because Zara is owned by Inditex. So, one need to be careful when choosing a brand. I have some suggestion on chosen firm for the writer to choose: Apple Inc. / Ikea/ Starbucks Corporation / Sumsung group /Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. / could be use in this essay? (I find that these firms are kind of owned itself brand so it might be less complexity than some Company that has a lot of sub-brands within its company.)

Critically analyse the relationships between accounting information and management decisions. 

.Critically appraise the information needs of management from a controlling point of view with the application of budgeting, costing and pricing concepts.

.Critically evaluate absorption, marginal and ABC costing and autonomously apply them to real life business situations. In order to tailor this report for the Hungarian market.

The following issues are to be addressed in your report:

· Description of the industry. Using Porter’s 5 Forces Framework, describe the industry and critically evaluate the current position of the industry in the Hungarian economy.

· Accounting Information. For the company, evaluate the probable current state of development of their management accounting information system using the development continuum discussed in class. If financial accounting data is available, provide a concise financial analysis of the company using ratio analysis.

· Costing strategies. Analyse at least two potential costing strategies suitable for companies operating in the industry. After taking into account your company- and industry-specific knowledge, provide a recommendation to management for the optimal costing strategy. Be sure to include a discussion of the costs and benefits of the recommended system.

· Budgeting and control systems. Complete a desktop review of current industry best practices in budgeting and management control systems. Critically evaluate the application of these best practices for your company.

· Performance management. Complete a desktop review of current industry best practices in area of performance management with a particular emphasis on the identification of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) commonly used in the industry. Critically evaluate the alternatives and make a recommendation to management of the optimal solution for the company.

“Rip Van Winkle” has been described as a story that is an expression of the “Myth of the Runaway Male,” as a “tale of a man who deserted his wife for twenty years’ sleep and returned to find her (happily) dead.” What elements in the story justify such a conclusion? Do such elements and the descriptions of Dame Van Winkle support the claim that Irving is fundamentally anti-feminist.

The Common law and the Civil law view the legal concept of ‘property’ differently. Outline the key differences between the Civil and Common concepts of ‘property’ and discuss the extent to which there might be said to be a cross-jurisdictional definition of the term.

Based on your solutions, theories, and the data you gathered about your organization, provide a recommendation. Is the sustainable initiative feasible for the company? If so, how? If not, using your theories and data, provide a comprehensive argument of why the initiative is not feasible.

This assignment should include the following:

A preface. Explain the initiative, the market, the solutions and alternatives, and include a yes or no answer on the initiative. Keep in mind this a summary of the actual paper, so you do not want to provide a detailed recommendation in this section. The preface should be 2 to 3 pages in length.

A comprehensive recommendation that clearly explains whether or not the plan is feasible and how you came up with that recommendation based on theory and evidence-based research. This section should be 2 to 3 pages.

This plan should not only address the board, but all the stakeholders in the organization

This assignment should be 2 to 3 pages in length and follow APA style.

This conclusion should be a minimum of 4 to 6 pages.