Week 8 | Discussion

“Exploring Tax Cuts, Jobs, and CBO in the News”

There has been discussion about whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act actually reduces deficits and what will happen to U.S. debt. What do you think?

Watch this video: U.S. Deficit to Surpass $1 Trillion Two Years Ahead of Estimates, CBO Says

The video cites the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Discuss these questions in your post:

• Visit the CBO website and confirm that the reporting is accurate. Was the reporting accurate? Why or why not?
• Do you think the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce our deficits? Explain your answer.

Discuss with your peers:

• Reply to a peer’s response. Did they share the same reasoning about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as you did?

Select an industry of interest such as automobile, hospital and banking. Identify and describe the problem affecting the industry where business system may be used. This must be submitted by week six and I expect it will be based in large part on the results of the previous assignment from week one.Develop a complete business case for an idea. This may be a real example from your work environment or a fictional example from anywhere you choose. Please create and provide an “original/unique” structure resolution for the problem. The following are some of the key points to list in your business case:

• Executive Summary
• Introduction and Overview
• Analysis of the Situation
• Project Description
• Assessment of Benefits
• Risk
• Data Flow Diagram
• Budget and project timeline
• Conclusion

Note:-week 1 assignment is in the attachment

sing company, DISNEY as reference, respond to the four writing prompts below. Your responses must include information from academic and scholarly research, including at least four resources

Create a case study summary of DISNEY, including a general overview of the company, its external environment, and a list of its current strategies and objectives.

1. If DISNEY continues with its present strategies and objectives, where will it be in five years?
2. If you were the CEO of DISNEY, what strategies would you recommend, and why?
3. Describe the competitive strategies used by DISNEY’s main competitors. Which of these strategies are the most effective? How can DISNEY combat these strategies? Support your answers.

Should be three pages in length, double-spaced, and in 12 pt. Times New Roman font. The title and reference pages do not count towards the minimum page length. To complete this assignment, a minimum of four reputable sources must be used, cited, and referenced. Use APA style guidelines.

In your final project, you will need to perform financial ratio analysis that was covered in the Learning Resources material this week. This discussion will be an exercise to give you some practice in ratio analysis along with learning from your fellow students’ posts and replies on the subject to understand this topic before writing your paper due in Week 5.

Using your chosen company for the research project (See Final Research Project announcement), perform a ratio analysis on one of the following types of ratios: profitability, liquidity, activity, debt, and market.

On a financial website, such as Yahoo Finance, find or calculate two ratios under the type you have chosen. Then depending on the type of ratio you chose answer the following analysis questions:

1) What is the formula and ratio value?  Where did you get the values used to calculate the ratio (which financial statement)? 

2) Where is the purpose of this ratio? What information does it provide about the financial/operational performance of the company? 

3) Explain the results of the ratio calculation. Is your company strong in this area? Is the company liquid, profitable, efficient, or well-leveraged, and/or favorable? Please provide a comparison of a competitor, prior years, or the industry in your analysis. 

In your replies to other students provide any thoughts on the original post and compare your results and analysis for your chosen company to the results found by your fellow students in their analysis. Remember responses need to be substantial and 100 words or more.

Additional Info

Here are my company suggestions, in several different industries, which have worked well in the past, with their main competitor:

 

AT&T                                                             Verizon

Microsoft                                                        IBM

Amazon                                                          Google

Samsung                                                         Apple

Allstate                                                           Progressive Insurance

Capital One                                                     Wells Fargo

Home Depot                                                   Lowe’s

Walmart                                                          Target

McDonalds                                                     Starbucks

Coca-Cola                                                       Pepsi

Post by classmate 1

 

1) What is the formula and ratio value?  Where did you get the values used to calculate the ratio (which financial statement)? 

• Current Ratio = Current assets/Current liabilities. (Consolidated Balance Sheets)
• Quick Ratio = (Current assets-Inventory)/Current liabilities (Consolidated Balance Sheets)

2) Where is the purpose of this ratio? What information does it provide about the financial/operational performance of the company? 

• Using the current ratio, a company determines whether it can meet current liabilities (debts and payables) with current assets (cash, inventories, and receivables). A company with a current ratio of less than 1.00 often lacks the resources to meet its short-term obligations if the entire amount was due at the same time, while a ratio greater than 1.00 indicates that the company will remain solvent in the short term.

3) Explain the results of the ratio calculation. Is your company strong in this area? Is the company liquid, profitable, efficient, or well-leveraged, and/or favorable? Please provide a comparison of a competitor, prior years, or the industry in your analysis. 

• Current Ratio
• Walmart
  (amounts in millions)Target
  (amounts in millions)YearAssetsLiabilitiesRatioAssetsLiabilitiesRatioBetter liquidity2021252,49692,6452.7351,24816,6833.07Target2020236,49577,7903.0442,77916,4592.60Walmart
• QuickRaio
• Walmart
  (amounts in millions)Target
  (amounts in millions)YearAssets-InventoryLiabilitiesRatioAssets-InventoryLiabilitiesRatioBetter liquidity2021252,496-44,94992,6452.2451,248-10,65316,6832.43Target2020236,495-44,43577,7902.4742,779-8,99216,4592.05Walmart
• Comparing Wal-Mart’s rival Target and Liquidity, Wal-Mart had good liquidity in 2020 and Target in 2021. However, both companies can be evaluated as companies with good liquidity.

References

Walmart Inc. Form 10-K. (2021, March 19). UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. Retrieved January 16, 2022, from https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/104169/000010416921000033/wmt-20210131.htm#iaaf0cabf1f7048c9b7e317b3e9c1cfc5_115

Target Corporation Form 10-K. (2021, March 10). UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. Retrieved January 16, 2022, from https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/27419/000002741921000010/tgt-20210130.htm#i5d6e11e9e8174675a063efd3d071738e_82

Post by classmate 2

 

Company: Walmart

Financial Website: WSJ https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/WMT/financials

1. Profitability Ratios:

Gross Profit Margin: 24.83%

Operating Profit Margin: 4.82%

The formula to find the Gross Profit Margin is Gross Profit/Sales

The formula to find the Operating Profit Margin is EBIT/Sales

These items are found on the income statement.

1. Finding the gross profit margin and operating profit margin are ways to see if the company is profitable. Gross profit margin shows how much a company made after direct costs are taken out and operating profit margin shows how much the company made after indirect costs are taken out. In both ratios the higher the number is the better it is because it shows that the company is able to keep costs low enough to gain a profit.
2. Walmart was profitable and the profitability ratios seem to be average. For every dollar they made Walmart earned about 25 cents. Their competitor Target had a higher gross profit margin of 27.13% and the operating profit margin of 7.30%.

Assignment Content

1. Congratulations, you have been promoted to lead project manager (PM) to oversee a bariatric facility adjacent to the hospital campus. The executive stakeholder is the hospital’s chief financial officer (CFO), and as the lead PM, you will work closely with the director of facilities. You created a team consisting of a cross-functional group of hospital stakeholders and members of the community. As you and your team start to work, you find that the standards for developing a bariatric unit are not as well-defined as other units. Your team has several opinions for what this unit may look like and work together to create a presentation that will satisfy the investor’s needs.

   research bariatric units and how they are designed in a hospital setting.

   Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that showcases your team’s facility to the investors. Your presentation should:

   • Analyze essential environmental elements in bariatric facility design that would be important to the community stakeholders.
   • Differentiate between the facility equipment and technology used within a bariatric facility for your clinical stakeholders.
   • Analyze the use of community demographics and accessibility within facility planning for your bariatric facility.
   • Explain to your financial stakeholders the importance of creating a facility based on the needs of your bariatric patients.
   • Include images of ideal bariatric facility components in the presentation. Note: Image credit is required for images copied from the internet.
   • Note: Your learning team can create an ideal facility for use in the presentation.

     Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

     Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.