My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire’s Lone Survivor.

book summary should be its own self-contained explanation of the fire including the conditions and circumstance that led to the deaths of the firefighters. The paper should succinctly summarize the important points and events of that fire. Each summary document should be 5 pages excluding the title page. The document should be double spaces with a font size no larger than 12, no smaller than 10. Remember that your paper needs to be written with the overall goal in mind and each summary should be a logical piece of the total project paper. IT IS FOR A FIRE SAFETY CLASS.

The public corporation I chose is WAL- MART.

Please use proper grammar and please no plagiarism.

Choose one (1) public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
2. Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
3. Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
4. Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall success.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

GB550 Financial Management Final Project Rubric

Here is a Rubric for your final Paper. It should be at least 1500 words (5-7 pages), not counting titles, abstract, references, table of contents, charts, balance sheets and extensive quotes.

Select a publicly held company and analyze its capital-structure, applying the theories and principles found in Chapter 15 of the text.

You must cover topics 1-5. You must include an abstract, table of contents, references.

Organize your work under following headings. Include interior titles (and include sub-headings under #5 a-f)

1. Title Page

2. Abstract. – Complete yet concise, at least 200 words.

3. Table of Contents.

4. Business and Financial Risks:

Business and financial risks related to capital-structure such as operating risks, leverage and debt risks. A company’s business risk is the risk of the firm’s assets when no debt is used. Business risk is the risk inherent in the company’s operations. Some of those factors are as follows: Sales risk – Sales risk is affected by demand for the company’s product as well as the price per unit of the product. Input-cost risk – Input-cost risk is the volatility of the inputs into a company’s product as well as the company’s ability to change pricing if input costs change.

5. Modigliani and Miller’s [MM] capital-structure theory.

6. Criticisms of the MM model and assumptions.

7. A preview of capital structure issues. Capital-structure evidence: Capital-structure evidence and implications and problems with other Capital Structure Theories.

8. Estimating Optimal Capital Structure:

Estimating your firm’s optimal capital-structure. A firm’s optimal capital structure is that mix of debt and equity that maximizes the stock price.

a. Discuss the following and relate it to the optimal structure:

b. Business risk. Business risk is the riskiness inherent in the firm’s operations if it uses no debt.

c. Tax position.

d. Need for financial flexibility.

e. Managerial conservativeness.

f. Growth opportunities.

9. Reference list: A minimum of four references are required, excluding the textbook. Sources should be from academic, scholarly reviewed journals.

More Details needed to be successful with this assignment. Please follow:

The Part I or abstract should be at least 200 words for a detailed description. If you go well over 200 words, as long as it is good content and adds to the material, I have no issues and it will most likely improve the grade by showing extra effort. Research papers, theses and dissertations include an abstract—a short, concise summary of your research. The abstract should include the keywords of your research. An abstract generally emphasizes, objective, the methodology, the main findings and conclusions of the research study.

Your abstract should approximate 200 words.

Articulate the research problem, and objective of the research.

Include Keywords.

Indicate the methodology.

Present the expected findings and the anticipated conclusions.

Part II or the Table of Contents page is a one page detail of the topics and subtopics. The more detailed the number of topic subheadings listed the more thought you have provided to this paper. A very brief outline will receive a deduction.

Part III References should provide only academic references from scholarly material as your first 4 listed references.

You can not use your textbook or any other non-scholarly material as a graded reference.

What is a scholarly publication or reference? It is generally a white paper, original research but most typically a Journal article. No, not the Wall Street Journal, that is a business publication.

An academic journal example includes: The Journal of Financial Planning, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Accountancy, etc. You can find these scholarly and academic resources in the Kaplan Library. You may also find scholarly white papers through institutes such as Brookings Institute and Economic Policy Institute, among many.

Make sure you add a few sentences as to why each reference is specifically important to your paper. Describe your reference as in an annotated bibliography and discuss why it is important to your paper.

PROMPT ASSIGNMENT

This is a combination research paper and literary analysis based on the novel ‘Being There’ by Jerzy Kosinski. Your research should be about a political leader that has been perceived as something they are not based on media influences. You must relate your research to the themes and events in the book. Your thesis statement should include what you believe to be the mistaken impression of a leader is and how it relates to the novel. You must also note how the media contributed to the misimpressions of both the leader and Chance.

PROMPT OUTLINE

Section 1: Briefly describe the novel and movie ‘Being There’ and how Chance is perceived to be a great man in part because of media. Mention how your subject was also perceived as a great man/woman because of the media when the opposite was true. Thesis Statement: “This paper will examine how the media created heroes out of Chance and _____ and will also compare the two.”

Section 2 (four paragraphs): Summary of the novel (not the movie!) MLA citation at the end of every paragraph.

Section 3 (two paragraphs): Key differences between the movie and book, proper MLA citations at the end of every paragraph.

Section 4 (three to four paragraphs): History and background of your subject, proper MLA citations.

Section 5 (about four pages): Describe how the media created false perception of greatness to your subject, and the real truth about your subject, proper MLA citations.

Section 6 (at least three paragraphs): Compare your subject to Chance in the context of the media influence, proper MLA citations.

Conclusion paragraph: Recap of the key points of your essay.

Works Cited Page: List of all references MLA format in alphabetical order.

IMPORTANT!

Please the font ‘Courier’ or ‘Courier New’ and font size 12pt, double spaced. Please use MLA format!

SUPPORTING LECTURES:

Review the following lecture:

• Incrementalism in Policy Making

Consider what you have learned about the Patient Protection and ACA, the uninsured population, health disparities, and programs and policies intended to improve quality of care and health outcomes while reducing healthcare expenditure. Summarize your thoughts on the future of healthcare given the provisions of the ACA—changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the individual mandate, etc.—and whether or not current efforts are sufficient to reduce disparities in healthcare and improve healthcare outcomes.

TASKS:

• Evaluate the impact that the ACA has and will have on the uninsured population in the U.S.
• Discuss the current successes and failures of this act.
• Discuss the implications of this act’s successes and failures.
• Explain specific policy changes that could be made to the ACA to improve its impact on overall health outcomes in the U.S.

From the Internet, review the following:

• U.S. Health Policy Gateway. (n.d.). ACA Impact Analysis. Retrieved from http://ushealthpolicygateway.com/vii-key-policy-is…

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

• Submit your response in a 6-page Microsoft Word document.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.