The purpose of this assignment is to allow students the opportunity to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the popular online research tool Yahoo Finance. The tool allows the student to review analyst reports and other key financial information necessary to evaluate the stock value and make an educated decision on whether to invest.

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Yahoo Finance

Select a Fortune 500 Company from one of the following industries:

• Pharmaceutical
• Energy
• Retail
• Automotive
• Computer Hardware
• Manufacturing
• Mining

Access Yahoo Finance and enter the company name.

Review the financial information and statistics provided for the stock you selected and answer the following:

• What is the ticker symbol of the company you chose?
• What is the Current Stock Price?
• What is the Market Cap for the stock you chose?
• What is the Price to Earnings Ratio?
• What is the Dividend and Yield?
• What is the Enterprise Value?
• What is the Beta?
• Was there a Stock Split, and if so, when?
• What was the closing stock price for the last 5 days?
• What was the 52 Week High for this stock?
• What is the Book Value per Share?
• What type of rating are analysts recommending (i.e. buy, hold, etc.)?
• What is the target price analysts are predicting for this stock?
• What is the analyst’s average revenue estimate for next year?
• What are some of the significant news items and press releases made by the company over the last year?

Explain in 700 words why you would or would not recommend investing in this stock.

• Describe the relationship between the value of the stock and the price to earnings ratio. 
• What information does the Market Capitalization (Market Cap) and Beta provide to the investor?

The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page, and reference page—is consistent with APA formatting guidelines and meets course-level requirements.

“Professional Liability” Please respond to the following:

• From the case study, determine the main potential ethical dilemmas. Next, use the seven (7) steps in the ethical decision-making framework to recommend one (1) course of action you would take in order to avoid the ethical dilemmas. Provide a rationale to support your recommendation.
• From the case study, based on your recommendation in Part I of this discussion, suggest one (1) strategy that would support you making the right decision without undermining the manager’s confidence in your problem-solving ability in a difficult situation. Provide a rationale to support your response.

Case Study

You have worked as a staff auditor for two and one-half years and have mastered your job. You will likely be promoted to a senior position after this busy season. Your current senior was promoted about a year ago. He appreciates your competence and rarely interferes with you. As long as he can report good performance to his manager on things she wants, he is satisfied. The manager has been in her position for three years. She is focused on making sure audits run smoothly and is good at this. She is not as strong on the softer skills. Although she is approachable, her attention span can be short if what you are saying does not interest her. You are aware that she expects her teams to perform excellently during this busy season and she hopes to be promoted to senior manager as a result, bringing her closer to her goal of making partner early.

The audit engagement on which you are working has become increasingly difficult since last year’s engagement because of some complicated accounting transactions that the client made. There has also been unexpected turnover in accounting personnel at the client. This has made interacting with the client and getting the information you need in a timely manner problematic. However, the engagement time budget and the audit fee remain the same as last year’s. Further, four staff auditors are assigned to the engagement, and there are no additional staff available to transfer in to ease the workload. Your senior now tells you that the manager has requested that you, he, and the other staff auditors do an additional analysis of a potential misstatement in one of the client’s accounts. Even with your team’s current workload there is significant danger that the engagement will run “over budget.” You know that if you do the analysis thoroughly, it will further endanger meeting the time budget the manager had planned. The more time you spend on the engagement, the less profitable it will be for the audit firm, which will clearly displease the manager and her superiors.

As a group, the staff auditors discuss the situation and express their concerns regarding the perceptions that running over budget will create and the reputational issues that short-circuiting the analysis could create. When your senior stops by to discuss the new plan, the group raises its concerns. He talks to the group and implies that he would be satisfied if the team did either of the following: complete the analysis and simply not record the hours (doing so would prevent the reported audit hours from going too far over budget) or do a minimal job on the analysis, which would save time and avoid having to question the client too much. You and a few other staff members express discomfort with either of these strategies. It is suggested that the ramifications of the new order be made clear to the manager. The senior wants nothing to do with this. He says, “She doesn’t want to hear these details so just use one of the ideas I have already given you.”

When he leaves, several staff members start griping about what they are being asked to do. A couple say they are going to leave the firm after this busy season, so they don’t really care about this issue. Another says, “We’ve been told what to do. Let’s just get on with it.”

Question 2

Using real options in a risk environment can be beneficial if

the enterprise need to make decisions on switching or acquiring multiple suppliers. Ericsson and Nokia had different approaches in managing risk, which led to different outcomes during a business interruption event at a major supplier.

a. Explain the difference between risk and uncertainty. (5 Marks)

b. Explain how real options how can be used to inform decisions to reduce the impact of exogenous shocks on the enterprise. (25 Marks)

I need a paper of 1-2 pages of original writing. Complete calculations included. The assignment is below:

Students will calculate the cost that should be assigned to land, buildings, and equipment and provide the journal entry to record the acquisition of these assets.

Sam’s Corporation paid $550,000 to acquire land, building, and equipment. At the time of the acquisition, Sam paid $50,000 to have the property appraised. The following values were determined from the appraisal:

Respond to the following questions:

• What cost should Sam assign to the land, buildings, and equipment, respectively?
• How should the journal entry be recorded on the corporation’s books to describe this acquisition?
• Why is it necessary to allocate a lump sum purchase amount among the individual assets acquired?
• What are the characteristics that an asset must have for it to be classified as property, plant, and equipment?
• Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) requires that property, plant, and equipment should be recorded at historical cost. What are the advantages of recording property, plant, and equipment at historical cost?

 What macroeconomic variable do you think corporate financial managers should be preparing for in the next 5 to 10 years?

Please provide references thank you.