Economics Homework Help

my project will be on Kellogg. i am providing necessary financial documents and also the calculations excel sheet which needs to be filled out in its entirety. as well as a 2-3 page paper answering the questions.

Overview

In preparation for your report in Project Two, you will need to
calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen
business’s current financial health. Once you’ve calculated these
ratios, the results will be used to analyze the business’s current
financial position and help them make decisions about how to improve or
maintain their financial health. Pay particular attention to working
capital management. If liquidity is an issue, consider how the company
will meet its short-term obligations.

Prompt

Using the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet and the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online for your chosen company, calculate the financial ratios for the most recent fiscal quarter. Then,
compare those ratios with the same ratios for the same fiscal quarter
from one year prior in Mergent Online, and analyze your results.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

• Financial Calculations: Calculate accurate
  financial ratios to assess the business’s current financial health.
  Specifically, calculate the following ratios:
  • Working capital
  • Current ratio
  • Debt ratio
  • Earnings per share
  • Price/earnings ratio
  • Total asset turnover ratio
  • Financial leverage
  • Net profit margin
  • Return on assets
  • Return on equity

• Fiscal Quarter Comparison: Using Mergent Online, summarize the differences between the results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a year before for your chosen business.
  • For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the 3rd
    quarter in 2020, then you will compare those results to the same
    financial calculations from the 3rd quarter in 2019.

• Comparison Analysis: Explain what the results of
  your calculations and your comparison indicate about the business’s
  current financial health, providing examples to support your
  explanation. You might consider the following questions:
  • Do the results indicate the business is financially healthy or financially unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
  • What might be the cause(s) of the business’s financial success or failure?
  • Is more information needed to determine the business’s financial
    health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?

• Short-Term Financing: Explain how potential
  short-term financing sources could help the business raise needed funds
  to improve its financial health. Base your response on the business’s
  current financial information.

The following resources can help you complete this milestone:

Video: Mergent Online: Public Company Financials (4:46)
Watch this video from the Shapiro Library to learn more about how to access and use Mergent Online.

Shapiro Library FAQ: How Do I Cite a Company Profile From Mergent Online?
Use this resource to help answer any questions you have about citing from Mergent Online.

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 2 to 3 page Word document with 12-point
Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. You must
also submit the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet
(which you will fill in completely as part of your Project Two
submission) and the Excel files for your downloaded balance sheet,
income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online.

Project Two Milestone Two Rubric

Criteria

Exemplary (100%)

Proficient (85%)

Needs Improvement (55%)

Not Evident (0%)

Value

Financial Calculations

N/A

Calculates accurate financial ratios to assess the business’s current financial health (100%)

Shows progress toward

proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may

include calculating more accurate financial ratios to assess the

business’s current financial health (85%)

Does not attempt criterion (0%)

21

Fiscal Quarter Comparison

Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%)

Summarizes the differences between the

results from the financial calculations of the most recent fiscal

quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same

fiscal quarter from a year before for the chosen business (85%)

Shows progress toward

proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may

include summarizing in more differences between the results from the

financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results

of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a

year before for the chosen business (55%)

Does not attempt criterion (0%)

21

Comparison Analysis

Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%)

Explains what the results of the

calculations and the comparison indicate about the business’s current

financial health, providing examples to support the explanation (85%)

Shows progress toward

proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may

include explaining in more detail what the results of the calculations

and the comparison indicate about the business’s current financial

health or providing more relevant examples to support the explanation

(55%)

Does not attempt criterion (0%)

22

Short-Term Financing

Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%)

Explains how potential short-term

financing sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve

its financial health and bases the response on the business’s current

financial information (85%)

Shows progress toward

proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may

include explaining in more detail how potential short-term financing

sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve its

financial health, or basing the response on the business’s current

financial information (55%)

Does not attempt criterion (0%)

21

Articulation of Response

Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%)

Clearly conveys meaning with correct

grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an

understanding of audience and purpose (85%)

Shows progress toward

proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and

spelling, negatively impacting readability (55%)

Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas (0%)

10

Citations and Attributions

Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors (100%)

Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors (85%)r

Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors (55%)

Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution (0%)

10

Total:

100%