BMBA5012 Louisiana at Monroe on Carters Inc Business Findings Discussion Carter’s Inc. is the company all requirements are inside of the file attached, eve

BMBA5012 Louisiana at Monroe on Carters Inc Business Findings Discussion Carter’s Inc. is the company all requirements are inside of the file attached, everything in APA format, research section, analysis section, reference list, and powerpoint https://www.industryweek.com/industryweek-50-best-… BMBA 5012 Research Assignment, Spring 2019
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This assignment involves researching a selected manufacturing company based primarily
on their publicly available financial information, and then writing a report and preparing a brief
PowerPoint presentation (with voice-over) discussing your findings. In addition to writing your
own report, you are expected to view the presentations of five other classmates and document
your review by writing a brief response to their posting. Select your company by going to the
“Select your company!” choice link under the Research Assignment & Submissions tab of the
course Moodle page, and clicking on the button next to the company you would like to research
(each company can only be selected by one student, so it is first come, first served).
Your research will be written up in the form of a 3 to 5 page paper (not including
references.) The paper should follow APA formatting guidelines (Times New Roman, 12pt font,
double spaced, all margins 1”). This should be a well written, informative paper about the chosen
company, structured around the research questions noted below.
The research summary section must be clearly marked with a visible heading and should
encompass about 2/3 of the paper. The analysis section (your “take” on the information you
reported in the summary section) must be clearly marked with a visible heading and should fill
the remaining 1/3 of the paper. The reference list should be submitted to the separate referencelist dropbox and will be graded for accurate APA format.
Research Summary Section
The following is a list of questions to guide your research, but do not consider it a limiting
or definitive list of topics for the research section. If you encounter interesting information as
you research your company, feel free to “follow” that information and report on it. The objective
of this project is for you to learn about this company and what they do well!
1. Obtain your company’s most recent Form 10-K filed with the SEC (see instructions below).
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2. From the 10-K, read your company’s description of its business (Part I, Item I of the 10-K)
and the opening paragraphs of Management’s Financial Discussion and Analysis
(“MD&A”, Part II, Item 7 of the 10-K). These sections should provide you with an
overview of your company. You do not need to read deeply into MD&A, where the
company describes fluctuations in its results, etc. That might be relevant later, but now, you
simply want to understand your company.
3. Based on this overview, briefly describe what your company does. What are its main
products? How many different business “segments” does it have? Can you tell whether the
different segments are managed in a centralized or a decentralized manner? Note any other
information you found interesting about the company as a whole.
4. Now, dig into the numbers. Find the company’s financial statements (Part II, Item 8),
specifically its Income Statement (or Statement of Operations, another common term. This
is the statement that reports Net Income at the bottom). Make these computations:
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Use the “high-low” method described in chapter 2 of our book to estimate what portion
of your company’s expenses are fixed vs. variable. You should have 3 years of income
statements, so pick the 2 years with the highest and lowest revenue to do the “high-low”
analysis, and use total operating expenses from those same two years for the analysis.
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Based on your estimate of the portion of expenses that are variable, compute your
company’s contribution margin (described in Chapter 3) for the more recent year.
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Based on this result, compute your company’s operating leverage (also in Chapter 3) for
that same year.
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Note overall trends in revenues and net income over the three year period. Are they
increasing or decreasing? Is your company growing or shrinking? Does it appear
healthy, or does it appear to be struggling? Provide your overall impression of trends.
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If you are a numbers geek, like me, feel free to comment on any other “interesting” data
you find in the financial statements.
5. Immediately after your company’s financial statements, you should find a narrative entitled
“Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” or something along those lines. Look
through this note to see if there is a description of how they account for inventory (there
should be), and see if the description helps you to understand whether they account for
inventory using full absorption or variable costing (see chapter 5).
6. Comment on all of your findings from this financial analysis.
7. Now perform a more general search for articles or other resources that discuss your
company, specifically with regard to why it is highly regarded as a manufacturer. Using
summary comments or citations as appropriate, note what these other sources indicate about
your company.
How to Find Your Company’s Form 10-K
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On a stock market website, find your company’s ticker symbol (3 or 4 letters)
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Go to the www.sec.gov website
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Under the “Filings” topic, click on the link to “Company Filings Search”
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In the “Fast Search” box on the upper right, insert your company’s ticker symbol
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You will see a list of filings. In the “filing type” box in the upper left, type 10-K, and
click the “Search” button on the upper right
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Click the “Documents” link for the 10-K with the most recent filing date, typically the
top listing on the page
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You will see a long list of filings. Click on the first one, or the one with a “type”
description of “10-K”
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Now you should be in the 10-K. Look for the table of contents in order to find the
sections I describe above. It may take a little looking around, but you should be able to
find them.
Analysis Section
For the analysis, express your thoughts and ideas based on your research – not something
you took from a source other than yourself. The analysis section must not include more research.
It should be your thoughts and conclusions, bringing together the information you found in your
research. Specifically, you should comment on why you believe your company is considered by
IndustryWeek to be one of the top manufacturers in the US, and what you believe your company
does particularly well. Also feel free to comment on other conclusions you draw, including any
faults or shortcomings that you discover about your company.
Reference List
References can be from books, journals, trade magazines, websites, or newspapers. At a
minimum, the reference list should include a) the company’s website, b) the company’s form 10k
on the SEC website, and c) other sources that provided information which were used to obtain
information provided in the research section of the paper. APA formatting should be used to
create the reference list, using guidance from http://www.apastyle.org/.
References (examples)
Beatitudes, Inc. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.beatitudesinc.org
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Blocher, E. J., Stout, D. E., Juras, P. E., & Cokins, G. (2016). Cost management: A strategic
emphasis, (7th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill Education.
Idialu, E. E. (2013). Ensuring quality assurance in vocational education. Contemporary Issues in
Education Research, 6(4), 431-438. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1073188
Madar, A. (2015). Implementation of total quality management case study: British Airways.
Economic Sciences, 8(1), 125-133. Retrieved from
http://webbut.unitbv.ro/Bulletin/Series%20V/BULETIN%20I%20PDF/16_Madar_A.pdf
Moyes, D., Cano-Kourouklis, M., & Scott, J. (2016). Testing the three Rs model of service
quality. The TQM Journal, 28(3), 455-466. doi: 10.1108/TQM-02-2015-0026
Power Point
Build a corresponding bullet-point power point, with voiceover recording, as if to be
presented to the class. It should align with the paper, but using the bullet point summary for a
more relaxed discussion of the material included in the paper. Do not read the paper during the
voiceover; instead, verbally educate the class about the topics covered in the paper. Use the exact
same references that were used in the paper. There should be between 3 and 5 content slides,
plus a title-page slide and reference-page slide.
Grading
The research will count for 250 points as follows:
(a) research – 140 points,
(b) analysis – 70 points,
(c) reference list – 15 points, and
(d) power point – 25 points, for a total 250 points.

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