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Learning Team: Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper

Purpose of Assignment

The Learning Team assignment due in Week 2 requires students to find a publicly traded company on Yahoo!® Finance and select a public company. Students locate a SIC code for the company's industry to find industry ratios from the Dun & Bradstreet® Key Business Ratio link in the University Library. Students can calculate the financial ratios using Yahoo!® Finance by locating the company's two most recent annual financial statements. Students compare the ratios for the company with industry ratios for profitability, solvency, and efficiency ratios from the D&B Report.

Students explain the effects of a change in inventory methods to a just-in-time inventory system critical to adopting lean principles needed in its global supply chain.

Resources Required

Dunn & Bradstreet® Key Business Ratios from the University Library

Yahoo! ® Finance

Grading Guide

|Content |Met |Partially Met |Not Met |Comments: |

|70 Percent | | | | |

|Locates the two most recent financial statement for the company| | | | |

|selected on Yahoo!® Finance | | | | |

|Calculates for both years the profitability, solvency, and | | | | |

|efficiency ratios aligning them with those on the D&B industry | | | | |

|report | | | | |

|Compares these ratios with the industry ratios | | | | |

|The paper is no more than 700 words in length. | | | | |

| | |Total Available |Total Earned | |

| | |X |#/X | |

|Writing Guidelines |Met |Partially Met |Not Met |Comments: |

|30 Percent | | | | |

|Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and | | | | |

|a reference page. | | | | |

|Paragraph and sentence transitions are present, logical, and | | | | |

|maintain the flow throughout the paper. | | | | |

|Sentences are complete, clear, and concise. | | | | |

|Rules of grammar and usage are followed including spelling and | | | | |

|punctuation. | | | | |

| | |Total Available |Total Earned | |

|  | |X |#/X | |

|Assignment Total |

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