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Business leaders are responsible for managing many things.  The success of the business depends on being as effective and efficient as possible with the resources they use.  An important resource to manage is the company financials.  Business owners, executives, employees, and even shareholders and potential shareholders need to understand financial management to a greater or lesser degree.
Even from a personal perspective you should begin to expand your understanding of finances and how to make appropriate decisions for your future.  Similarly, managers make decisions based on sound financial practices to move the firm forward and/or to meet certain business objectives.  In many ways your personal finances mimics that of any enterprise.  You want to earn as much money as you can using your income as the base of your finances.  You may choose to borrow money for large purchases or even reach out to family members and friends to crowd fund a project.  You may want to take advantage of time to start a retirement fund.  in order to effectively and efficiently utilize these funds to capitalize on whatever the opportunity might be will require planning and management.  The question for you to discuss this week is “Why is financial management important to accomplish a business’ objectives?”  Present one point and explain why you feel it is important to a business.
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please review the work and make the corrections needed. I don’t need you to write anything just review the paper and make corrections. see attached work for both papers 

 Note: In Week 4, you submitted Part 1 of the Module 2 Assignment. You will complete and submit Parts 2 and 3 this week.
As a reminder, you will continue to act as a manager who has been co-leading an important project with a fellow manager. Your colleague held up delivery of the project and made comments expressing his displeasure to others. You scheduled an in-person conversation with your colleague to discuss the matter and conducted the conversation with your colleague using an online simulation platform. This week, you will reflect on your simulation experience and follow up with your colleague via a draft email to document the results of your conversation. As you complete Part 2 of your Assignment, be sure to include specific examples where applicable, as well as relevant citations from the Learning Resources, the Walden Library, and/or other appropriate academic sources.
BY DAY 7
Submit Parts 2 and 3 of the Module 2 Assignment, which should address the following:
PART 2: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND APPROACHES (APPROXIMATELY 5 PAGES)
Once you have completed the online, simulated one-on-one conversation with your peer, you will analyze your experience and then write up your analysis of effective communication skills and approaches that can be applied in any professional conversation—but specifically when you need to address conflict of any kind. As part of your reflection, you will consider the ways in which you can not only improve your communication skills going forward but also use these skills to be a more effective change agent. Be sure to address the following:
Did you reach an agreement that takes into account the needs, concerns, and perspectives of both stakeholders? Why or why not?
What impact (positive and negative, if possible) did your preparation have on the outcome? Provide a rationale to support your analysis.
What best practices/strategies (from the Learning Resources) did you incorporate into your conversation? For each best practice/strategy, be sure to include a minimum of one scholarly source for support.
Which of the best practices/strategies do you believe you incorporated successfully, and which do you feel you could have done a better job at incorporating into this conversation? Be specific in your answer.
Based on this experience—and considering what went well and what you want to improve—what are three specific things you will do in future difficult conversation scenarios?
Finally, in what ways do you predict your enhanced communication skills could enable you to be a more effective change agent? Provide specific details to support your answer.
PART 3: FOLLOWING UP (APPROXIMATELY 1 PAGE)
For the final part of your Assignment, apply your understanding of best practices related to effective communication, as well as the importance of perception in communication, to prepare a draft email to your colleague that documents what, if any, resolution the two of you reached and sets the tone for your work going forward. Be sure to utilize an appropriate professional, collegial tone; express gratitude for the opportunity to have the conversation; detail the specific commitments each of you has made (or agreed to); and state your appreciation for the specific ways in which your colleague brings value to the working relationship.
Refer to the Week 6 Assignment Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this grading rubric to assess your work.

 
MODULE 3 ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
In this module, you will complete a two-part Assignment that is submitted over the course of 2 weeks. This week, you will complete and submit Part 1. You will complete and submit Part 2 in Week 8.
For this Assignment, you are a member of the executive team for a global nonprofit aimed at improving health and reducing child mortality rates in the developing world. Funding for the organization comes primarily from private donors (mainly in the U.S. and Canada) and through foundation grants. You have just learned that a shipment of straw-type personal water filters provided (but not manufactured by) your organization have been found to be defective. These filters are widely distributed by your organization in areas with contaminated water supplies and have proven highly effective at reducing instances of water-borne infections caused by bacteria and parasites. However, reports are coming in of increased illness rates from contaminated water in the areas where this shipment was distributed.
You have been asked, as a member of a quickly convened crisis response team, to outline a crisis communication response plan for the organization with an accompanying rationale (with appropriate academic and professional sources to support your report) that will be reviewed by the CEO, Mary Stevenson. Your communications report should be 7–9 pages in total (4–5 pages for Part 1 and 3–4 pages for Part 2), not including title page, references page, and appendix (with your completed Stakeholder Worksheet).
To prepare for this Assignment:
Download the Module 3 Assignment Template. Note: Be sure to keep a copy of your completed Assignment this week, as you will be adding to the same file for your Week 8 Assignment.
BY DAY 7
Submit Part 1 of your communications report in which you address the following in 4–5 pages (excluding references):
PART 1: CRISIS COMMUNICATION GUIDELINES
Identify key guidelines and/or principles to use in responding appropriately to a crisis, including social media considerations.
Illustrate steps for Ms. Stevenson to follow in formulating an effective and appropriate crisis message.
Choose methods for communicating with both virtual and geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.

 An important component of the communication process is the channel used to send the message. For example, you would not want to deliver lengthy and complicated technical instructions in a face-to-face conversation where the listener does not have the chance to take notes. Choosing the appropriate channel can have a strong impact on both the effectiveness of and response to your message. In this Discussion, you will consider the impact of a communication channel on a message. 
BY DAY 3
Post an evaluation of the impact of communication channels on effective messaging. In your evaluation, do the following:
Briefly describe the communication, including the primary message and your role in the communication.
Explain the channel chosen for the communication and why this channel was selected. If the reason is unknown, provide your best assumption for why it was selected.
Analyze whether this choice of channel was effective and appropriate, supporting your analysis with this week’s Learning Resources.
Assess what you would do (or recommend be done) differently in the future regarding channel choice and “noise” elimination in similar situations.

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Provide a real public policy issue (local, state, or national) and select an appropriate criterion for policy prescription to use in deciding the policy’s effectiveness, efficiency, and adequacy. Provide some reasons why you selected the criterion (such as importance, application, or relevancy).

A MNC which has gone through an international stock market financing or international public debt market financing in the past 5 years, conduct a comprehensive analysis on the decision making rational and provide an in-depth discussion about the related financial/business environment. 

Have you ever wondered if there was enough money in your checking account to cover all your expenses for the month? Maybe you are proactive and want to know what items contribute to your expenses each month and how your situation would be impacted if certain items were eliminated.  Perhaps you are contemplating another side hustle and would like to see a snapshot of how much more money you will need to bring in to achieve your financial goals.  Whatever the situation, you probably reached for a bank statement, your budget, or created a spreadsheet to help answer your question.  You chose to use a financial statement of some sort to help with your query.  Businesses and investors have similar questions, however, to insure that the analysis used to conduct this research is consistent with every business, regardless of what they do, they start by using a set of agreed upon practices and documents (called financial statements) to help illustrate the health of a company and how it functions financially.  These financial statements are the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Statement of Cash Flows.
Choose one of these statements as your preferred document to analyze the health of an enterprise and explain why you prefer it and how it is used.  There is no right or wrong selection.
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Instructions
In this project, you have the opportunity to study a question (or a set of questions) of your interest related to human capital analysis. There is no restriction on what data to use, what statistical software to run, or what statistical tests you may use to answer the question. There are only three requirements/guidelines:
The question you propose to study needs to be interesting and meaningful in practice, meaning that 1) there is no obvious answer to the question without any data analysis, and 2) answering the question could enhance the practice of human capital management. It also needs to be related to at least one of the topics covered in the course (e.g., diversity, engagement, turnover, performance, recruitment, etc.).
To answer the question, you need to tap into more than one dataset. There are various ways to do so. You could join two datasets together according to a common identifier variable. You could also use different datasets to study different aspects of the problem (e.g., each dataset for a different industry). For example, if you are interested in studying how job experience affects job performance, you could tap into one dataset, “Chapter 6 Individual Turnover”, to analyze the relationship between “AppraisalRating” and “LengthOfService”, and another dataset, say “Chapter 7 with performance 2014 2015 and Sick2014”, for a more comprehensive view that includes not only job tenure and performance rating but also other variables such as job strain.
Since our course focuses on analytical methods, your answer to the question should include not only conceptual arguments but also statistical evidence. In general, I would expect at least five statistical tests/procedures in your analysis. These could be different procedures or variations of the same procedure. For example, when studying job tenure, you could treat it as a numerical variable and run linear regression with job tenure being an independent variable. You could also treat it as a categorical variable and run another linear regression after dummy coding (like we do in Week 5 to address the non-linear effect of age).