Brief overview of the timeline surrounding its bankruptcy

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Pick a large cap U.S. company that declared bankruptcy between 1980 and 2009. Use this company, and its apparently failures, to answer the following:

1) Describe the nature of the company, what it did, how it was formed, and what service / production it was primarily engaged prior to its failure.

2) Provide a brief overview of the timeline surrounding its bankruptcy (no more than half a page).

3) Provide three specific reasons, supported by research, to demonstrate that your firm was crippled by concepts related to poor capital budgeting. (Note: ALL bankruptcies at some level can be traced back to a lack of proper capital budgeting).

4) Did the firm’s capital structure help or hinder its initial success and did its capital structure help or hinder its ability to stave off its ultimate bankruptcy? Provide specific examples from your research.

5) Did hybrid financing, alternative financing, or other “non?traditional” means of financing help or hinder your firm? (in other words, if the firm used only traditional financing means, would bankruptcy have been more or less likely?)

6) explain 4 critical actions that a financial manager should have taken in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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