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Assignment - Project Senior Capstone: Business

Professional Development Project: PD Seminars and Community Networking

OBJECTIVES - When you complete this professional-development assignment, you'll be able to

• Explain the benefits of professional-development activities.
• Evaluate the professional-development potential of specific workshops, conferences, seminars, and professional business meetings.
• Plan for and arrange to attend professional-development events.
• Present your reflections on the value of professional-development activities.

Case 1: Purchase Point Media Corporation (PPMC)

OBJECTIVES - When you complete this case, you'll be able to

• Identify discernable errors, irregularities, and improprieties in style and format within publicly reported data.
• Meet financial statement presentation requirements for a specific "real world" example.
• Determine whether financial information provided follows generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or is presented in "good form".
• Distinguish between the substance and form of financial statements.
• Estimate variable and fixed costs for a publicly traded company.
• Assess publicly disseminated information from publicly traded companies to determine the feasibility of market potential and market penetration.
• Exercise enhanced critical-thinking skills.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS - The project requires three steps to be presented.

Step 1 - Identify Form and Substance Errors.

Step 2 - Compute the Purchase Point Media (PPMC) break-even points in terms of carts and stores.

Step 3 - Determine the number of grocery stores for various food chains.

In one Word document, provide individual sections for each Step.

Case 2: Motomart

OBJECTIVES - When you complete this case, you'll be able to

• Explain the importance of accrual accounting and proper application of the matching principle for the computation of contribution margins and break-even points.
• Apply knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to a specific real-world example.
• Integrate statistical analyses and scatter plots, line graphs, and regression to determine the reliability of financial information prepared for external use.
• Use analytical review procedures to examine a firm's financial statements.
• Apply critical-thinking skills to real-world business circumstances.

REQUIREMENTS -

The project requires five steps to be presented.

Step 1 - Provide comments on a 5 year Income Statement.

Step 2 - Discuss patterns in expense items.

Step 3 - Identify High/Low activity levels.

Step 4 - Compute cost equations.

Step 5 - Summarize your findings.

In one Word document, provide individual sections for each Step.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar