GUIDELINES - For Stage 3: Final Project Paper, your paper should: Be 14-20 double-spaced pages in length with one inch margins. Be written using Calibri or Arial size 11 font. Include a cover sheet and a table of contents. Follow academic research approaches and APA citation format, including in-text citations and a list of references. Include at least 10 references from academic books, journal articles, and/or credible online sources. Be well-developed and convey your understanding of the readings and concepts. Be organized, coherent, and unified. Be free of spelling, structure, and grammatical errors. Represent original work.

You provide an excellent introduction that effectively conveys what will be covered in the report. You present a clear and accomplished overview of your selected company, the other companies you considered, and the criteria used in making your decision. You include a thorough explanation of your analysis of various financial statements, including income statements, balance sheet cash flow statement, and the statement of shareholder. You include an accomplished discussion of how your chosen company adheres to best practices in selecting successful projects; your discussion is supported by a clearly presented analysis of time value of money, opportunity cost of capital, and investment rules.

You clearly and effectively show how the company has used capital budgeting analysis to determine revenue enhancement and cost reduction investments and how it has made mandatory investments required by the government. You clearly and effectively present your analysis of the expected rate of return, volatility, and the effect on portfolio diversification. You provide an excellent analysis of the impact of financial distress, managerial incentives, debt and taxes, and dividend policy on shareholders' wealth maximization. You skillfully evaluate risk, return, and capital structure for your selected company. You conclude your report with a succinct and cogent summary of your recommendation and rationale.

Your project reflects all requirements and is complete in all respects. You demonstrate a sophisticated, in-depth understanding of the topic(s) through cogent and complete answers to all the questions. You implement a coherent, observable organizational pattern (specific introduction and conclusion, sequenced material within the body, and transitions) that effectively elucidates the content of the presentation. You clearly and effectively document sources of information with in-text citations linking to references at the end of the paper; you include more than 10 references from credible sources. You write in complete, well-constructed sentences with faultless grammar, word choice, punctuation, and spelling; writing is sharp, coherent, and demonstrates sophisticated clarity.

You use APA format accurately and consistently. You accurately and effectively explain and present information using an accomplished research method format and make precise inferences based on that information. You use the quantitative and/or qualitative analysis of data as the basis for deep and thoughtful judgments, drawing insightful, carefully qualified conclusions from this work. You expertly determine an investment solution based on research data to effectively increase client profit-sharing. You meticulously analyze data from a wide variety of highly reliable and valid sources (internal and/or external) particularly relevant to identifying investment opportunities and solving business issues.