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Essay Instructions: For this assignment, go to the Yahoo Stock Screener and use this page to find a publicly traded company that you find interesting and would like to study for this class. The company should not be a bank or a financial institution of any kind including insurance companies.

Assignment Expectations:

Write a two to three page paper discussing what you find interesting about this company, and whether or not you think this company will have a successful future. Get to the company's web site, into the "investors relations" section and provide some financial highlights of your company for the past year. Indicate which stock exchange the company is listed on and what was the past 12 month rate of return (% gain or loss) to investors who bought shares of this company a year ago and sold the shares yesterday. This rate of return is called the one-year Holding Period Return, or HPR. Also state what is the most recent price of the shares on the company?

In addition discuss briefly some information about the top management team including the CEO and CFO. If there are any issues involved with the company that relate to the issues discussed in the case assignment, mention them briefly as well.

Essay Instructions: Pick one publicly traded company that's in financial distress and discuss the following: (1) debtholder vs. shareholder conflicts, (2) shareholders vs. suppliers vs. employee conflicts, and (3) shareholders vs. management conflicts.

Essay Instructions: Assignment 1: Compensation Practice

Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research a publicly traded company for which you would like to work.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1) Briefly describe the company you researched, its compensation strategy, best practices they are applying, and compensation-related challenges they are facing.

2) Analyze how your company applies compensation practice to determine the positive or negative impact to the company and its stakeholders.

3) Examine the ways in which laws, labor unions, and market factors impact the company?s compensation practices. Provide specific examples to support your response.

4) Evaluate the effectiveness of traditional bases for pay at the company you researched.

5) Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.


Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student?s name, the professor?s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Analyze how compensation practice can be applied to positively impact an organization and its stakeholders.
Examine the ways in which laws, labor unions, and market factors impact companies? compensation practices.
Evaluate the effectiveness of traditional bases for pay (seniority and merit) against incentive-based and person-focused compensation approaches.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in compensation management.
Write clearly and concisely about compensation management using proper writing mechanics.

Essay Instructions: Provide a detailed overview of Shoe Carnival U.S. publicly traded company 1-2 pages

Evaluate the company's vulnerability to current financial threats such as a recession, higher interest rates, and global competition

Based on the financial trends of the company, predict how these trends will impact financial performance in future periods. Explain your rationale for the prediction