Standard Deviation, management assignment help

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You are a financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company and you must present an analysis of the financial data to the executives.

Select a publicly traded company in the same industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work.

Locate the company's annual report and any other available data (e.g. units manufactured, revenue, etc.) that is available for the last 5 years.

Use one of the company's historical data sets to calculate the standard deviation of the selected data for the last 5 years.

Discuss what the standard deviation means.

Analyze data using variance and standard deviation.

Create a 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation including detailed speaker notes in which you include the following:

Graph the company's selected financial data.
Explain the role of standard deviation in financial analysis.
Explain any other uses for standard deviation in a business setting.

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The Business Side of Standard Deviation Grading Guide QRB/501 Version 9 Individual Assignment: The Business Side of Standard Deviation Purpose of Assignment Standard deviation is an important concept that can be used in business to analyze financial data. The Week 3 individual assignment provides students the chance to look at the historical financial data of a real world company and find out how to apply statistical concepts to business uses. Grading Guide Content Met Partially Met Not Met Total Available Total Earned X X/X Partially Met Not Met Comments: The student based their assignment on a publicly traded company and their financial data for the last 5 years. The student discussed the meaning of standard deviation. The student correctly analyzed the data using variance and standard deviation. The student correctly graphed the company’s financial data. The student explained the role of standard deviation in a financial analysis. The student explained the other possible uses for standard deviation in a business setting. The presentation consists of 10 slides and is appropriate for the audience. The presentation includes relevant media and visual aids that are consistent with the content. Presentation Guidelines Met The presentation uses a proper layout with effective headings, fonts, styles, font sizes, and white spaces. The presentation recognizes intellectual property using in-text citations and a reference slide. The presentation includes an introduction and conclusion which previews and reviews major points. Copyright © 2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Comments: 1 The Business Side of Standard Deviation Grading Guide QRB/501 Version 9 The presentation includes major points that are stated clearly, organized logically, and supported by specific details, examples, or analysis. The presentation follows proper rules of grammar and usage including spelling and punctuation. Assignment Total # Total Available Total Earned X X/X X X/X Additional comments: Copyright © 2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 2
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Application of statistics in
business: Standard deviation
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What is standard deviation?
The standard deviation and the variance are statistic variables that
helps us estimate the variability of the data. They are calculated
according to the formulas:
σ 𝑥−𝜇
𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (𝜎) =
𝑁
2
σ
𝑥
−
𝜇
𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝜎 2 =
𝑁

2

In these formulas, x represents the different data, μ the mean value
and N the number of data

Application of standard deviation in the
evaluation of the company’s performance
Applied to management, it would serve as an indicator of the
variability of the performance of the company. This value would
be used to evaluate if a result is significantly poorer or better
than previous ones, therefore serving as an indicator ...