Prompt: Nordstrom, Inc. ( Is the company I selected for this Assignment. The country into which the company will be calculated for is Italy)Draft a one-page spreadsheet showing financial history and projected performance for the company you have chosen. The rows should include revenue, expenses, calculated profit, and calculated profit margin. The columns should be years: two years of history, plus three years of your reasonable future projections. Include a few sentences of key assumptions and conclusions. The spreadsheet must have accurate calculations and the cells of the spreadsheet should show your calculation formulas. Your spreadsheet should look professional on screen and when printed (including a heading and meaningful number formatting). Submit this assignment as an Excel spreadsheet file, not a PDF document.Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Show two years of financial history including revenue, expenses, calculated profit, and calculated profit margins. Show three years of future financial projections for revenue, expenses, calculated profit, and calculated profit margins. Show calculation formulas in cells where appropriate rather than “inputting” numbers. Identify key assumptions and conclusions regarding financial projections. Present data in a professional manner with headings and meaningful number formatting.

Class: Business policies and strategies Due 6-19 before midnight Key Assignment For this assignment, select a real company in the fast food industry. You have just been hired by (your selected company) as its new vice president of strategic planning. The corporation’s performance in recent years as well as the changes with business and economic conditions will be a central focus of your new job. Given the size of the corporation and the fact that it is in a highly competitive industry, the chief executive officer (CEO) to whom you report has already given you permission to hire a staff of recent Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates to assist you in your efforts. You recently completed the interviewing and hired four people with minimal real business experience. In coming months, you and your team will be creating a completely new—and, presumably, more effective—strategic plan. You plan to begin by holding a kick-off meeting with your team. Deliverable Length: 1,000–1,250 words To feel confident that all of the employees in your strategic planning team understand all that you have taught them, you require each to prepare a streamlined version of the key elements of a strategic plan. You require each employee to prepare the following sections of a strategic plan for the corporation's next 3-5 years: Mission and Vision Statements (Simply copying from an existing real company is unacceptable.) Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals and Objectives Industry Analysis Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) Analysis A Perceptual Map Choose any criteria that you think are important to plot. Explain why you picked the criteria. Your task is to create a plan, following the same parameters, which will be the sample standard that your employees' submissions should match.

Discussion assignments will be graded based upon the criteria and rubric specified in the Syllabus. For this Discussion Question, complete the following. 1. Review the three articles about Inflation that are found below this.  2. Locate two JOURNAL articles which discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology.   3. Summarize these journal articles. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste. Cite your sources.