Week 1 Discussion For this week's discussion, please respond to the following:Introduce yourself to your peers by sharing something unique about your background. Explain how you expect this course will help you move forward in your current or future career.Next, read the article, "Is Email Evil?". Compare the author’s take on email to your own professional or personal experience. Make a case for the importance of email in the workplace or present a communication method to replace email in the professional environment. Provide a rationale for your claims.Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates' posts.

Assignment 1: You are to watch the Video by Dr. Christopher Lee, “How to Launch a Successful Job Search” Higher Education: Expectations for this assignment and rubric are as follows: Using APA format and style, write a full three-page paper on your personal takeaways from Dr. Lee and how you plan to take his advice and implement into your own job search. I am looking for three full pages, no typos, proper grammar and comprehension and understanding of assignment. Assignments will be graded followed directions, one or two typos and proven to have mastery and comprehension of assignment.

Write a 1-2 page executive summary, along with an appendix of supporting information, in which you analyze an organization's financial performance as well as their level of risk for lending and make and present a recommendation to help leaders make a loan decision. Introduction This portfolio work project will help you complete a thorough review of an organization’s financial performance as well as their level of risk for lending. Your recommendation will help leadership create a loan portfolio, and your executive summary will clearly and concisely communicate your review to others in the organization. Scenario You work for an organization that provides loans to businesses. You are working with a client who is requesting a loan that will require a review of financial and related performance documents. You have been asked to review the documents and summarize your findings in a loan recommendation for your management team. You may apply this scenario to either Option 1 or Option 2, described in the Requirements below. Your Role You are a loan manager for a lending organization, and your responsibilities include reviewing loan requests and providing recommendations in regard to whether the loan requests should be funded. Requirements Your client works for Ace Company. Assume Ace Company requested a $3 million 10-year loan to purchase production equipment and develop accompanying software. Use the Ace Company Data document for this option. Loan Recommendation To arrive at your recommendation, analyze the financial performance of the requesting company and present it to your organization’s upper-management team. The management team will take your recommendation into consideration as they finalize loan requests. Analyze the company's performance and performance trends. Include the following in your analysis: Analyze the trend for accounts receivable collections. Identify the trend. Explain the relevance of the trend. Determine if the trend is improving or getting worse. Compare the company's average inventory turnover to the industry average inventory turnover rate. Note that the average industry turnover rate for Ace Company is 10 times per year. Consider whether the company’s average inventory turnover is higher or lower than the industry average. Explain whether a higher or lower average is better. Determine whether the trend is improving or getting worse. Evaluate the company's short-term and long-term credit worthiness based on financial performance and trend (comparing this year to last year). Include in your evaluation: Information about performance and trends. Information about other relevant financial information you consider important to the decision. Your recommendation regarding whether the bank should grant the loan based on the financial data. Deliverable Format The management team of your organization requests this information in the form of a 1–2 page executive summary along with a title page, references page, and appendix of supporting information. The executive summary must highlight the key findings from your review and will provide your recommendation and rationale. The appendix must include data used in your analysis for others to review. Assume that this document is the only communication in regard to your analysis and recommendation and that you will not be with the team to explain anything as it deliberates. In other words, the documentation you provide must be well organized and include information for the management team to clearly see your recommendation and rationale. Related company report standards: The executive summary is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines, including single-spaced paragraphs.