Competency In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency: Describe the purpose and function of financial management in an organization Scenario You have been an entry-level financial analyst for six months. Your supervisor, who is about to fill another entry-level financial analyst position on your team, has asked you to create a job aid about the financial analyst role to help the new hire transition smoothly. The job aid needs to describe the responsibilities of a financial analyst, the essential elements of the role, and the impact the role has on a business. Directions Create a job aid for a new hire to an entry-level financial analyst position. Your job aid should be thorough yet easy for someone new to the field of finance to understand. You are encouraged to use the Project One Financial Analyst Job Aid template in the Supporting Materials section to complete this assignment.  Specifically, you must address the following: Financial Analyst Job Aid: In this job aid, you will give a general overview of financial management and its importance to a business. Financial Responsibilities: Describe the responsibilities of a financial analyst. In this section, outline the responsibilities a financial analyst has in terms of financial management. Add 5 to 7 specific bullet points outlining these responsibilities, and use complete sentences so that expectations are clear. Financial Management Decisions: Discuss the importance of using financial management for business decisions, and provide examples to support your claims. Consider the bullet points you outlined above. How do those responsibilities help to inform management decisions, and what would happen if management didn’t have this information? This should be a brief paragraph with examples. Accounting Principles: Explain how accounting principles are used to analyze a business’s financial health, and provide examples to support your claims. Write a brief paragraph that explains accounting principles and how they are used within financial management in relation to analyzing financial health. What accounting information and approaches do financial analysts rely on, and how do they use it? What would happen if that information was not available or was not accurate? Financial Statements: Describe how financial statements are used to help businesses make finance-related decisions, and provide examples to support your claims. Consider identifying the information contained in financial statements and what financial analysts would need in order to do their job. What types of finance-related business decisions would this information help to inform? Provide real or fictional examples to help show this. Financial Terminology: Explain how a financial analyst would use the financial terms in their day-to-day responsibilities in a clear, easy-to-understand way. Define each term listed below and provide a 1- to 2-sentence explanation of how a financial analyst might use the term, especially when communicating information to management or clients, or when relaying information to inform important decisions: Financial statement Liquidity Working capital Diversification Time value of money What to Submit To complete this project, you must submit the following:

For this Discussion Board Forum, interact in a free-flowing discussion of the biblical and constitutional parameters for the particular policy focus being discussed this module/week. In other words, you must discuss the “May” portion of the “May-Can-Should” approach to policy analysis and implementation. Engage the ideas of your classmates and the required readings and presentations in a meaningful and thoughtful manner. Remember to provide thoughts on what government should or should not do from a biblical and constitutional perspective. Also discuss what other groups, individuals, and organizations (possibly including state and local government) should be doing within society to address the policy issues discussed in this module/week.TOPIC: Economic and Budgetary PolicyFor each Discussion Board Forum assignment, you will interact in a free-flowing discussion of the biblical and constitutional parameters for the particular policy focus of the assigned module/week. These posts should be short and succinct (3-5 sentences at most per post) and should encourage greater interaction with your classmates. Thus, you are to post according to the following guidelines: Biblical: One separate post (3-5 sentences) discussing Biblical principles such as natural law, inalienable rights, sphere sovereignty/covenant, the Sin/Crime distinction and the institutional separation of Church and State Constitutional: one separate post (3-5 sentences) referencing the enumerated powers, Articles and Amendments from the Constitution which are relevant to the assigned policy area There must be two separate posts. Both posts must focus on the general policy area for the assigned Module/Week. For instance, when the course module focuses on criminal justice, the Biblical post must focus on what the Bible says about what government may or may not do in fighting crime. Likewise, the Constitutional post must focus on what the Constitution says about what government may or may not do in fighting crime. Specific examples should be used and cited. Feel free to interact with your classmates, but for grading purposes, you will only need the two posts mentioned above. You must use the following sources: the Bible, relevant presentations and articles from Modules/Weeks 1–2 which focus on biblical and constitutional ideas, including the “Biblical Principles of Government” article, the required reading from the assigned module/week, and any additional relevant sources that you would like to use.

While the video provides a reason why a country may want to manipulate the value of it's currency, doing so is usually a violation of the free trade rules for fully floating currencies. The Chinese Yuan is a managed float currency, while the US Dollar is fully floating. You will examine these terms this week.Note: The video has Closed Captioning. To activate it, start the video, mouse over the bottom of the video and click on the CC icon, then select from the menu.This week we are going to look more globally and examine exchange rates.An exchange rate is simply the price of one currency in terms of another currency. In other words, how many US Dollars does it take to buy one British Pound? Remember that an exchange rate ALWAYS involves two currencies which means two countries. Review in detail, the three Exchange Rate presentations before you start your work on this week's discussion assignment.The Exchange Rates Part I presentation is below and can also downloaded as a Powerpoint presentation by clicking: Exchange Rates.Then review the downloadable Exchange Rates Part II Powerpoint presentation by clicking: here. (Part III is linked later in the instructions.) While they are conceptually simple, many economic factors go into the determination of exchange rates. And exchange rates influence many of the prices you pay in the store, they influence the number of jobs in the export sector of the economy and they even impact the price of a cup of coffee.Many people believe that a “strong” US Dollar is critical to the strength of the US economy. A “strong” dollar means one that can buy a goodly amount of a foreign currency. But does a “strong” dollar really benefit the US economy? And if so, in what ways? And in what ways does it harm the US economy? Review the Powerpoint presentation: Exchange Rates Part III before continuing with the week's discussion.Now we are ready to examine how exchange rates are set and what the impacts on the US economy from a “strong” dollar versus a “weak” dollar actually are.Assignment Summary:1) Watch the above video and study the three Exchange Rate Powerpoint presentations;2) Read the article in the textbook: "Is a Strong Currency Always in a Nation's Interest?", page 692-693 (Week 4.pdf), the article is the same in both the 7th and the 8th editions, only the art work is different.;3) Go to the X-Rates Web site (http://x-rates.com) and find the current:a) exchange rate for the US Dollar (USD) and any other country's currency that you wish to study - you can select the same country that you are using for your research project, (unless it is the Peoples' Republic of China). Do NOT select the Chinese Yuan as your other currency since it is not a freely floating currency;b) then from the icons below the currency selection boxes, select Graphs and then select 1 year;c) based on the 12 months of data, which currency is appreciating (gaining value) and which is depreciating (losing value)? Remember it can do both in a year.d) Now go to the CIA World Factbook and find out what goods and products the country you chose exports.4) Since most all of the goods that you buy are either imported or contain inputs from other countries, what do the trends in the exchange rates you examined tell you about the prices you can expect to pay for goods imported from the country you choose or for products that use inputs from that country (i.e., the exports of your country)?In a global economy most products contain materials from other countries and that includes food. If you had orange juice today, it may well have come from Brazil. Your computer and your cell phone contain parts from America or Japan or Taiwan or Thailand or one of the European countries or from all of these places. Thus, exchange rates directly impact the prices you pay for goods. This is your chance to learn more about how that works.5) On the discussion board, share your findings about whether the currency of the country you chose is appreciating or depreciating relative to the US Dollar. What do you think this means for American imports from your country? What do you think it means for American exports to your country?Refer to at least two different concepts from this week’s Chapters. Your illustration of the concepts MUST include an explanation why you think they are relevant to the week’s topic using specific information from the articles, Powerpoint presentations, videos and other research that you have done. Remember to include citations and references as needed.