The purpose of this assignment is to employ accounting principles and relevant business practices to evaluate a company’s performance and financial position through a comparison to industry data. Locate the Critical Thinking CT 10.4 problem at the end of Chapter 10 in the textbook. This will serve as the structure for your assignment. Begin by choosing two competing publicly traded companies from the list below. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo Walmart and Target Nike and Adidas For the pair of companies selected, you will need to use each company’s stock symbol to locate the liquidity, solvency, and profitability ratios on the MSN Money website. As part of your research, you will need to identify each company’s stock symbol for the American market. Review the competing companies’ ratios provided at the MSN Money website https://www.msn.com/en-us/moneywww.msn.com . Navigate to My Watchlist and enter the name of the company in the Quote Search. Identify and select the correct stock symbol. Under the “Analysis” heading, use the Growth, Profitability, Price Ratios, Financial Health, Trading Statistics, and Management Effectiveness information to complete a 750-1,000 word comparison addressing the following:   Evaluate each company’s liquidity relative to its competitor using at least three ratios Evaluate each company’s solvency relative to its competitor using at least two ratios Evaluate each company’s profitability relative to its competitor using at least three ratios Note: You will be assessed on your ability to evaluate each company’s performance based on the information provided at MSN Money. You do not need to calculate the ratios for individual companies or the industry averages.

Q5.Paradox of Thrift An interesting paradox called the “Paradox of Thrift” arises when households become concern about their future and attempt to increase their saving. As a consequence of such action the overall economy will suffer. Explain. Do you agree with this assessment? Q6.Objective of Monetary PolicyWhat are the basic objectives of monetary policy? Comment on the cause-effect chain through which monetary policy is made effective. What are the major strengths of monetary policy?Q7. Limits to Long-term Economic GrowthWhat are the limits to the U.S. long-term economic growth? Is there anything that our government can do to address these limits, or would it be a bad idea to try?Q8. Course ReflectionWhat is the most important economic principle you learned from the course? How did this information improve your understanding of macroeconomics, and what is its application in the macroeconomic environment?

A summary of this article should be written by answering the questions below. This summary should be handed in individually. The extension Turnitin.com will be used to compare answers; any copied or highly similar answer will not be graded. This, obviously, exempts short answers (up to a sentence long) that were retrieved from the text.Answers should be paraphrased, not copied directly from the text. Answers directly copied from the text will also not be graded (the same exception applies). Answers should, instead, be paraphrased/written in your own words.For a complete and thorough summary, please answer the questions below. Know that this is studying material for you, so choose a format that is easiest for you to study (essay or Q&A format). QUESTIONS:How is this tertiary paper different from the primary paper we read on the 6th mass extinction?Highlight one thing from this paper that stood out to you.Is it enough for us to solve today’s problems of poverty and access to food? In other words, is a short-term solution also a long-term one? Why is agriculture the planet’s dominant environmental threat?What are the three major challenges faced by the world’s food system? (Obs. The author considers this to be humanity’s biggest challenge yet. “It is fair to say that our response will determine the fate of our civilization.”)The author argues that the solution to growing more food is not as simple as “expanding farmland and improving yield (the amount of edible crops harvest per hectare)”. Why not?Where does the food that we grow currently go?If we ultimately consume animal products, why does Foley separate agricultural crops that are directed to humans vs. crops directed to animals? In other words, what is the ecological difference?What are the five solutions proposed by Foley?What does it mean to close the yield gap?What are your thoughts on these five solutions? Are they reasonable? Do you think it’s possible to apply them? Justify.