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Ashford 2: - Week 1 - Discussion 1 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated. The Role of Financial Management in a Firm Summarize the role of management as it relates to finance in a corporation. In your post, address the following: • Indicate the various aspects of finance that management must understand. • Describe why a manager needs to understand the characteristics and importance of financial markets including risk and efficiency. • Describe why cash flow is more important than sales in a business. • Discuss what could happen if management does not fulfill responsibilities related to finance. If you have one, share a real world example from your own professional experience or from an external source. Your post should be 200-250 words in length. Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Respond to at least two classmates’ by commenting on their example of management not fulfilling its responsibilities. Pose a question to spark discussion regarding what could have been handled differently. Ashford 2: - Week 1 - Discussion 2 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated. Financial Statements View the following video: Important Financial Documents (3:19) Description: This video looks at the fundamental financial documents every company needs, including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flow. In your post, choose one of the financial statements and explain how a manager would use the statement to drive financial analysis and decisionmaking. Your post should be 200-250 words in length. Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Respond to at least two classmates who have each selected a different statement, and share any additional ways a manager might use that type of statement to drive financial decisions in a corporation. Intelecom. (Producer). (n.d.). Important financial documents [Video File]. Retrieved from http://searchcenter.intelecomonline.net/playClipDirect.aspx?id=4870EEC7 664070BB9D6744FDA7325EE4B73C695245AB5359E714CC89CDBB438 8CEBED83D70C2689D943F65ECBE2F51E1 Ashford 2: - Week 1 - Assignment Financial Management Challenges and Ethics Find at least two articles from the Ashford University Library that highlight and discuss two of the biggest challenges facing financial managers today. One of the articles should be about the challenge of maintaining ethical financial integrity and the other article should be on any other challenge that a financial manager may face (e.g., competition, foreign markets, government intervention, etc.). Summarize your findings from the articles in a two- to three-page paper (excluding title and references pages). The paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Be sure to properly cite your selected articles using APA style. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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