CFO PROJECT FOR STARBUCKSFor the CFO project, choose a company from the Fortune 500 list (at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/) as the subject of your analysis and report. Choose a company, such that:It is not a Fortune 100 companyIt is not a bank or financial services company (including brokers and investment banks)It is not a holding companyYour mission is to develop a comprehensive report to your CEO based on the topics covered in the course. Your task is to analyze the company in this context and provide recommendations. You decide how each topic should be addressed, and include research to make/support your strategy/policy recommendations. Your report should include an assessment of your company's corporate governance "readiness" and provide suitable recommendations to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and new regulations published by the regulatory bodies.In the spirit of a Forensic Financial Analysis, You should conduct an analysis of the firm's financial statements and policies as a risk management exercise for the benefit of the company CEO. Look for any "bodies" buried in the statements and associated notes, as well as the types of information disclosed to the public (e.g., pro forma earnings). Your goal here is to identify any areas where the firm is vulnerable to SEC action (fraud or otherwise) and report these to the CEO as a preemptive risk mitigation action. The required text Financial Shenanigans should be used as a reference to guide your approach in this area. I recognize this is a difficult task, given the short exposure to forensics financial analysis and the restricted information available to you. Do the best job you can.For your Corporate Governance Assessment, you are should assess the integrity and rigor of the firm's corporate governance structure (Board, Audit Committee, stock options policies, pension fund policy, etc.) to identify any weaknesses you can find and provide recommendations to strengthen governance policy. The corporate governance readings and recommended text, Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting provide a good framework for your analysis and research. I recognize this is a tall order, given the complexity of the task and your limited access to relevant information; however there are a number of databases UMUC subscribes to that can be of use to you. In addition to the article databases, such as ABI/INFORM and Business Source Complete, we have:1. D & B Key Business Ratios provides business ratios for industries in areas of solvency, efficiency and profitability searchable by industry name and SIC code with reports that can by printed in spreadsheet format.2. Business and Company Resource Center has industry rankings, financial data, and investment reports including company profiles, products and brand information, investment reports, statistics, company financial overviews, financial ratios, and business events and trends. Some sources from 1985 to the present.3. Business and Industry has business, finance, strategy, planning, marketing, and international business journal articles from 1994 to the present.4. Mergent Online has directory data, financial information from 1991 to the present, histories for companies worldwide, and industry reports for the North American, Asian, and European regions from 2003 to the present. Corporate and municipal bond, UIT, and dividend information. Comparative industry financial information and ratios.You may also use topic areas covered in eCFO lecture notes posted at the links in the course schedule as target areas for improvement in your company, as well as topic areas for the sessions listed in the schedule. For example, you may address two topic areas from the eCFO lecture notes and two topic areas from the session topics as the focus of your analysis and improvement recommendations.Your report should be between 15-20 double-spaced pages, not including attachments. See the course schedule for the submission date.The question will be based on Starbucks Inc.

Read the following post of a supply and demand change and provide further analysis. Explain which curve shifted and which shifter was affected. Do you also conclude that equilibrium decreases in the end or is it the opposite? Why or why not? Explain your analysis thoroughly. A total of 300 or more-word count is required. Requires at least 2 scholarly sources. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Uber is the taxi service that is finding the way, creating possibilities for riders, drivers, and cities. Travis Kalanick is the founded of an American multinational online transportation company that was founded in 2009. Today Uber is one of the most alternative car services in demand across the country. Uber started as a luxury brand car services, because of their original plan was traditional black car services. They saw the need to expand to a lower price service called UberX brand that would reach everyday people. A change in demand happened when Uber introduced UberX . The demand was high due to their customers were now people that need to go the grocery store, to work, or home after a night on the town. Uber experience the shift of demand curve when Uber increase the pricing for their service. The price increase occurred around peak times like Friday, Saturday and Holidays. Back in early 2012, Uber’s Boston team noticed a problem. On Friday and Saturday nights, around 1am, the company was experiencing a spike in “unfulfilled requests.” The root cause was that drivers were clocking off the system to go home, just before the weekend partygoers were ready to venture home themselves (Gilley, 2014). By offering the drivers more income during the peak times Uber saw the demand supply for their service increase. When the prices expand it helps the market influence equilibrium. The price and quantities would change because of the demand of the service for Uber. The function linking price and quantity is called a ‘supply function’ (Anderson, 2013). If Uber is not able to fulfill customers needs most of their customers will be without transportation. Increasing their supply they will be able to give rides to all their customers. This would cause equilibrium to decrease which will shift the availability of drivers.

To attract, motivate, and retain good workers, companies need to define what an employee wants from the employment relationship. One way to define employee needs is to consider "total rewards," which are everything an employee perceives to be of value resulting from working for the company. Benefits are a core element of total rewards and the ever-growing package of offerings have evolved. You must now work with the company to define precisely where the various programs will be categorized.   Write  a  paper in which you do the following:   Identify and discuss from the textbook at least three important factors that almost always should be considered by organizations before providing employee benefits programs. Be sure the response is specific and relevant.    Compare and contrast income protection programs and pay for time not worked programs, both of which are usual elements of benefits programs. How are the programs similar? Are they mandatory?   Research and discuss at least four to five of what may be referred to as "Other Benefits" that you could recommend to the management team as necessary elements for the benefits package. Hint: Flextime and product or service discounts are good examples.   Develop an employee benefits package for any exempt or non-exempt position level of your choosing (indicating which), and making sure you support the selection of your program elements (why chosen over others).  Note: The preferred method for presenting your benefits package information is using a table or exhibit, but either approach is not mandatory as long as requirement is met.  Examples: US Bank Benefits at a Glance and UW-Madison New Employee Benefits Summary. A must view: Employee Benefits: Examples of the Most Common Employee Perks | Indeed.com