Question: Project description: Choose a manufacturing company and assume you are an employee of this company. Your management has given you the task of reporting back to them about how well your company is managed relative to its nearest competitor. You will be researching your company, its nearest competitor, and its industry. In addition, you will prepare a horizontal and vertical analysis, and a comparative ratio analysis to formulate observations about your company and to compare performance to your major competitor and to your industry. You will summarize your final assessment of which company managers are being more effective at the managerial process - planning, action, and control.
A. Select a Manufacturing Company that you might be interested in from the list provided on Bb.
• Send the professor an email containing your first 4 choices of companies on the list.
• Include your class time and team number in the subject line: i.e. 10MWF class Team 1 choices
• Teams will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis.
B. Research guidance - The project involves researching your company, its main competitor, and its industry. You will gather your information by using the following sources with the guidance of Bryant Librarians. There is also a library instructional video available in the assignment folder.
a. Form 10-K (available through sec.gov).
b. Definitive Proxy Statement (available through sec.gov).
c. Company website - additional information may be available
d. Financial databases such as IBIS, Hoover', Mergent - use these to gather company ratios, competitor ratios, and industry ratios.
e. Business periodicals and newspapers
NOTE: Be sure to properly cite your sources. Failure to do so is a serious offense and one which will severely impact your grade on the project.
C. Writing Quality and Report Presentation - Characteristics to be evaluated:
• 12 font - Times new Roman, 1 inch margins
• Professionally written, professional in appearance (bound), consistent format throughout
• Goes above and beyond in answering the questions
• Charts are prepared in excel, present information in an efficient user-friendly manner (not split between pages)
• Makes connections between answers of various questions
• Report has a quality worthy of presenting to your supervisor in a professional work environment
• Charts and tables of information are integrated within the document
• Fatal Flaws - Your grade will be penalized for fatal flaws like awkward wording, poor sentence structure, spelling errors, punctuation errors, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, poor paragraph structure. See Fatal Flaw document in general documents on Bb.
D. Team Evaluation
• The team evaluation form (available in the assignments folder) must be completed and handed in by each team member individually on the due date of the project. The overall project grade will be penalized if any team evaluation forms are missing on the due date.
• Individual grades will vary from the team grade based on team evaluations.
• No evaluations should have a perfect score on every characteristic.
E. Put this project on your resume - Report to Management - Competitive Managerial Analysis Project
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Attachment:- CompetitiveManagerialAnalysisProject4.rar