Assignment:
"Market-Based Evaluation Method" Please respond to the following:
• Create an argument supporting that using the market-based valuation method yields the most accurate results. Provide support for your argument.
• Assess the challenges related to using the market-based valuation method in practice, suggesting how each of these challenges may be overcome. Provide support for your rationale.
"Market Efficiency" Please respond to the following:
• Assess the impact of information availability on market efficiency in today's economy, indicating whether it has a positive or negative impact on most companies. Provide support for your rationale.
• Evaluate how financial analysts ensure that capital markets are efficient, suggesting how improvements may be made to their role in today's economy. Provide support for your suggestions.
"Course Wrap-Up" Please respond to the following:
• Assess two new areas of knowledge you learned during this course.
• Indicate how these two new areas of knowledge will benefit you in your current or future career.
"SEC Reporting" Please respond to the following:
• Identify one change you would recommend to the SEC reporting requirement for publically traded companies and discuss how it would affect financial reporting.
• Suggest one benefit to financial accounting reporting that will occur in the next five years as a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.