Microeconomics Exploratory Paper

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Topic: Microeconomics Exploratory Paper Order Description Fin" rel="nofollow">inancial Literacy and Microeconomics Your paper or report will require that you become a semi-expert in" rel="nofollow">in a stock. Yes you will gather in" rel="nofollow">information about a firm’s stock price, history, products and services offered, key executives and compensation, but more importantly you will gather in" rel="nofollow">information about how a firm’s fin" rel="nofollow">inancial accountin" rel="nofollow">ing may in" rel="nofollow">influence your decision to purchase, hold, or sell a stock. ??Company to Research: Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) • What is the openin" rel="nofollow">ing price, market cap, volume, price-earnin" rel="nofollow">ings ratio, gross margin" rel="nofollow">in, earnin" rel="nofollow">ing per share, revenue, and yield on the day you decided to in" rel="nofollow">investigate your company? (pick a day to gather in" rel="nofollow">information this month) • What is the closin" rel="nofollow">ing price, market cap, volume, price-earnin" rel="nofollow">ings ratio, gross margin" rel="nofollow">ins, earnin" rel="nofollow">ing per share, revenue, and yield on the day you decided to in" rel="nofollow">investigate your company? (pick a day to gather data durin" rel="nofollow">ing fin" rel="nofollow">inals week) • Discuss the company profile—sector, type of in" rel="nofollow">industry, auditor, number of employees, competitors, top 5 bondholders, and key executives and their compensation • Interpret a stock analysis as found in" rel="nofollow">in the data base and its position regardin" rel="nofollow">ing “bulls vs. bear” market for your chosen firm • Identify any research, mergers, or acquisitions • Identify the type of economic market you thin" rel="nofollow">ink best fits your chosen firm (e.g. perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly) and why • Conclude with a prediction of stock price by the end of the year—will it in" rel="nofollow">increase or decrease and would you buy, hold, or sell the stock? -Your paper must be at least three to five pages with standard margin" rel="nofollow">ins, typed, double-space, with a font size of 11 and style of Times New Roman. -Title Page—Title or Statement of the argument, school name, student name, school year, word count -Body--Discuss history, products and services offered, competitors, identify three key executives and complete an analysis based on the database discussed in" rel="nofollow">in class. (see class paper for details) -Select one chapter from your textbook and in" rel="nofollow">incorporate it in" rel="nofollow">into your defense. You may use excel, a graph from the disciplin" rel="nofollow">ine of economics, statistics, you-tube, or create your own PowerPoin" rel="nofollow">int slides (no more than 10) to graphically illustrate your thought in" rel="nofollow">in your paper. Be sure to cite all sources (www.easybib.com or CLC library citation machin" rel="nofollow">ine) -Reflection: What did the topic contribute towards your knowledge of economics?