Assignment 12: Signature Assignment: Analyze Overall Company Performance
Instructions
Background
Review your results from your CAPSIM simulation. You really want to dig deep into your data and review the performance measures you chose earlier in the course to determine whether your Rounds 2 through 6 decisions positively affected those measures.
Throughout this course, you have been tracking the financial performance of your organization in CAPSIM, and you have been looking at performance reports such as the Balanced Scorecard and the financial information in the Courier and related financial statements.
Instructions
For the Signature Assignment, an investor audience presentation reports an examination of company performance compared to the strategic plan and objectives. Examine the Courier and the Balanced Scorecard results and compare them with the competition. What industry conditions changed? You will create a PowerPoint presentation supplemented by an investor memorandum in which you report and analyze your company’s performance concerning the following:
- Describe the industry conditions that existed when you started.
- Using all of the performance measurement tools you examined in this course (Financial Measures and Balanced Scorecard), compare the state of the company after the end of the six rounds with the state of the company before starting. Is the company in better or worse shape? How so?
Be specific in all answers; do not say, “I had large profits in Round 1”. Indicate that you “had profits of $4,565,000 in Round 1” or whatever the case may be.
Length: 10 slides minimum (not including Title screen, Agenda [Topic and Time], and references and will have between 75 and 150 words in the Notes area of each slide to provide substance and support for the outline information on the slide. This information is the core of the presentation. The material is not on the screen. The audience’s attention is on you. In addition, you must record your actual presentation to show your oral communication skills.
Resources: Supplement your course readings with a minimum of 5 additional scholarly articles.
Grading
This assignment is worth 15 points and is due Sunday at 11:59 PM PT.
Due on Mar 1, 2025 11:59 PM