MGT 498 Fundacao Getulio Vargas Caterpillar Inc SWOT Analysis Business Finance Assignment Help

Minor error in your reference: the “A” after the colon should be capitalized. (…9-15 years: A randomized…)

1st para: “…have been demonstrated…” Last line: subjects (not “subjected”)

p. 2 what does (332) mean?

Check your in-text citations: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_author_authors.html

You should use et al

Page 3 – delete the sentence “For data analysis…” — this is just the software (app) that was used. You can say what statistical analyses were used or say nothing at all.

Page 4 is unnecessary. You should not have any other references besides the article you are reviewing. Eliminate the other reference and delate page 5.

Overall, well done!

Mr. Bestall, CFO of the Best Finance Inc., was satisfied with its income statement report. He decided to have a meeting with the analysts following the Best Finance Inc. before filing its financial statements with the SEC. The following conversation was in the meeting.

CFO: The year ended on September 30 should be our most profitable in history and as a consequence, the board of directors has just awarded the officers generous bonuses.

Analysts: I thought profits were down this year in the industry, mainly because of the pandemic COVID 19. Your latest interim report showed losses too.

CFO: Well, they were down, but ten days before closing the accounting period we closed a deal that will give us a substantial increase for the year.

Analysts: Oh, what was it?

CFO: Well, you remember a few years ago our former president bought stock in Jubilee Enterprises because he had an inorganic growth plan. For six years, we have not been able to sell this stock, which cost us $3,000,000 and has not paid any dividends at all. We sold this stock to Rich & Rich Inc. for $4,000,000. So we had a gain of $700,000 ($1,000,000 before tax) which increased our net income for the year to $4,000,000. Last year’s net income was $3,700,000. As far as I know, we will be the only company in the industry to register an increase in net income this year. That should help the market value of the stock!

Analysts: When do you expect to receive the $4,000,000 in cash?

CFO: They give us a $4,000,000 zero-interest bearing note with payments of $400,000 per year for the next ten years. The first payment is due on September 30 next year. Rich & Rich Inc. is an excellent company. They are a little tight for cash because of their rapid growth.

Analysts: Why is the note zero-interest bearing?

CFO: Because that’s what everybody agreed to. Since we don’t have any interest-bearing debt, the funds invested in the note do not cost us anything and besides, we were not getting any dividends on the Jubilee Enterprises stock.

Do you agree with the way the CFO has accounted for the transaction?

Explain your reasoning

Assignment Content

1. Complete problem 23-20
   Complete problem 14-23

23-20 The following are misstatements that might be found in the client’s year-end cash balance (assume that the balance sheet date is June 30):

• 1. The outstanding checks on the June 30 bank reconciliation were underfooted by $2,000.
• 2. A loan from the bank on June 26 was credited directly to the client’s bank account. The loan was not entered as of June 30.
• 3. A check was omitted from the outstanding check list on the June 30 bank reconciliation. It cleared the bank July 7.
• 4. A check was omitted from the outstanding check list on the bank reconciliation. It cleared the bank September 6.
• 5. Cash receipts collected on accounts receivable from July 1 to July 5 were included as June 29 and 30 cash receipts.
• 6. A bank transfer recorded in the accounting records on July 1 was included as a deposit in transit on June 30.
• 7. A check that was dated June 26 and disbursed in June was not recorded in the cash disbursements journal, but it was included as an outstanding check on June 30.

14-23 The following questions deal with audit evidence for the sales and collection cycle. Choose the best response.

a.An auditor is performing substantive tests of transactions for sales. One step is to trace a sample of debit entries from the accounts receivable master file back to the supporting duplicate sales invoices. What will the auditor intend to establish by this step?

• (1)Sales invoices represent existing sales.
• (2)All sales have been recorded.
• (3)All sales invoices have been correctly posted to customer accounts.
• (4)Debit entries in the accounts receivable master file are correctly supported by sales invoices.

b.Which audit procedure is most effective in testing credit sales for overstatement?

• (1)Trace a sample of postings from the sales journal to the sales account in the general ledger.
• (2)Vouch a sample of recorded sales from the sales journal to shipping documents.
• (3)Prepare an aging of accounts receivable.
• (4)Trace a sample of initial sales orders to sales recorded in the sales journal.

c.To determine whether internal control relative to the revenue cycle of a wholesaling entity is operating effectively in minimizing the failure to prepare sales invoices, an auditor would most likely select a sample of transactions from the population represented by the

• (1)sales order file.
• (2)customer order file.
• (3)shipping document file.
• (4)sales invoice file.

You have been asked to develop a pizza ordering application. Here is the information your manager just shared with you about this software development project.

The pizza ordering application allows customers with a web browser to order pizza for home delivery. To place an order, a customer would search to find items to purchase (e.g., specialty pizzas, sodas, desserts, salads, etc.), and then add items one at a time to a shopping cart. They could also view a page that showed the daily specials. The customer could search again for more items if they wanted. They would also have the option to build their own pizza with as many toppings as they like. When all items were chosen, the customer would see the cost of their order and also be prompted to provide a delivery address for that specific order. If not paying with cash, the customer would provide credit or debit card information for use on the current order. The system should have an option for customers to register with the pizza shop. They could then save their name, address information, and e-mail address, so that they wouldn’t have to enter this information every time they placed an order. If they didn’t want to save their personal details on the site, they could register their e-mail address only, which would let them receive coupons and updates on special promotions.

To complete this assignment, make assumptions as needed–just be sure to document any assumptions you make.

Milestone #1

1. Identify the following information about the pizza ordering application:
   • Purpose or goal of the system
   • Primary user(s) of the system
2. Assume the role of the customer. Identify 10 user requirements in user story format “As a (role), I want (feature), so that I can (justification/benefit).”
3. Identify 5 functional requirements and 2 or more non-functional requirements using the “shall” format from Chapter 4.
4. Identify 5 use case scenarios and create a simple use case UML diagram for each.

Milestone #2

1. Complete a UML activity diagram that provides a high level overview of the major processes that characterize the pizza ordering application.
2. Assume a Test Driven Development approach. Identify 5 or more failing tests and what you would do to make them pass. These tests will form the basis of your unit testing strategy.
3. Identify whether a plan-driven “waterfall” software development approach or an agile framework or methodology might be more suitable for this software development project. Explain your recommendation.

Milestone #3

1. Identify the evolution and maintenance related items that should be considered when planning to develop the pizza ordering software application.
2. Identify 10 or more risks that could develop with this project. What is the probability or likelihood that each risk might occur, and what would be the effect to your pizza ordering application if it did? What is your plan to either avoid, minimize or recover from (i.e., contingency plan) each of these risks if they were to occur? Present your risk analysis as a Risk Register in a tabular format, with the highest impacts/effects listed first.
   • Project Planning Assignments:
     • Plan-driven “waterfall” planning approach assignment: Use the 10 user story requirements from Milestone #1 for this assignment. For each user story, identify the effort in person-days and duration of each deliverable. If one user story is dependent on another, identify that relationship.
     • Agile Scrum planning approach assignment: Use the 10 user story requirements from Milestone #1 for this assignment. Assuming a 2-week sprint cycle or iteration, identify how many sprints this software development project will take to complete. Identify which user stories will be completed within each sprint and what considerations went into your sizing decision.
     • Be sure to rank the user stories from highest to lowest priority.
3. Be sure the most important user stories are completed before the least important user stories.