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Research paper- Individual Submission

Research Paper: This is a graduate course and students will be expected to research and write papers summarizing in their own words what they have found on current topics from the weekly readings. Research is a theoretical review of relevant literature and application of findings in the literature to a topic related to a specific industry, field, or business problem.The research must be conducted using peer-reviewed trade or academic journals. While Blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, course textbooks, popular magazines, newspaper articles, online websites, etc. are helpful for providing background information, these resources are NOT suitable resources for this research assignment.Please Note: The UC Library staff are very helpful with assisting students in using the UC Online Library journal database. Please contact them if you have issues. In addition, the instructor has provided additional resources, including a research tutorial, in the “Course Resources” folder in the “Content” area of the course.Assignment Requirements:

  1. Choose a research topic from the chapter readings or from the list provided by your professor.
  2. Research/find a minimum at least four (4), preferably five (5) or more, different peer-reviewed articles on your topic from the University of the Cumberlands Library online business database. The article(s) must be relevant and from a peer-reviewed source. While you may use relevant articles from any time frame, current/published within the last five (5) years are preferred. Using literature that is irrelevant or unrelated to the chosen topic will result in a point reduction.
  3. Write a four (4) to five (5) page double spaced paper in APA format discussing the findings on your specific topic in your own words. Note – paper length does not include cover page, abstract, or references page(s).
  4. Structure your paper as follows:
    1. Cover page
    2. Overview describing the importance of the research topic to current business and professional practice in your own words.
    3. Purpose of Research should reflect  the potential benefit of the topic to the current business and professional practice and the larger body of research.
    4. Review of the Literature summarized in your own words. Note that this should not be a “copy and paste” of literature content, nor should this section be substantially filled with direct quotes from the article. A literature review is a summary of the major points and findings of each of the selected articles (with appropriate citations). Direct quotations should be used sparingly. Normally, this will be the largest section of your paper (this is not a requirement; just a general observation).
    5. Practical Application of the literature. Describe how your findings from the relevant research literature can shape, inform, and improve current business and professional practice related to your chosen topic.
    6. Conclusion in your own words
    7. References formatted according to APA style requirements
  5. Attach your paper to the Discussion board by the Thursday due date.
  6. Read and respond to at least four (4) other student postings by the Sunday due date.

Grading Criteria:

  • Content Knowledge & Structure (10 points): All of the requested components are completed as assigned; content is on topic and related to managerial finance, critical thinking is clearly demonstrated (few, if any, direct quotations from the source in the paper); scholarly research is demonstrated; topics and concepts gained from the assigned reading and/or from research is evident.
  • Critical Thinking (8 points): Demonstrates substantial critical thinking about topics and solid interpretation of materials and reflection.
  • Clarity & Effective Communication (8 points): Communication is clear, concise, and well presented; scholarly writing is demonstrated; grammar, sentence structure, writing in third person, and word choice is used correctly.
  • Integration of Knowledge & Articles (8 points): Articles used are current and relevant (preferably published within last five (5) years and MUST be from peer-reviewed journal article publications. At least four (4) peer-reviewed journal articles are examined and analyzed in the paper.
  • Presentation & Writing Mechanics (16 points): Cover page, headings, in-text citations, page citations (page number citations required for specific information such as dates, years, list of items from article, names, numbers, statistics, and other specific information), and references are properly formatted.
  • Responses to Other Students (10 points): Substantive responses provided to a minimum of four (4) other students. Responses must provide substantive and meaningful discussion of the content of the other student’s paper and provide comments on the topic; responses must be one (1) to two (2) paragraphs long with a minimum of three sentences per paragraph.

Please Note: Plagiarism will not be tolerated. The paper must be written in your own words.

Week Seven: Research Paper – List of potential research topics

To complete the Article Research Paper due in Week 7, please select a topic from the list provided below or from the chapter readings.

· Financial Markets

· Capital Allocation Process

· Debt, Equity and Derivative

· Securitization

· Mortgage-backed securities

· Federal Reserve Policy

· Investment Fund

· Regulation of Financial Institution

· U.S. Stock Market

· Financial Statements & Reports

· Working Capital

· Sarbanes-Oxley and Financial Fraud

· Performance Evaluation

· Return on invested capital

· The Federal Income Tax System

· Corporate Capital Gains

· Financial Analysis & Financial Ratios

· Common Size Analysis & Trend Analysis

· Comparative Ratios & Benchmarking

· Time Value of Money

· Perpetuities & Annuities

· What loans really cost

· The Great Recession of 2007

· Bonds Market

· Credit Default Swaps

· Sinking Funds

· Determinants of Market interest rates

· Bond Ratings

· The term structure of interest rates

· Bankruptcy & Reorganization

· Financing with Junk Bonds

· Investment Returns & Risk

· What does investment risk mean?

· Risk in a portfolio context

· Diversification and Multi-Stock Portfolios

· Capital Asset Principal Model

· Bernie Madoff Story

· The Efficient Markets Hypothesis

· The Fama-French Three-Factor Model

· Corporate Valuation and Stock Prices

· Do stock values affect long term or short term cash flows?

· Why are stock prices so volatile?

· Financial options

· Employee Stock Options

· The Black-Scholes Option Price Model (OPM)

· Taxes and Stock Options

· The Weight Average Cost of Capital

· Corporate Valuation and the Cost of Capital

· Global Variation in the cost of capital

· Managerial Issues and the Cost of Capital

· Capital Budgeting

· Capital Rationing

· Risk Analysis in Capital budgeting

· Risk Analysis

· Project Valuation

· The cash flow effect of asset purchases and Depreciation

· Externalities

· Tax Depreciation

· Financial Planning

· Implementing the Target Capital Structure

· Economies of Scale

· Conflicts between stockholders & Creditors

· Conflicts between managers & shareholders

· Monitoring and Discipline by the Board of Directors

· Charter provisions and by laws that effect the likelihood of hostile takeovers

· Using compensation to align managerial and shareholder interests

· Capital Structure and Internal Control systems

· Environmental Factors outside a firm’s control

· Stock Repurchase

· Tax Effect Theory

· Dividend Irrelevance Theory

· Empirical Evidence on Distribution Policies

· The impact of Distribution on Intrinsic Value

· The pros and cons of dividends and repurchases

· Capital structure

· Business risk and financial risk

· Capital structure theory

· Using the Black-Sholes Option Pricing Model to value equity

· Managing the maturity structure of Debt

· Supply Chain Management

· Credit Policy

· The cost of trade credit

· Revolving credit agreement

· Multinational versus domestic Financial Management

· Exchange rates

· Exchange rates & international trade

· The international monetary system and exchange rate policies

· Purchasing power parity

· International Money and Capital Markets

Research Paper: This is a graduate course and students will be expected to research and write papers summarizing in their own words what they have found on current topics from the weekly readings. Research is a theoretical review of relevant literature and application of findings in the literature to a topic related to a specific industry, field, or business problem.

The research must be conducted using peer-reviewed trade or academic journals . While Blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, course textbooks, popular magazines, newspaper articles, online websites, etc. are helpful for providing background information, these resources

are NOT suitable resources for this research assignment.

Please Note: The UC Library staff are very helpful with assisting students in using the UC Online Library journal database. Please contact them if you have issues. In addition, the

instructor has provided additional resources, including a research tutorial, in the “Course Resources” folder in the “Content” area of the course.

Assignment Requirements:

i. Choose a research topic from the chapter readings or from the list provided by your professor.

ii. Research/find a minimum at least four (4), preferably five (5) or more, different peer- reviewed articles on your topic from the University of the Cumberlands Library online business database. The article(s) must be relevant and from a peer-reviewed source. While you may use relevant articles from any time frame, current/published within the last five (5) years are preferred. Using literature that is irrelevant or unrelated to the chosen topic will result in a point reduction.

iii. Write a four (4) to five (5) page double spaced paper in APA format discussing the findings on your specific topic in your own words. Note – paper length does not include cover page, abstract, or references page(s).

iv. Structure your paper as follows:

a. Cover page

b. Overview describing the importance of the research topic to current business and professional practice in your own words.

c. Purpose of Research should reflect the potential benefit of the topic to the current business and professional practice and the larger body of research.

d. Review of the Literature summarized in your own words. Note that this should not be a “copy and paste” of literature content, nor should this section be substantially filled with direct quotes from the article. A literature review is a summary of the major points and findings of each of the selected articles (with appropriate citations). Direct quotations should be used sparingly. Normally, this will be the largest section of your paper (this is not a requirement; just a general observation).

e. Practical Application of the literature. Describe how your findings from the relevant research literature can shape, inform, and improve current business and professional practice related to your chosen topic.

f. Conclusion in your own words

g. References formatted according to APA style requirements

Grading Criteria:

· Content Knowledge & Structure (10 points): All of the requested components are completed as assigned; content is on topic and related to managerial finance, critical thinking is clearly demonstrated (few, if any, direct quotations from the source in the paper); scholarly research is demonstrated; topics and concepts gained from the assigned reading and/or from research is evident.

· Critical Thinking (8 points): Demonstrates substantial critical thinking about topics and solid interpretation of materials and reflection.

· Clarity & Effective Communication (8 points): Communication is clear, concise, and well presented; scholarly writing is demonstrated; grammar, sentence structure, writing in third person, and word choice is used correctly.

· Integration of Knowledge & Articles (8 points): Articles used are current and relevant (preferably published within last five (5) years and MUST be from peer-reviewed journal article publications. At least four (4) peer-reviewed journal articles are examined and analyzed in the paper.

· Presentation & Writing Mechanics (16 points): Cover page, headings, in-text citations, page citations (page number citations required for specific information such as dates, years, list of items from article, names, numbers, statistics, and other specific information), and references are properly formatted.

· Responses to Other Students (10 points): Substantive responses provided to a minimum of four (4) other students. Responses must provide substantive and meaningful discussion of the content of the other student’s paper and provide comments on the topic; responses must be one (1) to two (2) paragraphs long with a minimum of three sentences per paragraph.

Please Note: Plagiarism will not be tolerated. The paper must be written in your own words.

Questions

First Source

Answer each of the questions on a new line. 

TOPIC: Cyberbullying

  1. What topic did you choose?
  2. What is the title of the article?
  3. Who are the authors of the article?
  4. Currency: When was the article published? Is the article current?
  5. Relevance: Is the article relevant to your selected topic? Explain your response.
  6. Accuracy: Is the information in the article accurate? How do you know?
  7. Authority: Is the author, publisher, or source of the information credible? How do you know?
  8. Purpose: What is the purpose of the article? Is the information fact, opinion, or propaganda? How do you know?
  9. Bias: Does the author demonstrate any bias toward the topic? Why or why not? Explain.
  10. After evaluating the source using the CRAAP (currency, relevance, accuracy, authority, and purpose) method, do you think this is a good source to use in an academic research assignment? Why or why not?

Second Source 

Second Source

TOPIC: Social Media 

Answer each of the questions on a new line.

  1. What topic did you choose?
  2. What is the title of the article?
  3. Who are the authors of the article?
  4. Currency: When was the article published? Is the article current?
  5. Relevance: Is the article relevant to your selected topic? Explain your response.
  6. Accuracy: Is the information in the article accurate? How do you know?
  7. Authority: Is the author, publisher, or source of the information credible? How do you know?
  8. Purpose: What is the purpose of the article? Is the information fact, opinion, or propaganda? How do you know?
  9. Bias: Does the author demonstrate any bias toward the topic? Why or why not? Explain.
  10. After evaluating the source using the CRAAP (currency, relevance, accuracy, authority, and purpose) method, do you think this is a good source to use in an academic research assignment? Why or why not?

What strategies will you use to find sources in the University Library going forward?

    SS 1110 MOD 6 ASSN 2

     

    Overview:

    For this assignment, you will prepare a creative deliverable that describes the evolving role of the courts. You will be able to choose whichever format you wish for your deliverable.  Please follow the instructions below and be sure to follow AP a

    Instructions:

    In Module 6, we learned about the role of courts in America. Complete this assignment as follows:

    1. For this assignment, you will create a deliverable of your choice (written document, infographic, PowerPoint, video, etc.) that communicates the information below.
      • Describe the evolution of the court structure in the U.S.
      • Explain the federal and state court structure and powers.

      SS 1110 MOD 6 ASSN 1

       

      Overview:

      For this assignment, you will write a 4-5 pag describing the role and structure of Congress.  Please follow the instructions below and be sure to follow AP a

      Instructions:

      In Module 6 we learned about the main role and structure of Congress. Complete this assignment as follows:

      1. For this assignment, you will write a 4-5 pag that communicates the information below.
        • Describe the role and structure of Congress.
        • Include the three types of powers granted to Congress, Congressional representation, and the division of labor in Congress.
        • Describe how a bill becomes law.

        SS 1110 MOD 6 DB

         

        1. Research the historical evolution of the presidency.
        2. Post an article discussing either the expanded power of the presidency or the limitations of the power of the presidency.
        3. Is the presidency too powerful?  Discuss.
        4. Respond to at least two (2) peers offering additional depth and insight. 

          SS 1110 MOD 5 DB

           

          1. Choose a specific interest group to discuss.
          2. Post a link to the website of the interest group you chose.
          3. Discuss what their purpose is and what issues they advocate for.
          4. How successful at canvassing is this particular interest group?
          5. How do interest groups provide a means for political participation?
          6. What are some barriers to interest group participation?  
          7. Respond to at least two (2) peers offering additional depth and insight. 

           

            Discussion Question

            Why do you think collaboration is so highly encouraged in education? How do you plan to build community within your classroom using collaboration?

            University policy dictates all discussion question responses must be a minimum of 150 words supported by a current scholarly source documented in APA Style. This includes the use of an in-text citation and reference to support the ideas. While this Topic will have the requirements specifically stated, the expectation remains throughout this course and all future courses.

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