Assignment 12: Signature Assignment: Analyze Overall Company Performance

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:

  1. Describe the industry conditions that existed when you
    started. 
  2. 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 slide,
Agenda, 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.
 

 

 

Rubric
Name: Signature Assignment Grading Rubric