Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper Grading Guide

FIN/370 Version 8

Learning Team: Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper

Purpose of Assignment
The Learning Team assignment due in Week 2 requires students to find a publicly traded company on Yahoo!
Finance and select a public company. Students locate a SIC code for the company's industry to find industry
ratios from the Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratio link in the University Library. Students can calculate the
financial ratios using Yahoo! Finance by locating the company's two most recent annual financial statements.
Students compare the ratios for the company with industry ratios for profitability, solvency, and efficiency ratios
from the D&B Report.
Students explain the effects of a change in inventory methods to a just-in-time inventory system critical to
adopting lean principles needed in its global supply chain.
Resources Required
Dunn & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios from the University Library
Yahoo! Finance

Grading Guide
Content
70 Percent

Met

Partially
Met

Not
Met

Total
Available

Total
Earned

#/X

Partially
Met

Not
Met

Comments:

Finds the proper industry ratios from Dunn &

Bradstreet Key Business Ratios
Locates the two most recent financial
statement for the company selected on
Yahoo! Finance
Calculates for both years the profitability,
solvency, and efficiency ratios aligning them
with those on the D&B industry report
Compares these ratios with the industry ratios
The paper is no more than 700 words in
length.

Writing Guidelines
30 Percent

Met

The paperincluding tables and graphs,

headings, title page, and reference pageis
consistent with APA formatting guidelines and
meets course-level requirements.
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text
citations and a reference page.
Paragraph and sentence transitions are
present, logical, and maintain the flow

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Comments:

Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper Grading Guide

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throughout the paper.
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise.
Rules of grammar and usage are followed
including spelling and punctuation.

Assignment Total

Total
Available

Total
Earned

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#/10

Additional comments:

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