Mgt 531 Week 6 Reflection

Mgt 531 Week 6 Reflection

Week Six Review
Learning Team A
MGT/521 University of Phoenix
July 9, 2012
Instructor: Clance Doelling

Introduction
This week we were able to ‘put it all together’ from what we have learned over the past six weeks. Businesses are complex, but a company’s business analysis can help provide a more consolidated operational and financial view of the company for potential investors. Income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements are all good starting points when looking at how well a company is doing because you can forecast how well they may do based on their historical information. We also learned the difference between a company’s strategies and tactics, and why these are important to an organization and its stakeholders. First, let’s explore the outline of creating a business analysis.

Perform Business Analysis
Learning how to perform a business analysis can very fairly complex and contains more than just what the business does and how it is currently doing financially. Performing a business analysis includes the following:
* SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and strengths)
* Explanation of stakeholders
* Analysis of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
* Financial health
* Current technology
* Globalization effects
* Benchmarking analysis
* Recent economic trends
* Strategies
* Tactics
* Human Resource management’s role in carrying out business goals
* Results of the entire financial analysis; whether it is a good idea or a bad idea to invest
From performing our research, we have seen that a lot of companies write up their own business analysis of a company at the end of each fiscal quarter or sometimes just once or twice a year. Various companies create their own analyses, so if you are looking to invest in a particular company, it would be wise to read analyses of the company from several different sources to get a more rounded view....

Similar Essays