Midterm Review

Name some business periodicals

1. Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Black Enterprise, Forbes, Ink

What are the 6 optional elements of an annual report?

1. Financial highlights 2. Letter to stockholders 3. Corporate Message 4. Report of management 5. Board of directors and management 6. Stockholder information ***FLCRBS***

What are the SEC required elements of an annual report?

1. Financial statements and notes 2. Auditor's report 3. Management discussion 4. Selected financial data ***FAMS***

What are the 4 steps to formulating a question?

1. Pick a topic from business class 2. Find a managerial challenge related to that concept 3. Open ended question (how, why, what works, what does not work,etc..) 4. Tailor the question to the guest

Financial Statements and notes

1. Statement of earnings 2. Statement of financial position 3. Statement of cash flows

Name 5 key questions you should ask to figure out a company's culture

1. To what extent are employee empowered? 2. How much room is there for initiative, creativity, and innovation? 3? To what degree is diversity emphasized Is the uniqueness of each employee celebrated? 4. How and how often does leadership communicate with employees? Are employees frequently brought up to speed on the big picture? 5. What is the company's commitment to the training and development of its employees? What form does this training take? How frequent is it? How does the company invest in its people? 6. What is employee turnover like? What actions has the company taken to attract and retain top calibre employees? What are the main reasons people leave the company?

12 things you should never do on social media

1.Bully 2. Post illegal activity 3. Trash your teachers 4. Post objectionable content from school computers or networks 5. Post confidential info 6. Overly specific location check-ins 7. Lie/Cheat/Plagiarize 8. Threaten Violence 9. Ignore School-Specific Policies 10. Unprofessional Public Profiles 11. Never rely on privacy setting 100% 12. Post emotionally

Corporate message

Describes how a company sees itself; advertisement of the company

Letter to stockholders

From the ceo or chairman or both; analysis of the year's events, including problems and successes

Report of management

From the chairman and CFO; takes validity for the financial info in the report

What is Salaries by Bayt.com?

Online review of companies

Financial Highlights

Quick summary of a company's performance

SEC

Securities Exchange Commision

Management disccusion

analyzes the company's performance; efficiency of operations; liquidity

How do you find out what is the proper dress for a given job/company/industry?

call the Human Resources office where you are interviewing and simply ask. Or, you could visit the company's office to retrieve an application or other company information and observe the attire current employees are wearing

Stockholder information

discusses the company's headquarters, how they trade stock, location and time of next stockholder meeting

Board of directors and management

lists the board of directors and top management team

Auditor's report

shows whether financial statements are in accordance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Selected financial data

summarizes a company's financial condition and performance over 5 years or longer