Principles of Finance – Comparison Analysis

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Overview

In preparation for your report in Project Two, you will need to calculate the financial ratios needed to determine your chosen business’s current financial health. Once you’ve calculated these ratios, the results will be used to analyze the business’s current financial position and help them make decisions about how to improve or maintain their financial health. Pay particular attention to working capital management. If liquidity is an issue, consider how the company will meet its short-term obligations.

Prompt

Using the Project Two Financial Formulas spreadsheet and the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from Mergent Online for your chosen company, calculate the financial ratios for the most recent fiscal quarter. Then, compare those ratios with the same ratios for the same fiscal quarter from one year prior in Mergent Online, and analyze your results.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

  • Financial Calculations: Calculate accurate financial ratios to assess the business’s current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following ratios:
    • Working capital
    • Current ratio
    • Debt ratio
    • Earnings per share
    • Price/earnings ratio
    • Total asset turnover ratio
    • Financial leverage
    • Net profit margin
    • Return on assets
    • Return on equity
  • Fiscal Quarter Comparison: Using Mergent Online, summarize the differences between the results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter and the results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from a year before for your chosen business.
    • For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the 3rd quarter in 2020, then you will compare those results to the same financial calculations from the 3rd quarter in 2019.
  • Comparison Analysis: Explain what the results of your calculations and your comparison indicate about the business’s current financial health, providing examples to support your explanation. You might consider the following questions:
    • Do the results indicate the business is financially healthy or financially unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
    • What might be the cause(s) of the business’s financial success or failure?
    • Is more information needed to determine the business’s financial health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?
  • Short-Term Financing: Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise needed funds to improve its financial health. Base your response on the business’s current financial information.

Utility Concerns in Choosing an Assessment Method

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Case study must be a minimum of 3-4 pages of original discussion and analysis, not counting the title page, reference page, figures, tables, and appendixes. The statements in each Case Study must be supported by at least 1 scholarly reference, cited throughout the narrative and placed on the reference list in the APA format. 

Randy May is a 32-year-old airplane mechanic for a small airline based in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Recently, Randy won $2 million in the New England lottery. Because Randy is relatively young, he decided to invest his winnings in a business to create a future stream of earnings. After weighing many investment decisions, Randy opted to open up a chain of ice cream shops in the Cape Cod area. (As it turns out, Cape Cod and the nearby islands are short of ice cream shops.) Based on his own budgeting, Randy figured he had enough cash to open shops on each of the two islands (Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard) and two shops in small towns on the Cape (Falmouth and Buzzards Bay). Randy contracted with a local builder and the construction/renovation of the four shops is well under way.

The task that is occupying Randy’s attention now is how to staff the shops. Two weeks ago, he placed advertisements in three area newspapers. So far, he has received 100 applications. Randy has done some informal HR planning and figures he needs to hire 50 employees to staff the four shops. Being a novice at this, Randy is unsure how to select the 50 people he needs to hire. Randy consulted his friend Mary, who owns the lunch counter at the airport. Mary advised Randy that she used the interview to get “the most knowledgeable people possible” and recommended it to Randy because her people had “generally worked out well.” While Randy greatly respected Mary’s advice, on reflection several questions came to mind. Does Mary’s use of the interview mean that it meets Randy’s requirements? How can Randy determine whether his chosen method of selecting employees was effective or ineffective?

Confused, Randy also sought the advice of Professor Ray Higgins, from whom Randy took an HR management course while getting his business degree. After learning of the situation and offering his consulting services, Professor Higgins suggested that Randy choose one of two selection methods (after paying Professor Higgins’s consulting fees, he cannot afford to use both methods). The two methods Professor Higgins recommended are the interview (as Mary recommended) and also a work sample test that entails scooping ice cream and serving it to the customer. Randy estimates that it would cost $100 to interview an applicant and $150 per applicant to administer the work sample. Professor Higgins told Randy that the validity of the interview in predicting overall job performance for customer service employees is r = .30 while the validity of the work sample in predicting overall job performance is r = .50. Professor Higgins also informed Randy that the selection ratio is probably fairly high because there aren’t a lot of job seekers because the minimum wage he plans on paying isn’t likely to attract people in this area. 

Based on the information presented above, Randy would really appreciate it if you could help him answer the following questions:

1. What parts of this information seem most important for the choice of selection measures? How does each piece of information fit with the “choice of assessment method” discussion?

2. If Randy can use only one method, which should he use?

3. If the number of applicants for these jobs increases dramatically (more applications are coming in than Randy expected), how ill your answers to questions 1 and 2 change?

4. What are some additional pieces of information you’d like to have before committing to any of these options? What other criteria might be relevant? 

Please cite references and be very thorough and lengthy. 

Diagnosing Conflict

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 In a four to five page paper, address the following: Explain why conflict exists in diverse workforces, addressing the causes of conflict and multiple aspects of diversity. Title this section Conflict in Diverse Workforces. Describe 2–3 conflicts related to different aspects of diversity, describing each conflict, its causes, and its participants. Title this section Aspects of Diversity. Identify conflicts in the course materials or in resources you select. Be sure to identify conflicts across a variety of aspects of diversity, since that is the realistic demand placed upon managers of today’s workforces. Identify a conflict resolution strategy and how it applies to each of the conflicts identified. Title this section Conflict Resolution Strategy. For the 2–3 conflicts you describe, address each conflict and the selected conflict resolution strategy, then move on to the next conflict, and so on. Also, be sure to defend the appropriateness of the conflict resolution strategy you select, providing evidence for why the strategy would work. Support your argument with your experiences or evidence from research. Explain at least two ramifications conflict has on the workforce, supporting assertions with evidence from your experience or research. Title this section Ramifications of Conflict. Think about potential ramifications that apply to the organization as a whole. Regarding evidence to support your explanations, you may include examples found in the course resources. Identify and evaluate your own behaviors and mind-sets towards diversity and inclusion in the workplace based on the Inclusive Leadership Continuum. Title this section Inclusive Leadership Continuum. The Inclusive Leadership Continuum is explained in the readings from How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive. Provide four peer-reviewed, academic references. 

Wk8 DQ – Advanced Statistical Concepts and Business Analytics

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Question:

Welcome to the last week of your course. In this discussion question you have the opportunity to be creative and to relate what you have learned to your professional lives. Please explore and critically think about some of the learning outcomes and concepts presented in this course. Please effectively communicate how you would lead an organization (or a group of people within the organization) by applying the knowledge you have learned ethically and responsibly.  Your discussion should also include innovative thinking, and information-technology aspects (such as the Internet, social-media, computers, and so forth) that may assist you in decision-making. You may frame your discussion around any functional component of business, and in any context; problem-solving, management, leadership, organizational behavior, and so forth.

Note:

1. In answering the above questions, you can provide examples formulated according to the model’s setting without actually constructing the solution.

2. Need to have at least 1 peer-reviewed article as the reference and textbook as the reference

3. Need in-text citation

4. Please find the attachments as the power points of the course for reference.

5. Textbook Information:

Bowerman, B., Drougas, A. M., Duckworth, A. G., Hummel, R. M. Moniger, K. B., & Schur, P. J.  (2019). Business statistics and analytics in practice (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill

ISBN 9781260187496

6. Please find the Course Learning Outcome list of this course in the attachment

7. Need to explain in detail and provide examples 

Discussion6

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Discussion: Finding Common Ground Through Social Change

When faced with things that could be done to improve quality of life in the city, it is easy to point out the problems but often harder to come up with solutions. Once you seize upon that great idea, putting it into action will most likely take the work of many like-minded citizens. In this week’s Discussion, you will propose a solution to an issue in your community, but you won’t stop there—you will also try to recruit your fellow colleagues to work with you.

Special Note: Review the Day 5 response instructions this week.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Review the articles “Civic Infrastructure: A New Approach to Improving Community Life” and “Large-Scale Citizen Engagement and the Rebuilding of New Orleans: A Case Study,” located in this week’s Resources area.
  • Review the media piece Sustaining Quality of Life in the City.
  • Identify a problematic issue in your community.
  • Develop a solution or an approach to solving the problem that you have identified.
  • Craft an appeal, addressed to your fellow colleagues, to join your efforts to solve the problem or address the issue that you have identified.
  • Consider which medium would be best for conveying your message to your fellow colleagues. Be sure to choose a format that is easily viewable by fellow colleagues in the thread. For example:
    • Prepare a flyer in a Word document.
    • Write a brief script for a radio commercial.

Deliverable 3 – Enhancing Messages with Visuals 2 LOGOS 1 Indian and 1 American

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Competency

Investigate and modify workplace visual media communication to enhance efficiency in completing tasks.

 

Scenario

You work for a marketing organization that has taken on a new client. The new client is originally an American company which targets American clients. However, with the current trends, this company realizes it needs to extend into global operations.

Your task is to create two logos for this new client and submit a video presentation for the marketing team to review. Create an original, American-style logo, and then create a more globalized version of that logo. Since most of the company’s global clients come from India, design the global logo to reflect the visual preferences that might appeal to that specific global audience. When designing the logos, utilize the following visual communication elements:

  1. Logo size
  2. Logo color scheme
  3. Logo symbols/symbolism
  4. Logo iconic meaning

 They have also sent an email stating the following items need to be addressed: ONE PAGE

  • The main objective is to present your two logos and address how they strategically and effectively use the visual communication elements itemized.
  • Be sure to compare and contrast how differently American and Indian target audiences may respond to these logos.
  • Discuss why your marketing organization should consider the importance of using the visual elements you visually designed for these logos.

Crafting Successful Business Messages Short Paper

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Business writing is an extremely important part of anyone’s day in the modern world. In fact, effective writing skills have become increasingly important as more and more of our day-to-day work is conducted through email. 

In this assignment, you will first analyze the email exchange below. Then, you will write a short paper that addresses the following:

  • Identify the basic problem(s) with this set of emails.
  • Explain how communication was mishandled at various levels. Support your reason(s) using course materials.

From: Williams, Seth
To: Johnson, Geraldine
Cc: Gent, Harry; Smith, Carol,William

Subject: RE: ABC Sunnydale Trailer Processing invoices

Wow, these guys must be complete morons if they can’t figure out how to use our software. I mean, it’s kind of designed to be idiot proof. I’ll resend them the documentation again. Maybe this time they’ll actually decide to read it.

Seth Williams
GenWare Technician
GenWare International, Inc.
ph: (568) 566-6899, ext. 323
______________________________________

From: Johnson, Geraldine
To: Williams, Seth
Cc: Gent, Harry; Smith, Carol, William

Subject: ABC Sunnydale Trailer Processing invoices

Importance: High

Good afternoon Seth, I hope your mother is doing better now that she’s out of the hospital. I know how horrible it was last year when my mother had open heart surgery, so I completely understand your needing to be with her last week. Anyway, as per our phone conversation, our clients at Sunnydale Community College are still having problems with their recently upgraded software. Apparently, one of the fields in the new database management section isn’t working properly. I appreciate your assistance on this account.

Best regards,
Geraldine Johnson
Accounts Manager
GenWare International, Inc.
(568) 242-4987 ext. 1337
________________________________________

From: Pratt, William
To: Johnson, Geraldine
Cc: Gent, Harry, William

Subject: Sunnydale Community College Software

Hi Geraldine: Thanks for the email follow-up last week. Overall, we’re pretty happy with the new suite we purchased from GenWare last month. However, as mentioned in a previous conversation, we are still having problems with one of the database cells pulling in information from the previous database properly. As you can imagine, the last thing we want to do is re-enter all of our records manually. Can you please help with this?

William Pratt
Senior IT Specialist
Sunnydale Community College
(800) 233-1230 ext. 123

Use the following format/structure and guidelines for all short paper assignments:

  • Title Page: Include your name, the paper title, course title, instructor’s name, and date.
  • Introduction: Explain the purpose of the paper in succinct, declarative sentences. The introduction should offer a preview of the paper and its value, and be based upon the concepts studied in the course.
  • Content: Provide a well-developed, balanced argument, which uses course concepts, examples or applications, and legitimate research from appropriate sources. Ensure that you clearly respond to all questions above.
  • Conclusion: Develop a summative paragraph, which includes what you learned from the learning activity.
  • References: Include a variety of relevant resources to support your work.

Things to Remember!

✓ Write a short paper 2 to 3 pages in length (not including title and reference pages).
✓ Use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins, with APA-formatted in-text citations and references for all resources.
✓ Check and correct any spelling or grammatical errors in your document prior to submitting it for evaluation.

Subjects covered this week: 

Internal and external communication

diversity communication 

business writing 

for this assignment, you will find the following link most helpful in tying in course material. 

file:///C:/Users/brian/Downloads/Business%20Writing%20in%20Action%20(Chapter%209%20-%20Business%20Communication%20for%20Success)%20(1).pdf

Case study -Answer the 3 questions on one page length

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Case Studies are stories that are used as a teaching tool to show the application of a theory or concept to real situations. Dependent on the goal they are meant to fulfill, cases can be fact-driven and deductive where there is a correct answer, or they can be context driven where multiple solutions are possible. Various disciplines have employed case studies, including humanities, social sciences, sciences, engineering, law, business, and medicine. Good cases generally have the following features: they tell a good story, are recent, include dialogue, create empathy with the main characters, are relevant to the reader, serve a teaching function, require a dilemma to be solved, and have generality.

Assignment: Case Study – Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell, 472 U.S. 400 (1985)  

Step #1:  Read the case study 

This case is found on page(s) 622-624 of the textbook.

Case Study PROMPT:

Issue: Whether age is a BFOQ for the position of flight engineer.

Facts: Western Air Lines requires that its flight engineers, who are members of the cockpit crew but do not operate flight controls unless both the pilot and co-pilot become incapacitated, retire at age 60. The Federal Aviation Administration prohibits anyone form acting as a pilot or copilot after they have reached the age of 60. The respondents in this case include both pilots who were denied reassignment to the position of flight engineers at age 60 and flight engineers who were forced to retire at that age. The airline argued that the age 60 retirement requirement is a BFOQ reasonably necessary to the safe operation of the business. The lower court instructed the jury as follows: the airline could only establish age as a BFOQ if “it was highly impractical for [petitioner] to deal with each [flight engineer] over age 60 on an individualized basis to determine his particular ability to perform his job safely” and that some flight engineers “over 60 possess traits of a physiological, psychological or other nature which preclude safe and efficient job performance that cannot be ascertained by means other than knowing their age.” The Supreme Court evaluated whether this instruction was appropriate and determined that it correctly stated the law.

Decision: The actual capabilities of persons over age 60, and the ability to detect diseases or a precipitous decline in their faculties, were the subject of conflicting medical testimony. Throughout the legislative history of the ADEA, one empirical fact is repeatedly emphasized: the process of psychological and physiological degeneration caused by aging varies with each individual. As a result, many older workers perform at levels equal or superior to their younger colleagues. In fact, in 1965, the Secretary of Labor reported to Congress that despite these well-established medical facts, “there is persistent and widespread use of age limits in hiring that in a great many cases can be attributed only to arbitrary discrimination against older workers on the basis of age and regardless of ability.” The court discusses Usery v. Tamiami Trail Tours where the Fifth Circuit held that “the job qualifications which the employer invokes to justify his discrimination must be reasonably necessary to the essence of his business—here, the safe transportation of bus passengers from one point to another. The greater the safety factor, measured by the likelihood of harm and the probably severity of that harm in case of an accident, the more stringent may be the job qualifications designed to insure safe driving.”

The BFOQ standard adopted in the statute is one of “reasonable necessity,” not reasonableness. When an employer establishes that a job qualification has been carefully formulated to respond to documented concerns for public safety, it will not be overly burdensome to persuade a trier of fact that the qualification is “reasonably necessary” to safe operation of the business. Thus, the court held that the instructions to the trial court were correct.

Step #2: Respond to the case questions

Case Questions:

  1. What is the basis for the determination that an employer should or should not be required to test applicants on an individual basis?
  2. Should an employer have available as a defense that the cost of the tests would impose a great burden on the employer? Why or why not?
  3. What is the distinction the Criswell opinion makes between “reasonable necessity” and “reasonableness?”

Applied Final Project Part 1: Create Your Parenting Case Study Topic

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Instructions

PART 1: CREATE YOUR PARENTING CASE STUDY TOPIC_

Using the planning table provided below, you will create a case study on a parenting topic of interest to you. Throughout the course you will conduct research on this topic, culminating in a Parenting Action Plan that proposes solutions to resolve your case.  

Step 1: Select a scenario that may be a cause for concern in parents.

You may use the list below or identify a scenario of your own with the permission of the instructor. Write your scenario of interest into the planning table provided below.

List of Scenarios

  • Sleeping arrangements for newborn
  • Immunizations for children
  • Bedwetting
  • Breastfeeding older children
  • Special needs, such as:
  • Down syndrome or other genetic disorder
  • Learning disabilities
  • Autism
  • Attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder
  • Physical-motor disability
  • Language delay, speech, related issues
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Alcohol and substance abuse in teens
  • Relationship problems in teens, dating, inappropriate, and/or risk-taking behavior
  • Mental health issues (e.g. depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders)
  • Behavioral issues in younger children
  • Behavioral issues in teens
  • Parental conflict and argument
  • Military deployment
  • Grandparents raising grandchildren
  • Adoption/foster parenting
  • Racial and cultural issues in parenting -Tiger moms, immigrant children, LGBTQ, biracial identity, religion
  • Older child parenting and emerging adulthood (age 18-21)
  • Use of media-cellphones, tablets, etc.
  • Impact of domestic violence
  • Bullying, cyberbullying
  • Stepfamilies
  • Impact of divorce
  • Choosing daycare, preschool
  • Healthy diet, eating disorders
  • College/postsecondary readiness

Step 2: Select an age group to which the scenario applies.

After picking your scenario, select an age group (see planning table below) that you would be interested in learning more about. For example, if you are interested in “choosing daycare” as a topic, are you interested in daycare for infants, toddlers, or school-aged children? Note that your scenario may not make sense for some age groups. For example, you probably would not be interested in learning about daycare options for an 18-year-old.

Step 3: Select a socioeconomic status for your scenario.

Determine whether your scenario will apply to a family of lower, middle or upper socioeconomic status (SES) (see planning table below). SES can profoundly impact access to resources which, in turn, can impact outcomes. It is important to know what services are available and who can access them.  

Step 4: Family composition.

Using the planning table below, identify at least two details about the composition of the family. Who is living in the home? How many generations live in the home? What is the marital status of the parents? Are there siblings? Family composition can be a source of strength as well as a source of stress. Use this section to flesh out the details of the family in your scenario.  

Step 5: Identify the type of issue in your scenario.

Use the planning table to identify the type of issue(s) present in your scenario. Check all that you think could apply. This will help you to figure out where you can find information on your topic. For example, if you are dealing with a topic like behavioral issues that emerge in a child after military deployment of a parent, you might start looking for research in psychology journals that deal with military families, like “Military Family Therapy.”

Step 6: Identify possible sites of impact for addressing your scenario.

Using the planning table, identify possible sites of impact for your scenario. For example, if you are interested in “choosing daycare,” you would probably select “daycare” as a site of impact, but you might also select “home” if you are interested in how daycare impacts behavior in the home. You might also select “school,” if you think the quality of daycare has an impact on academic performance.

Step 7: Identify potential solutions to address your scenario.

Using the planning table, check off the potential solution(s) that could form the basis of your parenting action plan.

Instructions: Choose and write down your topic and ideas about: The topic/title, why you think it is important, and where you think you will look for resources. 

Use the Planning Table below to create your chosen topic. Each section of the table below may be used to narrow down the specifics of your research paper. Each section will help to get you thinking about the aspects of your action plan. In the example below, the sections of the table appear in parenthesis to exemplify how these sections relate to your topic choice. Please note that these sections form a part of the final paper write up, and as such can be used while writing up your final paper. 

AFP Part 1: Planning Table

STEP 1: SCENARIO

(write your chosen

scenario below)

STEP 2: AGE GROUP OF INTEREST

  • Birth-3 yrs
  • 3-10 yrs
  • 10-13 yrs
  • 14-18 yrs
  • 18-21 yrs

STEP 3: SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

  • lower
  • middle
  • upper

STEP 4: FAMILY COMPOSITION

(include at least 2 of these details)

  • Parental involvement?
  • Single, married, divorced?
  • Siblings?
  • Who is living in the home?
  • Employment status of parents?
  • Other?

STEP 5: TYPE OF PROBLEM

  • Schoolwork or Homework Issue
  • Behavioral Issue
  • Social Issue
  • Physical/Emotional Issue
  • Other:________

STEP 6: SITES OF IMPACT

  • Home
  • School
  • Daycare
  • Parent Workplace
  • Public Spaces (e.g. playground, retail, grocery store, etc.)
  • Other:__________

STEP 7: POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

  • Home Plan
  • School Strategy
  • Community Support Groups
  • Behavioral Health Plan
  • Medical/Health Plan
  • Special Programs/Supports
  • Other:_______

STEP 8: Crafting your parenting case study.

Write a parenting case study that incorporates all of the information in the planning table (Steps 1-6). Your case study should be 1-2 paragraphs in length. You may want to add details now or as your research progresses to make your case study more interesting.

Example:

The current case study involves a child with significant learning disabilities who is 8 years old and from a middle-class socioeconomic status background. The child has a 10-year-old sister with no known learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Parents recently separated, but both parents are actively involved with the children. A parenting action plan will be developed to address the child’s problems with schoolwork. I will discuss the case in the context of home and school (i.e. sites of impact), providing solutions that may include a home plan to address the parental separation as well as special programs in school and community supports (i.e. potential solutions).

Your Parenting Case Study will be evaluated according to the following rubric: 

Criteria Met

Criteria Partially Met

Criteria Not Met

Scenario Selected

1

–

0

Age group

1

–

0

SES

1

–

0

Family composition (>2 details identified)

2

1

0

Type of Problem

1

–

0

Site of Impact

1

–

0

Potential Solution(s) Selected

1

–

0

Well-written and interesting case scenario

2

1

0

Individual Topic Search Strategy

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PURPOSE

· The purpose of this initial paper is to briefly describe your search strategies when identifying an articles that pertain to an evidence-based practice topic of interest.

REQUIREMENTS/PREPARING THE PAPER

· Each student will sign-up for a group to formulate an evidence-based practice topic of interest 

(My topic is Interventions to promote social interactions in children with autistic disorder spectrum)

· Each group will formulate research question using PICO format. 

P: Children with autistic disorder 

I: cognitive behavioral therapy

C: no therapy, no intervention

O: increase social behaviors

· Each group member will search, retrieve, and receive approval for 1 PRIMARY DATA ARTICLE to answer the group Research Question.

(I will attached the article for you to use my professor already approved it)

· Paper should include a Title and Reference pages.

· Page Length: 3-4 pages Excluding Title and Reference pages

· PAPER FORMAT 

Clinical Question

Research Question- Describe problem

· Accurately and clearly states your research question using PICO format

· P: Children with autistic disorder

· I: cognitive behavioral therapy

· C: no therapy, no intervention

· O: increase social behaviors

Overview of the Problem- Overview/Significance of problem in terms of outcomes or statistics

· What statistics document this is a problem? (facts and figures)

Significance of the Problem-

· What statistic document this is a problem?

· What health outcomes result from this problem. Why should people be concerned about this problem?

Purpose of Paper:

The purpose of this paper is to describe search strategies to find evidence in supporting our groups PICO question.

Search Strategy

Search Terms

· List all terms used to search for your article (i.e. breast cancer, screening, mammography, intervention, assessment, influencing factors….etc.)

(I used behavioral treatments for anxiety )

Library Databases

· List Chamberlain library database used (i.e. EBSCO, Medline, OVID, PubMed….etc.)

· Google search engine is NOT the library database

(I used CINAHL )

Availability of Articles

· How many research articles were available to answer your research question?

· Provide numbers of articles, NOT just saying “plenty, sufficient, many…etc.

Refinement Decisions

· What decision(s) have changed from your original search strategies? (i.e. peer-review, within last 5 years, primary data article, full-text….etc.) 

· As you did your search, what decisions did you make in refinement to get your required articles down to a reasonable number for review?

· What was your rationale for your decision to change from original search strategies?

Final Article

· Describe decisions you made to specifically select 1 PRIMARY DATA ARTICLE as relevant for answering your Research Question 

Level of Evidence

Addresses Topic/Relevance to PICO

· Describe how article addresses the topic, purpose and key points

Evidence Level Pyramid

· Identify and describe the level of evidence based on Evidence Level/Hierarchy Pyramid 

· Refers to Handout (Quick Guide to Designs in an Evidence Hierarchy)

Study Type

· Identify study type of article: Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed-Method Study 

Format

§ Use of headings for each section

§ Use of APA format (7th edition)