[SOLVED] CAPSIM - Analysis Presentation - Business & Finance - Marketing

I need 3 slides over the following
•Comparative Financial Analysis
•Competitive Analysis.

Presentations – How to Do Good Analysis

A. Good Analysis – How To Give it
· don’t just read off the values from the slide
· tell the STORY behind the numbers – link numbers to specific products and decisions
B. Interpreting Cash Flow Slides

Slide

Causes (usually a combination of the following)

Cash from Operating Activities

Positive Values

·High Sales of products — mention specific products
– Lower costs for materials & labor (variable costs)
– Lower costs for Period costs
– which generate higher profits and therefore cash from operating activities.
– selling off excess inventory produced in a previous round

Negative Values

·Excessive expenses (materials, labor, period costs)
· Excessive amounts of product left on hand – over optimistic sales forecasting or production creating inventory carrying charges
· Low sales due to competition or bad positioning of products
· Over-investment in TQM or investment in a new Product (R&D)
· excessive interest payments

Cash from Investing Activities

Positive Values
·Selling off capacity generates positive cash from investing

Negative Values

– buying capacity, automation investment
– NOT TQM or R&D (!)
– not a bad thing to have negative cash from investing; negative and positive values are simply descriptive of what happened

Cash from Financing Activities

Positive Values
· issuing stock, taking loans, taking long-term debt, taking an emergency loan

Negative Values
· buying back stock, paying back loans, issuing dividends
(don’t pay more than EPS in a dividend or it will hurt your stock price)

Ending Cash Balance

· don’t have to say too much about this – other than if you are in a strong, medium or weak cash position.

This is a group project. One person submits a narrated PowerPoint on behalf of the team to this submission area.
Follow the format in the Sample Analysis Presentation found at the link below:

Sample Analysis Presentation.pptx

Download Sample Analysis Presentation.pptx

I would appreciate the presentation given in MS PowerPoint. It must be narrated. Each person on the team should contribute to the creation and narration of the PowerPoint.
Please abide by the principles shared in the Analysis Presentation video you watched as part of the Week 3 Quiz on Analysis Presentation Concepts. The video is reposted here for your convenience.

https://youtu.be/UKqQbHgbQHA (Links to an external site.)

Please be do the following
1. Pronounce figures properly — $45, 234 is pronounced 45 point 2 million dollars when the figure is given in thousands as it is in many places in Capsim. Don’t pronounce it forty-five, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars or “Forty-five two three four”.
2. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking negative figures on the cash flow from investing and financing slides mean something bad happened. While negative cash flow on the cash from operating activities slide is ALWAYS bad, not so with these other two cash flow statements. The video should explain this in more detail.
3. Review the Analysis Presentation Helper — how to interpret cash activities slides.docx
Download Analysis Presentation Helper — how to interpret cash activities slides.docx

Download Analysis Presentation Pointers.docx

This document tells you what makes cash flow go up or down on each of the 3 cash flow statements you’ll create as part of the analysis presentation.
4. You will need to save a screen shot of your Round 3 Pro Forma Income Statement for the Forecast Versus Actual slide one of the slides in the presentation. Therefore, on Tuesday evening of Week 4, before 11:00 pm EST, go into your Capsim decision area, Pro Formas, and the income statement. Take a screenshot of your entire income statement so you can present some of its elements in this analysis presentation. The pro-formas disappear after the round processes, so you need to screenshot them before Round 3 processes so you have them available for your presentation.
5. For the Strategic Overview slide, DO NOT simply paste the perceptual map from the Courier into the perceptual map section of the slide. This is far too cluttered to show how your products are positioned. It’s better to draw the perceptual map using the Insert-Shapes menu in PowerPoint.
6. In all analysis presentations, on the cash flow and stock price performance slides, you give ALL data from all rounds since the start of the presentation, but you present/talk about only the last two rounds.
7. Your analysis presentation for this week will display all data from rounds 0 to 3. Talk about what happened in rounds 2 and 3. You do not present or talk about Round 4 results as there isn’t sufficient time

BALWIN GROUP
Week 4: Analysis Presentation
March 26, 2022
MGMT601
PROF: BRENT WARD
Darlene Barksdale
John Swider
Komal Tahir
Shanadra Wilson