For this assignment, combine your Annual Report Project from Weeks 1 and 3, alon

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For this assignment, combine your Annual Report Project from Weeks 1 and 3, along with the following additional requirements:
Calculate the Current, Debt/Equity, and Inventory Turnover ratios for the company you have chosen.
Locate a competitor that is involved in the same business as your chosen company. Provide an analysis of the same ratios calculated above. What do these ratios tell you? Is the company you have chosen performing better or worse based upon these ratios?
Compare and contrast the GAAP, IFRS, and tax issues that your chosen company and the competitor face.
Read the article, “A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting,” provided in the study materials. Discuss any “drivers” that may apply to your company and where that information should be disclosed to investors.
Provide an investment recommendation that examines whether your company is a good investment decision.
Create a Word document that summarizes your written commentary from Week 1 and above, and an Excel document that contains the Week 3 work along with the ratios calculated above.
List all resources you used in previous sections of the Annual Report Project, and integrate at least three academic sources into the final summary of your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance. 

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Please read articles (by Durkheim and Meyer) linked here and posted under course

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Please read articles (by Durkheim and Meyer) linked here and posted under course resources as Optional Reading Packet-1 and watch videos, below. 
Then, reply to one of these two questions:
1. In Durkheim’s classic study on Suicide, he explained suicide by social, rather than psychological or biological phenomena. Other things, similarly, can be explained from this sociological perspective. For instance, creativity. Please watch the following video and answer this question: How is creativity a product of society — do you think that it is? 
Note: You might want to bring the Durkheim article into this discussion. 
“Where Good Ideas Come From,” Creativity as a Site of Sociological Inquiry 
2.  How does the Stanford Prison Experiment (like the Milgram Experiment) show how “social structure–the way society is organized–shapes our lives?” (p. 163) 
Note: You might want to bring the readings into this discussion (e.g., you might want to discuss the article from Durkheim and/or Meyer). 
Stanford Prison Experiment BBC Documentary  

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read the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848), posted in Course Resources. 

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read the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848), posted in Course Resources. 
Reply to one of the two questions (below):
1.  In what way is Carmen (the female factory worker from the video on “Globalization and Maquiladoras”), use Marx’s terminology, just like a “commodity”? Do you have an example of being commodified (or turned into a commodity) at work? Or, do you have an example of commodifying someone else?  Note: One definition of a commodity is “Something useful that can be turned to commercial or another advantage.” In other words, a commodity is like being another ingredient in a recipe. One more way to understand what a commodity is is to think about it as a tool, object, or thing used in the labor (or production) process.  
Globalization Video
2.  In what way are you, the consumer, the heart of Walmart (or the capitalist system)? Does that mean that we are somehow to blame for exploitation (or cheap, unsafe and unfair labor practices) throughout the globe? Or is it unfair to blame individuals for what is a larger structural (or sociological) issue beyond our control?
South Park Video

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read Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” and watch Sheena Iyengar’s 

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read Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” and watch Sheena Iyengar’s video about the “art of choosing” (link below) before responding. 
Reply to one of the two questions (below):
1.  It’s very easy to see what is strange in the unfamiliar “body ritual” of the Nacirema. Much harder is it to see the strange in our familiar American society. Why is this? Explain some similarities between the two “different” cultures. Is body ritual among the Americans just as — if not more — extreme than body ritual among the Nacirema?
2.  Sheena Iyengar’s video about “the art of choosing” raises interesting questions about the power of culture in our society. American culture, according to Iyengar, is “choice-centered” and so very different in this sense from other countries, like, for one example, Japan. The basic assumption is that choice is good; that more options lead to better choices and that we should never say no to the freedom to choose. But what if our choices are largely “false choices”? I have in mind the example of nail polish at the end of the video. Without the labels, no one could tell the difference between “Adorable” pink and “Ballet Slippers” pink. Discuss some choices that feel like this, i. e., that appears to be no choice at all. Do we really need 30-40 different cereal brands in the grocery store? Nail polish and cereal are two examples: provide your own example and discuss.   
Art of Choosing

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