Search the Internet or Strayer databases for a company with a financial restatement from within the last 12 months. Use the research you conducted to complete Assignment 1 according to the instructions below.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate the contributing factors to the financial statement restatement. Explain how management could have avoided the issue and restatement.
2. Assess the impact of the restatement on the company’s stock price by comparing the stock price immediately before the announcement of the restatement and immediately after the restatement announcement. Explain whether the change in stock price was justified. Support your position.  
3. Explain management’s role in the restatement, including any potential ethical violations based on the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Offer suggestions to management to assist them in avoiding similar problems in the future. Provide support for your recommendations.
4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources. You have access to Strayer University’s Online Library at https://research.strayer.edu and the iCampus University Library Research page at https://icampus.strayer.edu/library/research.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

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B200B

TMA

Spring 2013

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Question:  ‘The airline industry has firms which can be great examples of operations management. There are processes and resources to manage very carefully in order to have satisfactory outputs and resultsâ€.

Analyze the above statement using examples from B200B material and an airline company, and discuss in particular the following issues: managing micro-operations for an airliner, handling emergencies and delays, serving passengers, reservations handling, baggage handling, meals, maintenance, training of crew…

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NOTES TO STUDENTS

 

Cut-off date: Submit this assignment no later than 27 April, 2013.

Word count: 1500 words (plus or minus 10%).

Referencing: You must acknowledge all your sources of informationusing full Harvard Style Referencing (in-text referencing plus list of references at the end).  Use E-library: to get journal articles on the topic (using Emerald or EBSCO).  Use at least 2 or 3 articles.

Plagiarism: It is very important to use your own words. Plagiarism will lead to a significant loss of marks. Extensive plagiarism could mean that you failed your TMA.

Plagiarism means copying from internet, from unreferenced sources, from other students†TMAs or any other source.  Penalties for plagiarism ranges from failure in the TMA to expulsion from the university.

Answering: Your response to the question should take the form of a full essay format divided into a number of paragraphs with introduction and conclusion without subheadings and bullet points.  Use B200 ‘reader three†chapters (Processes), especially chapters 1, 2, 4. Also search information on a specific airline company and use E-library.

This TMA is 20% of B200B Grade.