4-page essay that has the following instructions:

Will have a list of Entrepreneurs- We need to figure out Common Patterns between them based on the following:

               Typical Background:

                              Education

                              Family background

                              Type of business

                              Initial entrepreneurial idea- opportunity (how did they get there)

Will have to group the Entrepreneurs into 2 or 3 groups

                Then mention the characteristics of each group

Entrepreneurs List:

This week’s Discussion topic comes from BYP11-2 page 547 of your textbook. PepsiCo, Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. Inc. financial statements are in Appendix A and B of your textbook. Use the financials to answer the following questions.

(a) At December 26, 2009, what was PepsiCo’s largest current liability account? What were its total current liabilities? At December 31, 2009, what was Coca-Cola’s largest current liability account? What were its total current liabilities?
(b) Based on information contained in those financial statements, compute the following 2009 values for each company.
      (1) Working capital.
      (2) Current ratio.
(c) What conclusions concerning the relative liquidity of these companies can be drawn from these data?

BYP11-2 page 547

Go to the book’s companion website, www.wiley.com/college/weygandt, to see the completion of this problem.

BROADENING YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Financial Reporting and Analysis

Financial Reporting Problem: PepsiCo, Inc.

BYP11-1

The financial statements of PepsiCo, Inc. and the notes to consolidated financial statements appear in Appendix A.

Instructions

Refer to PepsiCo’s financial statements and answer the following questions about current and contingent liabilities and payroll costs.

• (a) What were PepsiCo’s total current liabilities at December 26, 2009? What was the increase/decrease in PepsiCo’s total current liabilities from the prior year?
• (b) In PepsiCo’s Note 2 (“Our Significant Accounting Policies”), the company explains the nature of its contingencies. Under what conditions does PepsiCo recognize (record and report) liabilities for contingencies?
• (c) What were the components of total current liabilities on December 26, 2009?

Comparative Analysis Problem: PepsiCo, Inc. vs. The Coca-Cola Company

BYP11-2

PepsiCo, Inc.’s financial statements are presented in Appendix A. Financial statements of The Coca-Cola Company are presented in Appendix B.

Instructions

compare and contrast the contentnal army and the British army.

Your database has been a hit. You have been called back to the customer’s headquarters and they want a detailed report and plan how to convert the mass amounts of data into profitable information. They have heard of data warehouses and data mining, but they want you to provide an executive overview and a plan with specifics on how they will take their environment to the next level with the implementation of a data warehouse and data mining infrastructure. Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

1. Provide an executive overview that addresses the following:
   • Explain the benefits and current trends of data warehousing and data mining.
   • Provide two (2) examples of quality companies successfully using a data warehouse to support your answer.
   • Outline the architecture, models and views used in the data warehouse.
2. Discuss optimization techniques specific to data warehousing and data mining.
3. Assume that the company has accumulated 20TB of data and that 20% per year growth is expected in the size of the Data Warehouse. Recommend a solution for this scenario with respect to software, hardware and network requirements.
4. Create a diagram using Visio, Microsoft Paint, or other graphical creation utility of your choosing to illustrate the conceptual data feeds into and out of the data warehouse. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: •& nbsp;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.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Excel, Visio, MS Project, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams/charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Demonstrate the basic mechanisms for accessing relational databases from various types of application development environments.
• Summarize the difference between on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytic processing (OLAP), and their relationship among business intelligence, data warehousing and data mining.
• Summarize how database systems support enterprise and web-based applications.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions. Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.