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Case ProjectMBA Corporate FinanceObjectives:The crux of MBA this class is learning about tools and metrics to examine the financial viability of new projects that will createvalue for the firm and to evaluate the health of an organization through capital budgeting, and capital conservation etc.Accordingly, this project is aimed at allowing you to take a firm that clearly did certain things wrong and explain (usingconcepts from the course) how a financial manager SHOULD have resolved the issues.Requirements:Pick a large cap U.S. company that declared bankruptcy between 1980 and 2009. Use this company, and its apparentlyfailures, to answer the following:1) Describe the nature of the company, what it did, how it was formed, and what service / production it wasprimarily engaged prior to its failure.2) Provide a brief overview of the timeline surrounding its bankruptcy (no more than half a page).3) Provide three specific reasons, supported by research, to demonstrate that your firm was crippled by conceptsrelated to poor capital budgeting. (Note: ALL bankruptcies at some level can be traced back to a lack of propercapital budgeting).4) Did the firm’s capital structure help or hinder its initial success and did its capital structure help or hinder itsability to stave off its ultimate bankruptcy? Provide specific examples from your research!5) Did hybrid financing, alternative financing, or other “non-traditional” means of financing help or hinder yourfirm? (in other words, if the firm used only traditional financing means, would bankruptcy have been more orless likely?)6) In 3 pages or less, explain 4 critical actions that a financial manager should have taken in order to avoidbankruptcy. Note – all of your suggested actions must relate directly to the topics covered during this 8 weekcourse. Be certain to use course vocabulary and course concepts in order to demonstrate your mastery of thematerial.Package as a professional document which includes:a. Title Page / introduction / conclusion / contents pageb. Use Section Headings for each questionc. Narrative responses to questionsd. Calculations, tables, charts to substantiate your responsese. Work Cited Pagef. Format in 10 point fontg. Double-SpaceMake sure

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Financial Analysis 
 
We have discussed the key aspects of two famous companies in the operations of 
Telecommunications and Networking Business. The names of the companies are as follows: 
a) Rogers Communication Inc. (Roger) 
b) Telus Corp (Telus)
For the purpose of collecting the information, we have referred to the data provided by the 
company itself through the annual report, and also the details available in the various other 
financial and other websites which hosts the information of the company and the stocks of the 
company.  
The summary of such information which are relevant for the analyzing the rating is considered 
hereunder:
1. Business Model, Competitive Environment and Technological Positioning
Rogers: 
Rogers is huge scale company working in multinational markets, it is considered one of the top 
operator in the region with revenues exceeded 12 billion as shown in figures in Table 2.1. Its 
services covering more than 50 of the market and has a technology risk to very low since they are 
dependent on their own infra structure (Rogers, 2010)
Telus: 
TELUS Corporation provides telecommunications products and services primarily in Canada. Its 
telecommunications products and services include wireless, data, Internet protocol, voice, and 
television. The company operates through two segments, Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless 
segment is involved in the voice, data, and equipment sales. This segment sells wireless handsets to 
resellers and customer premises equipment. The Wireline segment offers data services, which 
include television; Internet, enhanced data and hosting services; and managed and legacy data 
services, as well as voice local, voice long distance, and other telecommunications services. As of 
June 11, 2013, the company had approximately 13.2 million subscriber connections, which included 
7.7 million wireless subscribers, 3.4 million wireline network access lines, 1.4 million Internet 
subscribers, and 712,000 TELUS TV subscribers. TELUS Corporation was founded in 1993 and is 
based in Vancouver, Canada. (finance.yahoo.com)
Competition 
Both the companies under consideration have strong competitors in the market. Additionally they 
are also the competitors for each other. A list of competitors of the two companies is provided 
hereunder:
Roger: 
a) BCE = BCE, Inc. 
b) SJR = Shaw Communications, Inc 
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BCE
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SJR
c) TU = TELUS Corporation
Tulus: 
a) Pvt1 = Allstream Inc. (privately held) 
b) BCE = BCE, Inc 
c) RCI = Rogers Communications Inc.
The overall number of competitors is not many. However, the degree of competition is very intense 
so as to disrupt the overall functioning and working of the enterprises, working there under. Both 
the companies have a strong competition and both lead the overall market competition in one 
manner or the other.
Technology 
Technology has a prime role to play in the industry in which these companies operate. It is through 
technology only that these companies can sustain their overall operations. In the absence of the 
same,

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