Jennifer Is an Engineer for a Large Telecommunications Company

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Jennifer is an engineer for a large telecommunications company. If the company has after-hours events, Jennifer does not hesitate to take her six-month old baby along. You often hear her say, "If they don't go, I don't go." Jennifer's motivation to add or at least combine work life with family life is probably the result of growing up in an environment where adult family members worked, and work and family life were less balanced.

Analyze the impact of financial decision-making on working capital and its components.

Understand the limitations and interpretations of financial ratios and their application in analyzing a company's performance.

Understand the structure and components of a company's balance sheet.

Analyze a company's income statement to evaluate its profitability.

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true; a measure of how unlikely results are due to chance.

Degrees of Freedom

The amount of free variables or measures that may change within an analysis while still adhering to all limitations.

T-statistic

A type of statistic used to estimate the significance of a difference between two sample means, given in terms of standard error.

Alpha

In statistical hypothesis testing, it represents the probability of committing a Type I error; the threshold significance level.