Considering the results you have shown your manager, they now want to know (out of the...

Considering the results you have shown your manager, they now want to know (out of the companies you have shortlisted) the following:

The social and environmental performance growth of the companies (3 points)
Which company has made the best improvement in their social and environmental performance from 2014 to 2015 (1 point)
Has any company demonstrated a decline in its social and environmental growth in the two years? (1 point)
Considering all the information you have collected what would your suggestion be to your manager? Is the data and information gained from it sufficient to choose a company to invest in? If you decide the data provided is not sufficient, what other data would you suggest collecting to enhance the current data? (4 points, no more than 100 words)

2015 data

Company Name	Social and Environmental Performance Score
company 1	44.39
company 2	52.75
company 3	32.05
company 4	49.94
company 5	62.56
company 6	63.05
company 7	56.52
company 8	59.95
company 9	58.07
company 10	63.14
company 11	49.48
company 12	61.51
company 13	47.78
company 14	50.51
company 15	44.76
company 16	53.38
company 17	58.44
company 18	59.30
company 19	43.75
company 20	48.54
company 21	46.58
company 22	61.95
company 23	54.44
company 24	56.13
company 25	53.54
company 26	59.41
company 27	57.52
company 28	58.55
company 29	48.97
company 30	61.01
company 31	53.17
company 32	50.01
company 33	54.84
company 34	53.91
company 35	54.64
company 36	53.26
company 37	61.47
company 38	60.25
company 39	59.70
company 40	54.08
company 41	65.29
company 42	50.28
company 43	64.88
company 44	45.31
company 45	50.07
company 46	60.58
company 47	52.04
company 48	47.74
company 49	66.16
company 50	60.17

Solutions

Expert Solution

(a) : ANSWER ::

The social and environmental performance growth of the companies :

From the above information we can observe that

the highest performance growth by company : 49 with 66.16

the lowest performance growth by company : 3 with 33.05

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(b) :ANSWER :

company : 49 with 66.16

has made the best improvement in their social and environmental performance from 2014 to 2015

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WE CAN NOT SAY THIS INFORMATION , BECAUSE

GROWTH OF TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF THE INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED

THE GIVEN DATA IS INSUFFICIENT

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(d) : ANSWER :::we have to collect more information about the company

the following data needed to invest in the company

(1)To invest in the comany we have to know the performance of two or three consecutive years

(2)company that has steady and consistent earnings growth over time

(3)looking at the overall stability of the company

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Colby Messinger answered 2 years ago

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