MACROECONOMICS:

Select an organization to use as a focus for your application of economic ideas. You must use the same organization for all 5 SLP’s.
Just below is a link to a listing of 27 companies, all have common stock that has been issued to the public (called a public corporation), and all

are on the most widely used index of how well or poorly the general stock market is doing, the S&P500 Index.
In the left column is the trading symbol of the company, if you have seen a stock ticker these are the symbols that crawl by. The next column is the

company name, and the third is a brief identification of the industry the company is a part of. I have provided companies from several different

industries so that you have a good variety from which to choose.
See company choices.
Using google will be an excellent way of finding out more details of what the main business is of the chosen company, and other general information

that will be useful for the assignment. If you know how to use a financial data base you can use the trading symbol to access information, but this

will not be necessary so do not worry if you do not know how to do this, the use of google should be more than sufficient.
For the Module 1 component of the Project, please address the following questions in a 2 to 3-page MS Word document:
1.    Identify and briefly describe the organization you are going to use. Why do you think it will be an interesting focus for your application of

economic ideas?
2.    Pick two of the Big Ideas referred to in Basic Terminology in Economics presentation. Discuss how they apply to your organization.
3.    Think about your firm in terms of the circular flow diagram. Explain the two roles of the firm and how it applies to your franchise.

Think about the financial situation for your reference organization. If you’re using an unconventional organization, you may have to get a little

creative here.
4.    Assess the overall financial health of your organization? What are good and bad signs, if any, in your assessment? Measures of financial

health may include sales and/or profit increases or decreases, if employees are being hired or laid off, major new orders being placed or orders
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MACROECONOMICS

Question # 1: Go to the website of Bureau of Bureau of Economic Analysis
(http://www.bea.gov) and collect quarterly data from the first quarter of 1970 to the fourth
quarter of 2014 for the following data series:
1. Gross domestic product (GDP)
2. Personal consumption expenditures (C)
3. Gross private domestic investment (I)
4. Net exports of goods and services (NX)
5. Government consumption expenditures and gross investment (G)
Use the GDP deflator available from the course website in CMS and convert the dollar figures
into 2009 dollars including GDP and all its components. Use Excel spreadsheet to produce two
graphs as below:
1. Draw a line chart for nominal and real GDP.
2. Draw another line chart for all other components of GDP. Use only real numbers.
Determine the variable (C, I, NX or G) that is the most volatile (fluctuate up and down
from one quarter to the next) during that period.
Question # 2: Find the data for the above variables and repeat the exercise for Canada as well.

MACROECONOMICS

Question # 1: Go to the website of Bureau of Bureau of Economic Analysis
(http://www.bea.gov) and collect quarterly data from the first quarter of 1970 to the fourth
quarter of 2014 for the following data series:
1. Gross domestic product (GDP)
2. Personal consumption expenditures (C)
3. Gross private domestic investment (I)
4. Net exports of goods and services (NX)
5. Government consumption expenditures and gross investment (G)
Use the GDP deflator available from the course website in CMS and convert the dollar figures
into 2009 dollars including GDP and all its components. Use Excel spreadsheet to produce two
graphs as below:
1. Draw a line chart for nominal and real GDP.
2. Draw another line chart for all other components of GDP. Use only real numbers.
Determine the variable (C, I, NX or G) that is the most volatile (fluctuate up and down
from one quarter to the next) during that period.
Question # 2: Find the data for the above variables and repeat the exercise for Canada as well.