Week 6 – Assignment: Explain Financial Leverage
Research the impact of financial leverage on earnings and performance measures. Present, describe, and illustrate the leverage relation between earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) and net income. Develop numerical examples to illustrate the concepts as you respond to the questions.

Present,      describe and illustrate the leverage relation between ROE and ROI. Develop      numerical examples to illustrate the concepts.
Present,      describe and illustrate the leverage relation between EBIT and net income.      Develop numerical examples to illustrate the concepts.
Review      the referenced paper by Lord. (1998). Describe the research question being      addressed. Discuss the methods used and the conclusions reached by the      study.

Support your paper with a minimum of five (5) external resources In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
 
Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages
 
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. 
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Week 6 – Discussion: Describe and Explain Stakeholder Differences 
Summarize your thoughts and ideas about three key financial metrics of interest to stockholders and then three key metrics of interest to one of the following groups: bankers, bondholders, managers, consumers, politicians. Being able to successfully describe and define the metrics effects will be beneficially in understanding and explaining how you could employ the metrics for future financial analyses. This discussion will be open-ended to afford you the opportunity to interact with your course instructor and possibly other students.
 
Length: Content post 150-200 words; response post 75-100 words.
 
Both your content post and your response post should reflect a collegial attitude, be free of grammar and spelling errors, and include criteria mentioned above.