CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL (COF)

For the assignment, please address the following questions in a 2 page paper.

Assess the overall financial health of CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL

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 being cancelled.

These are some but not all measures that could be looked at, but if you are using an unconventional organization, you may have to get a little creative here.

To what extent is your organization’s financial health affected by fiscal and monetary policy? Please give at least one specific example.

BACKGROUND MATERIAL

Money and the Banking System
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mct-comprehensive/asset.php?isbn=1269879944&id=11385
Podcast

Money and the Banking System
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mct-comprehensive/asset.php?isbn=1269879944&id=12277
Interactive Tutorial

Also, read the Money Market and Money and Inflation sections only in the link below (Investments sections are optional)

The Money Market
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mct-comprehensive/asset.php?isbn=1269879944&id=11521
Interactive Tutorial

The Money Market
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mct-comprehensive/asset.php?isbn=1269879944&id=12250