Century national bank case study answers

MGSC 2301 Business Statistics Course Project Overview This report should be written from the perspective of an analyst—internal or external to the bank— tasked with answering specific questions and assisting in quantitative decision making for the bank’s C-level suite. Title page In the title page of your project you should include • Name of the study, • Analysts’ (students’) names, • Course name, and • Professor’s name. Introduction The introduction is a one-page summary of all aspects of the report. It usually includes identification of: • Who wrote the report, • Who the intended audience is, • The objectives of the project (what are the questions being studied in the project), • A brief description of the background and the sample, • The major findings (usually involving interpretation of Excel or SPSS output) and • Recommendations. This section is written after you have done the analysis below. Analysis and Methods In the main body of the report you should present your statistical analysis that includes the results of the analysis (findings from analyzing the data set), and especially your thoughts, comments, and insights about them. • The relevant numbers and statistics generated must be identified and analyzed. Students must interpret the output generated by Excel or SPSS in an intuitive fashion and be sure to not only use proper terminology but to also then explain using language that would be understandable to a CEO (vs. another statistician). • Report recommendations should be useful and valuable for the intended audience. What is being sampled and the sample size must be clear. • Students are to maximize the use of charts and minimize the use of tables (other than in the appendices) in the body of their report. Actual numbers from the Excel or SPSS output must be used in the report text and explained. • References in the body of the report should be made to the more-detailed material in the appendices. • Work to include relevant analysis beyond what is required and for intuition if your report contains insights about the problem that are not obvious from the questions asked. Conclusions • Summarize all of your findings. • Discuss the limitations of your study, what questions remain unanswered, and make suggestions to find the answer for unanswered issues in the project (and for follow-on work); for example, you may consider questions like these: Do the findings make sense? What else would you like to know about the sample data? What other data would you collect if you could? What other analyses would you want to do then? Appendices Relevant tables, charts not used in the report body, statistical details, and Excel or SPSS output are to be presented in the appendices. • The appendices should be annotated to explain the included chart or Excel or SPSS output. • Statistical jargon may be used in the appendices. The report has the following constraints: 1. A one page introduction section. 2. Full report may be up to ten pages (double-spaced) not including the Appendices 3. Annotated appendices of unlimited length.