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Liberty's catalog describes BUSI 400 as the capstone for all business administration majors, in which students integrate the concepts, techniques and knowledge of the common professional components, review those components, study strategic management theory and practice and business analysis tools, and complete a research project on strategic management and business decisions.

David and David's chapters supply the method. They begin with the nature of strategic management and the vision and mission statements that anchor it, move to the external and internal assessments, then to the types of strategy and the analytical tools used to choose among them, and close with implementation, evaluation, ethics and global issues.

Their signature tools appear throughout: the External and Internal Factor Evaluation matrices, the Competitive Profile Matrix, SWOT, the SPACE and BCG matrices, the Internal-External matrix and the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix.

Individual Assurance of Learning Exercises fall in weeks one and five, and Individual Case Analyses in weeks four and seven, each worth 125.

Group Assurance of Learning Exercises, worth 62.5 each, fall in weeks two, three, five and seven, and Group Case Analyses, worth 125 each, in weeks six and eight.

Each group item has a peer evaluation, and the scores adjust each member's group grade.

The undergraduate business program assessment is completed in week one.

BUSI 400 is taken with David's analytical sequence as the backbone, since every case and exercise follows the same logic from assessment to recommendation.

Each individual case follows the textbook's own path from mission and the two audits through the matrices to a single recommendation with its cost and the measures that would prove it worked.

Individual assurance of learning exercises are shorter applications of the same tools, answered precisely to their prompts.

For group exercises and group cases, your group divides the work. Your assigned share, a matrix, a section of analysis or the financial projections, is prepared in the group's format and delivered early so the group can combine it.

Financial analysis is part of most cases, with ratios, projected statements and the cost of the recommendation computed and checked.

The program assessment and every peer evaluation are completed by you, and the group decides what to submit.

You get every piece with time to study it first.

A BUSI 400 writer has done strategic planning in practice, as a corporate strategy analyst, a consultant or a business development manager, usually with an MBA.

They know David's matrices well enough to build them quickly and correctly, with weights that sum to one and ratings that follow the textbook's scales.

They also know how real strategy decisions are made, which keeps recommendations realistic about cost, timing and risk.

Every matrix, ratio and projection is checked by a second reviewer.

Your identity is held by the coordinator alone.

If a tool confuses you, such as how to read a SPACE matrix, a short plain explanation can be sent.

Where a prompt asks for a biblical view of strategy or business ethics, the writer addresses it thoughtfully.

The matrices are the first hurdle. Each has its own rules, and errors in weights or ratings carry through to the strategy choice.

Integration is the second. A capstone case expects marketing, finance, operations and HR to appear in one coherent recommendation, and students tend to fall back on the area they know best.

Group dependence is the third. Six group items depend on classmates, and peer evaluation scores can raise or lower each member's grade.

The pace is the fourth, with a 125-point individual item or a group item due nearly every week.

Financial projections are the fifth. Recommendations need a cost and an expected return, which many students find difficult to estimate.

The final week stacks the second group case with the last chapters.

Choosing a defensible strategy, rather than listing several, is harder than it sounds.

Peer evaluations add pressure, since a member who contributes late can see their group grade reduced.

Because the first individual exercise is due in week one, the class is best handed over before it opens.

Solo items come several days early, and team portions soon after your group hands them out.

Your quote lists the two individual exercises, the two individual case analyses and each group share. The program assessment and peer evaluations never appear on it.

Group shares are priced by the size of the part your group assigns you.

Late starters are quoted for what remains.

The four individual items carry half the grade and are the part most often handed over first.

Some students enjoy the group work and keep it, handing over only the individual items.

If your group sets its own earlier deadlines, your shares are timed to them.