1. Select a consumer finance company.Review the consumer finance company's recent performance. Has its income as a percentage of assets increased since the year before? Explain what caused this change over the last year. How have its operating expenses changed over the last year? Discuss how the finance company's recent strategy and economic conditions may explain the changes in these components of its income statement.

2.Using an issue of the Wall Street Journal, summarize an article that discusses the recent performance of a specific mutual fund. Has this mutual fund's performance been better or worse than the norm? What reason is given for the particular level of performance?