Part 1: Choose your company and locate its 2016 annual report (or 2015 if 2016 not available). Please avoid financial services companies, i.e. banks, insurance companies, and real estate companies (SIC codes 6000). Part 2: 1. What product does your company sell? Which industry is that? Who are the competitors of the company? 2. Compare the company’s daily stock returns with one of its competitors and those of Dow Jones Industrial Average in the past five years (Jan 2011 Dec 2016) and explain the trends you observe. You are required to use a graph to support your comments. 3. Obtain one recent analyst report and summarize it. You should address the analyst’s current assessment of your company, and you should summarize the analyst’s prognosis for your company. Part 3: Find three articles in the financial press describing events that have occurred in the company and potentially affected its stock performance. Each article should be at least 500 words, and they should be published within the last three years. At least one article must come from The Wall Street Journal and one article must come from The Financial Times. Print out the articles and provide a summary of more than 100 words for each of them. Part 4: 1. Who is the company’s auditor? What is the responsibility of the auditor? What is the auditor’s opinion? 2. Who is responsible for the preparation of the company’s financial statements? 3. Find out and state the responsibility of the audit committee. Part 5: 2 1. Who is the company’s CEO? Who is the company’s CFO? How long have they been in the company? What do they have to do regarding financial reporting after the Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002? 2. How much did the CEO of the company make in total compensation? How was he/she paid: salary, bonus, stock, stock options? Repeat the two questions for the CFO. 3. What is the management’s view on the financial performance of the company? (Summarize three key items in the management discussion and analysis section.) 12/5/2016 Register now with WritersHub.org! http://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/93362#instructions 4/6 Part 6: 1. Prepare a 5year trend analysis, using 2011 (or 2010) as the base year of (1) net sales, (2) net income, (3) total assets, (4) total liabilities, (5) total stockholders’ equity, and (6) operating cash flows. Comment on the significance of the results. 2. Prepare a vertical analysis for 2016 (or 2015) of net sales based on the income statement data: cost of goods sold, operating expenses, interest expenses, income tax expense, other income/expenses, and net income. Comment on the significance of the results. 3. Prepare a vertical analysis for 2016 (or 2015) of total assets based on the balance sheet data: current assets, plant assets (net), intangible assets, other assets, current liabilities, longterm liabilities, other liabilities, preferred stock, common stock, additional paid in capital, retained earnings, treasury stock, and other equity. Comment on the significance of the results. 4. Identify a competitor of your company and calculate the following ratios for your company and its competitor for 2016 (or 2015), and comment on significant differences of the two companies in terms of the ratios: a. Liquidity ratios: current ratio, quick ratio, receivables turnover, and inventory turnover. b. Profitability ratios: asset turnover, profit margin, return on assets, and return on common stockholders’ equity, earnings per share, priceearnings ratio, and payout ratio. c. Solvency ratios: debt to total assets and times interest earned 5. Did the company report any discontinued operations on the income statement? 6. Did the company report any extraordinary items on the income statement? 7. Did the company report any comprehensive income? Where? 8. Calculate the company’s free cash flow for 2016 (or 2015). Part 7: Evaluate the company’s shortterm (1year) and long term (5year) financial performance. Do you recommend the company to potential investors? Part 8: Present y
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