10K report done with a powerpoint presentation - For Technical accounting writers only

ACCT310 SEC 10-K Project Power Point Slides Detailed Requirements

· You should be working on your power point slides by using the weekly discussion requirements, following these detailed requirements and completing your first draft of the slides during week five and presenting your slides by posting them in the SEC 10-K Discussion for Week Six preferably by Monday 2/12/18. This posting of your presentation is Optional.

· Your power point slides presentation is due to be submitted as an Assignment on Monday 2/19/18 of Week Seven in your assignment folder.

1. Number of power point slides is at least 10 to 15

2. The first slide must include the name of the company, the name of the class, student’s name and professor’s name.

3. The last slide will contain at least two citations (references). Include whatever citations you reasonably can in one slide. If you don't fit all of them don't worry as your final report submission should contain all of them.

4. The remaining slides must contain a reflection of your answers and completion of weekly requirements for weeks one through five and to include the requirements listed below.

5. The beginning of the slide(s) after the first slide need to include 1) a brief summarized description of your company’s business, 2) your company’s products and 3) a listing of your company’s divisions (or segments)

6. Do not merely cut and paste from your weekly answers and requirements or from the information in your company’s SEC 10-K reports. 

7. Make sure that all sides contain approximately the same amount of information.

8. Use visual cues like bullets, graphics, tables, spreadsheets, color etc. to engage and captivate your audience.

9. Feel free to attach an audio (narrate) component if you wish to enhance it even further.

10. You could use bar graphs to show the sales (revenues), gross profit, net income and inventory balances for the three years with footnotes showing the changes (trends) in amounts and percentages.

11. Imagine that you are presenting this information to an audience of potential investors. How would they react to each slide? How do the slides portray the financial condition, share of the market and control over operations of your company?

12. Include the balances for three years for sales, gross profit, net income, accounts receivable and inventory.

13. Must include the earnings per share (basic) for three years. Only show the amounts, not the changes. If there weren’t any earnings per share, be sure to mention this.

14. Must include the dividends paid for three years. Only show the amounts, not the changes. If there weren’t any dividends paid, be sure to mention this.

15. The amounts shown throughout the power point slides need to be the same as that on the company’s SEC 10-K report.

16. The slides must be mathematically correct.

17. There cannot be any misspelled words or grammar errors.

18. There cannot be any format (APA) errors to include:

· spacing between words

· spacing between sentences

· Although the website for your references will be underlined, your description of the website cannot be underlined.

19. Must include the inventory and accounts receivable turnover in times and number of days for two years. Be sure to use the average inventory and average accounts receivable and not the ending inventory and accounts receivable shown on the balance sheet in the 10-K report or other company’s reports such as their annual report.

20. List some or all of your company's risk which is normally in the MD&A Section or Section 1A of the 10-K report. One of these risks could include the changes in the foreign exchange rate(s).

21. Provide some of the main accounting principles being used by the company and state whether there were any accounting principle changes or not. If there were changes, are these changes, in your opinion, considered to have a material effect on the financial statements.

22. Schedule the gross margin (profit) as a percent of sales for three years.

23. Provide the name(s) of your company’s main competitor(s) to include comparing their number on the Fortune 500 listing to that of your company's number for 2014 only. Be sure to show the name of at least one competitor. This may require you to go beyond the 10-K report.

24. On the last power point slide, list all your references. There must be at least two references listed.