Business & Finance Final Project: Company Analysis and Report Assignment

BUSI 532

Final Project: Company Analysis and Report Assignment Instructions

Overview

During this course, you will complete a final project. The purpose of the final project is to allow you to use all of the concepts studied during the course to analyze a publicly traded company of your choice. After completing the analysis, you will submit a report on the financial condition of the company.

Instructions

· Choose any publicly traded company of your choice

· Locate the company’s latest published annual report

· Review the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows

· Calculate a minimum of 7 ratios from the ratios studied during the course

· Complete an analysis of the financial condition of the company based on the ratio analysis and additional information found in the annual report

· Your final report should consist of the following:

· Overview of the company and its industry

· Products/services offered

· History of the stock price

· Results of the financial ratio analysis

· Key financial highlights and lowlights found in the annual report

· Key points from the CEO’s letter to shareholder’s in the annual report

· Recommendations to the company on how to improve its financial performance for the future.

· Provides the decision on whether to invest or not in this company with supporting information based on the financial analysis completed.

· Length of assignment – The final project should be 5 to 7 pages, not including the financial statements and the ratio analysis, which should be placed in the Appendix. The assignments should be submitted in a Word document with spreadsheets embedded in the Word document, as needed.

· A cover page is also required, but not part of the 5 to 7 pages of content. A properly formatted reference page and corresponding in-text citations are also required.

· You should use APA formatting

· A minimum of five scholarly citations are required

· Acceptable sources include scholarly articles published within the last five years and your textbook.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.