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Part 1: Locate the following information. Be sure to provide the location where you found the requested data.

1. What is the Company’s full legal name?

2. What is the address of the main corporate office?

3. What is the Company’s business goal?

4. What products and/or services does the Company sell or produce?

5. Where does the Company sell its products?

6. Ingredients and Packaging: (Form 10K, pages 6 & 7)

Main ingredients and raw materials used in/for production

Country of Origin

7. Competition:

a) Who are the largest players in the overall U.S. market for this product and competitors?

b) What market category does the Company compete within?

c) How large is this market category within the overall U.S. market for this product and competitors?

8. Employees: How many employees worked for the Company at year-end? How many were covered by any collective bargaining agreement?

9. On which market exchange does the Company’s Class A Common Stock trade? What is their trading symbol?

10. If someone wanted to purchase stock in this company without going through a stockbroker, who would they contact for instructions and information?

11. What were the market prices for the Company’s Class A Common Stock for Each Quarter? (Form 10K, page 21)

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

High ($)

Low ($)

12. Capitalization Concentration: (Form 10K, pages 21-22)

At year end,

Class A

Class B

How many shares were authorized?

How many shares were issued?

How many shares were outstanding?

What was the Par Value ($)?

How many shareowners as of February 17, 2012?

Closing Price as of February XX, 2012?

13. Results of Operations: What was the percentage change in total production volume (core brand and non-core brands combined) from the previous year’s results?

14. Financial Statement Audit:

Who provided the outside auditor opinion on the Company’s financial statements? Ernst & Young, LLP, Boston, MA

What opinion was issued?

15. Current Year Cash Flows: (Form 10K, page 39)

a) What was the largest use of cash in financing activities?

b) What was the smallest source of cash in investing activities?

c) What was the net change in cash and cash equivalents from the prior year?

16. How does the Company value inventory?

17. How does the Company compute depreciation? What estimated useful lives are used?

18. Internal Controls:

Who provided the outside opinion of the Company’s internal controls?

What was the opinion rendered?

19. Whose signature(s) is(are) attached to the Form 10-K report and what title(s) did the signer(s) provide? (Form 10K, page 71)

Name

Title

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Part 2: Financial Statement Comparisons:

Note: You must compute the $ and % changes between years. They aren’t given.

Item

Amount in Thousands of US Dollars

% Change

2010 to 2011

On what page of the 10K did you find this?

2011

2010

Change

2010 to 2011

Current Assets

Total Assets

Current Liabilities

Total Liabilities

Common Stock (Class A + Class B)

Additional Paid in Capital

Retained Earnings

Dividends Declared

Total Stockholders’ Equity

Net Revenue

Gross Profit

Operating Expenses

Operating Income

Interest Expense

Other Expense, Net

Income Before Income Tax

Income Tax Expense (“Provision”)

Income Taxes Paid

Net Income

Amount in US Dollars

Net Income per Share (Basic)

Weighted Average Number of Shares (Basic)

Part 3: Ratio Analysis:

Ratio Name

2011 Value

Show your work or the page of the 10K where you found this value.

Gross Margin Percentage

Earnings Per Share of Common Stock

Price-Earnings Ratio

Dividend Payout Ratio

Dividend Yield Ratio

Return on Total Assets

Return on Common Stockholders’ Equity

Ratios (continued)

2011 Value

Show your work or the page of the 10K where you found this value.

Book Value Per Share

Working Capital

Working Capital as a % of Total Assets

USE THIS FORMULA

(Current Assets/Total Assets) x 100

(Current Liabilities/Total Assets)

Current Ratio

Acid-test Ratio

Accounts Receivable Turnover

Average Collection Period

Ratios (continued)

2011 Value

Show your work or the page of the 10K where you found this value.

Inventory Turnover

Average Sale Period

Times Interest Earned

Debt-to-equity Ratio

ACC122 Annual Report Project – Baker College Submitted by: Input your name here. You will examine a company’s 2011 Annual Report and SEC filing Form 10K. Both are provided on our class Blackboard site. Using this worksheet, answer the following questions and complete the following tables. There are four parts to this assignment.

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Part 4: Compare the Company to the Overall Industry:

Input your computed values from above and compare them Company to the overall Industry.

Prepare a short commentary about this analysis and post it to the next page.

· What does this comparison say about the Company?

· How are they financing operations? Is this effective or in-effective?

· Would you invest in the Company? Why or Why Not?

Ratio Name

SAM

Industry Average *

Difference

Gross Margin Percentage

44.80%

Return on Total Assets

13.1%

Working Capital as a % of Total Assets

11.50%

Current Ratio

1.50

Acid-test Ratio

0.60

Accounts Receivable Turnover

21.7 times

Average Collection Period

16.82 days

Inventory Turnover

6.9 times

Average Sale Period

52.90 days

Times Interest Earned

6.6 times

Debt-to-equity Ratio

254.61%

* = Source for industry averages: RMA eStatement Studies Online, Breweries (SIC Code: 312120, National – All Regions, All Respondents, Median Values), http://www.statementstudies.org.bakerezproxy.palnet.info/IndustryResources.aspx

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