financial accounting

Encore Wire Corp. (WIRE)

Using Excel (or another spreadsheet), prepare a forecast of the company’s income statement for the full years 2014-2018. (If the company has a year-end different from December 31, use an appropriate five year time period (we’ll discuss in class). Use the format of the income statement included in your company’s 10-K – the full income statement, not summarized data. Spend at least an hour reading information about the company’s future, in the 10-K, magazine articles, the Wall Street Journal or anything else you can find discussing the company’s future.

1. one page with your forecasted income statements

2. one page description of the assumptions you made in preparing the forecast.