Project

Project

The company must sell a product, not a service. No banks, investment companies, or healthcare companies.
The company must be a U.S. based company (so the amounts are in dollars and the company complies with US GAAP).
Obtain a hard copy of the annual report from the company.
Your report must be for the most recent fiscal year available.
Prepare your answers to the questions below using Word. Enumerate each answer and include all the information you
company’s annual report discusses. Annotate with page references from the annual report.
Submit a well-formatted printed version of your responses to the questions below. Turn in the annual report with the
answers to the questions below.
1. After reading the entire annual report on form 10K-define your company and its business. Clearly define the
background of the company, its lines of business, overseas operations and any other information a potential
investor may be interested in. Approach this as if you were writing a book report. You want your reader to have a
good understanding of the background of your company and you want your reader to WANT to know more.
Prepare the report to entice potential investors. Use the ENTIRE “front” of the report to prepare your answer – all
pages up to the financial statements.
2. Using the table of contents, or headers if you do not have a table of contents, provide a brief explanation of the
primary sections of this company’s 10K. There are four sections and 15 item numbers. Describe each section
and each item number in 2-3 sentences. Include comments about what you find in the glossy section of the
Annual Report if you have one.
3. Describe the business environment in which your company operates (for example, the industry it is in, its
competitors, the political climate in which it operates, litigation, risks and contingent liabilities and any other issues
addressed by the 10K). Use the 10K identification of risk factors, environmental concerns, litigation and other
applicable information.
4. What inventory valuation method does the company use? What additional footnote information is disclosed?
5. What depreciation method does the company use? What additional long-lived asset footnote information is
disclosed?
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6. What is the dollar value of the company’s total long-term debt (sum the current portion of long- term debt with
long- term debt – confirm with footnote disclosure). What is the company’s debt/equity ratio? Use total debt as
defined above divided by total stockholders equity. Compare the company ratio to the industry ratio and prepare
brief analysis. The Bloomberg terminals in DCB Resource Center are a great reference source for this question.
7. What is the dollar value of the company’s current assets? What is the dollar value of its current liabilities? Does it
have enough to pay off its current liabilities?
8. Describe all the stock included in the Stockholders Equity section of the Balance Sheet. Include types of stock,
par value and the number of shares authorized, issued and outstanding. Based on the information in the 10K,
when did the company pay its last dividend (Item 5)? Based on the 10K, what was the per share dollar amount of
the most recent dividend (Item 5)?
9. What is the company’s basic (simple) earnings per share (EPS) for common stock?
For questions 10, 11 and 12 prepare the following table:
Account
names
Current Year $ Prior Year $ $ Change % Change
A B C (A-B) D (C/B)
10 What is the dollar and percent increase or decrease in revenue/sales? What factors led to the changes? Use
MD&A to discuss this.
11 What is the dollar and percent increase or decrease in cost of goods sold and all other expenses separately listed
on your income statement (disregard any tax accounts)? Discuss each expense separately. What factors led to
the changes? Use MD&A to discuss this.
12 What is the dollar and percent increase or decrease in cash? What factors led to the change? Discuss the
change in cash from operations, investing and financing. Use the statement of cash flows in addition to the
MD&A.
13 What is the market price of its stock on the day you are preparing this? Use nyse.com and nasdaq.com. Discuss
trends (1 year) in stock price
14 Would you invest in this company’s stock? Why?
15 Identify and read the auditors reports. What comfort do the reports give you?

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