Identifying four journal articles on:

* Analysis of corporate financial statements


* Analysis of a companys cash flow


* Evaluation of high- and low- risk investment projects


* Valuation of stock and stock portfolios

One article on each topic. Half a page summary on each article. Review the journals and provide a summary

Update the groups training manual with a 600 word document:

I. That demonstrates the role of forecasting within a Financial Services organisation.

II. That Highlights the differences between optimisation techniques, sensitivity analysis and the Monte Carlo theory.

III. That distinguishes between risk, sensitivity and optimization and forecasting in a range of financial models for Financial Services companies.

IV. That Compares and contrasts various techniques for modelling for private equity.

Assignment 1: Operations Decision
Due Week 3 and worth 240 points

Assume you have been hired as a managing consultant by a company to offer some advice that will help it make a decision as to whether it should shut down completely or continue its operations. It currently uses 100 workers to produce 6,000 units of output per month (working 20 days / month). The daily wage (per worker) is $70, and the price of the firm's output is $32. The cost of other variable inputs is $2,000 per day. You are told that the firm's fixed cost is ?high enough? so that the firm's total costs exceed its total revenue. The marginal cost of the last unit is $30.

This assignment allows you to determine the specific details about this fictitious company in order to conduct an environmental scan of this company.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1.Briefly describe the details of the fictitious business that you created for this assignment.
2.Assess the current environmental scan factors. Determine the factors that will have the greatest impact on plant operations and management?s decision to continue or discontinue operations.
3.Evaluate the financial performance of the company using the information provided in the scenario. Consider all the key drivers of performance, such as company profit or loss for both the short term and long term. Be sure to show the calculations that helped you reach your conclusions.
4.Recommend how the company can improve its profitability. Then, develop a brief plan to implement the recommendations.
5.Assess the circumstances in which the company should discontinue operations. Provide a rationale with your response.
6.Use at least three (3) high-quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
?Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
?Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student?s name, the professor?s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
?Apply the concepts of supply and demand to determine the impact of changes in market conditions in the short run and long run, and the economic impact on a company?s operations.
?Examine the factors that affect short-term and long-term production decisions.
?Use short-run and long-run firm production and cost functions to evaluate the impact on industries.
?Use technology and information resources to research issues in managerial economics and globalization.
?Write clearly and concisely about managerial economics and globalization using proper writing mechanics.

RESEARCH PROJECT - I picked PFIZER.

Investigate, research, and document financial information for a corporation.

Obtain your information from a variety of sources (which may include):
? Prospectus of the company
? Annual reports
? Quarterly reports
? Value line investment survey
? Standard and Poors Industry Survey
? Moody?s handbook
? Dun and Bradstreet Reports
? Risk Management Association
? Internet information

Use the following form or outline:

Introduction
History/Background of the company and industry.
Financial Analysis
Ratio analysis
Comparison to industry norms or dominant firm
Common size analysis
Sources and uses of funds analysis
Financial notes
Price/Earnings ratio
Conclusion or Recommendation:
For example, do you think it would be a good investment to take your own money and invest based on their growth pattern in the last five years? Watch their EPS, growth in earnings, and return of equity (divide their net income by their stockholder?s equity) ? this is not a real ration, but analyze.

Also, if your company has a debt to equity ration higher than the industry average, add any borrowing that could do XXXX that will even out the ratio.

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Please write an in-depth financial analysis of Pfizer Inc from an investor's standpoint. For this paper, you will only need to examine the financial data for year 2007 and 2008 only. Here are few things that you need to write about

Shareholder Analysis
Financial Evaluation
Liquidity & Solvency Analysis
Working Capital and Current Ratio
Accounts Receivable and Inventory Turnover
Debt Management Ratios
Ratio of Fixed Assets to Long Term Liabilities
Ratio of Liabilities to Stockholder's Equity
Profitability Analysis
Revenue Growth
Earnings per Share
Price/Earnings Ratio
Dividend Payouts
Return Ratios

I already have some of the ratios calculated and will email them to you. If you use any other ratios, I would really much appreciate if you can also show the calculations at the end of the paper(you don't need to write a formula or anything, just something like Quick Ratio = 4/2)

By the way, an executive (or company) overview is not needed. However, it would be nice to have some information about Industry Competition & Industry Profile. Finally, please conclude with a statement as to whether you would have bought the stock in the entity had you known then what you learned from your analysis.
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Please include the following
1) Overview of the firms background ( should only be 1 page!)
2)Analysis of the firms financial performance ( which should include ratio analysis at least 3-4 ratios!)
3)Critical accounting information/disclosures
4)Summary of findings
5) recommendation regarding the firms investment potential ( 1page!)
Should be double-spaced, do Not discuss the statement of cash flows
I am a first year grad student with no accouting background so please keep it at that level especially with the ratios. Some good ratios for the report would be debt to equity, profit margin etc.
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JP Morgan Chase Bank
5-7 pg paper of text following APA standards
text= 5-7 pages in total
A) introduction of the company (1 page or 2 paragraphs)
B) Financial analysis of the company using any of the following: balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow, or ratios for the past 5 yrs
C) Conclusion of your financial analysis (1 page)
D) Appendix min 5 charts (bar, pie, line)
E) rEFERENCE PAGE MIN 4
Power point presentation min 7-9

Times New Roman 12 font Double Spaced
Explain why is the company going in a good or bad direction

Paper should be 2 pages not including cover page and reference page. Do not go under 2 pages.

Times New Roman 12 Point Font

Reference - I need to be able to review or find them on line.

Instructions: Pick a publically traded company, examine their financials and investigate the financial management of the company. Explore the major financial problem areas of the company.

1/ Summary of the case (just one short paragraph)

2. Evaluate Tire Citys financial health. How well is the company performing?
3. Suppose the proposed terms of the bank credit included a covenant (a contractual obligation that binds a borrower to specific actions or outcomes as a condition for extending a loan) that read as follows: The company must maintain net working capital (defined for purposes of this loan as accounts receivable plus inventories minus accounts payable) of at least $4 million. For purposes of this covenant, net working capital will be measured at the end of each fiscal year. Is TCI likely to be able to satisfy this covenant in both 1996 and 1997?
4. . As lender, would you be willing to loan TCI the funds needed to expand its warehouse facilities and finance its growth? Why or why not?
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This paper should address how the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department responded to the financial crisis of 2008, particularly as it relates to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). It should analyize in what areas the TARP has been effective and/or ineffective.

It should have at least 9 online references. All references must be available online without a password.
I will send 5 references to Essay Town.

Please include an abstract of no more than 120 words.
Quotations should not compromise more than 25% of the paper.

Thank you.
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The Fundamental Analysis of Coach Inc. (Financial analysis report) Writing down "Top-down approach security analysis-content for Coach Inc. (Stock symbol: COH)" Using the ten years data analysis this company and give the financial report to analysis this company. (The S&P Company?s web site has provided some of the data) Try to create an economic analysis that allowed potential investors to view a comprehensive picture of the desirability of Coach Inc. stock. Be careful about the plagiarism. Thank you~ The report content should be below:

1. Economy (Market) Analysis
2. Industry Analysis
3. Company Analysis
A. Abstract
B. Methodology
C. Brief History of the Company
D. Analysis of Financial Statements (Ratio analysis)
? Liquidity Ratios: Current ratio
? Operating Efficiency: Asset Turnover
? Operating Profitability Ratios: Net profit margin, Return on Equity, and Du Pont
? Risk Analysis: Business Risk and Financial Risk, Variability, and Debt/Equity
E. Application of CAPM and Analysis
F. Estimating the Value of the Company and Analysis
? EPS
? P/E
? Sustainable Growth Rate
? PEG
? Investment Decisions
1. Comparing the estimated value to the current market price
2. Comparing the expected rate of return to the required rate
G. Additional Measures of Relative Value and Analysis
? P/BV
? P/CF
H. Measures of Value Added and Analysis
? EVA
? MVA
I. Comments and Conclusion

References
Appendix A: Formulae
Appendix B: Graphs
Appendix C: Tables
Appendix D: Figures

Many public companies now publish their Annual Report (2009) in their web sites to provide information to people, who are interested in the performance and financial position of the company. Select two companies, which are in the same industry. Both should be British companies, and one of them should be a company in which you are a stakeholder or have a particular interest as an existing or potential shareholder or as a supplier or employee (fiction, of course).

Using the company reports, compare and contrast the information provided in each of the Annual Reports that you have selected. Your discussion should cover the following areas:

a) Explain the information you consider would be of interest to each of the possible users of the Annual Report: (20 marks)

a.Existing shareholders.
b.Potential shareholders.
c.Lenders and suppliers
d.Employees.

b) Do you consider that the information provided in the Annual Reports meets the areas of interest that were discussed in (a)? In your answer, you should consider the accounting conventions and practices that may limit the usefulness of the information provided to the stakeholders. (30 marks).

c) Prepare an analysis of the performance and financial position of only one company. It is not necessary to attach the details of the Annual Report but the internet address should be provided (so I will need the URL where both 2009 annual reports were taken). If it is not possible to obtain the share price on the day on which the financial statements were prepared, use the most recent share price that you can find. (This information is needed to calculate the Price Earnings ratio). (50 marks)


Note 1: It is important that you should discuss the possible causes and effects of any changes in the ratios and it would not be appropriate to only repeat the ratios. The purpose of calculating the ratio figures is to gain an insight into the performance and financial position of the company over the period.

Note 2: The indicative word length for the coursework is around 2000 words (excluding calculations, bibliography and appendices) as commentary to the quantitative analysis provided.

Note 3: The coursework will be marked taking into account effort, clarity and use of relevant academic tools as follows:

1. An essay that indicate relevant points in the topic under consideration
2. A structured essay in which relevant arguments support a conclusion.
3. A structured essay showing signs of the authors own thinking or research and a critical understanding of issues relevant to the topic.
4. Using specialised journals, sources and recent publications benefits the analysis and adds to better marks.

Stock Market Project

You will analyze a major U.S. corporation and recommend whether to buy, sell, or hold its common stock. The stock and its competitor will be selected by your instructor and disclosed during the first week in class. You will be graded on the deliverables listed below and your thought process in making your recommendation to buy, sell, or hold. Please do all calculations using data from the most recent annual report and state the date of the fiscal year end.

Headlines are about banks, stress test, TARP money, etc.

As the primary corporation for your analysis use: Wells Fargo (WFC)

As the comparison / competitor use: Bank of America (BAC)

Your paper, submitted in Word, will include the following information:

Part 1

1) A title page containing your name, my name, title of the paper and the date.

2) A one-paragraph discussion describing the history and business of your company. This is not required for its competitor. Cite the source on your References page. TCO 1 (5 points)

3) A summary (one or two paragraphs) of recent news articles about your company. This is not required for its competitor. Cite the sources on your References page. TCO 1 & 2 (10 points)

4) A written analysis comparing your companys profitability ratios versus those of its competitor. Provide supporting Exhibit A with the ratios of your company and its competitor. Cite the source of the ratios. TCO 2 (10 points)

5) A written analysis comparing your companys asset utilization ratios versus those of its competitor. Provide supporting Exhibit A with the ratios of your company and its competitor. Cite the source of the ratios. TCO 3 & 4 (10 points)

6) A written analysis comparing your companys liquidity ratios versus those of its competitor. Provide supporting Exhibit A with the ratios of your company and its competitor. Cite the source of the ratios. TCO 5 (10 points)

7) A written analysis comparing your companys debt utilization ratios versus those of its competitor. Provide supporting Exhibit A with the ratios of your company and its competitor. Cite the source of the ratios. TCO 7 & 11 (10 points)

8) A written analysis comparing your companys Du Pont number with the Du Pont number of its competitor. Provide supporting Exhibit B with the Du Pont calculation for your company and its competitor. Cite the source of the data. TCO 2 (10 points)

9) A written analysis comparing your companys degree of operating leverage, degree of financial leverage, and degree of combined leverage with those of its competitor. Provide supporting Exhibit C with these calculations for your company and its competitor. Cite the source of the data. TCO 2 & 9 (10 points)

Part 2

10) Compare your companys cost of capital with that of its competitor. Explain your assumptions in the paper. Provide supporting Exhibit D. Cite the source of your data and any assumptions that you may have to make. You may use the AYTM-WACC Calculator to do the computations. TCO 8, 9 & 10 (20 points)
11) A section describing how this stock has performed over the past two years versus its competitor. Compare on a month-to-month basis to see if they move in the same direction. This can be done using data from a variety of reputable sources online. Three free sites are yahoo.com, Google.com, and moneycentral.msn.com. TCO 10 (20 points)

12) A section in which the present value of the next five years of your companys expected earnings are computed. Use the cost of capital (rounded to the nearest whole number) as the discount rate for the computation. Find the growth rate of earnings over the last five years and assume that same growth rate over the next five years. You may use the TVM calculator or the TVM tables for this computation. Also, compute the price earnings ratio (PER) at each of the most recent four quarterly earnings reports and discuss the changes, if any. Remember that PER is based on annual earnings. Use the trailing 12-months EPS for these computations. TCO 3, 6 (20 points)
13) A recommendation section where you state whether to Buy, Sell, or Hold. (10 points)
14) References page and in-text citations including the URL and the date accessed for web sources. (5 points)
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1) Why were the selected companies chosen?
Answer: They are major firms that are leaders in their industry. Information about them is readily available.
Q2) How long should the paper be?
Answer: As long as necessary to meet the stated deliverables above.
Q3) Where can I find the financial statements?
Answer: See item 11 above.
Q4) Where can I find the ratios?
Answer: See item 11 above.
Q5) Where do I find the Du Pont number?
Answer: You calculate it based on the financial data.
Q6) Where do I find the degree of operating leverage, degree of financial leverage, and degree of combined leverage?
Answer: You calculate based on the financial data.
Q7) How do I find a companys cost of debt?
Answer: The cost of debt = the YTM. The after-tax cost of debt = YTM * (1 tax rate).
It is OK to use the cost of one debt instrument for all the debt that the company has outstanding. If you find the YTM of outstanding debt in Barrons or the Wall Street Journal, you may use that as a proxy for all of the companys debt.
Q8) How do I find a companys tax rate?
Answer: Can be found in the footnotes to the financial statements or via a financial statement calculation. Tax rate = taxes paid / EBIT.
Q9) How do I find the risk-free rate of return?
Answer: Use the 3-month Treasury bill rate
Q10) How do I estimate the return on the stock?
Answer: Use the historical rate of return on the stock over a 5-year period.
Q11) How do I find the beta?
Answer: Follow the procedure discussed in the textbook on page 361 or find beta listed under key statistics at Yahoo/finance. When you compute it, you are certain about the period that the data represents.
Q12) How do I cite references?
Answer: Review the document about APA Style in Doc Sharing.
Q13) What is the site ID for Standard & Poors data via the McGraw Hill website.
Answer: Go to www.mhhe.com/edumarketinsight
The site ID is ra212843

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Assignment 3: You Are an Investment Analyst
Due Week 10 and worth 320 points

As the representative from your accounting firm or practice, you are in charge of stock market analysis that will be presented to clients as part of professional consultation process. One of your high-profile clients is trying to determine the possible investment potential between two companies. However, before you can recommend investments to clients, you need to familiarize yourself with the background of the companies, analyze stock trends, research current events, and analyze financial statements. Select one (1) pair of these companies and conduct your analysis.
Pepsi versus Coca Cola, or
Amazon versus eBay
Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:
Analyze each companys history, product / services, major customers, major suppliers, and leadership and provide a synopsis of each company.
Based on the stock price for the timeline listed below, present a graph that illustrates the stock price of each company. Indicate conclusions that can be drawn based on the trend:
a. The day of its initial public offering
b. January 1, 2012
c. January 1, 2011
d. January 1, 2010
Research and summarize at least two (2) news events (this may include mergers, acquisitions, or political issues) that occurred from 2010 to the present day and the potential impact on the stock price of each company. Indicate how this influences your investment decision related to the company.
Provide an overall financial analysis for each company that highlights the key characteristics for investment and how this may impact an investors decision.
Based on your review of the financial data for each company, indicate the accuracy and reliability of the data for making investment decision. Provide support for your conclusion.
Recommend which company you consider as the better investment for your client and how you will present your recommendation. Support your recommendation with data from your analysis.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Analyze the accounting for corporation requirements related to stock valuation, dividends, and retained earnings.
Determine how to value investments and how to report them based on that valuation.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting.
Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.

The report should contain the following sections:
1. Financial Planning
a. Balance Sheet and Income Statement
b. Tax Planning
2. Cash Management
a. Analysis of cash and liquid assets
b. Analysis of credit use (credit cards and consumer loans)
c. Home and automobile decisions
d. Insurance considerations
3. Investments
4. Life cycle planning
a. Retirement plan
b. Estate plan
5. Summary (your conclusions and recommendations)

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This is for Finance class and it is financial analysis report for Ford company. Go to Ford.com, then click on "About Ford", then "Investor Relations", then "Company Reports", then "Annual Reports".

Text of Paper: 5 pages

a) Introduction of the company. (1 page)

b) Financial analysis of the company for the past 5 years using liquidity, efficiency, leverage, coverage and profitability ratios (faxed pages #142 and 143). Discuss(!) if the company did well or not in the past 5 years and support you answer. (3 pages)

c) Conclusion of financial analysis. (1 page)

d) Appendix page (1 page): Using Ford reports, make a chart for the last 5 years using ratios indicating if the company did bad or good comparing to the industry average. (Example faxed, page #138).

Note:
If you have any questions, please, let me know. Thank you.
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Prepare a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper, formatted according to APA guidelines, that includes performance ratios based on DELL'S last two annual reports and data available on the DELL's Web site.
Compute the eight ratios listed below for two consecutive years. Discuss their significance for management and compare them to industry averages.
Current Ratio
Quick Ratio
Inventory Turnover Ratio (Note: on the Dunn and Bradstreet Web site this ratio is
labeled Sales to Inventory)
Debt Ratio (Note: on the Dunn and Bradstreet Web site this ratio is labeled Total
Liabilities to Net Worth)
Net Profit Margin Ratio (Note: on the Dunn and Bradstreet Web site this ratio is
labeled Return on Sales)
ROI (Note: on the Dunn and Bradstreet Web site this ratio is labeled Return on
Assets)
ROE (Note: on the Dunn and Bradstreet Web site this ratio is labeled Return on
Net)
Price-to-Earnings Ratio (P/E) Ratio
o Analyze the company's working capital management. Explain why the companys
operating and cash cycles are currently optimized. If you think they are not optimized,
explain why.
o Based on the companys financial statements, list the long-term debt held by the
corporation, maturity dates and yield to maturity. List the types of stock issued by the
company, the stocks current selling price, and the 52-week average selling price.
o Compute the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for both years and discuss
your findings.
o Write a brief analysis that summarizes the data youve gathered throughout the
weeks and evaluates how your company compares to industry averages.
o Write your recommendations on whether as an investor you should buy this
company's stock and why.

Approached by a major investor seeking for advice on investment opportunities. Required to analyse 2 companies (Marks and Spencer Plc for end year April 2010 and Tullow Oil Plc for end year Dec 2009) and write a report making a recommendation.

Analysis and discussion should cover the following 4 broad areas:
1. Liquidity and Profitability
2. Gearing and Capital Structure
3. Investor Relations and Share Price Trends
4. Corporate Social Reporting

Each of these broad areas are required to carry out a literature review.
Discussion of the broad areas should include examples of the theory being applied in practice.
Analysis must also include a comparison of similar as well as different accounting practices employed by the two companies and the potential impact these practices have on the relevance and reliability of the financial statements.

Must conclude with a clear recommendation for one of the two companies. Recommendation must be justified by the evidence.

Using the Internet, access the SEC 10-K of Staples. Review the company's MD&A as well as financial statements and the accompanying footnotes. Use this information to prepare your analytic results. You may want to seek additional background and comparative data on the business.
Your paper should briefly describe your assessment of the firm's activities and plans for the future. The content of your paper should focus on accounting issues and include words used in our accounting course, including financial accounting as well as managerial accounting. An example would be a discussion on inventory: how it is valued, whether there is a WIP account, and other details you will learn this semester.

Use terms from our course and create displays using the SEC 10-K for your company. The use of headings will label the sections in your paper. You should present inventory turnover, days sales in inventory, days sales in accounts receivable, and other financial analysis from our course, both for the current year and as they relate to changes in accounts from one year to the next. Your goal is to explain the financial statements and the information of the SEC 10-K with the knowledge you learn in our course. While not explaining every item in the SEC 10-K, your paper should tell a story and illustrate your mastery of accounting terms and concepts. No more than one page should be devoted to your company's history and nonfinancial information.

Works cited, footnotes and endnotes
Also can have graphs, tables or appendixes if refer to trends and analysis

Review the following scenario:
The CEO of your firm has asked that you to compare the firm you are thinking of acquiring with one of its competitors. Obtain the financial statements for both the firm under investigation and one of its competitors and perform the following tasks.

Prepare a 700-1,050-word summary comparing the companies two most recent fiscal years based upon the following:
a. Profitability Ratios


Please include graphs , ect for documentation.
Customer is requesting that (Dhj2385) completes this order.

Profitability Analysis: 5 year projection for cash flow / risk rate (i chose corporate documents as the style - but there really isn't a specific request on the professor's part - I just chose the one that i thought best suits).

Assume you are a financial analyst for a Fortune 100 company. Your company is considering acquiring The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (CAKE) as a means to diversify its current operations and to increase profit and ROE of the combined companies. You are to determine a purchase price for the acquisition of CAKE.

Assume for your analysis that CAKE is a private company. Consequently, you cannot use market capitalization as a valuation technique.

Please follow the following guidance.
1. An executive summary of conclusions (one paragraph)
2. A description of the company, its products and its markets (limit two pages)
3. A general overview of the expected economy and industry prospects over the next five years (limit one page).
4. Highlights of the companys financial statements (past 3 years for income and cash flow statements and two years for balance sheets). For example, assets, liabilities, debt equity, revenues, costs, margins, net income from continuing operations, operating cash flows, investing activities, financing activities and other financial statement information that you consider important. Make comments concerning these reviews ??" trends, is the company improving (why), is the company deteriorating (why) and any unusual items noted, etc.
5. Prepare a valuation analysis of the company. Trends in key financial components and appropriate ratios compared to various years and industry sector averages. If trends in companys ratios have changed, explain why. If companys ratios are different from industry ratios, explain why
6. Can the company remain competitive, increase or maintain market share, replace assets, find new markets over the next five years?
7. Can the company withstand external factors outside the companys control (economic recessions, natural disasters, union strikes, etc)/
8. You are allowed to make reasonable assumptions about facts and circumstances to fit your case.
9. Use the annual financial statements for the latest year available as the basis for your analysis. If quarterly statements have been issued since the latest annual statements, you are not required to update for the quarterly information.

Prepare a five- year net income statement projection. Do not project interest expense. All interest bearing debt will be repaid as part of the acquisition.

Net income projections:
a. Project revenues based on a combination of history, changes in the company, economy or other factors that you may determine
b. Similar for expenses, except interest expenses (which may increase or decrease depending on loan balance of new credit facility)
c. Do not project one-time or nonrecurring items, unless there is a reason (explain).
d. Short summary explaining projection assumptions for revenue and expenses
e. Do not use a complicated format for your projections. Assume the same tax rate is used in the most recent income statement

Cash flow projections:
a. Start with net income from the net income projections
b. Use the following format:
i. Net income
ii. + - noncash charges (probably only depreciation and amortization)
iii. Ignore the net changes in current assets and current liabilities
iv. Sum of I and ii will result in net cash flow from operations

Prepare a five-year cash flow projection (above). Part of the purchase price will repay all debt. As a result, there will be no cash flow from financing activities in the five-year cash flow projection. In year five, calculate a residual value for the value of all subsequent years cash flows. The residual value will be calculated by dividing the fifth year cash flow by the required rate of return. Add the residual value to cash flow for year five.

Explain reasons for your required rate of return for this acquisition.

Determine the purchase price for CAKE by calculating the present value (at the required rate of return) for years 1-5 (including residual value in year 5).

Requirement is for a written report

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Review of Financial Research Report for Best Buy

This assignment is an analysis of Best Buy; its common stock could be a prospective investment, it needs to cover the following topics:

o Company Overview. Conduct research and describe the company, its operations, locations, markets, and lines of business. Collect financial statements for the past three years, fiscal or calendar.

o Ratio analysis. Perform trend and ratio analysis on current and fixed assets, current and long term liabilities, owners equity, sales revenues, EBIT, net income, and earnings per share. Project these trends for three years.

o Stock price analysis. Research the companys common stock price for the past five years. Research the Standard & Poors Stock Market Index (S&P 500) for the past five years. Chart the price movement in the companys common stock against the S&P price movement. State and support your opinion on the companys common stock as an investment opportunity.

o References. Use at least six references and follow APA format when preparing the report.

I have provided the following grading rubric:

Provide a detailed overview of Best Buy. 30/30
Perform ratio analysis on current and fixed assets, current and long term liabilities, owners equity, sales revenues, EBIT, net income, and earnings per share. 30/30
Perform a 3 year trend analysis on current and fixed assets, current and long term liabilities, owners equity, sales revenues, EBIT, net income, and earnings per share. 30/30
Provide an analysis of the company's stock versus the S & P 500 Index over the past 5 years. 30/30
Provide your opinion of this stock as an investment opportunity. 30/30
Spelling/Grammar/Proper Formatting 20/20
Length (6 pages minimum excluding cover page and bibliography) 20/20
At least 6 Quality References /APA Style 10/10

TERM PAPER SPECIFICATIONS: Historical and Financial Report on the "Diageo" group (NYSE: DEO)

PART ONE:
Describe the history, corporate structure, management team, business activities, and competitive environment of the industry as related to the company "Diageo". In addition analyze three critical parts of a typical annual report; "Letters to our Stockholders", "Audit Opinion", and "Management Discussion and Analysis". In other words, what does the firms management say in the Annual Report about their goals, functions, organization and performance.

PART TWO:
Focus on the overview of and commentary about the key elements in the firms standard financial reports; "Balance sheet", "Income statements", "Statement of retained earnings", and "Statement of cash flows". Please include "common size" tables.

PART THREE:
Focus on the financial analysis of ratios and other related commentary about time-series analysis and industry comparisons. This section could be structured as either an internal evaluation report to the companys Board of Directors or as a proposal/status review for the Investment Policy Committee of a large pension fund.

P.S. The number of sources to be used is limitless. Use as many sources as needed in order to complete all requirements. The Paper can be formatted and set up as a formal business document and can be broken off into sections accordingly.

Organization to be selected is up to the writer.

Executive Summary
Chapter I: The Accounting Function
Chapter II: Financial Accounting Analysis
Chapter III: Management Accounting Analysis
Chapter IV: Operations Management Analysis
Chapter V: SWOT Analysis

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I should select two companies that operate in the same industry, and obtain a copy of their annual reports for the last 3 years. These companies may be registeres or based in any part of the world, but hteir annual reports must be in english. (Must be an original paper and not a copy of something found in the internet)

I need to write a report which assesses the financial position of these two companies, and identifies wich one, in my opinion, is more at risk of failure over the next 2-3 years.

I may use whatver methods, or techniques, that i think are appropiate to arrive at this opinion, and justify the use of each method, and my opinion that i have stated.

I can seek information from other relevant sources.
All calculations should be shown, and presented in the form of charts and tables. All numerical data must be referenced to ther exact source.