{"id":119402,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/fin370"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:01:20","slug":"fin370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin370\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN\/370"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Purpose of Assignment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Students should understand how to use the financial information and tools learned in the class on a public company, obtain public company SEC reports, and use that data to calculate a company&#8217;s financial ratios and their comparison to industry or competitor standards.<\/p>\n<p><b>Assignment Steps<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Resources:&nbsp;<\/b>Tutorial help on Excel\u00ae&nbsp;and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft\u00aeOffice\u00ae&nbsp;website. There are also additional tutorials via the web that offer support for office products.<\/p>\n<p><b>Select<\/b>&nbsp;one of the publicly traded corporations listed below and obtain the most current SEC Form 10-K (annual financial report) from the company&#8217;s web site (Do not use the Annual Report that is sent to shareholders):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lowes Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Kroger Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Harley Davidson Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Apple Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Intel Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Marriott Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Berkshire Hathaway Corporation<\/li>\n<li>PepsiCo Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Procter and Gamble Corporation<\/li>\n<li>General Electric Corporation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Calculate<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>analyze&nbsp;<\/b>the following ratios for your selected company for the last two years from the SEC Form 10-K:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Inventory Turnover<\/li>\n<li>Debt Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Time Interest Earned<\/li>\n<li>Gross Profit Margin<\/li>\n<li>Equity Multiplier<\/li>\n<li>Return on Assets<\/li>\n<li>Net Profit Margin<\/li>\n<li>Return on Equity (Use three ratio DuPont method)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Compare<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>contrast<\/b>&nbsp;your company&#8217;s ratios to industry and competitor standard ratios obtained from Yahoo Finance, Morningstar, MotleyFool, Macroaxis or other Internet sources, and provide a detailed answer and analysis as to why your company&#8217;s ratios are different than the industry\/competitor standard.<\/p>\n<p><b>Prepare&nbsp;<\/b>your analysis in a minimum of 875 words in Microsoft\u00ae&nbsp;Word. The use of Microsoft\u00aeWord tables is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cite<\/b>&nbsp;the source of the industry\/competitor ratio information.<\/p>\n<p><b>Format<\/b>&nbsp;your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of Assignment Students should understand how to use the financial information and tools learned in the class on a public company, obtain public company SEC reports, and use that data to calculate a company&#8217;s financial ratios and their comparison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin370\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}