{"id":35672,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/project1-examining-the-annual-report-3m-company"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:34:21","slug":"project1-examining-the-annual-report-3m-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/project1-examining-the-annual-report-3m-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Project#1: Examining the annual report \u2013 3M Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Project#1: Examining the annual report \u2013 3M Company<\/p>\n<p>A manager\u2019s primary goal is to maximize the value of his or her firm\u2019s stock, which is the present value of the firm\u2019s future cash flow stream. A look at the firm\u2019s financial statements helps give some clue as to how a firm generates its cash flows. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s examine Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (otherwise known as 3M) Company\u2019s financial information, which can be found by accessing 3M\u2019s main front page (http:\/\/www.mmm.com) and selecting the Investor Relations link at the bottom of the page. Use data in the financial statements to answer the following questions.<\/p>\n<p>a. Looking at the firm\u2019s financial statements of year 2015, what is the amount of total assets on 3M\u2019s balance sheet? What percentage is fixed assets, such as plant and equipment, and what percentage is current assets? <\/p>\n<p>b. Does 3M have a lot of long-term debt? What are the chief ways in which 3M has financed assets? <\/p>\n<p>c. From 3M\u2019s Financial Summary, describe the state of 3M\u2019s costs (relative to sales), operating income, and its profitability ratios. <\/p>\n<p>d. Has 3M\u2019s research and development expenses grown as fast as sales? What does this indicate, should investors be worried?<\/p>\n<p>e. How is the stock price performance over the past 5 years? Discuss one or two stories about the firm\u2019s stock performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project#1: Examining the annual report \u2013 3M Company A manager\u2019s primary goal is to maximize the value of his or her firm\u2019s stock, which is the present value of the firm\u2019s future cash flow stream. A look at the firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/project1-examining-the-annual-report-3m-company\/\" 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-35672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35672","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=35672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}