{"id":436677,"date":"2018-06-30T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T17:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/?p=30683"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:00:16","slug":"assignment-3-understanding-the-numbers-for-better-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/assignment-3-understanding-the-numbers-for-better-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 3: Understanding The Numbers For Better Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Understanding The Numbers For Better Decisions<\/h2>\n<p>It is the management\u2019s responsibility to maximize shareholder wealth as it is based on the organization&#8217;s future cash flows. To accomplish this, managers have to understand how to use financial statements for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In this assignment, you will explain the importance of the statements to the financial reporting process and management decisions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tasks:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Locate the financial statements of a U.S. publicly-traded company of your choice (the company must have inventory and accounts receivable) by visiting the organization&#8217;s Web site to locate the investor section. Or you may use one of the following Websites:\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo Finance<\/li>\n<li>Google Finance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Review the information presented in the financial statements of the company you selected.<\/li>\n<li>Using the company you selected, calculate\u00a0one ratio from each ratio category located at this Financial Ratios resource. \u00a0Complete a trend analysis of each ratio for a three-year period.\n<ul>\n<li>Describe what the trends you see for your company based on your ratio analysis. What does this mean for the company?<\/li>\n<li>Compare your company\u2019s ratios with those of the industry it is in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the financial reporting information and the financial health of the company with the help of the calculated ratios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Submission Details:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a 2\u20133-page research paper explaining each selected ratio, the ratio category, and your individual analysis of the company as compared to the industry and the time sensitive analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Include a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet with your relevant calculations.<\/li>\n<li>Apply APA standards to citation of sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding The Numbers For Better Decisions It is the management\u2019s responsibility to maximize shareholder wealth as it is based on the organization&#8217;s future cash flows. To accomplish this, managers have to understand how to use financial statements for analysis. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/assignment-3-understanding-the-numbers-for-better-decisions\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436677","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=436677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}