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Analyzing Financial Statements PowerPoint Project
Create a PowerPoint Presentation with the information you have gathered from your research.
Data Collection
1- Pick a firm you would like to follow for this project
2- Go to finance.yahoo.com and find the stock ticker symbol (ticker symbol is a unique ID for stocks. No stock can have the same ticker at the same time).
Hint: You can use the “>>Symbol Lookup” link on the webpage.
3- Once you get the ticker symbol, access the main page for your stock.
Hint: You can access the main page of your stock by typing the ticker symbol in the text box at the left of the “Get quotes” button. Once you type the ticker symbol, click on “Get quotes” button to access the main page of your stock.
Part I: Company Profile
1- Click on the “Profile” link to get the company profile: Provide an introduction to the company you are following. Use the information you find above and from the company’s website. To avoid plagiarism, you should not copy directly the materials online. Some quotation is allowed but should be used to a minimum extent. The introduction should not be longer than one page.
Part II: Financial Analysis
1- Click on the “Key Statistics” link to obtain company key financial statistics.
2- Click on the “Competitors” link to learn the firm’s competitors
3- Click on the “Income Statement” link to obtain annual data.
4- Click on the “Balance Sheet” link to obtain annual data.
5- Click on the “Cash Flow” link to obtain annual data.
Based on the above financial statements, conduct ratio analysis and compare with one of the company’s competitors or industry (if data are available). Report your analysis, conclusion and suggestions on what needs improvement.
Part III: Payout Policy – Dividends and Stock Repurchases
Describe the payout policy of the firm over time. Why the firm chooses one kind of distribution rather than the other, or both? Any trend is found in the firm’s distributions. (e.g. some firm is increasing the use of repurchase and decreasing dividends.)
If the firm pays dividends, make sure to address the following issues:
Describe the history of dividend payouts and firm’s dividend policy.
Market reaction to the firm’s dividend initiation.
Market reaction to significant changes in dividend amounts, e.g. large dividend increase, dividend cut and dividend omission.
Describe special dividends or stock dividends if have.
For share repurchase, make sure to address the following issues:
Describe why the firm repurchase stocks
The method of buying back stocks
Stock market reaction to share repurchase
Project PowerPoint Requirements:
You are assumed to be asked by your manager to analyze a company. You should report the results of your analysis and your conclusion/suggestion based on your analysis. Your manager is assumed to have finance background, there is no need to explain the definition of financial terms. Don’t make it just as a list of answers to each asked questions.
Your PowerPoint can include graphs and images. It should be appealing to the audience.
You should avoid plagiarism. You should not directly copy sentences from the internet. You should rephrase using your own word or use quotation mark.
CriteriaRatingsPts
Part I is complete. Click on the “Profile” link to get the company profile: Provide an introduction to the company you are following. Use the information you find above and from the company’s website. To avoid plagiarism, you should not copy directly the materials online. Some quotation is allowed but should be used to a minimum extent. The introduction should not be longer than one page.
10 pts
Part II is complete.
1- Click on the “Key Statistics” link to obtain company key financial statistics.
2- Click on the “Competitors” link to learn the firm’s competitors
3- Click on the “Income Statement” link to obtain annual data.
4- Click on the “Balance Sheet” link to obtain annual data.
5- Click on the “Cash Flow” link to obtain annual data.
Based on the above financial statements, conduct ratio analysis and compare with one of the company’s competitors or industry (if data are available). Report your analysis, conclusion and suggestions on what needs improvement.
10 pts
Part III is complete.Describe the payout policy of the firm over time. Why the firm chooses one kind of distribution rather than the other, or both? Any trend is found in the firm’s distributions. (e.g. some firm is increasing the use of repurchase and decreasing dividends.)
If the firm pays dividends, make sure to address the following issues:
Describe the history of dividend payouts and firm’s dividend policy.
Market reaction to the firm’s dividend initiation.
Market reaction to significant changes in dividend amounts, e.g. large dividend increase, dividend cut and dividend omission.
Describe special dividends or stock dividends if have.
For share repurchase, make sure to address the following issues:
Describe why the firm repurchase stocks
The method of buying back stocks
Stock market reaction to share repurchase
10 pts
Guidelines were followed. Content is correct. Information flows. Presentation is well prepared.You are assumed to be asked by your manager to analyze a company. You should report the results of your analysis and your conclusion/suggestion based on your analysis. Your manager is assumed to have finance background, there is no need to explain the definition of financial terms. Don’t make it just as a list of answers to each asked questions.
Your PowerPoint can include graphs and images. It should be appealing to the audience.
You should avoid plagiarism. You should not directly copy sentences from the internet. You should rephrase using your own word or use quotation mark.
60 pts
Work is: authentic, free of spelling and grammar errors and easily comprehended (formatting).
10 pts
Total Points: 100
