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Finance
Research paper

No Plagiarism

The
objectives/purpose of the research paper project are to enable you to do a
comprehensive financial analysis of a publicly traded corporation; and provide
you with substantial information for you to make recommendations regarding
investing in this corporation.

Your financial analysis report will be
driven by a rigorous ratio analysis, and aggressively supplemented with your
written analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the data.

Your research should be strategically
driven by two probing questions:

-Would
you invest your financial capital in the selected firm as a shareholder?

-Would
you invest your human and intellectual capital in the firm as an employee?

Steps in preparation of financial
analysis report:

1.) 
Select
a publicly held company

2.) 
Select
a benchmark firm to compare your company against. The benchmark firm is
typically the largest competitor.

3.) 
Obtain
the firm’s balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows
for 

the past 5
years. Download or read the firm’s annual report.

4.)  Go to:  http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm

Research EDGAR’s database for additional
SEC report filings: 8-k, 10-Q.

4.) 
The
following table is the type of Excel or Word table that should be used to
gather  and report your ratio and
financial performance data. Note the 5 financial diagnostic categories that
should be used in your analysis.

Use 2-3 ratios per diagnostic category.
Place your ratio calculations in the table for your selected companies—primary
company and benchmark competitor. Using 5 diagnostic categories, and 3 ratios
to assess each category, results in 15 ratio measures per company that will be
compared side by side.

6.)  To validate your
research, 5 years of data should be analyzed.

7.) The
financial analysis report must be written properly. They must include a title
page, a table of contents, and a reference page. For both midterm and final
report, information sources from the web, etc. must be cited properly, using
APA style. 

This means that
every table that you cut and pasted or typed from the web must have a source at
the bottom of the table AND that citing must also be included in a reference
page at the end of the report. 

The parts of
the research paper are discussed below. The completed report (parts a through
h) is due day 7 of week 6. Your project should include:

a. 
An
overview of the corporation.

 
i.  Provide general information regarding
the type of business, products and/or services, location of headquarters, name
of CEO, number of employees, and countries of operation, etc.

b. 
The
latest financial statements

 
i.  Get the income statement, balance sheet,
cash flow statement, and the statement of owners’ equity for the past fiscal
year. Create Turnitin-friendly versions of the financial statements; do not
just ‘cut and paste’ them in your report. Do not forget to cite the source
under each statement.

 
ii.  If you cannot cut and paste them, you
may have to type in the information in a table in your report.

c. 
A
summary of each financial statement

 
i.  Take each statement and state the key
parts in words.  Tell a story from each
of the financial statements.  For
example, for the income statement, the story starts like, “Total Revenues in
2010 were $10 billion, while Cost of Goods Sold were $8 billion, leaving a
gross profit margin of $2 billion, or 20 percent of total revenues….After
taking out interest and taxes from EBIT, the net income was $0.5 billion, or 5
percent of total revenues.”

d. 
Ratio
calculation (include 5 major types of ratios. Refer to chapter 3, Analysis of
Financial Statements)

 
i.  Organization of this section is based on
the FIVE types of ratios listed in the text book.  Calculate the ratios from the financial
statements in part c above using Excel or your calculator and present them in a
table.

 
ii.  Find industry financial ratios online
(eg. Yahoo.com) and compare your corporation’s ratios to these industry ratios.

 
iii.  Present your results following the five
types of ratios discussed in part d.

 
iv.  A table with both corporation and
industry ratios is required;

 
v. 

e. 
Discussion
of key statistics provided by sources like Yahoo finance.

 
i.  There are many different other
statistics available for your corporation. These include market value, beta,
and diluted EPS, etc. Discuss some of the key statistics that you think can
assist you to determine if this corporation is a good buy or sell.

f. 
For
you to decide if a corporation’s stock is a good buy or sell, you must forecast
several key variables, including the stock price. 

 
i.  Use historical prices (5 years of
monthly data recommended) and forecast the stock price for the next year. Use
regression analysis, and/or moving average, etc. to create your forecast. 

 
ii.  Create a graph from the historical data
and show your forecast on the same graph. You can add a trend line to the graph
to help you with a forecast.  Include the
graph in your report.

 
iii.  You need to say specifically what the
forecasted value of the stock price is. 

 
iv.  You must address the question, “Is this
forecast reasonable?”  Must you amend
your analysis to get a more reasonable forecast? 

g. 
Other
information pertinent to the corporation that could affect its future
performance and stock price. 

 
i.  This could include dividend policy,
capital structure, bond ratings, expert opinions on TV, new projects,
litigation, regulation, etc. Search for information on the web regarding this
corporation. Look at company complaint blogs, etc.

h. 
Recommendation
regarding the future of this corporation. 

 
i.  Is the stock a good buy, average buy, or
a poor buy (implying a good sell)? 

 
ii.  Include a justification of your
recommendation based on your analysis and research.