Assignment: Accounting Financial Report Essay
1. Using the company's Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flow, explaining how your company is financing its activities and why it is important.
1. Be sure to show specific numbers and/or ratios using both of these financial statements.
2. Using Calcbench analytics, what did you learn about your company's financial performance. Indicate positive/negative trends and ratios that would matter to you. Briefly explain your rationale.
3. By comparing your company to its calcbench peer group, what did you learn about your company that sets it apart from the competition?
1. Be specific about positive/negative trends and ratio performance of your company in comparison to its peer group.
4. Red the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) within the Form 10-K SEC filing. Report whether your findings in question 3 and 4 are consistent with impression you get from the MD&A written and signed by the CEO.
5. Read the Report of independent Registered Public Accounting Firm within the Form 10-K Sec filing.
1. Who is the Independent Auditor for your company?
2. How can this report be used to evaluate your company?
3. Did the auditor's report comment about the wellbeing of the company?
6. Read Management's Annual report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting within the SEC Form 10-K Sec filing. What was management's assessment of company internal controls? Why is this important?
7. Analyze the Statement of Cash Flows by focusing on the following for the past three years...
8. Cash flow from Operating Activities
9. Cash flow from Investing Activities
10. Cash flow from Financing Activities
11. Total Cash flow
12. What is the main source of cash inflows in each of the last three years for its company?
13. In your judgment is this tend good/bad for the company and why?
14. Among the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flow; identify and explain which accounts, ratios, or other specific information from these statements that would help you predict the following for your company:
1. Financial stability
2. Future growth in earnings
3. Future potential for company growth
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.