Financial Statement Analysis Project:WRITTEN PROJECT 1.Obtain the most recent annual report for two public companies in the high-tech industry. These reports can be downloaded from SEC or many other sites on internet (See appendix 2 in this document). These reports are publicly available. The reports should contain at leastthree years of income statement data and two years of balance sheet data.2. Analyze at least 3 (three) items on the income statement for your base company that would be important to an investor, and discuss whether your company’s performance related to these items appeared to be improving, deteriorating, or remaining stable. You can perform ratio calculations and do your analysis based on the ratios. Justify your answer. 3.Analyze at least 3 (three) items on the balance sheet for your base company that would be important to an investor, and discuss whether your company’s performance related to these items appeared to be improving, deteriorating, or remaining stable. You may perform balance sheet ratios analysis. Justify your answer. 4.Analyze your base company’s investing and financing activities for the most recent year as identified in the statement of cash flows, specifically identifying the two largest investing activities and the two largest financing activities. Discuss whether you agree or disagree with the investing and financing strategies that your company appears to be employing. 5.Identify 2 (two) items not included in (or derived from) the financial statements that you think would be important to someone considering whether to invest in your company. Discuss your reasons for believing that these two items about the company would be important in making an investment decision. (Hint: you might want to consider items discussed in the textbook or other business courses) 6. Compare your base company’s financial statements with those of the second company in thehigh-tech industry. If you were making a decision to invest in one of the two companies, which company would you choose? Why? (Note: your answer in this section must include some financial issues, but your answer need not be limited to a discussion of financial issues.)
Note: 1. You must submit the entire annual report for each company being discussed. 2.Your analysis must include page references to relevant portions of the annual reports, and the relevant portions of the annual reports must be highlighted. Your report must also contain appropriate quotation marks for quoted material and appropriate citations for material taken from sources outside the financial statements. 3. Your analysis is limited to 6 (six) pages, and must be typed, double-spaced, and have at least a 10-point font.
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