Performing financial statement analysis

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Assignment - Financial Statement Analysis

In this assignment, you are performing financial statement analysis to a public listed company in the US or Canada. Base on the company's most recent annual report, you will calculate Five financial ratios for the current and prior fiscal year. You will provide analysis and background information to the performance of the company for those ratios. You will then provide feasible recommendations to management how they can improve those ratios. To assess the company's performance, you can compare the ratios to industry benchmark or to major competitors. This is not a group assignment; each student needs to choose a different company. You can use the case High Liner Foods as a reference.

Locate Public company financial statements:

• Companies also listed their annual report under their website. In general, you can find under Investors/Financial Information.

Executive Summary: your report needs to contain an executive summary paragraph to assess the overall financial status of the company. You can discuss the following factors in the summary.
a. How is the industry trending?
b. Change in Customers, Markets, Suppliers, Competitor?
c. How does the technology affect the company?
d. The impact the pandemic
e. Any major events happened to the company, merges and acquisitions, change in regulations, new tariff
The list of financial ratios (but not limited to these)
• Earnings per share
• Return on common stockholder's equity
• Return on assets
• Current ratio
• Debt to assets ratio
• Accounts receivable turnover
• Average collection period
• Inventory turnover
• Days in inventory
• Free cash flow

Attachment:- Financial Statement Analysis.rar

Reference no: EM132777517

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