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Question 1: What are the major competitors to your firm? (Find at least 3 that are closest in total revenue size to your company, then list their names and ticker symbols).

Question 2: Provide your firm's mission and vision statements. Do these look to be appropriately stated? First, just retype what they say they are. THEN, do a quick analysis of them and support your answers accordingly (you'll analyze them again in a later part of the project).

Question 3: What are your firm's major strategies and/or strategic objectives? (note: All firms have strategies and objectives, which should be in the annual shareholders' report or 10-K). Do these look to be in alignment with your firm's stated mission and vision? (NOTE: Name the type of strategy or strategies that the company says they are pursuing.)

Question 4: Compare your firm's strategies and strategic objectives to those of the competitors. What issues do you note? Are they struggling toward the same markets, similar objectives, and similar business models, or, are they completely different? (NOTE: What you are doing here is comparing the areas, strategies, markets, etc., in which your company is actually competing with other companies.).

Question 5: Do some non-academic research (i.e. use "Google") and find out what you can about any serious issues the members of the firm's Board of Directors might have (for example, a CEO arrested for something, turnover within the Board of Directors, vacant positions, etc.). What did you find? (NOTE: What you are looking for here are ethical and legal violations committed by members of the Board of Directors)

Question 6: Based on information from the annual report and/or 10K, how would you describe your firm's current financial condition? Normally, one would use financial ratios and other pertinent income and balance sheet data to support an analysis. However, because many of you have not had any financial analysis courses in your educational program, it is acceptable to stick with those that are being reported by the company that you are reporting on, or those that are reported by other competitors in the industry. Remember, the information you are looking for is in almost definitely in the annual filings (10Ks) for the competitors you identified earlier. Make sure you discuss Net Income, and at least 2 other ratios reported by industry analysts or other competitors. (I suggest that you use Net Income, Quick Ratio, Return on Assets, Return on Equity, and either Market Share or Total Revenue. If you don't know how to calculate one of the ratios, you should be able to Google it fairly easily.)