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Chose a publicly traded company and answer a series of questions on that company each week. The questions given will be related to the topics covered in classes of that week.
Week 1 Questions
Question 1: What is your companys' principal business activity?
Question 2: Who is the CFO? What is his/her accounting background? Give as much detail here as you can find.
Question 3: Is your company managing any ethical issues presently? If so, how do their actions affect their financial performance going forward?
Week 2 Questions
Question 1: What products and/or services does your company provide? List three sets of products that compliment each other. (Tables & Chairs).
Question 2: Identify the last two years' Revenue, Gross Profit, and EBIT for your company. Do all three totals increase from year to year? Decrease? Is there a mix?
Question 3: Explain what the trend is for your company from question 2 and more importantly, why this particular trend exists.
Week 3 Questions
Question 1: Take a screenshot of the income statement of your company from the annual report. Paste this to an Excel worksheet and transfer the data to Excel exactly as you see it on the screeshot. Be sure to calcuate the sub cateogies that exist (Gross Profit, EBIT, Net Income, etc.).
Quesiton 2: Identify cost of goods sold and any operating expenses as either variable of fixed. Do not label other expenses like interest and taxes.
Question 3: Using the account analysis method from Week 3 Class 1, write the total cost function. (Example: Total Cost = Fixed Cost + Variable Cost Per Unit(x) ).
Week 5 Questions:
Question 1: Pick a product/service that your company provides. Find three competitors that offer the same or similar products/services.
Question 2: Find the current price in the United States and compare to the competitors' price. Calculate the differences in prices and explain what may be causing this.