A major portion of this course is devoted to increasing your ability to assess the status of a business by analyzing its financial statements. A good way to do that is to actually analyze a real business firm, so that is what you will do during the next nine weeks. Specifically, the company, McDonald's (stock exchange ticker symbol "MCD"). Each week you will perform a portion of a financial analysis on this company by applying the techniques you learn in that week. Your results will be accumulated as the term progresses so that by Week 9 you will have a complete report to turn in for grading. You will also discuss your results with the rest of the class during Week 9. Therefore, a portion of your homework assignment each week will be devoted to the project