$-$Choose one company listed in the S&P $600$ Stock Index file posted to the course website in the "Course Documents" section. Your company must have its stock traded on a major stock exchange.

$-$To get the most recent financial statements for any public company:

Go to the U$.$S$.$ Securities and Exchange website $($

www$.$sec$.$gov$)$

$-$Click on $[$Filings$],$ then click on "Company Filing Search"

$-$In the address bar, key$-$in your chosen company's stock ticker symbol $($see it in the S&P $600$ Stock Index file$).$ Do not click on "Search".

$-$Click on the pop$-$up the company name under "Edgar$/$Filings$"$

$-$Click on $[$View Filings$]$ button

$-$Go to the Form $10-$K line and click on $[$Filing$]$ button

$-$Click on $[$Interactive Data$]$ button

$-$Click on $[$Financial Statements$]$ button in left$-$hand margin.

You should see several financial report options. You need to print$/$download

$-$Consolidated Statements of Operations

$-$Consolidated Balance Sheets

$-$Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

$-$Calculate that company's Free Cash Flow for its most recent fiscal year only using the textbook Chapter $3$ definition of Free Cash Flow.

Calculate two financial ratios from each of four out of five ratio categories mentioned in the textbook Chapter $4$ for the company's two most recent fiscal years $($i$.$e$.,$ a total of eight ratios for two years, equals sixteen financial ratios$)$ You need to follow the Chapter $4$ formulas for the ratios.

$-$Label and show all figures used to compute Free Cash Flow and for the financial ratios.

$-$Analysis must be typed with the file emailed to the instructor by the deadline at the end of Week $4($it would be great if the analysis was produced in an Excel spreadsheet, with computations done by Excel commands$).$ In addition and at the same time, please email to the instructor the file into which you copied your company's financial statements.

$-$Grade weights for different components:

$-$Providing $3$ financial statements

$-$Free Cash Flow $(5$ elements $2\mathrm{.}80\frac{\%}{15\mathrm{.}00}\%$

$-$Financial Ratios $(16$ ratios $3\mathrm{.}50\frac{\%}{?}$ ratio$),14\mathrm{.}00\%$

$-$Timeliness

Total Grade

$56\mathrm{.}00\%$

$15\mathrm{.}00\%$

$100\mathrm{.}00\%$

SEP DOW JONES

Index Name:

S&P $600$

S&P Small Cap $600$

Data as of:

Sep $302013$

Full Constituents List

Constituent

Symbol

$1$

Aaon Ine

AAR Corp

Abaxis Inc

Ablomed Inc

ABM Industries Inc

$6$

Acadia Realty Trust

Acorda Therapeutics

Actuant Corp

$3$

Advanced Energy Industrles

Aegion Corp.

Aerovironment Inc

Aftymetrix Inc

Agilysys inc

Agree Realty Corp

Air Methods Corp

AK Steel HIdg Corp

Akorn Inc

Albany Intl Corp A

Align Technology Ine

Allegiant Travel Co

Allete Inc

Alliance One International Inc

Almost Family Inc

Amcol Intl Corp

Amedisys Inc

American Public Education Inc

American Sclence & Engineering

American States Water Co

American Vanguard Corp

Amerisafe

AMN Healthcare Services inc

Amsurg Corp

Analogic Corp

Andersons Inc

Anixter Intl Inc

Annie's Inc

Apogee Enterprises Inc

Applied Industrial Technologies

Approach Resources Inc.

Arctic Cat Inc

Arkansas Best Corp

Arqule inc

Arrls Group Inc

Associated Estates Realty

Astec Industrles Inc

Atlantic Tel$-$Ne$?$

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings inc

ATMI Ine

Auld Technoloay