Company Selection, Background of Company, and Current Events $(25$ points$)$

Choose your project companies $(5$ points$)$: Two companies should be selected $)$BANK OF AMERICA and CITI BANK. Your selections must be publicly traded companies that compete with one another in the same industry. I encourage you to select the company you work for, or wish to work for, in order to learn more about the company and the industry. Please include the ticker symbol along with the company name to ensure that is publicly traded on one of the stock exchanges. Ticker symbols can be found on Yahoo! Finance.

Background of companies $(10$ points$)$: Briefly discuss the products and services the business sells and the industry they are in$.$

Current events $(10$ points$)$: Research and discuss two current events within the last $12$ months that are impacting the financial statements of these businesses.

Include APA in$-$text citations and a reference list of your sources or points will be deducted.

Please remember to submit your Week $3$ Course Project assignment by Sunday, end of Week $3,11$:$59$ p$.$m$.($MT$).$ I will give you feedback to make sure that you are on the right track for this assignment.

Grading Rubric for Final Course Project

Category Description Points $\%$

Common Size$/$Vertical Analysis Accuracy and completeness of this analysis for all three financial statements $2516\mathrm{.}67\%$

Trend$/$Horizontal Analysis Accuracy and completeness of this analysis for all three financial statements $2516\mathrm{.}67\%$

Ratio Analysis Ten ratios calculated for both companies for $2$ years and ratios calculated correctly and compared to industry averages where applicable $2516\mathrm{.}66\%$

Written Analysis Fully and accurately covers requirements of written analysis; explained insights of each aspect of FSA from different analyst perspectives; clearly explains which company is financially stronger and provides justification of why $6040\%$

Professional Paper organized with title page, section headings, free of grammar and spelling errors and appropriate APA in$-$text citations and reference list $1510\%$

Total A quality project will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. $150100\%$