Competitor Analysis Assignment Instructions Need by Thursday night!!!!!!!!!!! trying to figure out a layout, not the answers. just how it needs to be formatted

Excel Project

Lowes and Wendy's

Overview

Competitor #1 Income Statement (Tab 5), Competitor #1 Balance Sheet (Tab 6), Competitor #1 Cash Flows (Tab 7), Competitor #2 Income Statement (Tab 8), Competitor #2 Balance Sheet (Tab 9), Competitor #2 Cash Flows (Tab 10), Historical and Competitor Ratios (Tab 11)

Instructions

Continue in the same Excel workbook prepared in Module 2: Week 2, adding the following tabs:The 5^th tab and 8^th tabs in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled (Competitor Company Name) Income Statements. (Replace Competitor Company Name with the name of the competitor.)

Include the latest three years of income statements for your competitor based on SEC filings.

Ensure that the worksheet includes a header with:

Company Name

Financial Statement Name (Income Statements)

Financial Statement Dates

Denomination level ($s in millions or thousands, etc.)

The 6^th and 9^th tabs in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled (Competitor Company Name) Balance Sheets. (Replace Competitor Company Name with the name of the competitor.)

Include the latest three years of balance sheets for your first competitor based on SEC (10-K) filings. (Note: Some 10-Ks only provided 2 years of balance sheet data. You may need to download the second most recent 10-K for your company in order to obtain 3 years of balance sheet data.)

Ensure that the worksheet includes a header with:

Company Name

Financial Statement Name

Financial Statement Dates

Denomination level ($s in millions or thousands, etc.)

The 7^th and 10^th tabs in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled (Competitor Company Name) Cash Flows. (Replace Competitor Company Name with the name of the competitor.)

Include the latest three years based on SEC (10-K) filings.

Make sure that the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flows Statement tie in as follows:

Net Income from Income statement agrees with Net Income on the Statement of Cash Flows

Ending Cash Balance from Statement of Cash Flows agrees with Cash in the Balance Sheet

The 11^th tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Historical and Competitor RatiosThe list of ratios to be included are as follows. They should be grouped under the headings, as shown:Liquidity Ratios

Current Ratio

Quick Ratio

Leverage Ratios

Debt to Total Assets Ratio

Debt Equity Ratio

Long-Term Debt to Equity

Times Interest Earned Ratio

Activity Ratios

Inventory Turnover

Fixed Assets Turnover

Total Assets Turnover

Accounts Receivable Turnover

Average Collection Period

Profitability Ratios

Gross Profit Margin

Operating Profit Margin

Net Profit Margin

Return on Total Assets (ROA)

Return on Stockholders Equity (ROE)

Earnings Per Share (EPS)

Price Earnings Ratio

Calculate the ratios for your chosen company for the last three years, linking the ratio calculations back to the historical financial statement tabs (Tabs 2-4) using formulas.

Calculate the ratios for each of your companys competitors (most recent year only), linking the ratio calculations to the competitor financial statements shown in Tabs 5-10 using formulas.

Using the internet, locate the industry averages for the ratios listed above, and include them in the final column of the ratio tab. Include a footnote on the tab to identify the source of the industry averages.

Other instructions:The Excel workbook should be professionally formatted. Professional formatting includes:

All numbers are formatted similarly. The use of decimals, commas for thousands, and other formatting is consistent.

Dollar signs are included in the first and last numbers of each column.

Subtotals and totals are preceded by a single underline. Totals are followed by a double underline.

Line descriptions are indented/bolded in a manner that makes the spreadsheet easy to read.

All totals and subtotals in the competitor financial statements as well as the ratio calculations should be calculated using formulas.