Evaluation of Corporate Financial and Sustainability Reporting.

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Accounting Principles Rebman, Summer, 2016 Final Case - Evaluation of Corporate Financial and Sustainability Reporting. This project will be worth 8% of the final grade. It is due by the date of the last examination. It will be submitted via Dropbox on D2L. The objective of this project is to use your accounting knowledge to evaluate a company of your choice using some of the accounting concepts that you have learned and also to look at some accounting information beyond financial statements. Select a company from the list provided. For your company you will need to find: information from the company's home page on the internet, the company's most recent annual report, and the company's most recent corporate report on Corporate Responsibility or Corporate Sustainability. (15 points) In addition to your report (as described below), please turn in to the dropbox: 1. copies of the company's balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows -- do not use summarized reports such as those found on Yahoo Finance or investor research websites as they may not be complete. 2. any appropriate footnotes from the annual report. Do not turn in the entire annual report. 3. Also, please select and submit the most important pages from the company's sustainability report. Be sure to submit only the most important pages - be environmentally conscientious. Please highlight important items. Your report should be three to six double spaced pages, and it should follow the following structure. Bullet point responses are fine. Be sure to address each of the points below. Reminder: if you use someone else's material (sentences, paragraphs, ideas) be sure to put the material in quotes and show your source. Microsoft Word does a great job of building a bibliography and preparing citations in the References tab. Don't plagiarize! Also, this is an individual project, not a group project. If you work with other people, that is fine, but everyone has to turn in their own write-up. The TurnItIn plagiarism detection tool will be used! 1. (10 points) Introduction - please indicate: a. Name of the company b. Date of the company's last fiscal year end c. Description of the company's principal product or service 2. (10 points) Company's situation and general plans. (Look at the company's home page or management's discussion in the annual report.) a. Describe the general outlook for the company. Comment on whether they are: growing in size, expanding geographically, expanding into new types of qattachments_e91136ccd6ee751c034a72cb27a435af246f52c6.docx 3. 4. 5. 6. products, primarily trying to reduce costs or restructure, or about any other relevant comments about the company's main goals. b. Is the company facing any unusual challenges? (25 points) Financial statement review and evaluation a. Income statement: Is the company growing? Is the company profitable? What was the company's profit (loss) for the last year? Have profits been growing? Were any discontinued operations or extraordinary items shown? What is the company's net income as a % of net sales? Any other comments? b. Balance Sheet: Are there any intangible assets? What percentage of total assets are intangible assets? Does the company have a lot of debt compared to their equity? What is the ratio of the company's total liabilities to Equity? How do the company's current assets compare to their current liabilities? What is the amount of the company's Working Capital? Also, what is the company's Current Ratio? Any other comments? c. Statement of Cash Flows: Is the company generating positive cash flow from operating activities? What is the company investing in? Has the company increased or decreased its borrowings during the periods shown? Any other comments? d. Overall conclusion about the financial health of the company. (15 points) Corporate Sustainability Report and evaluation. a. Does the company have a formal report? How many pages long is the report? b. Does the report have a summary of the company's goals and results? c. Are the goals and/or results general, are they specific and measurable, or are there both? What are the company's primary objectives? d. Select one key performance metric related to sustainability and: i. Describe what it measures ii. What the goal or target is iii. Whether the company is on target e. In your opinion, does the company do a good job on sustainability issues? Are they committed to sustainability, or is the report just promotional \"talk\". (15 points) Comparison and conclusion. a. Compare the information in each report. Does either report by itself provide you with enough information to evaluate the strengths, successes and qualities of the company? Does looking at both reports help you to evaluate the company? b. If you were looking for a job after graduation, would you consider applying to this company? Why or why not? Does any of the information in the reports that you reviewed help you to make your decision? (10 points) Overall format and references. a. The readability of the report is important - no spelling errors, only minor grammar errors, and the writer's points are easily understood. b. References are cited properly within the body of the report and a bibliography or Works Cited list is provided in good form. qattachments_e91136ccd6ee751c034a72cb27a435af246f52c6.docx qattachments_e91136ccd6ee751c034a72cb27a435af246f52c6.docx List of Companies. Select one of the following companies for your report. JM Smucker Wal-Mart Starbucks Comments on ways to copy pages from a pdf file. Depending on your software, it can be frustrating to copy pages or selections from a pdf file. Following are a couple of suggestions. 1. You can use the Select tool in Adobe Reader to select a page of a portion of a page. You can then Copy and Paste into your document. Sometimes the fonts and layouts do not come through properly. 2. You can select and print certain pages in the pdf and print them to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. To select certain pages, use the Thumbnails option in Adobe to display the pages, and then select the pages that you want. Print the selection to the XPS printer and save the file. You cannot edit the XPS file, but it can be attached to a submission. 3. I have been using software called PDF995. This is freeware or you can purchase it at a low cost. The software installs a pdf printer on your computer, which will show up as a printer when you go to print a file. In viewing a pdf file you can tell Adobe to Print the desired pages, then select PDF995 as the printer, specify a file name, and it will create a new pdf file with just the pages that you have selected. This new file can be uploaded or emailed along with your written document. PDF95 also has a PDF Edit module that will let you combine separate pdf files into one file. The software can be found at www.pdf995.com. qattachments_e91136ccd6ee751c034a72cb27a435af246f52c6.docx