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Assignment Details Assignment Description You will select a company from this list, and you will analyze the company's financial performance, highlighting accounting principles and methods learned in this course. This project requires you to present, review, and analyze the organization's published annual reports and related footnotes for the last 2 years. Specifically, your paper will cover the following: Discuss methods used to account for assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity, and explain how the company's inventory valuation method affects reported results. Explain the company's approach to internal controls, and assess its compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Prepare and interpret the results of horizontal and vertical analyses of the financial statements. Prepare and interpret the results of at least 5 ratios, 1 from each of the following categories: o Profit Ratios o Debt Ratios o Efficiency Ratios o Equity Ratios o Liquidity Ratios Assess the company's overall financial performance and the integrity of its internal controls. Discuss how various stakeholdersinternal and externaluse information contained in the financial statements for decision making. Include the last 2 years of published financial statements as Appendices to your report. Do not include the entire Annual Reports. Present your findings as a Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style. Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following: Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters. Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and it must be double-spaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5-6 pages. In-text academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged. Reference page: References that align with your in-text academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lower-case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated in-text citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-text citation. Appendices: Include the last 2 years of the company's published financial statements. This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here. Reference Fortune. (2014). Fortune 500 2014. Retrieved from http://fortune.com/fortune500/ General Motors LAST YEAR'S RANK: 7 Here's how you'd sum up 2014 for General Motors in three words: recalls, recalls, recalls. The iconic American auto brand spent most of the year dealing with an ever-expanding recall scandal that saw CEO Mary Barra appear in front of Congress multiple times and the establishing of a $400 million-plus compensation protocol for victims of GM's faulty ignition switches. Despite all this, though, sales were strong throughout the year, as GM rode the wave of industry-wide gains. Strengths At the end of the day, GM still has some of the most recognizable brands in the auto industry: Chevrolet, GMC and others still hold cachet with car shoppers. Weaknesses GM is still going to have to deal with the aftershocks of the recall scandal for a while. Barra has done an admirable job of working to change the company culture, but this isn't a problem that is just going to disappear. GM still has to pay up the money for the victim compensation fund, and there is still the looming spectre of charges from the Justice Department. Opportunities The company is investing in autonomous cars and smart highways, and is working in the allelectric Chevy Bolt, an affordable alternative to Tesla. Despite being thought of by many as a legacy company, GM has actually been pretty progressive when it comes to technology. Threats As with all big auto manufacturers, the most significant threat is the younger, more techfocused companies like Tesla and Google. With even Apple reportedly considering getting into the car space, this threat may not be as distant as it once seemed to be. General Motors Also Appeared On These Lists: Global 500: Ranked #21 World's Most Admired Company: View List Key Financials (last fiscal year) Revenues ($M) Profits ($M) Total Stockholder Equity Employees Market Value (as of March 31, 2015) $ millions % change 155929 0% 3949 26% 35457 216000 60389 Profit Ratios Profit as % of Revenues 2% Profits as % of Assets 2% Profits as % of Stockholder Equity 11% Earnings Per Share Earnings Per Share ($) EPS % Change (from 2013) 1 30% EPS % Change (5 year annual rate) EPS % Change (10 year annual rate) Total Return Total Return to Investors (2014) 11% Total Return to Investors (5 year, annualized) Total Return to Investors (10 year, annualized) Company Info CEO Industry Sector HQ Location Website Years on List Mary T. Barra Motor Vehicles and Parts Motor Vehicles & Parts Detroit, MI http://www.gm.com 21 Assignment Details Assignment Description You will select a company from this list, and you will analyze the company's financial performance, highlighting accounting principles and methods learned in this course. This project requires you to present, review, and analyze the organization's published annual reports and related footnotes for the last 2 years. Specifically, your paper will cover the following: Discuss methods used to account for assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity, and explain how the company's inventory valuation method affects reported results. Explain the company's approach to internal controls, and assess its compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Prepare and interpret the results of horizontal and vertical analyses of the financial statements. Prepare and interpret the results of at least 5 ratios, 1 from each of the following categories: o Profit Ratios o Debt Ratios o Efficiency Ratios o Equity Ratios o Liquidity Ratios Assess the company's overall financial performance and the integrity of its internal controls. Discuss how various stakeholdersinternal and externaluse information contained in the financial statements for decision making. Include the last 2 years of published financial statements as Appendices to your report. Do not include the entire Annual Reports. Present your findings as a Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style. Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following: Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters. Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and it must be double-spaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5-6 pages. In-text academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged. Reference page: References that align with your in-text academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lower-case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated in-text citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-text citation. Appendices: Include the last 2 years of the company's published financial statements. This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here. Reference Fortune. (2014). Fortune 500 2014. Retrieved from http://fortune.com/fortune500/ General Motors LAST YEAR'S RANK: 7 Here's how you'd sum up 2014 for General Motors in three words: recalls, recalls, recalls. The iconic American auto brand spent most of the year dealing with an ever-expanding recall scandal that saw CEO Mary Barra appear in front of Congress multiple times and the establishing of a $400 million-plus compensation protocol for victims of GM's faulty ignition switches. Despite all this, though, sales were strong throughout the year, as GM rode the wave of industry-wide gains. Strengths At the end of the day, GM still has some of the most recognizable brands in the auto industry: Chevrolet, GMC and others still hold cachet with car shoppers. Weaknesses GM is still going to have to deal with the aftershocks of the recall scandal for a while. Barra has done an admirable job of working to change the company culture, but this isn't a problem that is just going to disappear. GM still has to pay up the money for the victim compensation fund, and there is still the looming spectre of charges from the Justice Department. Opportunities The company is investing in autonomous cars and smart highways, and is working in the allelectric Chevy Bolt, an affordable alternative to Tesla. Despite being thought of by many as a legacy company, GM has actually been pretty progressive when it comes to technology. Threats As with all big auto manufacturers, the most significant threat is the younger, more techfocused companies like Tesla and Google. With even Apple reportedly considering getting into the car space, this threat may not be as distant as it once seemed to be. General Motors Also Appeared On These Lists: Global 500: Ranked #21 World's Most Admired Company: View List Key Financials (last fiscal year) Revenues ($M) Profits ($M) Total Stockholder Equity Employees Market Value (as of March 31, 2015) $ millions % change 155929 0% 3949 26% 35457 216000 60389 Profit Ratios Profit as % of Revenues 2% Profits as % of Assets 2% Profits as % of Stockholder Equity 11% Earnings Per Share Earnings Per Share ($) EPS % Change (from 2013) 1 30% EPS % Change (5 year annual rate) EPS % Change (10 year annual rate) Total Return Total Return to Investors (2014) 11% Total Return to Investors (5 year, annualized) Total Return to Investors (10 year, annualized) Company Info CEO Industry Sector HQ Location Website Years on List Mary T. Barra Motor Vehicles and Parts Motor Vehicles & Parts Detroit, MI http://www.gm.com 21