I have an assignment called Individual Research Project Common-Size and Trend Analysis where, Can you please compose a four to five -page report and please go through the instructions and conclude the report : OBJECTIVE You are to assume you have been recently hired by THE COMPANY. The head of your team is the CFO who is concerned about THE COMPANY's current financial performance. The CFO would like your team to provide insights that will help them to project future financial performance. Specifically, the primary question to answer is to analyze the company's financial trends over the most recent available 2-3 years, and which steps should be taken to improve its financial stability? THE COMPANY that is to be analyzed for this project is to be a publicly traded company. The company must include: * identification of the company by ticker symbol and name * ??a reasonable and appropriate explanation of why you want to examine the alternative company * ??the source of the analyst's report that will be used in the analysis  

 

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Using the information from the websites the students will develop common-size and trend analysis for THE COMPANY . - ?1-Introduction : The paper should begin with a short introduction that explains the purpose of the paper and provides an overview of the contents that follow (one short paragraph). - 2- Common-size analysis of the income statement. Financial statements are available in www.marketwatch.com To find the information for your company you need to type the stock symbol in the Search window to get into the company's page. Click on Financial > Income Statement > Annual. a. Compose the table that contains the most significant common-size analysis results of the of the income statement for the most recent available 2 years for THE COMPANY assigned for you for the project. To calculate common-size income statement results please follow the formula 5.9 from part 5.7 of chapter 5 of the textbook. Present the table in your project. Your table should include the amounts of USD in Millions and Percentage out of Revenue or Sales. * ??Sales or Revenue * ??Cost of Goods Sold or Cost of Revenue * ??Gross Profit * ??Operating Income * ??Interest Expense. * ??Income Tax * ??Net Income a. Compose about two pages of the analysis of the results you received. What important information does this analysis provide? -3- Trend analysis The growth rates are available in www.marketwatch.com To find the information for your company please type the stock symbol in the Search window to get into the company's page. Click on Financial > Income Statement (or Balance Sheet) > Annual. Please use horizontal scroll below the table to see more years. If you use published growth rates you must indicate that and cite the source. a. Compose the table that contains the following data for your COMPANY over the most recent available 3 years. Present this table in your project. * ??Sales Growth rates, * ??COGS Growth rates, * ??Net Income Growth rates, * ??Total Liabilities / Total Assets Growth rates * ???In addition, compose the graphs for the most significant results on your choice and present them in your project. * ???Compose about two pages of the analysis of the financial trends and their stability. In your analysis compare the financial trends of your company to the results of the common-size analysis. What important information does this analysis provide? 4- Develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale, as to whether the assigned company's recent trends demonstrate sufficient financial strength, will THE COMPANY be financially sustainable over the next several years, and which steps should be done to improve its financial stability? (about one page) Your recommendations should be based on the results of your analysis of the project ? -5- Reflection - the student should write a paragraph in their own words reflecting on specifically what they learned from the assignment and how they think they could apply what they learned in the workplace ? 5. For reference list Must have in-text citations in APA-7th edition style and Must have reference list in APA-7th edition style. Please note that you must reference the data you are using for the project ?