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Company is Amazon 2018 annual report.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872419000004/amzn-20181231x10k.htm#sB35C52572A45505E9A3247019C860F91

General Outline of Final Project

I.Description of the Company.

a. Review the annual report and identify the major parts of the report. (i.e. letter to stockholder, financial statements, etc.).While doing so, identify the Company name, the services or products they provide, the major industries in which they compete, geographical locations in which they do business, and major competitors, if known.

b. For this next part, you will use Yahoo! Finance.You need to indicate the exchange on which the company's shares are traded, the company's ticker symbol, the current price of the stock and the 52 week high and low.

II.Income Statement:Using the financial statements in your annual report prepare an Income Statement for the most recent year.Address these questions in a summary below the Income Statement.

What is the trend of each of the following?Sales (or Revenues), Cost of Goods Sold, Expenses, and Net Income.You may wish to calculate percentage change in each element, or draw graphs showing trends.Did the company have an increase or decrease in revenues?Read the management discussions and other parts of the annual report to determine what management has to say about revenues.Was this company profitable during the most current year of operations?How do you know?What does the management of the company have to say about the future earnings of the company?

III.Balance Sheet:Using the financial statements in your annual report prepare an Balance Sheet for the most recent year.Address these questions in a summary below the Balance Sheet.

What have been the trends in growth/decline of assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity?When looking at the trends, look at the following accounts:Cash, Accounts receivable, inventory, current liabilities, long term liabilities, Common stock.How many shares of stock the company has the company issued? What is the par value of the stock?Do they have preferred stock?Has the company paid dividends?Do they have treasury stock?

IV.Statement of Cash Flows:The cash flow statement is divided into 3 areas:operations, financing, and investing.Using the financial statements in your annual report prepare a Statement of Cash Flow for the most recent year. Address these questions in a summary below the Statement of Cash Flow.

Detail whether each section had a positive or negative cash flow in the most current year.What are the major cash flow items in each area?Did they have positive cash from operations?

V.Common Size Income StatementUsing the financial statements in your annual report prepare a common size income statement for two years.Each line that is listed in the income statement in your annual report should also be listed in the common size income statement.You do not have to list anything below net income.After preparing the common size income statement, evaluate the changes from one year to another like Table 3.9.Remember, some things increasing would be better and some would be worse.It depends on what kind of account it is.For example, expenses increasing would be worse but gross profits increasing would be better.There is no written portion for this section, just the common size statement.If you are unsure of how to prepare a common size income statement, please refer to section 3.6 in your book or the video in Week 2 materials.

VI.Ratio Analysis of Financial StatementsUsing the financial statements in your annual report calculate the requested ratios.Apply the analysis techniques discussed in Chapter 3 to evaluate the Liquidity, Activity, Debt, Profitability, and Market ratios of this company.The ratios that you should provide are: current ratio, quick ratio, inventory turnover, average collection period, total asset turnover, debt ratio, times interest earned, gross profit margin, net profit margin, earnings per share, return on equity, and earnings ratio.You will need to calculate two years of ratios.Then after calculating, provide an analysis of the ratios using the categories above and include an overall discussion as well.(You will show the formula, calculations, and answer for each ratio in the appendix of your paper.)

VII.The Auditor's OpinionWho is responsible for the preparation and integrity of the financial statements?What is the name of the independent public accountant that issued the audit opinion?Does the company maintain a system of internal controls?Why?What type of audit opinion does this annual report contain? (Unqualified, Qualified, Disclaimer of opinion, Adverse)What does it mean?How do you know?Hint: This is not discussed in the text so search online to see what each kind of opinion means.

IX.Conclusions In your opinion, what is the most interesting part of the annual report and why? What is your prognosis for this company?Do you foresee success, failure, market leadership, stagnation, improvement, decline?Why?You may point to economic, political, regulatory, resource, market, or other factors that will have an impact on the success of this company.