Setting: You have just been hired as a Financial Management consultant to conduct a thorough Financial Statement evaluation of Meta Inc. You will share your results in a professionally prepared Analysis Report as outlined below.

Required Project Outline and Sections

$1.$ Introduction $/$ Background $10\%$

$$ History of the corporation, size and relative position within the industry, key competitors, issues facing the industry, etc.

$2.$ Financial Ratio Analysis $30\%$

$$ Evaluate and interpret the financial statements of a corporation by conducting ratio and financial statement analysis. Include a three$-$year trend analysis and compare to the industry average and$/$or a chief competitor. This must be done in the provided Excel template and summarized in the paper.

$3.$ Problem Identification $20\%$

$$ Based on the analysis in part $2$ above, identify and define at least five significant concerns and$/$or potential issues $($cash flow issues$/$liquidity$,$ excessive debt, low earnings, expansion needs$-$capital budgeting, excessive$/$obsolete inventory, A$/$R collection period too long, etc.$)$

$4.$ Strategies and Solutions $20\%$

$$ For each of the five problem areas identified, propose strategies and action$-$oriented solutions to improve each problem. Examples might include things like decrease A$/$R collection times, issue common stock, deploy and more efficient inventory system, increase sales, reduce operating overhead via automation, etc. Include analysis of how you anticipate each proposed solution would impact the corporation financially $($including the ratios$),$ operationally, and note any impact on each stakeholder group $($shareholders$,$ employees, customers, community.$)$ Identify any ethical concerns with your proposed solutions.

$5.$ Prioritize, Implement, and Evaluate $20\%$

$$ Prioritize the top three recommendations from the strategies and solutions you identified in step $4$ based on those with the greatest impact. Elaborate on how those solutions will be implemented and how the corporation should monitor progress including specific key metrics $($include specific financial statement accounts and ratios.$)$

Project Instructions for your Analysis Report

$1.$ You will be assigned a publicly traded U$.$S$.$ for$-$profit corporation from the list provided.

$2.$ Include ratios in these five categories: liquidity, activity, debt, profitability, and market.

$3.$ Use the five sections outlined above as your headings in your analysis report and include your financial and written analysis as required in the outline above.

$4.$ Includes at least five charts$/$or graphs $($ratio trends over $3$ years, etc.$)$ that you create in Excel and paste into your Word $($or PDF$)$ analysis report.

$5.$ Use APA formatting except no abstract$.$ Reports are to be between $10$ to $12$ pages in total.