Your boss has asked you to do a comparison between your company and a leading competitor to see how to measure the success of the company compared to the company average. Amongst other requests has asked you to do the following:

(1) Request the most recent annual report of your leading competitor. You have to analyze and compare the balance sheet, Income statement, Statement of Cash Flows, and Statement of Stockholder's Equity.

(2) Construct the DuPont System in the MS Excel to analyze the financial ratios and graph them.

(3) Analyze the Time Money Value (TVM) issues.

(4) Conduct the Monte Carlo Simulation in MS Excel.

(5) Incorporate the historical financial data into your assessment with: Historical returns Historical volatility, and Correlation

(6) Construct Amortization tables for and analyze the companys various financial decisions.

(7) Construct financial models to project Sales Estimates, possible expansions and financial statements (Pro-forma).

(8) Use futures and options to hedge against unanticipated future events.