- Using the company’s Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flow, explaining how your company is financing its activities and why it is important.
- Be sure to show specific numbers and/or ratios using both of these financial statements.
- Using Calcbench analytics, what did you learn about your company’s financial performance. Indicate positive/negative trends and ratios that would matter to you. Briefly explain your rationale.
- By comparing your company to its calcbench peer group, what did you learn about your company that sets it apart from the competition?
- Be specific about positive/negative trends and ratio performance of your company in comparison to its peer group.
- Red the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) within the Form 10-K SEC filing. Report whether your findings in question 3 and 4 are consistent with impression you get from the MD&A written and signed by the CEO.
- Read the Report of independent Registered Public Accounting Firm within the Form 10-K Sec filing.
- Who is the Independent Auditor for your company?
- How can this report be used to evaluate your company?
- Did the auditor’s report comment about the wellbeing of the company?
- Read Management’s Annual report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting within the SEC Form 10-K Sec filing. What was management’s assessment of company internal controls? Why is this important?
- Analyze the Statement of Cash Flows by focusing on the following for the past three years…
- Cash flow from Operating Activities
- Cash flow from Investing Activities
- Cash flow from Financing Activities
- Total Cash flow
- What is the main source of cash inflows in each of the last three years for its company?
- In your judgment is this tend good/bad for the company and why?
- Among the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flow; identify and explain which accounts, ratios, or other specific information from these statements that would help you predict the following for your company:
- Financial stability
- Future growth in earnings
- Future potential for company growth