Project 5: Financial Analysis of your Firm

:

FINANCE 4300

PROJECT 5

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

OF

YOUR

FIRM,

Project 5 is a complete financial analysis

of your selected

firm using publicly available data and finpad.fts.

1.

In this

analysis you will use:

.

Financial

Ratio analysis

– . a.

_b.

Cash Flow Statement analysis.

.

_r,.

Cash

Breakeven Sales Level (CBSL) analysis

Size analysis.

.–d.

Common

.

_e.

Financial

Forecasting

.

.

–f.

Growthanalysis

sources. Some calculations

rwill

be

2.

Your data

will come from Research Insight (RI) and from other

but most will be done by finpad.fts.

·

done

by hand

of the firm,

and which flows

3.

This project

will yield a report that gives a complete financial analysis

set of

be a separate

section to section and its overall presentation

. Therewill

smoothly from

that you are to integrate

analysis

. It is these

separate instructions

instructions for each part of the

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into a smoothly flowing report.

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4. Check list items: name should be identified in the title or introduction. The reader should not have

a. The firmseveral is being analyzed. An outline of the project to read

will be provided to you.

tables, not just simply restate the

b.

You should analyze and interpret the numbers in the

not leave it to the

reader to draw

numbers. As

the analyst, you should do the analysis,

his/her own conclusions.

once at the beginning of the discussion

c.

The ratio

name should

be stated in full at least

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first then “FAT”

.

before the acronym is used, e.g. “Fixed

Assets Turnover”

d.

Look for inconsistencies.

tables, etc;

i.

Statements

in the text that do not agree with numbers in the

the

ii.

Unreasonable numbers such as a net profit

margin that is larger than

operating or gross profit margin, etc.

for each part of the analysis

.

This

e.

Make sure

that required documentation is attached

use~ It

insight and any other data sources that you

should include4tltait.om research

.

These

documents

should be included as

should also include your finpad.fts printout&

.

appendices to your report and referenced

when appropriate

.

your report

5.

A report

format will be provided to you to help

you organize