Assignment 2: Discussion-Financial Statements

Access an overview of your course project.

By the due date assigned, respond to the following in the Discussion Area below:

This module you are learning about the four required financial statements and what each tells the user about a company. Locate three publicly traded companies' financial statements. Discuss the companies you located and describe what each of the four required financial statements tells you about the company. Also, briefly describe at least two interesting pieces of information located in the notes following the financial statements.

You are looking for a company's annual report. There are many reports filed by companies each year. The annual report is called the 10K. There are several ways to locate financial statements. You can go to the company's website and look for financial or investor information. You can go directly to the company's filing section of the SEC website.

Note: If there is no link to SEC filings, the company is not a public company and you may not use it for this project.

Be sure to cite any sources using APA style. You may use this APA Citation Helper as a guide.

Through the end of the module, provide substantive responses to at least two other students' initial posts, as well as any posts to you by your instructor. Be sure to post to the Discussion Area on two different days to meet your weekly attendance requirement.

Course Project - Overview

For your Course Projectyou will assume the role of a financial analyst asked to evaluate three companies to decide which would be the best investment opportunity.You will use what you have learned about the financial statements, ratio analysis, and an understanding of what each account represents to make this decision.You will be using real financial statements, which are much longer and more detailed than what you have seen in your textbook.This project will take you past the numbers on the balance sheet and give you the opportunity to analyze what the relationship between the accounts tells financial statement users about companies' financial health.

In each module you will have a discussion question related specifically to the course project.Responding to that discussion question, as well as your peer's and instructor's posts, will help you build the content and the knowledge to write your final analysis paper.

In Module 5, you will be submitting a three page paper analyzing the financial strength of the three companies and discussing which company would be the most solid financial investment. You will answer questions about your analysis and then summarize your observations. Your paper must be in APA format, with correct in-text citations of quoted and paraphrased material with full citations on a references page at the end of your paper.