•In writing, submit the name of the company (publicly traded) and the name of its major competitor company within the first three weeks of classes for approval.

- Select the company and its competitor you want to use for your Financial Management Project and submit the company names to me ASAP. I will make sure that no two students select the same companies. Therefore, sooner you provide the company names to me, more would be the chances that I will allow you to keep the companies (i.e.. nobody else has already selected those companies). By second week of the class, everybody will be required to select the company and its competitor for analysis. The student will not be allowed to complete the project in the course, if the submissions with publicly-traded company names are not received by the instructor by the deadline.

• Evaluate the company using the following ratios: Current, Quick, Days Sales Outstanding, Inventory Turnover, Total Asset Turnover, Debt Ratio, Times Interest Earned, Total Profit Margin, Operating Profit Margin, Net Profit Margin, Return on Total Asset, Return ea Common Equity, Price-Earnings, Market-Value to Book-Value, Dividend Payout, and Dividend Yield ratios.

• Use the ratio values to show performance trends (time-series analysis) of the company (at least for five years).

• Find industry quartiles for each of the ratio and evaluate the company ratios against the industry norm (a major competitor company) (cross-section analysis).

• Write the analysts of the company MI each of the ratio areas (both time-series and cross-sectional analyses).

• Use the web resources available to obtain information on both time-series and cross-suction ratios.

Here's an example, but my report has to include what's in the above instructions-

https://thefinancialintern.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/how-to-use-dupont-analysis-for-financial-analysis-soft-drink-example/.