Your final Excel workbook submission should contain the following items. You cannot use any software but Excel to complete this project.
1. A completed worksheet title page tab, which is really a coversheet with your name, the course, the date, your instructor's name, and the title for the project.
2. A completed worksheet profiles tab that contains a one-paragraph description regarding each company with information about their histories, what products they sell, where they are located, and so on.
3. All 16 ratios for each company, with the supporting calculations and commentary on your worksheet ratio tab. Supporting calculations must be shown either as a formula or as text typed into a different cell. The ratios are listed further down this document. Your comments for each ratio should include more than just a definition of the ratio. You should focus on interpreting each ratio number for each company and support your comments with the numbers found in the ratios.
4. The Summary and Conclusions worksheet tab is an overall comparison of how each company compares in terms of the major category of ratios described in Chapter 13 of your textbook. A nice way to conclude is to state which company you think is the better investment and why.
5. The Bibliography worksheet tab must contain at least your textbook as a reference. Any other information you use to profile the companies should also be cited as a reference.
Required Ratios for Final Project Submission
1. Earnings per Share of Common Stock
2. Current Ratio
3. Gross Profit Margin
4. Rate of Return on Sales (Net Profit Margin)
5. Inventory Turnover
6. Days' Inventory Outstanding (DIO)
7. Accounts Receivable Turnover
8. Days' Sales Outstanding (DSO)
9. Asset Turnover
10. Rate of Return on Total Assets (ROA)
11. Debt Ratio
12. Times Interest Earned Ratio
13. Dividend Yield (For the purposes of this ratio, use Yahoo Finance to look up current dividend yield and stock price; just note the date that you looked up this information.)
14. Rate of Return on Common Stockholders' Equity (ROE)
15. Free Cash Flow
16. Price/Earnings Ratio (Multiple) (For the purpose of this ratio, for Oracle, use the market price per