Financial Statement Analysis

Description

Part 1 – 1000 words (due 13th December)
A) Describe how a company can get its finance (please focus on debt and equity).
B) Select a company that is trading in the New York Stock Exchange and analyze the way it’s getting its finance. Please focus on debt, equity and profit.
C) How the company can boost its profits? Please propose certain alternatives.

Part 2 – 1000 words (due 10th January)
A) Please explain the following concepts:
a. Net Sales
b. Cost of Goods sold
c. Gross Profit
d. Operating Expenses
e. Net Earnings
B) Please select a company that is trading in the New York Stock Exchange and analyze how the company is performing taking into consideration its income statement. Please decide if you would invest or not in the company.

Part 3 – 1000 words (due 17th of January)
A) Please explain all the ways for a company to increase its liquidity.
B) Please explain the following concepts:
a. Profitability
b. Earnings per share
c. Return on assets
d. Return on equity
e. Earnings per share
C) Please select a company that is trading in the New York Stock Exchange and analyze its main indicators in order to establish if it is a good or bad investment.

Formalities:
– Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
– Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
– Text alignment: Justified.
– The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style