ACCT 102 – Project

Select a company that is publicly-traded (that is, has stock that you could purchase as an investor).The company must be traded on either NYSE or NASDAQ exchanges only, no exceptions!The company should be preferably an American company, if you choose a foreign company you must convert the foreign currency on the financial statements to U. S. Dollars. The company should be something that interests you (e.g. Nike because you wear their sneakers).I would suggest that you use finance.yahoo.com or some other similar web site for assistance.Be sure to not plagiarize any part of this project, be sure to use proper APA format for your citations for all necessary parts of the project.Since you are using APA format you must insert parenthetical citations (IN-Text) within the text of your project, failure to do so will result in point deductions.If you don’t know how to do it, see the library or Mr. Beebe for assistance. For all parts of your project, you are to submit an emailed copy to my college email account (beeberr@morrisville.edu), and a copy of your project needs to be posted to Blackboard.All parts of your project need to be submitted to Blackboard and you are not to use more than one Word and one Excel file for the entire project.

ACCT 102 – Project

Locate that company’s website.Use a search engine such as Yahoo or Google for assistance.Locate the section entitled Investor Relations (or a similar phrase) to find the company’s most recent annual report.

Print out the following pages from the annual report:

1. Letter to Shareholders

2. Income Statement

3. Balance Sheet

4. Summary of Financial and Operating Results (may be 5 year or 10 year, don’t use a company that doesn’t provide at least 5 years of results!)

ACCT 102 – Project

Using your company’s financial information, prepare a typed report that incorporates the following items:

1. Describe your company’s purpose (provides a service, sells a product, or manufactures and sells a product)

2. Summarize the content of the Letter to Shareholders

   1. Management’s opinion of financial performance

   2. Existing successful operating strategies

   3. Planned strategies to improve future financial performance