Assignment
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 10: Reporting and Analyzing Liabilities, Chapter 11: Reporting and Analyzing Stockholders' Equity in your course text. Visit the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) EDGAR | Search tools web page.
In an 8-to 10-page paper double-spaced paper (not including the title and reference pages) research and discuss the SEC's company filings requirements. In your paper:
• Describe how investors can use the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) EDGAR | Search tools (Links to an external site.)web page to quickly research a company's financial information filed on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
• Identify the differences between the Annual Report sent to shareholders and the Annual Report on Form 10-K, which must be filed with the SEC.
• Describe the contents of the Form 10-K SEC filing include the following elements:
o Management Discussion and Analysis
o Auditors' Report
o Selected Financial Data
• Discuss how the SEC's requirement for domestic and foreign companies using US GAAP to provide their financial statements in the XBRL format can improve financial reporting?
• Most publicly traded companies are examined by numerous analysts. Locate analysts' ratings about a company of your choice by visiting a website such as Yahoo Finance (Links to an external site.). Provide a comparison over time and across companies in the same industry by answering the following questions:
o How many analysts rated the company?
o What are analysts predicting in terms of earnings and revenues?
o How do the estimates compare against historical results?
o How do the growth projections for the company compare with the average projections for the S&P 500?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.