Analyzing a company of your choice and making comparisons.
The Session Long Project provides an opportunity to apply ideas and concepts for each module to a real world situations. The assignment has two parts.
Part I
Your specific assignment for this week is to select an organization for your project.You must choose a publicly held company. Indicate the name of the company, a link to the homepage of the company and links to at least two other sources of financial information. Also, comment on your interest in the company and how you expect to benefit from the analysis.
Part II
Assess the financial position of your company and compare it to one of its competitors. The emphasis is on cash flow for this analysis.
Compute the return on assets, profit margin and asset utilization rate for your company and its competitor.
Assess your company's competitive financial position.
Compute the free cash flow for your company and its competitor.
Assess your company's relative cash position and comment on its receipt and use of cash during the year.