Review the comparative financial statements for your three domestic public manufacturing companies. Please utilize information contained in ANY section of the annual report. Round all numbers to the nearest whole number:
Your analysis should address and include answers to the following questions. You MUST use complete sentences. Proper grammar, punctuation and spelling are required. Please list the question above each answer so the Instructor will know which question you are addressing:
1. What is the company's registered name?
2. What is the company's standard industrial classification (SIC code)?
3. What is the company's state or country of incorporation?
4. What is the company's fiscal year-end?
5. Are you reporting on a consolidated entity?
6. In which countries or geographical regions (if any) does the company operate?
7. Which two reporting periods of comparative financial information will you be analyzing?
8. In what currency are the company's financial statements denominated?
9. On which stock exchange(s) is the company's stock listed?
10. Summarize the company's business operations as discussed on the Cover Page in part I of the company's 10-K or in the footnotes to their annual report.
11. Who are the company's major competitors? This can be found under competitive position in part I of the SEC filing or in the footnotes to the financial statements. You can also simply "Google" a search for your companies' competitors.