https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/s/?view=att&th=176e08149a1242ef&attid=0.1&disp=attd&safe=1&zw&saddbat=ANGjdJ98NNCGb1OBE00uRr6RvTbXU0NzX5pRrR-dCBiK8dMQLU-h6zc4JE83y3jTbrsncdew-N-k8ufie_qsZTQMeN0kcF6A9JLXaNlqcUuwQ-d_AqMA99cjosvULqftQVEcYz2mK3DXLXDAnxFBgK-TlkO12EK42aD7ZEImprVCpyRa_UkvIGbHVcaIQPWoBAwFuoXNZKgim6Nll2aSXJwaytXmGQflCBpiYt2oDpbAfMnut-SWF_4p80cJkqWrZiP28IxvYq05vuCIjB9f-jMxj8S5WKY88ucWSYz1C4_GLfDRy9Rtemixh33kSZWoMSHypk7lVN6oP0t-7wzVMhYH2xq8Z-DSEroN5Xd6mBQqRyXRzYKXahItd8m8Yv7Hx1Hr0ToZMQAgjN5YOjxD-hZH8n3BdM2oZTE8KkpXY9-Gmyor8CRPw_oUjHcWPL-93s5THce0HtmH89tmARGepEsvwza0Duy4bKjwwJ_G4Fvsdp2A3E2QWSSTy5tppDX2mHJJMNviFr4DDxR32UKRKoaQiC6AFB05Ait_axHqfgvYDsF1BG-TNjTSuwEiE9x8z9ShLwUDZjmNPbvNkZLTcGT6XBY80S_30rWENCe1q3wzIO5McfEYtDs8mcep5Ttuwq-XQpMtgLHaOBnr_aN-JgCIRHKjgsOOeYZfUHGZOhJUq84CRsUlIx7KYDR4cpg Hello writer, I tried to make this as easy as I possibly could. Above should be the link to my assignment. Instead of retyping all the given information and needed information, I’m hoping that you’re able to access it and make this much easier. nOTE: if you’re not able to access this direct link, please send me a message through this site and I will send it via email to you. Most likely you won’t be able to access merge to online. If you can find another simple or easy company that would fit what the assignment calls for. I need the excel assignment completed and 3 separate papers. Please separate and label each paper so I know which one is which. Excel information: Financial information for publicly traded companies is available to the public and can be found on a domestic company’s 10-K Annual Report on the company’s investor relations page (e.g., Apple Financial Information) or the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) site under Filings & Forms and on many other financial sites including Yahoo! Finance. Mergent Online is a financial industry tool available to SNHU students for free. View this video demonstration. To Find a Publicly Traded Company ? Log in to Blackboard, select the Online Student Services tab at the top of the page, and under Academic Support, select the Shapiro Library link. ? Select the A-Z Database List link, and in the Search for Databases field, enter Mergent Online, click on GO, and then click on Mergent Online in the results. ? This is the direct link: https://www.mergentonline.com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/basicsearch.php ? Enter a company name in the Company Search – Enter symbol or Company Name field in the first section (top, left) and wait one moment for a drop-down menu to appear. ? If it is a publicly traded company (meaning its stock trades on an exchange where you can buy and sell shares), it will appear in the list below and you will see the company stock ticker symbol and name. ? Click on the company name in the list for details, and confirm that this is the company you intended to search for by reading the Business Summary. ? Review the information in the blue box at the top of the page and make note of the company’s assigned Sector and Industry. To Find Historical Stock Prices ? Click on the Equity Pricing tab. ? The Time Period defaults to 3 years. ? Click on Report above the Controls box. ? Once you see the Historical Pricing, choose Download near the top right of the screen. ? Save the Excel file to your computer. ? Use the Close price to calculate the percent increase or decrease in the stock price over the seven weekday or three-year period (“rate of return” in rubric). ? For example, Apple’s stock price on 8/19/16 closed at $109.36. Seven weekdays earlier, on 8/11/16, it closed at $107.93. If you had bought 100 shares of Apple stock on 8/11/16 at $107.93 and sold them on 8/19/16 at $109.36, you would have earned $143 before taxes, which is a 1.32% rate of return. The calculation is (109.36-107.93)/107.93 x 100 which equals 1.32%. ? Apple’s stock price closed on 8/19/2013 at $72.53. The three-year rate of return is 50.77%. To Download Financial Statement Data ? Select the Company Financials tab to retrieve financial statement data. ? Balance Sheet data will appear, and it defaults to Annual. ? Five years’ worth of data will appear, and you can change to 3 years by selecting that option to the right of the Annuals/Balance Sheet above the Balance Sheet data. ? Choose Refresh at the end of the next row. ? Choose Download near the top right of the screen. ? Save the Excel file to your computer. ? Change Balance Sheet to Income Statement and then Cash Flow to get your other financial statements. To Find a Competitor ? Click on the Competitors tab. ? Select Public Global to the right of Competitor at the top of the list of companies. ? Click on company name to review the Business Summary to confirm that this is the company you are interested in. ? Review Sector and Industry listed at the top and determine if you want to use this competitor for your competitive analysis. To Find Industry Data ? Click on the Competitors tab. ? Select Public Global to the right of Competitor at the top of the list of companies. ? Choose at least five competitors. ? Click on each company name to review the Business Summary to confirm that this is the company you are interested in. ? Review Sector and Industry listed at the top and determine if you want to use this competitor for your industry analysis. ? Determine what financial indicators you would like to compare and collect the needed data from the company financial statements for your ratio or Free Cash Flow (FCF) calculations. ? Average your calculated results to get an industry average (for example, add the five company FCF’s together and then divide by five)……. his is the first of two Excel assignments you will complete in this course. Before you get started, be sure to watch the Mergent Online video (written instructions can be found here). For this assignment, consider the stock you own in your TDAU thinkorswim portfolio. Choose one of the companies from your portfolio and complete the following steps: 1. Financial Reports For the company you have selected, find the most recent annual balance sheet, annual income statement, and annual statement of cash flows. Copy each of these three reports to its own worksheet within a single Excel file. The first worksheet should be titled 20XX Balance Sheet; the second, 20XX Income Statement; the third, 20XX Cash Flow. (Replace the XX with the appropriate year.) The image below illustrates the way the file should be set up. 2. Stock Prices Create a fourth worksheet within the same Excel file for historical stock prices. (You can name the worksheet Stock Prices.) ? Reference the To Find Historical Stock Prices section of the Mergent Online written instructions to locate the stock prices for your company for the most recent seven days. In your Excel file, enter those seven prices. ? On the Stock Prices worksheet, use an Excel formula to calculate the stock price’s rate of return over that seven-day period. To do this, 1. Subtract the stock price of the first day from the stock price of the last day. 2. Divide this amount by the stock price from the first day. 3. Multiply by 100 to get the rate of return. 3. Professionalism Format the data on all worksheets so that the file has a neat and professional appearance. 4. References At the bottom of each data tab in the spreadsheet, include a link and a properly formatted citation referencing the location of the data used…… Part one (paper) For this submission, you will write a response to the following scenario: Imagine that you have completed an internship in the finance division of a technology corporation. Your boss, the financial manager, is considering hiring you for a full-time job. He first wants to evaluate your financial knowledge and has provided you with a short examination. When composing your answers to this employment examination, ensure that they are cohesive and read like a short essay. Business professionals typically need to demonstrate a core set of financial knowledge to earn the job and to succeed on a job. For this part of the assessment, you will be given a scenario in which you are asked to illustrate your financial management knowledge. This part of the final project addresses the following course outcomes: ? Analyze the roles and responsibilities of financial managers in confirming compliance with federal and shareholder requirements ? Differentiate between various financial markets and institutions by comparing and contrasting options when selecting appropriate private and corporate investments Part I Prompt You have completed an internship in the finance division of a fast-growing information technology corporation. Your boss, the financial manager, is considering hiring you for a full-time job. He first wants to evaluate your financial knowledge and has provided you with a short examination. When composing your answers to this employment examination, ensure that they are cohesive and read like a short essay. Your submission must address the following critical elements: I. Analyze Roles and Responsibilities for Compliance A. Examine the types of decisions financial managers make. How are these decisions related to the primary objective of financial managers? B. Analyze the various ethical issues a financial manager could potentially face and how these could be handled. C. Compare and contrast the different federal safeguards that are in place to reduce financial reporting abuse. Why are these considered appropriate safeguards? II. Investment Options A. If a private company is “going public,” what does this mean, and how would the company do this? What are the advantages of doing this? Do you see any disadvantages? If so, what are they? B. How do the largest U.S. stock markets differ? Out of those choices, which would be the smartest private investment option, in your opinion? Why? C. Compare and contrast the various investment products that are available and the types of institutions that sell them…… Part two (paper) For this part of the final project, you will be given a scenario in which you are asked to illustrate your financial computation and analysis skills. This part of the assessment addresses the following course outcomes: ? Compute financial ratios, time value, variables, and returns using industry standard tools for optimizing financial success ? Analyze corporate financial data for multiple companies in evaluating past and future financial performances Part II Prompt For this section of your employment exam, you will select two companies. The first company needs to come from your TDAU thinkorswim portfolio. The second needs to be a competitor of the first company from the same industry. You will be responsible for collecting, synthesizing, and making decisions regarding both companies. After evaluating these companies’ financial data, you will then decide which company’s stock is the better investment. This section of your employment examination must be submitted in two parts. Part A will contain the workbooks that house all of your quantitative data and formulas, along with any of the information that is relevant for your chosen companies. Part B will contain your answers to the questions asked below, composed in a cohesive manner. If you are referring to data that is found within the workbooks in Part A, be sure to include a citation—for example, “rate of return is 3.570 USD (E64, WB2),” where E64 is the cell that the calculation took place in and WB2 is designating “workbook 2.” This ensures that your instructor can quickly and accurately check data entry, formula use, and financial calculations. Your submission must address the following critical elements: I. Preparing the Workbooks A. Download the annual income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements for the last three completed fiscal years for your chosen companies. This information must be included in your final submission. B. Prepare a worksheet for each of the companies to display their financial data for the last three fiscal years. Ensure your data is accurate and organized. Include these worksheets as a workbook in your final submission. C. Find historical stock prices for both companies and add this information to the respective spreadsheets. Consider the appropriate date range you should use. II. Three-Year Returns A. What is the three-year return on the stock price of the first company (Company A)? How is the stock performing? Ensure that you use the appropriate formula in your spreadsheets to calculate the three-year return on the given company’s stock price. B. What is the three-year return on the stock price of the second company (Company B)? How is this stock performing? Ensure that you use the appropriate formula in your spreadsheets to calculate the three-year return on your chosen company’s stock price. C. How do these two stocks compare in terms of three-year returns? What does this indicate about these two companies? III. Financial Calculations A. Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the price-to-earnings ratio for the last three fiscal years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula. B. Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the debt-to-equity ratios for the last three fiscal years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula. C. Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the return-on-equity ratios for the last three fiscal years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula. D. Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the earnings per share for the last three fiscal years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula. E. Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the profit margins for the last three fiscal years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula. F. Using the appropriate spreadsheets, which are to be included in the workbooks, calculate the free cash flows for the last three fiscal years of the given and your chosen companies. Be sure that you are entering and using the correct formula. IV. IndustryAverages A. Obtain current industry averages of three of the financial calculations above for both companies and add this information to your spreadsheet for comparison. Ensure the accuracy and organization of your data. B. In this context, how is each company’s financial health? How do these two companies compare to one another? Consider the appropriate date range you should use. V. Performance Over Time A. Analyze the performance of the Company A over time. What financial strengths and weaknesses does this company have? Consider addressing the free cash flows and ratios you calculated earlier. B. Analyze the performance of your Company B over time. What financial strengths and weaknesses does this company have? Consider addressing the free cash flows and ratios you calculated earlier. C. Analyze how the data differ between these two companies. Why do you think this is? Consider addressing the free cash flows and ratios you calculated earlier. VI. Investment A. Are the companies considered growth or value companies? Why? B. Which company’s stock is the better investment? Consider supporting your answer with data…….. Part three (paper) To make corporate finance decisions, take an advanced finance course, or pursue a career in finance, you will need to understand basic concepts. This includes going beyond the number crunching and reading graphs in order to analyze various financial indicators. This analysis can lead to many important decisions in your financial career. For this part of the final project, you will be given a scenario in which you are asked to illustrate your financial knowledge and analysis skills. This part of the assessment addresses the following course outcomes: ? Analyze the roles and responsibilities of financial managers in confirming compliance with federal and shareholder requirements ? Differentiate between various financial markets and institutions by comparing and contrasting options when selecting appropriate private and corporate investments ? Compute financial ratios, time value, variables, and returns using industry standard tools for optimizing financial success ? Analyze corporate financial data for multiple companies in evaluating past and future financial performances Part III Prompt The results of both sections of your employment examination have finally been received, and you were offered the position. You have a few important decisions to make before you can formally accept or decline the position. When composing your answers to these decisions, ensure that they are cohesive and read like a short essay. Your submission must address the following critical elements: I. School Versus Work A. The school you would like to attend costs $100,000. To help finance your education, you need to choose whether or not to sell any of your 500 shares of Apple stock you bought five years ago, 100 Apple bonds (each with a $1,000 face value and a 3.25% coupon rate) that are five years from their 10-year maturity date, or a combination of both. Provide the appropriate data and calculations that you would perform to make this decision. B. What are the advantages and disadvantages of selling a combination of stocks and bonds? Be sure to support your answers. C. Suppose that you choose to sell your stocks, bonds, or a combination of both. What is your choice, and what is your financial reasoning behind this choice? Consider supporting your answer with quantitative data. D. Suppose that you choose to accept the job. What is your financial reasoning behind this choice? Be sure to support your answer with quantitative data. II. Bonus Versus Stock A. The company has offered you a $5,000 bonus, which you may receive today, or 100 shares of the company’s stock, which has a current stock price of $50 per share. Mathematically, what is the best choice? Why? B. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each option? Be sure to support your answers. C. What would you ultimately choose to do? What is your financial reasoning behind this choice? Consider supporting your answer with quantitative data. III. Compliance A. While investigating the shares offered to you by your potential boss, you discover that the company you are considering working for is not registered as required under the Securities Act of 1933. How does this influence you as a potential employee and as a potential shareholder? Be sure to reference any applicable statutes or laws. B. You know that accepting this job may eventually lead to a promotion into the role of the financial manager. As the potential financial manager, what federal and shareholder requirements would you need to be familiar with in order to ensure that you are being completely compliant?