First Course Project-The purpose of this project is to help you develop skills not only in

First Course ProjectThe
purpose of this project is to help you develop skills not only in
performing the calculations behind financial analysis but interpreting
the numbers as well.You
are to pick a company. You should pick one either from the industry in
which you are currently working or an industry in which you are
interested. You could also pick a division of a company. It is
imperative to use that sufficient data about your company and that it is
available. One way to do this is to pick a publicly held company. If
you pick a privately held company or a division of a company, make sure
that the data necessary to do a significant financial analysis is
available.If
you use data that is not publicly available, be sure to talk to your
manager and to make absolutely sure that revealing that data is not a
problem.You
will also need to find a standard against which to compare your
findings. This could be a different company in the same industry. This
could also be the same company at a different time. Additionally,
average or benchmark numbers are available for several industries. If
you decide to use a different company in the same industry or the same
company at a different time, make sure that there are enough differences
between the two to make an analysis meaningful.After
you have selected a company, put yourself in the place of an analyst
who has been asked to perform an analysis of the company and provide a
recommendation to management.Use
ratio analysis, common size analysis, or other techniques to determine
areas in which the company is doing well as well as areas that
management should look at. Then, present your analysis and
recommendations in the form of a paper.A
good place to start would be to perform a complete DuPont analysis of
the company and compare it to the standard. The DuPont analysis might
provide guidance as to what particular areas of the company should be
examined next and what ratios should be calculated. If the DuPont
analysis does not reveal anything useful, you might wish to calculate
several of the ratios that are available to you.DeliverableThe
completed paper should be about 1,000 words long. In the paper, you do
not have to explain the ratios in depth. You may assume that the reader
has a basic understanding of finance and knows what ratio analysis is,
although he or she might not be able to list all the ratios and how to
calculate them from memory. The reader is not going to want a lot of
background about financial analysis. He or she really wants information
that he or she can apply to the given situation, which is the company
that you have selected.If
you like, you can write the paper in the form of a memo to management.
You do not have to cite your source for how to calculate the ratios. You
do need to provide a reference to where you got that data not only for
your subject company but for the other company or standard to which you
compared your company.•
The spirit of this assignment is for you to calculate and interpret the
results. The purpose is not for you to find calculations and
interpretations that have been done by someone else.• The paper is expected to conform to the standards for graduate school writing.• The purpose of your analysis is internal evaluation. Refrain from using stock market valuation ratios.When you have completed the project, place it in one Word document and place that document in the appropriate dropbox.