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.

1. Compute the return on assets, profit margin and asset utilization rate for your company and its competitor.
2. Assess your company’s competitive financial position.
3. Compute the free cash flow for your company and its competitor.
4. Assess your company’s relative cash position and comment on its receipt and use of cash during the year.

Modular SLP Assignment Expectations

Always include the name of the organization(s), time period covered
and source of information. It is important to answer the questions as
posed.The document should be from 2 to 4 pages and written in a clear
and concise manner. Don’t forget to include tables as required. Support
your discussion or tables with references in APA format. You are
encouraged to use Excel or other compatiblespreadsheet when
computations are involved. You can turn in the spreadsheet instead of
the Word document. The content should be equivalent to the page length
suggested for a word processing document.