Public companies are required to file 10K and 10Q forms. What is the difference between the two?

This project is designed to familiarize you with the Annual Report and Financial Statements of a company called Whole Foods. The webpage of the company is always a good place to start when you are looking for information. If the stock is publicly traded it usually has a link for investors and sometimes you can find a link there to recent financial statements.

Otherwise, Edgar is the place to find all the filings that a company has made with the SEC. This is the website address:

http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

Follow these steps:

1. Search for company filings then,
2. Search information collected by the SEC by Company or fund name, ticker symbol, etc.
3. Company name Whole Foods Market, Inc. Ticker Symbol WFM
4. Go to the Form 10-K filed with the SEC for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 i.e. the one filed with the SEC on Nov 21st, 2014

Answer the questions in the following pages relating to the 10-K of Whole Foods Market, Inc.

1.(2pt) What is the title of the Form 10-K document (just below the Form 10-K line)?

2.(2pt) Public companies are required to file 10K and 10Q forms. What is the difference between the two?

3.(2pt) What business is Whole Foods’s in?