Graduate Advanced Financial Reporting Assignment – Real Company Financials Case and Research Discuss
Your report must include a conclusion that determines whether or not your firm’s investment in this company’s stock is a good move for your firm. You will be assigned a specific company to research and a footnote topic from that company’s financial statements. SEC filings related to your assigned company and earnings call and information that might indicate potential risks or success.FASB ASC Codification and information to a company footnote.Company’s most recent 10K, proxy statement, subsequent 10-Qs and 8-Ks for the last 6 months, and news articles and key business events that relate to the filings.the company information table. a 3 to 5-page narrative on your findings. See the Step-by-Step Guidelines (page 4). (Carefully examine the format template provided in our course on Blackboard. Include all the sections in the template in your paper. . The format for the paper must be double spaced, 8.5”x11” letter sized, Times New Roman, 12 font, 1 inch margins on all four sides, and numbered pages in the header.Required ResourcesFinancial Accounting Standards Board, Accounting Standards Codification (FASB) Review pages v. – 30 of the FASB Learning Guide posted in eLearning or available online. The Guide is also available after logging on to the FASB homepage. Access FASB through:Academic Login Link: Sec.gov EDGAR database Locate the most recent filings for your assigned company filed prior to the date of the assignment. Access EDGAR on the internet at . Some information might be available from other sources. However, if there is a difference between other sources and the SEC filings, the SEC filings are considered most accurate. You are to provide exact numbers (not rounded to the nearest thousands or millions). Needed filing:Most recent 10K (filed prior to date of assignment)DEF 14A (most recent proxy statement filed prior to date of assignment – if not available, use prior year)8K filings for the last 6 monthsAssigned company’s investor relations websiteMost recent company’s earnings call recording (or transcript if recording not available)Additional Authorized Research Resources (however you should not cite or quote them)News articles from reliable sources (Wikipedia is not a reliable source.)Accounting textbooksBig 4 Accounting Guides/summariesUnauthorized Resources include, but are not limited to the following:Prior or current semester students and/or their completed projectsProjects submitted for credit in any other courseThe usage of unauthorized resources will result in referral to the JA sanctions may include, but are not necessarily limited to, revision of the assignment, a zero on the assignment, a zero in the course, required tutorials, academic probation, restrictions on registering for classes, and/or expulsion from the university.






