Select a well-known publicly traded company from SP500: Southwest Airlines

Visit the company's website Calculate the DuPont Equation of the company and compare it with other major competitor, industry average. Explain what you see and how the management team can improve, in which area, be specific and provide recommendations.

my assignment is to determine the type of investment (debt or equity) for a publicly traded company. I also need to speculate on what the investments are and how they are classified. I don't know how to find these answers looking at the company (The Clorox Company) balance sheet. How do I answer these question just looking at the balance sheet?

Thank you

To analyze the financial statements of a publicly traded company

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Obtain an annual report from a publicly traded corporation that is interesting to you. Be sure the company’s financial statements include deferred taxes, postretirement benefits, dilutive securities, and share-based compensation.

1. What kind of share-based compensation does the company have? What was compensation expense for the two most recent years? What are the key elements of this plan discussed in the footnotes? Please identify and describe other types of share-based compensation.
2. Does the company use the direct or indirect cash flow presentation method? What is the difference between these two methods? How does the cash flow statement agree to the other financial statements?
3. What investing and financing activities does the company have? What are some other examples of investing and financing activities?
4. What noncash transactions does the company have on its cash flow statement? What are some other examples of noncash transactions?

Assignment Details

In Unit 2, you have learned about three different types of distributions: Normal, binomial, and Poisson. You can take data that you collect and plot it out onto graphs to see a visual representation of the data. By simply looking at data on a graph, you can tell a lot about how related your observed data are and if they fit into a normal distribution.

For this submission, you will be given a series of scenarios and small collections of data. You should plot the data or calculate probabilities using excel. Then, you will create your own real or hypothetical scenario to graph and explain.

Answer the following:

• The mean temperature for the month of July in Boston, Massachusetts is 73 degrees Fahrenheit. Plot the following data, which represent the observed mean temperature in Boston over the last 20 years:

  1998	72
  1999	69
  2000	78
  2001	70
  2002	67
  2003	74
  2004	73
  2005	65
  2006	77
  2007	71
  2008	75
  2009	68
  2010	72
  2011	77
  2012	65
  2013	79
  2014	77
  2015	78
  2016	72
  2017	74

  1. Is this a normal distribution? Explain your reasoning.
  2. What is an outlier? Are there any outliers in this distribution? Explain your reasoning fully.
  3. Using the above data, what is the probability that the mean will be over 76 in any given July?
  4. Using the above data, what is the probability that the mean will be over 80 in any given July?
     
• A heatwave is defined as 3 or more days in a row with a high temperature over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Given the following high temperatures recorded over a period of 20 days, what is the probability that there will be a heatwave in the next 10 days?

  Day 1	93
  Day 2	88
  Day 3	91
  Day 4	86
  Day 5	92
  Day 6	91
  Day 7	90
  Day 8	88
  Day 9	85
  Day 10	91
  Day 11	84
  Day 12	86
  Day 13	85
  Day 14	90
  Day 15	92
  Day 16	89
  Day 17	88
  Day 18	90
  Day 19	88
  Day 20	90

Customer surveys reveal that 40% of customers purchase products online versus in the physical store location. Suppose that this business makes 12 sales in a given day

1. Does this situation fit the parameters for a binomial distribution? Explain why or why not?
2. Find the probability of the 12 sales on a given day exactly 4 are made online
3. Find the probability of the 12 sales fewer than 6 are made online
4. Find the probability of the 12 sales more than 8 are made online

Your own example:

• Choose a company that you have recently seen in the news because it is having some sort of problem or scandal, and complete the following:
  • Discuss the situation, and describe how the company could use distributions and probability statistics to learn more about how the scandal could affect its business.
  • If you were a business analyst for the company, what research would you want to do, and what kind of data would you want to collect to create a distribution?
  • Would this be a standard, binomial, or Poisson distribution? Why?
  • List and discuss at least 3 questions that you would want to create probabilities for (e.g., What is the chance that the company loses 10% of its customers in the next year?).
  • What would you hope to learn from calculating the

1. Select two companies from the same industry that are BOTH publicly traded. They need to both be traded on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAC stock exchange. (DO NOT SELECT CLEARWATER PAPER I USE IT IN MY EXAMPLES)

2.  Upload a screenshot of the Edgar Database files at SEC.GOV that includes the 10-K files that you need to download for EACH Company. (see attached example)

3. Upload a recent article or press release for each company discussing company operations.

4. Upload a recent 8-K from the Edgar Database at SEC.GOV. The best way to download the 8-K is to print the file to a PDF. See attached example.

see example : https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441236/000156459017024717/clw-8k_20171201.htm

Intermediate Accounting: RESEARCH PAPER You are going to choose a publicly traded company (Yum Brands). Publicly traded companies who have their shares listed on stock exchanges are required to file regular financial statements and disclosures with regulators, such as the securities and exchange commission (SEC) in the United States. Among the most widely read of these are a company's annual report, which tells investors and analysts how the company has performed over the previous fiscal year (FY), how its businesses look going forward and summarizing corporate financials for use in fundamental or ratio analysis through scrutinizing the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. Here are topics to summarize in each paragraph: 1. Introduce to the FASB’s Conceptual Framework and FASB’s GAAP Codification, if any in their reports including their accounting principles or concepts. 2. Explain their annual Income Statement. Give a full summary of their earnings and operating expenses. Do they have Other Revenue and Gains or Other Expenses or Interest? Do they have discounting Operation or Extraordinary Items? Explain. You will find their information at the end of their Income Statement or Footnotes. What is their EPS? 3. Explain their annual Balance Sheet? Give a full summary of Assets, Liabilities, and Stockholder’s Equity. How many shares outstanding are stated? Do they have additional information at the bottom of the Balance Sheet? 4. Explain their Cash Flow Statement. Give a full summary of their cash flows. Are they using the indirect or direct method to calculate their results? 5. Conclusion 6. 2020: Was the company affected the Covid-19? Explain. No website restrictions, Report should be organized: introduction/problem, facts/findings, summary/conclusion. Thank you.

 1. How is a company's distribution to shareholders policy defined?

 2. Has the number of publicly traded companies increased, over time? Please, explain.

 3. What are some arguments in support of the dividend irrelevance theory?

1. How is a company's distribution to shareholders policy defined?

2. Has the number of publicly traded companies increased, over time? Please, explain.

3. What are some arguments in support of the dividend irrelevance theory?

Can someone provide insight on Facebooks financial analysis against its top 3 publicly traded competitors? I am guess one is Google the second is Youtube. I am not sure who the third is?