A management-oriented approach to using financial data to make management decisions is utilized. Throughout the course, I may assign other readings such as news articles, journal articles, etc. It is your responsibility to read all assigned material.
Financial statements provide the most useful information about a firm.
One use of such information is to decide whether to invest in a firm, and what price to pay for equity investment. The class project is to evaluate a Fortune 500 company. While any evaluation that demonstrates your knowledge of accounting and what you have learned in MBUS0500 is acceptable, the following format for the term project is suggested. You can supplement this with more detailed earnings history if you wish to use more data to compute regression estimates. Evaluate prospective earnings.