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Gathering Financial Data, Key Characteristics, Corporate Governance, and Competitors

Required:

Choose any two companies that are in the same industry and listed on the NYSE or any other exchange. You may select any company except FedEx and Coca Cola.

Collect the financial information for these two companies and make sure you have information that includes balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow for the last three years. Describe the key characteristics of the companies selected, such as the industry in which they operate, the products they provide, their rankings in the industry, etc.

  1. Go to the company Web sites. Find the “About ….” section and note the company's commitment to corporate governance and identify the key features of its commitment.

  2. Identify the main competitors for each selected company. Compare and contrast the reputations of the selected companies and their competitors.

Cite all sources used in your research on the two companies selected and their competitors in APA format.

Please provide on the reference sheet the correct website address where these were located. This will be a project that will be used for the next 2 weeks so will need to have this information on the reference sheet please.

done in a 3-4 page MS Word Document in APA formatting. If can do it in 2 or 3 pages with enough detail to cover required information. Please remember to provide the web sites where information was retrieved from In APA formatting

Assignment Criteria

Correctly calculated the value of ending Inventory under FIFO, LIFO, and average cost methods.

Correctly identified the impact of the different accounting methods for inventory on the balance sheet

Identified two companies to research given the parameters, and described their key characteristics accurately

Correctly identified the selected companies’ commitment to corporate governance and key features of that commitment

Correctly identified the selected companies’ main competitors; compared and contrasted reputations with the selected companies.

Presented a structured report free of spelling and grammatical errors and cited sources in APA format when necessary