Finance Trend Analysis

Financial Trend Analysis:

1. Select a publicly traded company and obtain its annual financial statements over the past five years.
2. Conduct a trend analysis on the company's financial performance over five years (use the text as a guide on developing the trend analysis).
3. Include in the paper the company's vision and mission or a brief background of the company's business operations. Also, examine the company’s corporate social responsibility statement and reflect on it in your paper.
4. Include tables and charts for relevant data in your analysis.
5. Include 2 peer-reviewed/scholarly articles that add depth to your paper.
6. The paper should contain 1,500 words and end with a strong conclusion.
7. Textbook used: Foundations of Financial Management, 16e. Authors: Block, Hirt, Danielsen. ISBN: 9781259277160
8. APA writing style, 6th edition.
   1. Include in-text references with only either the author’s last name or a short title of the work and the page number in parentheses after the material from that work. The in-text references are included in the word count.