Mcdonald's Financial Research Report

Please do report on Mcdonalds restaurant ..this is the company i was approved for for my assignment

Assignment 1: Financial Research Report

Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client that align with its investment goals. Use the Internet or the Library to research Mcdonald's a U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. (You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)

The assignment covers the following topics:

• Rationale for choosing the company for which to invest
• Ratio analysis 
• Stock price analysis
• Recommendations

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

1. Provide a rationale for Mcdonalnd's a U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.
2. Determine the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Provide support for your rationale.
3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
4. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the company from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
5. Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles or material from the Strayer Library.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
• Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
• Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
• Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
• Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
• Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
• Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
• Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
• Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
• Design working capital management concepts to enhance tactical financial strategies.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
• Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 300

Assignment 1: Financial Research Report

Criteria

Unacceptable

Below 70% F

Fair

70-79% C

Proficient

80-89% B

Exemplary

90-100% A

1. Provide a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected, indicating the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected; did not submit or incompletely indicated the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.

Partially provided a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected; partially indicated the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.

Satisfactorily provided a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected; satisfactorily indicated the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.

Thoroughly provided a rationale for the U.S. publicly traded company that you selected; thoroughly indicated the significant factors driving your decision as a financial manager.

2. Determine the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Provide support for your rationale.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely determined the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Did not submit or incompletely provided support for your rationale.

Partially determined the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Partially provided support for your rationale.

Satisfactorily determined the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Satisfactorily provided support for your rationale.

Thoroughly determined the profile of the investor for which this company may be a fit, relative to that potential investor’s investment strategy. Thoroughly provided support for your rationale.

3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)

Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely selected any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Did not submit or incompletely determined the company’s financial health.

Partially selected any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Partially analyzed the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Partially determined the company’s financial health.

Satisfactorily selected any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Satisfactorily analyzed the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Satisfactorily determined the company’s financial health.

Thoroughly selected any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Thoroughly analyzed the past three (3) years of the company’s financial data, which you may obtain from the company’s financial statements. Thoroughly determined the company’s financial health.

4. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the company from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.

Weight: 15%