SEC Financial Statement Assignment

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Video Instructions for SEC Annual Report Assignment

When to complete this assignment:

This Assignment contains questions about Chapter 11 - The Statement of Cash Flow. You may want to wait until the first part of this chapter is covered before you complete this assignment.

Instructions:

What: Access the Instructions here for accessing the SEC website to complete this assignment. You will be asked to use the information we are learning in class and apply it to actual companies to analyze their financial statements.

Questions:

Please print out the assignment questions to use as you find the answers in the SEC website and then provide answers in Webcourses: SEC Financial Statement Assignments (Info and Questions)

You will access the financial reports for two companies while completing this assignment:

• Microsoft Corp – Ticker Symbol MSFT (financial statements date 6/30/16 contained in the annual report dated 7/28/16).
• Walmart – Ticker Symbol WMT (financial statements date 1/31/16 contained in the annual report dated 3/30/16).

Numerical format for answers:

Answer all questions using the full dollar amount,not the abbreviated number shown in the financial statements. The financial statements will typically show the numbers in either 'thousands' or 'millions'.

• If the financial statements are in the millions – add 6 zeros to the end of the number
  • For example, $4,200 abbreviated on the financial statement really equals $4,200,000,000
• If the financial statements are in the thousands – add 3 zeros to the end of the number
  • For example, $4,200 abbreviated on the financial statement really equals $4,200,000

Instructor Tutorial for reading the dollar amounts shown in the financial statements (Links to an external site): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWmGpw6PxY

Why: This assignment will help you to see how transactions common to large corporations impact each of the financial statements, with specific emphasis on the income statement (LO5*).

Evaluation: Please answer the questions in Webcourses. You have one attempt and Webcourses will record your score.