Business 6600 Memo

Problem: ;

I need you to evaluate our organization’s financial condition using ratio analysis. ; The information you will require is in our most recent 10-K Annual Report. ; For your analysis, use one key ratio from two of the following key categories of ratios: liquidity, debt, profitability and activity. ; For each of the two, state the ratio you selected, why you chose it, and what it generally communicates about an organization’s financial performance. ; Calculate these key ratios for the last several years. ; Discuss how they are changing and what that suggests about how our organization is performing financially. ; Provide recommendations for improvement. ; I’ll need your response in memo format to distribute at our upcoming general management meeting. ; ;

Teacher Note: A Form 10-K is an annual report submitted by each corporation on the stock exchange to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ; In it a corporation is required to provide a complete summary of their financial performance. ; 10-K Reports are available for free on the SEC’s website (http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html) or you can search for them using “Form 10-K annual report” and the corporation’s name. ; You may select any corporation you so desire. ; Choose one that interests you.

Criteria:

Use the Microsoft Word Reference and Citation Manager to handle inserting your in-text citations and “References” page, which should be in APA format. ; Include 3 referneces.

—The memo format to be used it attached as a file

Memo Template(1) (1).doc