Requirement 1 (from HW1): Please form a group of two or three students for your group report. Discuss with your team members to decide on an industry that you would like to focus on for your group...

Requirement 1 (from HW1): Please form a group of two or three students for your group report. Discuss with your team members to decide on an industry that you would like to focus on for your group report. A few suggested industries (example firms) include: RETAIL (Walmart), AIRLINE (Delta), TECH (Facebook), MANUFACTURE (GE), AUTO (GM), and so on. I do NOT recommend industries with special rules such as the financial or utility industry. Once you decide on a given industry, please pick three U.S. public companies you think are the most important in the industry and explain why you choose this industry and these firms. What do you think are the most important ASSETS for these firms and why? This part should not exceed 2 pages.

-walmart

-the kroger co

-amazon

Requirement 2 (from HW2): For the top three companies that you have chosen in your interested industry, please pull up their latest 10-K reports (either SEC filings or press releases are OK). Take a look at their income statements and think about their business models. What is their most important source of revenues? What are their most important expenses? How do these three companies compare in terms of controlling their costs and explain why by showing relevant calculations? In order to compare income statements across companies, you may want to use the “common size” income statements (that is,dividing all the numbers on income statements by total revenues). This part should not exceed 2 pages.

Requirement 5 (from HW5): For the top three companies that you have chosen in your interested industry, please pull up their latest 10-K reports (either SEC filings or press releases are OK). Take a look at the shareholders’ equity section of their balance sheets, the EPS section of their income statements,their CFFF sections on their statements of cash flows, and think about their financing choices. Did they issue any equity or debt recently? Did they pay any dividend? Did they repurchase any stock? This part should not exceed 1 page.