Your corporation must meet the following criteria: · It must be ranked number 500 or higher on the Fortune 500 list for the current year. (PLEASE DO NOT SELECT A COMPANY THAT IS IN RED BELOW) · It...

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Your corporation must meet the following criteria: · It must be ranked number 500 or higher on the Fortune 500 list for the current year. (PLEASE DO NOT SELECT A COMPANY THAT IS IN RED BELOW) · It must have an SEC 10-K report for the current or most recent prior year.  · It must have an Accounts Receivable and Inventory Account. · It is recommended you select a manufacturing company. 1. Write the name of the corporation, the stock market where it is traded, and its ticker symbol in the Subject line when you respond to this posting and all other postings related to this project.  For example: · Under Armour: NYSE: UA · Apple; NASDAQ: APPL · ExxonMobil; NYSE: XOM 2. State why you want to study and prepare a financial analysis of your corporation. 3. Provide a direct link to your corporation's SEC 10-K report for the most recent year. A direct link is a hyperlink that takes you directly to a website where the SEC 10-K report is located. For example, this is the direct link to the 2019 SEC 10-K report for Apple, Inc. The most direct route to finding the direct link is to use the SEC EDGAR System and search by Company name.  An alternative research method to locate the most current SEC 10-K for your company is to search for the name of your company and the words investor relations. You will need to make selections and click links such as SEC filings and may be required to use the drop-down SEC filings menu to select annual as the report type. 4. State your corporation's position on the Fortune 500 List for the current year.  Your chosen company must be ranked number 500 or higher. 5. Provide page numbers for all four required financial statements: · Income Statement (it could be listed as the Consolidated Statements of Income.) · Balance Sheet (it could be listed as the Consolidated Balance Sheet or Statement of Financial Position.) · Statement of Stockholders Equity (it could be listed as the Consolidated Statements of Stockholder's Equity or Consolidated Statements of Stockholder's Deficit.) · Statement of Cash Flows 6. Category: Liabilities a. What were the company's liabilities as displayed on the balance sheet for the most recent fiscal year?  Comment on the trend in total liabilities, both current and long term.  7. Category:  Contingencies 1.  Identify and describe any contingencies. How are they disclosed? 8. Category:  Defining Contingencies a.  What goals might management have regarding the disclosure of contingencies? b.  Identify and explain gain contingencies as they apply to your company 9. Category: Reporting Stockholders' Equity 1.  Explain the relevancy of your company's statement of stockholders' equity.  Your comments should include column titles as well as line items.  Any surprises related to items not included or items displayed?  What changes do you observe? An example would be treasury stock. 10. Category: Common Stock, Dividends, and other activity 1.  Describe activity for this fiscal year and others disclosed relating to common stock, dividends, and related activity. 11. Category: Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income / (Loss) a. Compare and contract items in the area of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income / (Loss) for this fiscal year with other years disclosed in the statement of shareholders' equity. b.  Provide additional details about accumulated other comprehensive income based on your review of the notes to the financial statements. 12. Category: Investments a.  Identify and explain the investments disclosed by your SEC 10-K company? Where are the disclosed?  Is there information you cannot access due to generalization and issues of materiality? 13. Category:  Revenue Recognition a.  How is the concept of revenue recognition disclosed in your SEC 10-K?  Identify and explain the recognition issues faced by your company. b. Describe the sales and revenue issues of your company in terms of customers and sales types. PLEASE DO NOT SELECT A COMPANY THAT IS BELOW. CHOOSE A DIFFERENT COUNTRY. KROGER CO; NYSE: KR ExxonMobil; NYSE: XOM Sysco  Best Buy Co Inc; NYSE:BBY Ford Motor Company Hershey Company  Walmart Inc; NYSE: WMT Boeing: NYSE: BA 3M Company: NYSE: MMM Nike Facebook Ebay IBM Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC)  Pepsi Walt Disney Procter & Gamble: NYSE, PG Northrop Grumman:NYSE: Intel Microsoft General Motors Tesla Pfizer Inc.: NYSE: PFE  Johnson & Johnson’s Amazon Costco At&T Apple Coca cola Pepsico Inc
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Answer To: Your corporation must meet the following criteria: · It must be ranked number 500 or higher on the...

Sudipta answered on Mar 26 2021
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1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise; NYSE: HPE
2. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is holding 109th position in Fortune Global 500 as per 2020 ranking. As per 2019’s ranking
the company was holding 102nd position. Investigating the primary areas which have been affected and led the company to surrender their position is the primary motto of this analysis and HP is selected.
3. HP Sec 10-K report source: https://investors.hpe.com/~/media/Files/H/HP-Enterprise-IR/documents/hpe-fy20-10-k.pdf
4. HP is holding 109th Position as per Fortune 500 list
5. Page number of four financial statements
· Income statement: P. 69
· Balance sheet: P. 71
· Statement of stockholders’ equity: Pp. 74-75
· Statement of cash flows: Pp. 72-73
6. Category: Liabilities
“Short-term borrowings”, “Accounts payable”, “Taxes on earnings”, “Employee’s compensation and benefit”, “Deferred revenue” and “accrued restructuring” are some of the liabilities mentioned under the liabilities section of the balance sheet. HP's current liability has been decreased compared to its previous year. However, long-term liabilities have increased dramatically, in 2019 long-term debt was $9,395 million it increased drastically to $12,186 million. Through the observation, it can be concluded that the company might have reduced its current liabilities to some extent but long-term liabilities have increased.
7. Category: Contingencies
“Lawsuit”, “claims”, “investigations” related to intellectual property, securities, and employment involved during the year which are some of the contingencies of...
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