Analyze and present a comparison of concepts and techniques of financing and investing activities including the time value of money.

Go to the Internet and select a publicly traded corporation such as target.com. Use the corporate annual report for the most recent year and describe its contents. Then research to see what information is required in the corporate annual report. Who requires it and why?

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Introduction to Corporate Financial Accounting.

This week you will be reviewing a corporate annual report for a company you select.The reason we are examining this report is to see the annual financial statements, the use of ratios, and the audit report,You will notice there are 11 mandatory components in the annual report as required by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).Publicly traded corporations also complete the 10K annual report on the SEC website (sec.gov).

Upon successful completion of the week, you will be able to:

Summarize and discuss nature and scope of accounting including measuring and reporting financial information fully and fairly.This includes a detailed discussion of accruals, accounting principles/regulations, and ethics.

Analyze and present a comparison of concepts and techniques of financing and investing activities including the time value of money.

Evaluate the financial statements of a corporation, including computation of key ratios.