investment and portfolio management

investment and portfolio management Consider your self as industry analysis and Pick 3 stock for 3 different company in the Wall street journal , and look to the stock “index”  for the last 12 month  and analyzed, and look the future for 12 months and what is the expectation according to your analyze for the stock And analyze how the performance and the stock “index” And what each company have done, and why the stock change Use three rations and apply it in your study And the investment in each stock General set up APPY YOUR LEARNING FROM THE COURSE EACH COMPANY “stock”  IN 1 SEPARATE PAGE the references should be NEW ...and 2 references for each company stock Corporate shareholder annual and quarterly  reports must include Balance sheet Income statement Statement of cash flows Reports filed with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 10-K 10-Q Formulated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Provides some choices of accounting principles Financial statements footnotes must disclose which accounting principles are used by the firm Shows resources (assets) of the firm and how it has financed these resources Indicates current and fixed assets available at a point in time Financing is indicated by its mixture of current liabilities, long-term liabilities, and owners’ equity Exhibit 10.1 shows the balance sheet for Walgreen Co. for 2006 through 2010 Cash flow from operations Traditional cash flow equals net income plus depreciation expense and deferred taxes Also adjust for changes in operating assets and liabilities that use or provide cash Free cash flow recognizes that some investing and financing activities are critical to ongoing success of the firm and the following: Capital expenditures Disposition of properties and equipment