Excel Project: Part I Instructions

Company Information (Tab 1), and

Historical Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flows (Tabs 2-4)

· Choose one of the 3 companies listed in your Instructor’s Week 1 Announcement. THE Company is DELTA AIRLINES INC

· Go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database and access your chosen company’s most recent Form 10-K (annual report).

· Make a Excel workbook, including data for your chosen company as follows:

o The first tab (worksheet) in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Company Information. The following information must be included:

§ Company Name and ticker symbol

§ Industry

§ Products or services offered

§ Major competitors

§ An example of this tab is provided in Exhibit A.

o The second tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Historical Income Statements.

§ Include the latest three years based on SEC filings.

§ Ensure that the worksheet includes a header with:

· Company Name

· Financial Statement Name (Income Statements)

· Financial Statement Dates

· Denomination level ($s in millions or thousands, etc.)

o The third tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Historical Balance Sheets.

§ Include the latest three years based on SEC (10-K) filings. (Note: Some 10-Ks only provided 2 years of balance sheet data. You may need to download the second most recent 10-K for your company in order to obtain 3 years of balance sheet data.)

§ Ensure that the worksheet includes a header with:

· Company Name

· Financial Statement Name

· Financial Statement Dates

· Denomination level ($s in millions or thousands, etc.)

§ A partial balance sheet example is provided in Exhibit B.

o The fourth tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Historical Statement of Cash Flows.

§ Include the latest three years based on SEC (10-K) filings.

§ Make sure that the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flows Statement tie in as follows:

· Net Income from Income Statement agrees with Net Income on the Statement of Cash Flows.

· Ending Cash Balance from Statement of Cash Flows agrees with Cash in the Balance Sheet.

§ Ensure that the worksheet includes a header with:

· Company Name

· Financial Statement Name

· Financial Statement Dates

· Denomination level ($s in millions or thousands, etc.)

o Other instructions:

§ The Excel workbook should be professionally formatted. Professional formatting includes:

· All numbers are formatted similarly. The use of decimals, commas for thousands, and other formatting is consistent.

· Dollar signs are included in the first and last numbers of each column.

· Subtotals and totals are preceded by a single underline. Totals are followed by a double underline.

· All extraneous information is removed from the spreadsheet. Sometimes, files downloaded from the SEC website contains extra characters or other things that need to be deleted.

· Line descriptions are indented/bolded in a manner that makes the spreadsheet easy to read.

§All totals and subtotals should be calculated using formulas. For an example of which cells may need formulas, please see Exhibit B.

Excel Project: Part II Instructions

Competitor Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flows (Tabs 5-7), and

Historical and Competitor Ratios (Tab 8)

· Continue in the same Excel workbook prepared in Week 1, adding the following tabs:

o The fifth tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Competitor Income Statements

§ Include the latest income statement for the company selected for the Excel project along with two or three major competitors. (Only one year of data is shown for each company – the latest year available.)

o The sixth tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Competitor Balance Sheets

§ Include the latest Balance Sheet for the company selected for the Excel project along with two or three major competitors. (Only one year of data is shown for each company – the latest year available.)

o The seventh tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Competitor Statements of Cash Flows

§ Include the Statement of Cash Flows for the company selected for the Excel project along with two or three major competitors.

§ Make sure that the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flows Statement tie in as follows:

· Net Income from Income statement agrees with Net Income on the Statement of Cash Flows

· Ending Cash Balance from Statement of Cash Flows agrees with Cash in the Balance Sheet

o The eighth tab in your Financial Statement Analysis Template must be labeled Historical and Competitor