for this assignment please choose a publicly traded corporation then go to the corporate website and retrieve information as stated below. Provide information about history of the company and its current product offerings then retrieve the latest annual income statement and provide the screenshot of the statement, then organize the income statement in an excel file and verify the arithmetic in the income statement. Finally explain the nature of all items in the income statement. All submission should be in one word file, Tables can be pasted from excel unto word, avoid short answers and explain arithmetic verification in detail. Please provide all numbers in a full representation. Please note that company’s with headquarters outside the US report the statement in their own local currencies, so please indicate the unit of currency in your presentation. As a sample have the ford motor company statement below wth sample operations, this sample for use by Peace only. The format of reporting changes from one company to the other, so it your task to make sense out of the format of the presentation of your chosen company and be able to verify consistency in the income statement. Please do not use yahoo finance for this particular purpose as this site has inconsistency in reporting income statement of some corporations. Total of at least five references are required for this assignment, among these one should be the corporate site as the source of data.
