students to analyze the financial statements of a publicly traded company and provide a financial critique, including running financial ratios and evaluating key financial metrics, and then explain their decision on whether or not to invest in the company.

Discussion Thread: Financial Statement Analysis
Choose another publicly traded company that begins with the same letter as your last name, but different from the one chosen in the first discussion board. Review the financial statements of the company for the past 3 years. Using the financial statements as a guide, provide a financial critique of how the company is doing financially from a financial statement perspective. This would include running some of the ratios that were discussed in this module’s Learn material, as well as evaluating the financial statements themselves (e.g. have sales increased/decreased, what has happened to net income/loss, what about some of the major expenses). Finally, explain why you would or would not invest in this company. You may use first person for this portion of the discussion board.
For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 2 scholarly
citations in APA format. Each reply must incorporate at least 2 scholarly citations in APA
format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable
sources include peer-reviewed sources.