UMUC – ACCT 220 – Section XXXX

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UMUC – ACCT 220 – Section XXXX

 

Your Name

SEC Project – Written Assignment

 

Company Name

Date

 

 

 

Written Assignment. As stated in the Syllabus, for this assignment you will discuss your chosen company. You should introduce the company, giving a brief history and background. Also, you should report on the company’s results for the fiscal year, based on the Annual Report (10-K) you reviewed.  Some of the information is about some of the items you have already looked for. Here is an outline of the things you should discuss.

Please use your own words. Do not copy and paste. Your paper should be written in paragraphs and sentences, except the table below.

1. Discuss the history of company, founders of the company, what the core business is (i.e., what does the company sell?), who are its customers (i.e., are they consumers, other businesses, a combination?).
2. Financial results (Most of your paper will be in this section)
   1. Complete a table like the one below. You can copy and paste this table and then complete it with your company’s information. Take out the text in red font and replace it with the information needed.

Table 1

Financial Results for (Insert Your Company Name Here)

	Amount (Convert to Millions or Billions)
Balance Sheet Items:
Total Current Assets
Total Assets
Total Current Liabilities
Total Liabilities
Total Liabilities + Total Owners’ Equity
Income Statement Items:
Total Revenue
Cost of Goods Sold (or Cost of Product Sales)
Gross Profit (Total Revenue – Cost of Goods Sold)
Net Income
Profit Margin (Net Income/Total Revenue)

Then say: The results in Table 1 are key amounts from the SEC 10-K of (your company’s name).

1. Balance Sheet Results. Using the results from the Balance Sheet items, comment on your company’s results. You should discuss and compare at least three of the items from your balance sheet results. Before presenting your analysis, define the terms you are discussing and cite a source like your textbook, to demonstrate that you know the meaning of the terms you are discussing. For instance, if you discuss current liabilities, you should explain what that term means. You can also discuss other balance sheet items like non-current assets or long-term liabilities if you want to, but you should also define any additional terms.
2. Income Statement Results. Using the results from the Income Statement items, comment on your company’s results. As mentioned above, define the terms you discuss, cite a source, and discuss at least three of the items.

• 1. Make closing remarks about the results you found for your company. Were you surprised about anything? Did you learn anything about your company that you did not expect? Do you think your company has a bright future or a dim future? Is there anything about your company’s operations you would change? You do not have to discuss all of these. Just pick at least one thoughtful aspect of the company to discuss.
  2. What did you think, overall, of the SEC Project? Did it add value to your course experience or not?

Do not forget, the dollar amounts for your companies are reported in the millions or in the thousands. For instance, an amount reported in the millions as $75,399 would have 6 zeroes added, making the amount $75,399,000,000. In your paper you would report this amount as $75.4 billion. An amount of $625 reported in the millions would be reported as $625 Million.

The paper should be around four pages in length, single spaced, with one inch margins on all sides. That excludes the Title page and References page. Use headings for sections. Double space between paragraphs. The paper is your opportunity to use accounting terms and concepts from our class and relate them to a company of interest to you.

The Title Page of your paper should look like the title page of this paper, modified to show your name, course section number, date and company. You should have a separate References (or Works Cited) Page at the end. The References page is not included in the page count.

Use your own words. I use your written assignments to evaluate whether you understand the concepts and materials you are learning about in this course. Thus, you should explain in your own words, and then cite the source that was the basis of your knowledge about the topic. Do not copy and paste material. If you copy and paste any financial statements or areas from the SEC 10-K this will not count toward the page length requirement. Take care to avoid issues of academic dishonesty. Cite! Cite! Cite! Your works cited list should include the web address for your SEC 10-K, and our textbook, if that is where you obtained definitions of accounting terms. Any other resources should be cited in text using APA style. We use APA style for in text citations and for the works cited list. Do not use “WIKIs” like Wikipedia or Investopedia as sources. Last, do not use accounting or business terminology that you just learned about without explaining what it means. For instance, you should not mention a term like “current ratio” unless you are prepared to define it and explain what it means in the context of your paper!

 

 

How to cite sources from the course site

The way to list your reading materials from the course site on your References/Works Cited Page can be problematic because it is not clear what the actual source is. The Learning Resource materials were developed based on actual textbooks written by J.D. Edwards and R.H. Hermanson and others. To keep things simple, please do the following.

If you obtained your information from the Week 1 readings, in the body of your paper, say:

(UMUC ACCT 220 – XXXX. Week 1 Learning Resources (n.d.))

XXXX should be replaced with the Section Number for your course.

On the References Page, say:

UMUC ACCT 220 – XXXX. Week 1 Learning Resources. “Types of Businesses and Business Activities”.

Notice that here, I gave the title of one of the modules in the Week 1 Learning Resources.

Retrieved ADD DATE from UMUC ACCT 220 – XXXX (your section number) Learning Resources.

You might also have used the optional readings under the Principles of Accounting (POA.com) links. If you did, you probably clicked on a link for a particular chapter. For instance, suppose your source for definitions of some accounting terms came from Chapter 1 of the POA.com site. Here is the way to list that source.

Walther, L. (n.d.). Principles of Accounting. Retrieved ADD DATE from http://www.principlesofaccounting.com/chapter1/chapter1.html.

When citing this source in the body of your paper, you just need to say:

Walther (n.d.)

Here are some more sample formats for citations from websites, newspaper and magazine articles located online, and one textbook (Horngren et al). Notice, these are listed alphabetically and are not numbered or bulleted.

CBSnews.com. (May 27, 2004). “8-Year Sentence for Rite Aid Exec”. Retrieved 9/2/2008, from Web site: (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/18/national/main559152.shtml)

Cnnmoney.com  (June 21, 2002). “Ex-Rite Aid Execs Indicted”. Retrieved 8/25/2008, from Web site:  (cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=…)

FASB.org. (n.d.). “Facts about FASB”. Retrieved 9/2/2008, from Web site: http://www.fasb.org/facts/

Horngren, C.T., Sundem, G.L., Stratton, W.O., Burgstahler, D. and Schatzberg, J. (2009). Introduction to Management Accounting (Fourteenth Edition). Prentice Hall. Pearson Education, Inc.

Krantz, M. (August 17, 2006). “Rite Aid: This Drugstore Stock Needs to take a Pill”. Retrieved 9/2/2008, from Web site: (http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2006-08-16-rite-aid_x.htm)

SEC.gov (June 21, 2002). “SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against Former Rite Aid Senior Management”. Retrieved 8/25/2008, from Web site: (SEC.gov/news/press/2002-92.htm)

Taub, S. (June 24, 2002). “Cash-and-Apothecary?” Retrieved 8/25/2008, from cfo.com.

Web site: (http://www.cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/3005272/c_2984414?f=options)

Taub, S. (October 18, 2004. “Rite Aid Exec, 76, Gets 10 Years in Prison”. Retrieved 8/25/2008, from Web site: (http://www.cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/3305191/c_3305215?f=options)

In the body of your paper, cite the source and year only, unless you have listed a particular source with different dates like Taub. Then list the source and the full date. (E.g., (Taub, June 24, 2002).  If you want to see a sample paper I wrote with these sources, see my Sample Rite-Aid paper, attached separately. If you read that sample paper, you might notice that it has a few footnotes. Some students get confused about when to have a citation and when to have a footnote. A citation is needed to give credit for a source you used to write the paper. These are included in the body of the paper because they relate to the topic(s) in the paper.

A footnote is used when you want to add some additional or clarifying information that is not central to the paper topic(s).

It’s kind of an “Oh, by the way…” statement. I do not anticipate a need for you to have footnotes in your papers, but if you do, just use them for the purposes intended.

 

 

 

 

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