Video Project Details
You are applying for a job—your dream job, in fact. It’s a position where you will be offered an amazing salary, benefits, and minimum of a 5 year contract where the company hopes you will advance and eventually become management (they are devoted to creating their own talent pipeline.) So far, the company liked your resume, and someone from HR interviewed you over the phone. It is looking good!
However, because the company wants proficient business men and women working for them, they want even entry level employees to have a grasp on some basic accounting concepts because it makes employees much better management having that knowledge. They have asked you to use real world data and an accounting ratio to compare 2 companies and recommend one to invest in from your findings.
The person in HR told you that if you make it past this part of the interview process, then the only next step left will be to negotiate your salary and sign your contract. You’re so close you can taste it!
Below are the points that you need to hit and be aware of for the presentation.
Presentation Rubric (40% of your grade): The theme of this project will be the presentation of one of the many ratios we have, or will, learn during this semester.
Your Presentation Checklist:
Present the ratio and its equation.
What type of ratio it is?
What does it tell financial statement users?
Why is it important to the user of financial statements?
Find the financial statements of 2 companies and use that information with your ratio. You MUST include both companies’ financial statements when you submit your video.
Once you have finished uploading your project, you must then reply to someone else’s video (see details below).
The ratios you can pick from appear in many of the chapters we cover in this class. They are all collected very conveniently in Ch.13 if you want to look at all of them altogether in one place. The ratios you can pick from have been divided up by last name:
If your last name begins with the letters A-D you will pick from and present a PROFITABILITY RATIO.
If your last name begins with the letters E-O you will pick from and present a LIQUIDITY RATIO.
If your last name begins with the letters P-Z you will pick from and present a SOLVENCY RATIO.
