Identify the last two years’ Revenue, Gross Profit, and EBIT for your company. Do all three totals increase from year to year? Decrease? Is there a mix? Explain what the trend is for your company and why.

Chose a publicly-traded company and answered a series of questions on that company each week. The questions given will be related to the topics covered in the classes of that week.

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Question 1: What is your company’s principal business activity?

Question 2: Who is the CFO? What is his/her accounting background? Give as much detail here as you can find.

Question 3: Is your company managing any ethical issues presently? If so, how do their actions affect their financial performance going forward?

Question 4: Identify the last two years’ Revenue, Gross Profit, and EBIT for your company. Do all three totals increase from year to year? Decrease? Is there a mix? Explain what the trend is for your company and why.

Question 5: Does your company break down the data into geographic regions? If so, identify these regions/divisions. What region is performing the best and how do you know?

Question 6: What products and/or services does your company provide? Is there a mix of products that complement each other? Explain.