Cash Flow Statement Discussion Board - Your Initial Thread Must Contain All 8 Items listed in the Assignment below for Full Credit - 1 Point Deducted for Each Item Missing From Your Initial Thread:
BACKGROUND
The course syllabus outlines the Statement of Cash Flows Analysis and Free Cash Flow requirements for your corporate paper
PREPARATION
This discussion board highlights the Statement of Cash Flows using four videos. These videos will guide each student in providing an analysis of the Statement of Cash Flows and also the Free Cash Flow. I recommend that you read the assignment questions below before watching the videos in order to write down the answers as they appear in the videos.
The first two videos are from Warren Buffets free investing website. (Links to an external site.) These two videos cover the Statement of Cash Flows. Although not a requirement for this course, I highly recommend that you watch the entire Buffett free video series if you ever plan to trade or invest in stocks on your own.
Videos 3 and 4 are much shorter but just as important. They contain very useful information for calculating and interpreting the Free Cash Flow required for your paper.
Assignment for Initial Thread – Use Company Name as Thread Title - Due Thursday of Week 6 at 11:59 PM (EST).
After viewing the videos, find your corporations Statement of Cash Flows online. You can use your uploaded annual report to get the data. You can also use morningstar.com to get the data. For manufacturing corporations, you will see Free Cash Flow at the bottom of the Morningstar "Cash Flow" webpage (under the "Financials" tab). There is also an "Export" button at the top right of the same Morningstar webpage that will create a comma separated variable (.csv) file. You can then open the CSV file in Excel. Just be sure to re-save it as an Excel file or you will lose formatting. For your initial discussion board post (a) answer the following six questions, (b) provide the Part 7 table requested and (c) provide at least one page APA for Part 8 as requested. Insert your company name as the thread title. Your initial post must contain all 8 items to receive full credit.