lYou are a financial analyst for a Fortune 500
company and you must present an analysis of the financial data to the
executives.
lSelect a publicly traded company in the same
industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work.
lLocate the company’s annual report and any
other available data (e.g. units manufactured, revenue, etc.) that is available
for the last 5 years.
lUse one of the company’s historical data
sets to calculate the standard deviation of the selected data for the last 5
years.
lDiscuss what the standard deviation means.
lAnalyze data using variance and standard
deviation.
lCreate a 6-8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®
presentation including detailed speaker notes in which you include the
following:
lGraph the company’s selected financial data.
lExplain the role of standard deviation in
financial analysis.
lExplain any other uses for standard deviation
in a business setting.
