Accounting 201 - COMPUTER LAB #1
Annual Report - RESEARCH
Name: ______________________________
Lab Objectives/Outcomes:
 Student will be able to define an Annual Report, locate and print the 4 Financial Statements of one
for a publicly held company.
 Students will be able to locate key financial data and properly footnote it on the Financial
Statements.
 Student will be able to look up historic stock prices and calculate percentage change.
1. Exploring Yahoo! Sign on to the Internet (double click on the Explorer icon). Go to
www.yahoo.com . Click on Finance. Request information about Cabelas by inputting Cabelas ticker
symbol and clicking Get. If you do NOT know Cabelas ticker symbol, follow the steps for symbol
lookup and return to this screen. Take a look at this page and the information available here. Click on
the Profile link. Look at this page and information available here. (2 POINTS).
How many employees does Cabelas have?
How many stores does Cabelas have?
2. Find the 10-k. Under Financial Links, click on SEC Filings . Go to the bottom of this list and
click on the link, View All Filings on EDGAR Online. Click on the title “Form” which will sort the list by type of
form. Review this list and open the most recent annual report (also called the 10K or the S-1) on the
website.
(1 POINT)
What is the publication date of the 10-K? (Refer
to the first page)
What is the period ending date of the 10-K (year
end date)?
3. Find the Financial Statements. Note: Not all 10-k documents for all companies look
identical! You will have to do a little hunting to find the Financial Statements you are looking for.
Review the entire table of contents and pick the statements that are all together. Note: There may be
more than one page per statement so print both pages.
STATEMENTS/alternate names for statements
Income Statement (or, Statement of Earnings or Statement of Operations)
Balance Sheet (or, Statement of Financial Position)
Stockholders’ Equity (which should include a section or column for Retained Earnings)
Cash Flow
4. Print the Financial Statements. Cut and paste the statement into Word. Start
with the Income Statement. Fit the document on ONE page, either portrait or landscape. Don’t go
smaller than 8 point font size! IMPORTANT: BEFORE PRINTING: TYPE the company’s full
name and type your name on top of THIS statement. Print the other 3 Financial
Statements (be sure to type Company’s full name and your name on the top of each statement).
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5. Create a Footnote on the 10-K balance sheet (4 PTS)
Question:
Answer:
Answer in decimal:
Calculate Current Ratio for the both years.
1. ________________ (year: ________)
Current Ratio =
2. ________________ (year: ________)
Current Assets/Current Liabilities
Hint: Current Assets are NOT Total Assets!
PUT YOUR FOOTNOTES ON Y EACH OF
Put footnotes ON EACH OF YOUR
YOUR 10-K BALANCE SHEETS. Put a number
BALANCE SHEETS to show how you
calculated these ratios. (Show calc.)
1a (current year) and 1b (prior year) by all numbers
OKAY TO HANDWRITE FOOTNOTES!
used and at the bottom of the page put another
number 1a & 1b and show your calculations.
6. Historic Stock Prices. Return to www.yahoo.com and the Finance link. Bring up Cabelas and
click on the Historic Prices page. Find the Closing price for Cabelasstock as of the following dates.
You may have to input some of these dates in the Set Date Range box. (2 POINTS)
Price at Year End (last trading day
$ Closing Price (in dollars Percent Growth from
of year, may vary by year) on:
and cents)
Previous year—2 decimals,
watch rounding
12/___/______ most recent year
12/___/______ one year before
12/___/______ two years before
Note dates of any splits during this time: _________________________
7. Go to my website: http://personal.bellevuecollege.edu/jpaquett/ . Check out the Business
Transfer Website. Sign up for the BCC Business Listserv (link on my website). Being on the
Business Listserve will give you automatic emails for announcements and programs affecting business
students.Click on your textbook icon. Check it out! Try a chapter practice test. Don’t do all
unless you have extra time.
of it
(1 POINT)
Deliverable: Staple into one package the following documents: TURN IN LAB NOW.
This lab
one per
person
Balance Sheet (SEC)
with footnotes, one
per person
Income
Statement
(SEC) one per
person
Cash Flow
(SEC) one
per person
Stockholders’
Equity (SEC)
one per
person
Research other industries for the project.Attach to this lab.
TURN IN LAB NOW. Is your name typed (not handwritten) on all pages???? If not re-do!
Use the rest of the labtime to research your 10-K for the company you are researching. This is your
opportunity to ask me for help.
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