The selected company is YRC Worldwide Services

 For this particular assignment, refer to the example provided as well as the information below! Make sure you use the rubric to ensure you include all of the necessary components/requirements.

For the purpose of this exercise, use the company you chose (in the Checkpoint Assignment Company Selection assignment) to conduct an environmental scan (SWOT analysis) and a financial analysis. The analysis of you company should culminate with you recommending that the company is “excellent,” “healthy,” or “ill.” You will be evaluated based on correctness of the calculations, the insight of the analysis, and the quality of the discussion relating to the requirements.

Before performing the financial analysis, remember to prepare an environmental scan (or SWOT analysis), which discusses the various forces with which the organization must contend to assure that its business model has a chance for success (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).

The specific calculations should include:

·         DuPont Identity

·         Current Ratio

·         Quick Ratio

·         Inventory Holding Period

·         Average Collection Period

·         Debt Ratio

·         Dividend Yield

·         Required Rate of Return based on the Capital Asset Pricing Model

·         Free Cash Flow

·         Market Value Added

·         Economic Value Added

 Along with the spreadsheets, you are expected to prepare an executive summary highlighting your findings along with any relevant information on the process of capital budgeting, using an example that is specific to the company that is being analyzed. The executive summary should also cover the cost-volume-profit analysis, using an example that is specific to the company that is being analyzed.