Create a thesis and an outline of Financial statement analysis. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The company aims at creating a great guest love hotel with over 6,76000 hundred rooms in approximately 4600 hotels in one hundred countries (Intercontinental Hotel Group, 2013). Additionally, the director's report indicates that Intercontinental Hotel and Group provide employment to more than345, 000 people globally for instance, in 2011 the company provided employment opportunities to more than people 7,956 (Intercontinental Hotel Group, 2013). In the above connection, the company owns nine brands of distinguished hotels in different countries. Additionally, Intercontinental Hotel and Resort consist of leisure and business hotels operating in more than sixty cities (Intercontinental Hotel Group, 2013). Connectively, the company operates in three basic ways namely. franchising, manager, and owned/lease (Intercontinental Hotel Group, 2013). The company further operates an approximate of 3,934 hotels under franchise and 658 hotels under management mode of business operation (Intercontinental Hotel Group, 2013). Additionally, the company has placed a lot of emphasis on franchising model of business operation (Intercontinental Hotel Group, 2013).