Assessing “Quality of Earnings” and drawing conclusions about “Earnings Sustainability”

Annual Reports Analysis Required:

Each group member should select a company listed on either the Dubai financial market or the Abu Dubai securities market or an international company for the years ended 2013-2015. Each group should select companies from the same industry. Your analysis should be aimed at providing useful information to management of the company, lenders, and potential investors. Each member should conduct a detailed and critical evaluation of the financial performance and position of his/her company.

Your report should include the following:

a. Evaluation of the Directors’ Reports of your company.

b. Assessing “Quality of Earnings” and drawing conclusions about “Earnings Sustainability” of your company.

c. Evaluating the Statement of Cash Flows of your company

d. Assessing the financial credit quality of your company.

e. Preparing a professional comparison and ranking, using the companies selected by the group as a benchmark, for the items a-d. f. It is important that you provide academic support for your critical arguments, evaluation, assessment and recommendation, as marks will be awarded for this. the company should be Staples in US. http://investor.staples.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96244&p=irol-reportsannual