Ford motor Company Assignment

This Portfolio Project has two parts: Calculations and a 4- to 6-page essay. While the calculation requirements of this assignment are important, equally important are your discussion and analysis of the quantitative results. You will submit two documents: 1) a spreadsheet containing your horizontal and vertical analysis (and perhaps your ratios) in Module 7 and 2) a word document containing your essay in Module 8. You will submit both parts separately. See the Portfolio Project Part One and Part Two grading rubrics, located in the Module 7 and Module 8 folders.

In Module 7, you submitted your spreadsheet. For this module, you will take what you submitted in your spreadsheet, and use that information to write your paper.
Directions:
Your paper must:
Be 4-6 pages in length.
Include a proper introduction and conclusion.
Include a reference page.
Provide your reader with an overall understanding of the financial health of your chosen firm including the following:
Discussion of the ratio analysis results, including rationale for the ratios chosen.
Discussion of all horizontal and vertical analysis from above.
Discussion of four items from the management discussion of the firm that support the conclusion formed in your discussion of the financial results.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Financial analysis refers to a process through which a company’s financial statements are analyzed in order to help the stakeholders make informed economic decisions. Different tools utilized in a financial statement include: vertical analysis, horizontal analysis, ratio analysis, graphical and regression analysis (Gertler, Kiyotaki & Prestipino, 2016). In the previous module, both horizontal and vertical analysis of Ford Motor Company were provided.
Whereas horizontal analysis gives an account of the behavior of specific financial statements over a certain accounting period, vertical analysis gives the relationship…