ACCT 211 Individual Learning Project Grading Rubric Questions Criteria Points Available Points Earned Questions 1–39 Questions answered correctly are awarded 1 point each. 39 Questions 40–49 Questions answered correctly are awarded 3 points each. 27 Question 50 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas. 24 Question 51 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas. 30 Question 52 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas. 30 Questions 53–55 Questions answered correctly, with explicit explanation, are awarded 5 points each. 15 Total 165 ACCT 211 Individual Learning Project Grading Rubric Questions Criteria Points Available Points Earned Questions 1 – 39 Questions answered correctly are awarded 1 point each . 39 Questions 40 – 49 Questions answered correctly are awarded 3 points each . 27 Question 50 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas . 24 Question 51 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas . 30 Question 52 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas . 30 Questions 53 – 55 Questions answered correctly, with explicit explanation, are awarded 5 points each . 15 Total 165 ACCT 211 Individual Learning Project Grading Rubric Questions Criteria Points Available Points Earned Questions 1–39 Questions answered correctly are awarded 1 point each. 39 Questions 40–49 Questions answered correctly are awarded 3 points each. 27 Question 50 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas. 24 Question 51 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas. 30 Question 52 Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given, including the use of formulas. 30 Questions 53–55 Questions answered correctly, with explicit explanation, are awarded 5 points each. 15 Total 165 ACCT 212 Name_______________________________ Individual Learning 55 Question Form General Information 1. What is the name of your corporation? 2. Where are the corporate headquarters? 3. What is the corporation’s fiscal year end? 4. What are the primary products or services of the corporation? 5. Graph the high and low price of the company’s stock for each quarter of the last two years. What was the high and what was the low? 6. Who is the company’s transfer agent and where are they located? 7. Who are your company’s competitors? Market Information: 8. On which stock exchange is your corporation’s stock traded? 9. What is the current market price of their stock? 10. What is the ticker symbol used to identify your corporation on the stock exchange? Internet In.

1. ACCT 211
Individual Learning Project Grading Rubric
Questions
Criteria
Points Available
Points Earned
Questions 1–39
Questions answered correctly are awarded 1 point each.
39
Questions 40–49
Questions answered correctly are awarded 3 points each.
27
Question 50
Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given,
including the use of formulas.
24
Question 51
Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given,
including the use of formulas.
30
Question 52
Points are awarded based on the quality of the answers given,
including the use of formulas.
30
Questions 53–55
Questions answered correctly, with explicit explanation, are
awarded 5 points each.

2. 15
Total
165
ACCT 211
Individual Learning Project
Grading Rubric
Questions
Criteria
Points Available
Points Earned
Questions 1
–
39
Questions
answered correctly
are awarded
1
point each
.
39

3. Questions 40
–
49
Questions
answered correctly
are awarded
3
points each
.
27
Question
50
Points are awarded
based
on
the
quality of the
answers given,
including the use
of formulas
.
24
Question 51

4. Points are awarded
based
on
the
quality of the
answers given,
including the use
of formulas
.
30
Question 52
Points are awarded
based
on
the
quality of the
answers given,
including the use
of formulas
.
30
Questions 53
–
55
Questions

5. answered correctly,
with explicit
explanation, are
awarded 5 points
each
.
15
Total
165
ACCT 211
Individual Learning Project Grading Rubric
Questions Criteria Points Available Points Earned
Questions 1–39
Questions
answered correctly
are awarded 1
point each.
39
Questions 40–49
Questions
answered correctly
are awarded 3
points each.
27
Question 50
Points are awarded
based on the

6. quality of the
answers given,
including the use
of formulas.
24
Question 51
Points are awarded
based on the
quality of the
answers given,
including the use
of formulas.
30
Question 52
Points are awarded
based on the
quality of the
answers given,
including the use
of formulas.
30
Questions 53–55
Questions
answered correctly,
with explicit
explanation, are
awarded 5 points
each.
15
Total 165
ACCT 212
Name_______________________________

7. Individual Learning 55 Question Form
General Information
1. What is the name of your corporation?
2. Where are the corporate headquarters?
3. What is the corporation’s fiscal year end?
4. What are the primary products or services of the corporation?
5. Graph the high and low price of the company’s stock for each
quarter of the last two years. What was the high and what was
the low?
6. Who is the company’s transfer agent and where are they
located?
7. Who are your company’s competitors?
Market Information:
8. On which stock exchange is your corporation’s stock traded?
9. What is the current market price of their stock?
10. What is the ticker symbol used to identify your corporation
on the stock exchange?
Internet Information:
11. What is the Internet address of your corporation? Be sure it
appears as a hyperlink.
12. Is the corporation’s Annual Report online?
13. Are its financial statements on-line?

8. 14. Is your company listed on Annualreports.com?
15. How long is your company’s 10-K report at the Securities
and Exchange Commission website (Edgar Database)?
Cash Flow and Retained Earnings:
16. List the amount of cash flows from each of the 3 activities:
Operating, Investing, and Financing for the 2 most recent years.
What was the increase or decrease in cash for each of these
years?
17. Were there any Non-Cash Investing/Financing Transactions?
Describe the type and amount.
18. What is the dollar difference between accrual net income
and Cash provided by Operations?
19. What investing activity provided the largest inflow of cash
in the current year?
20. What investing activity used the largest amount of cash in
the current year?
21. What financing activity provided the largest inflow of cash
in the current year?
22. What financing activity used the largest amount of cash in
the current year?
23. Does the company have sufficient cash inflows from the
appropriate category? Describe any problems the company
many experience with cash flow from your analysis of the cash
flow statement.
24. Show the change in Retained Earnings for the 2 most recent

9. years. What was net income for each year? How much was paid
out in dividends each year?
25. Were the dividends on common stock and/or preferred
stock? What was the amount of each?
26. Did Retained Earnings change for any reasons other than net
income or dividends? Explain.
27. What classes of stock does your company have?
28. How many shares of each class of stock are authorized, how
many are issued, and how many are outstanding?
29. Does your company have any treasury stock? How many
shares and what dollar amount?
30. What is the par or stated value of each of your company’s
stocks?
Footnote Disclosures:
31. How many footnote disclosures does your company have?
32. How many significant accounting policies are listed under
its Summary of Significant Accounting Policies?
33. What does it include as Cash and Cash Equivalents?
34. What method does it use to value Inventory?
35. What method(s) does it use to depreciate its assets?
36. Does it have any leased assets? If yes, describe them.
37. What policies does it have in regard to Foreign Currency
Translations?

10. 38. Describe any pending lawsuits in which it is involved.
39. Provide its Earnings per Share for the 2 most recent years?
Report of the Independent Auditor(s):
40. Who is/are your company’s auditor(s)?
41. Where are they located?
42. Does the auditor(s) give a qualified opinion, an unqualified
opinion, a disclaimer of opinion, or an adverse opinion? What
does that opinion mean? Is it good?
43. What is the auditor’s responsibility in regard to the
financial statements?
44. What is management’s responsibility in regard to the
financial statements?
45. What financial statements were included in the auditor’s
opinion?
46. Did the auditor believe that the statements were presented
fairly?
Management’s Report:
47. Who bears the responsibility for the integrity and the
objectivity of the financial statements?
48. What does management say they are doing to assure the
public that the financial information is reliable?
49. What is the responsibility of the Audit Committee of the

11. Board of Directors?
Analysis: (use Excel to complete this section)
50. Provide common-size analysis of your company’s income
statement and balance sheet, using the format shown in Exhibit
17.8 and 17.9 on Page 695 and 696 in the textbook. You will
want to provide the analysis for the 2 most recent years (must
be done using Excel with formulas).
51. Provide horizontal analysis of your company’s income
statement and balance sheet, using the format shown in Exhibit
17.1 on Page 692 and Exhibit 17.2 on Page 693 in the textbook.
You will want to show the dollar amount and percent of change
using the 2 most recent years (you must use an Excel
spreadsheet with formulas).
52. Perform ratio analysis on your company using the ratios
listed in Exhibit 17.16 on page 707 of your text (these must be
in an Excel spreadsheet, using formulas to calculate the ratios).
You should present them in a similar format as the text: group
by category, list name of ratio, formula in words, and the ratio
calculation. Give a short explanation of your conclusions about
your company after each category of ratios (i.e. How liquid is
your company? How efficiently is it using its assets? etc.).
Conclusions:
53. Are you optimistic or pessimistic regarding the future of
your chosen corporation? Explain. (Please use information from
your analysis to support your opinion.)
54. Would you invest in the stock of the company? Explain.
(Please use information from your analysis to support your
decision).
55. Would you invest in the bonds of the company? Explain.
(Please use information from your analysis to support your
decision. Must be different than what is provided in Question
54. Hint: Consider their Debt Ratios, etc. Also, please provide
an answer even if they do not offer Bonds. If they did, would
you invest in them?)

12. Page 1 of 1
ACCT 212
Individual Learning Project Instructions
This project will allow you the opportunity to explore a
company’s annual report and become familiar with the items
that become familiar with the items it contains. Choose a
company whose company name begins with the same letter as
your last name from Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage. Locate
the most recent annual report, either from the Liberty
University library’s access to Standard & Poor’s website, the
EDGAR database (www.sec.gov), or the company’s website.
Once located, open Individual Learning Project 55 Question
Form document and add your answer underneath each question;
don’t delete the questions. Questions 1–49 must be answered
within Microsoft Word. Your answers for these do not need to
be in complete sentences. Questions 50–52 must be answered in
Microsoft Excel and your answers must include formulas.
Questions 53–55 must be answered with complete sentences and
justification within the Word document. Both documents (Word
and Excel) must be uploaded into the Assignment link.
To access the Liberty University Library online resources from
off campus:
· From the Blackboard log-in page, right-hand side
“Quicklinks” pull-down menu -- choose “Library.”
· Click log-in button. Off-site access cannot be gained unless
the user successfully completes the log-in.
· This must take you to the “Library Research Portal”; if not,
click on “Portal.”
· Click on the “databases” tab.
· Click on the “Databases by Letter,” and select the letter “S.”
· Scroll down until you see “Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage.”

13. · Click on the link and then you may begin your search.
Since a company name has to be chosen with the same letter as
my last name, CHOOSE A COMPANY NAME THAT STARTS
WITH THE LETTER B. If you can’t access the Standard &
Poor’s website from Liberty University Library, try using some
of the other options as stated above.
Please work hard on this assignment! I’m at a failing grade in
this accounting class and doing a great job on this will
definitely help my grade come up! P.S. Don’t forget to read the
directions carefully and use the question form I provided to
answer the questions. I also sent the grading rubic for this
assignment so you can get a picture of what the teacher wants
out of this.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!
ACCT 212
I
NDIVIDUAL
L
EARNING
P
ROJECT
I
NSTRUCTIONS
This project will allow
you

14. the opportunity to explore a company’s annual report and
become
familiar with the items that
become familiar with the items it contains
.
C
hoose a company whose
company name
begins with
the same letter as your l
ast name
from Standard & Poor’s Net
Advantage
.
L
ocate the most recent annual report, either from the Liberty
University library’s
access to
Standard & Poor’s
website, the EDGAR database (www.sec.gov), or the company’s
website. Once located,
open
Individual Lear
ning Project 55 Question Form
document
and add
your answer u
nderneath each question
;
don’t delete the questions

15. .
Questions 1
–
49
must
be
answered within Microsoft Word. Your answers for these do not
need to be in complete
sentences. Questions 50
–
52
must
be answered in Microsoft Excel and your answers
must
include
formulas. Questions 53
–
55
must
be answered with complet
e sentences and justification within
the Word document
. Both documents (
Word and Exc
el
)
must
be uploaded into the Assignment
link.

16. To access the L
iberty
U
niversity
Library online resources from off campus
:
·
From the Blackboard log
-
in page, right
-
hand side
“
Quicklinks
”
pull
-
down menu
--
choose
“
Library
.”
·
Click log
-
in button. Off
-

17. site access cannot be gained unless the user suc
cessfully
completes the log
-
in.
·
This
must
take you to the
“
Library Research Portal
”
; if not
,
click on
“Portal.”
·
Click on the “database
s” tab.
·
Click on the
“
Databases by Letter,
”
and select the letter “S
.
”

18. ·
Scroll down until you see
“Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage.”
·
Click on the link and then you may begin your search
.
Since a company name has to be chosen with the same letter as
my last
name, CHOOSE A
COMPANY NAME THAT STARTS WITH THE LETTER B. If
you can’t access the Standard
& Poor’s website from Liberty University Library, try using
some of the other options as stated
above.
Please work hard on this assignment! I
’
m at a failing grade in this accounting class and doing a
great job on this will definitely help my grade come up! P.S.
Don
’
t forget to read the directions
carefully and use the question form I provided to answer th
e questions. I
also sent the grading
rubic for this assignment so you can get a picture of what the
teacher wants out of this.

19. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!
ACCT 212
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS
This project will allow you the opportunity to explore a
company’s annual report and become
familiar with the items that become familiar with the items it
contains. Choose a company whose
company name begins with the same letter as your last name
from Standard & Poor’s Net
Advantage. Locate the most recent annual report, either from
the Liberty University library’s
access to Standard & Poor’s website, the EDGAR database
(www.sec.gov), or the company’s
website. Once located, open Individual Learning Project 55
Question Form document and add
your answer underneath each question; don’t delete the
questions. Questions 1–49 must be
answered within Microsoft Word. Your answers for these do not
need to be in complete
sentences. Questions 50–52 must be answered in Microsoft
Excel and your answers must include
formulas. Questions 53–55 must be answered with complete
sentences and justification within
the Word document. Both documents (Word and Excel) must be
uploaded into the Assignment
link.
To access the Liberty University Library online resources from
off campus:

20. · From the Blackboard log-in page, right-hand side
“Quicklinks” pull-down menu --
choose “Library.”
· Click log-in button. Off-site access cannot be gained unless
the user successfully
completes the log-in.
· This must take you to the “Library Research Portal”; if not,
click on “Portal.”
· Click on the “databases” tab.
· Click on the “Databases by Letter,” and select the letter “S.”
· Scroll down until you see “Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage.”
· Click on the link and then you may begin your search.
Since a company name has to be chosen with the same letter as
my last name, CHOOSE A
COMPANY NAME THAT STARTS WITH THE LETTER B. If
you can’t access the Standard
& Poor’s website from Liberty University Library, try using
some of the other options as stated
above.
Please work hard on this assignment! I’m at a failing grade in
this accounting class and doing a
great job on this will definitely help my grade come up! P.S.
Don’t forget to read the directions
carefully and use the question form I provided to answer the
questions. I also sent the grading
rubic for this assignment so you can get a picture of what the
teacher wants out of this.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!