Continue your
business analysis using the company you selected in Week Four.

Write a 2400-word
paper in which you research the company’s business environment.

Review the
company’s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to determine the
financial health of the company. Be sure to compare your company to at least
two other companies in the industry. Be sure to answer the following:

• 
  What have you learned about the company by
  reviewing each statement?
• 
  Is there information in any of these statements
  that concerns you? If so describe what it is and what it concerns.
• 
  How can management use this information moving
  forward?

Summarize
the company’s financial health. How does it compare to other companies in the
industry?

Include a
summary of the company’s technological advantages, or lack thereof, in
comparison to at least two other companies in the same industry.

Describe
how globalization has affected the company’s business strategies.

Conduct a
benchmarking analysis. Be sure your analysis includes the following in
comparison with other companies in the same industry:

• 
  Best practices
• 
  Operational processes and procedures
• 
  Products or services