Business

WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER ON TARGET DEPARTMENT STORE. IT SHOULD BE ABOUT EIGHT TO TEN PAGES BASED ON THE
FOLLOWING GUIDELINES:
A. Origins. -History synobsis
B. Type of business
C. Business strategies and corporate strategies.
D. Product delivery systems.
E. Financial Statement Analysis-profitability ratios, debt ratios, liquidity ratios, asset turnover
ratios, Return on investments.
F. Recommendations for short-term or long-term investments.
G. ANALYZE TARGET FINANCIAL STATEMENT ON A COMPARATIVE BASIS.
(LET SAY YOU PICK THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR TARGET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 12/31/13, YOU WILL HAVE TO
COMPARE PRIOR YEARS; SUCH AS 2012 AND 2011 AND EXPLAIN WHY THE DIFFERENCES EXIST.)
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H. ASSUME THAT YOU WERE A MANAGER AT TARGET, WHAT TYPE OF DECISIONS WOULD YOU MAKE IN REGARD TO THE
COMPANY’S FUTURE.

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EXAMINE ORÂ ANALYZE TARGETS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANDÂ ANNUAL REPORTS BY USING THE SOURCES LISTED BELOW
1. DUN AND BRADSTREETÂ
2. Moody Investors,
3. Standard and Poor’s
4. The Wall Street Journal Publications
5. OTHER SOURCES THAT YOU MAY COME ACROSS DURING YOUR RESEARCHÂ
*****This Paper will be a Research Paper and will require Footnotes and Bibliography for any citations
and must be 8 to 10 pages, Times New Roman Font, 12 inch, Double-space, with 1 in Margins. This paper
should include a title page, abstract, references, appendixes and footnotes.