The emphasis of this course is on the use of accounting, financial, and economic data to measure and manage value creation. It examines sources of business funding, their valuation, and costs. It also covers the methods of accounting for and evaluating the profitability of potential business investments, including applied spreadsheet modeling.

This assignment showed me the behind the scenes of a companies finances and gave me a real chance to be able to sink my teeth into an analysis of how they cover different expenses and what those expenses yield. This assignment forced to to dive into the Yahoo finance data that was completely raw and bring together the information demonstrating my knowledge in how to both collect and analyze it. It also showed my ability to turn this data into ratios and percentages that can be easily interpreted by investors and shareholders to help gauge the health and profitability of a company. Finally this showed that I would be able to if requested properly give my input on how a company could potentially increase their profitability and insure that they continue to operate and grow.