For this assignment, you will perform a financial trend analysis as follows: Sel

For this assignment, you will perform a financial trend analysis as follows:
Select a publicly traded company and obtain its annual financial statements over the past five years.
Conduct a trend analysis on the company’s financial performance over five years (use the text as a guide on developing the trend analysis).  For the trend analysis, use financial ratios and benchmarking (you will need to use balance sheets for this).  Interpret what the trends are telling you.  
Include the company’s vision and mission or a brief background of the company’s business operations.
Examine the company’s corporate social responsibility statement and reflect on it in your paper.
Include tables and charts for relevant data in your analysis.
The paper should:
Include 1,500 words
Include a minimum of five references from the text and other resources supporting your findings (include a minimum of four sentences in your own words for each sentence you use from others to keep the similarity score to no more than 20% max)
Be written in APA format, to include
cover page
abstract
page numbers
12-point font, double-spaced type
Appendix containing all photos, tables, graphs and charts (not included in word count)
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