Practice: Researching a Company
Fourteen scored problems on where to find reliable information about a company, how to read adjusted numbers, and how to turn research into a thesis you can test.
What you'll do
This set works through the research module. You'll sort sources into primary and secondary, match the 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statement, and Form 4 to what each one tells you, rebuild an adjusted earnings figure and decide how much to trust it, label statements as fact, interpretation, or prediction, put the parts of a thesis in order, and pick out a thesis breaker that would really work. Each answer comes with the working, and your score appears as you go. Nothing is recorded outside this browser.
This draws on
Work through the problems in order and check each answer once you've committed to it. The score counts your first try. The companies and numbers are fictional.
The problems in this practice set are for members
Inside, each with a worked answer: Sources (4 problems); Reported and adjusted numbers (5 problems); From research to a thesis (5 problems).
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