solved Part 1Review the BUS401: Principles of Finance Research Guide. Review

Part 1Review the BUS401: Principles of Finance Research Guide.
Review the Excel resources in the BUS401: Principles of Finance Research Guide.Watch the following video that will help you format the financial statements for Appendix A: Retrieving Financial Statements Using Mergent (Links to an external site.) Research:Using the Mergent database in the university library,Find your chosen dividend-paying company within the Mergent database.Follow the instructions in the video above to retrieve and format the 3 most recent years of historical financial statements (income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows).Construct Appendix A:Retrieve the 3 most recent years of historical financial statements (income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows) for your chosen company using Mergent. Then using a program like Excel, and based on the instructions in the BUS401 | Retrieving Financial Statements Using Mergent (Links to an external site.) video.Format the income statement.Format the balance sheet.Format the statement of cash flows.Save this Excel file as a PDF and title it “Appendix A.”Submission Format:Submit the PDF version of Appendix A to Waypoint.Historical Financial Statements: Appendix A PDF fileMust contain the formatted income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows for a company that has paid dividends for the last 4 to 5 years.Part 2 In your first assignment this week you retrieved the financial information for your chosen company. Analysts must evaluate a company’s financial statements to understand its performance over time. Common size statements “allow analysts to compare the relative composition of the company’s accounts over time” (Hickman et al., 2013, Section 11.3, para. 5). For this assignment, you will take the formatted financial statements you retrieved using Mergent and construct common size income statements and common size balance sheets for your chosen company. The video below explains how to construct a common size income statement and balance sheet using Excel.Title this assignment “Appendix B.” Be sure to save both formats (Excel and PDF) of these files for later use.Prepare:Prior to beginning work on this assignment,Review Chapter 2 and Chapter 11: Section 11.3 in Essentials of finance.Complete the Week 1 – Assignment 1, Historical Financial Statements: Appendix AYou will be using the Excel file from Mergent for this assignmentWatch the following video that will go over how to create and format Appendix B: (Links to an external site.)BUS401| Creating Common Size Financial Statements in Excel (Links to an external site.)Construct Appendix B:Using the formatted income statement and balance sheet in Excel from Week 1 – Assignment 1, and following the instructions in the BUS401| Creating Common Size Financial Statements in Excel (Links to an external site.) video,Calculate and format the common size income statement for the three years.Calculate and format the common size balance sheet for three years.Save this Excel file as a PDF and title it “Appendix B”.Submission Format:Submit the PDF version of Appendix B to Waypoint.The Common Size Financial Statements: Appendix B PDF file must contain the formatted common size income statement and balance sheet.