The purpose of this individual project is to: develop your competencies and comfort with using large, corporate, financial and market databases that are available to you to support your learning within the MBA program at Pepperdine; To develop skills in extracting and downloading data from these databases, importing the data into Excel and manipulating it so as to create new information that can be used to support decision making. The assignment requires that you choose a publically traded company in an industry of interest to you. It is important that you choose a publically traded company to enhance the likelihood that the data you need will be available in the databases.