Attached is this weeks assignment, based on the company I have selected, 3M Company, i have no idea what to do with the remainder of the assignment, or what to look for on Form 10-k.

Name of S&P 500 Company Selected: 3M Company URL for source indicating this is an S&P 500 firm https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar? CIK=MMM&action=getcompany FYE (balance sheet) date of company: December 31, 2016 Company's total sales for the FYE: $7,223 Form 10-K Excerpt (\"copy-and-paste\" without formatting from source document) Annotation - Explanation, including nature of possible effect on relevance and representational faithfulness of financial statements Indicate PAGE NUMBER within the Form 10-K corresponding to each excerpt Limit the length of each annotation to a maximum of 75 words 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. The facilitator will grade this assignment, assigning up to 100 points for it as follows: Maximum Quality of analysis - proper identification of earnings management incentives or other indicators 50 points Quality of presentation and expression - clear, concise, and insightful annotations of the potential effects on the relevance and representational faithfulness of the company's financial statements 50 Total points Earned 100 points 1