Please complete the below problems, and submit your answers in a Word document. Go to the SEC's website (Links to an external site.) and click on Search for company filings under filings and forms. On the next page, click Company or fund name, ticker symbol, CIK (Central Index Key), file number, state, country, or SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) to search for a company. On the next page, search for Starbucks by using their ticker symbol SBUX. Scroll down on the next page until you see their Form 10-K filing and click on documents. Click on the document's link for the most recent Form 10-K. Retrieve Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A). In a two- to three-page paper (12-point, double-spaced), summarize their MD&A and critique it based on the SEC's plain English concepts.

ASC Topic 860: Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 166 Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets an amendment of FASB Statement No. 140. Issued: June, 2009.

ASC Topic 810: Amendments to FASB Interpretation No. 46(R)

Topic : The FASB Accounting Standards Codification and the Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principlesa replacement of FASB Statement No. 162.