Project Format

I could tell you that I am looking for content and that I am flexible on format, but I am sure that you still want to get a sense of typical formatting. There is no one format that will work for everyone. You might find it worthwile keeping these general suggestions in mind while writing the report:

An integrated report works better than separate reports for each firm. By an intergrated report, I mean having all the companies discussed, by section, rather than having five or six company reports bound together. For instance, analyze the risk profiles and parameters for all of the companies in your group under a risk and return section.
Do not rehash what should be common knowledge. Thus, describing the regression procedure for estimating betas is not necessary, but explaining why your firms have the betas that you do is necessary.
Use tables to summarize data and findings. Since the analysis is paralleled across the companies, you might find it useful (and I definitely will) if you start each section with a table that summarizes your findings for that section across the companies in your group.
The questions, both in the main section and in the help manual, are designed to guide you through the project. You can alter the sequence and choose the presentation format that works best for you.
Do not include the data sources that you used for your report (such as the Bloomberg pages or annual reports. If you are including your spreadsheet output, attach only the output pages and not the input pages.)
Be brief.

Perhaps the best way to get a sense of format is to look at other project reports. You can begin with my sample analysis of Disney, using the numbers from the lecture notes and then move on to samples from previous year's projects. They are in pdf format, and you need Adobe Acrobat to read them. They illustrate the diversity of the companies analyzed and the way in which different groups answered the same questions: