Visit: www.sec.gov. Take the tutorial to become familiar with the SEC and website. This can be found under Filings and then Quick EDGAR tutorial. Identify a company publicly traded in the US about which you are interested. Locate the most recent 10-K at the SEC site. (Don t get this information another way use the SEC website.) Download the financial statements (income statement or profit and loss stmt or statement of operations statement of stockholder s equity balance sheet or statement of financial position and cash flow statement) and the first two footnotes (they immediately follow the statements.) Turn in a typed document listing the Company why you are interested in it and your name and date.