Please use the following questions to create the paper:

General

1.    Why does a company go public?

2.    What are the required disclosures for going public?

3.    What are the advantages of going public? The disadvantages?

Company Specific

1.    What are the specific reasons that your company went public?

2.    Do you agree with your companys choice to go public? Discuss the timing of the IPO?

3.    What has happened to your company since it has gone public?

a.    short term, long term performance
b.    strategic changes
c.    management changes
d.    major acquisitions/divestitures