FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING:TOOLS FOR BUSINESS
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ISBN: 9781119493624
Author: Kimmel
Publisher: WILEY
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Assignment 1: Financial Statement Analysis and Interpretation of the Results
• Select two different corporations (from the same industry) publicly traded in the US Stock
Exchange Markets. (NYSE, NASDAQ)
o Make sure the companies you select are traded in same currency (USD, Euro, GBP)
o Please get the approval for the names of the firm before you start your work.
• The analysis of same company by different students will not be graded
• Download the necessary financial statements for the companies for 2021 and 2020
o For data collection you can use: finance.yahoo.com or finance.google.com
Part 1: Apply the financial analysis for the last two years using ratios covered in Chapter 3.
Use excel formulas for calculation of the ratios on a separate sheet (manual calculations will not be graded!)
You are not responsible for Part 5 (V. Market Value) ratios
Some companies may not have all the data due to their variations in industries.
If you face missing data just skip that ratio (mention as…
None
Topic: identifying profit or loss to generate the overall report on the activity of the business.
Direction: solve the problem given below (please refer to the picture)
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