Corporate Financial Accounting
Corporate Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781305653535
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.4ADM

Google and Microsoft: Current ratio

Google, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation design and distribute consumer and enterprise software, including overlaps in search, business productivity, and mobile operating systems. Google’s primary source of revenue is from advertising, while Microsoft’s is from software subscription and support fees. The following year-end data (in millions) were taken from recent balance sheets for both companies:

  Microsoft Google
Year 2 Year 1 Year 2 Year 1
Current assets $114,246 $101,466 $72,886 $80,685
Current liabilities 45,625 37,417 15,908 16,805

A. Compute the working capital for each company for both years.

B. Which company has the larger working capital at the end of Year 2?

C. Is working capital a good measure of relative liquidity in comparing the two companies? Explain.

D. Compute the current ratio for both companies. (Round to one decimal place.)

E. Which company has the larger relative liquidity based on the current ratio?

F. Based on your analysis, comment on the short-term debt-paying ability of these two companies.

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Corporate Financial Accounting

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