fact-based way‚ and refer to that information in determining whether to buy Microsoft ’s stock or not. The 10-K financial statement from Microsoft is an enormous document‚ and it would take too much time to read the entire material. We thus decided to read the report selectively and analyze the company in the following steps: First‚ we will calculate several useful financial ratios. Second‚ we will look into the firm ’s major accounting policies. Third‚ we will observe the trend‚ which shows how
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4 Expansion Strategy 5 Are these strategies working? 6 Comparison with competition 6 Year-On-Year (YoY) same-store sales 6 Sales per Square Foot 6 Sliding ROE (Explanation using Dupont Analysis) 6 Performance ratios: How has BBBY fared over time? 8 Conclusions 9 Appendix 11 Performance Ratios since 1990 11 Executive Summary Founded in 1971‚ Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) was a small chain of stores; they sold bed linens and bath accessories in New York and New Jersey. After 14 years of sluggish performance
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Appendix 2A Financial Statement Analysis Using a Return on Equity (ROE) Framework 1 Appendix 2A Financial Statement Analysis Using a Return on Equity (ROE) Framework Between 1992 and 2003 the commercial banking industry experienced a period of record profits. This was quite a change from the late 1980s and early 1990s‚ when banks were failing in record numbers. Despite record profits‚ many FIs have areas of weakness and inefficiency that need to be addressed. One way of identifying
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Financial Statement Analysis for Investors Michael Price MBA640: Accounting for Decision Making Dr. Ulinski December 11‚ 2012 Table of Contents: Section I: Introduction (Page 3) Section II: Literature Review (Page 4) Section III: Methodology and Data Collection (Page 5) Section IV: Results (Page 6) a. Income Statement Analysis (Page 7) b. Balance Sheet Analysis (Page 11) c. Statement of Cash flow Analysis (Page 14) Section V: Conclusion (Page 16) a. Recommendation
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Chapter 13 … Analyzing Financial Statements Chapter Outline I. Basics of Analysis -- Transforming data into useful information for decision making. A. Purpose of Analysis To help users (both internal and external) make better business decisions. 1. Internal users (managers‚ officers‚ internal auditors‚ consultants‚ budget officers‚ and market researchers) make the strategic and operating decisions of a company. 2. External users (shareholders‚ lenders‚ directors‚ customers‚ suppliers
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University 4: (Week Three Assignment) Financial Statement Analysis Jeanette M. Rogers Acc 281: Accounting Concepts for Health Care Professionals Instructor Alan Wells November 16‚ 2010 There are three types of financial statement analysis; for example‚ (1) Horizontal Analysis‚ (2) Vertical Analysis‚ and (3) Ratio Analysis. First‚ the horizontal analysis is also known as trend analysis‚ which views the behavior of an individual financial statement items over several accounting‚ which may
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2012/2013 (A121) CHAPTER 2-FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND CASH FLOWS Section A Please circle TRUE or FALSE to the following statements. 1) An income statement reports a firm’s cumulative revenues and expenses from the inception of the firm through the income statement date. Answer: FALSE 2) A firm’s income statement reports the results from operating the business for a period of time‚ while the firm’s balance sheet provides a snapshot of the firm’s financial position at a specific point
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Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper Bryan Sawyer‚ Frank Figueroa‚ Jaime Sandez‚ Lesley Gonzalez Finance for Business/FIN 370 May 12‚ 2015 Instructor: John Kadlec Instructions: Find a publicly-traded company using a financial information website. Some example companies include the following: Safeway Inc. The Boeing Company General Motors Company Intel Corporation Microsoft Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation Watch the Industry Averages and Financial Ratios video and use the industry
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Financial Accounting Company Financial Statement Analysis Assignment: I. Company’s Business and Economic Environment Gap Inc.‚ founded in 1969 in San Francisco‚ CA‚ is a clothing and accessories retailer for men‚ women and kids. It started as a single store‚ and nowadays operates more than 3‚000 stores with more than 130‚000 employees worldwide. Gap Inc owns the following brands: The Gab‚ babyGap‚ GapKids‚ and GapBody‚
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Financial statement analysis (or financial analysis) is the process of reviewing and analyzing a company’s financial statements to make better economic decisions. These statements include the income statement‚ balance sheet‚ statement of cash flows‚ and a statement of retained earnings. Horizontal analysis (also known as trend analysis) is a financial statement analysis technique that shows changes in the amounts of corresponding financial statement items over a period of time. It is a useful tool
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