Analysis of Financial Statements Financial statements are frequently a key source of information for financial decisions and taking a look at Microsoft’s financial statements can help us decide certain things about the company. There are three different types of statements that will be discussed in this section. These include: the balance sheet‚ the income statement‚ and the statement of cash flows. They are discussed here in either the sense of quarterly or yearly statements and will be noted
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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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Chapter 5: Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis Evaluating accounting “quality” How do we define financial reporting quality? Qualitative characteristics of accounting Information: Understandability Decision usefulness Reliability Relevance Consistency Comparability 1 Attributes of High Quality Financial Reporting Financial reporting (earnings) quality has been considered positively associated with the following: High persistence of earnings and cash flows
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Financial Statement Analysis Tools CHAPTER 4 After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Describe the purpose of financial ratios and who uses them. 2. Define the five major categories of ratios (liquidity‚ efficiency‚ leverage‚ coverage‚ and profitability). 3. Calculate the common ratios for any firm by using income statement and balance sheet data. 4. Use financial ratios to assess a firm’s past performance‚ identify its current problems‚ and suggest strategies
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The Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Cassandra Brown‚ Diana Smiley‚ Patricia Ramirez FIN/370 - FINANCE FOR BUSINESS 11/23/14 Michael Rodriguez The Industry Averages and Financial Ratios In today’s market business really look at what the others in their competitive market are doing to compare how they are doing as a business or corporation. They do this by evaluating the industry averages and the financial ratios. When corporations and financial advisors look at the industry
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ASSESSING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1 Assessing Financial Statements Kimberly Adcock ACC/230 December 4‚ 201\4 Cynthia Kacmar ASSESSING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2 The company that I have chosen to
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Competition 3 Bed‚ Bath & Beyond Strategies 4 Business Strategy 4 Operating Strategy 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
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ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Chapter Outline I. Reasons to analyze financial statements of foreign companies include: • making foreign portfolio investment decisions‚ • making foreign merger and acquisition decisions‚ • making credit decisions about foreign customers‚ • evaluating foreign suppliers‚ and • benchmarking against foreign competitors. II. There are several problems an analyst might encounter in analyzing foreign financial statements‚ including: • finding
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Question 1: Financial ratios for East Coast Yachts: Current ratio | = | Current Assets | | | Debt-equity ratio | = | Total liabilities | | | Current Liabilities | | | | | Total equity | | = | $14‚651‚000 | | | | = | $19‚539‚000 + $33‚735‚000 | | | $19‚539‚000 | | | | | $55‚341‚000 | | = | 0.75 | | | | = | 0.96 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Quick ratio | = | Current Assets - Inventory | | | Equity multiplier | = | Total assets | |
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Analysis of Financial Statements: | Best Buy | By: Ashley Lorenzo08/15/2013Intermediate AccountingProfessor Odonnell | Table of Contents Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Introduction Best Buy is a multinational retailer of consumer electronics. They include mobile phone products‚ computing‚ entertainment products‚ appliances and related services. They operate retail stores and call centers that are very successful. This report analyzes their financial statements
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