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ACCT 201A – Financial Accounting

Fall 2014 – Paper Requirements

· Choose a Public Company

· Provide the following ratios, both for the current period as well as for the prior period

· Do a comparison between the current and prior periods to establish whether there has been any improvement.

· Give me your conclusions

Ratios – refer to page 704 & 5 in your text book for further explanation

· Working Capital

· Current ratio

· Inventory turnover

· Days in Inventory

· Accounts Receivable turnover

· Average Collection period

· Earnings per share

· Price Earnings

· Profit Margin

Notes

· Financial information on public companies can be found on their Form 10K, usually there would be a link on their website, sometimes under investor relations or investor information

· Not all companies provide all information so some ratios may not be able to be calculated

· Some ratios may already be calculated for you on <finance.yahoo.com> or on some other websites

Due date

· December 03, 2014