{"id":217014,"date":"2018-09-15T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis-apple\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:38:48","slug":"fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis (Apple)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of Assignment\tThe purpose of this assignment is to help students gain a better understanding of the financial statements used for corporate financial reporting and the key ratios used to make business decisions.\u00a0\tAssignment Steps\u00a0\tSelect\u00a0a Fortune 500 Company from one of the following industries:\t\t\tPharmaceutical\t\t\tEnergy\t\t\tRetail\t\t\tAutomotive\t\t\tComputer Hardware\tReview\u00a0the balance sheet and income statement in the company&#8217;s 2015 Annual Report.\u00a0\tCalculate\u00a0the following ratios using Microsoft\u00ae\u00a0Excel\u00ae:\t\t\tCurrent Ratio\t\t\tQuick Ratio\t\t\tDebt Equity Ratio\t\t\tInventory Turnover Ratio\t\t\tReceivables Turnover Ratio\t\t\tTotal Assets Turnover Ratio\t\t\tProfit Margin (Net Margin) Ratio\t\t\tReturn on Assets Ratio\tAnalyze\u00a0in 1,050 words why each ratio is important for financial decision making.\u00a0\tSubmit\u00a0your analysis as well as your calculations.\u00a0\tClick\u00a0the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment is to help students gain a better understanding of the financial statements used for corporate financial reporting and the key ratios used to make business decisions.\u00a0 Assignment Steps\u00a0 Select\u00a0a Fortune 500 Company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis-apple\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}