{"id":49752,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:24:27","slug":"fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN\/ 571 &#8211; Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Assignment Steps<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Select&nbsp;<\/b>a Fortune 500 Company from one of the following industries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pharmaceutical<\/li>\n<li>Energy<\/li>\n<li>Retail<\/li>\n<li>Automotive<\/li>\n<li>Computer Hardware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Review<\/b>&nbsp;the balance sheet and income statement in the company&#8217;s 2015 Annual Report.<\/p>\n<p><b>Calculate<\/b>&nbsp;the following ratios using Microsoft\u00ae&nbsp;Excel\u00ae:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Quick Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Debt Equity Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Inventory Turnover Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Receivables Turnover Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Total Assets Turnover Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Profit Margin (Net Margin) Ratio<\/li>\n<li>Return on Assets Ratio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Note: &nbsp;All ratios must be calculated in Excel. &nbsp;Clearly labelled source financial statements must also be provided in Excel using separate tabs. &nbsp;All calculations must be traceable back to the source financial statements. &nbsp;Any deviation from these instructions will result in zero points awarded for the ratios.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Analyze<\/b>&nbsp;in 1,050 words why each ratio is important for financial decision making.<\/p>\n<p><b>Submit<\/b>&nbsp;your analysis as well as your calculations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Click&nbsp;<\/b>the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Assignment Steps Select&nbsp;a Fortune 500 Company from one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-571-week-1-financial-ratio-analysis\/\" 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-49752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49752","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=49752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}