Financial Management Calculate or identify from each company's most recent annual report the six (6) specific financial ratios listed and provide as an appendix to the paper. Liquidity ratios are responsible for measuring a firm's performance regarding the availability of cash to pay its debt obligations (Rashid & Abbas, 2011, p. 9). A common type of liquid ratio is the current ratio. The current ratio is responsible for comparing and contrasting current

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The only observation that could be made here is that one would expect a larger proportion of the total expenses to be allocated to research and development, given the fact that this is such an important part of Microsoft's activity and essential in order to obtain a competitive advantage on the market. Asset and Capital Structure 2008 Cash and cash equivalents $10,339 Accounts receivable $13,589 Inventories $985 Total fixed assets $29,551 The asset structure at Microsoft reflects some of the

By May 2012, MedAssets long-term debts are approximately $959.94 Million. Additionally, MedAssets secures loans that carry interest rates. With significant amount of loans that the company has secured and notes that the company has issued, the company faces interest rates risks. To mitigate the effect of risks associated with the fluctuation of the interest rates, the company enters into the series of financial instrument to guide against the risks from

Financial Risk The financial ratio categories are Liquidity, Activity, Profitability, and Coverage (Kieso, Weygant, & Warfield, 2008). These ratios are comparisons of different financial accounts that show financial performance measures in different areas. Fluctuations of these ratios can be red flags. These fluctuations can show increases or decreases in performances. Increases could indicate growth, but decreases could show negative signs in performance levels that need to be analyzed and addressed. Liquidity,

Financial Ratios: PepsiCo Financial ratios are great tools when it comes to the evaluation of the performance of a business entity. In that regard therefore, ratios are used by various stakeholder groups including but not limited to investors, suppliers, creditors, and even regulatory bodies. This text concerns itself with ratio analysis with my entity of choice being a publicly traded beverage company. For purposes of this discussion, I will concern myself