The Performance Of The Apple Company

Purpose of Assignment
Students should understand how to use the financial information and tools learned in the class on a public company, obtain public company SEC reports, and use that data to calculate a company's financial ratios and their comparison to industry or competitor standards.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Tutorial help on Excel and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web that offer support for office products.
Obtain Apples the most current SEC Form 10-K (annual financial report) from the company's website (Do not use the Annual Report that is sent to shareholders):
Calculate +(show equation used for calculations)+ and analyze the following ratios for your selected company for the last two years from the SEC Form 10-K:
(part 1) on a separate page ...
Current Ratio-
Inventory Turnover-
Debt Ratio-
Time Interest Earned-
Gross Profit Margin-
Equity Multiplier-
Return on Assets-
Net Profit Margin-
Return on Equity (Use three ratio DuPont method)-
Part 2
Compare and contrast your Apple's ratios to MICROSOFT and DELL standard ratios obtained from Yahoo Finance, Morningstar, MotleyFool, Macroaxis or any other Internet sources, and provide a detailed answer and analysis as to why Apple's ratios are different than MICROSOFT and DELL standards.
Prepare your analysis in a minimum of 875 words in Microsoft Word. The use of Microsoft Word tables is encouraged.
Cite the source of MICROSOFT and Dell ratio information.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
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This is one of my last assignments for this class, please do the best job you can. Thank you very much.