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Student is required to produce a financial document comparing two publicly traded corporations. This project is...

Student is required to produce a financial document comparing two publicly traded corporations. This project is designed to answer the following questions: which company is a better investment?
Student will choose two companies that produce a similar products( i.e. car [ GM &Toyota], retail [Wal-Mart & Target], communications ( T-Mobile & Spring)

source of information: latest annual report published by company 2015 May be available, but if not, use 2014. This report can be found on the company's website.

Elements of paper.
create a side by side income statements comparison for the latest available year for both companies, vertical presentation, with common sized income statements percentage next to each.

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Vertical analysis is a tool used for comparison of different companies' financial data for same time period or same company's financial data for different time periods. It depicts the total revenue as 100% and then calculate each item of income statement as the percentage of total revenue in order to compare.

Below income statment shows that Toyota has net income 7.98% of sales and GM has net income 7.14% of total revenue.

ekkarill92 answered 1 year ago
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