Amazon.com, Inc.s financial statements are presented in Appendix D. Financial statements of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are presented

Question:

Amazon.com, Inc.’s are presented in Appendix D. of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are presented in Appendix E. Instructions for accessing and using the complete annual reports of Amazon and Wal-Mart, including the notes to the are also provided in Appendices D and E, respectively.

Instructions
(a) Based on the information contained in these compute the following 2011 ratios for each company.
(1) Debt to assets.
(2) Times interest earned.
(b) What conclusions concerning the companies’ long-run can be drawn from these ratios?

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