PepsiCo, Inc.s financial statements are presented in Appendix B. Financial statements of The Coca-Cola Company are presented
Question:
PepsiCo, Inc.’s financial statements are presented in Appendix B. Financial statements of The Coca-Cola Company are presented in Appendix C. Instructions for accessing and using the complete annual reports of PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, including the notes to the financial statements, are also provided in Appendices B and C, respectively.
Instructions
(a) At December 3l, 2011, what was PepsiCo’s largest current liability account? What were its total current liabilities? At December 31, 2011, what was Coca-Cola’s largest current liability account? What were its total current liabilities?
(b) Based on information contained in those financial statements, compute the following 2011 values for each company:
(1) Working capital.
(2) Current ratio.
(c) What conclusions concerning the relative liquidity of these companies can be drawn from these data?
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Accounting Principles
ISBN: 9781118566671
11th Edition
Authors: Jerry Weygandt, Paul Kimmel, Donald Kieso