Locate the financial statements and related disclosure notes of FedEx Corporation for the fiscal year ended May

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Locate the financial statements and related disclosure notes of FedEx Corporation for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2017. You can locate the report online at www.fedex.com. Use the information provided in the statement of cash flows to respond to the questions below.


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1. Is FedEx expanding its business or contracting its business, as evidenced by the investing activities.
2. Is FedEx raising as much cash through financing activities as the amount needed to fund its investing activities?
3. Determine the activities listed under financing activities for the most recent fiscal year.

4. What are the cash payments FedEx made for interest and for income taxes in the three years reported?

5. Obtain the relevant authoritative literature on disclosure of interest and income taxes using the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. You might gain access at the FASB website (www.fasb.org). What is the specific eight-digit Codification citation (XXX-XX-XX-X) that specifies the way FedEx reports interest and income taxes separately that enabled you to answer requirement 3?

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Intermediate Accounting

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