Amazon.com Inc.’s financial statements are presented in Appendix D. Financial statements 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 financial statements, are also provided in Appendices D and E, respectively.

Instructions

(a) At December 31, 2013, what was Amazon’s largest current liability account? What were its total current liabilities? At January 31, 2014, what was Wal-Mart’s largest current liability account? What were its total current liabilities?

(b) Based on information in these financial statements, compute the following 2013 values for Amazon and 2014 values for Wal-Mart:

(1) Working capital.

(2) Current ratio.

(c) What conclusions concerning the relative liquidity of these companies can be drawn from these data?