Back in $1920,$ the management at DuPont Corporation developed a model called the DuPont analysis to assess the company's return on equity $($ROE$)$ accurately. Although ROE is a true bottom$-$line measure of performance, it can be decomposed to reveal even more detailed information about a company.

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$$ Corporate Financial Statement Analysis:

Return on Equity.

Corporate Financial Statement Analysis: The

DuPont Framework

Describe the benefits of the DuPont analysis to deconstruct a firms ROE. Utilizing MSN Money or Yahoo Finance, choose a real company and locate its most recent financial statements. Include the following in your analysis:

Identify and record key profitability ratios, including ROE

Decompose the ROE with the DuPont analysis

$$ Discuss the implications found based on the dissection of ROE with the DuPont analysis

$$ Compare the decomposed ratios to the industry

Provide recommendations to the $.$ company based on your analysis.