The textbook authors discuss a variety of financial ratios, and divide them into five categories. Choose three
Question:
The textbook authors discuss a variety of financial ratios, and divide them into five categories. Choose three categories and calculate a financial ratios from each category for Walmart for the last two fiscal years (2021 and 2022). Make sure to select ratios that you think opening a new supercenter will affect, and explain your reasoning. Identify a competitor of Walmart, calculate the same ratios for that competitor, and contrast the results for the two companies over the two most recent years. Explain why you selected this competitor. Describe how the decisions made by management, marketing and operations functions of the company can impact, and hopefully improve, these financial ratios.
Financial Reporting Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation a strategic perspective
ISBN: 978-1337614689
9th edition
Authors: James M. Wahlen, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw