Loose-leaf for Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259115400
Author: Fred Phillips Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Patricia Libby
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.4SDC
Internet-Based Team Research: Examining an Annual Report
As a team, select an industry to analyze. Using your web browser, each team member should access the annual report or 10-K for one publicly traded company in the industry, with each member selecting a different company. (See S1-3 in Chapter 1 for a description of possible resources for these tasks.)
Required:
- 1. On an individual basis, each team member should write a short report that incorporates the following:
- a. Describe the company’s business in sufficient detail to be able to classify it as a service or merchandising company. What products or services does the company provide?
- b. Calculate the gross profit percentage at the end of the current and prior years, and explain any change between the two years.
- 2. Then, as a team, write a short report comparing and contrasting your companies using these attributes. Discuss any patterns across the companies that you as a team observe. Provide potential explanations for any differences discovered.
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