About company current financial condition

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DISCUSSION 1

Calculate the current ratio and quick ratio for the latest two years, obtain the industry average ratios from the IBISWorld database, available through the UAGC Library, or another outside resource of your choice, and analyze the results.

- The IBISWorld database is accessible through the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. This database contains industry reports and market research on more than 1,300 United States industries. The reports provide key data, financial ratios, and benchmarks, plus industry forecasts. IBISWorld's Data Wizard tool allows comparisons between a chosen company and industry best practices. If needed, review the Industry Wizard - Industry Product (Links to an external site.) tutorial on how to use this database.

- Discuss what each of these ratios tells you about the company's current financial condition, and how they compare to the industry averages.

- Identify the major causes of any changes in these ratios and discuss your assessment of the company based on these changes.

- Review the balance sheet and the notes to the most recent financial statements, and identify any contingent liabilities.

- Discuss whether or not you agree with how the company chose to treat each contingency on the financial statements (i.e., recorded vs. disclosed, but not recorded).

- Discuss the effect on the financial statements of the company's treatment of the contingency.

- Discuss whether the contingent liabilities change your assessment of the company.

DISCUSSION 2

Calculate the debt-to-equity ratio and times interest earned ratio for the company for the latest two years. Obtain the industry averages for these ratios and any other pertinent information from the IBISWorld database, available through the UAGC Library, or another outside resource of your choice, and then analyze the results.

Discuss what each of these ratios tells you about the company's use of debt and how it compares to the industry average.

Identify the major causes of any changes in these ratios and discuss your assessment of the company based on these changes.

If you were a lender, discuss whether you would you be willing to lend money to the company based on its use of debt.

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