Calculate accurate financial formulas

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Case Scenario

The CFO of your company has asked for your support in preparing a report for the business's board of directors. Many of the board members are new, and some of them have little background in finance. With this in mind, you will need to write a report that all board members can easily understand.

Directions

For the company you chose for your final project, open the following documents:
The balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from the latest fiscal quarter (from Mergent Online)

The Ratios Most Recent Fiscal Qtr worksheet in the Final Project Financial Formulas workbook (linked in the What to Submit section).

example, if the latest fiscal quarter available is the third quarter in 2023, you'll compare those results to the same financial calculations from the third quarter in 2022.
Use the documents to calculate key financial ratios.
Then open the following documents:

The balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement from the same fiscal quarter one year ago

The Ratios Same Fiscal Qtr 1 Year Ago worksheet
Use the documents to calculate the same financial ratios. Finally, compare those ratios and analyze your results.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Financial Calculations. Calculate accurate financial formulas to assess the business's current financial health. Specifically, calculate the following formulas using the Ratios Most Recent Fiscal Qtr and the Ratios Same Fiscal Qtr 1 Year Ago worksheets in the Final Project Financial Formulas workbook:

Working capital
Current ratio
Debt ratio

Earnings per share

Price and earnings ratio

Total asset turnover ratio

Financial leverage
Net profit margin

Return on assets

Return on equity

Fiscal Quarter Comparison. Summarize the differences between the following:

The results from your financial calculations of the most recent fiscal quarter

The results of the same financial calculations of the same fiscal quarter from one year ago

For example, if the most recent fiscal quarter available is the third quarter in 2023, you'll compare those results to the same financial calculations from the third quarter in 2022.

Comparison Analysis. Explain what your calculations and comparison show about the business's current financial health. Give examples to support your explanation for the following questions:

Do the results show the business is financially healthy or unhealthy? Which results indicate this?
What might be the causes of the business's financial success or failure?

Is more information needed to determine the business's financial health? If so, which pieces of information might still be needed?

Short-Term Financing. Explain how potential short-term financing sources could help the business raise funds needed to improve its financial health. Base your response on the business's current financial information.

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