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After reading and understanding “Financial Ratios” from Chapter 8 in your textbo

After reading and understanding “Financial Ratios” from Chapter 8 in your textbook, we want to compare balance sheet financial ratios of companies — we use that information to understand them BETTER!:
You may use the Internet for this assignment. 
Try for example
https://finance.yahoo.com/
and select separately TWO companies of which you are interested or familiar.
For EACH company … on the yahoo finance website AFTER selecting — then proceed way down on the left hand column and select “Balance Sheet” under “FINANCIALS” for finding the balance sheets for each of the TWO companies.
For which companies — you may want to consider choosing either two SIMILAR companies, such as Pfizer Inc and Johnson & Johnson, or two DIFFERENT industries, such as an airline and a car manufacturer.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
Use percentages to analyze these balance sheets, and compare how well each is doing to each other AND compared to The Greasy Spoon Diner example from this chapter.
Use ratios/percentages to calculate EACH of their “balance sheet ratios” which should include:
1) quick, 2) current, and 3) the debt ratios as described in our textbook.
THEN NEXT AND MOST IMPORTANT discuss which ratios have “improved”, by how much and their significance.
(Remember a lower ratio number – sometimes can be ‘better’ than a higher ratio number.)

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