TNT Assignment: Financial Ratio Code Cracker

Name: TNT Assignment: Financial Ratio Code Cracker (English version)
SKU: W40162

John Paglia

Product #:W40162

Supplier:Ivey

Discipline:Accounting, Finance

Setting:United States, 2024

Details:Exercise (PDF) • 4 pages • 2025-01-10

Subjects:

Finance and investing Accounting

Geography:

United States North America

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This exercise includes 10 well-known US-based companies, all but one with international operations, from a variety of industries, and 10 financial profiles that must be matched. The companies included are Alaska Airlines Inc., Amazon.com Inc., The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, Merck & Co. Inc., Netflix Inc., Pacific Gas & Electric, Ralph Lauren Corporation, Starbucks Corporation, Tesla Inc., and Uber Technologies Inc.

Learning Objectives

This exercise can be used in an introductory finance or accounting course at the point when financial ratios are introduced. It can also be used at the graduate or executive level as an introductory exercise.

After working through the exercise and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:

Explain financial ratios and their significance in evaluating a company’s performance.
Define common-size income statements and balance sheets and their role in financial analysis.
Analyze the financial profile and characteristics of different companies to match them to their respective financial statements.
Understand how various business models affect operating results and financial characteristics.