INSTRUCTIONS:
Provide a both an excel sheet and word document to support your analysis. For a good analysis, research on your company and know about the business, events and major news that shaped the firm’s performance.
(A)Select any firm of your choice and email your professor for approval before doing any work. Once approved obtain the financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows) for the past FIVE (5) years 2018 to 2023 from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the firm’s website, or Yahoo.com/finance. (1) Evaluate the firm’s financial performance for these periods; Comment and explain what these means for the firm.
Solvency ratio
Liquidity ratio
Savings ratio
Debt Servicing Ratio
Other ratios for measuring firm performance (ROI, ROE, profitability index)
(B) Assume that the year 2018 is the pre-pandemic year while 2021 is the post-pandemic year and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. How has the firm’s financial performance changed before and after the pandemic? Is there any difference in firm