Strayer JWI530 Week 3 Discussion Latest 2020 JULY

JWI530 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT I

Week 3 Discussion

Income Statement Analysis

This week’s DQ focuses on the Income Statement. It builds on the insights we gained in Week 2, but goes a little deeper in our use of financial statement analysis skills.

Locate and post a screen shot of an actual Income Statement from the latest fiscal year for one of the following companies:

Sears (Note: use this link Sears Holding Corp 10-K )

Tesla

Pick an Income Statement Line Item or Ratio from the list below:

What does this line item or ratio measure and why is it important item for Management to understand this number?

Identify the past 4 years of amounts for your line item or ratio (Note: this will require you to track down additional historical Income Statements to get the older data). Share this data with the class using a data table or chart.

Answer the following questions:

What is the trend for this line item or ratio?

Has the line item or ratio amount increased or decreased?

Is this a “good” thing or a “bad” thing? For this company?

What might management do to improve this line item or ratio?

Post your initial response by Wednesday, midnight of your time zone, and reply to at least 2 of your classmates' initial posts by Sunday, midnight of your time zone.?