Business Finance Homework Help

Instruction

• Review Chapter 15 from the textbook and How to Read a Financial Report (Links to an external site.)
• Download Medtronic data from Mergent (see all attachment)
• Textbook: Ebert, R., & Griffin, R. (2019). Business essentials (12th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 9780135983232

• On the Mergent site and on your chosen company’s main page, click on Company Financials and then choose in the dropdown menu: (see attachment)
  • First, for the income statement:
  • annuals, income statement,3 years
  • Then click on Refresh.
  • For this assignment, click on Standardized.
  • Repeat the same process for the balance sheet:
  • Balance Sheet
  • 3 Years/Quarters

4. Then Create your own spreadsheet with the relevant data as shown in the( attached Excel sample ) Thisspreadsheet should be embedded into your business brief.

• Write a 3–4 page business brief, assessing the company’s recent performance over the last three years in terms of (1) its revenue/sales, profitability, liquidity, and leverage, and (2) in comparison to its industry competitors.