Locate the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows of Home Depot, Inc., in Appendix A of your text. Review those statements and then respond to the following for the year ended February 3, 2013 (fiscal year 2012).

a. Did the company have a net income or net loss for the year? How much?
b. What were the cash balances at the beginning and end of the year? What were the most important causes of the cash decrease during the year? (Treat “cash equivalents” as if they were cash.)
c. What are the two largest assets and two largest liabilities included in the company’s balance sheet at the end of the year?