Presented here is selected information from the 2018 fiscal-year 10-K reports of four companies. The four companies, in alphabetical order, are: Advance Micro Devices, a global semiconductor company; AT&T, Inc., a company that provides communications and digital entertainment; Caterpillar, Inc., a manufacturer of heavy machinery; and Pfizer, Inc., a pharmaceutical manufacturer. The data for the companies, presented in the order of the amount of their sales in millions of dollars, are as follows.

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Based on these financial data and your knowledge and assumptions about the nature of the businesses that the companies operate, determine which data relate to which companies. Write a memorandum explaining your decisions. Include a discussion of which ratios you used in your analysis, and show the computations of these ratios in your memorandum.

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Sales Cost of goods sold Net earnings Inventory Accounts receivable Total assets A $170,756 79,419 19,953 26,472 531,864 B $54,722 36,997 6,147 11,529 17,452 78,509 C D $53,647 $9,581 11,248 5,361 11,153 424 7,508 4,363 8,025 625 159,422 9,041