Analyze the trends for 3 line items you believe are most important in evaluating a company to perform a trend analysis for 4 years for the balance sheet and for the income statement (3 each). Then answer the following questions:

1.What do you observe in the linear trends (i.e., are values increasing or decreasing)?

2.What are the trends on a common-size basis?

3.What would be your next steps in completing a thorough analysis of the trends?