In this assignment, your students examine the most recent annual financial statements of three companies: Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Next, they navigate to the Securities and Exchange Commission's website and search for the respective companies' filings using the provided instructions. Or you can use any other website that has the 10-K filings Students locate the companies' most recent 10-K filings, focusing on the financial statements within these reports. For each company, students gather six financial statement quantities: Total revenue 1 Total cost of revenue . Net income Total assets Total liabilities . And total stockholders' equity . After obtaining the financial statement numbers, students will compute four financial ratios for each company: debt ratio, gross profit percentage, return on sales, and return on equity. Students must submit a table containing the 30 numbers (10 for each company) and provide a brief written interpretation of each ratio, explaining its implications for the differences or similarities among Microsoft, Google, and Apple.

In this assignment, your students examine the most recent annual financial statements of three companies: Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Next, they navigate to the Securities and Exchange Commission's website and search for the respective companies' filings using the provided instructions. Or you can use any other website that has the 10-K filings Students locate the companies' most recent 10-K filings, focusing on the financial statements within these reports For each company, students gather six financial statement quantities Total revenue Total cost of revenue Net income Total assets Total liabilities And total stockholders' equity After obtaining the financial statement numbers, students will compute four financial ratios for each company debt ratio, gross profit percentage, return on sales, and return on equity. Students must submit a table containing the 30 numbers (10 for each company) and provide a brief written interpretation of each ratio, explaining its implications for the differences or similarities among Microsoft. Google, and Apple.