Please focus on the following questions regarding Home Depot vs Lowe's case analysis

$1-$Prepare common$-$sized income statements and balance sheets for each company for fiscal $2013$ and $2012.$

$2-$Consider the income statements of both companies. Are there any unusual or nonrecurring items that need to be considered in your analysis? That is$,$ are the earnings of high quality? Are the earnings persistent? Describe and quantify the impact of any such items to your analysis.

$3-$Compare return on equity for both companies for fiscal $2013$ and $2012.$ Which company is more profitable?

$4-$Assess the companies$$ asset efficiency. Which firm is more efficient in its use of assets? Consider efficiency in terms of total asset turnover, receivables turnover, inventory turnover, payables turnover, cash conversion cycle, and fixed asset turnover.

$5-$Assess the companies$$ liquidity and solvency.

$6-$Assess the cash flow of each company. How are operations and investments being financed? What similarities and differences do you note?

$7-$As a potential investor, would you be interested in seeking additional information about either of these companies? What sort of information would you want? Would you invest in either company?