Ratio Analysis Exercise: Pick a publicly traded company (your choice, any public company will be fine). Visit morningstar.com and search for the company using either its name or ticker symbol (the search box is at the top left-hand corner). Look through operating and valuation ratios. Report on this discussion board:

1) One area that the company has been improving (e.g., profitability ratios have been increasing over time)

2) One area that the company has not been doing as well as in the past (e.g, there has been an increase in inventory conversion period)