Read the Notes to the Financial Statements (FS) for Dell SEC 10-K company.These "notes" are displayed after the financial statements. The notesare requiredsupplemental disclosures to a company's financial statements.

1. Inventory disclosures:

Are there any disclosures about raw materials, WIP inventory, Finished Goods inventory levels?

How is inventory described for Dell SEC 10-K company?.

Report on any costing information such as inventory valuation methods--LIFO, FIFO, and/or average cost.

Comment onsupplemental informationprovided related toinventory forDell SEC 10-K company.

2. Cost and sources for production materials:Notice how cost is used in the SEC 10-K.

3. Brieflyprovide an overall SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis Dell manufacturing corporation as related to cost accounting-related topics. Although details are high level in the SEC 10-K filing,what do you learn related tooperations and strategy?

Reference:

Dell Technologies SEC-10k:https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1571996/000157199620000017/delltechnologiesfy2010k.htm#s55A78ADE61D55E0588033D6C8EEE0216