Your first step as a Financial Analyst that advises clients on buying stock of public companies is to be intimately familiar with the details in the Annual Report of the prospective company before you present investing ideas to those clients. For this question, find the Net Earnings. What were the net earnings, and what was the $\%$ increase from $2020$ to $2021?$

Easiest way to get to Net Earnings is to scroll down to the table of content and click on Item $7$ for the MD&A$.$ You will see it right there. You can also hit Ctrl and F on your computer for the find function and type in Net Earnings. You will need chapter $17$ power point slides to figure out how you calculate the $\%$ increase.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ Fiscal $2021$ Net Earnings were $$12\mathrm{.}5$ Billion, representing a $31\mathrm{.}5\%$ Increase in Earnings Per Share.

B$.$ Fiscal $2021$ net earnings were $$16\mathrm{.}4$ billion, a $27\mathrm{.}7$ percent increase in earnings per share from the prior year.

C$.$ Fiscal $2021$ net earnings were $$12\mathrm{.}8$ billion, a $35\mathrm{.}5$ percent increase in earnings per share from the prior year.

D$.$ None of These.