Purdue University Global Finance of Walmart Research Essay

Use the five classifications of financial ratios, 1) Liquidity, 2) Activity, 3) Financing, 4) Profitability, and 5) Market to assess the financial performance for Walmart. Excellent resource material can be found in the Financial Statement Analysis Tables 2.4 to 2.8 in your text. Each of these classifications includes at least two respective financial ratios. A team member is typically assigned one of the five classifications. I.e., student A will be responsible for Liquidity and student B will be responsible for Activity, and so on. You will present a definition of the classification by citing the course text and other scholarly sources. The team leader (compiler of all member analyses) may need to be assigned a classification as well; team size will dictate this. Your paper, based upon your team’s collective analysis, should include a measure of and analysis of financial outcomes based on at least two financial ratios for each financial ratio classification. I.e., the Liquidity classifications of ratios are based upon the Quick and Current ratio outcomes. You will calculate ratios for each classification, two ratios per classification, for the three years data. I.e., the Current ratio may have been 2.0 in year three and 1.5 the following year, and .75 in the most recent year. It is based on these results that you will measure financial performance, or trends from one year to the next. It is imperative that the ratios-numbers, and quantitative outcomes, support your analysis.

Your paper should use correct APA 6th formatting for your in-text citations to justify your discussion and place references at the end of the paper. Be sure to cite sources to explain what each of these ratio classifications tell an investor. Avoid using quotations, you should paraphrase the material and use an in-text citation to give credit to the reference. Review the APA formats found in Writing Resources accessed through the Academic Success Center within the Academic Tools area of the course. Include in your paper: ? Cover page with each team member’s name that participated on the team project ? Introduction, the purpose of the analysis ? Analysis, an explanation of what each ratio classification assesses. (A minimum of one paragraph for each ratio.) ? In which financial ratio classifications are negative ratios occurring? How can this be corrected? ? In which financial ratio classification are positive ratios occurring? How can this be maintained? ? Conclusion, why would you (or would you not) invest in Walmart. ? Reference page