This case comprised of nine companies’ financial statement averaged data over three years 2011-2013 from the nine different industries. The students have to match the provided data with each appropriate industry by using knowledge of multiple industries’ financial ratios. All the companies are selected from Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ Net Advantage financial database.
All items of the provided common-sized income statements are measured by revenues while all the factors are measured by total assets in the common-size balance sheets. The case incorporates the averaged data to avoid the effect of one-time items and it includes the financial ratios as well, of the selected nine companies.
