Financial Ratio Practice Resource - Apple Inc
We’ve been doing some work on Apple’s financials as part of our BUSS4 toolkit and we put this simple spreadsheet together which summarises the Apple Inc Income Statement and Balance Sheet for 2009 through to 2005. Figures are rounded to the nearest 0.1$bn and are drawn from the Apple SEC returns. Some representation has been applied to make them easier for students to use. The spreadsheet below has the data in one tab, with some basic accounting ratios on the next tab along.
Some interesting features of the numbers (aside from the stunning growth and profitabilty ratios). No dividends paid, no debt, and a growing pile of cash.
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