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This document discusses strategic analysis techniques for case studies. It provides an overview of several financial analysis metrics and economic indicators that are useful for case study analysis, including liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, and Altman's Z-Value bankruptcy formula. It also discusses approaches for researching the case situation, analyzing financial statements, and accounting for inflation and constant dollars when evaluating case information.
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Case Analysis
Chapter 12
Learning Objectives
Research the case situation as needed
Analyze financial statements by using ratios and common-size statements
Use the strategic audit as a method of organizing and analyzing case information
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After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
Research the case situation as needed
Analyze financial statements by using ratios and common-size statements
Use the strategic audit as a method of organizing and analyzing case information
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The Case Method
Case method
offers the opportunity to move from a narrow, specialized view that emphasizes functional techniques to a broader, less precise analysis of the overall corporation
Cases present actual business situations and enable you to examine both successful and unsuccessful corporations.
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The case method offers the opportunity to move from a narrow, specialized view that emphasizes functional techniques to a broader, less precise analysis of the overall corporation. Cases present actual business situations and enable you to examine both successful and unsuccessful corporations.
Researching the Case Situation
You should not restrict yourself only to the information written in the case unless your instructor states otherwise.
You should undertake outside research about the environmental setting.
Check decision dates.
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You should not restrict yourself only to the information written in the case unless your instructor states otherwise. You should, if possible, undertake outside research about the environmental setting. Check the decision date of each case (typically the latest date mentioned in the case) to find out when the situation occurred and then screen the business periodicals for that time period.
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Researching the Case Situation
Important Note: Don’t go beyond the decision date of the case in your research unless directed to do so by your instructor.
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Important Note: Don’t go beyond the decision date of the case in your research unless directed to do so by your instructor.
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Researching the Case Situation
Available Information Sources
Compustat
Compact Disclosure
Hoover’s
EDGAR database
Company’s annual report
SEC 10-K form
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Some available information sources are:
Compustat
Compact Disclosure
Hoover’s
EDGAR database
Company’s annual report
SEC 10-K form
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Financial Analysis: A Place to Begin
A review of key financial ratios can help you assess a company’s overall situation and pinpoint some problem areas.
Ratios are useful regardless of firm size and enable you to compare a company’s ratios with industry averages.
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A review of key financial ratios can help you assess a company’s overall situation and pinpoint some problem areas.
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Evaluating Financial Performance
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Over the years, many standard financial ratio formulas have been developed and employed to evaluate various and specific aspects of a firm's financial performance. The art of this technique now rests in organizing these ratios for effective implementation, properly applying them in practice, and knowing the limitation of this technique. Because most textbooks cover this subject in detail and adequately develop the theory behind each financial ratio, in this section we will concentrate on two supplemental topics: (1) organizing the key financial ratios according to their application and (2) providing some additional perspectives regarding the uses and limitations of these techniques.
Organizing Financial Ratios by Application
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