Company Performance (Financial Performance)
Company performance can be determined by locating financial information about
your company and viewing common financial ratios. Look at Financial ratios
to answer the following questions:
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Does your company have a comfortable amount of working capital?
- Is your company heavily relying on debt for financing purposes?
Look at the following databases to determine financial performance:
- Factiva: Includes executive summary of a company's financial performance,
full text of SEC filings, company/industry comparison reports, and articles
from important news and business publications including Wall Street Journal,
Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, and Far Eastern Economic Review.
- Thomson: View the company Financial Statement section of the Annual Report.
- Hoover's: Brief financials; can access more extensive reports in Lexis-Nexis.