Analyze Walmart’s 2017 Financial Perspective. One way to do this is through ratio analysis. You should compute the following ratios for
each of the year of 2017:
– Working capital
– Current ratio
– Quick ratio
– Profit margin
– Return on assets (investment) (ROI)
– Return on equity (ROE)
– Receivable turnover
– Average collection period
– Inventory turnover
– Fixed asset turnover
– Total asset turnover
– Debt to total assets
– Debt to equity ratio
– Times interest earned
– Earnings per share
In addition, calculate the overall break-even point in sales dollars and the cash break-even point for the 2017 years. Also, compute the degree of operating leverage, degree of financial leverage, and degree of combined leverage for each of the 2017 years.
Finally, assume the corporation is about to go to the bank or other financial institution to borrow a large
sum of money. Based on your analysis of the financial information, determine if the bank or other
financial institution should loan the money to the corporation. Make sure you support your answer by
discussing some of the more important financial analysis information (ratios, etc.) from above.


