Flexible: Financial Reporting and Analysis: Using Financial Accounting Information 13/e
Flexible: Financial Reporting and Analysis: Using Financial Accounting Information 13/e
Flexible
by
Dr. Donald V. Saftner
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To Accompany
Financial Reporting and Analysis:
Using Financial Accounting Information
13/e
by Dr. Charles Gibson
Flexible allows users to input the reported data including labels from the financial statements, notes, and othe
a vertical and horizontal analysis.
Instructions:
Note the sheet tabs below. Enter the labels and financial data in the Input sheet. Click on the Horizontal and Ver
want to temporarily remove unneeded rows and columns by first specifying (i.e., highlighting, selecting) the unneed
(see the Excel Help system for directions). The capacity is five years of data (columns) and forty-six lines of data (r
column A. At times you will want to abreviate to avoid taking up additional lines. Start the input using row 27 and
To see examples of how Flexible can be used, close this spreadsheet and open FlexibleNikeIS.xls and FlexibleNi
the base column F for the horizontal analysis and the use of the base row 27 for the vertical analysis. Since an incom
top, you should start at the base row 27 and build down. Since a balance sheet has its largest number at the bottom,
both statements, put the oldest year's data in the base column F and build to the left. Although the examples show co
be used for parts of financial statements or other schedules.
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Don Saftner
Nike, Inc.
Horizontal Analysis
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Don Saftner
Nike, Inc.
Vertical Analysis
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