Introduction
Objective
• The objective of the company is to provide financial information of a company that would be helpful for the company to make necessary decision
• To understand the Comparative analysis of company’s performance with industry standards
• To know the financial trend of the company over the past three years
• To assess the achievement of the company over its assets, liabilities and revenues
Scope:
• The scope of following financial report is to provide financial position, performance and changes in financial position that would be helpful for making economic and beneficial decisions for the company.
• To provide necessary information to the company’s management so that company would be able to plan, analyze, benchmark and make favorable decisions.
• Moreover, this report will also be useful for investors, debtors, promoters and creditors to make rational decisions regarding their investment and value of money.
• It will also provide information to shareholders and to the public about different perspective of the company.
Office Depot-Accounting Term Paper Harvard Case Solution & Analysis
Methodology:
A systematic collection of financial information of Office Depot Company has been required in order to analyze the company’s financial information. The financial data which includes statement of Profit & Loss, Balance sheet and Company’s introduction has been taken from sec.gov. Moreover, the analysis of company’s financial information has done by using the ratio metrics. These ratios includeprofitability ratios, activity ratios, solvency ratios and liquidity ratios. The benchmark to analyze company’s financial position is the industrial data. The industry information has been gathered from csi market page.Moreover, horizontal and vertical analysis has also been performed in the following report. Under the trend and horizontal analysis, 2014 is to be kept as base year, on which the company’s performances havebeen evaluated.
Business industry and future outlook
Industry:
The competition within the office supplies has been increasing. Moreover, the technological advancements us decreasing the traditional supplies and demands for traditional supplies which includes paper, pen or paper clips. In 2012 to 2013, industry is facing decline in profitability of supplies retailers. However, the industry analysis of 2013 shows that net profits margins are driving towards positives to negatives. In addition, this industry has been derived towards the one of the least profitable retail industries. The expenses and cost of sales are increasing from the margin of revenues andsales. The reason that has been declared behind the shifts in industry’s profits is the business’s practices and operations are moving towards digitalization, and it has been promoted.Not only local and small scale supplies companies are facing losses, but high level companies’such as staples and Office Depot are also facing decline in their profits, such as 4% decline in office depot sales in 2013 and continued for next years.(Biery, 2014)
The industry statistics and its market size has shown the annual growth is declined for 7.4%. Major companies which exists in Office Supplies industries are retailers and local companies. There are only few large size companies in the industry that has been went public andearn higher profit rate................
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