Financial Analysis of Apple Inc.: A Comprehensive Review of the 2014 Annual Report
In-depth review of Apple�s 2014 annual financial report.
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Financial Analysis of Apple Inc.: A Comprehensive Review of the 2014 Annual ReportIntroduction-About the companyApple Inc. has been taken for analysisand its recent financial year statement is for theyear ending September2014.The companyisengaged inmanufacturing, designingandmarketing mobile communication and portable digital music players, media devices and personalcomputers. Also, is engaged in selling a variety of related software, peripherals, services, third-party digital content and applications and networking solutions. The company was established in1977, as a California Corporation. The fiscal year of the company is a 52-53 week period thatends on the last day of the September. The products and services of the company includes i Pad ,i Phone, Mac , Apple TV, i Cloud , iPod , a portfolio of consumer and professional softwareapplications, the iOS and OS X operating systems, and a variety of accessory, service andsupport offerings. The company is engaged in selling its products worldwide through its onlinestores, retail stores, and direct sales force as well as through retailers, wholesalers, value-addedresellers and third-party cellular network carriers.What are the company’s total assets at the end of its most recent annual reporting period?Why is this important?Total assets are everything that a business or an individual owns. For a company, they are listedon abalance sheet.These assets are valued based on their purchase prices, not the current marketvalue of the assets.Assets typically can be converted from a physical item into cash. The ease inwhich an asset can be turned into money is known as liquidity. Assets can take various forms,ranging from realestateand investment securitiestoequipment andinventory.Cash alsocontributes to the sum of assets.
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