Problem
As you have seen, financial ratio analysis is an important topic and you will find it covered in a number of classes and textbooks. It is widely used to summarize the information in a company's financial statements to assess its financial health. In today's information technology world, real-time financial data are readily available on the internet.
For your initial post:
a) Find an internet or PMI Library source that contains a database of corporate financial data. Post the link to the database.
b) Describe the database and the information that it contains.
c) Describe how you could use this data to analyze a prospective company of interest.
d) What are other potential uses for this information?