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Choose a company whose products you use and obtain its most recent annual report. (Note: Annual reports can usually be found under the "investor relations" area of the company's website.) Calculate several of the ratios that you learned about this week. What conclusions about the company's financial strengths and weaknesses can you draw from these ratios?

The company I chose was Kirkland's below is the website for their 2010 annual report
http://www.annualreports.com/Company/3380

Compute and evaluate:

Leverage Ratios
Liquidity ratios
Efficiency Ratios.

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See the ratios and commentary in Excel, attached.

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