company - H&R Block

You must use the annual report, from the company's own website, orfrom the SEC database. Quarterly financial statements should not be used to doratios because (1) many companies are seasonal and quarterlynumbers may not be representative of annual performance and (2)quarterly numbers are not audited, whereas annual financials are.Financial information provided by third parties like Yahoo Financeor Google Finance are not acceptable, as these numbers are notnecessarily accurate. You must use the company's official annualreport. If you go to the company website, and select investorsection, annual reports, or SEC filings and you should get thecorrect information (which also might be in the form of a 10Kreport)

Show the ratio calculation for each year, the calculation result,and the interpretation of the numbers. I suggest you put it intabular format and cut and paste into discussion to maintainformatting

What do you note in the changes of ratios from year to year?Explain what the ratios mean. Do these ratios correlate with whatyou know about these companies? Be sure to provide the raw data sowe can see how you calculated these ratios. Do not use calculatedratios you might find on financial websites. They are oftenincorrect or use old data.


1. Gross Profit margin

2. Profit Margin

3. Debt Ratio ( Liabilities/Assets)

4. Quick Ratio