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Financial Statement are available at: www.nasdaq.com/quotes/company-financials.aspx. Enter TGT (Target) as symbol and submit to get the financial statements.

Research and obtain Target corporation (retailer) last few years (at least two) financial statements (information that is available to the public online) in order to answer the following questions:

A. Based on the information that you have gathered, explain the changes in financial ratios. Has anything changed in the few years of financial statements that you have obtained?

i. What are the reasons for these changes?

B. Based on the information you have gathered, analyze the changes in the financial reports regarding cash. Be sure to examine the statement of cash flows.

i. What are the reasons for these changes?

C. Based on the information you have gathered, analyze the changes in the financial reports regarding the account balance.

i. What are the reasons for these changes?

D. Describe the type of valuation method that Target Corporation uses and explain why it uses this method.

i. What are the benefits of this method?

E. Based on industry trends, future plans of Target Corporation, and the information you have gathered, predict how Target Corporation will perform in the following year compared to competitors.

Support your arguments with at le ast three peer-reviewed sources cited in APA format

Financial Statement are available at: www.nasdaq.com/quotes/company-financials.aspx. Enter TGT (Target) as symbol and submit to get the financial statements. The financial ratios that need to be analysed are ccurrent ratio, quick ratio and cash ratio.

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