Corporate Financial Accounting
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Author: Carl Warren, Jeff Jones
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.1MAD
Analyze and compare Amazon.com to Best Buy
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is the largest Internet retailer in the United States. Best Buy, Inc. (BBY) is a leading retailer of technology and media products in the United States. Amazon and Best Buy compete in similar markets; however. Best Buy sells through both traditional retail stores and the Internet, while Amazon sells only through the Internet. The current assets and current liabilities from recent balance sheets for both companies are provided as follows (in millions):
| Amazon | Best Buy | |
| Current assets | $45,781 | $9,886 |
| Current liabilities | 43,816 | 6,925 |
a. Compute the working capital for each company.
b. Which company has the largest working capital?
c. 
Is working capital a good measure of relative liquidity in comparing the two companies? Explain.
d. Compute the current ratio for both companies. Round to one decimal place.
e. Which company has the larger relative liquidity based on the current ratio?
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