Use the balance sheet and statement of income you downloaded for Ascension Health during Week 3. In a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, prepare a vertical analysis of the company for the years 2013 and 2014 and a horizontal analysis from 2013 (base year) to 2014 (subsequent year).
Discuss your findings. Here are a few, but not all, the questions you should consider.
- Is Ascension Health growing?
- What line items reflected the largest-percentage increases and/or decreases?
- What is the financial impact these changes have on the company’s financial viability currently and in the future?
Prepare a vertical analysis, listed all items of data and performed necessary calculations correctly.
Prepare a horizontal analysis, listed all items of data and performed necessary calculations correctly.
Draw valid conclusions about viability.
The following link is the balance sheet and statement of income you downloaded for Ascension Health during Week 3
http://www.ascensionhealth.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article
&id=45&Itemid=160.
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