Financial accounting 16th Edition by Jan Williams,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner ,Joseph Carcello

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You can find a large amount of information on the Internet to evaluate the performance of companies.any firms provide links to this information on their home pages.
Access the home page of The Gap, Inc. at the following Internet location:
www.gapinc.com
Instructions
a.hat links to financial information are available on the company's home page (Click on the link for "investors.")
b.ownload the company's most recent annual report and use it to answer the following questions:
1.y what percentage amounts did net sales increase or decrease in each of the three years reported
2.hat was the company's gross profit rate for each of the three years reported
3.hat were the company's sales per square foot of selling space for each of the three years reported
4.or the most recent year reported, how many new stores were opened How many existing stores, if any, were closed
5.y what percentage amounts did comparable store sales increase or decrease in each of the three years reported
6.hat dollar amount of inventory does the company report in its most recent balance sheet
Internet sites are time and date sensitive.t is the purpose of these exercises to have you explore
the Internet.ou may need to use the Yahoo! search engine www.yahoo.com (or another favorite
search engine) to find a company's current web address.