PART I:
1. Prepare common-size income statements for each year.
2. What do the common-size statements reveal about the company's operating results?
3. Prepare a trend analysis of adidas-Salomon's income statements.
4. What does the trend analysis reveal about the company's operating results?
5. Which approach - common-size or trend analysis or CAGR - was most revealing? Why?
PART II:
Report on an Excel worksheet the comparative cash flow statements for adidasSalomon covering the last five years.