Problem
As a team, select an industry to analyze. Yahoo! Finance provides list of industries at finance.yahoo.com/industries. Click on an industry for a list of companies in that industry. Alternatively, go to Google Finance at finance.google.com/finance, search for a company you are interested in, and you will be presented with a list including that company and its competitors. Each team member should acquire the annual report or 10-K for one publicly traded company in the industry, with each member selecting a different company (the SEC EDGAR service at www.sec.gov and the company's investor relations website itself are good sources).
The company we will be doing is STARBUCKS!
List the accounts and amounts of the company's long-lived assets (land, buildings, equipment, intangible assets, natural resources, and/or other) for the last three years.
i. What is the percentage of each to total assets (rounded to two decimal places)?
ii. What do the results of your analysis suggest about the strategy your company has followed with respect to investing in long-lived assets?