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      Facebook and Microsoft – A Financial Statement Analysis Comparison Across Three Categories

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      financial statement analysis, financial statements, technology company, strategy analysis, accounting analysis, ratio analysis

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            In this individual project I will analysis the financial statements of the social media network Facebook and the software publisher Microsoft in the Internet industry. The project goal is to evaluate risks, performance, financial health, and future prospects of the two firms. I will specifically analyse the complex and ambiguous revenue recognition and the impact of M&A on the companies’ financial statements. In the following I will assess and compare the companies’ strategy, key accounting items, profitability, liquidity, and risk.

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            22 December 2023
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            [1 ] University of Cambridge;
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            https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2714-5442
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            10.14293/PR2199.000579.v1
            d5989aa9-4e1c-468a-97f3-606dfd14f9d4

            This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

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            : 22 December 2023
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            Financial economics
            financial statement analysis,financial statements,technology company,strategy analysis,accounting analysis,ratio analysis

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