How to read a balance sheet: Alphabet Inc case study

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thanks for the very insightful company analysis! tech companies look almost like asset managers.

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Hello, thank you for taking the time to teach this! Very well done.

Thank You, it may really help to explain the calculations formulas.

Thank you for your sharing of analysis of the 3 financial statements of Alphabet Inc. They are all professional presentations. 2 thumbs up!! Please allow me to be greedy a bit, may I request you to go further, based on those figures, to discuss the Discounted Cash Flow model as well the WACC. These two reports are important to forecast the value of the company in the near future, and also make the analysis as a whole perfect. By the way, you did the current ratio on the balance sheet, do we need to do ratios of other items? Do we need to do ratios on the other two financial statements as well? Thanks again for your kindness.

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This case study analysis was awesome , very helpful. Though an thought came into mind : wht do companies like google and apple have majority of their assets in liquid assets like cash ? Isnt cash depreciating in value ?

Is there any correlation between current ratio and CFOA? When the Current ratio is below 1 and CFOA is positive (and increased), can we say the company have liquidity problems?

excellent job. thank you

How do you know what people have rounded their balance sheets to? How do you know if 7,100 is 7,100 , 7million or 7billion?

Thank you this was great! Are there any videos explaining pension liabilities?

Solid!

Another great explanation in clear terms. I also watched your most helpful video on "how to make videos" but already knew that you followed a highly-structured approach, which seems to be based on Minto's pyramid principle. Are you in fact using this to structure your thinking and content? An observation in this particular video, and it is not a criticism, is that your 'key line' or 'To Do List' at about 1:20 mentions 5 items but you deal with the second item last. Is there a specific reason that you listed the items in this order but dealt with them in precisely the same sequence expect for the second item? Another question that I have is also from a non-financial person perspective. When I attended a (very poorly presented) course on financial statements I recall being told that the Net Profit is "a balancing item in the Balance Sheet". The example used on that course showed this clearly as a line item ('net profit for the period' ? equal in value to the line in the IS) but almost every published BS I look at does not list this as a line item. Could you please help me understand why and how does this line item for "net profit for the period" become 'distributed' among the line items shown in a typical BS? The current example company I am analyzing does however have an item for "cash and cash equivalents" that precisely matches with that in the CF statement.

First , Thanks for a such useful topic. I have two related questions, First, the ratio number indicates at current ratio is valid for next three quarters, or to the end of fiscal year? İf the answer is the Fiscal year, then where we can get the most recent statistics include current ratio before 1st quarter report?