Provided a brief background on the operations of the two companies that is Nike INC and Adidas AG as well as on the current stock prices of the two companies. An assessment of each company’s current and future profitability as well as their financial soundness. You will have to extract details from their income statements in the last five years for both the target and the competitor companies. You can obtain this information directly after you have performed the stock screening on the TSX website, or you can go to the SEDAR filing system to search for Canadian companies’ financial statements. Based on the information obtained from the two companies’ income statements as well as the background information, you are to compare the performance of the two companies using financial statement analysis. you know there are at least the horizonal analysis, the vertical analysis and the ratio analysis that you can perform. You have been asked to discuss any other issues that you believe are relevant to the investment decision and make a recommendation to Big Spenders Inc. for whether your target would be a good investment. Big Spenders Inc. would likely be a long-term client of FINACC LLP if you could once again gain their trust from this project. The Manager would like you to prepare the final report and trust that your analysis will be throughout and
