Annual reports of PepsiCo and Coca-Cola:

Vertical and horizontal analysis

See the attached files.
Review the annual reports for PepsiCo, Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company in Appendixes A & B,
especially the Consolidated Statements of Income and the Balance Sheets on pp. A4, A6, B1, &
B2 of Financial Accounting. Write a paper in APA format with citations and references that
provides a financial comparison of the two companies and your recommendations to improve the
financial status of each. Include the following: o An introductory paragraph with a statement of
the purpose of your paper and a synopsis of what readers may expect to find in the paper - It is
best to write this after writing the rest of the paper. o Vertical analyses for both companies - You
may use your calculations from the Checkpoint Ratio, Vertical, and Horizontal Analyses,
providing you show your work. o Horizontal analyses for both companies - You may use your
calculations from the Checkpoint Ratio, Vertical, and Horizontal Analyses, providing you show
your work.
Introduction PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational food and beverage corporation
headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing,
marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo
was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. PepsiCo has
since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to a broader range of food and beverage brands,
the largest of which include an acquisition of Tropicana in 1998 and a merger with Quaker Oats
in 2001which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio.As of January 2012, 22 of PepsiCo's
product lines generated retail sales of more than $1 billion each,
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and the company's products
were distributed across more than 200 countries, resulting in annual net revenues of
$43.3 billion. Based on net revenue, PepsiCo is the second largest food & beverage businessinthe
world. Within North America, PepsiCo is ranked (by net revenue) as the largest food and
beverage business.Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi has been the chief executive of PepsiCo since
2006, and the company employed approximately 297,000 people worldwide as of 2011. The
company's beverage distribution and bottling is conducted by PepsiCo as well as by licensed
bottlers in certain regions. PepsiCo is a SIC 2080 (beverage) company.
Corporate governance Headquartered in Purchase, New York, with research and development
headquarters in Valhalla, New York, PepsiCo's Chairman and CEO is Indra Nooyi.
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The board of
directors is composed of eleven outside directors as of 2010, including Ray Lee Hunt, Shona Brown,
Victor Dzau, Arthur C. Martinez, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Daniel Vasella, Dina Dublon, Ian M. Cook,
Alberto Ibargen, James J. Schiro and Lloyd G. Trotter. Former top executives at PepsiCo include Steven
Reinemund, Roger Enrico, D. Wayne Calloway, John Sculley, Michael H. Jordan, Donald M. Kendall,
Christopher A. Sinclair and Alfred Steele.On October 1, 2006, former Chief Financial Officer and
President Indra Nooyi replaced Steve Reinemund as Chief Executive Officer. Nooyi remained as the
corporation's president, and became Chairman of the Board in May 2007, later (in 2010) being named
No.1 on Fortune's list of the "50 Most Powerful Women"
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and No.6 on Forbes' list of the "World's 100
Most Powerful Women".
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PepsiCo received a 100 percent rating on the Corporate Equality Index
released by the LGBT-advocate group Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the
report.
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