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Discussion Board 2: Google Inc. Liberty University

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Hope Allen

Discussion Board 2: Google, Inc.

Liberty University

Google, Inc, was founded in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, they went public in 2004 to a great deal of fanfare (Cusumano, 2017). Google, Inc was reorganized into an subsidiary company known as Alphabet, Inc in October 2015. The company co- founders Page and Brin now runs Alphabet, Google have been the second valuable firm as of November 2016. Google, Inc has reached billions of people “through astounding ability to find, sort and deliver information instantaneously. Google handles trillions of queries per year or 80% of all internet searches on the plant” (McGrit, 2017).

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financial statements is the level of detail in the statement. Google provides a clarity of breakdown from the profits gain and loss pertaining to the past five years. In the text it only gives a breakdown with the current year.

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As a potential investor looking into Google, Inc overall history of longevity this has enabled insight on the company’s health. As an investor there is potential to dig deeper to follow current trends And compare the ratios to the competition within the industry. Google overall financial performance, shows significant signs of growth. An example would be google current assets, they are enough to cover their current and short term liabilities. “Alphabet shares, which have traded upward for the last decade, received an extra boost on April 27, when the company released it’s latest earnings report. In

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