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Eastman Kodak Financial Analysis

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good reason for this -- as the process for replicating pictures onto film came of age during the late 19th century, it was Kodaks founder, George Eastman, who introduced the  first camera, a small device loaded with enough film for 100 pictures. The camera was mailed back to the company, which then returned with the pictures and more film.  These days however, the Kodak brand is pretty much ubiquitous. Kodak is still known for cameras -- it is also known  in for film, digital copiers and at one point, printers. It is always interesting to perform financial analysis of companies of this  type, in order to determine the financial health -- especially a company that has been around as long as Kodak has. This  paper will perform such an analysis on Eastman Kodak, relying on figures from the companys annual report from its Web site. Once we have these figures, we will also  attempt to analyze what they mean for the companys overall fiscal health. Internal Analysis Debt-to-asset. The debt-to-asset ratio basically compares  Kodaks assets to its liabilities. In 2002, and the companys assets and per $13.3 billion, which was not much changed from 2001 (Eastman Kodak, 2003). Liabilities in the meantime,  also underwent very small changes -- in 2002, liabilities were $10.5 billion, while in 2001, they were at $10.4 billion (Eastman Kodak, 2003). This would provide a debt/asset ratio of  approximately 1:1.25. Debt-to-equity. Calculating the debt-to-equity ratio means comparing the debt, or liabilities, in the company with equity, or payouts,