Essay - Analysis of Tables the First Table Gives US an Idea...

Analysis of tables

***** first table gives us an idea about the importance that small and large companies give to research ***** development spending, as part ***** ********** annual net income before taxes.

The first main difference that we notice between large and small companies regards trend. Indeed, if the former have increased their R&D *****, the ********** companies ***** certainly diminished it. Even if these figures are not necessarily *****o obvio***** at times, the ***** still stands out.

For example, Metawave Communication Corporation has decreased the report figures from 345 % in 1999 to 270 % in 2002. I have picked this company because it had encountered the most significant figures ***** *****. On the o*****r hand, a large company such as Analog Devices Inc. has increased the R&D proportion from 199 % to 402 %, which means basically that the ***** spending has almost doubled during the period analyzed.

***** second ********** shows a comp*****rison in terms of the ***** *****come proportion of sales between the *****r and smaller companies. The most significant thing we notice here is that ***** smaller companies have a much larger ***** than the larger ones. *****, for the first small company in the table, Metawave Communication *****, the net ********** to sales ratio is around 26 %. This is the same for the second ***** third ***** in the table.

On the other hand, a large company such as Maytag has a net *****come to ***** ratio of only 7.5 %, even if the net income is around 50,000 ***** greater ***** that ***** Metwave