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How to analyze an income statement? Let me show you how I would get started with reviewing the income statement of a company, the same way I would do it with participants in one of my finance for non-financial manager courses. Here is Walmarts income statement, or profit and loss statement (PL) for the fiscal years ended January 31st, 2017, 2016 and 2015. 2017 is on the left, 2015 on the right. The income statement can be found in the annual report. There is a lot of information here, we need to set priorities on which items we are going to dive into, to get the most valuable use of our analysis time. My proposal would be to first dive into the revenue performance, which seems to have dropped from 2015 to 2016, and then has come back up in 2017. What are the main drivers for revenue? Next I would look into the margin performance. How have gross margin, operating margin, and net income developed in relation to the fluctuations in revenue? As retail is traditionally a fairly low margin