Apple’s Financial Statement 2013
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction .................................................................... 3
1.1 Company Background...................................................... 3
1.2 Business Strategy .......................................................... 3
1.3 Research and Development .............................................. 3
2. Products performance ......................................................... 4
2.1 iPhone ....................................................................... 4
2.2 iPad .......................................................................... 5
2.3 MacBook ..................................................................... 4
3. Conclusion ...................................................................... 6
3.1 Report ....................................................................... 6
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Company Background
The Company designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media
devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and sells a variety of
related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital
content and applications. The Company’s products and services include iPhone®,
iPad®, Mac®, iPod®, Apple TV®, a portfolio of consumer and professional software
applications, the iOS and OS X® operating systems, iCloud®, and a variety of
accessory, service and support offerings. The Company also sells and delivers digital
content and applications through the iTunes Store®, App Store™, iBooks Store™, and
Mac App Store. The Company sells its products worldwide through its retail stores,
online stores, and direct sales force, as well as through third-party cellular network
carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers. In addition, the Company
sells a variety of third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including
application software, and various accessories, through its online and retail stores. The
Company sells to consumers; small and mid-sized businesses (“SMB”); and education,
enterprise and government customers. The Company’s fiscal year is the 52 or 53-week
period that ends on the last Saturday of September.
1.2 Business Strategy
The Company is committed to bringing the best user experience to its customers
through its innovative hardware, software and services. The Company’s business
strategy leverages its unique ability to design and develop its own operating systems,
hardware, application software, and services to provide its customers new products
and solutions with superior ease-of-use, seamless integration, and innovative design.
The Company believes continual investment in research and development, marketing
and advertising is critical to the development and sale of innovative products and
technologies. As part of its strategy, the Company continues to expand its platform for
the discovery and delivery of third-party digital content and applications through the
iTunes Store. As part of the iTunes Store, the Company’s App Store and iBooks Store
allow customers to discover and download applications and books through either a Mac
or Windows-based computer or through “iOS devices,” namely iPhone, iPad and iPod
touch®. The Company’s Mac App Store allows customers to easily discover, download
and install Mac applications. Therefore, the Company’s strategy also includes
enhancing and expanding its own retail and online stores and its third-party
distribution network to effectively reach more customers and provide them with a
high-quality sales and post-sales support experience.
1.3 Research and Development
Because the industries in which the Company competes are characterized by rapid
technological advances, the Company’s ability to compete successfully depends heavily
upon its ability to ensure a continual and timely flow of competitive products, services
and technologies to the marketplace. The Company continues to develop new
technologies to enhance existing products and to expand the range of its product
offerings through research and development, licensing of intellectual property and
acquisition of third-party businesses and technology. Total research and development
expense was $4.5 billion, $3.4 billion and $2.4 billion in 2013, 2012 and 2011,
respectively.
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PRODUCTS PERFORMANCE
2.1 iPhone
Net Sales ($M)
The growth in iPhone net sales and unit sales during 2013 resulted from increased demand for iPhone in all of the
Company’s operating segments primarily due to the launch of iPhone 5 beginning in September 2012 and strong ongoing
demand for iPhone 4 and 4s. All of the Company’s operating segments experienced increases in net sales and unit sales of
iPhone during 2013 compared to 2012. The year-over-year impact of higher iPhone unit sales in 2013 was partially offset by
a 3% decline in iPhone average selling prices (“ASPs”) in 2013 compared to 2012 primarily as a result of a shift in product mix
towards lower-priced iPhone models, particularly iPhone 4. All of the Company’s geographic operating segments
experienced a decline in iPhone ASPs during 2013. The year-over-year growth in iPhone net sales and unit sales during 2012
reflects strong demand for iPhone in all of the Company’s operating segments, except for the Rest of Asia Pacific segment.
Growth in iPhone sales during 2012 is primarily a result of the launches of iPhone 4s in the first quarter of 2012 and iPhone 5
in the fourth quarter of 2012, ongoing demand during 2012 for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, and expanded distribution with
new carriers and resellers.
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2.2 iPad
The growth in net sales and unit sales of iPad during 2013 resulted from growth in iPad unit sales in all of the Company’s
operating segments. This growth was driven by the launch of iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad beginning in the first
quarter of 2013. The year-over-year growth rate of total iPad unit sales was significantly higher than the growth rate of total
iPad net sales for 2013 due to a reduction in iPad ASPs of 15% in 2013 compared to 2012. This decline resulted primarily
from introduction of the lower priced iPad mini and the full year impact of the price reduction on iPad 2 made in 2012. The
decline in iPad ASPs was experienced to various degrees by all of the Company’s operating segments. The year-over-year
increase in iPad net sales and unit sales during 2012 was driven by strong demand for iPad in all of the Company’s operating
segments as a result of the launch of the third generation iPad in March 2012, continued demand for iPad 2, and expanded
distribution with new resellers. The year-over-year growth rate of iPad unit sales was higher than the growth rate of iPad
net sales during 2012 due to a 10% reduction in ASPs as a result of a shift in product mix toward lower-priced iPad models, a
price reduction on iPad 2 and an increase in indirect sales due to expanded distribution through third-party resellers.
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2.3 MacBook
Mac net sales and unit sales for 2013 were down or relatively flat in all of the Company’s operating segments. Mac ASPs
increased slightly partially offsetting the impact of lower unit sales on net sales. The decline in Mac unit sales and net sales
reflects the overall weakness in the market for personal computers. The year-over-year growth in Mac net sales and unit
sales during 2012 reflects increased demand for Mac portables in all of the Company’s operating segments driven by 2012
releases of updated models of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, including MacBook Pro with Retina display in June 2012.
Partially offsetting the increase in net sales of Mac portables was a decline in net sales of Mac desktops that reflected the
overall decline in the market for desktop personal computers during 2012. Additionally, the Company did not introduce
updated versions of its Mac desktop products in 2012.
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CONCLUSION
3.1 REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Shareholders of Apple Inc. We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of
Apple Inc. as of September 28, 2013 and September 29, 2012, and the related consolidated statements of operations,
comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 28,
2013. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated
financial position of Apple Inc. at September 28, 2013 and September 29, 2012, and the consolidated results of its
operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 28, 2013, in conformity with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles. We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Apple Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of September 28, 2013,
based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (1992 framework) and our report dated October 29, 2013 expressed an
unqualified opinion thereon.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Jose, California
October 29, 2013
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