INTERPRETATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Ways of interpreting financial statements - Using individual items contained in financial statement. - Using ratios computed from items contained in Financial Statement (Ratio analysis) Reasons for interpreting accounts Accounts have to be analyzed and interpreted for the following logical points (1) Evaluation of the trading performance of a firm in order to have a measure of the quality of management running it. (2) Appraisal and monitoring
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members of the AC will be financially literate. (4) The responsibilities of the audit committee include: integrity of financial reporting; risk management & internal control framework; &oversight of independence of external & internal auditors. (5) Qantas rotates the lead audit partner every five years and imposes restrictions on the ex-employees of the external auditor Additional Question 1. Related party transactions (a) - May be conducted with the related parties & treated like normal transactions
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Case Study – QANTAS Restructuring Lachlan Sorby This report was commissioned to examine QANTAS’ management processes and other business strategies. QANTAS’ decision to move some operations offshore was influenced by a number of factors; firstly‚ QANTAS reported a $215million profit loss for the half year ending December 31st 2011‚ compared to the same time the previous year. QANTAS also plans to reimage its heavy maintenance on its A380 Jumbo Jets and other large aircraft; by sending this
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02/16/2011 1. Calculation of Ratios a. Liquidity Ratios i. Current Ratio = 1‚354‚535 / 675‚252 = 2.0059 ii. Quick Ratio = 786‚114 / 675‚252 = 1.164 b. Leverage Ratios i. Debt Ratio = (675‚252 + 564‚390) / 2‚015‚677 = 1.5974 ii. Debt to Net Worth Ratio = (675‚252 + 564‚390) / 776‚036 = 1.5974 iii. Times Interest earned ratio = (165‚234 + 119‚658) / 119‚658 = 2.3808 c. Operating Ratios i. Avg.
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Financial Reporting II Review of Ratio Analysis Ratio analysis is a useful tool for analyzing financial statements. Calculating ratios will aid in understanding the company’s strategy and in understanding its strengths and weaknesses relative to other companies and over time. They can sometimes be useful in identifying earnings management and in understanding the effect of accounting choices on the firm’s reported profitability and growth. Finally‚ the ratios help in obtaining a better understanding
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Shah Advanced Financial Accounting AFRB 343 Presented to : Pn Juliana Anis Ramli Section : 3AM Presented by: 1 Preeyaa a/p K Seluras AC089640 2 Pavithira Nadarajan AC089637 3 Thayasiri Sumaran AC089676 4 Khesanivarni Balakrishnan AC089702 Table of Content Pages 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Company Background 4 3.0 Profitability Ratio 5-6 4.0 Liquidity Ratio 7-8 5.0 Efficiency Ratio 9-10 6.0 Gearing Ratio 11-12 7.0 Shareholder Ratio 13-14 8.0 Cash Flow 15
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to analyse and to compare relevance of data of the ARI (ARRIUM LIMITED) with the context of various financial ratios and to give suitable recommendation to potential new investor UNO Super fund Management. Discussion of the topic starts with the core business of the company with the all financial background. The report also summarise the way the fund generated by the company and the capital investment by the company. The nucleus of the report analyse the various financial ratio to determine the liquidity
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STUDY RATIO ANALYSIS ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS The traditional financial statements that comprise of the balance sheet and profit and loss account do not give enough information related to financial operations of the company. These financial statements prepared as per the statutory requirement of law need to be analyzed in order to evaluate the past performance of the company and the future prospects. The most widely used tool is Ratio Analysis. DEFINITION OF RATIO A way of expressing
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reported on the financial statements. 1) Return on Equity: One of the most important profitability ratios is return on equity (ROE). ROE is the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders equity. Return on equity measures a corporation’s profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested. The return on equity ratio is computed as follows: Return on Equity = | Net Income | | Average Shareholder’s Equity | Simply
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investors‚ credit rating agencies‚ government agencies etc. is called external analysis. Horizontal analysis compares financial data over a number of years to analyze the trend. Vertical analysis is based on the financial data of a particular year. Inter-firm analysis compares financial variables of two or more firms to get an idea of their relative competitive position. Intra-firm analysis compares the performance of different units of the same firm. Techniques of Financial Analysis: The following
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