4. A lunch with a banker Levko has chosen Chinese cuisine for this lunch. First dish was to be a swallow’s nest‚ that’s a soup cooked of small fishes caught and brought by swallows to build their nests‚ and glued together with something tasty. Second dish was simpler‚ the duck a la Peking with bamboo shoots. Levko hired his first private cook in the nineties when he found his first bank. It was quite vital: in those wild years the less the banker showed up in crowded places‚ longer he lived.
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Financial Ratio: A financial ratio (or accounting ratio) is a relative magnitude of two selected numerical values taken from an enterprise ’s financial statements. Often used in accounting‚ there are many standard ratios used to try to evaluate the overall financial condition of a corporation or other organization. Financial ratios may be used by managers within a firm‚ by current and potential shareholders (owners) of a firm‚ and by a firm ’s creditors. Security analysts use financial ratios to compare
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Current Ratio 2012 (‘000) 2013 (‘000) (Current Asset)/(Current Liabilities) (Current Asset )/( Current Liabilities) = (RM 308‚510)/RM161‚786 = RM337‚728/(RM 222‚768) = 1.91 : 1 = 1.52 : 1 The table above shows that Dutch Lady has a decreased
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Financing Change PRIVATE EQUITY DEMYSTIFIED An explanatory guide John Gilligan and Mike Wright Financing Change An initiative from the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty This is the first report to be published under Financing Change‚ the thought leadership programme of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty. The faculty is the world’s largest network of professionals involved in corporate finance and counts accountants‚ lawyers‚ bankers‚ other practitioners and people in business among its members
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Contents page Introduction……………………page1 Literature review………………page 2 Uses of ratios…………………...Page 2 Types of financial ratios………Page 3 ➢ Profitability ratios……….Page 3 ➢ Efficiency Ratios………....Page 4 ➢ Liquidity Ratios………….Page 5 ➢ Investment Ratios………..Page 6 Limitations of ratios…………..Page 8 Conclusion……………………..Page 8 Introduction. The primary purpose of accounting is to convey information about the business to management‚ investors‚ shareholders‚ government
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PAMELA JONES‚ FORMER BANKER What is the main issue/problem in this case? How to be a leader and how to motivate and influence employees. Summary of the case: Pamela Jones enjoyed banking. Since her graduation‚ she applied for employment with a large bank‚ the ABC Bank of Winnipeg and she was quickly hired. She was enrolled in the bank’s management development program because of her good education‚ her previous job experience and her obvious intelligence and drive. During her first year
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3 February 17‚ 2013 The article‚ “The Sharpe Ratio and the Information Ratio”‚ by Deborah Kidd is about the original risk-adjusted performance measure and they are Sharpe ratio and the Information Ratio. William Sharpe designed the first performance metric to insolate excess return per unit of total risk taken. The Sharpe ratio shows whether a portfolio ’s returns are due to smart investment decisions or a result of excess risk. The Sharpe ratio measure dividends average portfolio excess return
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RATIO ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR DETERMINING CORPORATE PERFORMANCE ( A STUDY OF SELLECTED BANKS IN NIGERIA) RATIOS ANALYSIS AS A TOOLS FOR DETERMINING CORPORATE PERFORMANCE :( A STUDY OF SELECTED BANKS IN NIGERIA) BEING A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY‚ZARIA NIGERIA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION‚
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To illustrate this point let’s assume that a company’s buildings and equipment have been fully depreciated and therefore there will be no depreciation expense for those buildings and equipment on its income statement. Is zero expense a good indicator of the cost of using those buildings and equipment? Compare that situation to a company with new buildings and equipment where there will be large amounts of depreciation expense. The remainder of our explanation of financial ratios and financial
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company’s solvency is their debt- to-asset ratio. “This ratio indicates the proportion of total assets that are financed by debt.” (text) If this ratio is high it indicates a greater financing risk. In 2007 WestJet’s debt-to-asset ratio was 68.2%‚ it decreased in 2008 to 66.9%. This means they are financing more of the assets with equity in 2008 compared to 2007. When we compare this ratio to Air Canada we see a telling story. In 2007 Air Canada’s debt-to-asset ratio was 77.8%‚ but in 2008 it rose
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