TEST 4 CONCLUSIONS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND ANSWERS TO RATIO ANALYSIS 1) Financial ratios of ABC plc from 2009 to 2011 : 2009 2010 2011 Gross margin - % 59.0 54.5 53.6 Net margin - % 21.0 18.5 14.6 ROCE - % 68 45.8 29.9 Return on Shareholder’s Funds - % 84 49.8 28.8 Earnings per share - £ 10.5 10.2 6.83 Dividends per share - £ 3 2.2 1 Current ratio 1.89 2.15 2.32 Quick ratio ( Acid test) 0.84 0.95 1.18 Stock turnover time - days 178 167.9 175.5 Debtor payment time - days 36.5 36.5 45.6
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Confidence 1. How do you justify your thinking to someone who questions your conclusions? The way that I justify my thinking to someone who questions my conclusions is by using my knowledge from my past and present experiences‚ as well as the education I have acquired thus far both in and out of school because not everything is learned in the classroom. I use evidence-based practice and information from reliable sources as well as textbooks to explain my reasoning for someone to better understand
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Distinction 1: Going Online: The benefits and drawbacks of Tesco PLC: Tesco is a public limited company‚ is clearly that Tesco is a successful business; it is in the third place in the rank of largest retailer in the world. Tesco still want to achieve their aims and objective to keep growing and investing in their business. Tesco‚ made easier to achieve their aims and objectives when they decide to operate their business also online. Using the virtual world the Tesco’s customer can do shopping
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Essay – IRHR1001 Jeremy Buckley C3137793 1. Briefly explain the main conclusions that can be drawn from Taylor’s theory of Scientific Management and critically evaluate the implications for contemporary management practice Scientific management is directly associated with organisational theory and is linked with improving labor productivity and the economic efficiency of businesses. Scientific management focuses on how to improve work procedures and practices. The principal object of management
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QUES: Suggest the political and artistic implication of placing the conclusion of Passage to India within the Orientalist paradigm. Ans: It might seem scandalous to reduce E.M.Forster’s A Passage To India ‚ complex and multi-faceted work considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century‚ to such a concise formula. But we humbly offer up this mantra as our homage to Forster’s novel as a passage into his Passage To India. Published in 1924‚ when the cracks in the British Empire were just
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Hypothesis 1: Reading does not conform to standard models of Urban structure. On one hand‚ this hypothesis was proven to be if we were to only look at our footfall readings. These results were very inconsistent and showed no pattern to how dense the population of a certain area was. For example‚ the total pedestrian count‚ our first recording was 6 but when we got to the outer suburbs‚ one of the readings we took was 0. This would not conform to the theory that population density rises entering
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1. What conclusions can you make about your professional growth based on the evidence points found on your rubrics? One thing I can conclude about my professional growth based on the rubric is that my classroom management has improved. I feel that I have been standing my ground firmly when it comes to expectations‚ but also creating an environment where students feel safe to ask questions and come to me with problems. I also feel that I am still giving clear instructions to my students and repeating
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Previously in Romeo in Juliet we discover that they are from two warring families. Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Montague. They meet fall in love and get married without anyone knowing. Juliet’s cousin‚ Tybalt kills Romeos best friend‚ Mercutio. Romeo then kills Tybalt and gets banished. Juliet’s father then tries to force her to marry Paris so she fakes her death. Romeo hears that Juliet is dead and returns to Verona. The audience are drawn to the last scene because of the dramatic irony
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where planning becomes the focus. Since the focus for traditional firms is planning rather than control‚ the result is to try and improve planning for next time. Firms then end up not executing these plans but rather planning and re-planning. With the lean approach the focus is on control. Procedures are kept simple ‚ visual and made as routine as possible. With JIT‚ as each problem is exposed‚ you are forced to identify its cause‚ fix it‚ and move on to the next problem that is revealed. Although
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Usman Omid Chemistry IB 1A Enthalpy Of Solution _Introduction_ AIM The aim of this investigation was to determine the enthalpy of the solution created when dissolving Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) in water (H2O). THEORY When a solid ionic compound is dissolved in water a change of enthalpy is involved. _The enthalpy of a solution_‚ ΔHsol is the enthalpy change when one mole of the substance is dissolved in water to form aqueous solution. � CHEMICAL Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) PROCEDURE The recommended
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