Costco Wholesale is a membership based warehouse store that strives to provide quality products at the lowest possible price. They believe this is possible by following its Code of Ethics‚ which include obey the law‚ take care of its members‚ take care of its employees‚ and respect its vendors. As of 2014‚ Costco was named the third largest retailer in the United States and in 2015 it is the second largest in the world. Costco has a total of 674 warehouses worldwide. Costco serves more than 10 million
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and Operating Highlights: | Unit | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | Profitability Ratios | | | | | | | Gross Profit Ratio | % | 32.52 | 28.51 | 29.55 | 29.97 | 32.20 | Operating Profit to Sales | % | 12.66 | 8.83 | 5.76 | 8.18 | 9.48 | Net Profit to Sales | % | 8.14 | 4.18 | 1.93 | 3.71 | 5.11 | EBITDA Margin to Sales | % | 14.02 | 10.62 | 7.85 | 10.40 | 11.33 | Operating Leverage Ratio | % | 288.57 | 385.63 | (81.89) | 26.28 | 159.98 | Return on Equity | % | 50.17 | 27.70
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Arnold‚ G.‚ 2008. Corporate financial management. Pearson Education‚ pp.602-603. Atrill‚ P Ball‚ R. 2003. The Theory of Stock Market Efficiency: Accomplishments and Limitations. Wiley-Blackwell. 4th ed. pp.11-15 Bibliography Mandelbrot‚ B. & Hudson‚ L.‚ 2004. Misbehaviour of markets. Basic Books‚ pp.11-103. Lo‚ A.‚ 1997 Nocera‚ J.‚ 2009. Poking Holes in a Theory on Markets. New York Times‚ 5 June. Lumby‚ S Arnold‚ G.‚ 2008. Corporate financial management. Pearson Education‚ pp.565-614.
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Chemistry Experiment 6 Mole Ratio in a Chemical Reaction Background: Mole ratios of reactants are often times figured out by the use of the other products in a chemical equation. However‚ in the instance that the products’ mole ratios are unknown‚ it can be determined through the experiment. This method is called continuous variations. In this lab‚ I determined the mole ratio between Sodium Hypochlorite and Sodium Thiosulfate by using continuous variations of ratios in a given volume. This reaction
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Ratio Analysis Memo Memorandum TO: Chief Executive Officer FROM: Accounting Department DATE: July 23‚ 2015 RE: Financial Statement Analysis and Findings 2008 The following memo will explain the findings of the financial statement analysis for 2008 for Berry’s Bug Blasters as well as offer advice significant decreases in profits or increases in liabilities if they apply. Some quick facts: Liquidity is up for 2008 Current ratio shows we pay assets 5.99 times for every current liability‚ an increase
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leverage. In contrast‚ Dell’s debt to equity ratio is much higher than HP’s debt to equity ratio. This means HP’s returns to investor are more solid than Dell. P/E ratio (weakness) The stock market is pessimistic about Dell’s future earning ability. This is due to the recession in 2008. Dell’s major business is selling computer and accessories‚ in the recession consumer tends to spend money on life essential goods such as food and gasoline. Dell’s P/E ratio is ranged from 70.7 in 1999 and gradually
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Public Concern in the Childcare Sector: Child to Staff Ratios Public Concern in the Childcare Sector: Child to Staff Ratios At the end of 2012‚ it was announced that the Government were looking to relax their child to staff ratios for childcare in England. The reason for this is that they though it would make more available spaces for childcare‚ and lower costs for parents. Britain has some of the highest childcare costs in the world‚ with many mothers with two or more children saying it does
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4-2 Why would the inventory turnover ratio be more important for someone analyzing a grocery store chain than an insurance company? The inventory turnover ratio is important to a grocery store because of the much larger inventory required and because some of that inventory is perishable. An insurance company would have no inventory to speak of since its line of business is selling insurance policies or other similar financial products--contracts written on paper and entered into between the company
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FAT32 efficiency and performance If you have better understanding of how fat has some inherent design problem‚ you can better know about the advantages of the FAT32 system. First‚ FAT16 organizes files in 32K clusters in drives over 1.2gigs‚ while FAT32 will use a minimum cluster size of 4K‚ it is very important to emphasize. Second‚ the biggest improvement is in FAT32 which in today’s high-capacity hard disk‚ with the ability to effectively manage storage space‚ which means that a 3K file wastes
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Debt/Equity Ratio What Does Debt/Equity Ratio Mean? A measure of a company’s financial leverage calculated by dividing its total liabilities by its stockholders’ equity; it indicates what proportion of equity and debt the company is using to finance its assets. http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/debt%2Fequity+ratio ’Debt/Equity Ratio’ A high debt/equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings
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