positive answer indicates late payments‚ while a negative answer indicates early payments. 4. Pie Corp’s sales last year were $315‚000‚ and its year-end total assets were $355‚000. The average firm in the industry has a total assets turnover ratio (TATO) of 2.4. The firm’s new CFO believes the firm has excess assets that can be sold so as to bring the TATO down to the industry average without affecting sales. By how much must the assets be reduced to bring the TATO to the industry average
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The ratios considered useful by upper management will be different than what an investor consider useful. Senior management will be concerned with the ratio like return on total assets because they want to know how the company is fairing overall and whether they will be able to meet the debt holders liability and shareholders expectation. An investor will be more concerned with ratios like return on equity because they just want to know how whether they will be able to make profit on their investment
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Financial Terms and Roles Kelly L. Banks FIN/370 May 23‚ 2012 Richard Harrell Financial Terms and Roles Finance: Finance is the study of how individuals and organizations identify how they will make investments. Efficient Market: Market that displays data that is readily available to all that need to make a decision on whether to invest or sell securities Primary Market: Market in which new securities are bought and sold. Secondary Market: Market where you sell shares that were previously
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The Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Cassandra Brown‚ Diana Smiley‚ Patricia Ramirez FIN/370 - FINANCE FOR BUSINESS 11/23/14 Michael Rodriguez The Industry Averages and Financial Ratios In today’s market business really look at what the others in their competitive market are doing to compare how they are doing as a business or corporation. They do this by evaluating the industry averages and the financial ratios. When corporations and financial advisors look at the industry
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Financial Ratio Analysis Paper Dehlia Lopez FIN/575 March 25‚ 2010 University of Phoenix Financial Ratio Analysis Ford Motor Company is one of the automotive industries largest and most successful auto makers with more than 164‚000 employees and seventy manufacturing plants world wide‚ (Ford Motor Company‚ 2013). The firm is led by President & CEO‚ Alan Mulally who drives with a ”One Team‚ One Plan‚ One Goal‚ One Ford business strategy for achieving success”‚ (Ford Motor Company‚ 2013)
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In the context of today’s competitive global economy the importance of understanding and interpreting financial information is nowadays vital for HR professionals‚ and there are good reasons why we can consider it so. As I shall argue‚ being an HR specialist today is not as easy as it may seem‚ as this job requires more skills and knowledge than ever before. Today there exist completely new HR roles such as Human Resources Business Partner and Reward or Compensation & Benefits Manager allocated
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Mini essay on understanding and interpreting financial information Explain and analyse how financial skills can be useful in your role‚ at an operational level and at an organisational strategic level. Provide relevant evidence and examples to elaborate your essay.Word count‚ excluding references: 800 words. Please‚ specify the word count at the end of this section and provide a references list. The reference list is not included in the word count.Word count‚ excluding references: 773 words
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Working Capital Simulation Ismael Hernandez University of Phoenix ERIC RAMOS FIN/571 1/4/ 2015 Sunflower Nutraceuticals is a privately owned company that is a wide distributor providing numerous dietary supplements for customers‚ distributors‚ and retailers (University of Phoenix‚ 2013). After starting the business in 2006 as an internet based company‚ SNC expanded operations into retail outlets as well as introducing some new private labeled products. Although SNC has the potential to
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Financial Forecasting CheckPoint FIN/200 Axia College of University of Phoenix Write a 200- to 300-word explanation of the reasons the following types of companies would need a financial forecast: brand new company‚ family-owned company‚ and a long-standing corporation. The reason type of companies such as brand new companies‚ family-owned companies‚ and long-standing companies would need a financial forecast is to develop projected financial statements; a series of pro forma. The information
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Defining Financial Terms FIN/370 March 7‚ 2013 Defining Financial Terms 1. Finance a. The study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them 2. Efficient Market b. Markets where all important information is available to all the different participants at the same time. The prices also correlate with the available information c. Stock markets are an example of efficient market 3. Primary Market d. This is where the buyer
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