2.0 FINANCIAL RATIOS 2 Liquidity Ratios Liquidity ratios measure a business ’ capacity to pay its debts as they come due. It also measures the cooperative’s ability to meet short-term obligations. Liquidity refers to the solvency of the firm’s overall financial position – the ease with which it can pay its bills. Because a common precursor to financial distress and bankruptcy is low or declining liquidity‚ these ratios can provide early signs of cash flow problems and impending
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Helane Morrison devastates the glass ceiling as she continues to take the world by storm. Few people within the financial industry have shown the ability to maintain as stringent of a code of ethics as Morrison. This ability to hold herself accountable for her actions has led to becoming one of the most influential women in the financial realm. Fall of the US Economy With the fall of the US economy in 2007-2008 caused by widespread corruption of high-ranking executives including the most influential
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Sainsbury Organisational Structure and Culture An Organisation’s structure is a network of interdependencies among the people and the tasks that make up the Organisation. It is created and sustained by the basic coordination mechanisms of mutual adjustment‚ direct supervision and standardization‚ all of which coordinate inter-dependent relationships among people and groups (Wagner and Hollenbeck 2009). Pugh (1990) simplifies this by defining an organizational structure as consisting of activities
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Food specialist F for everyone Annual report and financial statements 2009 Welcome to Morrisons We are the UK’s fourth largest food retailer by sales with an annual turnover in excess of £14bn. We have 382 stores‚ visited by 10 million customers each week and served by 124‚000 employees. What makes us different from other supermarkets is our own supply chain‚ our own manufacturing sites and ‘Market Street’. We make and pack our produce Fresh produce is washed‚ graded and packed in our
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IFRS 2008 IFRS 2007 IFRS 2006 IFRS 2005 UK GAAP 2005 UK GAAP 2004 Financial results (£m) Revenue 1 19‚287 18‚518 17‚317 16‚573 16‚573 18‚239 Revenue (inc VAT) - continuing operations 19‚287 18‚518 17‚317 16‚364 16‚364 15‚517 Underlying operating profit Sainsbury’s Supermarkets 535 429 352 308 321 564 Sainsbury’s Bank - 2 (10) 17 13 26 535 431 342 325 334 590 Underlying net finance costs 2 (45) (51) (75) (88) (92) (60) Share of post-tax (loss)/profit
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SWOT Analysis of Sainsbury’s Strengths -Good name and image‚ with the Image ‘Live well for less’ -High market share‚ one of the big four supermarket chains in UK. -Stock a wide range of lines‚ with around 20% being their own brands (such as ‘Taste the Difference’ and ‘Basics’). -Operates over 1‚200 stores across UK. Weaknesses -Hiring thousands of new staff means a lot of time is needed to train staff. -Stiff competition‚ with supermarkets such as Lidl and Aldi increasing their market shares
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To achieve an oligopolistic market structure there are certain characteristics which must be achieved. A small number of firms would dominate the market‚ each of these firms has a significant market power and would closely follow the behaviour of the other companies in the market. Unlike in a monopolistic market structure‚ the products produced by the firms of the oligopoly market do have substitutes. Firms will use non price competition methods in order to make their product or service stand out
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A Financial Ratio Quarterly Trend Analysis of Nike‚ Inc. Stock Symbol: NKE Listed on the New York Stock Exchange In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Course: FIN 6406 Report Completed By: 1. Introduction A financial ratio quarterly trend analysis was completed to provide the reader with a clear assessment of the financial health of the company: NIKE International. Just knowing that this company chose a symbol that references the winged goddess of victory seems to have been a
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Research Journal of Finance and Accounting ISSN 2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online) Vol 3‚ No 10‚ 2012 www.iiste.org Financial Ratios and Stock Return Predictability (Evidence from Pakistan) Muhammad Bilal Khan Faculty of Administrative Sciences Air University Islamabad Tel: +92-334-8819057 E-mail: mbilalkhan88@yahoo.com Sajid Gul (Corresponding Author) Faculty of Administrative Sciences Air University Islamabad Mardan 23200 KPK Pakistan Tel: +92-332-8102955 *E-mail: sajidali10@hotmail
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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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