company’s financial leverage‚ calculated by dividing a company’s total liabilities by its stockholder’s equity. This ratio indicates how much debt a company is using to finance its assets relative to the amount of value represented in shareholders’ equity. Most company is taking on debts as to increase its value by using borrowed money to fund various projects. A high debt/equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. If a lot of debt is used to finance
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per capita – on new hybrid purchases. The penetration rate significantly affects new purchases‚ and the effect differs by hybrid model. In particular‚ we find a positive diffusion effect from the Toyota Prius and a negative diffusion effect from the Honda Insight‚ with elasticities of 0.23 to 0.85 for the Prius and –0.08 to –0.32 for the Insight. This finding is consistent with our model of model–specific learning along with anecdotal evidence that early Insight models were perceived to be of lower
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general news HONDA Corporate Social Responsibility March 24‚ 2008 Honda Motor Co.‚ Ltd (Japan)‚ the mother company of the Honda Group of Companies in the Philippines was established in 1948. Since then Honda Motor has continuously sought to contribute to society by creating products of the highest quality and advance technologies. It has also undertaken Social Responsibility initiatives‚ seriously. Thus‚ the Honda Group of Companies in the Philippines composed of Honda Philippines‚ Inc.‚ (HPI)
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HONDA THE POWER OF DREAMS Sameen Kukar Bus115.05 11/29/2011 professor- Steven Saltzman Table of Contents Customers and Competitors Human Resources Globalization Code of Ethics Sustainability Information and Technology Operations Planning Leadership and Motivation Organization Finance Executive Summary. Sochrio Honda was the founder of the Honda Company. He spent Six years as an apprentice
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Introduction Honda is a Japan based company and is the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles as well as the world’s manufacturer of motor vehicles‚ producing more than 14 million internal motor vehicles each year. The Honda Motor Company was founded by Soichiro Honda in 1948. In 1959‚ he opened the American Honda Motor Company‚ so he could fulfil his dream of building a high performance motorcycle and marketing it globally. The discussion below briefly emphasises on the strategy used by Honda to gain
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CURRENT RATIO It is a liquidity ratio that measures a company’s ability to pay short-term obligations. Also known as "liquidity ratio"‚ "cash asset ratio" and "cash ratio". By putting to test a company’s financial strength‚ deduces company’s ability to pay back its short-term liabilities (debt and payables) with its short-term assets (cash‚ inventory‚ receivables). The higher the current ratio‚ the more capable the company is of paying its obligations. An acceptable current ratio varies
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POSSIBILITIES & LIMITATIONS OF HONDA’S PASSENGER CAR BUSINESS Honda is an excellent company in terms of its remarkable ability in entering the automobile market and becoming one major player in the industry. Honda started its business in motorcycle business before entered the automobile industry in 1962. Japan automobile industry at that time has a high entry barrier especially in the form of competition and economies of scale. Honda was a new comer and there were two strong players in the Market;
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Part A After-TAX Cost Debt O’Grandy Apparel Company can calculate the after tax debt cost using YTM (CP + (FV-Nd /n) / FV +Nd /2) *2. Cp is (0.12/2) * 1000= 60 Semi-annually Fv is 1000 Nd is 995 – (0.025* 1000) = 970 N is 20*2 because it is semi-annually then you have to use Kdt= Kd+ (i-T) .The tax bracket is 40 percent. Now we can have the after tax debt when it is equal or smaller than $700000 Kd ( 1-T) = 0.1249 (1-0.4)= 0.07494. If it is more than $700000 it will be KD (1-t) = 0.18(1-0.4)
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Liquidity Ratio Current ratio depicts how the company’s ability to payback its current liabilities and current assets. In 2011 the ratio is at its highest of 3.32 since the company put in capital. During this year they tested the waters on whether they could pay off short term debt. It went on a decreasing rate from 2012 to 2014 but had a slight increased on 2015. During 2012 to 2014 the company is struggling to pay back its liabilities and assets while financial health was at risk because
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Honda and Hybrid Electric Vehicles Honda was founded in Hamamatsu‚ Japan‚ by Soichiro Honda in 1946 as the Honda Technical Research Institute. The company began as a developer of engines for bicycles‚ but by 1949 it had produced its first motorcycle‚ called the Dream. In 1959‚ Honda entered the U.S. automobile and motorcycle market by opening the American Honda Motor Company. A few years later‚ in 1963‚ Honda released its first sports car‚ the S500‚ in Japan. Honda Motor Co. Inc. grew rapidly
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