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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Financial ratios are used by companies‚ investors‚ and by students. The purpose of financial ratios is to determine the whether a company is able to pay off debts‚ use its assets to regenerate cash‚ or determine how much profit a company is making from every dollar they make. A study of two internet giants‚ Google and Yahoo!‚ will show that although one company is not generating as much as the other is‚ there are ways that it can improve future cash flows. Current RatioThe current ratio of an organization
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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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Management Accounting IMPORTANCE OF RATIO ANALYSIS Ratio analysis is a tool used by individuals to conduct a quantitative analysis of information in a company’s financial statements. Ratios are calculated from current year numbers and are then compared to previous years‚ other companies‚ the industry‚ or even the economy to judge the performance of the company. Ratio analysis is predominately used by proponents of fundamental analysis. The ratio analysis is one of the most important tools
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Receivables Turnover Ratio interpretation Receivables Turnover Ratio is one of the efficiency ratios and measures the number of times receivables are collected‚ on average‚ during the fiscal year. Receivables Turnover Ratio formula is: Receivables Turnover Ratio formula Receivables turnover ratio measures company’s efficiency in collecting its sales on credit and collection policies. This ratio takes in consideration ONLY the credit sales. If the cash sales are included‚ the ratio will be affected
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Concentration Ratios in Manufacturing ECO 204 Principles of Microeconomics June 28‚ 2011 Industries go through a lot of changes to make themselves successful. There is so much competition that they have to keep up with the market. Using the concentration ratio which is the share of industry output in sales or employment accounted for by the top firms (Karl Case‚ Ray Fair‚ Sharon Oster 2009 p285). Porter explains that there are five forces that determine industry attractiveness
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Case Study HBS: The case of the Unidentified Ratios Based on the information provided by the common-sized financial statements‚ we came up to the conclusion that: Firm A – Investment Bank Main reasons: High level of leverage‚ demonstrated in the highest ratios of all companies: assets/equity and debt/equity. Highest number of days of receivable – banks lend money to their costumers (ex. long term loans) and expect to receive this money in a not very short period of time‚ reflected in the
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Ratio Analysis Return on capital employed Basically‚ it measures business performance. This ratio is used to calculate the return versus the money that is invested. Gross profit margin This ratio uses for measuring of profitability in selling‚ buying or producing goods before any other expenses are put into account. Therefore‚ any change in this figure can have an important result on the net profit margin of the year. Harrods’ gross profit margin can be divided into 2 parts which is
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Carnival Corporation is the worlds largest cruise ship company‚ within approximately 50 of the cruising market. The company had focused on it one specific strategy do one thing and do it better than anyone else and bought a very successful result. Carnival had it particular strengths in the market‚ such as superior experiences‚ excellent services‚ good reputation‚ a variety of diversification‚ etc. The interesting thing is these strengths did make Carnival to be the first of cruising market‚ but
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Mandatory Nurse Patient Ratios Continues Mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios have been a hot topic of discussion for over 15 years. As of today‚ California is the only state with actual state mandated nurse- patient ratios in place. I support mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios because research has shown that patients have better outcomes when cared for by nurses who practice under state mandated nurse-patient ratios. According to the article Mandatory Nurse-Patient Ratios “support for mandatory-patient
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