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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Page 1 Trading Company AFS FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE TRADING COMPANY (PTY) LTD Holistic over view of operating performance (Using a traffic light system to quickly highlight performance) 1. RONA - Return on Net Operating Assets 2010 18.4% 2009 21.2% Net Operating profit (Income Statement) Net Operating Assets (Balance Sheet) 135 735 84 396 Note: Net Operating Assets - take total net Assets‚ and add back cash‚ overdraft balances‚ tax and dividends. These are financing factors‚
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DWIGHT L. MOODY In this paper‚ every OPINION from someone else has been acknowledged in a parenthetical citation. I realize that the mere presence of a parenthetical citation does not avoid plagiarism. If I have used the exact words‚ phrases‚ clauses‚ or sentences of someone else‚ I have enclosed that information in quotation marks. If I have summarized the opinions of someone else‚ I have not enclosed the summary in quotation marks; but I have stated those
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"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things‚ you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception‚ it is a prevailing attitude." --Charles R. Swindoll Please use this template to produce the Bi-MTRs by filling the spaces provided. This should be submitted by the 28 th of the relevant month‚ to your Placement Tutor’s e-mail address and to the Business School Employability Office (busemployability@gre.ac.uk). Please make sure you keep copies of your report‚ for submission
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Question 3 (a) The three rules of deductibility that a taxpayer must satisfy before a claim for deduction is given for tax purposes are to satisfy the general deduction test under [S 33(1) of the Income Tax Act 1967]. Under the general deduction test the business expenses have to fulfil all the following conditions in order to secure a deduction from the gross income of a business source: 1) it is revenue expenditure wholly and exclusively incurred in the production of income [S 33(1) Income Tax
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Financial Reporting and Analysis Mark Hendricks Financial Mathematics University of Chicago September 2011 Outline Financial Reporting Financial Analysis Hendricks‚ Financial Reporting and Analysis UChicago Financial Mathematics 2/55 Financial reporting Financial reporting is important for well-functioning markets. Investors need information to properly allocate capital and hedge risk. Regulators need good information to monitor fraudulently activity and systemic
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the body (Ehrlich‚ 2013). Thus‚ all phenylalanine taken in to the body must be ingested. Phenylalanine can be found in three different forms; D-phenylalanine‚ L-phenylalanine‚ and DL- phenylalanine. L-phenylalanine is an essential amino acid that is considered the natural form which is found in proteins. D-phenylalanine is a mirror image of L-phenylalanine that can only be made in the laboratory. DL-phenylalanine is simply a combination of the 2 forms at a 50%/50% mixture‚ making it a racemic compound
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J & L Accounting‚ Inc. Income Statement For the Month Ending January 31‚ 2013 Revenues Service Revenues 8‚375.00 Expenses Advertising Expense 2‚350.00 Rent Expense 1‚000.00 Office Supplies Expense 75.00 Telephone Expense 660.00 Utilities Expense 2‚925.00 Depreciation Expense 1‚100.00 Total Expenses 8‚110.00 Net Income 265.00 J & L Accounting‚ Inc. Post-Closing Trial Balance January 31‚ 2013
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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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1. J & L should hedge only some of its exposures to diesel fuel. Although there are several financial instruments available for J & L to hedge against the risk of rising diesel fuel prices‚ these instruments still have their own downsides and possibly their own risks. For example‚ the future contracts from NYMEX seems like an effective hedging strategy for J &L‚ but there are some difficulties in terms of using futures from NYMEX to hedge against the diesel prices. NYMEX does not trade
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