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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"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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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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The Role of Financial Ratios Table of content Introduction 3 Chapter 1. Notion and types of ratios. 4 1.1 Liquidity ratios. 5 1.2 Financial leverage ratios 7 1.3 Funds management ratios 9 1.4 Profitability ratios 12 Chapter 2. Use of financial ratios. 15 2.1Use and Limitations of Financial Ratios 15 2.2 Used financial data 15 2.3 Financial ratios calculated for The Apple Company 16 2.4 The Dupont Model 18 Appendix 1 21 Conclusion 23 Bibliography 24 Introduction I have chosen
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Ratio Analysis and Statement of Cash Flows Paper Operating Profitability When looking at the operating profitability of Collegiate Funding Service and H&R Block we will be comparing the 2004 and 2005 financial statements. In 2005 H&R Block made total revenue of $4‚420‚019. In 2004‚ H&R Block made total revenue of $4‚247‚880. Looking over the past couple of years it seems that H&R Block ’s revenue continues to increase each year. The majority of the revenue comes from H&R Block ’s tax services
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Receivables Turnover Estee Lauder – 7795.8/(746.2+853.3)/2 = 9.75 L’Oreal – 19495.8/(2685.3+2442.3)/2 = 7.6 Coverage Debt to Total Assets Estee Lauder – 1572.2+1798/5335.6 = 63.2% L’Oreal – 2596.6+6582.1/24044.5 = 38.2% Cash Debt Coverage Ratio Estee Lauder – 956.7/(3370.2+3512.6)/2 = 27.8% L’Oreal – 3303.6/(9178.7+9693.1)/2 = 35% Profitability measure a company’s ability to generate profits. The Return on Investment for Estee Lauder is larger than L’Oreal’s‚ meaning Estee Lauder is
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The major profitability ratios are: 1.1.1.1 RETURN ON CAPITAL: Describes the earning capacity of the enterprise and it is measured by the following ratio: Profit before interest and taxation Average operating Assets The Return On Capital ratio measures how well the average operating assets (assets such as debtors‚ cash‚ fixed assets‚ stock) are generating the company s income‚ and is indicative of the management techniques applied by the company to utilise its assets
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